Idiot Box: Killer Kids Inspired by TV
In the cases we cover, there are types of relationship that frequently crop up between killer and victim, romantic partners or romantic rivals most of all. Sometimes, though, the relationship that is ...
20 Feb 48min
Lions and Tigers and Bears: The Zanesville Exotic Animal Massacre
Legendary Conservationist Steve Irwin said, “We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.” It’s such a lovely sentiment. We have a responsibility to protect ...
13 Feb 44min
BIG Announcement!
Come join us for CrimeWave 2.0, February 8-12, 2027 on Royal Caribbean's beautiful Oasis of the Seas. We're going to the Bahamas! See Katie and Whitney, plus Casefile, Last Podcast on the Left, True C...
10 Feb 4min
Lost: The Story of Salvador Alvarenga
In a lot of ways, the world is smaller now than it ever has been. With a few clicks of the mouse, I can watch a live camera feed of Sydney harbor, or read a newspaper from any country I can think of. ...
6 Feb 57min
Whoopsie-Doodle: A Grab Bag of Epic F**kups
Winston Churchill once said, “Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.” That’s a nice sentiment—I mean, by and large it’s good to let failure be a learning experience, to...
30 Jan 44min
The Poisoned Chalice: The Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore
On the surface, Blanche Taylor Moore looked like a model of small-town virtue: a devoted caregiver, a churchgoing woman, a trusted neighbor. But behind that carefully maintained image lay a wild heart...
16 Jan 56min
Into Darkness: The Murder of Denise Huber
A lot of the murder cases we cover feature slow-boiling resentments, or criminal schemes hatched with an explicit target in mind. Killings by strangers are rare—and terrifying. You can just be going a...
9 Jan 56min
Chasing a Shadow: The Stalking of Joanne Chambers
In the early 1990s, a beloved first-grade teacher in Pennsylvania began receiving harassing, threatening letters from an anonymous sender. Her school principal, fellow teachers, and the parents of som...
2 Jan 38min
