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Morbidology

Morbidology

300 episodes

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 occasional 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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  1. 339: Ashley Pond & Miranda Gaddis

    · 53 min

    The community of Oregon City came together early in 2002 to search for a missing girl. Everybody had their own theory; some believed she ran away. But then three months later, another girl from the same apartment…

  2. 338: The Blackman Family

    · 43 min

    Dawn was breaking over a quiet suburban street in Coquitlam when Ed Field heard the first pop. Half-asleep, he wondered if he'd imagined it. Then came another. And another. From his bedroom window, he watched two…

  3. 337: Autumn Pasquale

    · 42 min

    It was October 2012 in the quiet town of Clayton, New Jersey, when a 12-year-old girl climbed onto her prized BMX bike and rode off into the fading daylight. She promised to be home by her usual 8PM curfew. But as the…

  4. 336: Dru Sjodin

    · 52 min

    Chris Lang was on the phone to his girlfriend as she headed to her parked car at the Columbia Mall in Grand Forks, North Dakota, one evening in 2003. They chatted about their day but then her voice trailed off. She…

  5. 335: Kirsten Costas

    · 47 min

    It was just after 9PM one June in 1984 when Alex Arnold opened his front door to a teenage girl. She was panicked, telling him her friend had been “acting weird.” What happened next would expose the hidden pressures,…

  6. 334: Farmville Murders

    · 39 min

    In September of 2009, a police officer in Farmville, Virginia, arrived at a home to carry out a welfare check. As he stepped onto the property, a pungent odor hit him, strong enough to stop him in his tracks. It was…

  7. 333: Scot Weaver & Daniel Geier

    · 43 min

    Wandsworth Homes is a quiet military housing complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Children rode bikes along its streets, neighbours looked out for one another, and life seemed ordinary. But one March evening in 1991,…

  8. 332: Charlene Downes

    · 48 min

    Blackpool is a town built on lights and laughter, a place where families once came for the arcades, the tower, the sea air. On a cold night after Halloween 2003, 14-year-old Charlene Downes set off through the town…

  9. 331: Mengqi Ji

    · 57 min

    Steven Roberts was hiking through Rock Bridge Memorial State Park in Missouri, one morning in March of 2020. Something unusual caught his eye. Just beyond the treeline, something sharp and rectangular broke the natural…

  10. 330: Kelsey Smith Briggs

    · 49 min

    In October 2011, a little girl was found unresponsive in a home in Meeker, Oklahoma. When detectives looked into the family’s history, what they found would horrify them, and lead to sweeping changes in how children…

  11. 329: Celeste Manno

    · 44 min

    A woman was asleep in her home in Mernda on the outer fringes of Melbourne, Australia, when she was jolted awake by a noise. She wasn’t sure if it had come from the world outside or from inside her dreams. Seconds…

  12. 328: Wadea al-Fayoume

    · 49 min

    It was October 14, 2023, and six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume was preparing for a bath in his duplex home in Plainfield Township, Illinois. Moments later, there was a knock on the door. What happened after his mother…

  13. 327: Dr. Lakshmanrao & Dr. Shanta Chervu

    · 47 min

    On New Year’s Day of 1989, while most of America was nursing hangovers and making resolutions they’d never keep, a family gathered in a Queens hospital waiting room. They were there for the birth of a baby, the first…

  14. Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY

    · 7:29

    Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily. Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring, Crime House Daily is coming to you twice every weekday, covering the biggest…

  15. 326: Timothy Ferguson

    · 1 h 01 min

    First responders in Norton Shores, Michigan, were responding to a report of an unresponsive teenage boy one July morning in 2022. When they entered the home, they were disgusted. It was filled with trash, and faeces…

  16. 325: Conner & Brinley Snyder

    · 45 min

    One morning in September of 2019, paramedics were directed to a home in the village of Kempton, Pennsylvania. A 911 call had come in from a frantic mother. She described finding her children hanging from the rafters of…

  17. 324: Eddie Polec

    · 50 min

    In the 1990s, the boundary between Fox Chase and Abington wasn’t just geographic, it was cultural. Fox Chase was gritty, tight-knit, and proud; Abington was cleaner, wealthier, and more restrained. The rivalry between…

