Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

68:34

The Conman Who Sold the Eiffel Tower - Victor Lustig

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2026/10/06

Victor Lustig built a criminal career around elaborate confidence schemes, false identities, forged documents, and an extraordinary ability to convince his victims that the impossible was real.In 1925, posing as a French government official, he convinced scrap metal dealer André Poisson that the Eiffel Tower was being secretly dismantled and successfully sold him the rights to tear it down.Then after returning to the United States, Lustig became involved in a massive counterfeiting operation that

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62:12

The Loudun Demonic Possessions

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2026/10/02

In 1632, an Ursuline convent in Loudun, France, became the center of a terrifying series of events when nuns began reporting apparitions, violent convulsions and demons taking control of their bodies. Their exorcisms became public spectacles that drew enormous crowds, as priests desperately tried to identify what, or who was behind the supposed possessions. The women eventually pointed to Urbain Grandier, a controversial local priest with powerful enemies, claiming he had used witchcraft to send the

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69:22

The Murder of Elyse Pahler - Satanic Sacrifice

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2026/09/29

In the summer of 1995, 15 year old Elyse Pahler was lured from her California home by three teenage boys she knew, unaware they had spent months discussing murder, Satanism and the sacrifice of a virgin. Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt and Joseph Fiorella, members of a wannabe metal band called "Hatred", believed killing Elyse could appease the Devil, give them power and even make them better musicians. So after leading her to a secluded eucalyptus grove, the boys violently killed Elyse before

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59:45

The Vampire Clan Murders - Rod Ferrell -Part 2

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2026/09/25

In 1996, sixteen year old Rod Ferrell led a small group of teenagers who embraced vampire identities, drank one another’s blood and carved symbols into their bodies.But when the group travelled from Kentucky to Florida to collect fifteen year old Heather Wendorf, their planned escape to New Orleans took a devastating turn. Heather’s parents, Richard and Ruth Wendorf, were found brutally beaten to death inside their Eustis home, while their youngest daughter had disappeared along with Rod and his

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52:52

The Vampire Clan Murders - Rod Ferrell -Part 1

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2026/09/22

In 1996, sixteen year old Rod Ferrell led a small group of teenagers who embraced vampire identities, drank one another’s blood and carved symbols into their bodies.But when the group travelled from Kentucky to Florida to collect fifteen year old Heather Wendorf, their planned escape to New Orleans took a devastating turn. Heather’s parents, Richard and Ruth Wendorf, were found brutally beaten to death inside their Eustis home, while their youngest daughter had disappeared along with Rod and his

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53:45

The Murder of Audrey Trudeau

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2026/09/18

In February 1999, 44 year old physiotherapist Audrey Trudeau was preparing to leave Calgary and return home to Ontario when she suddenly disappeared. Her car, belongings and beloved cat were left behind, while conflicting explanations began circulating about where she had supposedly gone and why. As police investigated, attention increasingly turned toward Deborah Point, Audrey's longtime friend and temporary roommate, as forged cheques, missing items and disturbing evidence inside Audrey's

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65:48

The Camden Ripper - Anthony Hardy

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2026/09/15

In December 2002, the discovery of dismembered human remains inside garbage bags in Camden, London, launched an investigation that would uncover something far more disturbing. The remains belonged to two women, but evidence soon led detectives to a nearby apartment where another woman had been found dead less than a year earlier. Inside, investigators uncovered blood evidence, photographs of the victims after death, and a trail connecting the crimes to a man who had already spent years moving

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52:49

Helle Crafts - The Woodchipper Murder - Part 2

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2026/09/11

In November 1986, 39 year old flight attendant Helle Crafts returned to her Connecticut home during a violent snowstorm and seemingly disappeared into the night. Her husband, Richard, offered a series of conflicting explanations for where she had gone, but Helle’s friends knew she would never simply abandon her three children and began pushing police to investigate. What followed was a trail of blood inside the family home, a newly purchased freezer that had mysteriously vanished, a commercial

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46:07

Helle Crafts - The Woodchipper Murder - Part 1

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2026/09/08

In November 1986, 39 year old flight attendant Helle Crafts returned to her Connecticut home during a violent snowstorm and seemingly disappeared into the night. Her husband, Richard, offered a series of conflicting explanations for where she had gone, but Helle’s friends knew she would never simply abandon her three children and began pushing police to investigate. What followed was a trail of blood inside the family home, a newly purchased freezer that had mysteriously vanished, a commercial

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66:09

The Blue Moon Murders

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2026/09/04

A mother and her two adult sons were found brutally murdered inside their Florida home, their throats cut, their heads beaten with a hammer and their bodies concealed beneath piles of clothing and blankets.One had also been shot through the head, while part of the mother’s pinky had been severed and was nowhere to be found, leaving investigators struggling to understand the extraordinary violence inside an otherwise ordinary family home. With a rare blue moon approaching and evidence of Wiccan

