Morbidology
Morbidology is an award-winning weekly true crime podcast that goes beyond the headlines. Created and hosted by true crime author Emily G. Thompson, each episode weaves investigative research with occastional primary audio to reconstruct some of the world's most disturbing murders. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/morbidology--3527306/support.
Episodes
January 5, 2026 • 45 mins
It was just after 2AM on 23 February, 2019, when guests spilled out of Venu nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts. There was a young woman standing barefoot. She climbed into an Uber before she was pushed back out. The ride wasn’t hers. She was unaware of it at the time, but a man was watching.
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January 5, 2026 • 9 mins
Below the Surface is a true crime podcast covering a variety of strange and bizarre cases with one common theme; a water connection. The show features both solved and unsolved cases, some of which are well known, while others have received little attention.
In this special preview of episode 1, we explore the puzzling case of Kim Wall who was Best known for her articles in the Guardian, New York Times, and Vice, journalist. She dis...
In this special preview of episode 1, we explore the puzzling case of Kim Wall who was Best known for her articles in the Guardian, New York Times, and Vice, journalist. She dis...
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December 29, 2025 • 42 mins
The confetti from New Year’s Eve of 1972 had been swept away and New York City was grinding back to life. People returned to their desks, their routines, their ordinary lives. But at St. Joseph’s School for the Deaf, one teacher didn’t show up…
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December 22, 2025 • 36 mins
On Christmas Day 2024, families across Britain gathered in homes decorated with twinkling lights and wreaths, settling in for an evening of festive films and leftover turkey. Along Santa Cruz Avenue in Bletchley, the sounds of celebration drifted through thin walls. But just after 5PM, those sounds were shattered by something else entirely. Screaming pierced through the cheerful facade. Then a woman emerged on a balcony. She was co...
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December 15, 2025 • 53 mins
The community of Oregon City came together early in 2002 to search for a missing girl. Everybody had their own theory; some believed she ran away. But then three months later, another girl from the same apartment complex disappeared. Somewhere among them lived a predator…
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December 8, 2025 • 43 mins
Dawn was breaking over a quiet suburban street in Coquitlam when Ed Field heard the first pop. Half-asleep, he wondered if he'd imagined it. Then came another. And another. From his bedroom window, he watched two figures moving through the house across the street, one chasing the other through rooms blazing with light.
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December 1, 2025 • 41 mins
It was October 2012 in the quiet town of Clayton, New Jersey, when a 12-year-old girl climbed onto her prized BMX bike and rode off into the fading daylight. She promised to be home by her usual 8PM curfew. But as the hours stretched on and the porch light burned, there was no sign of her return.
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November 24, 2025 • 52 mins
Chris Lang was on the phone to his girlfriend as she headed to her parked car at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota, one evening in 2003. They chatted about their day but then her voice trailed off. She uttered “oh my god” before the line went dead…
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November 17, 2025 • 46 mins
It was just after 9PM one June in 1984 when Alex Arnold opened his front door to a teenage girl. She was panicked, telling him her friend had been “acting weird.” What happened next would expose the hidden pressures, jealousies, and hierarchies of a seemingly perfect high school.
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November 10, 2025 • 39 mins
In September of 2009, a police officer in Farmville, Virginia, arrived at a home to carry out a welfare check. As he stepped onto the property, a pungent odor hit him, strong enough to stop him in his tracks. It was clear that something inside wasn’t right.
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November 3, 2025 • 42 mins
Wandsworth Homes is a quiet military housing complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Children rode bikes along its streets, neighbours looked out for one another, and life seemed ordinary. But one March evening in 1991, two boys left home to play, and never returned…
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October 27, 2025 • 47 mins
Blackpool is a town built on lights and laughter, a place where families once came for the arcades, the tower, the sea air. On a cold night after Halloween 2003, 14-year-old Charlene Downes set off through the town centre and didn’t come home. The posters went up, the cameras were checked, and then the rumours began. What followed would expose something far darker than a missing-persons case.
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October 20, 2025 • 56 mins
Steven Roberts was hiking through Rock Bridge Memorial State Park in Missouri, one morning in March of 2020. Something unusual caught his eye. Just beyond the treeline, something sharp and rectangular broke the natural shape of the landscape…
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October 13, 2025 • 48 mins
In October 2011, a little girl was found unresponsive in a home in Meeker, Oklahoma. When detectives looked into the family’s history, what they found would horrify them, and lead to sweeping changes in how children are protected in the state.
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October 6, 2025 • 43 mins
A woman was asleep in her home in Mernda on the outer fringes of Melbourne, Australia, when she was jolted awake by a noise. She wasn’t sure if it had come from the world outside or from inside her dreams. Seconds later, she heard somebody gasping for breath.
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September 29, 2025 • 48 mins
It was October 14, 2023, and six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume was preparing for a bath in his duplex home in Plainfield Township, Illinois. Moments later, there was a knock on the door. What happened after his mother opened the door reverberated across the entire globe.
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September 22, 2025 • 46 mins
On New Year’s Day of 1989, while most of America was nursing hangovers and making resolutions they’d never keep, a family gathered in a Queens hospital waiting room. They were there for the birth of a baby, the first American-born member of their immigrant family. But as the hours passed, two crucial family members were missing…
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September 19, 2025 • 7 mins
Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily. Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring, Crime House Daily is coming to you twice every weekday, covering the biggest crime stories as they unfold. Morning episodes give you the need-to-know. The latest headlines, breaking developments, and where things are going next.
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September 15, 2025 • 61 mins
First responders in Norton Shores, Michigan, were responding to a report of an unresponsive teenage boy one July morning in 2022. When they entered the home, they were disgusted. It was filled with trash, and faeces were smeared over the door handles and carpets. This was only the beginning.
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September 8, 2025 • 44 mins
One morning in September of 2019, paramedics were directed to a home in the village of Kempton, Pennsylvania. A 911 call had come in from a frantic mother. She described finding her children hanging from the rafters of the basement.
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