True Crime Obsessed

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Society & Culture Comedy

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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170: Southern Rites

02.23.2021

In 2010 in Montgomery, Georgia, journalist Gillian Laub uncovered a murder. An 62-year-old white man had shot an killed a 19-year-old black man, and had all but gotten away with it. The journalist, Gillian Laub, had fist come to the ...

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02.23.2021 170: Southern Rites In 2010 in Montgomery, Georgia, journalist Gillian Laub uncovered a murder. An 62-year-old white man had shot an killed a 19-year-old black man, and had all but gotten away with it. The journalist, Gillian Laub, had fist come to the ...
02.16.2021 169: Murder on Middle Beach: Part 2 On March 3rd, 2010, 48 year old Barbara Beach-Hamburg was found murdered in the side yard of her house in the wealthy town of Madison, Connecticut. The murder had been brutal and personal, and it completely changed the lives of ...
02.09.2021 168: Murder on Middle Beach FAM! This is a two-part series! Episode 2 is available right now and ad-free on our Patreon. Part 2 will be our regular episode next week. On March 3rd, 2010, 48 year old Barbara Beach-Hamburg was found murdered in the ...
02.04.2021 "The Vow" Ep 1: The Science of Joy Say it with us: TICK TOCK, CULT O'CLOCK!In this bananas premiere, we meet Mark and Sarah, two former high ranking NXIVM members who tell us how they came to be devoted members of "the company" and it's founder Keith Ranieri--AND ...
12.24.2020 Unsolved Mysteries Ep 12: Stolen Kids In May and August of 1989, two toddlers were stolen from the same New York city playground. The playground was full of witnesses, but, seemingly, nobody saw anything. Were the kidnappings connected? Was there a "baby selling ring" as rumors ...
12.15.2020 161: HBO's The Mystery of D.B. Cooper THIS IS THE CASE PATRICK’S BEEN WAITING TO COVER ALL YEAR! On the afternoon of November 24, 1971 a man using the name Dan Cooper boarded a passenger flight at Portland international airport, and hijacked the plane. He demanded $200,000 ...
12.08.2020 160: The Trials of Ted Haggard It's a weird one, you guys, but I really think it's one of our best episodes yet: Ted Haggard was living the life. As the founder and head, like, Pastor (?) of the New Life Church, Haggard was one of ...
12.01.2020 159: Missing 411 On July 10, 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz vanished while on a camping trip with his young parents. The circumstances were...bizarre to say the least. The family was in the middle of the woods, miles from the nearest road. Little DeOrr ...
11.26.2020 Unsolved Mysteries Episode 8: A Death in Oslo At 10:44pm on May 31, 1995, a woman named Jennifer Fairgate checked into the Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway. It was the most exclusive hotel in Norway at the time. Two days into her stay, a security officer at the ...
11.24.2020 Natalie Wood: American Murder Mystery At 43 years old, actress Natalie Wood had it all. She was an adored icon who'd been acting since before she could remember. She'd married the love of her life and had a thriving career and a loving family. But ...
11.05.2020 Unsolved Mysteries Ep 5: Berkshires UFO On the night of September 1, 1969 residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts witnessed UFOs--and they're recounting their experiences in EVERY. TERRIFYING. DETAIL. Some were abducted, some are missing hours of their lives, some are telling their stories for the very ...
11.03.2020 156: An Honest Liar WE DID A QUIRKY ONE FOR ELECTON DAY TO HELP TAKE YOUR MIND OFF THINGS!! An Hones Liar is all about the Amazing Randi, a world renowned magician and artist who dedicated his life to exposing fake psychics and others ...
09.17.2020 I'll Be Gone in the Dark: Episode 1: Murder Habit FAM!! We're SO excited to share episode 1 of our Patreon coverage of "I'll Be Gone in the Dark." It is truly one of the best series we've ever covered and we think it's some of our best work!! You ...
08.11.2020 144: Big Dan's: The Nation's First Televised Rape Case In 1983, a 21 year-old woman walked into a bar in New Bedford, Massachusetts. When she tried to leave a little later, the door was locked and 4 men raped her over the course of 2 hours on the bar's ...
06.03.2020 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 ...
05.26.2020 134: Brittany Murphy: An ID Mystery Brittany Murphy was a rising star who had it all, beauty, fame, and success … but she also had secrets. When she was found dead in her Los Angeles home at just 32 years old, Hollywood and legions of fans ...
05.12.2020 132: Chris Watts: Family Man / Family Murderer Chris Watts and his wife Shanann seemed to have it all: Thriving careers, wonderful friends, two beautiful kids with a third on the way. But then on August 13, 2018, Shanann’s best friend Nicole can’t get ahold of Shanann. She ...
04.07.2020 127: Where Is Robert Fisher? In 2001, Robert Fisher murdered his wife and two young kids. And then vanished into thin air. Is he dead, or did he escape to a new life…THIS IS THE QUESTION POSED TO THE PSYCHIC WHO CLOSES OUT THIS….”DOCUMENTARY?” This ...
03.24.2020 125: Dahmer on Dahmer: Part 2 Two-and-a-half decades ago, a man from Milwaukee named Jeffrey Dahmer was tried and convicted of 17 gruesome murders that occurred between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer was convicted of luring young men into his home, where he then drugged, sexually violated, ...
03.10.2020 Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez Part 1 (Patreon Bonus Episode) Patrick may be from Massachusetts (and has the Dunkin Donuts loyalty card to prove it), but he somehow missed out on Boston sports fever (feee-vah!). We have a lot of feelings about this one, but we're going to be SUPER ...
02.25.2020 122: A Tale of Two Thieves August 1963. Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire, England. Fifteen men pull off "The Great Train Robbery," netting today's equivalent of almost $70 million. It’s one of the most famous crimes in the history of Great Britain. Movies have been made, books have ...
02.18.2020 121: Mary Kay Letourneau: Autobiography Mary Kay Letourneau is garbage. What else is there to say? I mean for context, she was a 35 year old teacher who had an affair with her THIRTEEN YEAR OLD student....and had two babies with him. She served (not ...
02.04.2020 119: The Source Family TICK TOCK IT’S CULT O’CLOCK!What can we say, the 60s in Los Angels were ROUGH! Lots of drugs and crappy eating, not to mention the terrible music. So it just seemed fitting that when the 70s rolled around and a ...
01.21.2020 117: Oxygen's "Dirty John: The Dirty Truth" Part 2 When Debra Newell met John Meehan on dating site for the 50+ crowd, he seemed too good to be true. A handsome, fit, successful doctor? She was interested. But, beginning with their first date, there were warning signs...something wasn't quite ...
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. It will be our regular episode (with ads) next week. When Debra Newell ...
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 ...
12.10.2019 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 ...
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 ...
10.22.2019 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! 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 IMMEDIATELY! ...
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. 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 ...
09.20.2019 The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2 (Rebroadcast!) In perperation for our upcoming live show ALL ABOUT MAURA MURRAY with Maggie Freleng and Tim Lance of the Missing Maura Murray podcast, we rebroadcasting these episodes! Come to the live show at The Bell House in Brooklyn on Saturday ...
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 ...
07.23.2019 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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! 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 ...
02.26.2019 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 ...
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 ...

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