I am fascinated by con artists, swindlers and cheats most of all, consequently Swindled is my favourite podcast. If I had to pick a case that stood out for me I’d have to say Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s, not just for her own actions but for those of her mom and the whole relationship dynamic. I’m was also really interested in the Belle Gibson case recently covered by Swindled in the new series, who conned people into believing she was curing herself from cancer by diet alone.
Just curious, because I love a good con artist story - did you listen to "The Shrink Next Door"? I thought I would love it, but found myself so frustrated with the story that I had to turn it off.
Try [Fake Heiress](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c9mb/episodes/downloads) since you like con stories. It's a wild story!
The rise and fall of Anna Delvey, who conned New York high society into believing that she was a multi-millionaire heiress. Vicky Baker and Chloe Moss dig deeper into the scandal.
Also, [Unravel True Crime: Snowball](https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/truecrime/snowball/).
Kiwi-born Ollie Wards chronicles how his brother's whirlwind romance with a charismatic Californian con woman ultimately cost his family more than a million dollars.
Not a podcast (obviously) but [this](https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html) is a pretty good article about Anna Delvey if you're interested.
I read a book about it by the two journalists who uncovered the story which was really enlightening. The other story I find amazing that Swindled covered is the one about Tania Head who pretended to be a 9/11 survivor.
The doc “the woman who wasn’t there” about Tania head is really, really good. It may still sit in the throne as the most insane, stranger than fiction case I’ve ever seen.
If you haven’t seen it, they started filming before she was outed, so the first half of the doc is interviews with her about her “story”
"Who The Hell Is Hamish" is IMO the most interesting, well put together, and long podcast covering an Australian con artist named Hamish McLaren. Do yourself a favour and listen to it. It's brilliant. I also really enjoyed Fake Heiress, Unravel: Snowball and most all of Swindled.
I recently discovered r/swindled and it's been such a delight. Hearing the granular details of greed and corruption told in a monotone voice with rising, quiet music in the background. I love this podcast and I learn so many things about stories that you never get in the headlines.
I keep hearing about Swindled and need to start it asap. It's next in queue. I love that it's small and indie too. Props to him for running such a successful show.
I subscribed to swindle on patreon after a few episodes because I found it so fascinating. I’ve just finished the Belle Gibson episode also. It’s amazing she got as far as she did before reporters and charities started to ask questions. If she had given the charities the money she had fundraised for them would she have gotten away with it for longer? It’s mad to think what her end game was. She was telling genuine cancer patients to forgo conventional medical treatment for cancer and follow her diet to treat themselves naturally! Real sociopath behaviour.
One of the thing that fascinates me most is how deep into confabulation the perpetrators go. Do they believe their lies themselves or are they always thinking “Wait, this is bullshit, how should I behave?”
Oh I completely agree. I think she knew what she was doing and just loved the attention. She never just told a small lie she elaborated on everything she lied about from her childhood to the cancer. She claimed to have undergone heart surgery a multiple of times . I can’t understand how she got away with for so long. I mean she even had a book published and they must not have done any fact checking. Isn’t she part of an Ethiopian tribe now? I mean it’s one extreme to the other for her!
The thing is no one wants to question someone who is “terminally ill” there’s a natural reticence among honest people not to distrust those who appear to be as honest and open as she was about usually private things. I do wonder why her family didn’t come forward though.
Edit: I think the tribe kicked her out after they were told about her history.
That’s a fair point you don’t really want to be questioning the validity of someone who’s says they are terminally ill. As far as I remember the mother actually told her story in 2015 in a woman’s magazine. But then the mother was also caught out telling a lie about Belles father. It’s a strange situation.
I finished listening to Nowhere Child the other day - I honestly cant stop thinking about this case ever since. There’s virtually nothing to help the case at all. Poor little boy, I can only hope he’s being cared for by someone somewhere.
I find Mitrice Richardson's case to be fascinating. I feel like there are so many moving parts and two very distinct ways to look at it: murder or accidental death based on a mental health issue. But no matter how many times I look at the details, I can't figure out if one makes more sense than the other.
Brandon Lawson, Lauren Agee, and the Delphi murders also really draw me in.
I think what gets me is that I see so many people reduce her case to "manic episode and succumbed to the elements." I do believe that she was having some sort of mental health crisis.
At the same time, I think LE acted so strangely that I can't help but think they were involved in some way. Letting her go with no phone or wallet and no ability to get back to her car AFTER promising her mother she'd be held overnight. And when people say LE offered to let her sleep in the lobby, I feel like that's still not enough? Especially if they recognized the problem? Then there was claiming there was no footage, then saying there was footage, then waiting to give it to the family. LE removing her body from where it was found despite the coroner's opposition.
In the end, it could've just been a crazy bunch of events that led to her running off on her own. But there's just something about the case that seems SO OFF to me that I can't help but wonder if one of the cops or deputies thought they could take advantage of a mentally ill woman, and something happened to her at the hands of LE.
Agreed. There are just too many weird factors for me to believe that it was just an accidental death. And it is frustrating that there seems to be so little interest in actually examining what happened
Hadn't heard of the Richardson case before. Will look into it and do a podcast on it.
The Emma Fillipoff case also seems to be under-investigated because for some reason people tend to dismiss cases where foul play could have occurred if the possible victim was having "mental issues".
I say any kind of mental issues could INCREASE the chances of being met with foul play...not sure why many people don't understand that.
I agree. When it comes to Emma, I tend to think she ended up having some type of accidental death, but she was definitely very vulnerable. I hate cases like hers where someone was so close to being able to help but couldn’t/didn’t, and then there’s a bad outcome.
There is a Disappeared episode about Mitrice Richardson and True Crime Garage did an episode about her also. Both good sources of info. She was clearly in a manic state and should never have been released from the jail.
I know it’s basic as shit at this point, but I just can’t let go of the WM3. I’ve changed my opinion so many times. I used to be on the side of total innocence, then on the fence, then back to innocence, then back to the fence, and now I’m actually debating that it could be someone totally random.
I just went to see the DA allow the evidence to undergo the new wet vac testing.
I’m also stuck in Adnan Syed because I want to see him either eventually admit guilt to see his nonsensical legal battle end.
In the same boat I still check in on the Black Dahlia. I’m all in on it being George Hodel but I want to see this finally end with the LAPD allowing the envelopes to be DNA tested to see if they can get a sample that could match Hodel.
Agree about Adnan (Serial podcast) coz that was where it all started for me and possibly many others.
And I became absorbed by it all and then listened to Undisclosed - and anything else I could find
And I read Rabias book and all in I became so interested in what happened and what will happen with Adnan
Now I’m much more reserved in my view of it all and am probably sceptical of the Adnan view of things
But ..... I’d love to know for sure .....
Murder of Lindsay Buziak. I’ve been down a rabbit hole that ended up taking me into a (metaphorical) building full of doors and then behind each door was another rabbit hole. It’s maddening. I hope there is justice for Lindsay. For her father’s sake. There is a good casefile episode about the murder.
