Morbidology

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.

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May 4, 2026 45 mins
It was 2 October, 1994, when nine-year-old Daniel Handley set off on his BMX from the estate where he lived in Beckton, London. He had no clue there were predators circling the estate, hunting for a boy just like him…

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On Sunday, October 21st, 2018, a young woman drove north from Cairns to Wangetti Beach. She parked her car in the camping ground and walked along the sand with her dog. By nightfall, her boyfriend found the car abandoned, keys in the ignition….

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April 20, 2026 45 mins
It was a routine morning for the 911 dispatch centre in Arlington, Texas. But then a phone call came in that shattered the peace. A mother was on the other end of the line, and she said that her nine-year-old son was unresponsive.

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April 13, 2026 56 mins
On the afternoon of March 25th, 1988, eighteen-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell left Denver, Colorado, in her black Honda CRX. She was driving north through Wyoming to pick up her boyfriend in Cody. From there, they'd continue to Billings to visit a friend in the hospital. It was supposed to be a straightforward eight-hour drive. It was anything but…

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April 6, 2026 55 mins
In the early morning hours of 4 November, 2022, the small town of Laurel in Nebraska was asleep. Then suddenly, there was an explosion coming from a home along Elm Street. Neighbours looked out of their windows to see smoke coming from one of the homes.

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March 30, 2026 59 mins
On October 9th, 1986, two nine-year-old girls vanished from a Brighton council estate after dark. Their disappearances sparked one of the longest and most complex investigations in British history - a case that would take over three decades to solve, require a change in the law itself, and prove that justice delayed doesn't always mean justice denied.

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March 23, 2026 41 mins
It was a summer morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2003. A woman glanced out her window and saw a man standing in her backyard. He was bundling her underwear into a pillowcase. Months later, that same woman would fail to show up for work. And when police forced their way into her home, they would discover that the system meant to protect her had failed in the worst way possible.


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March 16, 2026 55 mins
One summer night in 1989, eighteen-year-old Shannon Siders went out to party with friends in her small Michigan town. She climbed into a car with two brothers she knew and was never seen alive again. It would take 25 years, a father's dogged determination, and witnesses finally breaking their silence to reveal what really happened that night…

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March 9, 2026 45 mins
Ryan Kepner was lying in his bed in his apartment in the East Campus of the University of Missouri. It was some time around 3:30AM on the 5th of June, 2004, and he was trying to sleep. But then he heard some thumping noises coming from next door, followed by a man repeating: “Stop it. No.”

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March 2, 2026 64 mins
On the night of June 28, 2000, a fifteen-year-old girl vanished while walking home through Coquille, Oregon. Her boyfriend spent hours driving through town, desperately searching for her. But while he was looking for answers, police were looking at him...

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February 23, 2026 52 mins
Primm, Nevada was alive with neon and noise on 25 May, 1997, but inside the glittering casino, one small detail flickered across the security monitors - a little girl wandering alone. She slipped past rows of slot machines and bright carpet patterns, eventually disappearing into the women’s restroom. She never came back out.

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February 16, 2026 43 mins
Norfolk Island hadn’t had a murder in over 150 years, but that all changed one stormy afternoon in 2002. Two tourists left their accommodation after the rainstorm had cleared. They headed to Cockpit Waterfall. On the floor near the barbecue area, something unnatural caught their attention…

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February 9, 2026 53 mins
It was Valentine’s Day of 1989, and a sex worker from Cardiff, Wales, vanished. Some believed she had gone into hiding, avoiding testifying a two upcoming trials that could have put her in danger. But her disappearance sparked a chain of events that saw innocent lives upended, and it would take decades before the truth finally came to light.

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February 2, 2026 40 mins
Gordon DeVries was driving through his property near Grand Haven, Michigan, on the afternoon of May 8th, 2002. About fifty yards off Winans Street, something unusual caught his eye. Thin gray smoke rising through the trees. And on the ground, something dark and misshapen, still smouldering…

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January 26, 2026 46 mins
It was a quiet morning in Surrey, British  Columbia, on the 10th of December, 2014. A woman living in a quiet cul-se-sac heard a knock on her front door. She opened it up to find a woman there she didn’t recognise. She stank of alcohol, and asked her to call 911.

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January 19, 2026 55 mins
On the morning of the 18th of November, 1987, a brown Ford van pulled up to the ferry terminal in Victoria, British Columbia. Inside were two teenagers. They were heading to Seattle to pick up a furnace. It was supposed to be a simple overnight trip…

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January 12, 2026 34 mins
In March 1943, a young mother calmly told her husband she had killed their baby. When police arrived at the small Los Angeles home, what they discovered would expose a medical crisis that 1940s medicine had no language to describe - and reveal how little anyone understood about what could happen to a woman's mind after childbirth.

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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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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. 

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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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