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Terrifyingly Typical True Crime

Calista and Theresa Whitney

Curious about true crime and want to understand the patterns that often pop up? Join antisocial and outspoken mother and daughter Theresa and Calista as they connect cases to dig into a specific type of crime or criminal. Dive into a new case every other week that explores common crimes and typical themes in true crime!

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01:06:12

Episode 20 - Arthur Burton Schirmer: The Method(ist)...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/07/13

When Rosemarie Cobb went to Reeders, Pennsylvania for her brother’s memorial service in October 2008, she had no idea that his suicide was tied to a man linked to two other deaths, a pastor who happened to be having an affair with her sister-in-law. After pushing for an investigation, the formerly closed cases were given a second look. His first wife, Jewel, had died after a fall down the stairs nine years earlier, and hissecond wife, Betty, had died after a car crash only months earlier. Either

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00:57:13

Episode 19 - Heather Pressdee: Woefully...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/07/06

When a family member chooses a residential facility or nursing home for their loved one, they expect them to be safe. When they are able to visit their relatives often, they feel confident that they chose the right place. However, without safeguards in place to advise potential employers of someone’s alarming job history and amid a global pandemic and staff shortages, the perfect situation is set for someone with malicious intent. Taking advantage of all of these things was nurse Heather Pressdee

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01:03:40

Episode 18 - Jane Toppan: Sexual Sensationalism or...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/06/29

In 1887, Amelia Phinney was recovering from surgery at Cambridge Hospital. As she lay awake from the postoperative pain, a nurse named Jane Toppan gave her something that thankfully made her pain ebb away, but then Amelia felt the bed sink as someone got in beside her. However, after another nurse came by, Jane jumped out of Amelia’s bed. Once the effects of the nearly fatal drugs Jane had given her wore off, she began to question her memory. She wouldn't recount the incident until she, and the

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00:47:40

Episode 17 - Kimberly Saenz: Brazen With Bleach

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/06/22

With her spotty employment history and her nursing license free from infractions, because her Demerol theft hadn’t yetbeen investigated, Kimberly Saenz was unconcerned and optimistic about her new job at the Lufkin, Texas DaVita Dialysis Center. Eight months in, her training was complete, and she was finding her groove. That’s when things started to change. In April 2008, five patients would die and five more would be injured when she inexplicably injected them with bleach. Sources:

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00:56:34

Episode 16 - Beverley Allitt: A Sick Need for Attention

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/06/15

In February 1991, 22-year-old Beverley Allitt started her first job as a children’s nurse at Lincolnshire’s Grantham and Kesteven Hospital. After less than a week in her new role, 7-week-old Liam Taylor was being treated on the children’s ward for a chest infection. He recovered from two respiratory emergencies, but his luck ran out when he was on his own with Beverley. Even though the attending team did their best to save Liam, he later died from a heart attack. He was to become the first of

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00:46:42

Episode 15 - Genene Jones: Killing Instead of Caring

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/06/08

Working at Bexar County Medical Hospital in the pediatric ICU with the sickest children was where LVN Genene Jones wanted to be. She found the life-and-death emergencies exciting and wanted to be by the bedside of the sickest children. Colleagues who first viewed her as wanting to do a job that not every nurse was comfortable with soon started asking questions: Why were so many children dying during Genene’s shift? Whispers and rumors had begun gaining steam. Was Genene killing children during her

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01:11:41

Episode 14 - Elizabeth Wettlaufer: Dialing-Up for...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/06/01

We’re starting our next true crime theme: female killer nurses. Between 2007 and 2016, Ontario nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer killed eight elderly patients and tried to kill or harm six more, administering insulin overdoses to those with dementia to relieve the “red surge” of pressure she felt in her chest. Elizabeth had a habit of stealing and using medication on the job and had been fired twice before. So, when her crimes came out, lawsuits were filed and an inquiry was launched as the public grappled

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01:01:06

Episode 13 - Selena Quintanilla: For the Record, It...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/05/25

On March 31, 1995, Grammy-award winning Selena Quintanilla was about to finally get her hands on the remaining financial records in the possession of her former employee who had been recently fired for embezzling. But that employee, the founder of Selena’s fan club, was not about to let the object of her obsession cut her out of her life. At the Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas, 34-year-old Yolanda Saldívar pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and shot the singer. While falling to the floor of the

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01:09:10

Episode 12 - John Lennon: “Above Us, Only Sky”

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/05/18

On December 8, 1980, one of the most famous and prolific musicians of a generation, John Lennon, 40, was gunned down in front of the Dakota building, which housed his Upper West Side apartment in the adopted city that he loved, where he could walk around freely without getting bombarded by fans. However, one mentally unstable anddisillusioned fan, Mark David Chapman, 25, who had been planning John’s murder for months, finally completed his mission. Did Mark take Holden Caulfield’s catchphrase of

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00:56:35

Episode 11 - Christina Grimmie: My Celebrity “Soul Mate”

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/05/11

It was a typical meet and greet, and the former contestant of The Voice, Christina Grimmie, stretched out her arms to hug a shy fan. But Kevin James Loibl didn’t return her embrace. Instead, he reached for his first 9mm handgun and shot his “soul mate,” a woman he had never met but with whom he had become obsessed, four times. Despite Christina’s brother tackling Kevin, Kevin scrambled away, took out his second handgun, and turned it on himself. We’re touching on YouTube fans and the personal