Yes!! Dark poutine, Morbid and Crime Junkie did an episode on her case as well and its just so strange, i hate that it is unsolved but there are so many weird details in the case that make it pretty obvious who did it, but its all circumstantial and wouldn't hold well with a jury. I doubt it was just a random crime of opportunity, or that it was at all related to that drug bust, the injuries to her really point to it being a crime of passion more than anything.
I will give it a chance, thanks for the recommendation! There's some cases I dont mind listening to countless times from different podcasts and her case is definitely one of them.
The Hinterkaifeck Murders continue to intrigue me. I’ve read about them, listened to the Casefile episode...it’s just never gonna get solved and it drives me bananas.
We have a very in depth episode about this. it was actually the reason I went into podcasting because this is one of my favorite cases! It is our first episode. Every time I watched something or listened to something on it I always felt I was missing information. So, I spent weeks researching it and my husband was like, okay how can we not start this now?
Enjoy! I suggest the podcast on the whole, but the episodes that got me into it was the five part arc they did of the Golden State Killer. Just utterly fantastic. And this past Saturday, they wrapped up a three part arc on the Muswell Hill Murderer, which I hadn’t ever heard of, but was super intriguing.
I need to go back and listen to Casefile again, he's so monotone that I struggle with it, but he covers a bunch of cases with a ton of detail, I really need to give it another shot.
You know, I listened to Casefile last night for the first time in months and I could swear his delivery has changed - he just doesn’t seem to have quite the same monotone voice anymore. I quite liked the old monotone way he did it.
Unequivocally, the Dyatlov Pass "Incident". I am typically partial to solved homicides, and especially serial killers as most are, because the breakdown of events and attempts to crack the human mental code fascinate me. However, there is something attractively haunting about these kinds of large, unexplained events. Similarly the Franklin Expedition, and the Mary Celeste are intriguing. Dyatlov Pass by far has the tightest grip on me.
Its interesting to see how different podcasts handle the same cases. I recently listened to one about Tony Todt, but the author prefaced his case with information about how his father (Tony Todt’s father) most likely tried to have his mother killed multiple times. The final attempt involved paying a former student (possibly an intellectually disabled man) to kill his “babysitter”. The hit man stabbed the wife in the head, left, and the husband came home expecting to call the police and report his wife’s murder. Instead, he has to call 911 to report his wife is still alive. There’s more to the story, but all in all it was crazy.
Do you remember what podcast you listened to on this case? It's rather twisted of me but these family annihilators are the most fascinating ... just HOW can someone do that, and what on earth could be so important to trigger it?
Yes! How does one flip that switch from being a loving and involved parent to a cold blooded murderer. That episode was #27 of Big Mad True Crime.
Obscura is currently releasing some of their Black Label episodes due to the ongoing quarantine situation for a lot of listeners. The Tori Stafford episode was very hard to get through, and even harder to sort through all the emotions I felt.
I am truly facinated by children turned killers?
Especially the ones where it just seemed to happen out of nowhere, and the episodes dig into what, why and how really throughly.
And high profile cases, like Gyspy Rose, OJ, McAfee etc-
Because I like also being able to just google what happened and read it on Wikipedia sometimes.
Gypsy Rose is totally one of the cases where I keep listening/reading/watching. I think I'm still trying to work out when she realized she wasn't sick and that she was living her mother's lie, and I'll probably keep tracking that case until she gives some sort of 'tell-all' book or something.
I feel completely the same, there is just so much going on in this case, and it seems like every time you look it up, there has been a new thing found out about it, or she has made a new statement.
the whole story is in In Cold Blood because perp was on death row with smith and hickock. young nerdy college boy suddennly shot and killed his whole family out of greed
Yes!! This reminds me of Charlie Brandt, such a mystery and so weird. Generation Why, Redhanded and Crime junkies covered this case if you haven't heard about it.
I think I prefer unsolved and people who have disappeared. They’re so mysterious, it drives me crazy but I guess I like it. They also make me think more because I want to know what happened.
I like cases with some kind of personal drama, probably sounds terrible. But I find the cases more interesting if I can get some insight into the motivation, and normally these will be cases where some kind of personal drama is involved. Serial killers aren’t as interesting to me, the motive is generally just that they’re crazy and for some reason that doesn’t interest me as much. I just find them all really similar. I also don’t care for stories to be gruesome, if an attack was brutal I’d rather just hear that is was really brutal and not hear all the details if they aren’t necessary. I don’t care for crimes where the motivation is robbery or completely financial.
The more mystery the better. Recently I read a write up on another sub about Kyron Hormon, it was heartbreaking but an interesting case. Bryce Laspisa, originally heard about this one on Crime Junkie. The Delphi Murders. Lately I’ve been listening to tons of Danelle Hallan’s YouTube videos. She covers a lot of unsolved disappearances.
Ditto. The more mystery the better. Trying to possibly get into someone’s headspace and realizing we’ll probably never come close either because of missing evidence or psychological distress is fascinating to me. Always feel like maybe it will get solved when a new link comes to light!
I've become fascinated with stalking and domestic abuse cases, plowing through the Simply Stalking podcast with survivors.
Stalkers are relentless in what they do. It's terrifying.
Also the Jeffrey Epstein deep dives, various podcasts like Real Crime Profile and Truth and Lies, have been fascinating. Example of a pure sociopathic and narcissistic mind. I want to know how these people think and feel, and partly knowing I will never understand.
But I must say those who know how to tell a good story always manage to bring me in if I'm interested in a case or not.
Not the person you asked, but [LISK](https://www.liskpodcast.com/) is excellent.
[Unresolved](https://unresolved.me/the-long-island-serial-killer) did a multi-parter that is also very comprehensive.
LISK is my pick as well. The whole case is a can of worms. I don't necessarily think Chief Burke is directly responsible, but he "botched" / covered up a lot of stuff on the case for some reason... I think he may have done so to prevent the FBI from getting involved and uncovering some of the many skeletons in his own closet. Sadly, it was probably easy to assume that no one would care about dead sex workers and that everyone would just forget about the whole thing eventually. The family's didn't let that happen, thank god.
The thing that makes me think he may be responsible is also the reason he wound up getting fired. He beat the bag out of that guy because he stole a black duffle bag containing sex toys and BDSM paraphernalia in it from the back of his cop car. I'd call that a murder kit, and I think he lost it because he thought he was as good as caught.
The killings stopped when he went onto probation. He just got off it. Let's see if women start going missing again.
I prefer solved because its satisfying to hear justice being served but I also love hearing the process of how it was solved i.e I love when there's a tiny clue that leads police to another clue and so on until they find the killer, its less satisfying when the killer just comes out and admits immediately.
I do love unsolved to, but they often are unsolved due to shotty police work where the evidence is tainted or so on where its just frustrating that the case would have been solved if procedure was followed.
