Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

In December 2017, authorities in Japan responded to a distress call from a couple reporting the death of their 33-year-old daughter, Airi Kakimoto. What they discovered was far more disturbing than ex...

25 Feb 202546min

Richard Chase, infamously known as the "Vampire of Sacramento," was a serial killer who terrorized California in the late 1970s. Suffering from severe schizophrenia and delusions, he believed he neede...

21 Feb 202546min

In 1878, 18-year-old Esther Cox of Amherst, Nova Scotia, became the center of a chilling mystery when she claimed to be tormented by a violent poltergeist. Witnesses reported terrifying phenomena, inc...

18 Feb 202545min

In 2000, Polish businessman Dariusz Janiszewski was found murdered under brutal and mysterious circumstances, his bound body floating in the Oder River. For years, the case went cold—until police disc...

14 Feb 202540min

When 27-year-old Lori Hacking failed to return from her early morning jog in Salt Lake City, concern quickly turned to panic. Friends and family launched a frantic search, but as investigators dug dee...

11 Feb 202550min

In the mid-1970s, a shadowy predator stalked San Francisco’s gay community, earning the nickname The Doodler for his habit of sketching his victims before luring them to secluded areas and stabbing th...

7 Feb 202542min

Of all the horrors to unfold in Yosemite National Park, few were as shocking as the 1999 murders committed by Cary Stayner, a handyman whose unassuming demeanor masked a deadly obsession. His crimes o...

4 Feb 202553min

In November 2004, Peter Porco, was savagely bludgeoned to death with an axe inside his home, suffering massive head trauma that left the crime scene drenched in blood. His wife, Joan, was also brutall...

31 Jan 202545min