Morbidology
Morbidology is an award-winning weekly true crime podcast that goes beyond the headlines. Created and hosted by true crime author Emily G. Thompson, each episode weaves investigative research with occasional primary audio to reconstruct some of the world's most disturbing murders.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/morbidology--3527306/support.
384: Rebekah Gay
On Halloween of 2012, Rebekah Gay failed to turn up for her shift at work. When a coworker went to her trailer park, they found her car parked somewhere it should have been and a house that felt wrong the second the door came open.
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383: Shaniya Davis
It was a cold morning in November, 2009, in a quiet trailer park in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when a mother picked up the phone to report her five-year-old daughter missing. The investigation ramped up quickly when the girl was spotted, hours later, being carried through a hotel forty miles away by a man no one could yet name.
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382: Britney Ujlaky
One afternoon in Spring Creek, Nevada, a teenage girl climbed into the pickup truck of one of her friends. That evening, she never came home, sparking an exhaustive search.
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381: Amy Carnevale
It was the 28th of August 1991 when a teenage boy appeared at the local police station in Beverly, Massachusetts. He appeared nervous as he told them he had information about a crime. More specifically, he could tell them where to find the body of a missing local girl…
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380: Clayton, Hunter & Chase Doerman
A woman was driving down a residential neighbourhood on Laurel Lindale Road on 15 June, 2023, when she saw a girl running down the street. She rolled down her window and heard the girl scream that her stepfather was killing everybody.
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379: Tatiana Casap & Donald Mayer
Neighbours along Cider Hill Drive in Waukesha couldn’t help but notice some peculiarities with one of the homes some time around February 2025. The snow wasn’t being shovelled, the bins were remaining empty, and nobody was coming and going. It wasn’t until a welfare check some weeks later that what happened to the family became all too clear.
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378: Carly Ryan
On the morning of 20 February, 2007, a young woman was walking along Horseshoe Bay in Port Elliot, Australia. She saw something up ahead in the shallows of the water. What she found would send shockwaves across the globe but the story started almost two years prior, when a teenage girl created a social media profile.
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Introducing Campus Killings Season 5 premiere; Episode 79 The case of Haley Anderson
When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends’ texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a mutual friend’s apartment. But this friend was nowhere to be found. An investigation would reveal a murder, a runaway to Nicaragua, and justice that would span two continents.  You can listen to Campus Killings everywhere you listen to podcasts.
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377: Christian Choate
It was the 1st of May, 2011, when the phone rang inside a Lake County police station. A woman on the line said she knew where a missing boy is buried. Police officers descended on a quiet trailer park in Gary, Indiana, while neighbours gathered, still believing the boy had simply run away…
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376: 2022 Raleigh Shootings
On the evening of 13th October 2022, in the Hedingham neighbourhood of northeast Raleigh, North Carolina, residents heard shots. Those who stepped outside saw a figure moving through the quiet suburban streets. He was dressed head to toe in camouflage, carrying a long gun, walking with slow and deliberate purpose through a neighbourhood he had known his entire life.
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Introducing DNA ID Episode 205 The case of Eileen Zarlenga
Single mom Eileen Zarlenga disappeared from her home on a cold night in March 1988, taking her coat, boots and purse, but leaving behind her three year old daughter. Eileen remained missing for 4 days, and when she was found, it was not good news.Â
The question of who stabbed the young mother over and over and left her body in a remote patch of woods in Mahoning County, OH would haunt generations of investigators. When DNA was detected on sexual assault kit swabs, it did not get investigators any closer to an answer. And when IGG came along and was...
375: Michael Menson
On the night of 27 January 1997, a driver made his way along the North Circular Road in north London. In the darkness ahead of him, something was wrong. There was a man on the grass verge at the side of the road. He was on fire. The driver could not have known that what he was looking at would set in motion years of grief, of obstruction, of a family's refusal to be silenced - a fight for justice that would expose one of the most shameful failures in the history of the Metropolitan Police.
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374: Karen Rolin
Karen Rolin had just finished the late night shift at McDonalds in Bay Minette, Alabama, in the early morning hours of 5 June, 1988. She climbed into her car and set off into the humid air. She never made it back home.
