Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast "These were blokes who were pulling their shirt across after they'd been stabbed by her. Blokes who'd had their heads caved in with a frying pan. And it's even harder to imagine when blokes like these––hard Aussie blokes––lived in fear of their lives." — Sergeant Graham Furlonger, NSW Police ⚠️ Content Warning: This blog and its companion podcast contain detail

This is the story of James "Jamie" Carroll — hairdresser, drag queen, meth dealer, and a man whose magnetic personality made everyone in the room feel like the most important person alive. It is also the story of Jeffrey "Jase" Mundt and Joseph "Joey" Banis — two men bound together by drugs, obsession, and secrets so dark that even the city's beloved Victorian shadows couldn't keep them buried forever.

The trial of Kouri Richins lasted three weeks, had forty-two witnesses, and only three hours of deliberation before she was found guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins using a drink laced with enough fentanyl to kill him five times over.

A Body in the Ashes: Discovery in Lampblack Swamp The morning of December 26, 1907, dawned cold and gray over Harrison, New Jersey. Along the Passaic River, a local man cut across a stretch of wasteland—a grim patch of ash heaps, cinders, and marsh where industrial refuse met stagnant water. It was the kind of place where the city dumped what it didn’t want to see. There, in a shallow pool of filthy water, he saw her. The woman was completely naked, lying face-up in the blac

Alexis Sharkey’s death was one of those cases that instantly lit up every corner of the internet—because it collided at the intersection of influencer culture, a beautiful young victim, and the ugly, familiar pattern of intimate partner homicide. And for months it looked like it might stall, the way cases sometimes do when the truth is inconvenient. But Houston detectives kept working it, built the timeline, established motive and opportunity, and in the end they did what the