James P. Watson: The Bluebeard Killer
When Kathryn Wombacher suspected her husband, Walter Andrew, of having an affair in the spring of 1920, she hired a private detective to follow him on one of his many “out-of-town” trips that he’d tak...
12 Dec 202457min
Albert Johnson: The Mad Trapper of Rat River
In late 1931, several Native trappers in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, reported to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that a newly arrived white man, Albert Johnson, had been tampering with th...
9 Dec 202456min
The Murder of Cheryl Perveler
When police were called to the scene of shooting at the Castillion Apartments in Los Angeles on April 20, 1968, they assumed the victim, twenty-two-year-old Cheryl Perveler, had been shot in a robbery...
5 Dec 202453min
Fan Favorite: The Violent Deaths of Bog Bodies
This episode is a Fan Favorite that was originally published as Episode 401. We hope that you continue to have a happy and safe holiday! Cowritten by Alaina Urquhart, Ash Kelley & Dave White (Since 10...
2 Dec 20241h
Listener Tales 92
Happy Thanksgiving! Pull up a chair and get ready for a brand new batch of tales brought TO you, BY you (Salad Fingers & the Sims thief), For you, FROM you, and ALLLLL about you!Today we have some wil...
28 Nov 202443min
Fan Favorite: Bobby Mackey's Music World
This episode is a fan favorite that was originally published as Episode 476. We hope that you have a happy and safe holiday!When musician Bobby Mackey opened Bobby Mackey’s Music World in 1978, he had...
25 Nov 20241h 28min
The Suspicious Kidnapping of Sherri Papini
On November 2, 2016, thirty-four-year-old so-called “Supermom” Sherri Papini went out for a run near her home in Redding, California, and disappeared without a trace. Three weeks later, on Thanksgivin...
21 Nov 20241h 20min
Peter Bryan
On April 25, 2004, Broadmoor Hospital inmate Peter Bryan attacked a killed fellow inmate Richard Loudwell, a man awaiting sentencing for the murder of an eighty-two-year-old woman. The fact that the m...
18 Nov 202455min
