It's late. You've had a glass of wine. You're young and hopeful and looking for love. So you start swiping through Tinder. You come across Simon Leviev, and you pause. He's handsome enough, seems like he has a full life, and he is RICH RICH RICH. You think, 'what the hell' and you swipe right. And wouldn't you know it, it's a match! Within minutes, he's messaging you asking to meet him for coffee. Now. And you go, because you only live once, right? Little do you know that you're making the worst...
May 03, 2022•55 min•Ep. 237
One rainy New York night in 1996, Lorri Davis went to see a movie. It was a documentary about the murder of three cub scouts found in the woods and the three outcasts who were blamed for the crime. From there, her life changed forever. Here’s the story of how a young landscape architect, fell in love and into the fight to free the West Memphis Three. This episode is part of a ten-part series called Let The Women Do The Work . Join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic...
Apr 28, 2022•47 min
On a cold day in 1983, a plumber was called to an apartment building in the Cranley Gardens neighborhood of North London. The building drains were clogged. And when he climbed down into plumbing "man hole" he saw what was causing the blockage: human flesh and bone. What followed was essentially an elaborate confession by one of the building's tenants: Dennis Nilsen who explained to the police that he had murdered and dismembered at least 12 men and boys and disposed of them both UNDER HIS FLOORB...
Apr 26, 2022•56 min•Ep. 236
This show has a bone to pick true crime podcasts. Where are all the women’s perspectives? The detectives, the witnesses, the movers and shakers of any case are not always dudes. So let’s widen our framework, shall we? On Let The Women Do The Work, join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic, inspiring, badass women in true crime, one episode at a time. Let The Women Do The Work is a 10-part series premiering weekly in the True Crime Obsessed feed starting April 28th, 2...
Apr 22, 2022•2 min
LET'S OBJECTIFY SOME MEN FOR A CHANGE! The Chippendale all-male review (read STRIP SHOW) was the hottest shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. And it was all fun and games UNTILL THE MURDERS STARTED HAPPENING. First a Playboy playmate who frequented the club where the men stripped is killed. And then someone much closer to the show is murdered in his office in the middle of the day. THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS JUST LET THE NAKED MEN DANNNNNNNNNNCE. The rest of this series is availab...
Apr 21, 2022•41 min
Three young women vanish months apart from each other. Massive searches ensue for each. Days or weeks later, each one is found dead in the location they were last seen. In each case, their deaths are ruled hypothermia even though there's evidence of foul play. How could they have been missed by searchers? Were they abducted, murdered, and then brought back to the place they vanished? Loni Coombs investigates. COME SEE US ON TOUR !! In May we're hitting Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles! ...
Apr 19, 2022•57 min•Ep. 235
On July 2, 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her fiance, 23-year-old Briann Laundrie took off on the adventure of a lifetime. Driving cross country on a "vanlife" adventure that Gabby shared with the world via her instagram account. By late August, Gabby stopped communicating with her family. And then on September 2, Brian returned home without Gabby. AND HE REFUSED TO SPEAK WITH AUTHORITIES OR HELP IN THE SEARH EVEN AFTER GABBY WAS REPORTED MISSING. It would take weeks to find Gabby's body. An...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 234
On the evening of June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh, a member of one of the most powerful families in South Carolina, came home to a brutal scene: The bodies of his 21 year old son, Paul, and 52 year old wife, Maggie. Both of whom had been shot multiple times. Could this be connected to the death of Paul's friend Mallory, who had been thrown from a boat Paul had been driving while drunk? And as the authorities dig deeper, they find TWO OTHER murders connected to the family that remain unsolved. What i...
Apr 05, 2022•48 min•Ep. 233
On May 25, 1996, 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart went to an off-campus party. Around 2 am, she was last seen being helped back to her dorm by another student named Paul Flores. No one ever saw Kristin again. It would take over 25 years to unravel the mystery of what happened that night and to be able to prove what happened to Kristin Smart. COME SEE US ON TOUR !! In May we're hitting Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles! We're covering "CLASS ACTION PARK." You know you want to see...
Mar 29, 2022•57 min•Ep. 232
DON’T WORRY, YOU ONLY HAVE TO HEAR WARREN JEFFS SING ONCE. Look, tick tock, it’s cult o’clock. We’re back with the FLDS (the culty fundementialist sect of the Mormon faith) and it’s ten years after that piece of s**t pedophile Warren Jeffs went to prison FOR LIFE. The devoted followers he left behind are suffering and trying to pick up the pieces of their broken lives, all while trying to keep their faith. COME SEE US ON TOUR !! In May we're hitting Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles! We'...