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55:39

The Murder of Jason Sweeney

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2026/09/01

Sixteen year old Jason Sweeney was building a future for himself when his girlfriend led him deep into the woods along Philadelphia’s Delaware River. However, what he didn't know was that three teenage boys he knew were waiting for him, including his childhood best friend, armed and prepared to kill him for the $500 paycheque in his pocket.The attack that followed was so savage that nearly every bone in Jason’s face was broken, yet what the group did afterward would make the crime even more

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57:29

The Hex Hollow Murder - Nelson Rehmeyer

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2026/08/28

In 1928, farmer and folk healer Nelson Rehmeyer lived alone in a secluded Pennsylvania hollow where old traditions of powwow, spells and supernatural protection remained deeply rooted in the community. When John Blymire became convinced that years of illness, tragedy and terrible luck were the result of a hex, an elderly practitioner pointed him toward an unlikely culprit: Nelson himself. Determined to break the supposed curse, John recruited two teenagers and entered Nelson’s farmhouse searching

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71:59

The Freeway Phantom

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2026/08/25

Six girls vanished from the streets of Washington, D.C., disappearing while walking to work, running errands, or simply trying to make it home. Their bodies began appearing beside highways, many showing signs of sexual assault and strangulation, while a growing trail of strange evidence suggested the same predator was hunting across the city. Then one victim was discovered with a handwritten message in her pocket, dictated by her killer and signed with the name that had begun terrifying Washington:

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70:03

The Khamar-Daban Incident

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2026/08/21

In August 1993, seven hikers ventured into Siberia’s remote Khamar-Daban mountains, but only one of them would make it out alive.According to the survivor, her companions began collapsing one after another, suffering violent convulsions, breathing problems and horrifying physical symptoms as chaos swept through the group. Their bodies remained exposed on the mountainside for nearly three weeks before a helicopter crew finally spotted them, beginning an investigation that would struggle to make sense

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59:10

Lori Poland - Surviving Abduction

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2026/08/18

Three year old Lori Poland vanished from her Colorado neighbourhood in August 1983, leaving behind only a pair of pants, terrified witnesses, and the description of an orange car disappearing down the street. For three agonizing days, police hunted for the man who had taken her while Lori remained trapped miles away at the bottom of a remote outhouse pit, injured, hungry, and completely unable to escape. Her being found alive came only by chance and it would lead investigators toward the man

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68:23

The Impossible Murder on a Train - Laetitia Toureaux

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2026/08/14

On May 16, 1937, Laetitia Toureaux boarded an empty first class carriage on the Paris Métro and, less than ninety seconds later, was found with a knife buried deep in her neck. No one had seen her killer enter or escape that train car. The attacker seemed to simply vanished in an impossible murder scenario. But wondering why she was killed, police dug into Laetitia's life, and they discovered that the quiet factory worker had another side to her, one involving secret surveillance, informants, and

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69:51

Alex Skeel - Domestic Abuse Survivor

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2026/08/11

At sixteen years old, Alex Skeel believed he had found his first love in Jordan Worth. She was an intelligent and ambitious young woman who seemed to offer him the a life and family. But behind closed doors, that relationship descended into years of control and escalating violence as Alex became increasingly isolated from his family, deprived of food and subjected to attacks with bottles, hammers, knives and boiling water.By the summer of 2017, the once healthy, football loving young man was

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58:59

The Ice Cream Killer - Estibaliz Carranza

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2026/08/07

Estibaliz Carranza was known as the friendly owner of a neighborhood ice cream shop in Vienna, Austria. She had built a successful business, dreamed of becoming a mother, and gave those around her little reason to believe anything was wrong. But behind the ordinary routines of everyday life, her relationships were quietly falling apart, and the people closest to her would soon begin disappearing without a trace. Between 2008 and 2010, Estibaliz murdered her ex husband, and ex boyfriend, before

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60:38

William Fyfe - The Handyman Killer

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2026/08/04

For almost twenty years, women across the Montreal region in Canada were found murdered inside the safety of their own homes, their deaths scattered across decades and investigated as isolated tragedies. Ultimately, the breakthrough finally came in 1999, when a single bloody fingerprint and decades old forensic evidence uncovered a killer who had quietly hidden in plain sight as a trusted handyman. But as investigators dug deeper, the timeline stretched all the way back to 1979, exposing a trail of

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57:37

The Murder of Linda Pagano

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2026/07/31

Seventeen year old Linda Pagano vanished from Akron, Ohio, in 1974 after returning home from a rock concert and arguing with her stepfather, leaving behind a mystery that would haunt her family for more than four decades. With no confirmed sightings and few answers from the original investigation, Linda’s disappearance seemed destined to remain buried in the past. Then a college student stumbled across a forgotten case, took her investigation to Reddit, and helped uncover a staggering connection

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