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True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

*** 2026 Webby Award Winner!! *** The true crime podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and heart. FROM VULTURE: "It’s not wrong to laugh when you’re listening to a true-crime podcast. Or at least I hope it isn’t, because if almost crashing my car while listening to True Crime Obsessed is wrong, I don’t want to be right." Hear our take on "Abducted in Plain Sight," "The Ted Bundy Tapes," "Dirty John: The Dirty Truth" and so many more.

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87: Upstairs Inferno

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/06/04

On June 24, 1973, an arsonist set fire to the Up Stairs Lounge, a New Orleans gay bar. The result was the largest gay mass murder in U.S. history--Thirty-two people were killed and some three bodies were never identified. And despite the staggering historical significance, few people know about the tragedy and the circumstances that have made this one of the most viscous unsolved crimes in US history. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon famand instantly get over 80 FULL

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86: Behind The Curve

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/05/28

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE EARTH IS FLAT? Turns out, there are LOTS of people believe it is. Is their evidence compelling? Not really, but their conspiracies run deep and cross over into everything from being anti-vaccination to, you know, believing that the school systems invented dinosaurs to keep kids dumb...or something like that. For us, this was 90 minutes of rage, and that always makes for a great episode. Enjoy. ALSO THE EARTH IS FLAT. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our

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57:28

Tabloid

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/05/21

FAM! QUEEN GILLIAN GOT SUPER SICK THIS WEEK AND SO WE HAD TO RUN A CLASSIC EPISODE! First please note that, unbeknownst to us before we picked this episode to rerun, THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE WE INVENTED BOTH OUR THEME SONG AND…WAIT FOR IT…THE GARBAGE BELL!! Any-who, Gillian is much better now and we'll be back next week with that bonkers #FlatEarthDoc "Behind the Curve. ENJOY! Meet Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming with an IQ of 168. 30 years ago, she fell in love with a young Mormon named

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85: The Disappearance of Maura Murray: Part 2

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/05/14

This episode covers episodes 4 - 6 of the Oxygen series. For part 1, covering episodes 1 - 3, go here. Or listen on Spotify here. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied her bank account, and drove to a remote New Hampshire town where she didn't know a soul. Just after 7pm, her car crashed into a tree. A witness spoke to her, offering help, which she

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84: The Disappearance of Maura Murray Part 1

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/05/07

This episode covers episodes 1 - 3 of the Oxygen series. It's the most famous--and most obsessed over--missing person's case of our time: On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a promising young nursing student, left her college dorm, emptied her bank account, and drove to a remote New Hampshire town where she didn't know a soul. Just after 7pm, her car crashed into a tree. A witness spoke to her, offering help, which she refused. And then she vanished into thin air. Nobody has seen or heard from

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58:43

83: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio...

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/04/30

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four excavates the nightmarish persecution of Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez - four Latina lesbians wrongfully convicted of gang-raping two little girls in San Antonio, Texas. The film begins its journey inside a Texas prison, after these women have spent nearly a decade behind bars. They were 19 and 20 years old at the time the allegations surfaced. Using the women's home video footage from 21 years ago

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59:40

The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/04/23

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD chalked it up as a suicide and refused to investigate. But Marsha was a lover of life and many who knew her refused to believe she would have taken her own life. Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalating violence in the transgender community, Marsha's old friend and fellow activist Victoria Cruz has

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55:12

82: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/04/16

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, 19 year old Elizabeth Holmes became the world's youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, it was revealed that the technology she'd invented didn't work--it never had. Her $10-billion-dollar company dissolved, investors lost everything, and Holmes now faces jail time. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? WHO COULD BLAME YOU! Join our Patreon fam and instantly get over 80 FULL BONUS episodes to

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55:54

81: Studio 54

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/04/09

GAYS! DRAG QUEENS! LIZA! DISCO! DRUGS! TAX FRAUD! DO I REALLY NEED TO GO ON? Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real

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58:06

80: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 4: Time is the...

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/04/01

This episode covers episode 4 of the HBO series. For our episode on Part 1 go here For our episode on Part 2 go here For our episode on Part 3 go here In Part 3, the state's case against Adnan Syed falls apart as Adnan's legal team PROVES that he didn't murder Hae Min Lee. The state-held DNA evidence is finally tested and it all but exonerates Adnan. THIS IS THE EPISODE WHERE WE FINALLY GET ALL THE ANSWERS. Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, "The Case Against Adnan Syed" explores

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79: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 3: Justice Is...

