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Shit got real REAL fast when the FBI came knock knock knocking on Matty's door. They let him know: Anyone gets hurt or dies at this thing, it's your ass, kid. Does Matty take this opportunity to, you know, shut the thing down to STAY OUT OF PRISON? NOPE! Instead, he tries to move this thing away from the ONE BATHROOM TOWN of Rachel, Nevada to downtown Las Vegas. BUT THE INTERNET DOESN'T CARE WHAT MATTY WANTS ANYMORE. And so as the MILITARY BRINGS IN BACKUP and the SHUTDOWN THE AIRSPACE over Area 51 in preparation, the world waits with...

Meet Matty, the self-described "twenty-year-old loser working at the vape kiosk in the mall." In 2019, bored and sort of as a joke, he made a post on his Facebook page - "shitposting" - encouraging his 41 followers that they should all storm Area 51 in three months. He created an event and went to bed. Little did he know the hell and chaos he was about to unleash as THREE MILLION PEOPLE signed up to ACTUALLY DO IT. And once the internet caught wind of this, it was just a matter of time before this became an international countdown to the...

In 2013, Gary Herpst left his wife and son and went missing.  But... they didn't seem to mind all that much and only RELUCTANTLY filed a missing person report for him.  Turns out this guy was a reeeeeeeeal piece of work - to quote The Chicks, "a missing person who nobody missed at all."  So it wasn't until 2020, when a piece of his skull was dug up by a dog, that anyone, including his neighbors, learned the truth of what happened.

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Fam, we are here for the sisterhood and solidarity today!  Both Kristen and Sabrina were victims of Geoffrey's controlling and abusive behavior, but thankfully they both come through to the horrors to the other side and form a bond with EACH OTHER!  But then... HOW does he get himself a spot on national television?  We have some questions for those TV execs....

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In April 2012, 61-year-old Mark Staudte died on the floor of his home. When the authorities arrived, his wife, Diane, seemed.. .unphased. And the kids were playing video games in the living room. It was... odd. Even odder was when the Staudte son, Sean, ALSO DIED FIVE MONTHS LATER. Shortly thereafter, SEAN'S SISTER SARA WAS ALSO IN THE HOSPITAL DYING OF ORGAN FAILURE. Again, Diane had no questions. So what in the ever loving hell was going on here? You're about to find out, Fam, by way of SOME OF THE MOST CHILLING POLICE INTERROGATION VIDEO WE'VE EVER SEEN. So...

OK, Fam, do that thing where you stretch your fingers and crack you knuckles BECAUSE YOU'RE ABOUT TO WANT TO PUNCH SOMONE. In 2021, Bridget matched with Ricky on Facebook Dating... which was apparently a thing. Ricky was ex-military and had the severe PTSD AND ADORABLE MILITARY DOG, ZEUS, to prove it. He'd been through hell, including watching his best friend, Clarence, literally take bullets and die for him. And Bridget BECAUSE SHE'S A GOOD, KIND, EMPATHETIC PERSON was three thousand percent there for him. The only thing was, his story was a complete lie. And when Bridget notices THIRTEEN...

Debbie Kelly led a fabulous life in San Antonio, TX - a successful career, a giddy group of tennis-playing girlfriends, and a new house.  But after she fell for her contractor (who was shadily slow-rolling the construction in order to spend time with her RED FLAG!!!!), things went horrifically wrong.  One dark night in their home led to a terrible mistake - or was it?  Grab an ice-cold Dr. Pepper and run a comb through your hair, Fam, and follow along with the story with us.

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In the spring of 1992, a madman terrorized the Midwest, killing at least six people and using Interstate 70 as both his killing field and escape route. In one of the most FRUSTRATING cases we've ever covered, there were witnesses, composite sketches, and even surveillance video, but somehow the killer has never been caught. But there were bright spots in the investigation, too - LIKE THE SURVIVOR WHO REFUSED SURGERY WHEN SHE WAS TOLD THERE WAS ONLY A 50% SURVIVAL RATE AND NOW, FULLY RECOVERED THANKS TO HER OWN BADASSERY, LIVES WITH A BULLET LODGED IN HER SPINE. Oh, and get THIS...

NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED, FAM! What happens when you open your home FOR FREE to a person in need? Well, sometimes they turn out to be a racist and violent garbage person WHO SCREAMS AT YOUR GRANDKID. And then sometimes they move across the street where they set their sights on making your life a living hell. AND SOIMETIMES THIS ALL ENDS IN MURDER. Ugh. I need a drink. Do your stretches before this one, Fam, it's gonna make you real, real mad. 

