The Generation Why Podcast released its first episode in 2012 and pioneered the true crime genre in the podcasting world. Two friends, Aaron & Justin, break down theories and give their opinions on unsolved murders, controversies, mysteries and conspiracies. One of the longest running true crime podcasts out there, Generation Why has a little something for every true crime listener. Follow The Generation Why Podcast on Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Or you can listen ad-fr...
Oct 03, 2022•8 min
Arson. Church burnings. Anti-Semitism. Murder. Suicide. Satanism. Cannibalism. Necrophilia. These are all things, images, that have been closely associated with the music genre black metal. Whereas the association is generally unfair, more than a handful of heinous crimes happened in the early 90s BM scene. Bands like Mayhem, with its founder Euronymous. Varg Vikerness' Burzum. And we’re going to cover some of them over the next two episodes. This episode covers anti-Semite Varg Vikerness, from ...
Sep 26, 2022•42 min
Irene Gakwa came from a beautiful and close-knitted family. After moving to the Boise, Idaho suburb of Meridian to be closer to her brothers, and beginning nursing school, it seemed like she was living her life dream. After abruptly moving to Gillette, Wyoming, she seemed to change. After a WhatsApp call with her parents on 2/24, Irene has never been seen or heard from again. What happened? Where is she? And why is her secret boyfriend, Nate Hightman, who was just charged with financial crimes a...
Sep 10, 2022•27 min
At 4:20am, Friday, September 2nd, Eliza Fletcher was jogging on the 3800 block of Central Avenue when a dark GMC Terrain SUV pulled across the street from where she was running and a male got out of the vehicle. He walked towards her. After a brief struggle, he forced her into the SUV and then sped off. She has not been seen or heard from since. This is what we now know about the case, as well as the one suspect who has been arrested. As always, I will post updates to this case as it happens. --...
Sep 04, 2022•9 min
Arson. Church burnings. Anti-Semitism. Murder. Suicide. Satanism. Cannibalism. Necrophilia. These are all things, images, that have been closely associated with the music genre black metal. Whereas the association is generally unfair, more than a handful of heinous crimes happened in the early 90s BM scene. Bands like Mayhem, with its founder Euronymous. Varg Vikerness' Burzum. And we’re going to cover some of them over the next two episodes. This episode covers the murder of Mayhem founder and ...
Sep 01, 2022•28 min
Our family members are not always who we think. When Eleonore Richland exposed her father’s dark legacy, she vowed to clean up the family business – and hired her half-brother, Santino Reyes, to help her do it. But old habits die hard. In the shocking new third season, Eleonore reckons with what her father always taught her growing up: medicine is a bloody business. From Wondery, the makers of “The Shrink Next Door” and “Dr. Death,” Blood Ties stars Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love), Christian Na...
Aug 29, 2022•6 min
Arson. Church burnings. Anti-Semitism. Murder. Suicide. Satanism. Cannibalism. Necrophilia. These are all things, images, that have been closely associated with the music genre black metal. Whereas the association is generally unfair, more than a handful of heinous crimes happened in the early 90s BM scene. Bands like Mayhem, with its founder Euronymous. Varg Vikerness' Burzum. And we’re going to cover some of them over the next two episodes. This episode is a very quick primer on the genre and ...
Aug 26, 2022•25 min
For this episode, Robin covers a few of the big news headlines from August. Anne Heche Dies: Whatever you think you know about Anne Heche is wrong. Here's what happened when Anne crashed her Mini Cooper into a LA-area home, and the tumultuous life events that led up to it. Courtney Clenney / Courtney Tailor: An OnlyFans model fatally stabs her boyfriend to death and admits to doing so. She was finally just arrested. Was it self-defense, as she claims? The forensic evidence possibly says otherwis...
Aug 22, 2022•36 min
Ask and ye shall receive! We received multiple requests for all 4 episodes of our Emmett Till series to be combined and released together. Here you go. Here in August of 2022, a new question is on the table: Should Carolyn Bryant, now 88 years old, be arrested for Till's kidnapping and murder? The horrific death of Till was a spark in the early Civil Rights movement. After Mamie Carthan, Emmett's mother, decided to hold an open casket funeral for her son, the entire world was confronted by the h...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 51 min
If you're on TikTok, you've undoubtedly heard about The Pink Sauce...that neon pink condiment that's being hawked by a questionable private chef named Chef Pii, real name Veronica Shaw. One single video of Chef Pii eating this neon magenta sauce on a chicken tender went viral, leading to TIkTok's biggest scandal of 2022 thus far. What's in the sauce? What does it taste like? Who is Chef Pii? Why is it really dangerous? Find a comfortable seat, and let's dig in. ----------------------------------...
