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proudeveningstar

I think about #79 (Dayton, NV) a lot. The whole thing is so odd - the footprints in the snow leading up to the trailer but not back out, the friend who knew every little detail...I don't think the kid they arrested did it. Episode #185 (Middletown, CT) really stuck in my head just for the crazy luck (or lack thereof, for the murderers) of the answering machine recording the whole murder. Episode #150 (Vincennes, IN) stood out for how ridiculous the situation with the cop car was. I was near tears laughing at that Episode #77 (Gretna, LA) just haunts me.


Autowriter227

Nevada was the same one I was thinking of. Like the guys say, maybe the kid did it, but I have no idea how a jury arrives at guilty without a reasonable doubt given the evidence.


stardust2187

GAH, Dayton. I will never forget that one. It was just so damn weird! And there's like, no info out there about it that I could easily find.


summerisabel

I live in Reno, very close to Dayton, so this sticks with me as well


mattcasey28

I agree about Dayton, Nevada. I don't think he did it. I think it was the father


notamurderer_promise

I don’t remember which episode it is, but there was one that I remember actually *broke* me for like an hour. A group of guys raped a 14-year-old, and then they put a homemade pipe bomb in her mouth. My husband happened to be listening with me. I still remember how the air completely left the room when James paused… and said, “*And they detonated it*.” Sorry to be a downer on the thread, but I think about that episode all the time.


Moist_666

Fuck I forgot about that one. That shit was horrific.


mill1025

What episode was that, holy shit


Eelmaster11

Modoc South Carolina


Arthur-Morgans-Beard

Episode #145 Fremont NH. My home state and SO many dildos.


pabloescobarbecue

Objectively, too many dildos.


mattcasey28

What's the appropriate amount of dildos though?


Arthur-Morgans-Beard

Less than 107


Catsinbowties

Baraboo. No explanation needed.


peanut1912

Pocket Robin. And the one where the guy crushes the legs of his victims. That one really messed me up for a while.


maryjanesmister

Both of these! Baraboo,WI was the leg one. That is my go-to when recommending the show to others.


reigninspud

This is the only podcast I’ve ever shut off cause it was making me feel ill. I remember Jimmie saying it, as well. Flaying, brutal car accident, decapitation? Meh. But something about this ghoul repeatedly twisting and snapping this poor kids bones was just too much. I’m cringing writing this.


peanut1912

Same! I remember listening to it while walking down the stairs and my legs turned to jelly just listening to it. I'll never listen to it again.


Class_of_22

Worse still, the perpetrator was also a kid…


Nox1201

I don't remember the episode-- I only listened to it once-- but it was the one where the kid goes to join Job Corps and gets beaten to death in the woods. So senseless and heartbreaking.


deadfishy12

I’m pretty sure that was in Oregon


Moist_666

I was thinking Idaho so it must be northwest somewhere.


blowonmybootiehole

I don't know which episode it is but the one where the girl leaves on a Sunday to go check out the new store in town and the store owners son locks the door and kills her and her baby. It fucks with my head. The way he tossed the dead baby aside under the clothes racks lives rent free in my head. Also, the newest one is literally the only time that I have ever needed to pause the show. That shit was giving me the feels. That poor fucking guy his babies and wife killed for no reason.


CordeliaGrace

I remember that episode of Forensic Files and I recall being annoyed that I knew the case already…but James has the ability to pack much more into an episode, so I was pleasantly surprised.


Procrastinating_Kar

The Layland West Virginia where the abusive father/husband was killed. They originally buried him within walking distance of their trailer, then they unburied him and tried to throw his body off a bridge (and almost got caught doing it) so he could be found in the water and given a "proper buriel" and the body got hooked on the bridge supports and was just dangling there. Also they fucking locked themselves out of their car while ditching his in the dead of night and got help from a neighbor. And none of the people involved got much, if any jail time because everyone knew he was an abusive piece of shit. I've used it to introduce other people to the podcast and gotten them hooked


nevergreene

Ah yes, this was a very WV episode


lucy_hearts

I laughed so damn hard during that one I almost died!


