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Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

Murders, mysteries and laughter. Wicked and Grim is a podcast created and hosted by a husband and wife duo with an affinity for true crime. We tell the stories of victims and explore the world of sinister tales, all while keeping things light hearted to take away the power and fear mongering from the perpetrators.This is Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast.

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59:20

The Bucket List Murder - Aaron Pajich

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2026/01/06

On June 13, 2016, Aaron Lee Pajich-Sweetman, an 18 year old with autism, vanished after meeting two women he trusted at a shopping centre south of Perth. Within days, police would trace his final movements through phone records and CCTV footage to a house in Orelia, where evidence of careful planning, digital communication, and amateur concealment began to surface. What followed was the unraveling of a calculated murder carried out by Jemma Victoria Lilley and Trudi Clare Lenon, driven not by rage

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63:07

The Murder of Kelly Jean Warner

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2026/01/02

In the spring of 2019, Kelly Jean Warner quietly disappeared from contact, a pattern that didn’t immediately raise concern because of her transient life and history of instability. For weeks, her absence went largely unnoticed, even as she lay dead inside a modest apartment in Sturgis, Michigan, her body deliberately hidden and her death unreported. It would take a single phone call on May 22, 2019, to trigger an investigation that exposed not only a concealed homicide, but a prolonged pattern of

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68:58

The Kenora Bank Robbery - Paul Higgins

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2025/12/30

On May 10, 1973, a masked man entered a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch in Kenora, Ontario, armed with firearms and a homemade bomb strapped to his body. What began as a bank robbery quickly turned into a public spectacle, broadcast live on radio as police, civilians, and hundreds of onlookers watched the standoff unfold on Main Street. When a single gunshot triggered a massive explosion, the robber was killed instantly leaving behind a scene of destruction, unanswered questions, and an

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56:19

The Murder of Betty Shanks

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2025/12/23

On the night of September 19, 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks stepped off a tram in the Brisbane suburb of Grange and began the short walk home to her parents’ house, less than 400 metres away. Within minutes, she was violently attacked and killed, her body discovered the following morning in a neighbour’s garden. More than seventy years later, her murder remains Queensland’s oldest unsolved homicide, defined by a narrow twelve minute window, unanswered questions, and a truth that has never been

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01:02:43

Arsnic Annie - Anna Marie Hahn

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2025/12/09

Nobody in Cincinnati imagined a serial killer was moving quietly through its neighbourhoods, especially not a polite young German immigrant mother who cared for lonely, elderly men. But behind Anna Marie Hahn’s warm smile was a trail of sudden illnesses, forged wills, missing valuables, and quiet funerals that never raised suspicion. It wasn’t until one victim collapsed hundreds of miles from home that investigators finally uncovered the poisoner hiding in plain sight.Our other podcast:

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01:07:38

Frank Gust - The Rhein-Ruhr Ripper

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2025/12/02

He confessed years before he was caught, telling his mother he had killed a woman, yet no one believed him until even after the bodies began to surface. This was Frank Gust, the so called Rhine-Ruhr Ripper, a necrophilic predator whose violence escalated from torturing animals to murdering women and posing their remains. Even after receiving a life sentence, Frank remains eligible for release in 2026, raising the unnerving question of whether a self-proclaimed killer can ever be allowed to walk

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00:49:01

The Kuřim Case - Part 1

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2025/11/14

In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, severe child abuse, and a woman who was nothing like the person she pretended to be.Listen to our other

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00:58:41

The Family Feud Killer

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2025/11/11

He was the smiling contestant who once made America laugh on Family Feud, joking that the biggest mistake he’d ever made at his wedding was saying “I do.” But just a few years later, Timothy Bliefnick would make headlines for something far darker, accused of gunning down his estranged wife, Rebecca “Becky” Bliefnick, in her Quincy, Illinois home. The shocking fall of the so called “Family Feud Killer” turned a lighthearted game show moment into a haunting symbol of a marriage that had been

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00:36:53

Buried Under The Stairs - The Murder of Tina Satchwell

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2025/11/07

For more than six years, Ireland believed Tina Satchwell had walked away from her life, maybe to England, maybe for “space,” maybe by choice. Her husband repeated that story in every interview, every appeal, every tearful broadcast.But the truth of where she really went was buried less than ten feet from where he sat, sealed under concrete in the home they shared. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice.