Aug 10, 2022•33 min
Hello, everyone! I would like to introduce you to my friend Paige and her awesome podcast, Reverie True Crime. This is part one of her Aileen Wuornos series, where she presents case studies on Aileen, studies on violent men vs. violent women, self-defense, double standards, Aileen in her own words, and Aileen’s early life. Aileen Wuornos‘ case is a very complex one surrounded by a lot of controversy. In We Saw the Devil news, the next episode will be coming Friday of this week! Topic? The Pink S...
Aug 04, 2022•37 min
From Marc Smerling, the creator of Crimetown and The Jinx, welcome to CROOKED CITY. The Saturday Evening Post dubbed Youngstown, Ohio “Crimetown U.S.A.” It was a mob town. Illegal gambling was so lucrative that a mob war raged for decades, and bodies piled up. Then, Jim Traficant ran for sheriff, riding into office as the city’s steel industry fell on hard times. Traficant battles the local newspaper, then the FBI, the IRS and finally his own demons as an eight-term, twice-indicted congressman. ...
Jul 26, 2022•9 min
An unserved, 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant was recently found by a team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the horrific lynching and murder of 14yo Emmett Till. Now, here in July of 2022, a new question is on the table: Should Carolyn Bryant, now 88 years old, be arrested for Till's kidnapping and murder? The horrific death of Till was a spark in the early Civil Rights movement. After Mamie Carthan, Emmett's mother, decided to hold an open casket funeral for ...
Jul 24, 2022•38 min
An unserved, 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant was recently found by a team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the horrific lynching and murder of 14yo Emmett Till. Now, here in July of 2022, a new question is on the table: Should Carolyn Bryant, now 88 years old, be arrested for Till's kidnapping and murder? The horrific death of Till was a spark in the early Civil Rights movement. After Mamie Carthan, Emmett's mother, decided to hold an open casket funeral for ...
Jul 21, 2022•35 min
An unserved, 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant was recently found by a team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the horrific lynching and murder of 14yo Emmett Till. Now, here in July of 2022, a new question is on the table: Should Carolyn Bryant, now 88 years old, be arrested for Till's kidnapping and murder? The horrific death of Till was a spark in the early Civil Rights movement. After Mamie Carthan, Emmett's mother, decided to hold an open casket funeral for ...
Jul 15, 2022•26 min
An unserved, 1955 arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant was recently found by a team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the horrific lynching and murder of 14yo Emmett Till. Now, here in July of 2022, a new question is on the table: Should Carolyn Bryant, now 88 years old, be arrested for Till's kidnapping and murder? The horrific death of Till was a spark in the early Civil Rights movement. After Mamie Carthan, Emmett's mother, decided to hold an open casket funeral for ...
Jul 11, 2022•31 min
Brian Laundrie’s "confession" from the infamous notebook was finally released. What did he say? What reasoning did he give for killing Gabby? That's hard to say...because there's more than one confession. In this episode, Robin covers the breaking news from the Gabby Petito case. --------------------------------------------- Link to transcribed confession: https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2022/06/Gabby-note-better.pdf Photos of Notebook: https://www.foxnews.com/us/gabby-pet...
Jun 25, 2022•18 min
For this episode, Robin provides a quick update on the Gabby Petito case. Yes, there's an update! The Petito family is suing Chris and Roberta Laundrie, the parents of murderer Brian Laundrie. Then, the case of Crysta Abelseth...a Louisiana woman who claims she's being forced to pay child support to the man who allegedly raped and impregnated her when she was 16 years old. This is a wild case out of Louisiana. --------------------------------------------- We Saw the Devil: Email us and share you...
Jun 23, 2022•22 min
On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a volatile relationship with Christian Brando, the troubled son of movie star Marlon Brando. Not since the O.J. Simpson case had the eyes of the nation been so fixated on a homicide. The search for Bonny’s killer took detecti...
