True Crime Obsessed

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The true crime / comedy podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and heart. FROM VULTURE: "It’s not wrong to laugh when you’re listening to a true-crime podcast. Or at least I hope it isn’t, because if almost crashing my car while listening to True Crime Obsessed is wrong, I don’t want to be right." Hear our take on "Abducted in Plain Sight," "The Ted Bundy Tapes,"Dirty John: The Dirty Truth" and so many more.

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274: Cheerleader On Trial

12.08.2022

High school senior Skylar Richardson told no one of her pregnancy. But when a newborn's body was found buried in the family's backyard, Skylar was charged with murder. FAMMMM!! OBSESSED FEST '23 TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!! Obsessed Fest '23 ...

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12.08.2022 274: Cheerleader On Trial High school senior Skylar Richardson told no one of her pregnancy. But when a newborn's body was found buried in the family's backyard, Skylar was charged with murder. FAMMMM!! OBSESSED FEST '23 TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE!! Obsessed Fest '23 ...
12.06.2022 273: The Most Hated Man on the Internet In 2010, a 24 year old man named Hunter Moore launched the website IsAnyoneUp.com. The site was built to allow people to anonymously post nude photos of other people and connect those photos to the person's social media profiles and, ...
12.02.2022 OBSESSED FEST '23 TICKETS NOW AVAILALBE! FAAAAAMMMM!!! Tickets for Obsessed Fest '23 are now live!! Join us in Dallas from October 20 - 22! Come mix and mingle with your favorite true crime podcast hosts (seriously, we're just walking around or drinking at the bar! Grab ...
12.01.2022 272: Murder At The Mall In the early hours of December 20, 1979, the body of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was found in her car in the parking lot of a mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was stabbed multiple times. The murder baffled investigators for ...
11.29.2022 271: No Good Deed: A Crowdfunding Holiday Heist THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS! In 2017, just before the holidays, Mark D'Amico and Kate McClure started a Gofundme for veteran named Johnny who was living on the streets of Philadelphia. The campaign won the hearts--and donations--of ...
11.24.2022 270: Killing Momma On June 14, 2015, Sheriff's deputies found the body of Dee Dee Blanchard facedown in her bedroom in the home she shared with her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard. And Gypsy, who uses a wheel chair, is missing. And in a ...
11.22.2022 269: Nail Bomber: Manhunt Over the course of three weekends in 1999, homemade nail bombs were detonated in three London neighborhoods. Each bomb contained 1500 four-inch nails, loaded for maximum human destruction. Three people were killed and 140 more were maimed. Would the London ...
11.17.2022 268: Murder In A Wisconsin Field When a beautiful young teacher was found shot to death in a Wisconsin farm field, police quickly arrested her live-in boyfriend who had waited 18 hours to report her missing. But did he do it? And if he didn't, who ...
11.15.2022 267: Rich & Shameless: Girls Gone Wild Remember "Girls Gone Wild"? If you're a kid of the 90s or early 00s, the TV ads were practically a staple of your childhood. But it probably won't shock you to know that there's a dark backstory. Enter Joe Francis, ...
11.10.2022 266: Murder on the Gulf Coast When the body of former policewoman Taylor Wright was discovered on a remote Pensacola farm, detectives had a lineup of suspects to investigate - her ex- husband from whom Taylor stole $100,000, her new girlfriend Casandra, and Taylor's new best ...
11.08.2022 265: The Martha Mitchell Effect LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK. Martha Mitchell was one of the most outspoken women in Washington. And when she learned of the biggest crime ever committed by a sitting American President, the administration knew she needed to be "handled". ...
11.03.2022 264: Murder in the Kentucky Hills Shayna Hubers called 911 to report she had killed her boyfriend in self-defense after he attacked her. But investigators soon learned he was planning a date with a beauty queen the night he died. Did Shayna kill him in a ...
11.01.2022 263: The Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much The is one of our funniest episodes in a minute! Fam, get ready to meet Ted Slauson, a math teacher who becomes OBSESSED with the gameshow The Price is Right. He spends weeks and months MEMORIZING THE COST OF THOUSANDS ...
10.27.2022 262: Murder Under The Blue Moon: The Smith Family Massacre On July 31, 2015, the bodies of Voncile Smith and two of her adult sons were found in her Pensacola home. They had been brutally murdered days before. The crime was up close and personal, indicating that the murders had ...
10.25.2022 261: Scream: The True Story (aka The Murders of The Gainesville Ripper) "Scream" is everyone's favorite scary movie, but did you know it's based on a true story? It's inspired by the life and murders of Danny Rolling, aka "The Gainesville Ripper". Rolling admits to killing at least 8 people during his ...
