Fresh Hell Podcast

Fresh Hell Podcast

Two women, from opposite sides of the Atlantic, talk about murder, mystery and the macabre. This is your international true crime podcast, hosted by Annie and Johanna. Annie, who lives with her husband in an old haunted house near Salem, Massachusetts, loves dogs, reading, knitting and talking about terrible, terrible things. Johanna lives in Vienna, Austria with her husband, one beagle and a real dog. She loves The Beach Boys, movie marathons and fun facts about serial killers. Their idea of a perfect Saturday night is, to spend it in bed, watching the newest true crime documentary, while eating licorice and peanut butter brownies. And now they are taking notes, so they can tell you everything! Misery loves company, so listen to a new episode of the Fresh Hell Podcast each week and get into something truly horrible…

Episodes

Episode 302: Murder – Lisa Ann French

October 24, 2025 • 70 mins
On Halloween night, 1973, nine-year-old Lisa Ann French left her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, dressed as a hobo and planning to trick-or-treat with a friend. She never made it back. What followed would not only shatter their community, but also forever change Halloween for American families, and spark one of the most shocking...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 301: MACABRE – The Great Vampire Epidemic

October 17, 2025 • 62 mins
This week, Johanna takes us back to 18th-century Austria, when terrified villagers were convinced the dead were refusing to stay buried...and the Habsburg Empire responded the only way it knew how: with paperwork! Hear all about Petar Blagojević and Arnold Paole, and how it lead to Maria Theresia’s no-nonsense vampire ban. This is the true...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 300: The Haunting of the RMS Queen Mary

October 10, 2025 • 71 mins
For our 300th episode, we’re boarding one of the most famous ships in the world: the RMS Queen Mary. Once the epitome of 1930s luxury and wartime resilience, she now sits permanently moored in Long Beach, California… and she’s said to be home to over 150ghosts. We talk about the tragic story of Door 13...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 299: Hex Appeal – The Witches of Austria and Germany

October 3, 2025 • 69 mins
This week on Fresh Hell, we’re taking you to the heart of spooky fuckery month with a deep dive into witch lore and trials in Austria and Germany. You know Salem: twenty people, one tragic year! But compared to what happened in central Europe, Salem was just a footnote. We’ll explore the folklore that fed...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 298: Cricket – It’s a Croc!

September 26, 2025 • 69 mins
Crikey! This week we’re taking you to meet crocodiles. The largest living reptiles on Earth, creatures that inspire both awe and terror. We’ll talk about the late, great Steve Irwin, whose passion and humor showed millions of people why crocodiles deserve our respect.  We’ll also tell you the truth about the legend of the Ramree...... Continue Reading →
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E297: The Affair of the Necklace (part II)

September 19, 2025 • 62 mins
Cardinal de Rohan believes he’s secretly helping Marie Antoinette purchase the world’s most extravagant necklace, while Jeanne de la Motte and her accomplices quietly dismantle it and sell the diamonds across Europe. We’ll tell you all about the scheme, the dramatic arrest of Rohan at Versailles during the Feast of the Assumption, and the sensational...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 296: The Affair of the Necklace (part I)

September 12, 2025 • 52 mins
This week we’re heading to Versailles for one of the most scandalous cons in French history. In Part 1, you'll hear all about the glittering worlds of Versailles and Schönbrunn, the childhood and marriage of Marie Antoinette, and her already fragile reputation as “Madame Déficit.” We’ll meet the main characters in this elaborate scheme: Cardinal...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 295: Murder – Tod Die in a State of Grace

September 5, 2025 • 60 mins
In the 16th to 18th centuries, hundreds of people across Central Europe engineered their own executions in the hope of dying “in a state of grace.” Suicide was a mortal sin, but murder was a capital crime, and execution after confession was seen as a path to salvation. In this episode we discuss several real...... Continue Reading →
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Special: Best Of Fresh Hell (part II)

August 29, 2025 • 26 mins
We're still on a summer break, but you know we couldn’t stay away from the horror for long.  In this second Best of Fresh Hell special, we’ve got three more unforgettable true crime cases from the archives, all condensed for maximum dread in minimum time. We start with the heartbreaking murder of Katharina Fellner, a young woman in...... Continue Reading →
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Special: Best Of Fresh Hell (part I)

