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Note/Correction: Investigator Slater kept referring to A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story as a Netflix series, but it actually aired on BritBox. She's very sorry.
Ruth Ellis was a 28-year-old nightclub hostess and mother who, in 1955, becam ... Show More
May 22
Tank Made It This Far: He's A Real One!
Oh Tank….look what you made me do, look what I made for you. Thank goodness there’s an “episode” about you and you’re not dead! Anyway, you’ll always have a place at Psychopedia. THANK YOU for giving us the gift of you for two years! Catch you in the sunlight, Macrohost. To learn ... Show More
7m 19s
May 21
EP126: Starvation Death Cult
In April 2023, Kenyan authorities uncovered a waking nightmare: hundreds of shallow graves scattered across the forest floor in Shakahola. What began as ten bodies quickly ballooned into over 400—most of them women and children, many brutally mutilated, raped, or missing organs l ... Show More
1h 26m
Jul 2024
Episode 582: The Murder of Julia Martha Thomas
In early March 1879, fifty-five-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas disappeared from her home in southwest London. Julia often travelled by herself on moment’s notice, so neighbors thought nothing of her absence; however, when several female body parts were discovered in the Thame ... Show More
1h 5m
Aug 2024
Episode 589: John George Haigh: The Acid Bath Murderer
On February 20, 1949, police in London arrested thirty-nine-year-old John George Haigh on suspicion of his connection to Olive Durand-Deacon, a wealthy widow who’d gone missing a few days earlier. Haigh had a long criminal history of fraud and theft, so when police discovered tha ... Show More
1h 18m
Oct 2024
Introducing: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley
On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a vol ... Show More
2m 22s
Aug 2024
Episode 592: Nellie May Madison: California’s First Woman on Death Row
On the afternoon of March 25, 1934, Belle Bradley found one of her tenants, forty-five-year-old Eric Madison, dead on the floor of the apartment he rented with his wife, Nellie. Madison had been shot in the back four times with a .32 caliber revolver and there was no sign of Nell ... Show More
1h 36m
Apr 2022
S1 Ep8: Dorothea Puente, The Killer OAP
Helen Anderson and Danni Howard travel back to 90’s America to visit a boarding house for people down on their luck, run by sweet little old lady Dorothea Puente… but is Dorothea all that she seems? After discovering a body in her front garden, detective John Cabrera has a hunch ... Show More
54m 53s
Jun 2
Episode 677: The Murder of Anthony LoConte
On the evening of May 10, 1988, a passing driver on Howard Street in Brockton, MA, stopped to investigate something unusual on the side of the road. When the driver got closer to what they thought was a bag, they realized it was actually the body of twenty-four-year-old Anthony L ... Show More
47m 38s
Jul 2024
Episode 581: The Murder of Patricia Lonergan
On the morning of October 25, 1943, the body of twenty-two-year-old Lion Brewery heiress, Patricia Lonergan, was discovered in a locked room in the New York apartment she shared with her infant son. Patrica was nude and had been bludgeoned with a candelabra. Suspicion quickly fel ... Show More
1h 10m
Oct 2022
#404: The Shenandoah Murders - Part 1
In May 1996, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams were murdered at their campsite in the popular Shenandoah National Park in the middle of rural Virginia, not far from a busy tourist resort called Skyland. Many people, including park and resort staff, had seen the happy, friendly cou ... Show More
48m 58s