Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

Murders, mysteries and laughter. Wicked and Grim is a podcast created and hosted by a husband and wife duo with an affinity for true crime. We tell the stories of victims and explore the world of sinister tales, all while keeping things light hearted to take away the power and fear mongering from the perpetrators.This is Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast.

Episodes

January 30, 2026 58 mins
From the outside, it looked like a perfect life: a brilliant scientist, a successful marriage, and a prestigious career in pharmaceuticals. But behind the scenes, secret affairs, obsessive surveillance, and carefully crafted lies were quietly taking over. A hidden love triangle inside one workplace would spiral into stalking, betrayal, and brutal violence.
What started as love, turned into murder, and eventully expose a calculated k...
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In 1928, nine year old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the movies in Los Angeles, setting off a desperate search that would grip the nation. As police scrambled to close the case and protect their reputation, they forced a false reunion and pressured his grieving mother to accept a child who was not hers. When she refused, she was silenced, institutionalized, and left to fight the system alone. Meanwhile, hidden on a remote c...
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In April 2010, twenty five year old Erinn Orcutt was abducted at gunpoint from the Ontario Mills Mall parking lot in California as she left her waitressing job. For seventy two minutes, she was held captive inside her own SUV, beaten, sexually assaulted, photographed, and threatened with death.
She escaped only after noticing her attacker’s gun had fallen to the floor and sprinting to a nearby liquor store for help. Within hours, i...
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January 20, 2026 60 mins
In October 1994, a young mother in Union, South Carolina, told police that a stranger had carjacked her vehicle and driven away with her two small children still strapped in their car seats. For nine days, the case dominated national news as law enforcement searched roads, lakes, and backcountry while the public watched her tearful pleas for the boys’ return. As the investigation unfolded, however, detectives began to find that the...
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Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began.
What no one knew at the time was that Sharon Marshall wa...
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Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began.
What no one knew at the time was that Sharon Marshall wa...
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January 9, 2026 65 mins
In October 1994, a woman named Emelita Reeves disappeared from her home in Arlington, Texas, leaving behind her young son and a husband who said she had simply walked away. At first, there was no sign of a crime, just a familiar explanation, delivered calmly, by a retired Army master sergeant. But as detectives began to trace Jack Reeves’ past, they realized Emelita was not the first woman in his life to vanish under strange circum...
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January 6, 2026 59 mins
On June 13, 2016, Aaron Lee Pajich-Sweetman, an 18 year old with autism, vanished after meeting two women he trusted at a shopping centre south of Perth. Within days, police would trace his final movements through phone records and CCTV footage to a house in Orelia, where evidence of careful planning, digital communication, and amateur concealment began to surface. What followed was the unraveling of a calculated murder carried out...
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January 2, 2026 63 mins
In the spring of 2019, Kelly Jean Warner quietly disappeared from contact, a pattern that didn’t immediately raise concern because of her transient life and history of instability. For weeks, her absence went largely unnoticed, even as she lay dead inside a modest apartment in Sturgis, Michigan, her body deliberately hidden and her death unreported. It would take a single phone call on May 22, 2019, to trigger an investigation that...
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December 30, 2025 68 mins
On May 10, 1973, a masked man entered a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch in Kenora, Ontario, armed with firearms and a homemade bomb strapped to his body. What began as a bank robbery quickly turned into a public spectacle, broadcast live on radio as police, civilians, and hundreds of onlookers watched the standoff unfold on Main Street. When a single gunshot triggered a massive explosion, the robber was killed instantly l...
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December 23, 2025 56 mins
On the night of September 19, 1952, 22 year old Betty Shanks stepped off a tram in the Brisbane suburb of Grange and began the short walk home to her parents’ house, less than 400 metres away. Within minutes, she was violently attacked and killed, her body discovered the following morning in a neighbour’s garden. More than seventy years later, her murder remains Queensland’s oldest unsolved homicide, defined by a narrow twelve minu...
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December 19, 2025 50 mins
In March 2021, a man was found executed on a wooded trail inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park, shot once in the back of the head with no weapon left behind. As investigators reconstructed his final days, they uncovered a deliberate, cross-state plan driven not by chance, but by revenge rooted in a past allegation that had never resulted in charges. This is the true story of how unresolved trauma, perceived injustice, and calculate...
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December 16, 2025 56 mins
In April 1998, hikers in Northern California’s Trinity Alps discovered a partially burned, shallowly buried body at an abandoned campsite, triggering a homicide investigation in Shasta County. The victim was twenty year old Lora Sinner, who had recently moved to California after her mother’s death and was last seen alive with a small group of friends on a camping trip. As investigators reconstructed her final days, they uncovered a...
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December 12, 2025 65 mins
On April 26, 2013, 25 year old Jessica Heeringa vanished from her late night shift at a Norton Shores, Michigan gas station, leaving behind her car, purse, cash, and a small trail of blood, while cameras nearby caught a silver minivan fleeing the area. A massive investigation stalled for three years, that is until a terrified teenager escaped an attempted abduction in 2016 and pointed police toward a man named Jeffrey Thomas Willis...
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December 9, 2025 62 mins
Nobody in Cincinnati imagined a serial killer was moving quietly through its neighbourhoods, especially not a polite young German immigrant mother who cared for lonely, elderly men. But behind Anna Marie Hahn’s warm smile was a trail of sudden illnesses, forged wills, missing valuables, and quiet funerals that never raised suspicion. It wasn’t until one victim collapsed hundreds of miles from home that investigators finally uncover...
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December 5, 2025 53 mins
She left home on a quiet Saturday, promising to be back in a couple of hours. When her truck was found abandoned near the river, with her keys and water bottle on the ground, it was clear something was terribly wrong. What followed was a 28 year nightmare with a cold case buried in silence, until a strand of hair and a sister’s relentless pursuit cracked it wide open. Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56a...
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December 2, 2025 67 mins
He confessed years before he was caught, telling his mother he had killed a woman, yet no one believed him until even after the bodies began to surface. This was Frank Gust, the so called Rhine-Ruhr Ripper, a necrophilic predator whose violence escalated from torturing animals to murdering women and posing their remains. Even after receiving a life sentence, Frank remains eligible for release in 2026, raising the unnerving question...
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November 28, 2025 67 mins
With 93 confessed murders across 19 states, Samuel Little holds the grim title of America’s most prolific serial killer ever, a distinction confirmed by the FBI in 2019. For more than four decades, he strangled vulnerable women, many of them never to be identified, leaving behind a coast to coast trail of bodies and cold cases. His killing spree, which spanned from 1970 to 2005, went undetected for years, until a DNA hit and a seri...
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November 25, 2025 57 mins
On a chilly October night in 1995, two teenage girls, Misty Cockerill and Tanya Smith, were walking through a quiet Abbotsford neighbourhood on their way to a party when they were suddenly abducted and brutally attacked. One of them would survive against all odds, but the other would be found murdered, her body discarded near a remote canal. What began as a horrifying assault quickly escalated into a chilling investigation that wou...
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November 18, 2025 54 mins
In May 2007, a man in the suburb of Kuřim adjusted his baby monitor and accidentally stumbled onto one of the most disturbing discoveries in Czech criminal history. His device had intercepted a live feed showing a small boy imprisoned in a filthy, windowless space next door. What began as a simple technological glitch quickly unraveled into a case involving false identities, ritualistic control, severe child abuse, and a woman who ...
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