August 22, 2025 • 28 mins
We might be on a summer break, but the mystery doesn’t stop.  In this first Best of Fresh Hell special, we’re serving up three of our favorite cold cases in condensed form.  Perfect for when you want the unsettling highlights without the two-hour extra information! First up: Owen Parfitt, a paralyzed man who vanished from his front porch...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 294: Murder – William Desmond Taylor (part III)

August 15, 2025 • 73 mins
In the third and final part of this Hollywood murder saga, we talk about the murder scene, all the possible suspects! Who had a motive? And who may have been protected by the studio system at all costs?We’ll walk you through the possible killers — from studio insiders and jilted lovers to the ones no...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 293: Murder – William Desmond Taylor (part II)

August 8, 2025 • 70 mins
In part two of our three-part look at the mysterious murder of William Desmond Taylor, we pick up with the powerful (and possibly romantic) figures in Taylor’s life, and trace the final days leading up to his death. You’ll hear about his complex relationship with set designer George James Hopkins, the bond he shared with...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 292: Murder – William Desmond Taylor (part I)

August 1, 2025 • 69 mins
Before there was Hollywood scandal, there was THE Hollywood scandal. In this first part of our series on the murder of William Desmond Taylor, we're setting the scene: Los Angeles in the 1920s, the silent film industry at its decadent, chaotic peak, and the lives of the people who would soon be swept up in one...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 291: In a While Crocodile

July 25, 2025 • 71 mins
This week’s episode covers everything from the grim legacy of racist alligator myths to actual gator attacks, pet alligators ordered through the mail, and that one time a gator rang a doorbell in Florida. You’ll learn why the myth of sewer gators exists (and how Eleanor the Nile crocodile ended up beneath Paris), what black...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 290: See You Later Alligator

July 18, 2025 • 67 mins
This week, we’re trading murder for mayhem of the ancient reptilian variety. We take a deep dive into the world of crocodilians—those prehistoric apex predators that have been lurking in rivers, swamps, and sometimes swimming pools for millions of years. From the surprisingly gentle Chinese alligator to the misunderstood American alligator and the unexpectedly terrifying...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 289: Murder – Johann Oberreiter

July 11, 2025 • 43 mins
In this week’s solo episode, Johanna takes you to the picture-perfect Austrian town of Werfen — home to falcons, frozen caves, The Sound of Music, and once... a baker with a deadly secret. Johann Oberreiter was a respected businessman, a model Catholic, and even a former town leader. But behind closed doors, he was also a...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 288: The Fresh Hell Guide to Almost Being Dead

July 4, 2025 • 56 mins
So... you almost died. Or you technically did—for a moment. And then came the tunnel, the music, the relatives made of light, the surgeons flapping like chickens, or the sudden drop into a shadowy void full of screaming. Welcome to the Fresh Hell guide to near-death experiences. In this episode we explore what happens when...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 287: The Fresh Hell Guide of Being Dead

June 27, 2025 • 55 mins
Congratulations—you’ve died! Now what? In this our version of the "Handbook For the Recently Deceased" (and the morbidly curious). We take you on a cross-cultural tour of the afterlife. Whether you’re heading for a bureaucratic judgment hall, a tunnel of light, a reincarnation lottery, or just... absolute nothingness, we’ve got you covered. This episode explores...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 286: Oberst Redl

June 20, 2025 • 77 mins
In this week’s episode, Johanna takes us deep into the shadows of pre-WWI Austria-Hungary to tell the true story of Colonel Alfred Redl, once one of the most trusted man in the Austro-Hungarian military....and also its most infamous traitor. From his modest beginnings in Lemberg to the very top of the empire’s intelligence apparatus, Redl’s...... Continue Reading →
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Episode 285: Murder – The Tylenol Murders

June 13, 2025 • 72 mins
In part two of our deep dive into the 1982 Tylenol Murders, we pick up with the immediate aftermath of the cyanide-laced capsules that killed seven innocent people in the Chicago area. As the city and the whole nation started to panic, Johnson & Johnson faced a nightmare scenario. We’ll walk you through the frantic...... Continue Reading →
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