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373: Ellie Nesler
On the morning of the 2nd of April, 1993, the Jamestown Justice Court was in session. The man in the dock was charged with seven counts of lewd conduct with children. In the hallway outside, the mother of one of his victims sat waiting. Before the morning was over, what happened inside that courthouse would make headlines across the world, and ignite a debate about justice, vengeance, and how far a parent can go before the law stops seeing them as a victim.
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372: Laken Riley
One morning in February, 2024, a young woman in Athens, Georgia, laced up her running shoes and headed to a wooded trail near the university. Earlier that morning, a man dressed in all black was seen peeping into another woman’s window. Their paths were about to collide.
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371: Jimmy Ryce
Nine-year-old Jimmy Ryce stepped off his school bus on the afternoon of the 11th of September, 1995. It was a short walk to his home in Redlands, Florida. It should have taken him less than five minutes to reach the front door. But Jimmy never made it home that day…
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370: The Starved Rock Murders
In March 1960, three women from Chicago checked into a lodge at Starved Rock State Park for a four-day break. They had lunch, laced up their boots, and walked out into the canyons. Nobody ever saw them alive again.
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369: Valda, Sally & Damien Connell
On the evening of 11 August, 1978, Paul Connell returned to his home in Swansea, Australia, to find his wife and two youngest children missing. The house had been ransacked and broken into. Just a few moments after he returned, he received a strange phone call…
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368: Hailey Owens
It was the 18th of February, 2014, and on West Lombard Street in Springfield, Missouri, a man was raking leaves in his front yard. Then a little girl came around the corner. She had her phone in hand, stopping now and then to snap a selfie. That was when the truck appeared - a gold pickup, moving slowly down the street, back and forth, past the same houses, past the same yards, in no hurry, going nowhere, just watching and waiting. And then it stopped.
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367: Caroline Glachan
On the night of the 24th of August 1996, a 14-year-old girl left a housing estate in a small Scottish town and walked alone toward a river in the dark. The investigation into what happened to her would remain unsolved for 27 years, sustained by one mother's refusal to stop asking, and finally cracked by the memory of a four-year-old boy.
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366: The Swartz Family
On the morning of January 17th, 1984, a 17-year-old boy picked up the phone and called 911. He said his parents were dead. The investigation that followed would divide a close-knit community, force a prosecutor to question his own instincts, and cause the detectives working the case to go home at night and look at their own children differently.
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365: Rita Politte
On the night of the 4th of December 1998, two teenage boys were having a sleepover in a trailer in rural Hopewell, Missouri. They played games, they stayed up late, and eventually they fell asleep. In the early hours of the following morning, they woke up to the smell of smoke. It was coming from the room at the end of the hallway. Neither of them would ever forget what they found on the other side of that door.
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364: Zymere Perkins
On 26 September, 2016, a young mother rushed from a Harlem apartment building carrying her six-year-old son in her arms. The boy was limp, unresponsive. His small body was covered in bruises, welts, and broken bones - evidence of months of brutal abuse. The investigation into what happened would reveal something equally disturbing: a child welfare system that had failed him at every turn, despite five separate reports of abuse.
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363: Julie Williams & Lollie Winans
On the 31st of May, 1996, Tom Williams picked up the phone and called Shenandoah National Park. His daughter, Julie, hadn't come home from her camping trip with her girlfriend, Lollie. She was supposed to be back by the 28th. Three days had passed. She had a new job starting June first. Julie wasn't the kind of person who just didn't show up.
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362: Nona Dirksmeyer
Russellville, Arkansas was a quiet college town that hadn't seen a murder in nearly a decade. On December 15th, 2005, 19-year-old Nona Dirksmeyer, a beauty queen and music student, was found brutally beaten to death in her apartment. Her boyfriend discovered the body and immediately became the prime suspect. But what followed would expose deep flaws in the investigation and leave a family searching for answers they may never find.
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361: The Ivancic Family
The residents of Meadows Mobile Home Park in Tarpon Springs, Florida, couldn’t help but notice a strong odour emanating from one of the properties in December 2018. Then one day, the spotted a man digging a large hole in the front yard….