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OK, look, we love the bayou. Like, we LOVE IT. The accents, the trees, THE FREAKING GOTHIC VIBES. But what we don't love is the murder. Especially this one. On August 23, 1987, a young mother named Selonia Reed was found murdered in her car about a mile from her home. The clues were few, but there was one that was significant. A cigarette butt. In the pre-DNA 1980s, there wasn't much they could do with it. But, shockingly, it was well preserved. And though it would take THIRTY FIVE YEARS to get it done, that cigarette butt would eventually lead...

Fam, let us ask you a question: Would you ever, say, give up your home, your job, your friends and family to move to move to Minnesota and live in a house where you sleep on the floor in sleeping bags and work FOR FREE for 18 hours a day? Yes? Yes you would? THEN DO WE HAVE THE CULT FOR YOU!!! Ugh, here we go again: sleep deprivation, free labor, AND AN INSUFFERABLE LEADER WHOSE BODY IS CONSTANTLY BEING TAKEN OVER BY SPIRITUAL ENTITIES FROM THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. And the names. THE FREAKING NAMES, FAM! Tick Tock It's...

On January 2014, 46-year-old Jerry Moore was stabbed to death in his home in Marietta, Georgia. When no suspect emerges, Jerry's best friend Randy - WHO HE MET AT A GAY LINE DANCING BAR - presents the cops with a critical piece of information that eventually solves the case. It involves a loser shitbag roommate, a gay bakery, and a CAKE DECORATING ROOM. Jerry's murder was senseless and brutal, but the people he surrounded himself were incredible, and they're all here to tell his story. And so we beg you, please please please get yourself a gay bestie like Randy...

In June 2016, Michelle Hadley was served a restraining order. She was barred from ever again speaking to her ex-boyfriend Ian and his new girlfriend Angela. According to the restraining order, Michelle had been stalking Angela and Ian for months - she'd been making horrible threats against the couple and their soon-to-be-born twins. Michelle was crazy insane. Or was she? Even after watching the documentary three times, we still don't have all the answers, we still don't understand everything that happened, and that's what makes this documentary so great. And our coverage of it absolutely bananas, Fam!

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I mean, just keep staying stupid, all you felonious felons and crime-y criminals.  Today's we're tracking a woman known as the "Diamond Diva" across several states in the South as she casually walks in and robs jewelry stores... which absolutely no attempt to disguise herself at all!  Yeesh!  This is another great series from executive producer Octavia Spencer - can she just be in charge of making all true crime documentaries from now on?

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Fam, Andrea Canning is having none of it. In this "Dateline" episode, she explores the murder of Jennifer Ramsaran, and sits down with the absolute garbage-est HERB who ever HERBED. And the title of the episode? "The Perfect Life"? Just WAIT till you get a load of what that means for this piece of work....

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Jean Steven was very close to her sister and her husband.  Perhaps a bit... too close.  We've got a bit of an odd story today, Fam - straight out of a Hitchcock movie.  Why did Jean keep the embalmed bodies of her husband and sister IN HER HOME, and how did she get the seemingly all-too-willing characters around town to help her?  Thankfully, the ever-trusty Beth Karas is here to help us sort through the shenanigans. 

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In July 2003, 34-year-old Shawn Johnson was in New Orleans for a conference. And he did WHAT ANY OF US WOULD DO and tacked on a few days for a little bit of fun. On his last night in town, he found himself at an infamous bar called The Dungeon where he met a group of people who he invited back to his hotel room to fill the hot tub with Champagne and continue the party. Again, like any of us would do. However, Shawn would, tragically, be found dead in the room the following morning. On the walls of...

Fam, when they say "Worst Ex Ever" they really aren't kidding here - and giving him the "Deadpool" moniker just because he's got the same name as the comic book character? Yeesh.  This creep runs the gamut from theft to selling dogs online to rape and murder - but talks his way out of things thanks to gullible investigators, at least for a time until someone close to him turns the tables.  Lots of garbage here, so come scream along with us!

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Fam!  We're back in the world of sports today: dressage!  Also known as "fancy horse dancing" to us city hicks who'd probably fall off a horse at the first canter (that's a horse-dancing term, right?).  ANYWAY, we've got OLYMPIC-level drama with this episode, with former USA team member Michael Barisone now taking on his new student Lauren Kanarek.  Heads butt, tempers flare, and eventually... shots are fired.  For real.

