By age 23, Selena was an international icon. She'd won Grammys, was selling out stadiums, and recording chart topping albums in English and Spanish. Then on March 31, 1995, she was gunned down by her biggest fan and closest confidant. But why? What made her do it? And would it be possible to bring her to justice? COME TO OBSESSED FEST!! But only if you want to see ALL YOUR FAVORITE TRUE CRIME PODCASTERS IN THE SAME PLCE FOR A WHOLE WEEKEND! Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three will be joining...
Sep 20, 2022•52 min•Ep. 255
Casey Kasem was one of the most famous people in America--the voice of a generation. His death in 2014 shrouded in mystery. His wife says his children murdered him, his children blame her--their step mother. One side isn't telling the truth and as the story of this icon's final days unravel, you won't believe what you are hearing. COME TO OBSESSED FEST!! But only if you want to see ALL YOUR FAVORITE TRUE CRIME PODCASTERS IN THE SAME PLCE FOR A WHOLE WEEKEND! Damien Echols of the West Memphis Thr...
Sep 13, 2022•59 min•Ep. 254
Were you cool enough to wear Abercrombie? Did you wait in line to be granted the opportunity to walk past a shirtless teenaged model into a store with too-loud music and over priced cargo shorts? I KNOW YOU DID BECAUSE WE DID TOO! This doc is one part nostalgia and one part expose about how one of the world's most famous brand thrived on exclusion. COME TO OBSESSED FEST!! But only if you want to see ALL YOUR FAVORITE TRUE CRIME PODCASTERS IN THE SAME PLCE FOR A WHOLE WEEKEND! Damien Echols of th...
Sep 06, 2022•59 min•Ep. 253
In the 1980s and 90s, a monster known as The Green River Killer stalked the people of the Pacific northwest. He had one goal in mind: to be the most prolific serial killer of all time. LIKE HONESTLY WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY? After nearly two decades on the loose, when he's caught, he is convicted of killing 49 women and girls, though it is widely believed he killed upwards of 70. G.A.R.B.A.G.E. FAM! WE JUST RELEASED THE FULL WEEKEND SCHEDULE FOR OBSESSED FEST!! We'll have a fully searchable sch...
Aug 30, 2022•55 min•Ep. 252
THEY'RE CALLED BOOBS ED! This week we're getting the real story behind the Oscar winning smash hit film "Erin Brockovich". Erin herself is here to walk us though it and she's bringing all the LET THE WOMEN DO THE WORK energy with her! She's fighting for clean water and looking good doing it--WHICH WE KNOW DOESN'T MATTER, BUT WE LOVE HER SO JUST GO WITH IT. Anyway, this is one of our funniest (yup, that's a word) episodes in a minute SO CHECK IT OUT! COME TO OBSESSED FEST!! But only if you want t...
Aug 23, 2022•52 min•Ep. 251
Lotan Fisher is the best bridge player in the world. Yes, the card game bridge. BUT THIS GUY IS REALLY GOOD. He's making $500K PER YEAR, hanging out with BRIDGE LOVING CELEBRITIES (bridge-lebrities!). EVERYTHING'S COMING UP LOTAN. But then he's caught cheating. And the bridge world is rocked to it's core..TO IT'S CORE! But is he cheating, or is he just that good? LOOKING FOR MORE TCO? On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 300 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-epis...
Aug 16, 2022•56 min•Ep. 250
Citizen detectives make the shocking discovery that there may be as many as THREE ACTIVE SERIAL KILLERS on the loose in Chicago. As women continue to die, a killer in a neighboring state sheds some light on how the Chicago killings are being carried out--and how the killers are getting away with it. PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH SUPER HOT HUSBAND STEVE! We're covering "Class Action Park" and we're coming to Minneapolis, Dallas, and Houston NEXT WEEK!! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!! LOOKING FOR MORE ...
Aug 09, 2022•47 min•Ep. 249
In Chicago, a serial killer is on the loose. Right now. As you're reading this. And nobody seems able to stop him. He has left dozes of dead women in his wake and nobody knows who will be next or when he will strike again. Who is this killer? And what will it take to end his reign of anonymous terror? This is one part of our two-part coverage. Part 2 is available right now and ad free on Patreon. it will be our regular episode next week. PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH MAGGIE, AND LANCE & T...
Aug 02, 2022•52 min•Ep. 248
He was the most powerful man in the world. She was 22 year old intern who caught his eye. It was the scandal threatened to ruin them both and to drag the country down with them. AND. OH. MY. GOD. LINDA TRIPP. GOT. IT. ALL. ON. TAPE. PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH MAGGIE, AND LANCE & TIM TO DO THE LIVE SHOW COVERING "THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MAURA MURRAY." Gillian will not be joining us BUT SHE LOVES YOU AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU AT OBSESSED FEST! Wednesday, August 3: Orlando, FL Saturday, Augu...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 247
When Saturday Night Live star Phil Hartman was murdered by his wife, who then took her own life, the world was shocked. The couple seemed to have it all--fame, money, two beautiful kids. So what could have caused have caused Hartman's wife, Brynn, to end it all. Also, this murder / suicide did not go down the way you think it did. PATRICK AND GILLIAN ARE BRING TCO LIVE TO LONDON! Come see us Friday, July 22 at Cadogan Hall. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE! ALSO, PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH MAGGIE, AN...