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360: Tracy Latimer
Tracy Latimer was twelve years old and severely disabled. She had cerebral palsy, couldn't walk or talk, and lived in constant pain. On the morning of Sunday, October 24th, 1993, her mother, Laura, prepared to take the other children to church in Wilkie, Saskatchewan. Tracy’s father, Robert, stayed behind on the farm with Tracy. What happened that morning would spark a national debate about euthanasia, mercy killing, and the rights of people with disabilities that would divide Canada for decades to come.
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359: Daniel Handley
It was 2 October, 1994, when nine-year-old Daniel Handley set off on his BMX from the estate where he lived in Beckton, London. He had no clue there were predators circling the estate, hunting for a boy just like him…
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358: Toyah Cordingley
On Sunday, October 21st, 2018, a young woman drove north from Cairns to Wangetti Beach. She parked her car in the camping ground and walked along the sand with her dog. By nightfall, her boyfriend found the car abandoned, keys in the ignition….
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357: Davontae Williams
It was a routine morning for the 911 dispatch centre in Arlington, Texas. But then a phone call came in that shattered the peace. A mother was on the other end of the line, and she said that her nine-year-old son was unresponsive.
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356: Lisa Marie Kimmell
On the afternoon of March 25th, 1988, eighteen-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell left Denver, Colorado, in her black Honda CRX. She was driving north through Wyoming to pick up her boyfriend in Cody. From there, they'd continue to Billings to visit a friend in the hospital. It was supposed to be a straightforward eight-hour drive. It was anything but…
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355: The Laurel Murders
In the early morning hours of 4 November, 2022, the small town of Laurel in Nebraska was asleep. Then suddenly, there was an explosion coming from a home along Elm Street. Neighbours looked out of their windows to see smoke coming from one of the homes.
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354: The Babes in the Wood
On October 9th, 1986, two nine-year-old girls vanished from a Brighton council estate after dark. Their disappearances sparked one of the longest and most complex investigations in British history - a case that would take over three decades to solve, require a change in the law itself, and prove that justice delayed doesn't always mean justice denied.
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354: The Babes in the Wood
On October 9th, 1986, two nine-year-old girls vanished from a Brighton council estate after dark. Their disappearances sparked one of the longest and most complex investigations in British history - a case that would take over three decades to solve, require a change in the law itself, and prove that justice delayed doesn't always mean justice denied.
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353: Mary Lynn Witherspoon
It was a summer morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2003. A woman glanced out her window and saw a man standing in her backyard. He was bundling her underwear into a pillowcase. Months later, that same woman would fail to show up for work. And when police forced their way into her home, they would discover that the system meant to protect her had failed in the worst way possible.
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352: Shannon Siders
One summer night in 1989, eighteen-year-old Shannon Siders went out to party with friends in her small Michigan town. She climbed into a car with two brothers she knew and was never seen alive again. It would take 25 years, a father's dogged determination, and witnesses finally breaking their silence to reveal what really happened that night…
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351: Jesse Valencia
Ryan Kepner was lying in his bed in his apartment in the East Campus of the University of Missouri. It was some time around 3:30AM on the 5th of June, 2004, and he was trying to sleep. But then he heard some thumping noises coming from next door, followed by a man repeating: “Stop it. No.”
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350: Leah Freeman
On the night of June 28, 2000, a fifteen-year-old girl vanished while walking home through Coquille, Oregon. Her boyfriend spent hours driving through town, desperately searching for her. But while he was looking for answers, police were looking at him...
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349: Sherrice Iverson
Primm, Nevada was alive with neon and noise on 25 May, 1997, but inside the glittering casino, one small detail flickered across the security monitors - a little girl wandering alone. She slipped past rows of slot machines and bright carpet patterns, eventually disappearing into the women’s restroom. She never came back out.
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348: Janelle Patton
Norfolk Island hadn’t had a murder in over 150 years, but that all changed one stormy afternoon in 2002. Two tourists left their accommodation after the rainstorm had cleared. They headed to Cockpit Waterfall. On the floor near the barbecue area, something unnatural caught their attention…
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