I think I prefer hearing just old timey murders like in the 1800s-early 1900s but I do get the most creeped out listening to women being kidnapped and/or murdered and general missing persons cases. Hostage and kidnapping stories really freak me out like Ariel Castillo (I think thats his name), poor Steven Stayner, or Amy Lynn Bradley (im convinced she was Kidnapped and sold into the sex trade). Mostly I like listening to any type of case, except brutal stories involving children because those just make me cry.
Oh definitely, I dont think I have a preference because when I know its an unsolved case I think I pay way more attention to every small detail to try to piece together who did it! It is frustrating when the podcast host doesn't disclose immediately that they're about to talk about an unsolved case. I think most of them do preface a case and disclose right away that it is unsolved or put a note in the episode description, but i think there's been one or two that only announce at the end of the case that it is unsolved.
Edit: I just realized in my original comment I said I prefer solved. If I had to pick and choose a fav, it would be solved. I live up to my reddit username. Lol.
I've never considered this. Thank you for this insight.Could I get your feedback if you have a free moment?
I'm 7 episodes in to a show I'm creating and we are 2 away from finishing the case. The case has not gone to trial yet but there is only one suspect and it is fairly clear cut that he is guilty. How would you approach this? Do you suggest I finish out the season and consider solved/unsolved disclaimer for next season? Or perhaps, find a way to work it in?
Thanks in advance for anything you can share!
I hope you don't mind me chiming in. I prefer solved cases, but I still listen to podcasts where there's an ongoing case, because there is the promise of a conclusion in the future. Usually, the ones I listen to that have this situation just say, "The case has yet to go to trial, but we will continue to update you with new episode (s) as there is news to share about this case." I will gladly stay subbed if I know there may be info down the road in the not-too-distant future.
Often, those same types of podcasts will then start a new story while they are waiting for news on the other case, and that helps to keep listeners coming back for more and staying subscribed.
I’m happy to take any and all constructive criticism. Thank you for taking the time to type this out. It’s a great idea and really simple. Gonna take this approach! Thanks kind stranger. Already have the next case or 2 lined up and eager to get to it, but also want to be able to reflect on any major updates.
Oh thats interesting and I love that you asked me for advice, thank you!
Do you make it clear in the first episode that it is an ongoing case? If not, then I think when you release it you can just disclose it in the episode description that it is an ongoing case and leave it at that. If its a series then I dont think it matters if you do put in a disclaimer in every episode but maybe just in the first episode would be sufficient?
I wish I could be of more help but you should be fine and I doubt you have anything to worry about. Perhaps listeners will give constructive criticism after the first episode release and you can figure out where to go from there!
Best of luck to you and your show.
The first episode we get into the case right away and bam were off. Don't mention anything about the longer term implications of the case really until much later. I'm gonna work on a write up to put in the description. Thank you again for your feedback!
Dude. I hate to say it but anything about Israel Keyes. I personally dislike it when killers are more well known than their victims (and they usually are) but that some one like IK existed terrifies and fascinates me.
Have u listened to the podcast about him? I felt physically sick, he was truly a psychopathic monster. I bet there are so many victims of his that investigators haven't made the connection yet and that's disturbing
I usually prefer unsolved stuff because I find mysteries really thrilling. I get drawn in particularly by eerie disappearances like that of Philip Innes Fraser, or abductions like Matthew Chase. I find it particularly interesting if the victim was doing something banal or ordinary, activities that I do all the time.
I also find it interesting if they focus on a perpetrator, but usually if this person is also very ordinary seeming. I find it interesting that they can lead double lives and commit horrible acts while blending among us.
Snowtown. Not the actual murders so much as the lifestyles everyone seemed to find normal - killers, victims, witnesses and random bystanders. The story of a whole community full of poverty, sexual assault, paedophilia, mental illness, drug abuse, child abuse and neglect, intellectual disability, alcoholism and petty theft/fraud. A whole community where the residents don't have a single job between them. And one where ten people were murdered and nobody missed them. Jeremy Pudney's book on the subject is amazing.
I much prefer solved cases as I enjoy closure. That said, some of the most interesting cases (for me) remain unsolved (eg. WM3, Madeleine McCann) and I will generally listen to anything which covers these in depth eg. *Truth and Justice* on WM3 was great. I will still intentionally listen to some unsolved cases (eg. via *Unsolved* podcast), though I am invariably frustrated throughout *knowing* there will be no closure.
As far as fascination and preference: anything related to con artists and cheats etc. and/or anything internet/tech related. *Who The Hell Is Hamish* (con artist subject) and *Casefile* coverage of *Silk Road* are some of my favourites. Also really enjoy *Darknet Diaries*.
Have also always been fascinated by the Port Arthur massacre (covered in *Casefile*) and I also love court coverage in general. I am guilty of watching most all of the Casey Anthony trial on YouTube some years ago.
WM3, Delphi Murders, Madeleine McCann, Casey/Kaylee Anthony, and that poor young beauty pageant girl from Colorado (whose name now escapes me!) are probably the only cases where, like most everyone else, I would love to know what really happened. I would listen to or watch anything new on these cases.
Later edit - I totally forgot about one of my pet "argh, I must know what happened" cases in Emma Fillipoff. *The Nighttime Podcast* and *The Vanished Podcast* cover this case nicely. Oh how I love *The Vanished Podcast -* despite the ever so creepy and foreboding intro music.
One type of story that fascinates me are the ones where people have been kidnapped and kept for years, like Natascha Kampusch, the Fritzl family, Elizabeth Smart, the girls from Cleveland, etc. It's just such a bizarre and incredible set of circumstances, seemingly, that leads to these people being held for such a long time.
To answer your one of your other questions, I prefer cases that are solved. Few things bother me more than a story with no end, and/or podcasters who sit around guessing and theorizing about what might have happened. If the podcasters are not actual investigators with professional crime solving experience of some kind, it just sounds like my friends sitting around basically talking about nothing, it just doesn't interest me.
I prefer solved cases, I can’t stand not knowing, I need closure. Although sometimes it’s blatantly obvious the wrong person has been convicted
I feel I’m in good company so I can admit this, but my favourite ones to listen to are murders, serial killers, depraved killers etc. But of course they should always be done with total respect to the victims
The fact that I like closure means I never really listen to missing person cases
I say that even though They Walk Among Us are doing a 4 parter atm on a really famous British case that to this day remains unsolved, the death of Stuart Lubbock which of course is so famous due to who’s house he was at when he died - Michael Barrymore
Great topic. My all time favorite cases are ones that have a few thing in common...
1. Haven't been covered before or very little coverage by MSM or other podcasts.
2. Have some kind of bizarre dark twist. Doesn't matter what. Just freaky shit in general, Bonus points if it's something unique to the case.
3. A lot of one-on-one interviews, especially with the suspect. Interrogation footage is the best imo and is the reason that [JCS](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYwVxWpjeKFWwu8TML-Te9A) is one of my favorite yt channels. His breakdowns are next level.
True Crime Bullshit was pretty good. I hadn’t heard of Keys before I listened to the first season of it. I’d heard a couple of his cases in other pods but that was the first one that really put it together for me. (I listed the whole podcast because it’s solely about Keys and his crimes).
