Goodpods Top 100 True Crime Podcasts
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Henry Lee Lucas was an American serial killer most known for falsely confessing to over 600 murders, earning the moniker ‘The Confession Killer’. Despite his prolific claimed body count, criminologist credit Lucas for killing at least (confirmed) victims, including his own mother, Viola Lucas. Lucas received the death penalty, but
In July 2007, a grainy cellphone video titled ‘3 guys, 1 hammer’ leaked onto the internet. The video shows two 19-year-old Ukranian men, Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk, as they savagely pummel to death 48-year-old Sergei Yatzenko, an innocent passerby. The disturbing video spread quickly, racking up millions of views,
The parents of 17-year-old Tyler Hadley would never allow their son to have a party in their Port St. Lucie home, especially after his missed school attendance and months of erratic behaviour. What Tyler’s parents didn’t know was that their son was determined to have his party, whether
When two fishermen discover a woman’s mangled dead body off the shores near Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, California, they assume it was nothing more than a shark attacking an unfortunate swimmer. However, when police identified the body as 25-year-old Michelle Von Emster, locals in the area who knew
Can a human spontaneously combust into fire and flames? Surely not, right? If the body of Mary Hardy Reeser, a 67-year-old widow, didn't spontaneously combust in the wee hours of Monday, July 2, 1951, then what caused the intense flames that reduced her to ash? Mary Hardy Reeser,
Would you marry a murderer who will never be paroled? If so, would your decision be influenced by the fact that you could NEVER have a conjugal visit with that inmate? Lyle Menendez has been locked behind bars for nearly thirty years and nearly half that time has been happily
Joseph Metheny was an American serial killer that chopped up his victims and served them to unknowing customers as hamburgers. Metheny preyed on drug-addicted women and prostitutes working in South Baltimore. Guards found him dead in his prison cell on August 5, 2017, of natural causes. Wrong Turn Joe Metheny
Known as a “real-life Yandere”, Yuka became famous for her jealousy that led to the near death of her boyfriend, Phoenix Luna. In a nutshell, Yuka discovered a photo of another woman on Phoenix’s phone and snapped, grabbing a kitchen knife and plunging it deep into her boyfriend’s
I’ve been producing true crime content for several years now and I can say with certainty that the worst cases involve senseless murders like the murder of Tristyn Bailey. Add on the fact that not only is the murder victim a child, 13, but her killer was still a
Anatoly Moskvin “The Dollmaker” I think it’s safe to say that children in most cultures play with dolls. Whether it is an American Barbie or G.I. Joe, a gazed porcelain China doll, or a AKUA’ BA witchcraft doll, children just love dolls. Dolls usually take on as much
Branson Perry disappeared from his front yard in Skidmore, Missouri on April 11, 2001. His disappearance remains unsolved and relatives and friends have long presumed that Branson is deceased. A former minister and convicted pedophile once bragged about killing the “blond-haired man from Skidmore”, but police have never fully connected
8-year-old Maddie Clifton was murdered by her neighbor Joshua Phillips on November 3, 1998. Phillips, who was only fourteen at the time of his grisly crime, stuffed Maddie's body under his waterbed, where he slept over top of it for six days. Joshua's mother eventually noticed