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00:39:14

Episode 10 - Darrell Abbott: Driven by the Music,...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/05/04

Days before wrapping up their tour to head home for the Christmas holidays, the band Damageplan was playing a show at the Alrosa Villa Nightclub in Columbus, Ohio. However, this would be the last show for “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and three other people. Nathan Gale went on a shooting spree that would send ripples through the heavy metal music community by ending the life of one of metal’s most influential power guitar players, leaving people to question how he was able to access the club and end the

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00:44:12

Episode 9 - Andrés Escobar: A Steaming Cup of Soccer...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/04/27

Against the backdrop of Colombian narco-soccer, Medellín’s Atlético Nacional qualified for the 1994 World Cup in the United States. Having lost only one of the twenty-six games they played in the lead-up to the World Cup, the team was helping Colombian fans forget the perils they faced during the tumultuous time following Pablo Escobar’s death. But after being eliminated during the group stage, soccer star Andrés Escobar was shot to death upon his return to Medellín. We’re back with another episode

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00:37:46

Episode 8 - Rebecca Schaeffer: Before Stalking Was a...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/04/20

We’re starting our new true crime theme: when celebrity fandom turns to murder. Rebecca Schaeffer was a 21-year-old actress whose career was just starting to take off. On the morning of her murder, she was anxiously waiting for a messenger to deliver the script for the highly anticipated third and final Godfather movie which she would be auditioning for later that afternoon. She opened her apartment door to be met not with a messenger, but a troubled fan named Robert John Bardo. Rebecca’s death

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00:41:01

Episode 7 - Lizzie Borden: The Picture of Fragile...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/04/13

“Lizzie Borden took an ax …” You may know the rhyme, but do you know the true story behind it? Today, for our final case on daughters who kill, we’re talking about Lizzie Borden. Even though she was acquitted, most people still believe that Lizzie Borden killed her father, Andrew Borden, and stepmother, Abby Borden with a hatchet in 1892. Could she have been innocent, or did Lizzie kill them for her inheritance? What about the rumors of incest? Give our last episode on daughters who kill a listen

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00:37:52

Episode 6 - Jennifer Pan: When Your Lies Become Your...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/04/06

Police arrived at the two-story home in quiet Markham, Ontario on November 8, 2010, in response to 24-year-old Jennifer Pan’s 911 call in which she told the dispatcher that three men had broken into her home and shot her parents, Hann and Bich Pan. Police and ambulance services pulled up to find a bloodied Hann in the front yard. Upon entering the home, they discovered Jennifer tied to the upstairs banister, apparently uninjured, but Bich was found in the basement, dead from multiple gunshots

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00:53:43

Episode 5 - Jasmine Richardson: One “300-Year-Old...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/03/30

A blood-soaked scene, three bodies, and one missing girl, the police can hardly be faulted for assuming they were looking at an abduction following a triple murder. But the person who had plotted the murders of Debra and Marc Richardson and their eight-year-old son, Tyler Jacob, wasn’t a stranger. It was 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson who had enlisted the help of her “boyfriend,” 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke, to kill her family. We’re back with another daughter who killed her family in this week’s

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00:38:09

Episode 4 - Suzane von Richthofen: “How Sharper Than...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/03/23

São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, experienced plenty of crime in 2002. With many citizens living in poverty and struggling to survive, police were used to being called to crime scenes in the poorer neighborhoods. However, getting called to the wealthy area of Campo Belo was not the norm. Entering the residence, police found that the rooms on the lower level largely appeared undisturbed, except for the office, where it looked like items had been strewn about. After going upstairs, though, they found

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00:35:24

Episode 3 - Kim Edwards: Britain’s Youngest Double...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/03/16

With the bodies of her mother, Elizabeth, and sister, Katie, upstairs, Kim Edwards watched the Twilight movies with her boyfriend Lucas Markham, reveling in their unobstructed relationship before police came to arrest them. Having long been jealous of her mother and sister’s close relationship, Kim wanted revenge for how her mother had treated her, and getting Lucas to kill Elizabeth for her was hardly difficult. After all, Elizabeth had never kept her disapproval of their relationship a secret

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00:33:42

Episode 2 - Verity Beck and Shabnam Ali: For Love or...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/03/16

We will be covering two separate cases about daughters who kill this week. First, when Reid and Miriam Beck’s son, Justin, visits their home on January 17, 2023, because he hadn’t talked to his parents in a few days, his sister, Verity, who is also living in the house, tells him things have “been bad.” Justin can see that when he notices what looks like a body covered with a sheet and a chainsaw nearby. Second, local villagers in Bawan Kheri, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, heard

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00:38:29

Episode 1 - Virginia McCullough: How to Build a...

Terrifyingly Typical True Crime ·

2025/03/10

Daughters who kill … That’s our first ever theme, and today, we’re diving into the case of Virginia McCullough. We’ve all dug ourselves into a hole with our lies before. Most of us, though, don’t see murder as our only way out. However, Virginia McCullough decided that murdering her parents, John and Lois, was her only answer. When the police showed up at the family home, they learned that Virginia hadn’t just been living with what she’d done, she’d been living with the bodies of her parents for the

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