South Africa, 2008: Eudy Simelane was a Football hero. One of the first openly gay players to ever play on the national team, born and raised in the township of Kwa-Thema. She was changing the game - quite literally. She was a vocal gay rights activist and dedicated hours to Aid work. But aged 31, her life was brutally and tragically taken from her. And what followed, was a long and hard fight for justice, in a legal system where gay people barely ever stood a chance. And in a world, where so-ca...
Jun 29, 2025•40 min
London, 2007: Audun Carlsen, a 29 year old man was found bleeding in the street having just fled a nearby flat. But the story he was about to tell would shock everyone. Because his capturer, the person he was fleeing from, was a HUGE celebrity. He’d just fled the home of 80’s British Pop Icon Boy George. Audun had been booked to model for George, who was trying his hand at photography. But suddenly the session took a strange turn and over the following months, George began acting erratic and par...
Jun 22, 2025•32 min
A note for listeners: I’ve had to be on voice rest this past week so instead I’m bringing you an older episode from our archives! I’ll be back next week with a brand new Outlore Episode! London, 1993: A man called Colin Ireland made it his New Year’s Resolution to murder as many gay men as possible, and as soon as he began, widespread fear across the capital’s gay community could be felt. He’d stake out at gay bars, waiting and scouting for his next victim… Then, desperate for fame and notoriety...
Jun 16, 2025•1 hr 49 min
The Transfemicide of Brianna Ghey England, 2023: Brianna Ghey, a 16 year old school girl was lured out of her home and to a park, where she became the victim of a violent attack, planned by a girl who she thought was her friend. But this wasn’t the first time this friend tried to take Brianna’s life… Her name was Scarlett Jenkinson and devastatingly, this time Scarlett’s plan worked. Brianna would not survive her injuries and tragically passed away at the scene. Scarlett had enlisted the help of...
Jun 08, 2025•1 hr 32 min
San Antonio, 1994: Four Latina lesbians were accused of an unthinkable crime and spent nearly two decades in prison for something they didn’t do. In a time when queerness was treated like a crime, their identities became the only evidence needed to lock them up. But they never gave up. They spent years fighting to clear their names and fighting for each other. Today, we know them as The San Antonio Four. The accusations came from two little girls, just weeks after one of the women, Elizabeth, re...
Jun 01, 2025•52 min
Houston, 2021: Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival was supposed to be the event of the year. But instead, it became one of the deadliest rap concerts in history. 10 people lost their lives, hundreds were injured and the world was left asking: How did this happen? It was declared a mass casualty event, but instead of stopping the show… producers let it play on. Travis kept performing and Drake was even brought out on stage. All while hundreds of people in the crowd screamed for help. Travis Scott ...
May 25, 2025•53 min
Russia, 2022: Influencer turned Only Fans Model Anastasia Grishman, went on a Reality TV talk show to discuss her life. Only the episode became an intervention as experts sat lecturing her new found career in porn. Her mum cried, begging Anastasia to stop and just as it looked like all hope was lost in getting through to Ana, she let slip a very important detail…her porn career had only begun since meeting her husband, Dimitry Chernyshov. Dimitry was not only her scene and business partner. But ...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 12 min
Today's episode is on Brazilian Billionaire CEO entrepreneur Marcos Matsunaga, murdered and stuffed inside of a suitcase. But who could have done such an awful thing? For a while police thought it might be a kidnapping and ransom case, but as time went on.. the truth came out. Trigger Warning: domestic violence, abusive relationships Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 04, 2025•50 min
Today's episode is on a serial killer known as 'Crazy Dave' - David Edward Maust is known as the teen slayer - and has been compared to both John Wayne Gacy and 'the gay slayer' Colin Ireland. Trigger Warning: child abuse, mental illness, rape, suicide Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 18, 2025•55 min
Today's episode is on the 'pizza bomber', Brian Wells. This is one hell of a case, including a heist, an abduction, a scavenger hunt, multiple murders, a bank robbery, a collar bomb and a pizza delivery guy. Trigger Warning: suicide, cancer, abduction Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 05, 2025•58 min
Today's episode is on America's youngest EVER serial killer, Craig Price. Who was just 13 years old when he killed Rebecca Spencer and 15 when he murdered a family of 3. Known as the Warwick slasher, Craig is an infamous killer in his hometown in Rhode Island. Trigger Warning: racism, child murder Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Today's episode is on the island party murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope - a couple presumed to be murdered, but as of right now, no bodies have been found - the two of them just disappeared on new years eve and have been missing ever since. Scott Watson is currently convicted for the murders, although many people believe this was a miscarriage of justice and he is falsely convicted. Trigger Warning: sexual harassment, sexual assault, homophobia, cancer Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdiscl...
Jan 16, 2025•1 hr
Today's episode is on the christmas day massacre - a killing spree committed by Aziz Yazdanpanah while dressed as santa claus. This case is also known as the santa slaying and the grapevine massacre. Trigger Warning: suicide Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 26, 2024•35 min
In 2011, the night before Christmas, a mother of 3 and student Za’Zell Preston was murdered hours after leaving a Christmas Eve party in California. On Christmas morning her body was found propped up on the sofa, wearing sunglasses, watching her children open presents, in an apartment covered in blood. Her husband William Wallace made phone calls to the entire family, before finally agreeing to call an Ambulance for Za’Zell. But shortly after calling that Ambulance, William would find himself in...
