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Grab a beer and join us tonight for our 500th episode! This isn't a full episode and it isn't really an Overtime, just the three of us hanging out and looking back on seven years of doing this. We dig up some old clips from those first three episodes we dropped all at once, plus the 2019 announcment of our Patreon, and talk about how much the show has changed since we were recording in a tiny room with no carpet. We also get into whether any of our opinions have changed over the years, an update on Mike's Necronomipod...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the Peter Bergmann case! In June of 2009, a man checked into a hotel in Sligo, Ireland under the name Peter Bergmann, gave an address in Vienna that didn't exist, and paid for everything in cash. Over the next few days he kept leaving the hotel with a purple bag full of stuff and coming back with it empty. Then on the morning of June 16th, he was found dead on a beach outside of town, with every label cut out of his clothes. So tonight we'll get into the...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, we'll cover a press conference out of Boise that kind of turned into nothing. They finally identified a man who poisoned himself with cyanide in a church there back in 1982. Then Wendy's put out an emo album, so we have to talk about it.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our series on the Keddie Cabin Murders! In Part 2, we'll get into the interviews the state agents ran with the neighbors across the street, and the things that the FBI never went back and checked. From there, the sheriff who reopened it in 2013, and what his investigator dug out of the file.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our series on the Keddie Cabin Murders! In Part 1, we'll cover Sue Sharp, the single mom who packed up five kids and headed west to get away from a bad marriage, and the cheap cabin she rented outside Quincy, California, in an old railroad resort called Keddie. We'll get into the neighbors across the street, including an ex-con out of Chicago who showed up on a couch two weeks before the murders. Then the night of April 11th, 1981, and what Sue's oldest daughter walked into the next morning.<...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight we have three stories. First, a guy in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin got arrested on a stalking case, and investigators found at least five human skulls on display in his basement, plus shrines to Ed Gein and John Wayne Gacy. Then a quick Mackenzie Shirilla update, because the Ohio Supreme Court has now shot her down twice. And finally, a whole lot of Siders family updates.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Ruben Salazar! He was one of the only Mexican-American journalists working in Los Angeles at the time, a columnist for the LA Times and the news director at KMEX, and he'd spent years writing about how the cops out there treated the Chicano community. On August 29th, 1970, he ducked into a bar called the Silver Dollar to get away from a protest that had turned ugly, and a sheriff's deputy fired a tear gas projectile through the doorway that hit him in the head. So tonight we'll get into...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for a special installment of Necro Overtime, The Gypsy Rose Racism Extravaganza! We'll get into the leaked prison calls that have been coming out on TikTok, what's actually on them, Gypsy's statement, and Ryan Anderson's two different responses to it. This one is a hardline for us, so it'll be Gypsy's send off.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Amy Mihaljevic! On October 27th, 1989, Amy was 10 years old, home alone in Bay Village, when the phone rang. The guy on the other end told her that her mom had just gotten a promotion at work, and that the two of them should go pick out a gift for her. So Amy walked from school over to the Bay Square Shopping Center that afternoon to meet him. Kids from her class saw her talking to a man near the barbershop, and that's the last anybody saw of her. Tonight...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Lal Bihari, the man who spent 19 years trying to prove he wasn't dead! In 1976 he went to a bank in India to apply for a loan and got told he couldn't have one, because he was deceased. We'll get into what he did about it, and then the organization he started for everybody else this happened to.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Two out of Philadelphia. First, there's a guy in a baby doll mask running around Center City at five in the morning chasing people. He caught up to a jogger near City Hall, held his phone up in front of her, and asked if she was ready to die. Then he ducked into a train station and took off. Then the dark one. Cops have spent two months searching a house on Chew Avenue in Olney, and what they've pulled out of there is hard to...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our series on the death of John O'Keefe and the trials of Karen Read! In Part 3, we'll get into the Google search fight, and the FKR crowd that showed up outside the courthouse every single day. From there we'll go through both trials, the mistrial in 2024 and the retrial in 2025, and get into what it all means. Spoiler, we don't know.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, Amanda Knox has a stand-up career. She's debuting a comedy show called Cartwheel at the Edinburgh Fringe this month, built on her wrongful conviction. Then, Kerri Rawson, BTK's daughter and a longtime victims' advocate, has had a domestic violence injunction granted against her after her ex-husband's petition. And finally, in a new segment, the Hey Ya'll Update, Gypsy has announced her summer glow-up, which involves a chemical peel, lip filler, and hair extensions. Sorry, Mike.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on the death of John O'Keefe and the trials of Karen Read! In Part 2, we'll get into the evidence itself, starting with John's phone. Then the autopsy and the fight over what actually killed him, the dog the Alberts rehomed a few months later, and the broken taillight that the state's whole case leans on. And we'll get into the video out of the Canton police garage, and why the defense says pieces of that taillight kept turning up days after anybody should have found them.

