Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

On 31 January 2019, 21 year old University of Hull student Libby Squire was refused entry to a nightclub, put in a taxi by friends, and dropped outside her home, but she never went inside. Minutes later, she was seen wandering Beverley Road, intoxicated, distressed, and without her phone or keys, before CCTV caught her getting into a silver Vauxhall Astra just after midnight. By 2:45 am she was reported missing, launching the bigge...

1995, when daytime talk shows ruled the afternoon. On March 6 in Chicago, The Jenny Jones Show taped a “same-sex secret crush” reveal episode. 32-year-old Scott Amedure would be telling his 24-year-old Jonathan Schmitz friend he liked him. The lights blaze, the crowd leans in, and a private moment goes public. But no one in those studio seats imagined that, days after the cameras stopped rolling, the shockwaves from that reveal wou...

Between 1968 and 1969, three women left Glasgow’s famous Barrowland Ballroom and were later found murdered. Each one of them was strangled with their own stockings and left near their homes. Witnesses described their companion as a tall, red haired man who quoted scripture, a detail that earned him the name “Bible John.” Despite one of Scotland’s largest manhunts, endless speculation, and even modern DNA testing, the faceless kille...

Between 1968 and 1969, three women left Glasgow’s famous Barrowland Ballroom and were later found murdered. Each one of them was strangled with their own stockings and left near their homes. Witnesses described their companion as a tall, red haired man who quoted scripture, a detail that earned him the name “Bible John.” Despite one of Scotland’s largest manhunts, endless speculation, and even modern DNA testing, the faceless kille...

Ted Ammon was a self made Wall Street success, a man who built his fortune through savvy deals and a relentless drive. But his bitter divorce and his estranged wife’s new romance with a hot-tempered electrician set the stage for tragedy. When Ammon was found bludgeoned to death in his East Hampton home, investigators unraveled a story as tangled as it was deadly.

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From the mid 1980s through the late 1990s, Futoshi Matsunaga lived by deception, posing as a businessman, scamming millions, and using electrocution, starvation, and fear to bend people to his will. At his side was Junko Ogata, once a gentle preschool teacher, gradually broken down into his accomplice and forced to take part in murders that claimed nearly her entire family. By the time police finally caught the pair in 2002, ...

Easter is meant to be a celebration of life and renewal, but in 1975, one Ohio family never made it past dinner. In less than five minutes, 41-year-old James Ruppert gunned down his mother, brother, sister-in-law, and eight children in what became known as the Easter Sunday Massacre. The killings were so brutal that investigators described blood dripping through the floorboards into the basement.

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On March 19, 2024, 40 year old teacher Ashley Smiley came home from school with her daughter, Carly. Within an hour, Ashley was dead, and Carly was accused of pulling the trigger. What followed was a chilling investigation into how a straight A student with a bright future could spiral into violence against the very people who loved her most.

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On June 28, 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers cut a family trip short to return home to her patients, unaware that death was waiting for her inside her house. The well-respected doctor, wife, and mother was murdered in a savage attack that left investigators stunned by its ferocity. As detectives sifted through the evidence, suspicion crept closer to home, eventually exposing a chilling plot masterminded by the very person who was supposed ...

In the quiet suburb of Perris, California, neighbour's thought the Turpin family was just a little unusual. No one imagined that inside the walls of their home, thirteen children were wasting away in chains, deprived of food, education, and even sunlight. Their shocking rescue in 2018 would reveal a nightmare hidden in plain sight and the extraordinary bravery of the daughter who finally broke free.

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Seventeen year old Ashley Reeves left her Illinois home one April afternoon in 2006, telling her parents she had a job interview. In reality, she was on her way to meet a teacher, Sam Shelton, a man who had crossed lines and pulled her into a secret relationship. By nightfall she was missing, and within days, the search would uncover a brutal betrayal, an attack in the woods, and one of the most remarkable survival stories ever tol...

In the early hours of February 15, 2003, a small crew of Italian thieves pulled off what seemed impossible, they broke into the world’s most secure diamond vault in Antwerp, Belgium. They slipped past ten layers of high tech security without triggering a single alarm, making off with millions in gems, gold, and cash. It was the kind of heist you’d expect in a Hollywood script, but this one was real, and to this day, the missing dia...

Shakira Spencer longed for friendship, but what she found instead was betrayal of the darkest kind. In September 2022, police forced their way into her West London flat and uncovered a scene so grim it stunned even seasoned detectives. The investigation that followed revealed months of cruelty, control, and torture at the hands of the very people she once called friends.

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From the mid 1970s to the early 1980s, the streets of northern England became the hunting ground for a man whose weapon was as unremarkable as it was deadly, a hammer. In just five years, he butchered thirteen women and brutally attacked at least seven more, slipping past the largest manhunt in British history time and again. Known to the world as the Yorkshire Ripper, his reign of terror was fueled by police missteps, a cruel hoax...

From the mid 1970s to the early 1980s, the streets of northern England became the hunting ground for a man whose weapon was as unremarkable as it was deadly, a hammer. In just five years, he butchered thirteen women and brutally attacked at least seven more, slipping past the largest manhunt in British history time and again. Known to the world as the Yorkshire Ripper, his reign of terror was fueled by police missteps, a cruel hoax...

In the heart of Dublin, a night of drinking and drugs spiraled into unimaginable violence. By morning, Farah Swaleh Noor was dead, his body hacked apart and dumped into the Royal Canal by sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall. Most of his remains were recovered, but his head and other parts were never found. What followed was a grisly investigation that gripped the nation, haunted the city, and cemented the women’s place in Irish tru...

Tyler Hadley told his friends he was throwing the party of the year and dozens showed up to drink, dance, and have the time of their lives in his parents' house. But what none of them knew was that his parents were still there, beaten to death with a hammer and hidden just down the hall. What started as a wild night of teenage rebellion would unravel into one of the most disturbing true crime stories in Florida history.

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Dallas in the early 1990s was no stranger to crime, but nothing prepared the city for the horror that came next. Three women—Mary Pratt, Susan Peterson, and Shirley Williams—were found murdered, their bodies dumped in plain sight, and each one missing their eyes. As panic gripped the streets of Oak Cliff, detectives began piecing together a chilling pattern that would lead them to one of Texas’s most disturbing killers: Charles Alb...

Amy Lynn Bradley vanished without a trace from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in March 1998, just hours before the ship docked in Curaçao. What began as a family vacation turned into a decades long nightmare filled with suspicious sightings, missed opportunities, and chilling theories. To this day, her disappearance remains one of the most disturbing and baffling mysteries to ever unfold at sea.

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