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/03/25

This episode covers part 3 of the 4-part HBO series. For our take on Part 1, go here! For our take on Part 2, go here! And stay tuned till THE VERY END of the episode to hear a preview of our interview with Rabia Chaudry. In part 3, Adnan’s 2016 appeal draws to a close, his family and attorneys brace for a ruling that could result in a new trial and hope for an acquittal 20 years after Hae Lee’s murder. AND GET READY FOR MIND BLOWING NEW INFORMATION TO BE PRESENTED IN REAL TIME TO JEN AND

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58:56

78: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 2: In Between...

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/03/18

This episode covers part 2 of the 4-part HBO series. For Part 1, go here! In part 2, Private investigators attempt to recreate circumstances at the crime scene, questions arise about the veracity of alleged accomplice Jay Wilds, the centerpiece of police and prosecutors’ case against Adnan Syed, we meet Jenn Pusateri (who is slightly terrifying), AND ASIA IS BACK (and looking flawless). Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, "The Case Against Adnan Syed" explores the 1999 disappearance and

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77: The Case Against Adnan Syed Part 1: Forbidden Love

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/03/11

Directed by Academy Award nominee Amy Berg, The Case Against Adnan Syed will explore the 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student Hae Min Lee, and the subsequent conviction of her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, a case brought to global attention by the hugely popular Serial podcast. In Part 1, we meet Adnan, Hae, and their friends in the magnet program at Woodlawn high school. When Hae disappears and then is found dead several weeks later, Adnan becomes the

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76: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 2

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/03/05

This podcast episode covers episodes 3 & 4 of the Netflix series. Listen to Part 1 (covering episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series) HERE. In this episode, Ted Bundy breaks out of prison TWICE. He terrorizes south Florida where he takes at least 6 more victims. When he's finally caught, he decides to represent himself in court--in America's first-ever televised murder trial--and the shenanigans that ensue are almost too bizarre to be believed. On the 30th anniversary of his Florida

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PATREON BONUS EPISODE! Making A Murderer Season 2,...

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/03/01

SURPRISE! this week we wanted to do something we’ve never done before—give every member of the TCO fam access to one of our Patreon full bonus episodes. We decided that our take on "Making A Murderer" season 2, episode 1 would be a great example to share of what we’re doing over on the Patreon feed. Tick Tock, it's Zellner 0'Clock, you guys. CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE PATREON FAM! As a reminder, if you become a member of the Patreon Fam, you get instant access to over 50 full bonus episodes

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53:40

75: The Ted Bundy Tapes: Part 1

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/02/26

This podcast episode covers episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix series. On the 30th anniversary of his Florida execution, CONVERSATIONS WITH A KILLER: THE TED BUNDY TAPES brings the infamously twisted mind of serial killer Ted Bundy into the light for the very first time in a fresh yet terrifying way through exclusive, never-before-heard interviews from the "Jack the Ripper of the United States," himself. This unique and gripping doc series, focuses on the man whose personality, good looks and

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49:23

Mommy Dead and Dearest

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/02/19

It's Daisy's school vacation week, so Patrick is on full time dad duty! We'll be back with a brand new episode next week covering episodes 1 & 2 of Netflix's "The Ted Bundy Tapes." The following week, we'll cover episodes 3 & 4! Mommy Dead And Dearest: Late on the evening of June 14, 2015, deputy sheriffs in Greene County, Missouri, found the body of Dee Dee Blancharde laying facedown in a pool of blood from the stab wounds that had killed her several days earlier. There was no sign of her

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74: Grizzly Man

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/02/12

For 13 summers, Timothy Tredwell journeyed into the Alaskan wilderness to spend four months living among the grizzly bears. Though Treadwell believed that he and the bears had an understanding--he considered them his close friends--he and his girlfriend Amy Huguenard were eventually killed and devoured by one of the bears. For the five summers before his death, he took a video camera on his trips and shot over 100 hours of tape. "Grizzly Man", the brilliant documentary by master filmmaker Werner

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73: Fyre Fraud

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/02/05

The Fyre Festival was the defining scam of the millennial generation. Marketing for the 2017 music event went viral with the help of rapper Ja Rule, instagram stars, and models, but wound up being an epic failure as it stranded thousands of people in the Bahamas. Featuring an exclusive interview with Billy McFarland, the convicted con-man behind the festival, FYRE FRAUD is a true-crime comedy documentary bolstered by a cast of whistleblowers, victims, and insiders. And we have LOTS of feelings about

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72: Three Identical Strangers

True Crime Obsessed ·

2019/01/29

Three strangers are reunited by astonishing coincidence after being born identical triplets, separated at birth, and adopted by three different families. Their jaw-dropping, feel-good story instantly becomes a global sensation complete with fame and celebrity, however, the fairy-tale reunion sets in motion a series of events that unearth the unimaginable secret behind their separation. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? Binge our 40+ bonus episodes via Patreon! When you join our Patreon fam, you not only

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