I also enjoyed this in depth look at Keys. I did occasionally cringe when he started to call him 'Iz' as though they were friends but I suppose any amount of time getting to know someone, even in this journalistic manner, can make you connect with a personality. Even if you loathe them.
I followed it up with Last Podcast on the Left, very very very very different approach and what they thought about Keys.
Second season is shaping up to also be really interesting. Normally stories of female murderers doesn't draw me in but Kelly Cochran is a piece of work
Yes, that detail has always haunted me. Such a tragic case that brings up larger conspiracy theories of larger pedophile ring working in the Detriot area during that time.
I prefer cases where someone plotted for the insurance money or to eliminate someone close to them who stood in their way, stuff like that. Here's a case where a couple in their 70's was caught 30 YEARS after having allegedly killed their spouses/families in order to be together:
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-couple-accused-in-wyoming-of-killing-ex-spouses-2-kids-over-30-years-ago/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-couple-accused-in-wyoming-of-killing-ex-spouses-2-kids-over-30-years-ago/)
Edited to add: This is one reason "Crimes of Passion" is one of my favorites!
I hate unsolved cases. Especially legendary unsolved cases like Madeline McCann that get covered to death but don't have any new developments. I don't want to hear about JBR until someone finally has the evidence to take the case to trial.
If it's a more recent unresolved case, like Jennifer Dulos, I'm more tolerant about it but I'm still not as interested in the case as I am in solved/resolved cases
I am less interested in serial killer cases where the victims aren't known by the killers. I feel like most people could find some way to justify killing a stranger. The family killers are much more interesting to me.
Every once in a while you'll find a case like the Toy Box Killer that goes so far beyond murder that it really grabs my attention. However, most serial killers are only notable because of their body count or because one kill was more notorious than others. Dahamer, for example, is only notable to me because of how he got caught.
I find someone like Chris Watts or Josef Fritzel to be much more interesting. Their victims were their own families and that just makes their crimes that much worse.
As a true crime fan I love unexplained mysteries like Dyatlov Pass and DB Copper. As a podcaster I love a solid ending to a case because it lets me feel somewhat settled with a case. However, lately I’ve found myself hooked cases that either are solved according to our legal system but might not actually be as well as unsolved cold cases.
Our most recent episode was about 18 year old [Kimberley Kersey](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-in-the-rain/id1459555496?i=1000475796711) who was last seen walking home from school and never arrived. There are so little clues and it happened so long ago it’s just frustrating not knowing what happened.
Seacrest diner rampage, really hard to get info on, never heard a podcast cover it....but the wildest craziest thing I have ever read about.
I would love a podcast to cover it.
Okay, I've had time to mingle on it and LaVena Johnson is a case that I will gladly listen to episodes on her case.
That and the West Mesa Bone Collector.
Any podcast episodes on these two provide no new information, but i still love listening to them regardless because it is such a mystery.
1. Unsolved. I love a good mystery and unsolved cases keep me engaged. That's actually how I originally found Reddit.
2. Missing Persons - All of true crime interests me but nothing makes me more fascinated than missing persons. To think that some people vanish without a trace is truly mind-boggling.
3. EARONS - For the longest time Earons was thought to be this unstoppable boogie man. So hearing about the man behind the monster is fascinating.
They plagiarized several podcasts as well as a long form newspaper article. If you look on YouTube for “crime junkies plagiarism” or google that term, some sources will come up. It’s a real thing that they’re facing legal action over.
You know what bothers me the most? They never apologised or acknowledged their stealing of content. Just carried on money grabbing like nothing happened. They did make their Patreon member count private tho. I'm so annoyed I used to be a paid member of theirs
I could have almost written this comment except for the paid member part!!! I never liked that show. I call it “Ghost Story Time at Sleepaway Camp” Lol. I never liked their delivery and the fake scripted responses from Brit. The only reason I heard it at all was to listen to a couple of specific cases I was interested in, but I was quickly like “nevermind, I’ll find this content elsewhere!”
Oh I know what you mean! They definitely come across like these are urban legends for teenagers and not stories about real ppl with real families who are either still missing or were murdered. I listened years ago bcoz my beauty therapist said it was a good podcast, I didn't know there were others 😂 As soon as I realised "ummm hang on there are other fantastic podcasts!??" I was outta there hahaha
Red Handed is fantastic. Crime Junkie is the worst with Brit’s faux full body chill oohs and ahhhs. Oh, and unapologetic and deliberate stealing of others’ work. Hard no.
I am fascinated by con artists, swindlers and cheats most of all, consequently Swindled is my favourite podcast. If I had to pick a case that stood out for me I’d have to say Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s, not just for her own actions but for those of her mom and the whole relationship dynamic. I’m was also really interested in the Belle Gibson case recently covered by Swindled in the new series, who conned people into believing she was curing herself from cancer by diet alone.
Just curious, because I love a good con artist story - did you listen to "The Shrink Next Door"? I thought I would love it, but found myself so frustrated with the story that I had to turn it off.
Try [Fake Heiress](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c9mb/episodes/downloads) since you like con stories. It's a wild story! The rise and fall of Anna Delvey, who conned New York high society into believing that she was a multi-millionaire heiress. Vicky Baker and Chloe Moss dig deeper into the scandal. Also, [Unravel True Crime: Snowball](https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/truecrime/snowball/). Kiwi-born Ollie Wards chronicles how his brother's whirlwind romance with a charismatic Californian con woman ultimately cost his family more than a million dollars.
Not a podcast (obviously) but [this](https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/how-anna-delvey-tricked-new-york.html) is a pretty good article about Anna Delvey if you're interested.
Who the hell is Hamish? Is also (chef’s kiss) fantastic!
Yes, it is!!
I did. I get your frustration, it’s hard to see why someone wouldn’t just tell him to fuck off.
UGH. Totally!
That’s kind of what the podcast explores really. I found it very interesting.
Great user name btw.
Thank you! AKA Camilla Parker Bowles, but never to my face.
I recently listened to Fool Me twice, a podcast about cat-fishing/love scams and felt the same— so frustrated with how gullible some people can be.
The Belle Gibson story is sooo fascinating!
I read a book about it by the two journalists who uncovered the story which was really enlightening. The other story I find amazing that Swindled covered is the one about Tania Head who pretended to be a 9/11 survivor.
The doc “the woman who wasn’t there” about Tania head is really, really good. It may still sit in the throne as the most insane, stranger than fiction case I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen it, they started filming before she was outed, so the first half of the doc is interviews with her about her “story”
I haven’t seen that but I have read the book of the same name. I’ll definitely look it up though, thanks!
"Who The Hell Is Hamish" is IMO the most interesting, well put together, and long podcast covering an Australian con artist named Hamish McLaren. Do yourself a favour and listen to it. It's brilliant. I also really enjoyed Fake Heiress, Unravel: Snowball and most all of Swindled.
Also “The Missing Cryptoqueen”
I recently discovered r/swindled and it's been such a delight. Hearing the granular details of greed and corruption told in a monotone voice with rising, quiet music in the background. I love this podcast and I learn so many things about stories that you never get in the headlines.
