True Crime Obsessed

By Patrick Hinds & Gillian Pensavalle

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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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89: Matt Shepard is a Frien...

06.18.2019

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 ...

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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 ...
03.11.2019 77: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 1: Forbidden Love Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, The Case Against Adnan Syed will explore the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a case ...
03.05.2019 76: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 2 This podcast episode covers episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. [Listen to Part 1 (covering episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series) HERE.](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/episodes/75-conversations-with-a-killer-the-ted-bundy-tapes) In this episode, Ted Bundy breaks out of prison TWICE. He terrorizes south Florida ...
03.01.2019 PATREON BONUS EPISODE! Making A Murderer Season 2, Ep. 1 "Number 18" SURPRISE! this week we wanted to do something we’ve never done before—give every member of the TCO fam access to one of our Patreon full bonus episodes. We decided that our take on "Making A Murderer" season 2, episode 1 ...
02.26.2019 Episode 75: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 1 This podcast episode covers episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series. On the 30th anniversary of his Florida execution, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES brings the infamously twisted mind of serial killer Ted Bundy into the ...
02.19.2019 Mommy Dead and Dearest It's Daisy's school vacation week, so Patrick is on full time dad duty! We'll be back with a brand new episode next week covering episodes 1 & 2 of Netflix's "The Ted Bundy Tapes." The following week, we'll cover episodes ...
02.12.2019 74: 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 ...
02.05.2019 73: Fyre Fraud The Fyre Festival was the defining scam of the millennial generation. Marketing for the 2017 music event went viral with the help of rapper Ja Rule, instagram stars, and models, but wound up being an epic failure as it stranded ...
01.29.2019 72: Three Identical Strangers Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. Their jaw-dropping, feel-good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete with fame and celebrity, however, the fairy-tale reunion sets ...
01.22.2019 71: 51 Birch Street Mike and Mina Block were married for 54 years. Friends, family, and neighbors all thought they had the perfect marriage. But then Minna died suddenly, and three months later Mike was married to his former secretary. Suddenly everyone realized that ...
01.15.2019 70: Hot Coffee Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage ...
01.08.2019 Episode 69: Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple In the summer of 1977, Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, moved nearly 1,000 of his followers to a plot of land in Guyana, South America. Less than a year later, on November 18, 1978, 908 of the followers ...
01.01.2019 Beware The Slenderman BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN tells the story of the internet's elusive Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their best friend into the woods, stabbed her 19 times, then set out on ...
12.18.2018 68: Oswald's Ghost (Was the JFK Assassination a Conspiracy?) On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, was assassinated in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people--at least 55 of whom were filming or taking pictures. And yet we still don't know what happened. ...
12.11.2018 Episode 67: Abducted in Plain Sight On October 17, 1974, 12 year old Jan Broberg was kidnapped by her next door neighbor and parents’ best friend—a man they all loving called “B.” B, unbeknownst to them, was a pedophile who had become obsessed with Jan and ...
12.04.2018 Episode 66: Dream / Killer EVERYONE BE COOL, KATHLEEN ZELNER IS IN THE HOUSE!!! Before she became a household name with her work on the Steven Avery case in season 2 of "Making A Murderer," Kathleen Zelner used her brilliant, no-nonsense bad-assery to exonerate Ryan ...
11.27.2018 65: The Case of the Cannibal Cop In 2015, NYC Police Officer Gilberto Valle was convicted of conspiring to kidnap and eat young women. YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT: KIDNAP AND EAT. Valle argued it was all a fantasy; the prosecution's narrative convinced jurors otherwise. Valle was ...
11.13.2018 64: Whitey: United States of America vs. James J. Bulger THIS EPISODE IS RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES, YOU GUYS! In 2013, James (Whitey) Bulger, the South Boston mobster, was captured after 16 years on the lam. He was finally brought to justice for a murderous reign of terror that inspired ...
11.06.2018 Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer This week we're revisiting one of our most popular episodes! A decade after making the documentary film “Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer” about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, director Nick Broomfield was subpoenaed as a witness for Aileen’s ...
