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

Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast "The jury got this wrong. It's completely the opposite of what it should be. My client should have received at most an eight-year sentence, and Mr. Mundt should be sitting in prison right now on a potential life sentence." — Darren Wolff, defense attorney for Joey Banis Previously, in Old Louisville... If you haven't read Part One yet, go back and start there — because the story you're about to read only hits as hard as it

In March 1895, a young Irishwoman named Bridget Cleary was burned to death by her husband Michael — not in a fit of rage, but as the final act of a nine-day ritual he believed would drive out the fairy changeling he was convinced had replaced his wife. Nine people were in that cottage. None of them stopped him. This is the story of Ireland's last fairy trial—and the remarkable, independent woman history nearly forgot.

In the early 1900s, when medicine still couldn’t cure much and desperate people chased miracles, one woman found a terrifying business model: convince sick patients that food was poison, call their agony “healing,” and charge them for the privilege—until their bodies gave out. Her name was Linda Hazzard—and she wasn’t really a doctor in the way her patients assumed.

The mask: “church lady,” daycare operator, trusted neighbor In Cordele, Georgia, Janie Lou Gibbs blended into the safest kind of small-town scenery: a mother, a churchgoing woman, and a caregiver who ran a daycare. People trusted her—because everything about her life looked ordinary, even admirable. That’s what makes this case so chilling for true crime listeners: the danger didn’t arrive from outside the home. It lived at the center of it. Between 1966 and 1967 , multiple

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

The Internet's First Serial Killer In the world of true crime, some names chill you to the bone. Others make you double-check your locks....

The Unsolved Murder of Katie Janness and Her Dog Bowie: A True Crime Tragedy On a warm summer evening, July 28, 2021, Atlanta’s vibrant Midtown neighborhood was shaken by an act of unspeakable violence. Katie Janness, a beloved bartender, musician, and loyal friend, and Bowie, her cherished pitbull, were brutally murdered inside Piedmont Park. Four years later, the case remains unsolved, haunting the community, Katie’s loved ones, and followers of unsolved crimes across the n

In the grim shadow of San Francisco’s Summer of Love, where flower children once danced in the streets, another, much darker movement...

Beverly Jarosz: Obsession, Terror and a Murder People Refuse t The Murder of Beverly Jarosz: A 1964 Nightmare That Still Haunts Garfield...

The Rise of Mary Rogers: Manhattan’s Enchanting Cigar Girl In the bustling heart of 1840s Manhattan, where cobblestone streets echoed...

A Real Code Red Before Jack Nicholson shouted, “You can’t handle the truth!” on screens across America, there was David Cox—a real U.S. Marine stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in the mid-1980s. Cox, along with nine other Marines, was ordered to discipline Private First Class William Alvarado, a fellow Marine who had broken the chain of command by writing directly to a U.S. Senator. The response? A so-called "Code Red"—a non-judicial punishment meant to enforce Marine discipl

e Clar Killer It was an ordinary March night in 1981 when Washington County, Ohio, lost one of its finest. Lieutenant Ray Richard “Joe” Clark was standing in the kitchen of his Marietta home, probably thinking about the Ohio State Buckeyes as they played Michigan State—when a bullet shattered his kitchen window. Lt. Joe Clark Killer Joe was dead before he hit the floor. He wasn’t just any lawman. Joe Clark was a respected veteran, a stand-up cop known for doing the hard right

On June 30, 1999, the body of Ricky McCormick was found in a Missouri cornfield west of St. Louis. At first, it looked like another suspicious but explainable death. But what investigators discovered in his pants pocket turned the case into one of the FBI’s most baffling cold cases. Two pages.Covered in jumbled, handwritten code. No one—not even the FBI—has been able to crack it. Who Was Ricky McCormick? Ricky was 41 years old, living on disability, and known to frequent mote

Three Jolts to Justice: The Shocking Case of Michael G. Schiller A brutal backyard murder. A courtroom drama. And an electric chair that just wouldn’t finish the job. The Crime That Shocked Youngstown On June 19, 1903, the quiet neighborhood of Youngstown, Ohio, was shattered by a crime so savage it still echoes through true crime history. Michael G. Schiller, a local saloon keeper with a taste for whiskey and rage, arrived at the home of his estranged wife, Mary Schiller.

Richard Kuklinski: The Chilling Truth About the Iceman Killer Who Was Richard Kuklinski? Richard Kuklinski wasn’t your average mafia...

Lizzie Borden: The Axe Murder That Still Haunts Fall River On the morning of August 4, 1892, the quiet town of Fall River, Massachusetts, became the backdrop for one of the most infamous unsolved murders in American history. Andrew and Abby Borden were found brutally hacked to death in their own home, their skulls shattered by multiple blows from a hatchet. Suspicion quickly fell on Andrew’s youngest daughter, Lizzie Borden—a respectable, church-going woman whose name would b

Lizzie Borden: The Axe Murder That Still Haunts Fall River On the morning of August 4, 1892, the quiet town of Fall River, Massachusetts, became the backdrop for one of the most infamous unsolved murders in American history. Andrew and Abby Borden were found brutally hacked to death in their own home, their skulls shattered by multiple blows from a hatchet. Suspicion quickly fell on Andrew’s youngest daughter, Lizzie Borden—a respectable, church-going woman whose name would b

Teresa Lewis: Greed, Murder-for-Hire, and the Death Penalty Controversy True Crime | Virginia Murder Case | Death Penalty Debate On the...

The Deadly Affair: The Laura Safford Miller Case In the winter of 1950, a dramatic and tragic tale of love, betrayal, and death unfolded...