Subscriber-only episode "I realize now that he was right when he said our battles would continue until one of us was dead." These are the words from a betrayed wife whose husband seemed to be as bent on her destruction as she was determined to get him back from another woman who took him away. Betty Broderick’s life became notorious due to a highly publicized case in the late 1980s. She was married to Dan Broderick, a successful attorney, with whom she had four children. The couple's marriage ended in a contentious and acrimonious divorce in the late 1980s, after Dan left Betty for his assis ..read more

Subscriber-only episode Rod Ferrell was introduced to a game that invaded his mind. A game that would actually blur the lines of reality for him, and he would go on to believe that he was in fact a 500 year old vampire. But Rod wasn’t alone with this new found persona. His newfound blood lines would make him a cult leader in which he was willing to do anything to protect and provide for them.   Content Warning: This episode briefly mentions topics surrounding animal cruelty & details of murder. Sources: https://wendorfmurders.wordpress.com/research-resources/ https://medium.com/illu ..read more

Danish engineer and mad inventor Peter Masden was intriguing to Swedish journalist Kim Wall. He was inspiring to many and well known for his rockets, space lab, and multiple submarines. But her story of a lifetime turned into making headlines in a very different way that she had expected. Peter secretly plotted to get her alone, under the ocean, and then reveal who he really was. Sources: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/peter-madsen-guilty-verdict-leaves-lingering-questions-and-pain/amp https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5526977/amp/Kim-Wall-killer-watched-videos-women-im ..read more

Subscriber-only episode Today’s episode is wild. We’re talking about Charles "Smitty" Schmid, a charismatic sociopath who compensated for his below average height by stuffing his cowboy boots with rags and crushed beer cans, wore pancake makeup, and sported a fake beauty mark on one cheek. He murdered three teenaged girls and buried their bodies in the desert outside of his hometown, Tucson, Arizona.  Weird Law: https://www.hastingsandhastings.com/absurd-arizona-laws/  Merch: https://belleame-creations.square.site/shop/judgy-crime-girls/2  Sources available upon requ ..read more

Subscriber-only episode Laura Parker was a quiet 14 year old girl, who lived with her parents in Lindenhurst, New York. She had been in choir, active in church, and a softball player at her high school. She disappeared on May 25, 1984, but most people believed that she was a runaway. Laura’s parents knew better and wondered where she was, searching everywhere. Four months later, her remains were discovered a few miles from her family home. Her killer has never been found. Around the same time, three other young girls fell victim to disappearances/murders in the same area and it is believed tha ..read more

In June of 1988, 23-year old Philip Fraser started his trek from Anchorage, Alaska to Olympia, Washington - where he was set to start his pre med classes at Evergreen State College. However, a week after he left, his vehicle was found abandoned and set on fire at a car wash in Prince George, British Columbia… and Philip was nowhere to be found… Merch: https://belleame-creations.square.site/shop/judgy-crime-girls/2 Sources: https://unresolved.me/philip-fraser https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/The-Unsettling-Murder-of-Philip-Fraser-Killed-by-a-Hitchhiker https://static1.squarespace.com/st ..read more

Subscriber-only episode Not long after Robert Spangler learned he was dying of cancer, detectives came knocking at his door on the chance he had something he might want to get off his chest before the end came. And he didn’t disappoint them. Spangler matter-of-factly admitted killing his family in 1978 and pushing his third wife, Donna, to her death at the Grand Canyon 15 years later. The death of his second wife, Sharon, was ruled as suicide and was never investigated. Death, it seems, had always been an “easy way out” for him. Weird Law: https://criminaldefensetucson.com/look-iowas-dumbe ..read more

Subscriber-only episode Hannah Upp, a 23-year-old middle-school teacher in New York City has disappeared three times. The first time was in August 2008 in New York City, where she was found floating in the Hudson River almost three weeks after she went missing. She was suffering from a rare form of amnesia called dissociative fugue. The second time was in September 2013 in Kensington, Maryland, where she went missing for two days and was later found in a creek. The third time was in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands in September 2017, where she was reported missing after failing to show up for a ..read more

On Easter Sunday, 1937, Robert Irwin, a talented and very disturbed young sculptor, who had been in and out of mental hospitals for years, committed a horrific triple murder in the fashionable Manhattan neighborhood of Beekman Hill. The victims were Veronica Gedeon, a beautiful true crime magazine model, her mother Mary, both strangled to death, and a male boarder, Frank Byrnes, stabbed eleven times with an icepick while he slept.  These murders led to one of the largest manhunts since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.  Weird Law: https://1045theteam.com/ten-more-new-york-laws-that-ar ..read more

Subscriber-only episode  A father’s love knows no bounds.  André Bamberski would have moved heaven and earth for his daughter Kalinka....a fact that became clear after her mysterious death. Kalinka Bamberski suddenly died in July 1982 while living with her mother, Danielle, and stepfather, Dr. Dieter Krombach, at Lake Constance in southern Germany. She was found in her bed one morning with needle marks on her arms and an injury to her genitals. Krombach said the death was an accident after he injected her with a substance used to combat anaemia and help her tan faster. Bamberski was ..read more