The History of Gruesome Gertie | Bloody Angola: A Prison Podcast

On the afternoon of November 21, 2021, downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin, was packed for the city’s annual Christmas parade. Kids in baseball uniforms. Bank employees handing out candy. The Milwaukee Danci...

21 Sep 2h 7min

In 2008, a young man from Chillicothe, Ohio, slit his girlfriend’s mother’s throat, sat on the couch, and watched her die—then set the apartment on fire. He called himself “Box Cutter.” Prosecutors wa...

4 Sep 40min

On November 15, 2017, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe left her Lincoln apartment excited for a second Tinder date. She posted a Snapchat: “Ready for my date.” She never came home.The woman she matched with w...

28 Aug 43min

In January 1958, a 19-year-old high school dropout from Lincoln, Nebraska named Charles Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate went on a murder spree that left eleven people dead...

19 Aug 31min

Part 2 of a 2 Part SeriesFor more than three decades, Wichita, Kansas lived under the shadow of a killer who named himself. He called himself BTK—Bind, Torture, Kill—and he made sure the police and th...

29 Jul 1h 7min

Part 1 of a 2 Part SeriesFor more than three decades, Wichita, Kansas lived under the shadow of a killer who named himself. He called himself BTK—Bind, Torture, Kill—and he made sure the police and th...

23 Jul 44min

“The Craigslist Killer”In October 2007, 24-year-old Katherine Ann Olson, a bright theater and Hispanic studies graduate from St. Olaf College, responded to what seemed like a straightforward babysitti...

16 Jul 40min

Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student was home for the summer, working, running regularly, and spending time with family and her boyfriend when she disappeared on the evening of Ju...

9 Jul 2h 18min