  18. 323: The Pelley Family

    · 50 min

    On a quiet Sunday morning in 1989, members of a small church in Lakeville, Indiana, gathered for their service. They sat chatting amongst themselves in the pews waiting for the pastor. He was always there on time.…

  19. Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES

    · 8:16

    From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, to the Octopus Murders and the Waco Siege, the world is full of deception, manipulation, and destruction. Listen to Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes every Wednesday as we explore…

  20. 322: Shakira Spencer

    · 44 min

    Lambert House is an apartment complex sitting in Ealing, West London. It’s an unremarkable area, but somewhere considered safe. But over September of 2022, a stench was noticed coming from one of the flats and it was…

  21. 321: Riley Whitelaw

    · 36 min

    Riley Whitelaw was working the evening shift at Walgreens in Colorado Springs on 11 June, 2022. She told her manager that she was going on a break. The minutes turned to hours, and Riley still hadn’t returned. Become a…

  22. 320: Jesse Dirkhising

    · 41 min

    Police in Rogers, Arkansas, were responding to a report of somebody not breathing one early morning in September 1999. As they pulled up outside the unassuming apartment, a nude man flung open the front door and…

  23. 319: Charisse & Lacie Christopher

    · 57 min

    One afternoon in June 1987, Nancy Wilson was at her home in the Hiwassee Apartments in Millington, Tennessee. She heard a loud thump from the apartment above. Seconds later, she heard a woman scream “get out” followed…

  24. 318: Ashlee Martinson

    · 51 min

    Hidden among the wooded backroads of rural Wisconsin sat a modest farmhouse. It was quiet, unremarkable, and seemingly ordinary. But behind closed doors, it was a place of fear and control. In March 2015, that house…

  25. 317: Tracie McBride

    · 54 min

    One night in February 1995, Dawn Walker was talking to a friend stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. But during that call, her friend’s voice trailed off. She was distracted. There was somebody…

  26. 316: Linda Stoltzfoos

    · 47 min

    In the quiet farmlands of Pennsylvania, the Amish live by tradition - peaceful, close-knit, and untouched by much of the outside world. But when one of their own didn’t come home one Sunday, that peace was broken. What…

  27. 315: The Fisher Children

    · 41 min

    On a summer afternoon in Waterville, Maine, a man returned home to a chilling silence. What he found behind the door would alter the course of his life, and the town’s history, forever. What happened was only the…

  28. 314: Blaze Bernstein

    · 52 min

    Blaze Bernstein was home for winter break, reconnecting with old friends and preparing for a new semester at the University of Pennsylvania. But on a cool January night in 2018, he vanished. What began as a missing…

  29. Introducing: The Lost Boys of Wineville

    · 2:27

    From the creators of the award-winning podcast They Walk Among Us comes The Lost Boys of Wineville—an extended limited series spanning 30 in-depth episodes. This gripping true-crime saga unravels a chilling story that…

  30. 313: Christopher Barrios Jr.

    · 48 min

    On the 8th of March, 2007, in the quiet mobile home community of Horseshoe Lane, Brunswick, Georgia, six-year-old Christopher Michael Barrios Jr. vanished without a trace. As the search for Christopher unfolded, dark…

  31. 312: The Zhou Family

    · 33 min

    Brooklyn’s Sunset Park is a tight-knit neighbourhood, where families share meals, traditions, and the quiet rhythm of daily life. But on one October night in 2013, that quiet was shattered—when blood-curdling screams…

  32. 311: Francine Hughes

    · 45 min

    In 1977, the small town of Dansville, Michigan, was shattered by a fire that killed a man in his sleep. But this wasn’t just another tragic house fire. What unfolded was a story of fear, survival, and justice in a…

  33. 310: Quinton Simon

    · 50 min

    In the quiet suburbs of Savannah, Georgia, 20-month-old Quinton Simon was reported missing from his crib in October 2022. His mother said he vanished without a trace. But as investigators dug deeper, it became clear -…

  34. 309: BIll & Opal Arnold

    · 50 min

    In 1958, Omaha, Nebraska, was a city of quiet neighbourhoods and steady lives. But behind one front door, a teenager harboured a secret so dark it would shatter his family—and stun the entire community. What no one…