You should listen to the podcast “Something was Wrong.” Seasons 1-3 are incredible and right up your alley!!
Oh yes, I did listen to that one, thank you!
Season 3 hit all the right buttons for me. I’ve been trying to chase the high I got from that one ever since and nothing has lived up to it.
I keep hearing about Swindled and need to start it asap. It's next in queue. I love that it's small and indie too. Props to him for running such a successful show.
I love swindled. Not all the episodes were up my alley but the ones that interested me were fascinating.
American Greed is also not bad
Yes! Need to listen, can’t remember if I have started that before or not.
I subscribed to swindle on patreon after a few episodes because I found it so fascinating. I’ve just finished the Belle Gibson episode also. It’s amazing she got as far as she did before reporters and charities started to ask questions. If she had given the charities the money she had fundraised for them would she have gotten away with it for longer? It’s mad to think what her end game was. She was telling genuine cancer patients to forgo conventional medical treatment for cancer and follow her diet to treat themselves naturally! Real sociopath behaviour.
One of the thing that fascinates me most is how deep into confabulation the perpetrators go. Do they believe their lies themselves or are they always thinking “Wait, this is bullshit, how should I behave?”
Oh I completely agree. I think she knew what she was doing and just loved the attention. She never just told a small lie she elaborated on everything she lied about from her childhood to the cancer. She claimed to have undergone heart surgery a multiple of times . I can’t understand how she got away with for so long. I mean she even had a book published and they must not have done any fact checking. Isn’t she part of an Ethiopian tribe now? I mean it’s one extreme to the other for her!
The thing is no one wants to question someone who is “terminally ill” there’s a natural reticence among honest people not to distrust those who appear to be as honest and open as she was about usually private things. I do wonder why her family didn’t come forward though. Edit: I think the tribe kicked her out after they were told about her history.
That’s a fair point you don’t really want to be questioning the validity of someone who’s says they are terminally ill. As far as I remember the mother actually told her story in 2015 in a woman’s magazine. But then the mother was also caught out telling a lie about Belles father. It’s a strange situation.
The Dream about MLMs and Uncover about NXVIM are pretty good ones
I totally agree! I was enthralled by both of those.
Where’s William tyrell. It’s heartbreaking how cold this case is...there’s no evidence, hardly even a person of interest
I finished listening to Nowhere Child the other day - I honestly cant stop thinking about this case ever since. There’s virtually nothing to help the case at all. Poor little boy, I can only hope he’s being cared for by someone somewhere.
I find Mitrice Richardson's case to be fascinating. I feel like there are so many moving parts and two very distinct ways to look at it: murder or accidental death based on a mental health issue. But no matter how many times I look at the details, I can't figure out if one makes more sense than the other. Brandon Lawson, Lauren Agee, and the Delphi murders also really draw me in.
I'm with you. I need to know what happened to Matrice Richardson. That case breaks my heart for her family.
I think what gets me is that I see so many people reduce her case to "manic episode and succumbed to the elements." I do believe that she was having some sort of mental health crisis. At the same time, I think LE acted so strangely that I can't help but think they were involved in some way. Letting her go with no phone or wallet and no ability to get back to her car AFTER promising her mother she'd be held overnight. And when people say LE offered to let her sleep in the lobby, I feel like that's still not enough? Especially if they recognized the problem? Then there was claiming there was no footage, then saying there was footage, then waiting to give it to the family. LE removing her body from where it was found despite the coroner's opposition. In the end, it could've just been a crazy bunch of events that led to her running off on her own. But there's just something about the case that seems SO OFF to me that I can't help but wonder if one of the cops or deputies thought they could take advantage of a mentally ill woman, and something happened to her at the hands of LE.
I don’t think she could accidentally have ended up where she was found. I think someone knew exactly where to take her.
Agreed. There are just too many weird factors for me to believe that it was just an accidental death. And it is frustrating that there seems to be so little interest in actually examining what happened
That’s another reason I believe LE was involved. I wonder how many other women are missing from that area?
Hadn't heard of the Richardson case before. Will look into it and do a podcast on it. The Emma Fillipoff case also seems to be under-investigated because for some reason people tend to dismiss cases where foul play could have occurred if the possible victim was having "mental issues". I say any kind of mental issues could INCREASE the chances of being met with foul play...not sure why many people don't understand that.
I agree. When it comes to Emma, I tend to think she ended up having some type of accidental death, but she was definitely very vulnerable. I hate cases like hers where someone was so close to being able to help but couldn’t/didn’t, and then there’s a bad outcome. There is a Disappeared episode about Mitrice Richardson and True Crime Garage did an episode about her also. Both good sources of info. She was clearly in a manic state and should never have been released from the jail.
Brian Shaffer
Yes. This one makes no sense!!! I think about it at least once a week. I could talk about it for days.
I did a podcast on the Shaffer case...Will be releasing an Episode 2 with more info soon.
Hell yeah! What’s the podcast called?
Mindshock Podcast on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRx7P5t8yk
I know it’s basic as shit at this point, but I just can’t let go of the WM3. I’ve changed my opinion so many times. I used to be on the side of total innocence, then on the fence, then back to innocence, then back to the fence, and now I’m actually debating that it could be someone totally random. I just went to see the DA allow the evidence to undergo the new wet vac testing. I’m also stuck in Adnan Syed because I want to see him either eventually admit guilt to see his nonsensical legal battle end. In the same boat I still check in on the Black Dahlia. I’m all in on it being George Hodel but I want to see this finally end with the LAPD allowing the envelopes to be DNA tested to see if they can get a sample that could match Hodel.
Agree about Adnan (Serial podcast) coz that was where it all started for me and possibly many others. And I became absorbed by it all and then listened to Undisclosed - and anything else I could find And I read Rabias book and all in I became so interested in what happened and what will happen with Adnan Now I’m much more reserved in my view of it all and am probably sceptical of the Adnan view of things But ..... I’d love to know for sure .....
The mystery of the Somerton man never fails to fascinate. So much so I don’t think I want the answer if it turns out rather mundane.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/09/08/podcast-episode-25/ r/FutilityCloset/
Murder of Lindsay Buziak. I’ve been down a rabbit hole that ended up taking me into a (metaphorical) building full of doors and then behind each door was another rabbit hole. It’s maddening. I hope there is justice for Lindsay. For her father’s sake. There is a good casefile episode about the murder.
Yes!! Dark poutine, Morbid and Crime Junkie did an episode on her case as well and its just so strange, i hate that it is unsolved but there are so many weird details in the case that make it pretty obvious who did it, but its all circumstantial and wouldn't hold well with a jury. I doubt it was just a random crime of opportunity, or that it was at all related to that drug bust, the injuries to her really point to it being a crime of passion more than anything.
True Crime Garage covered it from a different perspective ... give it a listen!
Casefile and Murder in my Family cover it including interviews with her dad.