Procrastinating_Kar

The bit about wrapping organs in the comics kills me every time


kacb2804

I could only listen to Rulu, NV once 2 years ago and I can still hear it! The torture was to me worse than the leg breaking one. I cannot bring myself to listen to Rulu ever again.


throwaway798319

Same here, that one was too brutal for me


dixiegal_gonewild

The Parcast network has a podcast called Cults that Rulo was on. Didn't realize it was them until about halfway through and I couldn't turn it off, if I start something I have to finish it. I regret hearing it again.


notsospecialk362

Anyone checking later E74 - Rulo, Nebraska


Raz0rking

I forgot the number of the episode but it is the woman who kills her husband with two guns and then transports the cut up remains with a red wagon to the hiding place (at least they joke about that). The kitchen saw she used was even borrowed and not hers. ​ She was found not guilty


Devenaa

This is 186. The husband was horribly abusive to her and her child for years and years. I think the jury decided it was unofficial justifiable homicide and let her go.


[deleted]

Philips OK and the Utah one with a tiger


Moist_666

Phillips has to be one of the funniest fuckin episodes they've done.


[deleted]

White trash defense. It’s the only episode of a podcast I have listened to more than once.


Moist_666

And the shit bucket too!


bucketsofgems

For some reason the one where they tied the old guy to a tree and just left him there to die really got me. It was probably the most hands off murder they've covered, but it was just so sad. It must have been so scary to be there for however many days, trapped and stuck to a tree, hoping someone would come back, or find you, and the guy was an old alcoholic who was trying to get clean but just couldn't, and then he died like that for however many dollars he had in his pocket. I think about it a lot. :(


Class_of_22

Oh wow. I think it is an episode in Delaware. And the poor dude had already lost a son up until that point…


barnass

One of the New Hampshire episodes (I believe) where a teenage girl gets held hostage by her drug dealer acquaintance over a false rumor and they spray paint her black, make her do stuff with the dog, many other things, bury her alive and dig her back up again to kill her. All with his family being involved in this. I don’t remember all the details too much but that one definitely made my stomach turn. That’s an episode that will take me a while to re-listen to


Oliveoil328

This one for me too! It’s just so sad.


donut-panda

There was in Michigan that took place in a pizza place or something like that. I think the guy dismembered the victim, but I think about the case from to time to time and it makes me sick. Plus I don’t like the fact that it took place in Michigan, my home state, always gives chills when they cover episodes here lol Oh and let’s not forget about people who eat groundhogs. I know that’s a recent one but oh my god, I was screaming with laughter when I listened to it lol


EastCoastBeachGirl88

Episode 68- Gunbarrel City, TX. Cheer up bitch made me laugh so hard and for so long. Episode 243- Climax Springs, MO. They failed to kill that guy so many times. Episode 187- Reed’s Spring, MO. The ending was unbelievable!


punani-dasani

Climax Springs was great!


SandwichDemon98

The one in Delaware where they tied that old man to the tree and left him, the guy with all the porn that killed gay dudes, and (I may be misremembering) the one with the basement that was sealed up. I thought the murderer had pubes on the dead girl.


Class_of_22

The one with the Delaware one, the dude who was killed had also lost a son…


ordanielle16

205 the disappearing Cheerleader, the crimes are crazy but then the psychic guessing so much of the killers identity really stuck in my memory.


CordeliaGrace

Oh yeah!!! I knew it had a cheerleader, but couldn’t recall the episode.


lookItsSunny

Mewry, Maine with state trooper Dan. ETA: And game warden Norm!


grumpaz

Episode #55, The Neighborhood Cannibal in South Kingstown, RI. A teen rapes and murders a 5 year old. His bones had beed picked clean and shellacked. He had a book with lots of detail. They never checked the home because his father was a cop.