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Ad - Download Love & Pies here -> https://pixly.go2cloud.org/SH4O2 Use my link in the next 7 days to receive a free gift! In 2018, 22-year old TikTok/Douyin dancer Chen Qiaofeng was killed in the middle of a busy city centre in China. She had shot to internet fame only 2 months before her death after she filmed a viral video that made her an influencer overnight. But in the months leading up to her murder, her boyfriend Wu Yidong had been subjecting her to a life of abuse. And since she b...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Ad - Use my code USUAL20 for 20% off your first Wild order: https://www.wearewild.com/?discount=USUAL20 On February 27th, 2018, 8 year old Gabriel Cruz disappeared during a short 100-metre walk from his grandmother's house to his cousin’s. What began as a simple trip turned into one of Spain's most shocking and horrific murder cases. Over 12 days, 5,000 people, including Gabriel’s father’s girlfriend, Ana Julia Quezada, joined the search. But no one suspected she was hiding a terrifying secret. ...
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Ad - Use my code USUAL20 for 20% off your first Wild order: https://www.wearewild.com/?discount=USUAL20 Today’s case is about the unsolved murder of Mexican Musician Chalino Sanchez who was handed his own death note, live on stage. Later that night, Chalino was kidnapped by alleged Police and by the morning, he’d be found dead. Chalino Sanchez was crowned the King of Corridos and is the idol of many musicians today, including Peso Pluma, who in 2023 went viral after receiving his own death note....
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Ad - Use my code USUAL20 for 20% off your first Wild order: https://www.wearewild.com/?discount=USUAL20 In 2008, 23-year-old Norwegian student Martine Vik Magnussen was killed after a night out in Mayfair. In the early morning following her murder, the man responsible, Farouk Abdulhak fled the UK to Yemen. Farouk Abdulhak is the son of one of Yemen’s richest and most powerful men For nearly 15 years, he hasn't left the country and has lived in luxurious hotels, protected by his father's power. T...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Ad - Use my code USUAL20 for 20% off your first Wild order: https://www.wearewild.com/?discount=USUAL20 Today's case is Sanda Dia, a clever, and ambitious young man, had his life tragically cut short during a brutal hazing ritual in 2018. Sanda was attempting to join an elite, wealthy, and predominantly white fraternity called Reuzegom at KU Leuven in Belgium. For nearly 48 hours, he endured unimaginable torture. This case revealed the harsh reality of how racism, classism, and privilege allowed...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Ad - Use my code USUAL20 for 20% off your first Wild order: https://www.wearewild.com/?discount=USUAL20 Today's case is on Marianne Bachmeier, who shocked the world in 1981 by shooting her daughter's murderer in a German courtroom. Was she justified in her act of revenge, or was she not the heroic vigilante many believed her to be? This case sparked a national debate on justice and the lengths a mother will go to for her child. Trigger Warning: domestic violence, child-abuse, racism specifically...
Jul 16, 2024•58 min
For today's case we're dipping into the archive as we look back at the murder of Colleen Ritzer, a teacher from Danvers High School, Massachusetts and the 14 year old student that was seen dragging a large bin around the school following his teacher's disappearance... Trigger Warning: rape, psychosis Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 02, 2024•41 min
Today's case is on Zara Aleena, who was tragically murdered while walking home in Ilford, London, by a man who had just been released from prison. Today, Zara’s name rallies the call to end violence against women in the UK. Walk It Out Reclaim These Streets Refuge Trigger Warning: sexual assault, rape, stalking, domestic violence, violence against women Other Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 18, 2024•55 min
Today's case is on Angie Dodge, the youngest daughter of a loving family in Idaho Falls, Idaho, who was tragically murdered in June 1996. After over a decade of tireless investigation by Carol, the man originally arrested and charged for the crime was set free - and the hunt for the true killer began… Find more details on the work of the Innocence Project here. Trigger Warning: rape and murder Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...
May 28, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Today's case is about Jill Dando, hailed as TV's Princess Diana, was a prominent figure in 90s UK television. Her tragic murder in 1999 shocked the nation, sparking the largest investigation in Metropolitan Police history. Now, after 25 years, a new suspect, convicted Serbian assassin Milorad Ulemek, offers a potential breakthrough in the quest to uncover who killed her. Trigger Warning: rape, stalking, war crimes and murder Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad c...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 42 min
Today’s case is about Grace Millane, who was strangled to death by her Tinder date in Auckland, New Zealand in 2018. Grace’s case shocked the country and held a mirror up to a society with a problem of violence towards women. Trigger Warning: rape, sexual assault, domestic violence Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Please take the time to visit Love Grace - the handbag appeal set up by Grace’s family and friends as a legacy in Grace Millane’s name, to help women that have been affecte...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Today's case is about Nermin Sulejmanović, a micro-influencer and body builder who murdered his ex-wife Nizama Hecimovic on Instagram Live, as thousands of followers watched on social media. Trigger Warning: suicide and domestic abuse Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer If you've been affected by the topics discussed in today's episode we've provided some extra resources for support and assistance below: Samaritans (UK) https://www.samaritans.org/ Find a helpline (International) https:/...
Apr 09, 2024•57 min
A stolen lunch was the inciting incident in today’s case, as a violently angry young man kills a co-worker in a frenzied attack over the smallest of issues - and tells the court in his trial it could have been anyone, “even a 4-year old kid…” Trigger Warning: deportation and issues with immigration forces Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 26, 2024•34 min
Today’s case is about a shocking murder in 2020 of two sisters in a London park, killed by a devil worshipper. Their dignity wasn’t preserved in death - two police officers proceeded to take selfies with the girl’s corpses, sharing the pictures with their colleagues on WhatsApp. Trigger Warning: Racism, Misogyny Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Mar 12, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Today's solved true crime case is on the bus station murder of Shirley Leach in Manchester, England, UK. Trigger Warning: sexual assault, rape Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 28, 2024•31 min
In today's episode we uncover the case of Mary Blandy, who was sent to the hangman in 1754 for murdering her own father with a “love potion…” How far would you go, for the bad boy your dad disapproved of? Trigger Warning: poison Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 4 min
