Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

70:33

Maury Travis - The Videotape Killer

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2026/07/28

Women were turning up strangled and discarded across Missouri and Illinois, their bodies left along roadsides, in weeds, and in isolated stretches surrounding St. Louis.The killer moved through the city’s most vulnerable communities, leaving investigators with a growing collection of unsolved murders, an unknown DNA profile, and no name to attach to any of it. But behind the doors of an ordinary suburban home in Ferguson, Maury Travis had created something far more disturbing, documenting the

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69:08

The Babes in the Woods

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2026/07/24

On a cold January afternoon in 1953, a man wandering through Vancouver's Stanley Park stumbled upon a discovery that would become one of Canada's oldest and most haunting unsolved murder cases. Hidden beneath a discarded fur coat were the skeletal remains of two young children whose identities had seemingly vanished without a trace, leaving investigators to wonder not only who killed them, but why no one ever came looking. It would take nearly seventy years, generations of detectives, and

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72:31

Monica Jack - Cold Case Solved 40 Years Later

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2026/07/21

In 1978, twelve year old Monica Rose Jack disappeared while riding her bicycle home through British Columbia's Nicola Valley, leaving behind only a handful of witnesses and a family desperate for answers. For more than forty years, investigators chased dead ends, uncovered buried evidence, and pursued a predator who always seemed to stay one step ahead of justice. As breakthroughs in forensic science and one of the RCMP's most sophisticated undercover operations began exposing the truth, one of

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75:05

The Devil's Disciple - Patrick Mackay

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2026/07/17

They called him "The Devil's Disciple." Throughout the 1970s, Patrick Mackay drifted between hostels, churches, and borrowed homes while secretly carrying out a series of brutal attacks that would eventually make him one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. As detectives investigated what first appeared to be the murder of a single Catholic priest, they uncovered a trail of violence stretching back years, forcing them to ask a terrifying question: just how many people had Patrick Mackay

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68:55

Steven Kubacki – Vanished Without a Trace - Solved

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2026/07/14

In February 1978, 23 year old College student Steven Kubacki left for a cross country skiing trip near the frozen shores of Lake Michigan and never returned. Searchers found his skis, poles, and backpack neatly arranged near the shoreline, along with a trail of footprints that appeared to lead onto the frozen lake before abruptly ending. Fourteen months later however, Steven suddenly reappeared more than 700 miles away in Massachusetts, carrying unfamiliar belongings and evidence of extensive travel

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62:30

The Murder of Ellie Gould

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2026/07/10

Seventeen year old Ellie Gould had just ended a three month relationship with her boyfriend when, the following morning, someone arrived at her family home while she was alone. Hours later, her father walked into the kitchen and discovered a horrifying scene, while the person responsible had already begun destroying evidence, creating false explanations, and attempting to hide what had happened. What followed was a remarkable investigation in which a trail of CCTV footage, digital records, forensic

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58:40

The Kansas City Butcher - Robert Berdella - Part 2

Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/07/07

The man the world would come to know as the Kansas City Butcher didn't simply kill his victims, he studied them. Hidden inside an ordinary home in Kansas City's Hyde Park neighborhood, Robert Berdella spent years imprisoning vulnerable young men, meticulously recording their torture with handwritten notes and hundreds of Polaroid photographs before dismembering their bodies in an attempt to erase every trace of the crimes. By the time police finally crossed his front doorstep in April 1988, they had

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54:35

The Kansas City Butcher - Robert Berdella - Part 1

Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/07/03

The man the world would come to know as the Kansas City Butcher didn't simply kill his victims, he studied them. Hidden inside an ordinary home in Kansas City's Hyde Park neighborhood, Robert Berdella spent years imprisoning vulnerable young men, meticulously recording their torture with handwritten notes and hundreds of Polaroid photographs before dismembering their bodies in an attempt to erase every trace of the crimes. By the time police finally crossed his front doorstep in April 1988, they had

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47:23

The Great Emu War

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2026/06/30

In 1932, the Australian government made a decision so unbelievable it still sounds like satire today, it deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to wage war against an estimated 20,000 emus that were invading their land. What began as a desperate attempt to save struggling farmers during the Great Depression quickly spiraled into one of the most bizarre and embarrassing military operations in modern history. Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" -

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47:31

Disappearance of Frederick Valentich - UFO Encounter

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2026/06/26

On October 21, 1978, twenty year old pilot Frederick Valentich departed Melbourne on what should have been a routine flight to King Island. Just minutes after passing Cape Otway, he radioed air traffic control to report a strange object flying around his aircraft before uttering the chilling words, "It's not an aircraft," moments before radio contact was lost forever. Despite an extensive four-day search involving military aircraft, civilian pilots, and ships across Bass Strait, no confirmed trace