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 When 68 year old Mario Hernandez didn't show up for family dinner in March of 2005, his family knew something was terribly wrong. Mario was a family man. Nothing would have kept him from that dinner. And when the police refuse to investigate--he's a grown man, after all, he can go missing if he wants EYE ROLL RAGE EMOJI--the family takes the investigation into their own hands. What unfolds is a bizarre tale of greed, CURSES THAT NEVER HAPPENED, a killer's extremely dysfunctional family--hoooo boy are they taking the fun OUT of dysfunctional--and a supermarket employee break room THAT IS FOR E...

OK, Fam - it's the one you've been waiting for! On October 9, 2020, 27-year-old Taylor Parker was pulled over on a Texas highway. When the cops approached the car, they found a nearly hysterical Parker holding a baby she claimed to have JUST given birth to. It would quickly be revealed that that was a lie. Please, please, PLEASE pull over as you listen to us unravel this shocking and terrifying story of murder, kidnapping, and the most exasperating case of willful blindness and/or TOTAL COMPLICITY we've ever seen. Oh, and of course, there will be feral hogs. 

Take a deep breath for this one, Fam! On December 6, 1991, four teenaged girls were found sexually assaulted and murdered in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. The yogurt shop was then set on fire. It would take decades, and a series of unforgivable wrongful convictions, for the authorities to catch the real killer. This one's a lot, but don't worry, WE'LL DO ALL THE SCREAMING FOR YOU! 

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Journalist Marresa Burke is on a mission: to give the name back to a man in a cemetery known only as "unknown negro." The man died while riding the rails in the 1960s- - crushed under 5,000 pounds of ice in an ice car. Was it an accident? Was it murder? And who was this man, where was he going, and why? Working alongside THE BADASSES OF THE DNA DOE PROJECT, Marresa is going to figure it out. Along the way, she will reunite the man's family - -a family living in the same city with no idea of their...

A brutal killer is on the loose, stabbing and shooting people at random. Nobody is safe. All we know about him is that he has "movie star good looks" and drives a car with throat... whatever that means. BUT DON'T WORRY: JOE "WELL, MY MY MY" KENDA IS ON THE CASE. And you know he's gonna get the guy, even as he and everyone else IGNORE THE WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION all around them. Ugh. OK, here we go!

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SOOOOOOOO according to Benjaman's brother, Benjaman is totally an ax murderer. Or some kind of murderer anyway. As soon as Benjaman discovers his true identity, things go off the rails. So now we know WHO he is, but what we need to figure out now is WHAT IS HE HIDING AND WHY IS HE HIDING IT. Is he a mafia hit man? Just a total grifter? And when a threat comes in against the lives of the children of the filmmakers, it becomes all out war between Benjaman and the documentary crew. It's...a lot. And Patrick and Gillian...

Fam, we're coming at you with a crazy story today - a kidnapping that rocks the town of Ponte Vedra, Florida, where crime is "extremely rare."  So rare, in fact, that.. is this kidnapping even real?  Or is the whole thing one elaborate hoax?  BUCKLE UP AND PULL OVER!!!

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Pull over and gird your loins, Fam, because this one is NUTS and we have a lot of feelings bout it! In 2004, a 64-year-old man is found bloody, beaten AND YES NAKED behind a dumpster in Richmond Hills, Georgia. He claimed complete and total amnesia. As in he said he had no idea whatsoever who he was, how he got there, or anything else. EXCEPT FOR EXACTLY 22 MEMORIES THAT END AT SOME POINT IN THE YEAR 1978. Ummmm, OK! And thus begins the journey of trying to solve the mystery of this man who SWEARS HE'S NOT AN AX MURDERER...

FAM!  We're off for for the holiday break, but while we're away we're sharing the first episode of our Patreon coverage of Murder in Glitterball City here!  Check it out, and then find the rest of our episodes over at our Patreon page!

Fam, we're off to Louisville - or, as apparently NO ONE CALLS IT, "Glitterball City."  We're in a part of town that's known for being both spooky, with historic and possibly haunted houses, and fabulous (!), with an influx of gay residents.  But the neighborhood is shocked in 2010 when a body is discovered in the base...

IT'S PRIDE MONTH AND STILL WE CAN'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE. Ugh. In 2022, a string of unusual deaths of young gay men rocked the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, NYC. Well "unusual" only if you're not the NYC cops who just assumed that because these men were gay, and that they died of self-inflicted drug overdoses. But thanks to the friends and loved ones of these victims WHO DEMANDED ACTION, the deaths were finally connected and understood for what they were - a serial killing spree. Join us as we track down these POS bad guys who robbed and killed these...

THIS ONE IS FULL OF THE CRAZIESSSSSSS, FAM! When 31-year-old Patricia Leigh Mills is found dead in her home - the victim of a voracious house fire - the police JUST TAKE HER HUSBAND AT HIS WORD that it was a terrible accident. The husband - a real PEACH of a man named Delbert - remarries less than six months later TO A REAL PIECE OF WORK named Allison Salinas, and this confirms for Patricia's family that her death was no accident. Cut to years later when Allison, now on her fourth marriage, tries to enlist her high school...