Jul 19, 2022•58 min•Ep. 246
30 year old Gerald Cotton is dead. Or is he? As the young founder of a a company that trades Bitcoin, he had $136 Million of investor's money when he "died." And now the money is nowhere to be found. And nobody saw the body. Is Gerald actually dead, or is he on the run? PATRICK AND GILLIAN ARE BRING TCO LIVE TO LONDON! Come see us Friday, July 22 at Cadogan Hall. GET YOUR TICKETS HERE! ALSO, PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH MAGGIE, AND LANCE & TIM TO DO THE LIVE SHOW COVERING "THE DISAPPEARA...
Jul 12, 2022•57 min•Ep. 245
Harold Henthorn had two wives, 18 years apart. Both women died mysteriously and both times, Harold was the only witness. ALSO each death resulted in massive insurance payouts for Harold. Harold's second wife, Toni, died in a national park. Harold says they had been on a hike, stopped at a scenic overlook, and she fell. But did he push her? When investigators dive into this case, nobody is prepared for what they would find. PATRICK AND GILLIAN ARE BRING TCO LIVE TO LONDON! Come see us Friday, Jul...
Jul 05, 2022•48 min
Amanda was a single mother –struggling financially and working tirelessly– when she came home one day in 2011 with her daughter and turned on the news. A movement had been building in her town of El Paso, Texas around the wrongful conviction of Daniel Villegas. So, she wrote him a letter, turned her life upside down and made history. Here’s how one woman fought for someone else and found herself in the process. This episode is part of a ten-part series called Let The Women Do The Work . Join hos...
Jun 30, 2022•47 min
Real Housewife of Salt Lake City breakout star Jenn Shah is a lot of things: Beautiful, stylish, slightly unhinged, rich--OK, that last one maybe not. Nobody knows where Shah's money comes from. How does she afford her beautiful homes, her Porsche, the private jets, her $80,000 parties? When she's charged with running a telemarketing scam that targets the elderly, everything you thought you knew about her fabulous life is called into question. ALSO GILLIAN DOES A LOT OF YELLING. PATRICK AND GILL...
Jun 28, 2022•55 min•Ep. 244
Maggie Freleng is one badass journalist. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and producer, she gravitates toward telling the stories of underdogs – specifically the wrongfully convicted. So, when she heard about the 1999 murder of Yvonne Lane – a young mother from a the small town of Alliance, Ohio – and her ex-boyfriend who was blamed for the crime but had maintained his innocence for over a decade, Maggie started digging. And what she’d learn along the way in this investigation would test her...
Jun 23, 2022•50 min
In 2013, 21 year old Anna Delvey arrived in New York City. She became a fixture at the trendiest nightclubs, she lived at the fanciest hotels. She was believed to be a German heiress worth over $60 million. But it was all a lie. She racked up bills all over town and destroyed lives in the process. But how was she able to scam so many people for so long? And can she ever be truly stopped? PATRICK AND GILLIAN ARE BRING TCO LIVE TO LONDON! Come see us Friday, July 22 at Cadogan Hall. GET YOUR TICKE...
Jun 21, 2022•58 min•Ep. 243
August 11th, 2012 was a murky night for many in the town of Steubenville, Ohio as local high school students scattered themselves among a handful of parties that took a turn for the worse. A 16-yr-old girl – who would come to be known as Jane Doe – was repeatedly sexually assaulted at the hands of football players and bystanders alike, and it would take an outsider to follow the digital footprints and piece together that night as well as the wider web of rape culture in the town’s social hierarc...
Jun 16, 2022•42 min
In the early 1990s, fear and rumor swirled through New York’s LGBTQ community about a serial killer who targeted inebriated men leaving the city’s gay bars late at night. Their bodies, or rather body parts, were found wrapped in garbage bags and dumped at highway rest stops, far from the urban environs where they were last seen. Dubbed “The Last Call Killer,” it would take authorities almost an entire decade to stop him. HERE ARE OUR ADDED TOUR DATES!!--PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH MAGGIE, A...
Jun 14, 2022•55 min•Ep. 242
On the evening of December 9, 2001, 48-year-old Kathleen Peterson died on a back staircase in her North Carolina home. Her husband Michael claims that she fell while he was out by the pool, but other evidence would point to Michael as Kathleen's murderer. Fam! You can hear our episode-by-episode coverage of all 13 episodes of "The Staircase" right now and ad free on our Patreon! On our Patreon feed , you'll find over 300 FULL BONUS episodes to BINGE RIGHT NOW! Including our episode-by-episode co...