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight we've got a full update on the Siders family. We'll get into where the grand jury stands, and some paperwork out of Gallia County that fills in a couple of the gaps in this family's timeline.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our series on the death of John O'Keefe and the trials of Karen Read! In Part 1, we'll cover who John was, the Boston cop who took in his sister's two kids and raised them as his own out in Canton, and how he reconnected with his old girlfriend Karen Read in 2020. Then we'll get into the night of January 28th, 2022, a blizzard, a couple of bars, and an after-party at a house full of cops. John's body was found in the snow the next morning, and from there...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the Siders family! On June 30th, 2026, sheriff's deputies and state agents went to a house on Ohmer Street in Hamden, Ohio, a village of about 700 people in Vinton County, to serve a warrant on something unrelated. What they found inside was 16 children, ages roughly 18 months to 18, allegedly kept for most of four years in one small room in filth. Four adults were arrested, the grandparents, and the kids' mom and dad. Tonight we get into how a family of 20 ended up in that house, the marriage at the root...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, we'll get into a guy in Burlington, Connecticut who bought a house "as is" at a foreclosure auction and found the skeletal remains of three people inside, since identified as a mother and son, with no sign of foul play. Then, Danny Masterson is asking the California court of appeals to overturn his 2023 rape conviction, arguing his trial lawyer failed to call key witnesses and put on evidence that could have cleared him. And finally, an 18-month-old in Gilbert, Arizona was pulled from a pool...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the idea of a Humanzee! We'll get into the Russian experiments into creating an ape human hybrid, and how that idea carried over to the United States.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock! On October 9th, 2020, Reagan was 21 years old and about eight months pregnant when she was killed in her home in New Boston, Texas. The woman who did it had spent months faking a pregnancy of her own. Her name was Taylor Parker. Tonight we'll go through who Reagan was, the deception that led Taylor to her door, the investigation, and the 2022 trial.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Steven Pladl! In 1998, Steven and his wife put their infant daughter up for adoption, and a family in New York raised her as Katie Fusco. Eighteen years later, after she turned 18, Katie reached out to her biological parents and moved in with them. Within months Steven left his wife, and what developed between him and Katie is the reason this case exists. They married in 2017, lying on the paperwork about being related. They had a son. They were arrested for incest in early 2018 once it all came to light...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, a downed US F-15 pilot, rescued after being shot down over Iran back in April, told intelligence officials he saw something strange before he ejected: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish. Then, a Cornell paper that figured out why AI chatbots, when asked to write a story, keep inventing the same character. His name is Elias Thorne, he's almost always a lighthouse keeper, and he shows up in two-thirds of all the stories these...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we close out our series on Gary Ridgway! Tonight we'll get into the science caught up to Gary, and the plea deal that spared his life. Then the sentencing in December 2003, where the families finally got to stand up and look him in the face. And finally, where Gary is today, and case still being closed into the 2020's.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on Gary Ridgway! We start with the day a desperate task force flew down to Florida and sat across from Ted Bundy, who told them how a killer like this thinks, because he was one. Then the 1987 search that got them a sample they couldn't use yet. The task force shrinking down to one detective working it alone. And Gary just settling into a quiet third marriage while the whole thing went dormant.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Back in December we covered the disappearance of Gretchen Fleming, last seen leaving the My Way Lounge in the early morning hours of December 4th, 2022, with the case stuck cold and a former cop named Preston Pierce as the named person of interest. Tonight we've got the updates. Human remains turned up in Wirt County, West Virginia in September 2025, and genetic testing confirmed they were Gretchen's. That ID opened the door, and we'll go over all the updates.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our series on Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer! We covered this one back in 2019, came in under an hour, so we're doing it right this time.

We start at the beginning, with Gary's childhood outside Seattle, the early warning signs, his time in Vietnam, and the religion he carried around right next to what he was actually doing. Then the killings, starting with the bodies that surfaced in the Green River in the summer of 1982. How he worked the strip along Pacific Highway South. The...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Or at least that's what we told Mike. What we actually have for him tonight is a full Gypsy Rose Blanchard Extravaganza! First, Gypsy's ex Ryan Anderson is clapping back after she called him a clout leech. Then, Gypsy's new bikini photos and the latest round of headlines about her post-prison weight loss. After that, her take on Mackenzie Shirilla, saying remorse hasn't hit her yet but when it does it'll hit her like a train, why she doesn't see Shirilla getting parole, and her thoughts...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Fritz Haarmann, the Butcher of Hanover! In the chaos of post-war Germany, Haarmann worked the central train station as "Detective Haarmann," offering runaway boys a meal, a job, or a place to sleep. Between 1918 and 1924, he murdered at least 24 young men in his apartment and sold cheap black-market meat to the neighborhood. We'll get into how a man with fifteen prior convictions was left to patrol a station full of vulnerable kids, the accomplice who picked victims for their clothing, and the discovery that finally cracked it open!

