Fresh Hell Podcast
Two women, from opposite sides of the Atlantic, talk about murder, mystery and the macabre. This is your award winning, international true crime podcast, hosted by Annie and Johanna.
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October 16, 2026 • 75 mins
On Halloween night in 1957, Peter Fabiano was shot and killed at his front door in North Hollywood, California, after answering what he thought was another late-night trick-or-treater.
His lasts words: “Isn't it a little late for this?”
The murder of Peter Fabiano would become known as the Trick-or-Treat Murder, or the Halloween Murder, and it involved broken friendship, jealousy, beauty salons, and a carefully planne...
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October 9, 2026 • 69 mins
We are back on the Isle of Man for Part Two of Gef, the ridiculous little wall weasel.
This week, people try to figure out what the hell is going on at Cashen's Gap. We have alleged Gef hair, footprints, photographs, zoologists, witnesses and investigators....spoiler alert: Gef is not impressed!
Welcome back to Spooky Fuckery Month. Let's finish this fucking mongoose.
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October 2, 2026 • 67 mins
Spooky Fuckery Month is officially here!
And we're kicking things off on the Isle of Man, where, in 1931, the Irving family began hearing strange noises coming from inside the walls of their isolated farmhouse.
Meet Gef, the talking, swearing, gossiping, possibly supernatural mongoose who lives behind the walls, spies on the neighbors, sings songs, makes deeply questionable claims about himself and has a LOT of opinions!
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September 25, 2026 • 41 mins
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September 18, 2026 • 77 mins
The plane had crashed. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper had been laid to rest. But the story of The Day the Music Died is far from over.
In the fourth and final part of our series, we look at everything that came after February 1959: the investigation into the crash, the questions that lingered, the families and loved ones left behind, and the strange rumors and theories that started to spread around one of the most...
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September 11, 2026 • 70 mins
This week Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper finally come together for the Winter Dance Party...the infamous tour that was badly planned, brutally cold, and exhausting almost from the moment it began.
We follow them as the ping-pong across the frozen Midwest in a bus that could barely keep them warm, through breakdowns, illness, and a schedule that made very little geographical sense....and that makes Johanna kind of ...
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September 4, 2026 • 67 mins
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February 3, 1959, would become known as “The Day the Music Died”In Part Two of The Day the Music Died, we continue with Buddy Holly’s story as his career takes off, and introduce the youngest musician who would eventually join him on the Winter Dance Party tour: Ritchie Valen...
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August 28, 2026 • 63 mins
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February 3, 1959, would become known as “The Day the Music Died”
But before we get to that frozen field, we need to know the people who ended up on that plane.
In Part One, we look at the lives and careers of Buddy Holly and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. We foll...
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August 20, 2026 • 38 mins
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August 14, 2026 • 75 mins
Heinz Pohlmann has been acquitted, but Rosemarie Nitribitt’s murder is still unsolved. So in our final part, we look at Rosemarie’s famous notebook, the very real wealthy and powerful men in her life, the rumors of blackmail, missing files, a supposed murder tape, and theories ranging from jealous clients to industrial espionage.
It' s been almost seventy years since the murder, and there are still plenty of theories a...
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August 7, 2026 • 71 mins
When Rosemarie Nitribitt's body was discovered in her Frankfurt apartment, the investigation turned into one of the biggest murder mysteries in postwar Germany. In Part 2, we look at what investigators actually knew, what they only thought they knew, why Heinz Pohlmann became their prime suspect, and why this case remains to be a mix of fact, rumor, and conspiracy theories that continues to fascinate people today.
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July 31, 2026 • 67 mins
Long before Rosemarie Nitribitt became front-page news, she was just a little girl growing up in poverty. In Part 1, we take a look at her childhood through orphanages, foster homes, and institutions, and follow her to Frankfurt, where she would soon become one of the most infamous women in 1950s Germany.
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July 24, 2026 • 70 mins
Is reincarnation real, and is it possible that people remember a life that ended more than 3,000 years ago?
From the time she was a small child, Dorothy Eady insisted that ancient Egypt was her home. As an adult, she left England behind, settled in Egypt, and became known as Omm Sety, earning the respect of archaeologists for her meticulous work while claiming that she had once been an Egyptian priestess at the court of Pharaoh Se...
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July 17, 2026 • 75 mins
In the second part we follow Mary through her years on North Brother Island, her legal fight against the city, her release, and the decision that would ultimately send her back into quarantine for the rest of her life.
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July 10, 2026 • 58 mins
Mary Mallon was simply an Irish immigrant making a living as a cook for some of New York's wealthiest families. But wherever she worked, typhoid fever seemed to follow.
In the first part of our two-part series, we head back to New York at the turn of the twentieth century, where crowded streets, groundbreaking discoveries in public health, and one baffling outbreak after another form the backdrop for one of the most famous investi...
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July 3, 2026 • 90 mins
In the final part of our series on Starr Faithfull, the investigation begins, and this is where the mystery begins!
Why were parts of her clothing missing? Why did two autopsies reach different conclusions? What was in Starr's diary? And what role, if any, did the powerful former mayor Andrew J. Peters play after years of abusing her?
In this final episode, we walk through the investigation, the evidence, and the theories that ha...
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June 26, 2026 • 74 mins
Starr Faithfull finally tells her family the secret she’s been carrying for nearly a decade: she has been sexually abused by a powerful and trusted relative since childhood.
In Part 2, we talk about what happened after that revelation, as her family struggles to help her in an era when trauma was poorly understood and the modern ideas of treatment were more than questionable.
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June 19, 2026 • 69 mins
In 1931, the body of 25-year-old Starr Faithfull washed ashore on a Long Island beach. Newspapers and the public speculated whether her death was murder, suicide, or an accident. But before we can answer that question, we need to go back to the beginning: to old Boston money, political power, and the man Starr knew as "Uncle Andrew."
Content note: This episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse, grooming, eating disorders,...
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June 12, 2026 • 38 mins
We're wrapping up our summer break series, and we're leaving murder, mystery, and historical villains behind and head into the strange world of UFO sightings, and things that definitely shouldn't have been lurking outside people's homes after dark. Or before dark. Pretty much at any time!
First, we travel to Scotland in 1979 for the Dechmont Woods Incident, where a respected groundskeeper named Robert Taylor claimed he encountered...
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June 5, 2026 • 30 mins
While Johanna recovers from surgery and Annie does her best to prevent her from immediately returning to work, we're bringing you another trip into the Fresh Hell archives.
This week features condensed versions of two of our most heartbreaking cases, both were originally released as two-part episodes.
First, we travel to Ashland, Kentucky in 1881, where a horrific crime on Christmas Eve left an entire community grieving and searc...
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