Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

In 1996, a college student vanished from her dorm at Nanjing University. Days later, her butchered, dismembered, boiled remains were found scattered across the city, over 2,000 pieces in total. The victim was 19 year old Diao Aiqing, a quiet, hardworking freshman whose brutal killing earned her the nickname "China’s Black Dahlia." Nearly 30 years later, her murder remains unsolved, and the killer has never been found.

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Just before midnight on May 24, 2000, seven Wendy’s employees were called to the basement of their Queens, New York restaurant for what they believed was an end of shift meeting. Instead, they were ambushed, bound with duct tape, suffocated with plastic bags, and each was shot at close range. The attack was the result of a carefully planned robbery led by a former coworker who knew their names, their routines, and exactly how to ac...

On October 31, 1984, 25 year old Doreen Erbert, who was eight months pregnant, was brutally murdered in her San Jose home by a masked intruder wearing a wolf costume. Her 4-year-old daughter witnessed the horror while hiding, and her husband returned home minutes too late to stop it, only to find a horrific scene left behind. As the investigation unfolded, detectives uncovered a deeply personal motive rooted in past tragedy, loss, ...

He looked like an ordinary student, he was quiet, well mannered, and barely out of his teens. But between 1964 and 1966, Karol Kot turned the streets of Kraków into his hunting ground, attacking elderly women and children with chilling precision. His reason? He said causing pain made him feel alive. By the time he was caught, the city knew him only by the name whispered in fear "The Vampire of Kraków."

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In May 2016, FBI agents arrived at the Minnesota home of Amy and Stephen Allwine with a chilling message: someone had attempted to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill Amy. The anonymous user had paid thousands in Bitcoin to a site called "Besa Mafia", a supposed murder for hire marketplace hidden in the encrypted corners of the internet. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a twisted plot involving fake identitie...

On July 2, 1982, a 33 year old truck driver named Larry Walters launched himself into the skies above Los Angeles using a lawn chair and 45 helium filled weather balloons. Within minutes, he had ascended to 16,000 feet, drifting directly into controlled airspace near LAX, confusing commercial pilots and triggering a response from federal authorities. He carried no license, no flight plan, and no training, just a pellet gun, a parac...

nnie Kasprzak was just 15 years old when she vanished from her quiet suburban home in Riverton, Utah. A note left behind suggested she had run away, but within 24 hours, her beaten body was discovered in the icy waters of the Jordan River, her face so badly disfigured she had to be identified by dental records. What began as a runaway case quickly spiralled into a murder investigation riddled with dead ends a mystery suspect named ...

uby Franke rose to online fame as the matriarch of 8 Passengers, a YouTube family vlog that gained millions of views for its portrayal of traditional parenting and everyday life. But behind the scenes, a much darker reality was unfolding, one that came to light in 2023 when her 12 year old son escaped from a home in southern Utah, showing clear signs of abuse. The disturbing case led to Franke’s arrest, alongside her business partn...

Ruby Franke rose to online fame as the matriarch of 8 Passengers, a YouTube family vlog that gained millions of views for its portrayal of traditional parenting and everyday life. But behind the scenes, a much darker reality was unfolding, one that came to light in 2023 when her 12 year old son escaped from a home in southern Utah, showing clear signs of abuse. The disturbing case led to Franke’s arrest, alongside her business part...

Reagan Hancock was just 21 and weeks from giving birth when her life was stolen in one of the most disturbing crimes in recent memory. Taylor Parker, who had faked an entire pregnancy to her boyfriend, brutally attacked Reagan in her own home, beating her, stabbing her over 100 times, and cutting her unborn baby from her womb with a scalpel. Taylor then fled the scene with the infant, intending to pass the child off as her own. It ...

When 18 year old Katie Fusco contacted her biological parents, she was looking for answers about her adoption and identity. What followed was a deeply disturbing chain of events. She moved in with her birth family, became romantically involved with her biological father, and gave birth to his child. The relationship led to arrests, court orders, and ultimately a multistate murder-suicide. This is the true story of how a search for ...

In early 1804, a man was shot dead in a London street, but not by a criminal, but by someone who believed he was firing at a ghost. The killing was rooted in panic and superstition as a white clad ghost was said o be roaming the streets. This murder of mistaken identity, led to a landmark trial that would challenge the boundaries of selfdefense in British law. This is the case of the Hammersmith Ghost, where folklore met fatal cons...

In 1992, a cold-blooded killer stalked small shops across the Midwest, striking without warning and disappearing into the endless flow of the interstate. Six victims. Three states. One haunting mystery. Over 30 years later, the man known only as the I-70 Killer is still out there, or so we fear. This is the unsolved story of a road trip fueled by murder.

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In March 2020, 51 year old Gretchen Anthony vanished from her home in Jupiter, Florida. Strange text messages claimed she was hospitalized with COVID-19, but there was no record of her anywhere and her car was found abandoned outside a medical center. Days later, a hidden security camera and an Alexa recording would expose a horrifying truth no one was prepared for.

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In 1984, Japan was a place where crime was rare, and trust in police was rock solid. That made what happened next all the more shocking. A major candy company CEO was kidnapped straight from his own home while he was in the bath. What followed was a bizarre, 17-month-long nightmare of threats, poisoned candy, and one of the most infamous unsolved mysteries in Japanese history, the case of the Monster with 21 Faces.

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When Winnie Ruth Judd stepped onto a train bound for Los Angeles, no one knew she was traveling with the dismembered bodies of her two best friends. The public quickly branded her “The Trunk Murderess,” a cold blooded killer with a shocking story. But behind the headlines was a tangled web of jealousy, secret affairs, and a powerful man who may have helped cover it all up. Nearly a century later, the truth behind the murders remain...

When Winnie Ruth Judd stepped onto a train bound for Los Angeles, no one knew she was traveling with the dismembered bodies of her two best friends. The public quickly branded her “The Trunk Murderess,” a cold blooded killer with a shocking story. But behind the headlines was a tangled web of jealousy, secret affairs, and a powerful man who may have helped cover it all up. Nearly a century later, the truth behind the murders remain...

Celeste Manno was stalked for over a year, begged police for help, and had a protection order in place. But none of it stopped her killer. On November 16, 2020, he broke into her bedroom and murdered her in under three minutes. It was a brutal attack, and an even greater failure of the justice system, which failed to protect Celeste from a monster named Luay Sako.

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Three women vanished from their home in the dead of night, no screams, no struggle, no sign of how they were taken or where they went. Their purses were left behind, the beds appeared slept in, and the television buzzed with static, untouched. What began as a quiet morning in Springfield, Missouri, quickly unraveled into one of the most chilling missing persons cases in American history.

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