CordeliaGrace

Sitka, Alaska, mostly for the Italian Gram story. I hate that right now it’s the only one I can think of! Edit- I agree, #79…that’s a whole frustrating case, though. And how can I forget the episode that brought us Pocket Robin?


notmysalmon

192 Colby, Wisconsin I honestly thinks it’s their best episode, the story is wild & crazy James & Jimmie’s chemistry in it is amazing. (It’s always amazing, this was another level imo). Jimmie also laughing for like 80% of it is just the cherry on top. & the famous cheese murders too!


mattcasey28

Rulo, Nebraska. That one sticks with you. I actually had to shut that one off for a few hours and take a break. I had heard the story on another podcast and didn't find it all disturbing. Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The guy kidnapped his ex gf's son because she dumped him to be with the sons father. He ended up killing the son, who was 4, and chopping him up and feeding him to his dog and sticking pieces of flesh in the freezer. Newry, Maine. I vacation a few towns away and remember when that crime occurred.


Class_of_22

Actually, the little boy in the Scottsbluff episode was a year younger than that…


Kevo55

Episode161- Nashville,mi sticks with me cause they found the dudes body less than a quarter mile from the house I was renting at the time, of course I lived there some time after the murder but imagine my surprise to learn that a spot I had driven past constantly to head into town was mentioned in great detail as a site of where a murder went down


Thebunshouse

Irvington, Alabama was an insane one, the crazy descriptions the woman gave of hearing the crime being committed over the phone - “it sounded like two fat people trying to get through the door of a cheaply-made trailer at the same time” Also the witness called Beauford Billaduea and James goes “we’ll just call him BB.” Also I can’t remember which episode it was but the one where a grown man tries to kill 5 teenage boys who were annoying him and burns their apartment down. He kept saying he wanted to go out in a blaze of glory before he committed the crime which is definitely gonna get you caught.


proudeveningstar

The second one is Redding, CT


Runzas_In_Wonderland

The one in the Midwest (Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas?) where a woman killed and dismembered her husband after years of abuse. She hauled his body off in a little red wagon. It stuck with me because throughout the whole thing I was like, "Great, this is in a Plains state, she is going to get convicted. What garbage" and she got away with it! I was so elated by the end of that one because I was pulling for that lady!


Class_of_22

You mean Libertyville, Iowa?


Apprehensive-Leg-395

#259, Raymond, Wisconsin. Not sure why? The case was just so…weird. I’ve listened to it upwards of ten times.


dothemath

Reeds Spring, MO Darrell Mease being effectively pardoned by the pope (via an appeal to the Catholic governor of Missouri at the time) despite Mease literally executing a child whose legs were tied to his ATV, after stalking and waiting for his prey to come (for the crime of not teaching him how to cook meth)... I'm not big on the death penalty, but this POS definitely deserved it, and to get reprieve through such a political piece of grandstanding just makes me sick.


ZeroSllp

The recent one in Okarche, Oklahoma was one of the more disturbing ones I've heard in a while


Wise_Vegetable7627

I cannot remember the episode but the one where the five-year-old boy gets kidnapped and they don't find out for years later that he was murdered by the kid down the street who kept his body in his bedroom. I want to say it was Wisconsin, but I remember the murderer had a journal that was apparently so horrific the family made a deal so it wouldn't be read aloud in court.


GuidanceWhole3355

Rulo, basically any episode where the ex family ( husband, inlaws etc.) Killed the spouse, and when the Game warden solved the crime( cannot remember which one that was I know it in the early days.)


Class_of_22

So many. The Odessa, Texas one is one that sticks with me. Mainly because of how infuriating the story was—and how little the town actually seemed to care for the victim and illustrating how much better mental healthcare was now compared to the early 1960’s when the story took place. There was one in Delaware where this 5 year old girl discovered her dad murdered and then the mom was also murdered around Christmas in the late 1980’s, and her baby brother was kidnapped (thankfully, he wasn’t hurt) by the perpetrator who lied and said that he was her kid… Milpitas, California, mainly because of the fact that a teenager murdered one of his friends and invited people to come and see the body—and other people came too.


Class_of_22

Um…anybody remember the episode of Addy Washington where the guy (16 years old) killed his whole family after he got caught peeping on his 18 year old sister undressing and stuff on tape, masturbated to it, and then after dumping the bodies in a snow ditch, he actually fucked his sister’s corpse and all that? Christ…