MURDERISH
MURDERISH is a true crime podcast that delves into true stories of murder, disappearances and other creepy events. Also featured on the podcast are in-depth interviews with high-profile people in the true crime community. This podcast will take you on a deep-dive journey through interesting cases, beginning the date of the crime and ending with the courtroom verdict. If you are fascinated by true crime, and all that embodies the genre, this podcast will appeal to you. Listening to this podcast doesn't make you a murderer, it just means you're murder-ish.
Episodes
June 5, 2023 • 55 mins
On March 8, 1992, 22-year-old Donnivan Schaeffer arrived for work at Dig ‘Em Donuts in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was shortly after 8:00 p.m. on a Sunday. As Schaeffer entered the back office, he suddenly realized ..he wasn’t alone. Schaeffer’s lifeless body would be discovered in the back of the donut shop, prompting a hunt for his killer. When law enforcement caught up with the perpetrator, they learned he was no stranger to Do...
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May 22, 2023 • 65 mins
In the spring of 1985, 78-year-old grandmother and retired Bible study teacher Ruth Pelke was found brutally stabbed in her Gary, Indiana home. For years leading up to the tragedy, her family had tried to convince her to move out of a neighborhood that had grown increasingly unsafe. But this was her home.
The elderly white woman, who chose to see the best in everyone, believed her religious faith would keep her out of harm’s way. ...
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May 15, 2023 • 38 mins
When Daisy De La O was fatally stabbed in her own community, her friends and family quickly honed in on a fairly obvious suspect. Her case, however, garnered no leads or public attention ..until it was posted on TikTok. It was then that true crime social media jumped in to help. Thanks to the activity on social media about Daisy’s case, a suspect would eventually be identified but not before he slipped out of the area undetected. I...
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May 8, 2023 • 35 mins
When Serbian immigrant Ana Walshe visited her native country back in December 2022, no one in her family thought it would be the last time they’d ever see her. Just a few days into 2023, however, Massachusetts investigators scrambled for answers when Ana was reported missing. She had a beautiful family, a promising real estate career, and enough income to rent two lavish homes. Was Ana inclined to start over somewhere else? Or did ...
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May 1, 2023 • 47 mins
Danielle Drohan was in her early twenties when she married a man more than 20 years older. The age
gap wasn't the unusual part, though. Her husband, Michael Redlick, had previously been her stepfather.
Against all odds, their controversial and rocky marriage lasted nearly two decades. It would all come to a
grinding halt on January 11, 2019. That night, after a vicious argument, Michael was found dead in their
million-dollar riverf...
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April 28, 2023 • 25 mins
Check out TrendVETTERS, a podcast and YouTube series where I, Jami Rice, pull viral trends from TikTok and the internet, then go down the research rabbit hole so you don't have to. I spill the tea on all the latest beauty, health and fashion trends, share my experience with trends, and lay out all the details to help you decide whether you should hop on to these trends. From Hollywood’s latest skinny injection, Ozempic, to the late...
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April 24, 2023 • 52 mins
Just after 4 AM on July 8, 2015, a call came into Hampton County emergency dispatch. A driver spotted a body in the center of a remote stretch of highway known as Sandy Run Road. The body belonged to 19-year-old Stephen Smith, a nursing student at nearby Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College. There was nothing to suggest a vehicle had been involved in Stephen’s death, yet a hit and run would become the sheriff’s department’s officia...
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April 17, 2023 • 59 mins
Since the 1880s, immigrants from all over the globe have arrived in the United States hoping to attain a
better quality of life, the American Dream. Like so many immigrants before them, Lily and Ben Chin
wanted their son Vincent to have more opportunities than he may have had in their native China. In the
1970s and 1980s, however, tensions were high between Japanese and American automobile
manufacturers, and that discord extended b...
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April 10, 2023 • 79 mins
While in her 20s and 30s, Cape Cod native Christa Worthington built a successful career in fashion journalism. She rubbed elbows with elite designers, wrote editorials for widely-respected publications like Cosmopolitan, and cycled through high fashion cities like Paris and London. Still, she felt a profound absence in her life that couldn’t be satisfied by any career advancement. As she turned 40, Christa realized she wanted to be...