10.20.2022 260: The Doctor is Dead: The Murder of Teresa Sievers On June 28, 2015, Teresa Sievers, a popular doctor and mother of two young children, was found murdered in her Florida kitchen. The house wasn't ransacked and nothing was stolen, so it looked like a murder-for-hire. But who would want ...
10.18.2022 259: The Lizzie Borden Murders The Borden murders are the most infamous double murders in American History, but there's more to the story than you've been told. On the morning of August 4, 1892, Lizzy's step mother, Abby, was bludgeoned to death in an upstairs ...
10.13.2022 Bad Vegan Sarma Melngailis is a beautiful and successful restauranter in New York City. Her raw vegan restaurant attracts celebrities and influencers and owning the place is the culmination of all of her dreams coming true. Then a man named Shane Fox ...
10.11.2022 258: The Curse of the Von Dutch: Part 2 As the Von Dutch brand climbs to the pinnacle of trendy fashion, behind the scenes, things are getting messy. And a murder by one of the brand's founders threatens to bring down the whole empire. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On ...
10.04.2022 257: The Curse of the Von Dutch Ahhh, the glory days of the early 2000s. Britney Spears was on the radio (remember THE RADIO?), "Friends" was in its glory days, and everyone was talking about "MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING???" But guess what? WE WERE ALSO ALL ...
09.27.2022 256: Murder In Ypsilanti: Keith Morrison Investigates In 2018, a reporter in Ypsilanti, Michigan received a mysterious anonymous email: a woman named Martha Agnu was dead. When the reporter looked into the death, another woman's name kept popping up: Tammy NIver. Tamny had been missing since 1993, ...
09.20.2022 255: Selena: The Murder of an Icon (From Reel Crime Story) By age 23, Selena was an international icon. She'd won Grammys, was selling out stadiums, and recording chart topping albums in English and Spanish. Then on March 31, 1995, she was gunned down by her biggest fan and closest confidant. ...
09.13.2022 254: The Mysterious Death of Casey Kasem Casey Kasem was one of the most famous people in America--the voice of a generation. His death in 2014 shrouded in mystery. His wife says his children murdered him, his children blame her--their step mother. One side isn't telling the ...
09.06.2022 253: White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch Were you cool enough to wear Abercrombie? Did you wait in line to be granted the opportunity to walk past a shirtless teenaged model into a store with too-loud music and over priced cargo shorts? I KNOW YOU DID BECAUSE ...
08.30.2022 252: The Green River Killer: Mind of a Monster In the 1980s and 90s, a monster known as The Green River Killer stalked the people of the Pacific northwest. He had one goal in mind: to be the most prolific serial killer of all time. LIKE HONESTLY WHAT MORE ...
08.23.2022 251: Erin Brockovich: The Real Rebel THEY'RE CALLED BOOBS ED! This week we're getting the real story behind the Oscar winning smash hit film "Erin Brockovich". Erin herself is here to walk us though it and she's bringing all the LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK ...
08.16.2022 250: Dirty Tricks Lotan Fisher is the best bridge player in the world. Yes, the card game bridge. BUT THIS GUY IS REALLY GOOD. He's making $500K PER YEAR, hanging out with BRIDGE LOVING CELEBRITIES (bridge-lebrities!). EVERYTHING'S COMING UP LOTAN. But then he's ...
08.09.2022 249: The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler: Part 2 Citizen detectives make the shocking discovery that there may be as many as THREE ACTIVE SERIAL KILLERS on the loose in Chicago. As women continue to die, a killer in a neighboring state sheds some light on how the Chicago ...
08.02.2022 248: The Hunt for the Chicago Strangler In Chicago, a serial killer is on the loose. Right now. As you're reading this. And nobody seems able to stop him. He has left dozes of dead women in his wake and nobody knows who will be next or ...
07.26.2022 247: Truth And Lies: Monica & Bill He was the most powerful man in the world. She was 22 year old intern who caught his eye. It was the scandal threatened to ruin them both and to drag the country down with them. AND. OH. MY. GOD. ...
07.19.2022 246: Murder: The Last Days of Phil Hartman When Saturday Night Live star Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife, who then took her own life, the world was shocked. The couple seemed to have it all--fame, money, two beautiful kids. So what could have caused have caused ...
07.12.2022 245: Trust No One: The Hunt For The Crypto King 30 year old Gerald Cotton is dead. Or is he? As the young founder of a a company that trades Bitcoin, he had $136 Million of investor's money when he "died." And now the money is nowhere to be found. ...
07.05.2022 Wild Crime Harold Henthorn had two wives, 18 years apart. Both women died mysteriously and both times, Harold was the only witness. ALSO each death resulted in massive insurance payouts for Harold. Harold's second wife, Toni, died in a national park. Harold ...