Jun 20, 2022•6 min
Dexter. Natural Born Killers. The Matrix. For most of us, we watch these things as entertainment. Unfortunately, some others may find a disturbing kind of inspiration. --------------------------------------------- We Saw the Devil: Email us and share your personal story: info@wesawthedevil.com Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/we...
Jun 18, 2022•40 min
Introducing: CrimeLapse! CrimeLapse is one of my favorite podcasts and I'm lucky to count Eileen, its host, as a dear friend. You may know her from her other podcast, The Shattered Window, an investigative true crime series uncovering the unsolved murder of Jaclyn Dowaliby, co-hosted with fellow Irishwoman, Morbidology's Emily Thompson. We Saw the Devil will publish a new episode later this evening! On this episode: Just before midnight on March 18th, 2018, deputies from the Hillsborough County ...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Why do so many women listen to true crime? It's likely because we all have our own foundations and stories. Robin shares a couple of hers, and puts out a call for user-submitted ones. --------------------------------------------- We Saw the Devil: Email us and share your personal story: info@wesawthedevil.com Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www....
Jun 11, 2022•26 min
The Path Went Chilly is a spinoff of Robin Warder's wildly popular podcast the Trail Went Cold, where Robin, Jules and Criminologist Ashley discuss the most perplexing cases from unsolved mysteries already covered on the Trail Went Cold. March 5, 1974. Coconut Grove, Florida. 17-year old Amy Billig phones her father from her home and arranges to meet him at his workplace in order to borrow money to have lunch with friends. Amy is last seen hitchhiking next to a highway, but she never shows up to...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 59 min
This episode is a singular episode comprised of two earlier ones. We will be picking up this topic again here in the new future, so welcome to your refresh! For this episode, Robin revisits the documentary film GRAPHIC SEXUAL HORROR, which she previously covered over 10 years ago. The film is about INSEX, which was shuttered by the Department of Homeland Security under George W. Bush. Part 1 will be an overview of the film itself, along with a brief history of obscenity laws surrounding pornogra...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 6 min
For this episode, Robin covers a few case updates, including Josh Duggar's sentence, the Uvalde school shooting, and the New Hampshire decapitation murder by Armando Barron. --------------------------------------------- We Saw the Devil: Donate to the victims of the Buffalo Mass Shooting: https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/buffalo-mass-shooting-fundraisers Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twit...
Jun 03, 2022•42 min
Horrific human experiments involving the bubonic plague, cholera and sexually transmitted diseases. Forced pregnancies. Vivisections. These are only a few of the horrors inflicted upon the Chinese, Russian, Korean, British and American prisoners who found their way beyond the electric gates of Unit 731. More people fell victim to human experimentation at Japan's Unit 731 than they did in Auschwitz under Josef Mengele. So why haven't you heard about it? -------------------------------------------...
May 24, 2022•36 min
On May 14, ten people lost their lives during a mass shooting at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The suspect is an 18yo man, who is a self-admitted fascist, anti-Semite and racist. He left behind a 180-page manifesto of his beliefs and inspiration, and discussed Replacement Theory at length, much like his idol, Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch, NZ mass shooter who killed 51 Muslims during their Friday prayers. Let's break it all down. --------------------------------------------- We Sa...
May 16, 2022•33 min
Breaking news out of the Vicky White and Casey Cole White Case! They have been captured! Robin provides a full update of everything we know so far. Then, she covers 3 other current case headlines in the news: 1) Orsolya Gaal. What reasoning did David Bonola give police for why he killed her? We now know. 2) Angela Flores - Mother of 7 children murders 3 of them with the assistance of her 16yo son. 3) Anesha Murnana - Finally, closure in the case of this missing woman from Alaska. ---------------...
May 11, 2022•26 min
What would make a 17-year corrections officer help a violent inmate escape the jail in which he's awaiting trial for a brutal murder? Well, that's what we want to know. Vicki White, a veteran corrections officer, is on the run with convicted felon and accused murderer Casey Cole White. Here is their story. --------------------------------------------- We Saw the Devil: Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagr...
May 09, 2022•22 min
The Ideal Maternity Home was a maternity home in Nova Scotia that was actually far from ideal. What was behind this house of evil and horrors? Why did it cause a seismic shift in adoption policy across both the United States and Canada? --------------------------------------------- We Saw the Devil: Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast Patreon: http://www.p...
May 03, 2022•25 min