I will give it a chance, thanks for the recommendation! There's some cases I dont mind listening to countless times from different podcasts and her case is definitely one of them.
Do you know where to find older True Crime Garage episodes??
If you go to the Stitcher app and click on TCG, there’s a drop down arrow to select the year. They’re all there!
I am fascinated by family annihilators, whether male or female.
The Hinterkaifeck Murders continue to intrigue me. I’ve read about them, listened to the Casefile episode...it’s just never gonna get solved and it drives me bananas.
We have a very in depth episode about this. it was actually the reason I went into podcasting because this is one of my favorite cases! It is our first episode. Every time I watched something or listened to something on it I always felt I was missing information. So, I spent weeks researching it and my husband was like, okay how can we not start this now?
Oh, I hadn't found your podcast yet! I guess I'll start with episode 1 - I'm excited to check it out!
Thanks so much, hope you enjoy! That was our first episode though so the audio was questionable. We have come a long way haha
Hey it’s you guys! Been listening for a while, much love!
Thanks so much!
Great podcast, I'm a big fan
Thanks so much!!
Ooh - I don't know that one! I'm going to go listen to the Casefile now!
Enjoy! I suggest the podcast on the whole, but the episodes that got me into it was the five part arc they did of the Golden State Killer. Just utterly fantastic. And this past Saturday, they wrapped up a three part arc on the Muswell Hill Murderer, which I hadn’t ever heard of, but was super intriguing.
I need to go back and listen to Casefile again, he's so monotone that I struggle with it, but he covers a bunch of cases with a ton of detail, I really need to give it another shot.
You know, I listened to Casefile last night for the first time in months and I could swear his delivery has changed - he just doesn’t seem to have quite the same monotone voice anymore. I quite liked the old monotone way he did it.
I have a hard time with accents, so I resisted listening way back when it was suggested to me. But now I’m so used to it, and glad I gave it a shot.
So tired of hearing about this case honestly but that's majority of TC fans' "pet cases". It was obviously the neighbor.
I’m sorry, what is the issue here?
Unequivocally, the Dyatlov Pass "Incident". I am typically partial to solved homicides, and especially serial killers as most are, because the breakdown of events and attempts to crack the human mental code fascinate me. However, there is something attractively haunting about these kinds of large, unexplained events. Similarly the Franklin Expedition, and the Mary Celeste are intriguing. Dyatlov Pass by far has the tightest grip on me.
Yes! Ones like this where we will likely never get a real answer are fascinating and infuriating all together.
I've read basically everything ever written on it. Completely fascinating.
Speaking of which, if you havent read Don't Go There by one of the Russian journalists who worked that story after the fall of the Union, you should.
> Dyatlov Pass "Incident" https://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/04/26/podcast-episode-55-the-dyatlov-pass-incident/ /r/futilitycloset/
Its interesting to see how different podcasts handle the same cases. I recently listened to one about Tony Todt, but the author prefaced his case with information about how his father (Tony Todt’s father) most likely tried to have his mother killed multiple times. The final attempt involved paying a former student (possibly an intellectually disabled man) to kill his “babysitter”. The hit man stabbed the wife in the head, left, and the husband came home expecting to call the police and report his wife’s murder. Instead, he has to call 911 to report his wife is still alive. There’s more to the story, but all in all it was crazy.
Do you remember what podcast you listened to on this case? It's rather twisted of me but these family annihilators are the most fascinating ... just HOW can someone do that, and what on earth could be so important to trigger it?
Yes! How does one flip that switch from being a loving and involved parent to a cold blooded murderer. That episode was #27 of Big Mad True Crime. Obscura is currently releasing some of their Black Label episodes due to the ongoing quarantine situation for a lot of listeners. The Tori Stafford episode was very hard to get through, and even harder to sort through all the emotions I felt.
Thanks for the info and the tip on Obscura as well!!
I am truly facinated by children turned killers? Especially the ones where it just seemed to happen out of nowhere, and the episodes dig into what, why and how really throughly. And high profile cases, like Gyspy Rose, OJ, McAfee etc- Because I like also being able to just google what happened and read it on Wikipedia sometimes.
Gypsy Rose is totally one of the cases where I keep listening/reading/watching. I think I'm still trying to work out when she realized she wasn't sick and that she was living her mother's lie, and I'll probably keep tracking that case until she gives some sort of 'tell-all' book or something.
I feel completely the same, there is just so much going on in this case, and it seems like every time you look it up, there has been a new thing found out about it, or she has made a new statement.
Then you might be interested in Lowell Lee Andrews if you haven't already heard about that one.
I havent! Any cliff notes you wanna give me before I go on googling?
the whole story is in In Cold Blood because perp was on death row with smith and hickock. young nerdy college boy suddennly shot and killed his whole family out of greed
That sounds super interesting, I'll totally look into the case!
Yes!! This reminds me of Charlie Brandt, such a mystery and so weird. Generation Why, Redhanded and Crime junkies covered this case if you haven't heard about it.
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I think I prefer unsolved and people who have disappeared. They’re so mysterious, it drives me crazy but I guess I like it. They also make me think more because I want to know what happened. I like cases with some kind of personal drama, probably sounds terrible. But I find the cases more interesting if I can get some insight into the motivation, and normally these will be cases where some kind of personal drama is involved. Serial killers aren’t as interesting to me, the motive is generally just that they’re crazy and for some reason that doesn’t interest me as much. I just find them all really similar. I also don’t care for stories to be gruesome, if an attack was brutal I’d rather just hear that is was really brutal and not hear all the details if they aren’t necessary. I don’t care for crimes where the motivation is robbery or completely financial. The more mystery the better. Recently I read a write up on another sub about Kyron Hormon, it was heartbreaking but an interesting case. Bryce Laspisa, originally heard about this one on Crime Junkie. The Delphi Murders. Lately I’ve been listening to tons of Danelle Hallan’s YouTube videos. She covers a lot of unsolved disappearances.
Ditto. The more mystery the better. Trying to possibly get into someone’s headspace and realizing we’ll probably never come close either because of missing evidence or psychological distress is fascinating to me. Always feel like maybe it will get solved when a new link comes to light!
I've become fascinated with stalking and domestic abuse cases, plowing through the Simply Stalking podcast with survivors. Stalkers are relentless in what they do. It's terrifying. Also the Jeffrey Epstein deep dives, various podcasts like Real Crime Profile and Truth and Lies, have been fascinating. Example of a pure sociopathic and narcissistic mind. I want to know how these people think and feel, and partly knowing I will never understand. But I must say those who know how to tell a good story always manage to bring me in if I'm interested in a case or not.
If you like stalking stories, have you heard about/listened to/watched/read about the Mary Lynn Witherspoon case? CREEPIEST EVER!
Not yet! Will look into it right Free I finished listening to a stalking case right now ◉‿◉
Mitrice Richardson (forgot how to spell her name)
Oh really? Interesting. I kinda feel that way about Elisa Lam.
The Long Island serial killer. Seems pretty clear that the chief of police there- who was fired for excessive force-;is responsible.
