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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Sep 28, 2026 · 57:57
A woman was driving down a residential neighbourhood on Laurel Lindale Road on 15 June, 2023, when she saw a girl running down the street. She rolled down her window and heard…
Sep 21, 2026 · 58:55
Neighbours along Cider Hill Drive in Waukesha couldn’t help but notice some peculiarities with one of the homes some time around February 2025. The snow wasn’t being shovelled,…
Sep 14, 2026 · 1:02:57
On the morning of 20 February, 2007, a young woman was walking along Horseshoe Bay in Port Elliot, Australia. She saw something up ahead in the shallows of the water. What she…
Sep 14, 2026 · 9:40
When Binghamton University student, Haley Anderson, stopped answering her friends’ texts, they knew something was very wrong. A subsequent search revealed Haley was dead in a…
Sep 7, 2026 · 1:12:31
It was the 1st of May, 2011, when the phone rang inside a Lake County police station. A woman on the line said she knew where a missing boy is buried. Police officers descended…
Aug 31, 2026 · 1:31:22
On the evening of 13th October 2022, in the Hedingham neighbourhood of northeast Raleigh, North Carolina, residents heard shots. Those who stepped outside saw a figure moving…
Aug 31, 2026 · 5:22
Single mom Eileen Zarlenga disappeared from her home on a cold night in March 1988, taking her coat, boots and purse, but leaving behind her three year old daughter. Eileen…
Aug 24, 2026 · 52:01
On the night of 27 January 1997, a driver made his way along the North Circular Road in north London. In the darkness ahead of him, something was wrong. There was a man on the…
Aug 17, 2026 · 48:14
Karen Rolin had just finished the late night shift at McDonalds in Bay Minette, Alabama, in the early morning hours of 5 June, 1988. She climbed into her car and set off into the…
Aug 10, 2026 · 1:04:07
On the morning of the 2nd of April, 1993, the Jamestown Justice Court was in session. The man in the dock was charged with seven counts of lewd conduct with children. In the…
Aug 3, 2026 · 1:12:19
One morning in February, 2024, a young woman in Athens, Georgia, laced up her running shoes and headed to a wooded trail near the university. Earlier that morning, a man dressed…
Jul 27, 2026 · 1:02:38
Nine-year-old Jimmy Ryce stepped off his school bus on the afternoon of the 11th of September, 1995. It was a short walk to his home in Redlands, Florida. It should have taken…
Jul 20, 2026 · 1:08:12
In March 1960, three women from Chicago checked into a lodge at Starved Rock State Park for a four-day break. They had lunch, laced up their boots, and walked out into the…
Jul 13, 2026 · 47:05
On the evening of 11 August, 1978, Paul Connell returned to his home in Swansea, Australia, to find his wife and two youngest children missing. The house had been ransacked and…
Jul 6, 2026 · 43:09
It was the 18th of February, 2014, and on West Lombard Street in Springfield, Missouri, a man was raking leaves in his front yard. Then a little girl came around the corner. She…
Jun 29, 2026 · 55:25
On the night of the 24th of August 1996, a 14-year-old girl left a housing estate in a small Scottish town and walked alone toward a river in the dark. The investigation into…
Jun 22, 2026 · 46:49
On the morning of January 17th, 1984, a 17-year-old boy picked up the phone and called 911. He said his parents were dead. The investigation that followed would divide a…
Jun 15, 2026 · 1:00:25
On the night of the 4th of December 1998, two teenage boys were having a sleepover in a trailer in rural Hopewell, Missouri. They played games, they stayed up late, and…
Jun 8, 2026 · 56:59
On 26 September, 2016, a young mother rushed from a Harlem apartment building carrying her six-year-old son in her arms. The boy was limp, unresponsive. His small body was…
Jun 1, 2026 · 1:02:15
On the 31st of May, 1996, Tom Williams picked up the phone and called Shenandoah National Park. His daughter, Julie, hadn't come home from her camping trip with her girlfriend,…
May 25, 2026 · 1:09:26
Russellville, Arkansas was a quiet college town that hadn't seen a murder in nearly a decade. On December 15th, 2005, 19-year-old Nona Dirksmeyer, a beauty queen and music…
May 18, 2026 · 51:16
The residents of Meadows Mobile Home Park in Tarpon Springs, Florida, couldn’t help but notice a strong odour emanating from one of the properties in December 2018. Then one day,…
May 11, 2026 · 1:01:23
Tracy Latimer was twelve years old and severely disabled. She had cerebral palsy, couldn't walk or talk, and lived in constant pain. On the morning of Sunday, October 24th, 1993,…