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00:51:50

Shasta Groene – Survival Story

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2025/11/04

Before she was old enough to ride a bike alone, Shasta Groene had already watched her family die, been kidnapped by a serial predator, and survived seven weeks in the wilderness no child should ever see. Her rescue would make headlines, but the story behind it was far more brutal, calculated, and haunting than the world first realized. Now adult, she has shared the horror she survived, and brought to view the system that failed to stop it.Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your

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00:46:31

Halloween Week: The Candyman - Ronald Clark O'Bryan

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2025/10/31

On Halloween night in 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan handed his son a Pixy Stix filled with cyanide, unknowingly creating one of America’s darkest modern legends. Behind his mask as a churchgoing father and optician, O'Bryan was drowning in debt and had secretly taken out life insurance policies on his children. His desperate act of greed would not only claim his son’s life but forever change how parents viewed Halloween candy.Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of

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00:43:42

Halloween Week: The Tranquille Sanatorium

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2025/10/30

The Tranquille Sanatorium, located near Kamloops, British Columbia, opened in 1907 as a tuberculosis treatment center and later served as a psychiatric hospital before closing in 1983. At its peak, it functioned as a small self sustaining community with farms, tunnels, staff housing, and medical facilities. Since its abandonment however, the site has gained a reputation for being one of the most haunted locations ins Canada, drawing urban explorers and paranormal investigators intrigued by its eerie

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01:01:51

Halloween Week: The Manhattan Alien Abduction

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2025/10/29

At 3:00 a.m. on November 30, 1989, a Manhattan woman named Linda Napolitano claimed she was lifted from her 12th floor apartment window by a beam of blue light and taken aboard a glowing craft hovering over the Brooklyn Bridge. Within months, two alleged government bodyguards and more than twenty witnesses surfaced, saying they’d seen the same impossible event unfold above the East River. What began as a bizarre UFO report soon spiralled into a global sensation of obsession, paranoia, and

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00:41:47

Halloween Week: 3 Urban Legends V5

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2025/10/28

It's time for the 4th Annual Halloween Week: 3 Urban Legends! We have researched 3 urban legends and found the truth and fiction behind each. As we tell the stories, we want to know if you can figure out which ones are true and which ones are false. We will of course reveal the answers, but first we want to test your wicked knowledge!Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice.

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00:53:07

Halloween Week: The Bell Witch

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2025/10/27

Two hundred years ago, a quiet Tennessee farm became the center of one of America’s most terrifying hauntings. The Bell family was stalked, tormented, and ultimately broken by a voice in the dark that claimed to want one thing, the death of their patriarch. What followed remains the only time in U.S. history that a ghost was blamed for murder.Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice.

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00:37:51

Halloween Week: The Dark History of Nursery Rhymes

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2025/10/26

For centuries, nursery rhymes have been passed down as harmless children’s songs, but their true origins are anything but sweet. It seems as though the innocent words we all remember may have been hiding nightmares all along. In this episode we’re peeling back the cute surface and digging into the dark history that’s been whispered through generations. Trust us when we say, you’ll never hear your childhood favourites the same way again. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your

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00:42:20

Halloween Week: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe

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2025/10/25

Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre, spent his life crafting horrors that crawled under our skin. But in October of 1849, it was his own final days that became the most chilling mystery he ever inspired. Found delirious in a gutter, wearing clothes that weren’t his, Poe left behind one last unsolved riddle... his own death. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice.

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00:47:42

The Napa Valley Halloween Massacre

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2025/10/24

On Halloween night in 2004, Napa Valley, a town that hadn’t seen a homicide in years, awoke to horror when roommates Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were found brutally stabbed inside their Dorset Street home. The only survivor, Lauren Meanza, escaped through the back door as the killer fled through a shattered kitchen window. Nearly a year later, DNA from rare Camel Turkish Gold cigarettes exposed the murderer as Eric Copple the murderer. He also just so happened to be, the husband of one of

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01:01:40

The Gainesville Ripper

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2025/10/21

What began as a week of new classes at college in Gainesville, Florida, turned into one of the most terrifying crime sprees in American history. Within four days in August 1990, five students were brutally murdered in their own homes, their bodies arranged in scenes so disturbing they would later inspire the classic movie franchise "Scream". But behind that Hollywood legend was a real life nightmare, and the man who brought it to life was far darker than fiction ever dared to be.Listen to

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00:56:44

The Murder of Brian Waters

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2025/10/17

On June 19, 2003, police in Cheshire, England, discovered a crime scene so brutal it would haunt investigators for years. Inside a secluded outbuilding at Burnt House Farm in Tabley, 44 year-old Brian Waters had been tortured to death over a £20,000 drug debt owed to gangster John Wilson. The assault, witnessed by his own children, exposed a web of criminal ties stretching from the Netherlands’ cannabis trade to a 16 year international manhunt that ended with the capture of Christopher Guest More

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