  35. 308: Benjamin Cervera

    · 48 min

    On the morning of August 17, 2021, the emergency room at Methodist Children’s Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, was bustling with the usual chaos of a busy hospital. Nurses rushed between patients, doctors consulted…

  36. 307: Russell Hill & Carol Clay

    · 1 h 02 min

    The Wonnangatta Valley is as beautiful as it is remote, a vast expanse of wilderness nestled deep in Victoria’s High Country. It’s the kind of place where people go to disappear—sometimes by choice, sometimes not. When…

  37. 306: The Kasten Family

    · 51 min

    At the St. Charles County 911 dispatch centre, the holiday season had brought an unusually calm night on one of the final days of 2018. But just before midnight, that all changed. A frantic and desperate call came…

  38. 305: Terry Neely

    · 35 min

    When firefighters responded to a blaze behind a Phoenix church in August 2009, they expected a routine call. But as the flames died down, they uncovered something far more disturbing—a discovery that would lead…

  39. Introducing: Suave

    · 3:39

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast returns for its second season! Seven years after his release from prison, former juvenile lifer Luis "Suave" Gonzalez seems to be thriving. His career has taken off, he’s in a…

  40. 304: Monika Beerle

    · 50 min

    The East Village in the late 1980s was a world of its own—gritty, chaotic, and teeming with eccentric characters. Among them was Daniel Rakowitz, a self-proclaimed prophet who roamed the streets with his pet rooster,…

  41. 303: Jeffrey Baldwin

    · 54 min

    When emergency responders arrived at a home in Toronto on a cold November morning in 2002, they found a little boy lying lifeless on the floor. At first glance, it seemed like he had simply stopped breathing. But as…

  42. Introducing: The Crime Scene Weekly

    · 29 min

    Introducing a new podcast for the true crime-obsessed: "The Crime Scene Weekly," from our friends at ABC Audio. Every Wednesday, "The Crime Scene Weekly" brings you the latest in true crime. ABC News correspondent Brad…

  43. 302: Meghan Elliott

    · 40 min

    In the early morning hours of 29 September, 2021, Michael Elliot had just drifted off to sleep. However, he was awoken by a strange sound coming from somewhere in his home. It appeared that somebody was on the phone,…

  44. 301: Jeanine Grinsell & Laurie McKenna

    · 44 min

    In the 1980s, Carolands Mansion sat abandoned in the hills of Hillsborough, California. Once a grand estate commissioned by the heiress to the Pullman railway fortune, it had since become a haunted house of sorts. But…

  45. Presenting: KILLER MINDS

    · 10 min

    Formerly known as Mind of A Serial Killer, Killer Minds takes you deep into the psychology of history’s most chilling murderers—from infamous serial killers to ruthless cult leaders, deadly exes, and terrifying spree…

  46. 300: Robert Holohan

    · 49 min

    On the evening of 4 January, 2005, the quiet townload of Ballyedmond in Midleton, Ireland, was thrown into turmoil. An 11-year-old boy had vanished and his BMX was found against a bush not too far from his home……

  47. 299: Cody Posey

    · 52 min

    Sam Donaldson returned to his Hondo, New Mexico, ranch after a Fourth of July weekend away with his wife, expecting the usual buzz of ranch life. Instead, an unsettling silence greeted him. As he neared the ranch…

  48. 298: Sharon Lopatka

    · 40 min

    Sharon Lopatka’s husband didn’t think anything of it when she told him she was travelling out of state to visit friends. However, everything changed when he found what appeared to be a suicide note she had penned. When…

  49. Introducing Killer Communications

    · 11 min

    Introducing Killer Communications A Preview of Episode 1: Dale Williams In the small town of Nucla, Colorado, autobody shop Dale Williams took a call at his shop in 1999 for a stranded vehicle. He left in his truck and…

  50. 297: Charlie Howard

    · 42 min

    Charlie Howard just wanted to live openly and authentically. But one fateful night in 1984, as he walked arm in arm with his boyfriend across a bridge in Bangor, Maine, a group of teenagers began hurling homophobic…

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