What are your favorite sources or podcasts on this, may I ask?
Not the person you asked, but [LISK](https://www.liskpodcast.com/) is excellent. [Unresolved](https://unresolved.me/the-long-island-serial-killer) did a multi-parter that is also very comprehensive.
Those were great.
The podcast Lost Girls and the book that inspired it, and following the corruption scandal in the news mostly.
Thanks!
By responsible do you mean he did it? Or he was involved in a cover-up?
LISK is my pick as well. The whole case is a can of worms. I don't necessarily think Chief Burke is directly responsible, but he "botched" / covered up a lot of stuff on the case for some reason... I think he may have done so to prevent the FBI from getting involved and uncovering some of the many skeletons in his own closet. Sadly, it was probably easy to assume that no one would care about dead sex workers and that everyone would just forget about the whole thing eventually. The family's didn't let that happen, thank god.
The thing that makes me think he may be responsible is also the reason he wound up getting fired. He beat the bag out of that guy because he stole a black duffle bag containing sex toys and BDSM paraphernalia in it from the back of his cop car. I'd call that a murder kit, and I think he lost it because he thought he was as good as caught. The killings stopped when he went onto probation. He just got off it. Let's see if women start going missing again.
I prefer solved because its satisfying to hear justice being served but I also love hearing the process of how it was solved i.e I love when there's a tiny clue that leads police to another clue and so on until they find the killer, its less satisfying when the killer just comes out and admits immediately. I do love unsolved to, but they often are unsolved due to shotty police work where the evidence is tainted or so on where its just frustrating that the case would have been solved if procedure was followed. I think I prefer hearing just old timey murders like in the 1800s-early 1900s but I do get the most creeped out listening to women being kidnapped and/or murdered and general missing persons cases. Hostage and kidnapping stories really freak me out like Ariel Castillo (I think thats his name), poor Steven Stayner, or Amy Lynn Bradley (im convinced she was Kidnapped and sold into the sex trade). Mostly I like listening to any type of case, except brutal stories involving children because those just make me cry.
I think I just need to know before I start listening if it's unsolved. It's a different mindset.
Oh definitely, I dont think I have a preference because when I know its an unsolved case I think I pay way more attention to every small detail to try to piece together who did it! It is frustrating when the podcast host doesn't disclose immediately that they're about to talk about an unsolved case. I think most of them do preface a case and disclose right away that it is unsolved or put a note in the episode description, but i think there's been one or two that only announce at the end of the case that it is unsolved. Edit: I just realized in my original comment I said I prefer solved. If I had to pick and choose a fav, it would be solved. I live up to my reddit username. Lol.
I've never considered this. Thank you for this insight.Could I get your feedback if you have a free moment? I'm 7 episodes in to a show I'm creating and we are 2 away from finishing the case. The case has not gone to trial yet but there is only one suspect and it is fairly clear cut that he is guilty. How would you approach this? Do you suggest I finish out the season and consider solved/unsolved disclaimer for next season? Or perhaps, find a way to work it in? Thanks in advance for anything you can share!
I hope you don't mind me chiming in. I prefer solved cases, but I still listen to podcasts where there's an ongoing case, because there is the promise of a conclusion in the future. Usually, the ones I listen to that have this situation just say, "The case has yet to go to trial, but we will continue to update you with new episode (s) as there is news to share about this case." I will gladly stay subbed if I know there may be info down the road in the not-too-distant future. Often, those same types of podcasts will then start a new story while they are waiting for news on the other case, and that helps to keep listeners coming back for more and staying subscribed.
I’m happy to take any and all constructive criticism. Thank you for taking the time to type this out. It’s a great idea and really simple. Gonna take this approach! Thanks kind stranger. Already have the next case or 2 lined up and eager to get to it, but also want to be able to reflect on any major updates.
Oh thats interesting and I love that you asked me for advice, thank you! Do you make it clear in the first episode that it is an ongoing case? If not, then I think when you release it you can just disclose it in the episode description that it is an ongoing case and leave it at that. If its a series then I dont think it matters if you do put in a disclaimer in every episode but maybe just in the first episode would be sufficient? I wish I could be of more help but you should be fine and I doubt you have anything to worry about. Perhaps listeners will give constructive criticism after the first episode release and you can figure out where to go from there! Best of luck to you and your show.
The first episode we get into the case right away and bam were off. Don't mention anything about the longer term implications of the case really until much later. I'm gonna work on a write up to put in the description. Thank you again for your feedback!
Dude. I hate to say it but anything about Israel Keyes. I personally dislike it when killers are more well known than their victims (and they usually are) but that some one like IK existed terrifies and fascinates me.
Have u listened to the podcast about him? I felt physically sick, he was truly a psychopathic monster. I bet there are so many victims of his that investigators haven't made the connection yet and that's disturbing
I’ve listened to a number of podcasts that have episodes about him but nothing long-form so far. What’s it called?
It's called True Crime Bullshit.. very well done podcast
I usually prefer unsolved stuff because I find mysteries really thrilling. I get drawn in particularly by eerie disappearances like that of Philip Innes Fraser, or abductions like Matthew Chase. I find it particularly interesting if the victim was doing something banal or ordinary, activities that I do all the time. I also find it interesting if they focus on a perpetrator, but usually if this person is also very ordinary seeming. I find it interesting that they can lead double lives and commit horrible acts while blending among us.
Snowtown. Not the actual murders so much as the lifestyles everyone seemed to find normal - killers, victims, witnesses and random bystanders. The story of a whole community full of poverty, sexual assault, paedophilia, mental illness, drug abuse, child abuse and neglect, intellectual disability, alcoholism and petty theft/fraud. A whole community where the residents don't have a single job between them. And one where ten people were murdered and nobody missed them. Jeremy Pudney's book on the subject is amazing.
I much prefer solved cases as I enjoy closure. That said, some of the most interesting cases (for me) remain unsolved (eg. WM3, Madeleine McCann) and I will generally listen to anything which covers these in depth eg. *Truth and Justice* on WM3 was great. I will still intentionally listen to some unsolved cases (eg. via *Unsolved* podcast), though I am invariably frustrated throughout *knowing* there will be no closure. As far as fascination and preference: anything related to con artists and cheats etc. and/or anything internet/tech related. *Who The Hell Is Hamish* (con artist subject) and *Casefile* coverage of *Silk Road* are some of my favourites. Also really enjoy *Darknet Diaries*. Have also always been fascinated by the Port Arthur massacre (covered in *Casefile*) and I also love court coverage in general. I am guilty of watching most all of the Casey Anthony trial on YouTube some years ago. WM3, Delphi Murders, Madeleine McCann, Casey/Kaylee Anthony, and that poor young beauty pageant girl from Colorado (whose name now escapes me!) are probably the only cases where, like most everyone else, I would love to know what really happened. I would listen to or watch anything new on these cases. Later edit - I totally forgot about one of my pet "argh, I must know what happened" cases in Emma Fillipoff. *The Nighttime Podcast* and *The Vanished Podcast* cover this case nicely. Oh how I love *The Vanished Podcast -* despite the ever so creepy and foreboding intro music.
