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Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories

Zevon Odelberg: Murder & Crime Investigation Host

Welcome to Kinda Murdery, a true crime podcast that’s mostly about murder, and always about the strange and compelling stories that arise when the path less traveled twists to darkness and those who walk its shadows surrender to violence and corruption. I’m your host Zevon Odelberg – we have a perilous journey ahead, so thank you for lending me, your courage and good company.Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate. Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to

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25:08

Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre: Part Two

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/04/09

The call hits the fire department like any other at first—just another line lighting up, another voice on the other end trying to get words out fast enough to keep up with what they’re seeing. Smoke at the bowling alley. That’s the message that gets through clean. Everything else comes in fragments. The dispatcher pins down the address, repeats it back, fingers already moving across the board, assigning units before the caller even finishes the second sentence. You’ve got engines rolling within

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25:31

The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/04/03

February 10th, 1990. Saturday morning in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The place is Las Cruces Bowl—nothing special from the outside. Low building, wide parking lot, the kind of spot people go to because they’ve been going there for years. Inside, it’s exactly what you’d expect. Long rows of lanes stretching out under fluorescent lights, the steady smell of oil and cleaner baked into the wood and carpet. Front counter off to one side where they handle shoes and payments. And behind that, a small

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26:04

The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Four...

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/03/27

Swabs were taken from areas where biological material might still exist, even if it was not visible. Fragments of fabric used for binding were collected and separated. Bullets recovered during autopsies were preserved and logged. Even debris from the burned room—pieces of flooring, charred material, residue—was stored when it could potentially contain trace evidence. For years, those items sat in storage. They were not forgotten, but they were not actively producing answers. The DNA testing

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31:57

The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Three

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/03/21

The verdicts held—for a time. Robert Springsteen IV had been sentenced to death in 2001. Michael Scott had been sentenced to life in prison in 2002. The prosecution had secured convictions in one of Austin’s most notorious unsolved cases. For several years, the outcome appeared settled. But the foundation of those convictions was never physical evidence. It was the confessions. As the appeals process began, defense attorneys focused on how those confessions had been obtained and how they had been

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27:47

DELAY to Part 3 of The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop...

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/03/13

DELAY - This is NOT part 3 of the Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders. Please don't be mad - I'm at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and couldn't put out a new episode this week. Don't worry, part 3 of the Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders will be coming next Thursday, March 19th. In the meantime, since I'm in San Francisco, staying just off O'Farrell Street, please enjoy this Kinda Murdery Classic about the Mitchell Family Murders...Become a supporter of this podcast:

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29:37

The Austin Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Two

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/03/06

Like nearly everyone who had grown up in Austin at the time, Springsteen remembered the crime clearly. The murders had dominated local news for weeks. The photographs of the four girls had appeared on television and in newspapers. The story had been discussed in schools, homes, and workplaces across the

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25:08

The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/02/27

On the night of December 6, 1991, the Northcross shopping center in Austin, Texas was closing down the way it always did. The parking lot lights hummed. The storefronts dimmed one by one. Cars pulled out in slow arcs, headlights sweeping across brick and glass before turning toward Burnet Road. Inside the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt!” shop, the lights were still

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48:32

The McStay Family Murders - Part Five (Conclusion)

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/02/19

The courtroom in San Bernardino was built for volume meaning physical space, not raised voices. High ceilings. Pale walls. Wood benches polished by decades of restless hands. By the time opening statements began, it held a different kind of pressure — not noise, but compression. Reporters filled the rear rows. Family members took seats in clusters that did not intermingle. The defendant sat at the defense table in a suit that fit correctly, hands folded, posture still. The state went

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35:11

The McStay Family Murders: Part Four

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/02/13

It started with the calendar. February 4, 2010. Detectives rebuilt the day again, not from the perspective of web traffic or corporate filings, but from physical movement. Joseph’s schedule. His meetings. His calls. His last confirmed face-to-face interactions...Almost four years after the Joseph and his family were murdered, authorities finally arrest their alleged

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46:10

The McStay Family Murders: Part Three

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/02/06

On November 11, 2013, a motorcyclist riding in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert came across something that did not belong to the landscape. The area lay north of Victorville, not far from Interstate 15 but far enough that engine noise fades and the wind carries most of the sound. The ground was hard and pale, broken by scrub and scattered rock. In that dirt, the rider saw what appeared to be a human skull. He stopped. He called authorities. Deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s

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33:31

The McStay Family Murders: Part Two

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/01/30

It did not happen all at once. There was no siren moment, no dramatic escalation, no declaration that something terrible had occurred. The transition from concern to action came through a phone call, logged like thousands of others, handled by a department accustomed to uncertainty and delay. The intake process required structure. A deputy recorded biographical details. Ages. Vehicles. Occupations. Known habits. There were questions designed to determine urgency: any history of violence, any