May 4, 2026 · 45:39
It was 2 October, 1994, when nine-year-old Daniel Handley set off on his BMX from the estate where he lived in Beckton, London. He had no clue there were predators circling the…
Apr 27, 2026 · 55:51
On Sunday, October 21st, 2018, a young woman drove north from Cairns to Wangetti Beach. She parked her car in the camping ground and walked along the sand with her dog. By…
Apr 20, 2026 · 45:45
It was a routine morning for the 911 dispatch centre in Arlington, Texas. But then a phone call came in that shattered the peace. A mother was on the other end of the line, and…
Apr 13, 2026 · 56:41
On the afternoon of March 25th, 1988, eighteen-year-old Lisa Marie Kimmell left Denver, Colorado, in her black Honda CRX. She was driving north through Wyoming to pick up her…
Apr 6, 2026 · 55:52
In the early morning hours of 4 November, 2022, the small town of Laurel in Nebraska was asleep. Then suddenly, there was an explosion coming from a home along Elm Street.…
Mar 30, 2026 · 59:17
On October 9th, 1986, two nine-year-old girls vanished from a Brighton council estate after dark. Their disappearances sparked one of the longest and most complex investigations…
Mar 23, 2026 · 41:13
It was a summer morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2003. A woman glanced out her window and saw a man standing in her backyard. He was bundling her underwear into a…
Mar 16, 2026 · 55:11
One summer night in 1989, eighteen-year-old Shannon Siders went out to party with friends in her small Michigan town. She climbed into a car with two brothers she knew and was…
Mar 9, 2026 · 45:47
Ryan Kepner was lying in his bed in his apartment in the East Campus of the University of Missouri. It was some time around 3:30AM on the 5th of June, 2004, and he was trying to…
Mar 2, 2026 · 1:04:46
On the night of June 28, 2000, a fifteen-year-old girl vanished while walking home through Coquille, Oregon. Her boyfriend spent hours driving through town, desperately searching…
Feb 23, 2026 · 52:12
Primm, Nevada was alive with neon and noise on 25 May, 1997, but inside the glittering casino, one small detail flickered across the security monitors - a little girl wandering…
Feb 16, 2026 · 43:36
Norfolk Island hadn’t had a murder in over 150 years, but that all changed one stormy afternoon in 2002. Two tourists left their accommodation after the rainstorm had cleared.…
Feb 9, 2026 · 53:18
It was Valentine’s Day of 1989, and a sex worker from Cardiff, Wales, vanished. Some believed she had gone into hiding, avoiding testifying a two upcoming trials that could have…
Feb 2, 2026 · 40:15
Gordon DeVries was driving through his property near Grand Haven, Michigan, on the afternoon of May 8th, 2002. About fifty yards off Winans Street, something unusual caught his…
Jan 26, 2026 · 46:02
It was a quiet morning in Surrey, British Columbia, on the 10th of December, 2014. A woman living in a quiet cul-se-sac heard a knock on her front door. She opened it up to find…
Jan 19, 2026 · 55:26
On the morning of the 18th of November, 1987, a brown Ford van pulled up to the ferry terminal in Victoria, British Columbia. Inside were two teenagers. They were heading to…
Jan 12, 2026 · 34:16
In March 1943, a young mother calmly told her husband she had killed their baby. When police arrived at the small Los Angeles home, what they discovered would expose a medical…
Jan 5, 2026 · 45:24
It was just after 2AM on 23 February, 2019, when guests spilled out of Venu nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts. There was a young woman standing barefoot. She climbed into an…
Jan 5, 2026 · 9:53
Below the Surface is a true crime podcast covering a variety of strange and bizarre cases with one common theme; a water connection. The show features both solved and unsolved…
Dec 29, 2025 · 42:54
The confetti from New Year’s Eve of 1972 had been swept away and New York City was grinding back to life. People returned to their desks, their routines, their ordinary lives.…
Dec 22, 2025 · 36:58
On Christmas Day 2024, families across Britain gathered in homes decorated with twinkling lights and wreaths, settling in for an evening of festive films and leftover turkey.…
Dec 15, 2025 · 53:26
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,…
Dec 8, 2025 · 43:11
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…
Dec 1, 2025 · 41:44
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…
Nov 24, 2025 · 52:17
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…
Nov 17, 2025 · 46:33
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…
Nov 10, 2025 · 39:08