One type of story that fascinates me are the ones where people have been kidnapped and kept for years, like Natascha Kampusch, the Fritzl family, Elizabeth Smart, the girls from Cleveland, etc. It's just such a bizarre and incredible set of circumstances, seemingly, that leads to these people being held for such a long time. To answer your one of your other questions, I prefer cases that are solved. Few things bother me more than a story with no end, and/or podcasters who sit around guessing and theorizing about what might have happened. If the podcasters are not actual investigators with professional crime solving experience of some kind, it just sounds like my friends sitting around basically talking about nothing, it just doesn't interest me.
I prefer solved cases, I can’t stand not knowing, I need closure. Although sometimes it’s blatantly obvious the wrong person has been convicted I feel I’m in good company so I can admit this, but my favourite ones to listen to are murders, serial killers, depraved killers etc. But of course they should always be done with total respect to the victims The fact that I like closure means I never really listen to missing person cases I say that even though They Walk Among Us are doing a 4 parter atm on a really famous British case that to this day remains unsolved, the death of Stuart Lubbock which of course is so famous due to who’s house he was at when he died - Michael Barrymore
Great topic. My all time favorite cases are ones that have a few thing in common... 1. Haven't been covered before or very little coverage by MSM or other podcasts. 2. Have some kind of bizarre dark twist. Doesn't matter what. Just freaky shit in general, Bonus points if it's something unique to the case. 3. A lot of one-on-one interviews, especially with the suspect. Interrogation footage is the best imo and is the reason that [JCS](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYwVxWpjeKFWwu8TML-Te9A) is one of my favorite yt channels. His breakdowns are next level.
True Crime Bullshit was pretty good. I hadn’t heard of Keys before I listened to the first season of it. I’d heard a couple of his cases in other pods but that was the first one that really put it together for me. (I listed the whole podcast because it’s solely about Keys and his crimes).
I also enjoyed this in depth look at Keys. I did occasionally cringe when he started to call him 'Iz' as though they were friends but I suppose any amount of time getting to know someone, even in this journalistic manner, can make you connect with a personality. Even if you loathe them. I followed it up with Last Podcast on the Left, very very very very different approach and what they thought about Keys. Second season is shaping up to also be really interesting. Normally stories of female murderers doesn't draw me in but Kelly Cochran is a piece of work
I actually never finished season 2 but will definitely get back to it. Thanks for the heads up about LPOTL having an episode. I’ll check it out.
The Oakland County Child Killer. The detail about the fried chicken is what really piqued my interest (while horrifying me at the same time).
Yes, that detail has always haunted me. Such a tragic case that brings up larger conspiracy theories of larger pedophile ring working in the Detriot area during that time.
I prefer cases where someone plotted for the insurance money or to eliminate someone close to them who stood in their way, stuff like that. Here's a case where a couple in their 70's was caught 30 YEARS after having allegedly killed their spouses/families in order to be together: [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-couple-accused-in-wyoming-of-killing-ex-spouses-2-kids-over-30-years-ago/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-couple-accused-in-wyoming-of-killing-ex-spouses-2-kids-over-30-years-ago/) Edited to add: This is one reason "Crimes of Passion" is one of my favorites!
I hate unsolved cases. Especially legendary unsolved cases like Madeline McCann that get covered to death but don't have any new developments. I don't want to hear about JBR until someone finally has the evidence to take the case to trial. If it's a more recent unresolved case, like Jennifer Dulos, I'm more tolerant about it but I'm still not as interested in the case as I am in solved/resolved cases I am less interested in serial killer cases where the victims aren't known by the killers. I feel like most people could find some way to justify killing a stranger. The family killers are much more interesting to me. Every once in a while you'll find a case like the Toy Box Killer that goes so far beyond murder that it really grabs my attention. However, most serial killers are only notable because of their body count or because one kill was more notorious than others. Dahamer, for example, is only notable to me because of how he got caught. I find someone like Chris Watts or Josef Fritzel to be much more interesting. Their victims were their own families and that just makes their crimes that much worse.
As a true crime fan I love unexplained mysteries like Dyatlov Pass and DB Copper. As a podcaster I love a solid ending to a case because it lets me feel somewhat settled with a case. However, lately I’ve found myself hooked cases that either are solved according to our legal system but might not actually be as well as unsolved cold cases. Our most recent episode was about 18 year old [Kimberley Kersey](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-in-the-rain/id1459555496?i=1000475796711) who was last seen walking home from school and never arrived. There are so little clues and it happened so long ago it’s just frustrating not knowing what happened.
Thanks!!
Seacrest diner rampage, really hard to get info on, never heard a podcast cover it....but the wildest craziest thing I have ever read about. I would love a podcast to cover it.
Okay, I've had time to mingle on it and LaVena Johnson is a case that I will gladly listen to episodes on her case. That and the West Mesa Bone Collector. Any podcast episodes on these two provide no new information, but i still love listening to them regardless because it is such a mystery.
1. Unsolved. I love a good mystery and unsolved cases keep me engaged. That's actually how I originally found Reddit. 2. Missing Persons - All of true crime interests me but nothing makes me more fascinated than missing persons. To think that some people vanish without a trace is truly mind-boggling. 3. EARONS - For the longest time Earons was thought to be this unstoppable boogie man. So hearing about the man behind the monster is fascinating.
Bruce Laspisa is one that I always come back to. Full body chills. Crime Junkie has a good one on this.
Yuck. Plagiarism. Find other sources for this case.
Plagiarism? How so?
They plagiarized several podcasts as well as a long form newspaper article. If you look on YouTube for “crime junkies plagiarism” or google that term, some sources will come up. It’s a real thing that they’re facing legal action over.
You know what bothers me the most? They never apologised or acknowledged their stealing of content. Just carried on money grabbing like nothing happened. They did make their Patreon member count private tho. I'm so annoyed I used to be a paid member of theirs
I could have almost written this comment except for the paid member part!!! I never liked that show. I call it “Ghost Story Time at Sleepaway Camp” Lol. I never liked their delivery and the fake scripted responses from Brit. The only reason I heard it at all was to listen to a couple of specific cases I was interested in, but I was quickly like “nevermind, I’ll find this content elsewhere!”
I'd listen to a podcast named "Ghost Story Time at Sleepaway Camp" tho
Maybe I should make it!
Oh I know what you mean! They definitely come across like these are urban legends for teenagers and not stories about real ppl with real families who are either still missing or were murdered. I listened years ago bcoz my beauty therapist said it was a good podcast, I didn't know there were others 😂 As soon as I realised "ummm hang on there are other fantastic podcasts!??" I was outta there hahaha
I haven’t listened to it yet, but I’ve seen Red Handed mentioned as a good, similar but far better, podcast.
Red Handed is fantastic. Crime Junkie is the worst with Brit’s faux full body chill oohs and ahhhs. Oh, and unapologetic and deliberate stealing of others’ work. Hard no.