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🎙 Episode 95: Clara Harris — “Cracks in the Perfect Wife”
Part 1 of a multi-part series

Before the headlines…
Before the Mercedes…
Before the betrayal that would define her name—
Clara Harris built a life people envied.

In this first installment, host Sidney Smith takes us back to Bogotá, Colomb...

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🎙 Episode 95: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Truth That Never Made Trial”
Part 5 of a multi-part series

For forty years, Winnie’s story was buried beneath headlines, half-truths, and courtroom omissions.
But journalist Jana Bommersbach wasn’t content with the official version.
In this final installment, h...

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While you wait for tomorrow’s next chapter in the Winnie Ruth Judd series, here’s something a little different. This 9-minute clip is from Running In Slow Motion, a podcast I host with my wife, Tamra. We talk life, love, and everyday chaos—with honesty and laughs along the way. In this short clip, we get into:...

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🎙 Episode 93: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Girl Who Kept Escaping”
Part 4 of a multi-part series

She was sentenced to death.
 Then quietly declared insane.
 And for the next 40 years, Winnie Ruth Judd slipped through the cracks—sometimes literally.

In this chapter of the story, host Sidney Smith guides u...

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🎙 Episode 92: Winnie Ruth Judd — “Trial by Reputation”
Part 3 of a multi-part series

She stood trial. But not just for murder.
For being herself—a woman, a mistress, an enigma.

In this chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd story, host Sidney Smith examines a courtroom where justice took a backseat to percepti...

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🎙 Episode 91: Winnie Ruth Judd — “Two in the Trunk”
Part 2 of a multi-part series

Two women are dead.
One is missing.
And a pair of leaking trunks has turned a quiet train station into a national crime scene.

In this chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd story, host Sidney Smith takes listeners deeper int...

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🎙 Episode 90: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Woman in the Brown Suit”
Part 1 of a multi-part series

She was described as frail. Pretty. Melancholic.
 But behind the soft voice and quiet eyes was a woman unraveling—torn between love, illness, and rejection.

In this opening chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd s...

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🎙 Episode 91: Dena Schlosser — “The Hymn, the Knife, and the 911 Call”
 Standalone Episode

She was a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs of Texas.
 But on a quiet Monday morning in 2004, Dena Schlosser placed a 911 call that would haunt the nation—telling dispatchers she’d cut off her infant daughter’s arm...

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🚨 Encore Presentation — Originally released March 2021, this episode remains one of the most discussed on Murderess Podcast. Dive back into the story of Dorothea Puente. 

Hey listeners — Sidney here.

This week, I’m pulling one from deep in the archives. Back when Murderess Podcast was still finding its voice, I...

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🎙 Episode 88: Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door”
Standalone Episode

She didn’t shoot.
She didn’t confess.
But she went to prison… along with three others.

This week, we go inside one of Norway’s most haunting and divisive murder cases — the 1999 triple homicide that tore apart th...

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🚨 Encore Presentation — Originally released April 17, 2025, this episode remains one of the most discussed on Murderess Podcast. Dive back into the story of Susan Smith, the mother who shocked a nation. 

Hey listeners — Sidney here. My voice is a little worn out this week from performances and a packed schedul...

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🎙 Episode 87: “Karla Faye Tucker — The Woman With the Pickaxe Smile”
 Standalone Episode
She didn’t scream.
 She didn’t panic.
 She just smiled—and kept swinging.

In this episode, we go inside the brutal 1983 murders of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton—and follow the path of Karla Faye Tucker, a...

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🎙 Episode 86: “Jasmine Richardson — The Girl Who Smiled Through the Blood”
 Standalone Episode

She was 12 years old.
 He was 23.
 And together, they planned the brutal murder of her entire family.

In this episode, we trace the chilling case of Jasmine Richardson—a middle school girl who fell under t...

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🎙 Episode 85: “Michelle Knotek — The House That Hurt People”
Standalone Episode

Michelle Knotek didn’t kill with knives or rage.
She used manipulation, isolation, and slow, invisible cruelty.
She took in the vulnerable—friends, family, boarders—and offered them safety. What she delivered instead wa...

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🎙 Episode 84: “Debora Green — The Doctor Who Prescribed Her Own Destruction” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc)

Deborah Green was a brilliant physician, a mother, and a woman seemingly in control—until everything around her began to collapse.
Beneath the facade of success and stability, resentment, betraya...

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🎙 Episode 83: “Lacey Spears — The Mother Who Needed to Be Watched”
Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc

Lacey Spears was the face of a modern-day “supermom”—blogging her sick child’s journey, documenting his struggles, and building a following around strength and faith.
But none of it was real.

In this epis...

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🎙 Episode 82: Diane Downs — The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger
Part of the “Mothers Who Kill” arc

Diane Downs said a stranger shot her children. She blamed a man in the trees, her ex-husband, even her daughter. But the truth was far more chilling: Diane did it herself—then drove to the hospital and played t...