Morbidology
Morbidology is an award-winning weekly true crime podcast created and hosted by true crime author, Emily G. Thompson. Using investigative research combined with primary audio including 911 calls, interviews and trial testimony, Morbidology takes an in-depth look at some of the world's most heinous murders. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/morbidology--3527306/support.
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July 21, 2025 • 51 mins
Hidden among the wooded backroads of rural Wisconsin sat a modest farmhouse. It was quiet, unremarkable, and seemingly ordinary. But behind closed doors, it was a place of fear and control. In March 2015, that house became the scene of something unimaginable.
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July 14, 2025 • 53 mins
One night in February 1995, Dawn Walker was talking to a friend stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. But during that call, her friend’s voice trailed off. She was distracted. There was somebody with her. Suddenly the line went dead. What happened that night would set off a chain of events that shook a military community to it’s very core.
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July 7, 2025 • 46 mins
In the quiet farmlands of Pennsylvania, the Amish live by tradition - peaceful, close-knit, and untouched by much of the outside world. But when one of their own didn’t come home one Sunday, that peace was broken. What followed would draw their tight community into a search unlike anything they’d ever faced.
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June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
On a summer afternoon in Waterville, Maine, a man returned home to a chilling silence. What he found behind the door would alter the course of his life, and the town’s history, forever. What happened was only the beginning of a tragic story rooted in grief, misunderstood illness, and the haunting repetition of history.
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June 23, 2025 • 52 mins
Blaze Bernstein was home for winter break, reconnecting with old friends and preparing for a new semester at the University of Pennsylvania. But on a cool January night in 2018, he vanished. What began as a missing person’s case soon spiralled into something far darker - uncovering secrets, ideology, and violence that would haunt a community and captivate a nation.
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June 23, 2025 • 2 mins
From the creators of the award-winning podcast They Walk Among Us comes The Lost Boys of Wineville—an extended limited series spanning 30 in-depth episodes. This gripping true-crime saga unravels a chilling story that unfolded nearly a century ago in the shadow of the recently erected Hollywoodland sign, and reached its harrowing conclusion on a remote poultry ranch...
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June 16, 2025 • 47 mins
On the 8th of March, 2007, in the quiet mobile home community of Horseshoe Lane, Brunswick, Georgia, six-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios Jr. vanished without a trace. As the search for Christopher unfolded, dark secrets in the neighbourhood began to surface - secrets that would reveal just how close the danger had been all along.
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June 9, 2025 • 33 mins
Brooklyn’s Sunset Park is a tight-knit neighbourhood, where families share meals, traditions, and the quiet rhythm of daily life. But on one October night in 2013, that quiet was shattered—when blood-curdling screams echoed down 57th Street, piercing the stillness and drawing neighbours to their windows.
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June 2, 2025 • 45 mins
In 1977, the small town of Dansville, Michigan, was shattered by a fire that killed a man in his sleep. But this wasn’t just another tragic house fire. What unfolded was a story of fear, survival, and justice in a system that offered none. And at the centre of it all was a woman named Francine Hughes.
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May 26, 2025 • 49 mins
In the quiet suburbs of Savannah, Georgia, 20-month-old Quinton Simon was reported missing from his crib in October 2022. His mother said he vanished without a trace. But as investigators dug deeper, it became clear - something wasn’t adding up.
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May 19, 2025 • 49 mins
In 1958, Omaha, Nebraska, was a city of quiet neighbourhoods and steady lives. But behind one front door, a teenager harboured a secret so dark it would shatter his family—and stun the entire community. What no one knew was that the story was far from over.
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May 12, 2025 • 48 mins
On the morning of August 17, 2021, the emergency room at Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, was bustling with the usual chaos of a busy hospital. Nurses rushed between patients, doctors consulted charts, and worried parents lingered by their children’s bedsides. Then, the doors burst open. A little boy was rushed inside—his body frail, his skin bruised, his breath shallow. He was barely clinging to life…
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May 5, 2025 • 61 mins
The Wonnangatta Valley is as beautiful as it is remote, a vast expanse of wilderness nestled deep in Victoria’s High Country. It’s the kind of place where people go to disappear—sometimes by choice, sometimes not. When experienced campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay vanished without a trace in March 2020, their disappearance left behind more questions than answers.
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April 28, 2025 • 50 mins
At the St. Charles County 911 dispatch centre, the holiday season had brought an unusually calm night on one of the final days of 2018. But just before midnight, that all changed. A frantic and desperate call came through. Screaming, loud pops in the background and then a single chilling phrase – “he has a gun.”
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April 21, 2025 • 35 mins
When firefighters responded to a blaze behind a Phoenix church in August 2009, they expected a routine call. But as the flames died down, they uncovered something far more disturbing—a discovery that would lead detectives into a gruesome and deeply unsettling murder case.
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April 17, 2025 • 3 mins
The Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast returns for its second season!
Seven years after his release from prison, former juvenile lifer Luis "Suave" Gonzalez seems to be thriving. His career has taken off, he’s in a committed relationship and he’s received public recognition after telling his story on the podcast. Suave always thought once he was out of prison and found stability in his new life, he would finally feel truly free. But f...
Seven years after his release from prison, former juvenile lifer Luis "Suave" Gonzalez seems to be thriving. His career has taken off, he’s in a committed relationship and he’s received public recognition after telling his story on the podcast. Suave always thought once he was out of prison and found stability in his new life, he would finally feel truly free. But f...
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April 14, 2025 • 49 mins
The East Village in the late 1980s was a world of its own—gritty, chaotic, and teeming with eccentric characters. Among them was Daniel Rakowitz, a self-proclaimed prophet who roamed the streets with his pet rooster, spouting bizarre religious doctrines. Most dismissed him as just another neighborhood oddball. But behind his rambling sermons and vacant stare lurked something far more sinister.
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April 7, 2025 • 54 mins
When emergency responders arrived at a home in Toronto on a cold November morning in 2002, they found a little boy lying lifeless on the floor. At first glance, it seemed like he had simply stopped breathing. But as investigators took a closer look, a horrifying truth emerged—one that would expose shocking failures in the child welfare system and leave the city reeling.
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April 3, 2025 • 29 mins
Introducing a new podcast for the true crime-obsessed: "The Crime Scene Weekly," from our friends at ABC Audio. Every Wednesday, "The Crime Scene Weekly" brings you the latest in true crime.
ABC News correspondent Brad Mielke sits down with the journalists covering the cases who have direct access to survivors, investigators and families searching for answers. And they’re bringing their insights right to you.
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March 31, 2025 • 39 mins
In the early morning hours of 29 September, 2021, Michael Elliot had just drifted off to sleep. However, he was awoken by a strange sound coming from somewhere in his home. It appeared that somebody was on the phone, and they sounded scared….
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