Episodes
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
S2E13: Nikko Jenkins Part 2
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
Thursday Aug 18, 2022
In this episode we continue our discussion of the spree of killings committed by Nikko Jenkins and his family. They recount the crimes, the confession, and the courtroom drama, all to try to make sense of these series of senseless killings.
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
S2E12: Nikko Jenkins Part 1
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Nikko Jenkins, the young man who terrorized Omaha, Nebraska for weeks. His killing spree ended the lives of 4 people. In this deep-dive, two parter, we take a good look at who Nikko Jenkins was and what led to his crimes. We’ll ask some questions about the role of different systems in raising a killer.
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
S2E11: Stefanie Morey
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
In the summer of 1995, Stefanie Morey was a pretty typical, beloved 13 year old girl whiling away that last middle school summer in her hometown of Marissa, Illinois. In this listener request, Tommy takes us through the tragedy of Stefanie's murder and a devotion to Stefanie's memory with the hopes that her case not be lost to time and small town obscurity.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Re-Release! Shawn Hornbeck
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
On October 6, 2002, 11 year old Shawn Hornbeck vanished into thin air while riding his bicycle along the country roads of his hometown of Richwoods, Missouri, leaving behind no trace of what might have happened. In the years following his disappearance, his parents founded organizations to help find other missing children, channeling their grief into action, while leads dried up and the case went cold. When 13 year old Ben Ownby disappeared under similar circumstances from nearby Beaumont in 2007, a case unlike any other would be cracked wide open.
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
S2E9: The Murder of the Chandler Children
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
A family tries to start fresh in a new town. But tragedy strikes the entire home and leaves the only survivor with nothing but amnesia and a feeling of helplessness in the fight for justice for the murder of her children. Mick tells the story of the brutal attack on a family that ended the lives of two bright and beautiful children.
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
S2E08: Crystal Grubb & Lauren Spierer, Part 2: Questions, Theories, and Hope
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
In Part 1 of the cases of missing Lauren Spierer and murdered Crystal Grubb, Tommy took us through timelines, important places, and persons of interest. In Part 2, she takes us through a deeper look at theories in both cases in the hopes that someday both women find justice in Bloomington.
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
S2E07: Crystal Grubb & Lauren Spierer, Part 1: Mysteries in Bloomington
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Thursday Jun 09, 2022
Bloomington is a city with a split identity: one part idyllic college town, another part gateway to Indiana's meth country. Each half hides the secret of what happened to two women: missing Indiana University sophomore Lauren Spierer and murdered mother of two Crystal Grubb. In part one of this two parter, Tommy lays out these mysterious disappearances and the disparities in local and national media coverage of each.
Thursday May 26, 2022
S2E6: Why are you like this, Robert Berdella?
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
In the late 1980’s, Kansas City, MO, young men are going missing. One man terrorizes and takes advantage of a marginalized community for his own twisted fantasies. Robert Berdella drugs and tortures 6 young men, before one finally escapes his house of horrors. When police finally discover the extent of Berdella’s crimes, the notes, the photographs, the evidence is unbelievable. Mick and Tommy explore what drove Robert Berdella, his pathology, his personality, and his crimes.
Thursday May 12, 2022
S2E05: The I-65 Killer
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
In April 2022, genetic genealogy solved the 30 year mystery of the I-65 killer, a lesser known but prolific and ruthless murderer. But who was this man, what were his crimes, and is it possible that his death toll is higher than we know? Join Tommy as she regales Mick with the shockingly brazen case of the I-65 Killer.
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
S2E04: The Kent State Massacre
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
To many, it is known as “The Day the 60s Died.” On May 4, 1970, 4 Kent State University students were shot dead by the Ohio National Guard during a protest against the expanding War in Vietnam. Mick tells the story of a defining cultural moment and what, if anything, we’ve learned from these events.