Two Unhinged Trash Pandas

🎙️ Episode 11:

The Servant Girl Annihilator ~ Austin’s “Macabrious” Midnight Nightmare

What happens when one of America’s earliest unsolved serial killers stalks the streets of 1880s Austin… and your co-host accidentally invents a brand-new vocabulary word?

This week, Lit takes the lead with the chilling story of The Servant Girl Annihilator, the mysterious killer who terrorized Austin, Texas years before Jack the Ripper appeared in London. Was this America’s first serial killer? Could there be a connection? Or has history simply left us with one of its most macabrious mysteries?

Before that, Lit shares the bizarre tale of the New Orleans Axeman, the killer who allegedly told an entire city to play jazz if they wanted to survive the night.

Also this week:

🪓 Mini Creeper: The New Orleans Axeman

📖 Kissy’s Dictionary: Macabrious (yes… we know it’s not a real word… it is now.)

🚨 Dishonorable Mention: A wife who allegedly responded to her husband’s affair with Gorilla Glue and laxatives… because apparently healthy communication wasn’t an option.

🔎 Kissy’s Missing Person

🦝 And, of course, the usual Trash Panda chaos, rabbit trails, random conversations, and questionable life choices.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses murder, violent crime, and includes brief mentions of sexual assault involving two historical victims (ages 11 and 17). While we do not discuss these details graphically, listener discretion is advised.

🎧 Stay until the very end for another one of our historical “audio postcards”—a short immersive soundscape inspired by this week’s story.

🐼🦝 Episode 10: Hitler Had Nine Lives… Unfortunately

Some people have guardian angels.

Hitler apparently had a whole damn committee.

This week, Kissy dives into the unbelievable true stories of the many times people came this close to changing history forever. From bombs that barely missed to plots that unraveled at the last second, we’re counting down some of the most fascinating assassination attempts against one of history’s most infamous dictators.

Before the main story, Lit brings a creepy mini on Project Pigeon, the bizarre World War II plan that tried to train pigeons to guide missiles. Yes… actual pigeons. Actual missiles. Actual government funding.

As always, we’ll wrap things up with our Trash Panda rating, questionable commentary, and enough inappropriate laughter to make history teachers collectively sigh.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode discusses war, violence, assassination attempts, and historical atrocities related to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Our goal is to educate through humor directed at the absurdity of history, never at its victims.

🎧 Stay until the very end for a brief piece of authentic historical archival audio that serves as the final punctuation mark on this week’s story.

Grab your snacks, hide your cyanide capsules, and remember…

It’s all connected.

See you next Tuesday. 🦝

Episode 9: Israel Keyes — Murder Kits Across America

Get your snacks, your alibi… and maybe a fucking map for this one. 🗺️🦝

This week, Lit & Kissy dive into the disturbing case of Israel Keyes, a serial killer who traveled thousands of miles across the United States, buried “murder kits” years in advance, and deliberately tried to make his crimes nearly impossible to connect.

From unexplained trips and rental cars to buried caches, known victims, suspected victims, and enormous gaps that investigators are still trying to piece together—we’re following Keyes across the map and asking one of the most unsettling questions surrounding his case:

How much do we still not know?

But before we get there, Lit brings a Mini Creeper involving one of history’s strangest outbreaks—the Dancing Plague of 1518—and this week’s Dishonorable Mention proves that sometimes you don’t have to be a criminal mastermind to make headlines. 😂

And, as always, there’s plenty of unhinged commentary, questionable vocabulary, unexpected rabbit holes, and at least one moment that will probably require Kissy’s Dictionary.

🎧 STAY TUNED AFTER THE EPISODE:
Don’t hit stop when you think we’re done.

At the very end, you’ll hear a brief piece of real interview audio featuring Israel Keyes speaking casually with investigators—and his unmistakably creepy laugh.

There’s something particularly unsettling about hearing someone responsible for horrific crimes sounding so completely… normal.

Audio Source Note: The Israel Keyes interview excerpt featured at the end of this episode comes from publicly released FBI interview material.

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses murder, abduction, sexual violence, and other disturbing subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.

🦝 How many Trash Pandas does Israel Keyes get?

Listen wherever you get your podcasts—and remember:

It’s all connected.

🎙️ Episode 8: What Happened to Maura Murray

A young woman crashes her car on a snowy New Hampshire road… and less than twenty minutes later, she’s gone.

This week, the Trash Panda Research Department opens MAIN INVESTIGATION FILE #008 as we dive into one of the most debated missing person cases in modern history: Maura Murray.

Together, we separate confirmed facts from internet folklore, walk through the strange events leading up to Maura’s disappearance, examine the infamous crash on Route 112, and break down the theories that have fueled over twenty years of speculation. Did she disappear voluntarily? Wander into the woods? Accept a ride from the wrong person? Or is the answer still hiding somewhere in the White Mountains?

Along the way, Talitha accidentally invents another level of police dipshittery, Kissy introduces the newest addition to the Trash Panda Dictionary: “Vompit,” and the Research Department does what it does best… question absolutely everything.