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April 3, 2023 • 59 mins
When feelings for another person run deep, people are often inclined to see the best in that person. It’s not uncommon for unsettling behavior to be excused rather than seeing it as a warning sign and acting on it. But this idealism can put someone in harm’s way without them realizing it until it’s much too late. When Nicole Montalvo went missing in October 2019, investigators quickly learned that a lot was going on in her personal...
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March 27, 2023 • 60 mins
It was a Tuesday night at the Chuck E. Cheese in Aurora, Colorado when Margaret Kohlberg, 50, Sylvia
Crowell, 19, Ben Grant, 17, Colleen O’Connor, also 17, and 20-year-old Bobby Stephens were working
the late shift. They didn’t know it, but a man with a gun was hiding in the bathroom. When the mass
shooting was over, four people lay dead and a fifth badly wounded. The shooter’s total haul was less than
$1,600 and the entire manic e...
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March 20, 2023 • 51 mins
On the morning of May 26, 1990, Marlene Warren was finishing breakfast with her son and his friends when she heard a knock on their front door. The 40-year-old mother of two wasn’t expecting anyone but answered the door anyway. She was greeted by someone wearing a clown costume and white face paint, clutching a flower arrangement and foil balloons. Marlene was delighted at the cheerful sight. Then, suddenly, everything changed. Mom...
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March 13, 2023 • 62 mins
It seems like everyone is wearing an Apple Watch or FitBit to count steps and reach health goals. In the case we examine in this episode, the victim’s wearable technology was actually used as a tool to try to solve her murder. Two days before Christmas in 2015, 39-year-old mother of two Connie Dabat was found shot to death in her Connecticut home. As detectives scrambled for answers, a small device worn on her hip was key in learni...
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March 6, 2023 • 53 mins
We’re bringing back a case where divorce brought out the worst of those involved. Past mistakes, love affairs, and previous marriages were all fair game. At a certain point, all of the fighting ended, but not in a way that anyone would have wanted. The contentious divorce proceedings came to a halt when one of the parties was murdered, or was she?
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February 27, 2023 • 42 mins
In July 1999, when Jennifer Still was found savagely murdered in her home, law enforcement had a suspect but the case eventually went cold. Almost six years later, a triple homicide that left Heather Greaves, Lisa Greaves and Avery Greaves dead in their home would end up being linked to the original suspect in Jennifer Still’s murder. To everyone’s shock, the killer was well acquainted with all of his
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February 24, 2023 • 9 mins
Sheree Warren left her job in Salt Lake City on a mild October evening in 1985. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. But she never made it, Sheree vanished. When her car mysteriously surfaced weeks later, hundreds of miles away in Las Vegas, no one could say how it got there.
When a young mother disappears under unexplained circumstances, police always turn suspici...
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February 20, 2023 • 63 mins
We’re bringing back the case where a lottery winner used his newfound wealth to help his community. His generosity extended not only to his family and friends but to people whom he didn't even know. When this man suddenly couldn’t be located, his family wondered where he had gone. Did he use his lottery winnings to go on a much-needed vacation, exhausted from all the people asking for money? Did he flee to get away from legal troub...
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February 13, 2023 • 63 mins
On the early morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students settled down in their beds after a night out. Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, and Madison Mogen never awoke to have breakfast together that morning, as expected. Sometime after 4 AM, an intruder entered the house on King Road and murdered all four University of Idaho students, and then vanished. Seven weeks later, authorities arrested 28-yea...
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February 6, 2023 • 43 mins
In December of 1985, a series of heinous crimes took place in two different states, leaving three people dead. The murders all had a strange connection to a popular pizza chain. One of the murder victims would name his killer in a dying declaration, and then the hunt was on to find the serial murderer. Join me as I walk you through the case widely known as the Dominos Pizza Murders.
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January 30, 2023 • 62 mins
How far does family loyalty go? Most of us would do anything to protect the ones we love. But where do we draw the line? Keeping dark secrets is one thing; helping to cover up a serious crime is an entirely different thing.
In late June of 1996, Delaware politician Thomas Capano put his youngest brother Gerard in an impossible position. The married father of four stood to lose everything if his affair with the governor’s secretary ...
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