Mar 22, 2022•53 min•Ep. 231
Adrienne Shelly was a writer and actress best known for writing and co-starring the film Waitress , which was later turned into a Broadway musical. But on the evening of November 1st, 2006 she was fond dead--hanging in the bathroom of her West Village, NYC office. The initial assumption by investigators was suicide, but her husband Andy didn't believe it and pushed the cops to work the case like a murder. Ultimately Andy was right, and the killer was found. But why did he do it? This documentary...
Mar 15, 2022•55 min•Ep. 230
THERE'S NO MURDER! NOBODY DIES! AND A BUNCH OF RICH CHARDONNAY (PROBABLY, RIGHT?) CHUGGING CUL-DE-SAC MOMS LOSE A BUNCH OF MONEY. THIS CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING: IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT BEANIE MANIA! Also, we beg you, please don't throw your kids OUT OF THE CAR onto A FIVE LANE HIGHWAY when a DELIVERY TRUCK OVERTURNS just to snag a handful of McDonalds-bound Teenie Beanies. Just please don't. COME SEE US ON TOUR !! In May we're hitting Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles! We're covering "CLA...
Mar 08, 2022•55 min•Ep. 229
A madman is on the loose. The press is calling him The Torso Killer because of the gruesome headless and handless bodies he leaves behind. And while investigators search for him in New York City, similar murders are discovered across the river in New Jersey. After one woman narrowly escapes, a suspect is identified. Now they have to find him before he kills again. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-epi...
Mar 01, 2022•52 min•Ep. 228
FAM!!! We're hitting the road with a brand new show covering the TCO classic "Class Action Park"!!! The Patreon pre-sale is on right now! Tickets go on sale for everyone tomorrow! If you're on the Patreon, check your email, you have all the links and codes you need! If you're NOT on the Patreon and you want to get in on this presale, GO HERE TO JOIN PATREON RIGHT NOW AND YOU'LL GET INSTANT ACCESS! HERE'S THE SCHEDULE: CHICAGO: Tuesday, May 3rd BOSTON: Friday, May 6 SEATTLE: Sunday, May 15 LOS AN...
Feb 22, 2022•2 min
FAM! THIS IS A TWO-PARTER! Part 2 is available RIGHT NOW AND AD-FREE at the $5 level on Patreon as a special bonus. Part 2 will be our regular episode next. Times Square, 1979: fire fighters and police are called to a low budget motel where a room is on fire. What they find is "the motel room from hell"--where two headless and handless torsos have been set ablaze. Investigators begin a frantic search for the killer, Little do they know that his killing spree has just begun and nobody is safe fro...
Feb 22, 2022•53 min•Ep. 227
Between 1971 and 1983, meek and mild Robert Hansen seemed to have it all; a loving wife and children, a successful bakery business, and world-record hunting trophies bringing him respect from his peers. But behind this carefully cultivated exterior lurked a cold-blooded serial murderer who confessed to killing 21 women, 17 of which were recovered. It was only due to the actions of a few dedicated Anchorage, Alaska detectives (one of whom is the literal embodiment of LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK!) t...
Feb 15, 2022•52 min•Ep. 226
6 years ago, Aaron Quinn and Denise Huskins were woken in the middle of the night. It was a male voice who said, "wake up, this is a robbery." They were both drugged and bound, and Denise was kidnapped and heled for 48 hours before being released. The ordeal was horrific, but even more terrifying: Nobody believed them. The cops insisted the whole thing was a hoax, even as the kidnapper made it clear that he was still out there, and could come back at any time. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreo...
Feb 08, 2022•58 min•Ep. 225
On December 6, 2014, 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was set on fire and left for dead. Her injuries were horrific and she died a few hours later. Who would do this to the popular young woman, and why? Investigators had few clues to go as the dogged search for Jessica's killer takes over her small town. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "LuLaRich" "John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise" ...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 224
On October 9, 1999, 18-year-old Rocio Wanninkohf was brutally murdered. Her mother's ex-girlfriend was immediately charged for the murder and convicted. But did she do it? Three years later, another young woman is murdered just steps from her front door. And when the two cases are connected, investigators realize they have a serial killer on the loose. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverag...
Jan 25, 2022•50 min•Ep. 223
THREE WORDS: DEAD. FART. LEGGINGS. Meet Mark and DeAnne, the founders of LuLaRoe - the legging company that went from explosive startup to four-alarm corporate wildfire. They share their life stories up to the founding of LuLaRoe. Seeing dollar signs, DeAnne grows her business from one woman selling dresses to a massive network of saleswomen. The business takes off and the future looks bright. Maybe a little too bright. YOU CAN BING ALL 4 EPISODES OF OUR COVERAGE OF LULARICH RIGHT NOW ON OUR PAT...
