Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast
Murders, mysteries and laughter. Wicked and Grim is a podcast created and hosted by a husband and wife duo with an affinity for true crime. We tell the stories of victims and explore the world of sinister tales, all while keeping things light hearted to take away the power and fear mongering from the perpetrators.This is Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast.
Episodes
December 23, 2025 • 56 mins
On the night of September 19, 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks stepped off a tram in the Brisbane suburb of Grange and began the short walk home to her parents’ house, less than 400 metres away. Within minutes, she was violently attacked and killed, her body discovered the following morning in a neighbour’s garden. More than seventy years later, her murder remains Queensland’s oldest unsolved homicide, defined by a narrow twelve minu...
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December 19, 2025 • 50 mins
In March 2021, a man was found executed on a wooded trail inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park, shot once in the back of the head with no weapon left behind. As investigators reconstructed his final days, they uncovered a deliberate, cross-state plan driven not by chance, but by revenge rooted in a past allegation that had never resulted in charges. This is the true story of how unresolved trauma, perceived injustice, and calculate...
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December 16, 2025 • 56 mins
In April 1998, hikers in Northern California’s Trinity Alps discovered a partially burned, shallowly buried body at an abandoned campsite, triggering a homicide investigation in Shasta County. The victim was twenty year old Lora Sinner, who had recently moved to California after her mother’s death and was last seen alive with a small group of friends on a camping trip. As investigators reconstructed her final days, they uncovered a...
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December 12, 2025 • 65 mins
On April 26, 2013, 25 year old Jessica Heeringa vanished from her late night shift at a Norton Shores, Michigan gas station, leaving behind her car, purse, cash, and a small trail of blood, while cameras nearby caught a silver minivan fleeing the area. A massive investigation stalled for three years, that is until a terrified teenager escaped an attempted abduction in 2016 and pointed police toward a man named Jeffrey Thomas Willis...
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December 9, 2025 • 62 mins
Nobody in Cincinnati imagined a serial killer was moving quietly through its neighbourhoods, especially not a polite young German immigrant mother who cared for lonely, elderly men. But behind Anna Marie Hahn’s warm smile was a trail of sudden illnesses, forged wills, missing valuables, and quiet funerals that never raised suspicion. It wasn’t until one victim collapsed hundreds of miles from home that investigators finally uncover...
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December 5, 2025 • 53 mins
She left home on a quiet Saturday, promising to be back in a couple of hours. When her truck was found abandoned near the river, with her keys and water bottle on the ground, it was clear something was terribly wrong. What followed was a 28 year nightmare with a cold case buried in silence, until a strand of hair and a sister’s relentless pursuit cracked it wide open. Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56a...
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December 2, 2025 • 67 mins
He confessed years before he was caught, telling his mother he had killed a woman, yet no one believed him until even after the bodies began to surface. This was Frank Gust, the so called Rhine-Ruhr Ripper, a necrophilic predator whose violence escalated from torturing animals to murdering women and posing their remains. Even after receiving a life sentence, Frank remains eligible for release in 2026, raising the unnerving question...
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November 28, 2025 • 67 mins
With 93 confessed murders across 19 states, Samuel Little holds the grim title of America’s most prolific serial killer ever, a distinction confirmed by the FBI in 2019. For more than four decades, he strangled vulnerable women, many of them never to be identified, leaving behind a coast to coast trail of bodies and cold cases. His killing spree, which spanned from 1970 to 2005, went undetected for years, until a DNA hit and a seri...
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November 25, 2025 • 57 mins
On a chilly October night in 1995, two teenage girls, Misty Cockerill and Tanya Smith, were walking through a quiet Abbotsford neighbourhood on their way to a party when they were suddenly abducted and brutally attacked. One of them would survive against all odds, but the other would be found murdered, her body discarded near a remote canal. What began as a horrifying assault quickly escalated into a chilling investigation that wou...
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November 18, 2025 • 54 mins
In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, severe child abuse, and a woman who ...
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November 14, 2025 • 49 mins
In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, severe child abuse, and a woman who ...
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November 11, 2025 • 58 mins
He was the smiling contestant who once made America laugh on Family Feud, joking that the biggest mistake he’d ever made at his wedding was saying “I do.” But just a few years later, Timothy Bliefnick would make headlines for something far darker, accused of gunning down his estranged wife, Rebecca “Becky” Bliefnick, in her Quincy, Illinois home. The shocking fall of the so called “Family Feud Killer” turned a lighthearted game sho...
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November 7, 2025 • 36 mins
For more than six years, Ireland believed Tina Satchwell had walked away from her life, maybe to England, maybe for “space,” maybe by choice. Her husband repeated that story in every interview, every appeal, every tearful broadcast.
But the truth of where she really went was buried less than ten feet from where he sat, sealed under concrete in the home they shared. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of cho...
But the truth of where she really went was buried less than ten feet from where he sat, sealed under concrete in the home they shared. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of cho...
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November 4, 2025 • 51 mins
Before she was old enough to ride a bike alone, Shasta Groene had already watched her family die, been kidnapped by a serial predator, and survived seven weeks in the wilderness no child should ever see. Her rescue would make headlines, but the story behind it was far more brutal, calculated, and haunting than the world first realized. Now adult, she has shared the horror she survived, and brought to view the system that failed to ...
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October 31, 2025 • 46 mins
On Halloween night in 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan handed his son a Pixy Stix filled with cyanide, unknowingly creating one of America’s darkest modern legends. Behind his mask as a churchgoing father and optician, O'Bryan was drowning in debt and had secretly taken out life insurance policies on his children. His desperate act of greed would not only claim his son’s life but forever change how parents viewed Halloween candy. Listen ...
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October 30, 2025 • 43 mins
The Tranquille Sanatorium, located near Kamloops, British Columbia, opened in 1907 as a tuberculosis treatment center and later served as a psychiatric hospital before closing in 1983. At its peak, it functioned as a small self sustaining community with farms, tunnels, staff housing, and medical facilities. Since its abandonment however, the site has gained a reputation for being one of the most haunted locations ins Canada, drawin...
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October 29, 2025 • 61 mins
At 3:00 a.m. on November 30, 1989, a Manhattan woman named Linda Napolitano claimed she was lifted from her 12th floor apartment window by a beam of blue light and taken aboard a glowing craft hovering over the Brooklyn Bridge. Within months, two alleged government bodyguards and more than twenty witnesses surfaced, saying they’d seen the same impossible event unfold above the East River. What began as a bizarre UFO report soon spi...
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October 28, 2025 • 41 mins
It's time for the 4th Annual Halloween Week: 3 Urban Legends! We have researched 3 urban legends and found the truth and fiction behind each. As we tell the stories, we want to know if you can figure out which ones are true and which ones are false. We will of course reveal the answers, but first we want to test your wicked knowledge! Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice. https://open.spotify.com/s...
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October 27, 2025 • 53 mins
Two hundred years ago, a quiet Tennessee farm became the center of one of America’s most terrifying hauntings. The Bell family was stalked, tormented, and ultimately broken by a voice in the dark that claimed to want one thing, the death of their patriarch. What followed remains the only time in U.S. history that a ghost was blamed for murder. Listen to our other podcast "FEARFUL" on your podcasting app of choice. https://open.spot...
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October 26, 2025 • 37 mins
For centuries, nursery rhymes have been passed down as harmless children’s songs, but their true origins are anything but sweet. It seems as though the innocent words we all remember may have been hiding nightmares all along. In this episode we’re peeling back the cute surface and digging into the dark history that’s been whispered through generations. Trust us when we say, you’ll never hear your childhood favourites the same way a...
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