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19:05

Season 8 - Episode 1 - NEW: The McStay Family Murders

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2026/01/23

The 3400 block of Avocado Vista Lane, Fallbrook, California. The street ends in a cul-de-sac and the houses face the curve. The McStay house sits on that turn. Two stories. Light tan stucco. A white two-car garage door dominating the front, clean enough to catch the daylight when the sun hits it. Above the garage, a tall arched window rises into the second floor. Off to the side, another upstairs window is framed by dark shutters. The front door sits recessed on the right beneath a small covered

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20:07

American Monsters: Guy Rockwell Muldavin

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/12/05

After half a century of mystery, The "Lady of the Dunes," was finally identified as Ruth Marie Terry. Kinda Murdery explores the tragic arc of Ruth's life and the sordid, morally bankrupt career of her probable murderer - who once lived, and may have killed in The Emerald Triangle...Sources:

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38:12

American Monsters: Harvey Church

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/11/21

In 1922, Twenty-two year old Chicago bond trader Harvey Church had a hankering for a particular automobile. Sometimes Hell is unleashed in the most unexpected places. How could Harvey know that his desire for a dream car would lead to a surprising mystery drenched in blood and murder? Find out, only on Kinda Murdery...Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/kinda-murdery--5496890/support.

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34:15

American Monsters: Louise Peete

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/11/14

At least three murders, and four husbands, ALL of whom committed suicide. Louise Peete's single-minded self-interest gradually evolved into a 40-year reign of terror. Find out how California's famed, "Black Widow," finally made one too many mistakes...Sources: https://crimescribe.com/2021/04/11/on-this-day-in-1947-louise-peete-the-belle-of-bienville/https://murderpedia.org/female.P/p/peete-louise.htmhttps://michaelthomasbarry.com/2014/04/11/the-black-widow-louise-peete-was-executed-1947/As well as

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23:35

Halloween Monsters: Ronald Clark O'Bryan

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/10/31

The seemingly-happy O'Byan family lived In Deer Park, Texas, in the 1970's. However, beneath the facade of suburban normalcy lurked the strain of desperate financial woes. Mr. O'Bryan's mountain of debt was so ovewhelming that it became a recurring topic of conversation among his circle of friends and acquaintances. In the summer of 1974, he alluded to an upcoming windfall, telling some people that he expected to come into a sum of money by the year's end. Given the tragedy that followed, his

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23:01

American Monsters: Blanche Kiser

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/10/17

In 1966, Blanche's Kiser's father, Parker Davis Kiser Sr., passed away. His death was attributed to heart disease at the age of 62. Tragedy struck again in 1973, seven years following her father's death, Blanche discovered her husband, James Taylor, lifeless in their bed. At just 45 years old, he was pronounced dead, with a heart attack cited as the cause. The specter of heart disease seemed to loom over the men in Blanche's life. As our Kinda Murdery story unfolds, the circumstances surrounding

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27:29

American Monsters: James Leeper

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/10/10

In 1990, based on circumstantial evidence alone, Jonathan Fleming was convicted of the murder of Darryl Rush and sentenced to 25 years to life despite having what Brooklyn prosecuting A.D.A. James Leeper called, "a perfect alibi." Twenty-four years later, it would be discovered that Leeper had withheld crucial evidence from the defense, and Fleming wasn't his only victim...Just what the hell was going on in

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45:35

American Monsters: Frank Lindsay with Anson Maddocks

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/10/03

Frank Lindsay was a Seattle-based wife killer. He was also a fry cook, and it was the fry cooking that got him caught for murder. But it also lead to his prison escape...Legendary artist, and frequent co-host, Anson Maddocks, joins Zevon to tell his own Seattle Kinda Murdery story featuring his very good friend, and fellow Magic the Gathering legend, Mark Tedin. After spending the day together at a coffe shop drawing the iconic cards for Limited Edition Alpha, Anson and Mark hit the town, only to

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85:35

American Monsters: Who Killed Carmen Wagner?

Kinda Murdery | True Crime & Murder Stories ·

2025/09/19

On a crisp October afternoon in 1925, local auburn-haired knockout, and Ferndale beauty shop owner, Carmen Wagner left on a hunting trip to the nearby mountains with her fiancée, Henry Sweet. Neither Carmen, nor Henry, would ever be seen alive again. And Henry didn't do it. Find out who did on, "Who Killed Carmen Wagner?"Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/kinda-murdery--5496890/support.

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