Jan 20, 2022•49 min
Scott and Yarmila Falater had it all. A beautiful marriage, 2 kids who adored them: the perfect upper middle class existence. But then, on January 16, 1997, Scott brutally murdered Yarmila while their children slept. He stabbed her 42 times before throwing her body into the family pool to make sure she was dead. He has never denied doing this. However, he says he's not responsible because he was sleepwalking. Is that possible? Can a person murder another person in the most brutal way imaginable....
Jan 18, 2022•49 min•Ep. 222
WILLIAM ELIZABETH AND ALEXIS ARE BAAAAAAAACK, and they are knock knock knocking on people's doors trying to figure some shit out. AND YOU ALL NEED TO PULL THE HELL OVER because this time they're unraveling the mystery of the world's most terrifying AND I'M GONNA SAY IT diabolical online stalker. The guy is STILL OUT THERE and is a total psychological terrorist who has turned the lives of dozens of people upside down. AND. GILLIAN. IS. FURIOUS. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll f...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 221
PATRICK AND GILLIAN AGREE! THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DOCS WE'VE COVERED IN A WHILE! In 1997, Misha Defonseca, a Holocaust survivor living in Massachusetts, wrote a memoir. She said she was 7 years old when she fled into the woods to escape the Nazis. And she'd been protected on her years-long journey by a pack of wild wolves. It was the most incredible story anyone had ever heard...but could it possibly be true? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes t...
Jan 04, 2022•56 min•Ep. 220
It's been 18 years since Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Laci. In that time, some members of his family have been working tirelessly to prove his innocence--that he couldn't have killed Laci. Some of their evidence is compelling, but so much of Scott's story still doesn't make sense. But Scott's attorneys are certain that if he's granted a new trial--which seems more and more likely--they'll be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that their client is innocent. LOOKIN...
Dec 28, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Two days after Christmas, 2011, Russ Faria came home to find his wife, Betsy, dead. Betsy’s brutal murder set off a chain of events that would leave another person dead and expose a diabolical scheme. AND. THE. WHOLE. THING. IS. TOLD. TO. US. BY. KEITH. MORRISON LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode coverage of "LuLaRich" "John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise" " Night Stalker " "The Jinx," "Making A...
Dec 23, 2021•58 min•Ep. 219
Chris Watts and his wife Shanann seemed to have it all: Thriving careers, wonderful friends, two beautiful kids with a third on the way. But then on August 13, 2018, Shanann’s best friend Nicole can’t get ahold of Shanann. She calls and calls, and then goes to Shanann’s house. Shanann’s car, purse, phone, wallet, medication are all there, but Shanann and the kids are gone. The mystery of the disappearance of Shanann and the kids unfolds in real time thanks to home security footage, footage from ...
Dec 21, 2021•52 min
Keith Morrison in all his glory, this week, Fam! A wealthy Charleston banker and his wife are locked in a bitter divorce. One week before their divorce hearing, authorities find an ex-con in town who confesses he had been hired to kill one of them. Who was the mastermind behind the hit? And could it be stopped--even with the ex-con in custody, was it too late to stop the murder? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our...
Dec 16, 2021•56 min•Ep. 218
In the 1970s, a serial killer was running rampant, crisscrossing the country murdering young women and girls in California, Wyoming, and New York City...and probably more. The cops had nothing to go on. And little did they know that the killer was hiding in plain sight and even appeared on the popular TV show "The Dating Game" WHERE. HE. WON. THE. SHOW. AND. A . DATE. WITH. THE. FEMALE. CONTESTANT. LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 200 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGH...
Dec 14, 2021•53 min•Ep. 217
In 2011, nursing student Michelle Lee vanishes mid-shift at a California hospital. The next day, Michelle sends text to her friends and family saying she's fine, but they don't believe it's really her. A massive manhunt ensues with the police fearing she's been murdered while her family is certain she's alive and being heled against her will. THIS. ONE. IS. BANANAS. OUR MERCH STORE IS OPEN! Want a "Steve, I've Been Duped" T-shirt, or how about "Not A Mother" baseball T? "Let The Women Do The Wor...
Dec 09, 2021•57 min•Ep. 216
AND BEFORE YOU CAN EVEN THINK IT, LET ME REMIND YOU THAT PATRICK IS THE QUEEN FRUITCAKE AROUND HERE...and as much as we want this to be about a band of gay fraudsters, it's not. TIS THE SEASON TO BE SHADY! When the world's most beloved fruitcake company realizes that millions upon millions of dollars have been stolen from the CENTURY OLD FRUITCAKE FACTORY, the whole town is in an uproar. We've got socialites LITERALLY GOSSIPPING OVER POMEGRANATE MARTINIS AT 9AM, members of the centuries old coti...
Dec 07, 2021•57 min•Ep. 215
