True Crime Obsessed

By True Crime Obsessed

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What's True Crime Obsessed about?

The true crime / comedy podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and a well timed garbage bell. Hear our take on "Wild Wild Country," "There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane," "Jesus Camp" and many more. So many garbage people, so little time.

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01.14.2020

We are covering this documentary in two episodes. Episode 2 is available right now and ad-free at the $5 level on Patreon. You can get it here (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) . It will be our regular episode (with ads) next week. When ...

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01.14.2020 116: Oxygen's "Dirty John: The Dirty Truth" We are covering this documentary in two episodes. Episode 2 is available right now and ad-free at the $5 level on Patreon. You can get it here (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) . It will be our regular episode (with ads) next week. When ...
01.07.2020 115: Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator Who in gay hell exercises in a room heated to 105 degrees?!?! Sweating and stretching isn't our jam, but Bikram Chaudry (we have a request into Jesus to have his last name changed--WE WILL NOT HAVE RABIA'S LAST NAME BESMIRCHED!!!) ...
12.31.2019 114: Cocaine Cowboys "THE GOLDEN GIRLS" THIS IS NOT, YOU GUYS! Miami in the early 80s was the wild west for the cocaine trade. Brutal drug lords reigned, mass killings were an every day occurrence, and you couldn't get a Ferrari to save ...
12.17.2019 113: Who Killed Garrett Phillips Part 2 On Oct. 24, 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was murdered in his home in Potsdam, a small town in upstate New York. Police quickly zeroed in on a suspect in this unthinkable crime: Oral “Nick” Hillary, a black man in the ...
12.10.2019 112: Who Killed Garrett Phillips Part 1 This is 2-Episode series. Episode 2 is available right now and ad-free at the $5 level on Patreon. Episode 2 will be our regular episode next week on the regular free feed and will haveads. On Oct. 24, 2011, 12-year-old ...
12.05.2019 The Murder of Laci Peterson Episode 1: Missing in Modesto (Patreon Bonus Episode) When Laci Peterson disappeared on Christmas Eve in 2002, her husband, Scott Peterson, was almost instantly the prime suspect. When it came to light that he'd been having an affair AND had told his mistress that his wife had been ...
12.03.2019 111: Tell Me Who I Am 18-year-old Alex Lewis wakes up from a coma after surviving a devastating motorcycle accident. He has forgotten everything. His home. His parents. He can't even remember his own name. The only thing he knows is that the person sitting next ...
11.26.2019 Grizzly Man For 13 summers, Timothy Tredwell journeyed into the Alaskan wilderness to spend four months living among the grizzly bears. Though Treadwell believed that he and the bears had an understanding--he considered them his close friends--he and his girlfriend Amy Huguenard ...
11.19.2019 110: Killing For Love March 30, 1985: Derek and Nancy Haysom are discovered brutally murdered at their home in Lynchburg, Virginia. The arrest and conviction of the couple's daughter Elizabeth, a scholarship student at the University of Virginia, and her boyfriend Jens Söring, the ...
11.12.2019 109: Wrinkles The Clown Wrinkles The Clown is a REAL-LIFE bogeyman. He’s here to haunt your nightmares. It started with a silent black and white surveillance video uploaded to YouTube which depicted a child sleeping peacefully. Suddenly, a hand appeared and deranged man disguised ...
11.05.2019 108: Screwball THIS IS ABOUT THE SPORTS AND STILL SOMEHOW ONE OF OUR FAVORITE DOCS WE’VE EVER COVERED! Welcome to Florida, land of swamp dinosaurs, tanning salons, and, like, humidity. But did you also know it was ground zero for the high-profile ...
10.29.2019 107: Jodi Arias: American Murder Mystery Part 2 SEX. LIES. MURDER. What happened to 30 year old Travis Alexander? His friends found him dead on his bathroom floor. He'd been stabbed, shot, and nearly decapitated. When police asked who in Travis's life would want him dead, everyone said ...
10.22.2019 106: Jodi Arias: American Murder Mystery Part 1 SEX. LIES. MURDER. What happened to 30 year old Travis Alexander? His friends found him dead on his bathroom floor. He'd been stabbed, shot, and nearly decapitated. When police asked who in Travis's life would want him dead, everyone said ...
10.18.2019 OJ: Made In America (Patreon Bonus Episode) FAM: We're THRILLED to share this episode from our Patreon feed! (https://www.patreon.com/TrueCrimeObsessed) You can get our complete 5-part coverage of OJ: Made In America on our Patreon Feed! There you can also get over 100 Full Bonus Episodes TO BINGE ...
10.15.2019 105: Israel Keyes: Method of a Serial Killer Israel Keyes is the most terrifying serial killer you’ve maybe never heard of. Here’s what we know about him: He was methodical—he left “kill kits” hidden all across the country. He hid them years before using them, so he was ...
