Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

Mark and Debby Constantino were paranormal investigators best known for their appearances on the popular television series Ghost Adventures, where they specialized in capturing alleged voices of the dead. However, away from the cameras, their marriage was plagued by domestic violence allegations, police intervention, and an increasingly bitter separation.
On September 22, 2015, the discovery of a murdered man in Reno, Nevada, led investigators to a nearby apartment in Sparks, where a tense hostage standoff unfolded. By the end of the afternoon, three people were dead in a shocking case of domestic violence that devastated a family and stunned the paranormal...

On October 9, 2020, a quiet Dallas neighbourhood became the scene of a horrifying execution when 49 year old Jamie Faith was ambushed and shot seven times while walking his dog with his wife. The gunman vanished almost as quickly as he appeared, leaving behind a devastated family, a terrified community, and a murder that seemed to defy explanation.
But as investigators began digging into Jamie's life, they uncovered a twisted trail of secrets, disturbing accusations, and an obsession that stretched hundreds of miles across the country.
Behind it all was a calculated web of deception so elaborate that even those...

On October 9, 2020, a quiet Dallas neighbourhood became the scene of a horrifying execution when 49 year old Jamie Faith was ambushed and shot seven times while walking his dog with his wife. The gunman vanished almost as quickly as he appeared, leaving behind a devastated family, a terrified community, and a murder that seemed to defy explanation.
But as investigators began digging into Jamie's life, they uncovered a twisted trail of secrets, disturbing accusations, and an obsession that stretched hundreds of miles across the country.
Behind it all was a calculated web of deception so elaborate that even those...

On a secluded 20 acre farm in Wimer, Oregon, Susan Monica lived an isolated life, raising livestock and hiring local handymen to help maintain her property.
When 56 year old Robert Haney disappeared in 2013, his family's desperate search led investigators to the farm, where a horrifying discovery exposed something far more sinister. As detectives questioned Monica, her increasingly disturbing confessions revealed the gruesome fate of another missing man, Stephen Delicino, whose remains had been concealed on the property for years.
With growing evidence that included remains consumed by pigs, the investigation uncovered a chilling case of murder, deception, and the...

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 flooded the country with remarkably convincing fake currency while federal agents struggled for years to catch him. His life would eventually include dozens o...

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 demons into them. But as the accusations grew and supposed supernatural evidence began to emerge, so did serious questions about what was actually...

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 concealing her body, leaving her family searching for answers for nearly eight months while her killers remained silent.
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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 friends.
The investigation that followed soon exposed a disturbing world of blood rituals, animal killings and teenage obse...

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 friends.
The investigation that followed soon exposed a disturbing world of blood rituals, animal killings and teenage obse...

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 townhouse raised increasingly serious questions.
Then five months after Audrey vanished, a discovery inside a detached Calgary garage would finally reveal what had happened to her and transform a missing...

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 through the criminal justice and mental health systems.
The investigation into the man who became known as the Camden Ripper would...

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 woodchipper rented days after Helle disappeared, and a late night sighting along a frozen Connecticut river. And piece by piece, investigators un...

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 woodchipper rented days after Helle disappeared, and a late night sighting along a frozen Connecticut river. And piece by piece, investigators un...

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 practices discovered during the investigation, authorities began pursuing the possibility that the massacre had been some kind of...

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 disturbing. Ultimately what emerged was a calculated story of jealousy, drugs, and betr...

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 for a lock of his hair and a powerful book of folk magic. What followed was a brutal killing, an attempt to burn aw...

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: the Freeway Phantom. But despite a massive investigation, thousands of tips and several disturbing suspects, the killer seemingly...

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 of what happened. The tragedy would become known as “Buryatia’s Dyatlov Pass,” and "The Other Dyatlov Pass".
It is a disturbing mountain mystery where th...

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 responsible, but identifying Lori's abductor was only the beginning of a case filled with disputed evidence, a...

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 some of the most dangerous political circles in France.
What began as an im...

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 severely underweight, covered in untreated injuries and burns, and trapped inside a home where even seeking medical...

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 dismembering their bodies with a chainsaw and concealing their remains beneath her ice cream shop.
However, a routine surprise...

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 violence that ultimately linked William Patrick Fyfe to at least nine women and forced police to re examine dozens of unsolved...

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 that authorities had missed for decades.
The discovery finally answered what happened to Linda, but more than 50 years after her mu...

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 captivity, abuse and murder of women on videotape. And by the time authorities discovered what was happening inside 101 Ford Drive, Travis wa...

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 groundbreaking advances in forensic genealogy to finally uncover the identity of the forgotten family hidden behind the mystery of the Babes...

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 British Columbia's longest running murder mysteries finally started to unravel.
And the road to justice would prove to ultimatley be one...

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 really killed? Unfortunatley, even after his conviction, that question has never been truly been answered.<...

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 while claiming he could not remember where he had been or what he had done. But when a witness came forward with a very...

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 evidence, and one discarded bag hidden in the woods slowly exposed Ellies ex boyfriend to be the one behind her murder. 

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 unknowingly been searching for his victims for nearly four years.

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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 unknowingly been searching for his victims for nearly four years.

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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. 

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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 of Frederick or his Cessna was ever found, leaving behind one of Australia's most debated aviation mysteries and a case that continues to divide...

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 witnesses, and years of investigation, the men who carried out the murders have never been convicted.

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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 inside a Florida home., and minutes later, one of them was shot dead.
The survior claimed it was self defense, but...

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 finally exposed him in 1976, we follow the investigation, the victims, the wrongful accusations, and the mistakes that allowed one of...

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 finally exposed him in 1976, we follow the investigation, the victims, the wrongful accusations, and the mistakes that allowed one of...

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 businesses, damaged public buildings, threatened lives, and ultimately turned a local zoning dispute into one of the most infamous acts of revenge...

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 responsible.

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