Beers with Queers A True Crime Podcast

A child abandoned. A life shaped by violence. Long before the headlines, the story of Aileen Wuornos began with a childhood that looked more like survival than innocence.

Born in Michigan in 1956, Wuornos entered the world surrounded by instability. Her parents separated before she was born, and by age four she and her brother had been abandoned by their mother and left to be raised by their grandparents. What followed was a chi...

Patients trusted him with their lives. Instead, they were slowly dying under his care.

Behind a hospital smile lurked one of the most prolific medical serial killers in American history.

In the 1970s and 80s, hospital orderly Donald Harvey quietly moved between patient rooms in hospitals across Ohio and Kentucky. To coworkers, he seemed gentle, soft-spoken, helpful, even compassionate. But behind closed doors, something far darke...

For generations of LGBTQ+ Americans, a simple night out could mean a huge risk. But the local gay bar offered safety, community, resistance, and eventually revolution.

Long before Pride parades and marriage equality, queer bars were the beating heart of LGBTQ life in America. Hidden behind unmarked doors and dim neon lights, these spaces offered something the outside world often refused: safety, connection, and the freedom to ex...

A brilliant spy. A duffle bag containing a body, padlocked from the outside. And a death no one can explain.

When an intelligence officer is found zipped inside a padlocked duffel bag in his own bathtub, the official answers only deepen the mystery.

In August 2010, brilliant Welsh mathematician and intelligence analyst Gareth Wyn Williams was discovered dead in a London flat his naked body sealed inside a zipped and padlocked spo...

A mile-long island in New York holds more than a million bodies. No headstones. No funerals. Just rows of pine boxes disappearing into the earth.

Just off the coast of the Bronx sits Hart Island, America’s largest public cemetery and the final resting place for the people society forgot. Since 1869, the island has received the unclaimed, the unidentified, the poor, and even victims of epidemics, quietly burying them in long trenches...

A friendly favor. An insidious plan. And a disappearance that would expose one of the most disturbing crimes in Sioux Falls deaf community’s history.

In February 2006, Darlene VanderGiesen, a beloved member of the deaf community in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, left work to meet someone she trusted. She told friends she was helping plan a Valentine’s Day surprise for a mutual friend. But she never came home. Days later, investigato...

Thirteen men walked into the woods of Paturis Park seeking a moment of freedom, only to be met by a predator who treated their lives like a "social cleansing." In a case where the justice system's silence was as deafening as the gunshots, the line between the hunters and the law began to blur.

From 2007 to 2008, the busy suburbs of São Paulo were haunted by a serial killer who specifically targeted gay and bisexual men in their ...

A marriage built on secrets. A body burned beyond recognition. And a courtroom scandal that shocked an entire nation.

In early 20th-century Australia, a laborer known as Harry Crawford seemed like an ordinary husband until his wife vanished after a quiet holiday outing. Years later, when investigators began unraveling the mystery, they uncovered something that sent newspapers into a frenzy. Crawford was actually Eugene Falleni, a pe...

A quiet North Carolina highway. A young woman’s body left in the grass. And a love triangle that would unravel into jealousy, obsession, and murder.

In January 2008, 21-year-old college student Latrese Curtis was found brutally stabbed along Interstate 540 near Raleigh. What initially looked like a random act of violence soon exposed a tangled web of relationships hiding beneath the surface of her life. As investigators dug deeper, ...

A quiet night in a small Alabama town ended in a brutal, fiery betrayal that shocked the nation. He wasn’t just a victim of a crime; he was a man targeted for the simple truth of who he loved.

Billy Jack Gaither was a well-liked, hard-working man who lived a quiet life in Sylacauga until a chance encounter at a local boat ramp turned into a horrific nightmare. This week, we examine the 1999 gay murder case that stripped away the...

A selfie of a beautiful couple posted to Instagram. A whispered secret exposed. And a queer icon found stabbed to death just 24 hours after lawmakers passed a massive anti-LGBTQ bill.

When Georgian transgender model, actor and influencer Kesaria Abramidze posted a photo to her Instagram that publicly acknowledged her relationship, some say it triggered a fatal rage in her closeted partner, leading to her stabbing in her Tbilisi ...

A secret love. A world at war. And a queer bond Nazi history nearly erased.

In 1943 Berlin, a Jewish resistance fighter and a Nazi officer’s wife risk everything for a forbidden love that defied hate, ideology, and the very machinery of genocide.

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day we bring you an incredible true queer love story. 

Lilly Wust, a mother of four married to a German soldier, never expected to fal...

On November 30, 2013, in Portland, Maine, police discovered the bodies of two men inside an apartment near Deering Oaks Park. One of them was 22-year-old Matthew Rairdon, a graduate student and aspiring educator. The other was Patrick Milliner, his former partner. What initially appeared to be an isolated tragedy soon revealed a devastating case of intimate partner violence that unfolded quietly—without police reports, restraining ...

What starts as a casual encounter ends in a shattered sense of safety, when an online date becomes the bait for a chilling crime spree in the heart of London. Two men used Grindr to get into gay men's homes, leaving victims robbed, violated, and forever changed.

In a disturbing UK case of 2024–2025, 22-year-old Rahmat Khan Mohammadi and 21-year-old Mohammed Bilal Hotak built fake profiles on the gay dating app Grindr to target u...

A crew member vanishes without a trace on a cruise where magic should meet the sea, and the official explanation raised more questions than answers. A video of her last distressed phone call was her last known moment alive, and a family still demands truth from the deep.

When 24-year-old Rebecca Coriam, a young British cruise employee working aboard the Disney Wonder, disappeared from the vessel in March 2011 off the coast of Me...

A trusted priest with a collar and a gun walked into a funeral home, and two lives were cut down in cold blood, shaking a small Midwestern town to its core. What was Father Ryan Erickson hiding behind his vows and sacred duties?

In February 2002, life in Hudson, Wisconsin was upended when funeral home director Dan O’Connell and his young intern James Ellison were found shot to death in broad daylight. The case went cold for year...

A celebrated playwright at the height of fame, Oscar Wilde became fodder for scandal and ruin when he chose love over self-preservation. His brilliant career was extinguished in a courtroom where his queerness became the weapon used to destroy him. 

In 1895 Victorian England, homosexuality was not just taboo, it was a crime, and Oscar Wilde’s passionate affair with Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas drew the wrath of Bosie’s fathe...

He was the most celebrated writer in London, adored on stage with a bright future ahead of him. But he was living a secret life that Victorian society was waiting to punish.

Before courtrooms, prison cells, and public disgrace, Oscar Wilde was a literary star at the height of his power. A brilliant author and celebrated playwright, he moved through London society with wit, charm, and dangerous visibility. But beneath the applause wa...