10.08.2019 104: The Eyes of Tammy Faye FAM!! Lady RuPaul (Charles) herself narrates this one!! This episode is an affectionate look at everyone's favorite televangelist / Gay Icon / Face Tattoo-er, Tammy Faye Bakker. The eldest of eight children in rural Minnesota, Tammy Faye married Jim Bakker ...
10.01.2019 103: Roll Red Roll In Steubenville, Ohio, high school football players are untouchable. So when two players are accused of assaulting an underage girl at a pre-season party, it seems almost impossible to get the real story. But when an amateur crime blogger uncovers ...
09.24.2019 102: Oxygen's The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell: Part 2 This is part 2 of our 2 part coverage. For Part 1, click here. (https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/post/101-oxygen-s-the-disappearance-of-susan-cox-powell) It's one of the most shocking disappearances in recent history. A young mother vanishes from her home in Utah. Her husband is the only suspect. ...
09.20.2019 The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2 (Rebroadcast!) In perperation for our upcoming live show ALL ABOUT MAURA MURRAY (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) with Maggie Freleng and Tim Lance of the Missing Maura Murray podcast, we rebroadcasting these episodes! Come to the live show (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) at The Bell House in Brooklyn ...
09.20.2019 The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 1 (Rebroadcast) In perperation for our upcoming live show ALL ABOUT MAURA MURRAY (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) with Maggie Freleng and Tim Lance of the Missing Maura Murray podcast, we rebroadcasting these episodes! Come to the live show (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-obsessed-with-missing-maura-murray-tickets-64366112776) at The Bell House in Brooklyn ...
09.17.2019 101: Oxygen's The Disappearance of Susan Cox Powell It's one of the most shocking disappearances in recent history. A young mother vanishes from her home in Utah. Her husband is the only suspect. His behavior is so bizarre that it has to be him, right? But there's no ...
09.10.2019 100: The Imposter: FOR OUR 100th EPISODE, WE'RE GIVING OUR 1st EPISODE A REDO! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! AND THIS IS NOT A RERUN! For our 100th episode, we're remaking our very first episode AND IT MIGHT BE OUR FUNNIEST, MOST PERFECT EPISODE YET! Nicholas Barclay was 13 years old on the day ...
09.05.2019 Casey Anthony: American Murder Mystery Episode 1 (A Patreon Bonus Episode!) 2 year old Caylee Antony is missing. Her mother, Casey Anthony, insists she was abducted by the nanny. But investigators are soon to discover that Caylee has been missing for 31 days AND WAS NEVER REPORTED MISSING. Where is Caylee?? ...
09.03.2019 The Seven Five Meet the dirtiest cop in New York City history. In the 1980s, Michael Dowd patrolled the mean streets of one of the toughest precincts in Brooklyn. He also headed a ruthless criminal network that stole money and drugs, ultimately resulting ...
08.27.2019 99: Remastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke Sam Cooke was one of the most famous singers of his time. He was an icon and a civil rights revolutionary. His power made him a target. So when he was murdered at age 33, conspiracy theories abounded. Was it ...
08.20.2019 98: Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers Their crimes resemble high-octane Hollywood action movies: a sports car speeds through a Dubai shopping mall, crashing into the windows of a Graff jewelry store. Masked, gun-wielding men jump out of the car and stuff fistfuls of diamonds into their ...
08.13.2019 97: Betting On Zero HERBA LIFE! Ever heard of it? For some, it's just a health food company. For others, it's a Pyramid scheme--a company that preys on the poor to keep it's investors rich. In "Betting on Zero," find out what happens when ...
08.12.2019 Patreon Bonus Episode: The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann Episode 1 In May of 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann took their family on vacation to the resort town of Praia De Luz, Portugal. On the evening of evening of May 3, their daughter, three-year-old Madeleine, was abducted out of her bed ...
08.06.2019 96: The Cheshire Murders In the quiet suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, Jennifer Petit and her two young daughters were killed in a horrific home invasion; husband and father William Petit was the only one who escaped alive. This film explores the events of that ...
07.30.2019 95: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Eliot Spitzer was a rising star in the Democratic Party...But then he got caught having sex with escort. Client 9, as you might imagine, introduces us to a host of fascinating characters. From the take-no-shit escorts who love their jobs, ...
07.23.2019 94: HBO's I Love You Now Die Part 2: The Defense In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in Fairhaven, Mass. Police soon discovered a series of alarming text messages from his girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Carter, that seemed to encourage him to ...