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Robert Smalls, the enslaved man who stole a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom. On May 13th, 1862, while the three white officers of the CSS Planter were ashore for the night, Smalls put on the captain's hat, fired up the engines, picked up his wife and children, and navigated past five Confederate checkpoints in the dark giving the correct signals at every one. We'll walk through how he pulled it off, what he did after, and why a man born into slavery ended up serving five terms...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight we're wrapping up our dead scientists series by going through the rest of the list. We'll also get into the latest disclosure news, and the star-shaped UAP filmed by Ukrainian military drone footage that looks a whole lot like something the Pentagon already had in its files from 2013.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Maury Travis, the St. Louis serial killer who murdered at least twelve sex workers between 2000 and 2002 and filmed himself doing it. Travis got away with it for years, targeting women from marginalized communities that nobody was looking for. We'll go through the murders, the single stupid mistake that led the FBI straight to his door, and what investigators found waiting for them inside his house in Ferguson, Missouri.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Tara Lynn Lee, the Macomb County mother who ran a nationwide adoption fraud scheme under the name Always Hope Pregnancy and Education Center. For four years, Tara posed as a licensed social worker and matched hopeful couples with birth mothers who didn't exist, babies who were never real, and pregnancies she made up from thin air. She took in over two million dollars from more than 160 families across 24 states. We'll go through how she pulled it off and how one adoptive mother brought the whole thing down.

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Grab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. Tonight we're getting into the suspects, starting with James Lewis, the man who sent Johnson and Johnson an extortion letter demanding a million dollars to stop the killings and became the prime suspect for the next four decades. We'll walk through his criminal history, the other names investigators looked at, the DNA testing that should have closed the case but only made things more complicated, and why after forty plus years and one of the largest investigations in American history...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our two-part series on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. We'll start with the morning of September 29th, when a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village took a Tylenol for a cold and died, and the hours that followed as authorities slowly pieced together that the deaths spreading across the Chicago suburbs weren't a coincidence. We'll walk through the victims, the investigation, and the realization that someone had been pulling bottles off store shelves, lacing capsules with potassium cyanide, and putting them back.

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight is Part 1 of a two-parter. In April 2026, a list of eleven missing or dead scientists with alleged ties to UAP and advanced propulsion research started circulating online and eventually went all the way up to the White House. Tonight we're laying the groundwork before we get into the list itself. We'll cover Amy Eskridge, whose 2022 death became the centerpiece of the entire narrative, and Ning Li, the University of Alabama physicist whose anti-gravity research influenced later conspiracies. These are the two names the whole list...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murders of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. In the early morning hours of July 31st, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove her car into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio at over 90 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend Dominic and his friend Davion, who was along for the ride and had nothing to do with any of it. We'll walk through the relationship between Mackenzie and Dominic, the prior incidents people around them quietly noted, and the investigation that eventually reclassified the deaths as homicides and landed Mackenzie in front...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as wrap up our series on Kenneth McDuff! Last week we covered the Broomstick Murders and the series of decisions that put him back on the street in 1989. Tonight we follow what happened next. We'll walk through the early 1990s killing spree that included the abduction of Melissa Northrup from a Waco convenience store and the abduction of Colleen Reed from an Austin car wash, the investigators who refused to let the cases go cold, and how a fugitive warrant and an appearance on America's Most Wanted finally brought McDuff down working...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, after 51 years, Utah County authorities have officially closed the book on the 1974 Halloween night murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime, with DNA technology finally confirming what Ted Bundy confessed to before his execution but never got charged for. Then, a massive update in the Texas Killing Fields: prime suspect Clyde Hedrick died by suicide in a Houston hospital on March 21st by removing his own breathing tube, just days before prosecutors were set to seek four murder indictments against him, and his longtime friend James...

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our Kenneth McDuff series by going back to the beginning! We'll cover McDuff's early life in Rosebud, Texas, the family dynamics that shaped him, and his juvenile record that should have been a flashing warning sign for anyone paying attention. Then we'll follow him into adulthood and walk through the night of August 6th, 1966 — when Kenneth and accomplice Roy Dale Green abducted three teenagers from a car wash outside of Everman, killed the two boys, and murdered sixteen-year-old Edna Sullivan in a field. We'll cover the investigation, the ar...

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, we'll get into a string of recent sightings in the northeastern part of Ohio. Then, Afroman took the cops who raided his house to court after they sued him for putting raid footage in his music videos, and he won - we'll get into how and why. And finally, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland - the former commander of the research lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a man named in Tom DeLonge's leaked emails as a key advisor on UAP disclosure...