06.30.2022 Let The Women: Amanda Villegas on Getting Free Amanda was a single mother –struggling financially and working tirelessly– when she came home one day in 2011 with her daughter and turned on the news. A movement had been building in her town of El Paso, Texas around the ...
06.28.2022 244: The Housewife & The Shah Shocker Real Housewife of Salt Lake City breakout star Jenn Shah is a lot of things: Beautiful, stylish, slightly unhinged, rich--OK, that last one maybe not. Nobody knows where Shah's money comes from. How does she afford her beautiful homes, her ...
06.23.2022 Let The Women: Maggie Freleng on Murder in Alliance Maggie Freleng is one badass journalist. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and producer, she gravitates toward telling the stories of underdogs – specifically the wrongfully convicted. So, when she heard about the 1999 murder of Yvonne Lane – a young ...
06.21.2022 243: Anna Delvey: The SinFluencer of SoHo In 2013, 21 year old Anna Delvey arrived in New York City. She became a fixture at the trendiest nightclubs, she lived at the fanciest hotels. She was believed to be a German heiress worth over $60 million. But it ...
06.16.2022 Let The Women: Alexandria Goddard on Dismantling Rape Culture August 11th, 2012 was a murky night for many in the town of Steubenville, Ohio as local high school students scattered themselves among a handful of parties that took a turn for the worse. A 16-yr-old girl – who would ...
06.14.2022 242: The Last Call Killer In the early 1990s, fear and rumor swirled through New York’s LGBTQ community about a serial killer who targeted inebriated men leaving the city’s gay bars late at night. Their bodies, or rather body parts, were found wrapped in garbage ...
06.13.2022 The Staircase On the evening of December 9, 2001, 48-year-old Kathleen Peterson died on a back staircase in her North Carolina home. Her husband Michael claims that she fell while he was out by the pool, but other evidence would point to ...
06.09.2022 Let The Women: Lise Lotte-Lublin on Confronting Bill Cosby Lise Lotte-Lublin didn’t recall being sexually assaulted until 20 years after the fact while watching an interview with a famous model whose story seemed familiar. When she went to authorities only to learn nothing could be done, she decided to ...
06.07.2022 241: The Lost Leonardo In 2005 a painting appeared in a gallery in New Orleans. it was believed to be from the 1500s and painted by a student of Leonardo Da Vinci. It was purchased for a little over $1,000. Within 5 years, this ...
06.02.2022 Let The Women: Roberta Blevins on Living & Leaving LulaRoe When Roberta Blevins casually bought a pair of buttery soft, printed leggings from a fellow young mom on Facebook, she never could have imagined the journey that would follow. The rise and fall of LulaRoe –a multi-level marketing company that ...
05.31.2022 240: Vanished in New Canaan: The Murder of Jennifer Dulos Jennifer Dulos seems to have a picture perfect life in affluent New Canaan, Connecticut. So when she fails to pick her kids up from school one afternoon, her friends and family know something is terribly wrong. And as the police ...
05.26.2022 Let The Women: Anna Vasquez on the San Antonio Four In the late ‘90s, Anna Vasquez, Cassandra Rivera, Elizabeth Ramirez, and Kristie Mayhugh all received phone calls accusing their lesbian friend group of a crime that never actually happened. What followed was a modern-day witch trial, landing the San Antonio ...
05.24.2022 The Delphi Murders On February 14, 2017, the bodies of 14 year old Abigail Williams and 13 year old Liberty German were found near the Manon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. The girls had disappeared from the trail the day before. Soon ...
05.19.2022 Let The Women: Gemma Hoskins on the Murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik Gemma Hoskins remembers high school fondly, thanks in large part to her favorite teacher Sister Cathy Cesnik. So, when the beloved nun disappeared one November night in 1969 only to eventually be discovered dead in the woods, grief took hold ...
05.17.2022 239: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli IS THE FREAKING WORST! The 38-year-old financial entrepreneur and pharmaceutical tycoon from Brooklyn was dubbed "the most hated man in America" in 2015 for price gouging the prescription drug Daraprim by 5500% overnight depriving AIDS patients, people with ...
05.12.2022 Let The Women: Rabia Chaudry on the Case Against Adnan Syed Long before the hit podcast Serial spurred the world into podcast-listening, Rabia Chaudry was on a mission. The 1999 murder of a high school student named Hae Min Lee left a community grieving and a family friend of Rabia’s, 17-year-old ...
05.10.2022 238: Tinder Swindler: Part 2 It's late. You've had a glass of wine. You're young and hopeful and looking for love. So you start swiping through Tinder. You come across Simon Leviev, and you pause. He's handsome enough, seems like he has a full life, ...

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