Macabre Storytime
Macabre Storytime is a true crime podcast where I tell my friends the weirdest, most brutal, spine-tingliest cases they've never heard of.
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In what is considered one of Mexico’s largest human right atrocities, 43 students were apprehended on their way to a protest only to never be seen alive again. The biggest question isn’t why it happened. It’s how far up the ladder does the corruption go.
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On the last episode of Macabre Storytime, we followed Peter Kürten from his violence-filled childhood to his adolescence full of odd sexual proclivities and finally to his adulthood where he unleashed his sadistic side on the citizens of Düsseldorf. Men, women, children, animals…all could be his target. No one was safe.
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The interwar period from 1919-1939 was a tumultuous time in Germany. It was a time of political and economic turmoil that saw the German hyperinflation of 1923 and the rise of Nazism with the appointment in 1933 of Adolph Hitler to the German chancellorship. This period also brought about a brutal and sadistic serial killer known as the Vampire of Düsseldorf.
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In February 1959, 9 experienced young Soviet trekkers disappeared into the Ural Mountains. The bodies were found separated into 3 groups several meters (and months) apart. Most had died from hypothermia, but some had died from unexplained physical trauma. What drove these experienced trekkers to walk away from their tent and straight to their deaths?
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Long before the Black Lives Matter movement began, there was Mitrice Richardson, a young, beautiful, intelligent, but troubled young black woman who mysteriously disappeared shortly after being released from a Malibu sheriff’s office in 2009. The path from when she disappeared to when she was found only gets more heartbreaking the further you travel.
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In March 2002, a 17yo girl entered a Japanese police station with a harrowing tale. The things she claimed to have endured were unimaginable yet all too true. This is the story of the ‘he who shall not be named’ in Japan, the Mind Control Killer.
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Gun violence is nothing new in Brazil. It’s all too common in heists, holdups, and disputes between gangs. But targeted mass shootings? Those are rare, which is why what happened as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve 2016 shocked the nation. One man had just committed the largest act of femicide in Brazilian history.
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On the previous episode of Macabre Storytime, we delved into the twisted world of Franklin Floyd and the horrendous abuse he inflicted on his daughter/wife. This week, we’ll dig deeper into who Franklin Floyd really was and follow the trail straight to Sharon Marshall’s true identity.
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‘Twas the week of Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even the Simmons family. That’s because they had all been murdered by the family patriarch. This is the story of Ronald Gene Simmons and the deadliest mass murder committed by a single man in Arkansas history.
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In 1990, Clarence Hughes lost his 2nd wife Tanya in a hit-and-run accident. As it would soon turn out, nothing was as it seemed. It took 24 years to discover the horrifying truth about Tanya’s real identity and the life-long ordeal that led to her death.
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Legend has it that Chicago sausage magnate Adolph Luetgert killed his wife and disposed of her body by grinding it up and adding it to his sausage meat. The tale proved to be false, but the story behind the story is all too real.
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In the summer of 2016, a seemingly normal 26-year-old man broke into the care home he used to work at with only one thing on his mind: euthanasia. What followed has been described as one of the worst crimes committed on Japanese soil since WWII.
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In 1990, a convicted murderer was paroled after only 15 years of his life sentence because a large, respected community came to his defense claiming he had been completely rehabilitated. What followed proved them horribly wrong.
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“I’ve been waiting 20 years to do this.” Those were the words spoken by 35-year-old Paul Merhige as he methodically worked his way through murdering multiple family members at a Thanksgiving gathering in 2009. The question on everyone’s mind was how could a well-liked, smart, driven, family-oriented young man turn into the vicious killer of the family he claimed to love so much?
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In the spring of 1981, 4 people were brutally murdered in their home in Keddie, California. This case would go on to become one of the most infuriating and confounding cases in California history. How could a quadruple homicide in this small community go unsolved for over 40 years?
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On April 8, 2022, 18yo law student Debanhi Escobar went on a night out with a couple of new friends. Hours later, she began behaving uncharacteristically erratically, causing her friends to ditch her. The friends called a ride share to take Debanhi home before continuing the party elsewhere. The driver of the ride share sent an ominous picture to one of Debanhi’s friends minutes later, and soon after she had disappeared. What happe...
In 2008, 22yo Tim McLean caught a Greyhound bus home to Winnipeg after working at a fair in Edmonton. After a few stops, a tall stranger boarded the bus and eventually made his way to the seat next to Tim’s. What happened next horrified not only every other passenger and the emergency personnel who responded to the incident, but the entire nation who watched the aftermath in horror.
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When you think of Halloween, your mind likely conjures up images of tiny costumed witches and superheroes giggling as they run from house to house to gather as much candy as possible. But if you lived in the suburbs of Texas in the mid 70s, Halloween probably brings more grim imagery to mind. For some people, Halloween was forever ruined after one Houston-area father did the unthinkable.
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If the Oregon Trail video game can be believed, the 19th century American frontier was a dangerous place. Nevertheless, enterprising folks still tried their luck during the seemingly endless westward expansion. Unfortunately for at least a dozen unsuspecting travelers, their stop at an inn in Labette County, Kansas would be the end of the road for their frontier dreams.
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Have you ever watched America's Most Wanted and wondered if anyone ever actually gets caught because of it? Well, we don't know their success rate, but we do know the story of one fugitive who was caught after almost 20 years on the run. This is the story of that a-hole John List.
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