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…
Nov 3, 2025 · 42:57
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…
Oct 27, 2025 · 47:46
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…
Oct 20, 2025 · 56:37
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…
Oct 13, 2025 · 48:31
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…
Oct 6, 2025 · 43:37
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…
Sep 29, 2025 · 48:52
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…
Sep 22, 2025 · 46:45
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…
Sep 19, 2025 · 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…
Sep 15, 2025 · 1:01:07
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.…
Sep 8, 2025 · 44:31
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…
Sep 1, 2025 · 50:26
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,…
Aug 25, 2025 · 50:03
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…
Aug 21, 2025 · 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,…
Aug 18, 2025 · 44:04
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…
Aug 11, 2025 · 36:12
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,…
Aug 4, 2025 · 40:40
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…
Jul 28, 2025 · 57:00
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…
Jul 21, 2025 · 51:17
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…
Jul 14, 2025 · 53:38
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.…
Jul 7, 2025 · 46:54
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…
Jun 30, 2025 · 40:36
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,…
Jun 23, 2025 · 52:18
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,…
Jun 23, 2025 · 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…
Jun 16, 2025 · 47:54
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…
Jun 9, 2025 · 33:29
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…
Jun 2, 2025 · 45:04
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…
May 26, 2025 · 49:36
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…
May 19, 2025 · 49:33
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…
May 12, 2025 · 48:09
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…
May 5, 2025 · 1:01:55
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…
Apr 28, 2025 · 50:42
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…
Apr 21, 2025 · 35:23
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…
Apr 17, 2025 · 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…
Apr 14, 2025 · 49:32
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…
Apr 7, 2025 · 54:15
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…
Apr 3, 2025 · 29:10
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…
Mar 31, 2025 · 39:50
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…
Mar 24, 2025 · 43:48
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…
Mar 20, 2025 · 10:19
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…
Mar 17, 2025 · 49:25
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…
Mar 10, 2025 · 51:54
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…
Mar 3, 2025 · 39:36
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…
Mar 3, 2025 · 10:37
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…
Feb 24, 2025 · 41:55
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…
Feb 17, 2025 · 57:50
Bill Kasilo was in his van listening to the radio in the campsite at Oceanside Harbour, California, on the night of 14 November, 1998. It was a quiet night, but that stillness…
Feb 10, 2025 · 49:15
After the body of a young woman was found inside a furniture store in Los Angeles, California, detectives began in their investigation. On the counter beside the till, they came…
Feb 3, 2025 · 55:49
Justin Brockheim pulled up outside the RJR Maintenance and Management in Mandan, North Dakota, just before 7:30AM on the 1st of April, 2012, to begin his shift. He stepped into…
Jan 27, 2025 · 42:32
One October afternoon in 1959, an apartment building owner in Allentown, Pennsylvania, noticed the unsettling smell of gas seeping into the hallways. As he traced it to one unit,…
Jan 20, 2025 · 44:46
In October 2021, police were dispatched to a home in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. They had received a call from a teenage boy who reported he and his two younger brothers had…
Jan 13, 2025 · 44:34
Just after midnight on September 13, 1990, a security company in Lexington, South Carolina, received an alarm alert from 5037 Sunset Boulevard. Attempts to contact the home’s…
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