07.16.2019 93: HBO's I Love You, Now Die: Part 1 In July 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy died by suicide in his car at a parking lot in Fairhaven, Mass. Police soon discovered a series of alarming text messages from his girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Carter, that seemed to encourage him to ...
07.09.2019 92: All The Queen's Horses FIFTY. THREE. MILLION. DOLLARS. That's how much cash Rita Crundwell stole FROM HER CITY GOVERNMENT JOB without anyone noticing. She bought houses, and horses, and spa retreats AND A TWO MILLION DOLLAR BUS. How did she do it? HOW DID ...
07.02.2019 91: The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story In the 1990s, boy bands were king. Groups like N'SYNC and the Backstreet Boys were international sensations. But that wasn't the whole story. To tell the whole story, you have to talk about Lou Pearlman--the producer behind the pop explosion ...
06.25.2019 90: Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland On July 10, 2015, a 28 year-old black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over in a small Texas town for failing to use a turn signal when she changed lanes. She was ultimately arrested and taken to the county ...
06.18.2019 89: Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine On October 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. It was one of the most notorious hate crimes in US history. Years later, Michele ...
06.13.2019 88: Oklahoma City On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma ...
06.07.2019 PATREON BONUS EPISODE: "Lorena" Episode 1 FAM! This week, as a fun little bonus, we wanted to share with you one of our FAVORITE episodes from our Patreon feed! We think that our coverage of "Lorena" is some of our funniest, most intense, rage-iest work so ...
06.04.2019 87: Upstairs Inferno On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history--Thirty-two people were killed and some three bodies were never identified. And ...
05.28.2019 86: Behind The Curve IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT? Turns out, there are LOTS of people believe it is. Is their evidence compelling? Not really, but their conspiracies run deep and cross over into everything from being anti-vaccination to, you know, ...
05.21.2019 Tabloid ## FAM! QUEEN GILLIAN GOT SUPER SICK THIS WEEK AND SO WE HAD TO RUN A CLASSIC EPISODE! First please note that, unbeknownst to us before we picked this episode to rerun, **THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE WE INVENTED BOTH ...
05.14.2019 The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2 This episode covers episodes 4 - 6 of the Oxygen series. For part 1, covering episodes 1 - 3, [go here.](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/copy-of-84-the-disappearance-of-maura-murray-part-1) Or listen on [Spotify here](https://open.spotify.com/show/7IcgcyLSmDUsNfpI3dEroP). It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February ...
05.07.2019 84: The Disappearance of Maura Murray Part 1 This episode covers episodes 1 - 3 of the Oxygen series. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied ...
04.30.2019 83: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez - four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The ...
04.23.2019 The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD chalked it up as a suicide and refused to investigate. But Marsha was a ...
04.16.2019 82: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, it was revealed that the technology she'd invented didn't work--it ...
04.09.2019 81: Studio 54 GAYS! DRAG QUEENS! LIZA! DISCO! DRUGS! TAX FRAUD! DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON? Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, ...
04.01.2019 80: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 4: Time is the Killer This episode covers episode 4 of the HBO series. For our episode on Part 1 [go here](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/77-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-1) For our episode on Part 2 [go here](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/78-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-2) For our episode on Part 3 [go here](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/79-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-3) In Part 3, the state's case against ...
03.25.2019 79: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 3: Justice Is Arbitrary This episode covers part 3 of the 4-part HBO series. For our take on Part 1, [go here!](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/77-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-1) For our take on Part 2, [go here!](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/78-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-2) **And stay tuned till THE VERY END of the episode to hear a preview ...
03.18.2019 78: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 2: In Between The Truth This episode covers part 2 of the 4-part HBO series. [For Part 1, go here!](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/77-the-case-against-adnan-syed-part-1) In part 2, Private investigators attempt to recreate circumstances at the crime scene, questions arise about the veracity of alleged accomplice Jay Wilds, the centerpiece ...

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