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68:51

The Wonderland Murders

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2026/06/23

Forty eight hours after stealing more than a million dollars in drugs, cash, jewelry, and firearms from a powerful Los Angeles drug kingpin, members of the Wonderland Gang were attacked inside their own home. And by the time police arrived, four people had been beaten to death,one had been left permanently disabled, and the trail of evidence led through the criminal underworld of Hollywood, straight to porn legend John Holmes. More than four decades later, despite multiple trials, countless

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63:43

The Black Swan Murder Trial

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2026/06/19

A 54 year old retired Navy intelligence officer meets a 24 year old ballerina at a political fundraiser. Then thirteen days later, they got married.What follows is a story filled with allegations of abuse, claims of poisoning, a failed ballet company, years of bitter custody litigation, psychological evaluations, restraining orders, and a marriage that seemed to be unraveling from the very beginning.Then, while preparing for a move to Maryland in September 2020, the couple found themselves alone

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45:38

Joachim Kroll - The Ruhr Cannibal - Part 2

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2026/06/16

For more than twenty years, Joachim Kroll operated undetected across western Germany, murdering women and children while investigators struggled to connect the crimes. During that time, multiple innocent people were accused, several took their own lives under the weight of suspicion, and dozens of detectives unknowingly searched for the wrong man.In this episode, we examine the full story of Joachim Kroll, known as the Ruhr Cannibal. From his first known murder in 1955 to the shocking discovery that

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51:53

Joachim Kroll - The Ruhr Cannibal -Part 1

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2026/06/12

For more than twenty years, Joachim Kroll operated undetected across western Germany, murdering women and children while investigators struggled to connect the crimes. During that time, multiple innocent people were accused, several took their own lives under the weight of suspicion, and dozens of detectives unknowingly searched for the wrong man.In this episode, we examine the full story of Joachim Kroll, known as the Ruhr Cannibal. From his first known murder in 1955 to the shocking discovery that

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65:03

The Killdozer - Marvin Heemeyer

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2026/06/09

For nearly two hours on June 4, 2004, police officers, state troopers, and emergency responders watched helplessly as an armored bulldozer tore through the small mountain town of Granby, Colorado. Inside the machine was 52 year old Marvin Heemeyer, a welder and muffler shop owner who had spent years feuding with local officials, business owners, and members of the community before transforming a 49 ton Komatsu bulldozer into an improvised tank. What followed was a trail of destruction that flattened

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54:57

The Murder of Arlis Perry - Cold Case Solved

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2026/06/05

In October 1974, nineteen year old Arlis Perry walked into Stanford Memorial Church and never came home. What investigators discovered the following morning would become one of California's most infamous unsolved murders, spawning decades of theories, false leads, and speculation while the killer remained hidden in plain sight. For forty four years the case sat cold, until a breakthrough in DNA technology finally revealed the truth and exposed a suspect nobody had been able to prove was

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51:19

The Sasebo Slashing - Nevada-tan

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2026/06/02

In June 2004, a routine school day in Sasebo, Japan, ended in tragedy when 12 year old Satomi Mitarai was lured from her classroom and murdered by her classmate with a box cutter. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a friendship that had quietly fallen apart and evidence suggesting the attack had been building beneath the surface for days. What began as a shocking murder inside an elementary school would soon become one of the most infamous juvenile crime cases in Japanese history, raising

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76:48

Kathleen Marshall - The Cat Queen Murder

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2026/05/29

In March 1998, a respected Brisbane veterinarian was found brutally murdered inside the veterinary clinic beneath her home, launching an investigation that would expose bitter feuds within an animal welfare organization, a mysterious appointment involving a missing Siamese cat, and a trail of forensic evidence unlike anything Australian courts had seen before. As detectives worked to identify Kathleen Marshall's killer, the case slowly evolved from a shocking homicide into a landmark criminal

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57:51

The Craigslist Killer - Philip Markoff

Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/05/26

In April 2009, a young woman named Julissa Brisman was found bleeding in the doorway of a luxury Boston hotel room after a violent struggle with a client she met through Craigslist. Just four days earlier, another woman had been tied up and robbed inside a nearby hotel by a man matching the exact same description. As investigators raced to stop what appeared to be an escalating pattern of violence, they uncovered a trail of burner phones, fake identities, hotel surveillance footage, and anonymous

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60:12

Corpsewood Manor - Part 2

Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/05/22

Hidden deep in the mountains of Chattooga County, Georgia, there once stood a bizarre handmade castle known as Corpsewood Manor, it was a candlelit home filled with occult artwork, gargoyles, rumors of Satanism, and stories that spread through the surrounding towns for years. The men living there had abandoned modern society to build an isolated life deep in the woods, but by December of 1982, the property would become the center of one of the most infamous murder cases in the American South. What

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