Jun 13, 2022•44 min
Lise Lotte-Lublin didn’t recall being sexually assaulted until 20 years after the fact while watching an interview with a famous model whose story seemed familiar. When she went to authorities only to learn nothing could be done, she decided to take the law into her own hands. She went on to change three sex crimes laws in her home state of Nevada, including the statute of limitations. She helped fellow survivors in other states do the same. And then, she testified before the man that she says a...
Jun 09, 2022•52 min
In 2005 a painting appeared in a gallery in New Orleans. it was believed to be from the 1500s and painted by a student of Leonardo Da Vinci. It was purchased for a little over $1,000. Within 5 years, this painting would be deemed a TRUE lost work of Leonardo Da Vinci--painted by the master himself--and sold for $400 Million. Is it possible that this painting had gone missing for hundreds of years and resurfaced in America? And if so, where had it been? IS THIS A TRUE LOST WORK OF THE GREATEST AR...
Jun 07, 2022•57 min•Ep. 241
When Roberta Blevins casually bought a pair of buttery soft, printed leggings from a fellow young mom on Facebook, she never could have imagined the journey that would follow. The rise and fall of LulaRoe –a multi-level marketing company that denies allegations of being a pyramid scheme and still exists today– coincided with Roberta’s experience, carrying her up the Lula-ranks and back down again when she discovered the dark side of direct sales. Come along, hun! We're deconstructing the lifesty...
Jun 02, 2022•53 min
Jennifer Dulos seems to have a picture perfect life in affluent New Canaan, Connecticut. So when she fails to pick her kids up from school one afternoon, her friends and family know something is terribly wrong. And as the police investigation digs into her life, it becomes clear that Jennifer had been in danger for a long time. HERE ARE OUR ADDED TOUR DATES!!--PATRICK IS HITTING THE ROAD WITH MAGGIE, AND LANCE & TIM TO DO THE LIVE SHOW COVERING "THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MAURA MURRAY." Gillian wi...
May 31, 2022•58 min•Ep. 240
In the late ‘90s, Anna Vasquez, Cassandra Rivera, Elizabeth Ramirez, and Kristie Mayhugh all received phone calls accusing their lesbian friend group of a crime that never actually happened. What followed was a modern-day witch trial, landing the San Antonio Four –as they’d come to be called– in prison for over a decade. When Anna unexpectedly got out on parole ahead of the others, she had no choice but to lead the fight for their innocence. Now, she’s dedicated her life to preventing similar st...
May 26, 2022•54 min
On February 14, 2017, the bodies of 14 year old Abigail Williams and 13 year old Liberty German were found near the Manon High Bridge trail in Delphi, Indiana. The girls had disappeared from the trail the day before. Soon it was revealed that one of the girls, Libby, had captured audio and video of their presumed killer on her smart phone. But even with a mountain of evidence including audio of the killer's voice and a composite sketch, the girls' murder remains at large. Is he hiding in plain s...
May 24, 2022•53 min
Gemma Hoskins remembers high school fondly, thanks in large part to her favorite teacher Sister Cathy Cesnik. So, when the beloved nun disappeared one November night in 1969 only to eventually be discovered dead in the woods, grief took hold over this ambiguous story for decades. And then, truth-telling around abuse in those hallowed halls merged with Gemma’s outstanding questions. 40 years after the murder, she got to work with the help of a former classmate of hers, and together they’d uncover...
May 19, 2022•47 min
Martin Shkreli IS THE FREAKING WORST! The 38-year-old financial entrepreneur and pharmaceutical tycoon from Brooklyn was dubbed "the most hated man in America" in 2015 for price gouging the prescription drug Daraprim by 5500% overnight depriving AIDS patients, people with cancer, and pregnant people of the life-saving medication. That same year, Shkreli purchased the Wu-Tang Clan's single copy of "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" for 2 million dollars, AND THEN TALKED TRASH ABOUT WU -TANG EVERY CHAN...
May 17, 2022•51 min•Ep. 239
Long before the hit podcast Serial spurred the world into podcast-listening, Rabia Chaudry was on a mission. The 1999 murder of a high school student named Hae Min Lee left a community grieving and a family friend of Rabia’s, 17-year-old Adnan Syed, in the crosshairs. He was sentenced to life in prison, where he still is to this day. In this episode, we’ll trace Rabia’s decades-long fight to free Adnan, find Hae’s killer and champion the truths of so many others along the way. This episode is pa...
May 12, 2022•53 min
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 10, 2022•52 min•Ep. 238
Connie Walker is a journalist on a mission to tell the stories of missing & murdered indigenous women in Canada. So, when a band of fellow Cree siblings reached out to her asking if she’d find out what happened to their long-lost sister, Connie went searching. And the resulting journey of producing the podcast Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo would prove to be about so much more than one family’s fate. This episode is part of a ten-part series called Let The Women Do The Work . Join host...
May 05, 2022•49 min