On the morning of July 31, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, driving nearly 100 miles per hour, crashed her car into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. The two other passengers in the, her 20-year-old boyfriend Dominic Russo and his best friend 19-year-old Davion Flannagan, were instantly killed. Shirilla would claim it was an accident, but the evidence would tell a different story. Aaaaaaaaaaand we take a deep dive into Mackenzie's past AND IT IS HORRENDOUS. She was a bully, controlling and manipulative in her relationships, and HAD. THE. WORLD'S. WORST. PARENTS. And she always believed she could get away with anything. Including...

When Joanna Hunter died in  her home in 2011, it took the cops less than 30 minutes to rule the death a suicide. Mostly because her husband said that that's what happened. No crime scene was preserved and no investigation was done. The case was closed, but Joanna's family never accepted the suicide ruling. They knew all too well about the years of abuse Joanna had suffered at the hands of her husband and all of the times she tried to leave him. Her brother Joe, who was Joanna's best friend, is on a mission to proved that his sister was m...

Over the course sixteen months, 39-year-old Stephen Port killed four gay men in his East London home... and DESPITE BEING A TOTAL IDIOT... completely got away with it. All four men looked nearly identical and seem to have died exactly the same way, AND TWO OF THE BODIES WERE FOUND IN EXACTLY THE SAME SPOT. Yet the cops saw no connection between the cases. Meanwhile, PORT WAS BASICALLY GIVING HIMSELF UP AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY. And still, the cops insisted these men died of self induced drug overdoses. BECAUSE GAY. So yeah, this is gonna be a loud one, Fam...

Just when we thought the biggest drama around the chess world was reserved for a 1980s British mega-musical about US/Soviet Cold War relations, along comes a bunch of tech bros at Chess.com to steal the crown.  Apparently winning at chess online can lead to some big earnings, and rumors and allegations of cheating start to fly after a young upstart player starts dominate on the site.  And don't even get us started on the anal beads, Fam....

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The body of an unidentified young woman was found in the Arizona desert in August 1992.  Over thirty years later, the incredible efforts of the forensic genealogists at the DNA Doe Project would identify her as Melody Harrison.  But how they pieced together her story traces a puzzle that brought together long-lost relatives and shed light on a little known adoption program from post-WWII Germany. 

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Moriah Wilson could do just about anything. As a kid she became a world-class skier, and then as an adult she became one of the best gravel bike racers in the world. In May of 2022, she was in Austin, Texas, for a race when she was brutally murdered in her friend's home. The investigation was swift and the killer was quickly identified BUT NOT IMMEDIATELY CAUGHT BECAUSE THIS INSANE PERSON STOLE A PASSPORT AND SKIPPED THE COUNTRY. An international manhunt ensued and because this person IS A COMPLETE IDIOT, they were caught. But then THEY ESCAPED AGAIN. Anyway, none...

Feigning a terminal illness, masquerading as a different person, allegedly being pregnant and then suddenly not - we've seen A LOT of pernicious people running scams over the years.  But for this case - why not try them ALL?!?!  Hold on to your hats, Fam - this case is trying to dupe you from every last possible angle!

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On July 18, 2022, 29 year old Sania Kahn was gunned down in her Chicago apartment by her estranged husband. We...do not have the words for what a freaking BADASS Sania was. She was a photographer and influencer who shared with the world not just her incredible art, but also her struggles of being a first generation Pakistani-American woman trying to live up to the expectations of her parents while at the same time living our her dreams. This could have been a 49 part 274 hour long series based just on the number of friends who LINED UP to share stories of...

Merthe just wanted to throw herself a small "Sweet Sixteen" birthday party at her house, so she made an event on Facebook and invited her closest friends.  What could go wrong?  Well... she left her event marked "Public," and as details of the party spread, what was supposed to be a private party turned into a municipal crisis as thousands of party-goers threatened to descend on the party.  Will the festivities turn into a riot?  Will the Dutch town of Haren be overtaken by the revelers?  And will the Night Mayor and the Day Mayor of the town ever agree...

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Brothers Anthony and Charles, your friendly local neighborhood funeral directors, show up to take their friend Byron farm to take him to lunch for his birthday. But he's not there. Well, actually, he is...but he's dead, they just don't know it yet. OR DO THEY? And thus begins MAYBE THE CRAZIEST SERIES WE'VE EVER COVERED. This is a town fu...