11.02.2018 63: My Amityville Horror In 1975, the Lutz family moved into the old house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amittyville, New York. The house was beautiful, nestled in the heart of an affluent neighborhood, it had a pool and a dock, and best of ...
11.02.2018 63: My Amittyville Horror In 1975, the Lutz family moved into the old house at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amittyville, New York. The house was beautiful, nestled in the heart of an affluent neighborhood, it had a pool and a dock, and best of ...
10.23.2018 62: Killer Legends Welp, throw “Killer Legends” on the stacks of Halloween-ey docs we’ve hated! Having skimmed the Wikipedia pages and doing a combined 14 minutes of research, filmmakers Josh and Rachel head off to discover ‘the truth behind four of our most ...
10.16.2018 Episode 61: Demon House There’s no way around it, you guys: There is definitely a PORTAL TO HELL under the basement stairs in a crappy rental house in Gary, Indiana. It’s definitely definitely real, and I know this because that bro The Travel Channel--the ...
10.11.2018 "Tower": Commercial-Free Rebroadcast WITH EXTRAS! YOU GUYS!!! A few weeks ago we got the chance to sit down with "Tower" director Keith Maitland for full interview about the film. [That interview is now live on the Patreon feed.](https://www.patreon.com/posts/21993766)We chatted about how he made the film, ...
10.02.2018 Episode 60: Hell House You guys, we've covered A LOT of garbage on this podcast, but somehow THIS insanity is the first one to warrant an actual trigger warning. So here's the head up, THESE BITCHES think abortion, sexual assault, rape, incest, school shootings, ...
09.25.2018 59: The Devil and Father Amroth First things first, you guys…WE HAAAAAAAAAAAATED THIS MOVIE….which is good news because we have SHIT. TO. SAY. In the mood for a great movie about a suuuuper scary exorcism? GO WATCH THE EXORCIST AND SKIP THIS GARBAGE ALL TOGETHER (but ...
09.18.2018 58: The Galapagos Affair In 1930 4 SUPER grumpy people moved to the Galapagos Islands’ most deserted, most isolated, most remote outpost (that is Patrick you’re hearing having the GAYEST panic attack at the thought). Not only did the all HATE each other, they ...
09.11.2018 57: A Murder in the Park Look, the specifics of this story are confusing AF. BUT at the heart of it, we’re dealing with a murder, a wrongful conviction, a false confession and A. WOMAN. NAMED. SHAWN. (She’s garbage, but we’re obsessed with the gender swapping ...
08.28.2018 56: Weiner We hate to insult garbage by calling Anthony Weiner garbage...but we can't think of another word. DING! Anthony Weiner did a lot for the people of New York as a Congressman from 1999 - 2011\. HOWEVER it all went off ...
08.21.2018 55: Wild Wild Country Part 3 (Covering Episodes 5 & 6 of the Netflix Series) YOU GUYS! It’s our final installment and all our friends are here! Boring Jane! The Lawyer Who Can’t Stop Crying! Bagwan(shhhhhhh)! And SHEELA! Hey Girl! Basically, everyone goes to jail, The Lawyer really needs to seek psychiatric attention or at ...
08.14.2018 54: Wild Wild Country Part 2 (Covering Episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix Series) The lawyer is still crying, The Australian is still boring, Sheela is still not to be messed with. This episode, which covers episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix series, is jam-packed with guns, poisonings, voter fraud, enraged homeless people, ...
08.07.2018 53: Wild Wild Country Part 1 (Covering Episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix Series) YOU GUYS!! MAJOR LIVE SHOW NEWS! [CLICK HERE FOR INFO AND TICKETS!!](https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10318459) Another bonkers cult-doc, you guys! Attend the tale of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, a guru who rose to prominence in India in the nineteen-seventies, and collapsed into infamy in ...
07.31.2018 52: The Central Park Five This one has it all, you guys: Garbage Cops, False Convictions, And An 80s Home Perm Gone Seriously Wrong (oh AND two IDIOTS riding a TANDEM BIKE in CENTRAL PARK at 10 PM in 1989\. whatever, we'll get there.) In ...
07.24.2018 Episode 51: The Dog The working title for this one was: “Three Gays Rob a Bank”. And we have an idea for the sitcom version. In August 1972, John Wojtowicz attempted to rob a Brooklyn bank to finance his lover's sex-reassignment surgery. The act ...
07.17.2018 50: Evil Genius Part 2 (Covering episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix Series) WHY. ARE. THEY. ALL. HOARDERS? Heads Up! This episode of TCO covers parts 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. To hear our coverage of the first two episodes of the Netflix series,[go here!](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/single-post/2018/07/10/49-Evil-Genius-Part-1-Covering-Episodes-1-2-of-the-Netflix-Series) In this episode, we watch Marjorie ...
07.17.2018 50: Evil Genius Part 2 (Covering episodes 2 & 3 of the Netflix Series) WHY. ARE. THEY. ALL. HOARDERS? Heads Up! This episode of TCO covers parts 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. To hear our coverage of the first two episodes of the Netflix series,[go here!](https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/single-post/2018/07/10/49-Evil-Genius-Part-1-Covering-Episodes-1-2-of-the-Netflix-Series) In this episode, we watch Marjorie ...

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