Also this week:

💾 Mini Creeper #008: The unbelievable story of how BTK evaded capture for over 30 years… only to destroy his own freedom with a single floppy disk. Because apparently asking the police if they can trace your evidence is a perfectly reasonable life choice.

🌳 Dishonorable Mention: Someone actually stole one of the famous Sycamore Gap “Trees of Hope” saplings. Because stealing a memorial tree somehow became a thing we all had to read about in 2026.

As always, expect rabbit holes, laughs in all the wrong places, thoughtful discussion, and a healthy dose of Trash Panda chaos.

🦝 Question Everything.
🍗 Follow the Nugget.
🎙️ See You Next Tuesday.

For more than a decade, the Long Island Serial Killer was a ghost.

The evidence was there. The clues were there. The victims deserved answers.

But the case remained unsolved.

In Part Two of our Gilgo Beach series, we follow the investigation that finally brought new momentum to one of America’s most infamous serial murder cases. From a forgotten witness description of a green Chevrolet Avalanche to burner phones, discarded pizza crust, DNA breakthroughs, and years of patient investigative work, we explore how detectives painstakingly built the case that ultimately led them to Rex Heuermann.

We also discuss the psychology of trust, why predators often hide behind ordinary lives, and how prosecutors allege careful planning played a role in these horrific crimes.

Most importantly, we remember that this story has always been about the women whose lives were stolen and the families who never stopped demanding answers.

🦝 Mini Creeper File #007: Judy Buenoano, the “Black Widow of Florida,” whose trail of poison, greed, and betrayal made her one of the most notorious female killers in American history.

📚 Kissy’s Vocabulary Lesson: Highsearch

🍗 Follow the Nugget.

⚠️ Listener Note: This episode discusses homicide, violence against women, and other sensitive topics. Listener discretion is advised.

Before the headlines…

Before the arrest…

Before the suspect had a name…

There were mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends who simply never came home.

This week, the Trash Pandas head to the lonely stretch of Ocean Parkway where the search for one missing woman unexpectedly uncovered one of the most infamous serial murder investigations in American history. We take a step back from the killer to focus on the women whose lives mattered long before they became known as the “Gilgo Four.”

We’ll follow Shannan Gilbert’s terrifying disappearance, the accidental discovery of the burlap-wrapped victims, and the expanding investigation that revealed a much larger and more complex mystery. Along the way, we discuss the heartbreaking stories of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Lynn Costello, while also examining the early investigative failures, public frustration, and the corruption that shook confidence in the Suffolk County Police Department.

This isn’t the story of a monster.

Not yet.

This is the story of the women, the families who refused to stop fighting for them, and the investigation that nearly lost its way before it ever found its suspect.

🦝 Mini Creeper File #006: The Circleville Letters

📚 Kissy’s Vocabulary Lesson: Lefsoff

🍗 Follow the Nugget.

Episode 5: The Sodder Children | A Fire, Five Missing Children, and Decades of Questions

On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. While most of the family escaped, five children were believed to have perished in the flames.

But almost immediately, things stopped making sense.

A missing ladder.

A cut phone line.

Fire trucks that never arrived.

No identifiable remains.

And reports that some of the children may have been seen alive after the fire.

In this episode, we dive into one of America’s most enduring mysteries and explore the evidence, theories, and strange circumstances that have kept people asking the same question for nearly 80 years:

What really happened to the Sodder children?

Also in this episode, Talitha’s Mini Creeper explores the chilling tale of The Greenbrier Ghost, the only known American murder case in which a ghost allegedly helped bring a killer to justice.

🦝 Question Everything.

Episode 4: Brandon Swanson Part 2 | Into the Fields

After covering Brandon Swanson’s disappearance, we packed up the Trash Panda Mobile and headed to western Minnesota to see the area for ourselves.

In this episode, we discuss our field investigation, the terrain, the rivers and waterways, the scent dog trail, Jeff Hassey’s years of research, and how differently this case feels when you’re standing in the middle of the landscape Brandon walked that night.

The deeper we dug, the more questions we found.

🌽 Fields.
🌊 Water.
📞 A phone call that ended in silence.

And a mystery that remains unsolved.

🦝 Question Everything.

This episode discusses the disappearance of Brandon Swanson. If you have information regarding his case, please contact the appropriate law enforcement authorities.

A college student gets lost on a rural Minnesota road, calls his parents for help, and disappears while talking to them on the phone.

Nearly 18 years later, we’re still asking the same question: What happened to Brandon Swanson?

This week, we cover the story. Next week, we’ll take you along on our own field investigation into the area where Brandon vanished.

A mysterious night in the Ural Mountains. Nine experienced hikers. A campsite abandoned under bizarre circumstances. More than six decades later, the Dyatlov Pass Incident remains one of the world’s most puzzling unsolved mysteries.

Join Talitha and Kissy as they dive into the strange events of February 1959, explore the theories, examine the evidence, and inevitably wander off into a few side quests along the way. Plus, a Mini Creeper segment featuring the infamous Rajneesh movement and one of the strangest bioterror attacks in U.S. history.

Grab a snack, settle in, and prepare for another journey into the weird, the creepy, and the unexplained.

C. U. Next Tuesday. 🦝