Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast
Murders, mysteries and laughter. Wicked and Grim is a podcast created and hosted by a husband and wife duo with an affinity for true crime. We tell the stories of victims and explore the world of sinister tales, all while keeping things light hearted to take away the power and fear mongering from the perpetrators.This is Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast.
Episodes
The Japanese Mind Control Killer
From the mid 1980s through the late 1990s, Futoshi Matsunaga lived by deception, posing as a businessman, scamming millions, and using electrocution, starvation, and fear to bend people to his will. At his side was Junko Ogata, once a gentl…
The Easter Sunday Massacre
Easter is meant to be a celebration of life and renewal, but in 1975, one Ohio family never made it past dinner. In less than five minutes, 41-year-old James Ruppert gunned down his mother, brother, sister-in-law, and eight children in what…
Carly Gregg - Teenage Murderer
On March 19, 2024, 40 year old teacher Ashley Smiley came home from school with her daughter, Carly. Within an hour, Ashley was dead, and Carly was accused of pulling the trigger. What followed was a chilling investigation into how a straig…
Dr. Teresa Sievers - Murder For Hire
On June 28, 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers cut a family trip short to return home to her patients, unaware that death was waiting for her inside her house. The well-respected doctor, wife, and mother was murdered in a savage attack that left inve…
The Turpin Family House of Horrors
In the quiet suburb of Perris, California, neighbour's thought the Turpin family was just a little unusual. No one imagined that inside the walls of their home, thirteen children were wasting away in chains, deprived of food, education, and…
Ashley Reeves – Survival Story
Seventeen year old Ashley Reeves left her Illinois home one April afternoon in 2006, telling her parents she had a job interview. In reality, she was on her way to meet a teacher, Sam Shelton, a man who had crossed lines and pulled her into…
The Heist of the Century - The Antwerp Diamond Heist
In the early hours of February 15, 2003, a small crew of Italian thieves pulled off what seemed impossible, they broke into the world’s most secure diamond vault in Antwerp, Belgium. They slipped past ten layers of high tech security withou…
The Murder of Shakira Spencer
Shakira Spencer longed for friendship, but what she found instead was betrayal of the darkest kind. In September 2022, police forced their way into her West London flat and uncovered a scene so grim it stunned even seasoned detectives. The …
The Yorkshire Ripper - Part 2
From the mid 1970s to the early 1980s, the streets of northern England became the hunting ground for a man whose weapon was as unremarkable as it was deadly, a hammer. In just five years, he butchered thirteen women and brutally attacked at…
The Yorkshire Ripper - Part 1
From the mid 1970s to the early 1980s, the streets of northern England became the hunting ground for a man whose weapon was as unremarkable as it was deadly, a hammer. In just five years, he butchered thirteen women and brutally attacked at…
The Irish Scissor Sisters
In the heart of Dublin, a night of drinking and drugs spiraled into unimaginable violence. By morning, Farah Swaleh Noor was dead, his body hacked apart and dumped into the Royal Canal by sisters Linda and Charlotte Mulhall. Most of his rem…
Tyler Hadley’s House Party of Horrors
Tyler Hadley told his friends he was throwing the party of the year and dozens showed up to drink, dance, and have the time of their lives in his parents' house. But what none of them knew was that his parents were still there, beaten to de…
The Eyeball Killer - The Charles Albright Case
Dallas in the early 1990s was no stranger to crime, but nothing prepared the city for the horror that came next. Three women—Mary Pratt, Susan Peterson, and Shirley Williams—were found murdered, their bodies dumped in plain sight, and each …
Amy Bradley is Missing
Amy Lynn Bradley vanished without a trace from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in March 1998, just hours before the ship docked in Curaçao. What began as a family vacation turned into a decades long nightmare filled with suspicious sightings,…
The impossible Death of Rey Rivera
Rey Rivera was charting a new course in life, ready to trade Baltimore for the bright lights of filmmaking in Los Angeles. But in May 2006, a cryptic phone call pulled him from his home, leaving only a strange note and an empty car. What fo…
The Wichita Horror - Part 2
On the chilling night of December 14, 2000, in Wichita, Kansas, five young friends experienced a brutal home invasion that quickly spiraled into hours of terror, including abductions, repeated sexual assaults, and the cold blooded murders o…
The Wichita Horror - Part 1
On the chilling night of December 14, 2000, in Wichita, Kansas, five young friends experienced a brutal home invasion that quickly spiraled into hours of terror, including abductions, repeated sexual assaults, and the cold blooded murders o…
Fedex Shooting - Brandon Hole
On a quiet Thursday night in April 2021, a former FedEx employee walked into the Indianapolis facility where he once worked and opened fire. In less than four minutes, eight people were dead, several others injured, and the gunman, 19 year …
Murder for Lobster - The Killing of Phillip Boudreau
In the remote fishing village of Petit-de-Grat on Isle Madame, Nova Scotia, where the sea is both a livelihood and a way of life, tensions over lobster poaching exploded into one of Canada’s most shocking acts of vigilante violence. On the …
Joseph Kallinger - The Shoemaker
Joseph Kallinger was no ordinary killer. He was a father, a shoemaker, and a man driven by persistent voices only he could hear. Alongside his 12 year-old son, he carried out a series of brutal crimes that stunned the nation, including robb…
Girl in the Butchers Box - Brook Weber
In August 1996, 18 year old Brook Weber arrived in Moss Point, Mississippi, for what was supposed to be a quick road trip with her new boyfriend, Jeffrey Wolfe. Hours later, Jeffrey was shot dead, and dismembered. While Brook was being held…
The Blue Eyed Butcher - Susan Wright
In January 2003, 26 year old Susan Wright reported her husband Jeff missing, telling friends and family he had stormed out after a fight. Just days later, his partially buried body was discovered in their backyard naked, bound, and stabbed …
Disappearance of Tara Calico
On September 20, 1988, 19 year-old Tara Calico vanished during a routine bike ride along Highway 47 in Belen, New Mexico, a route she knew by heart. Despite witness sightings of a suspicious truck following her and the discovery of her Walk…
The Railroad Killer - Angel Reséndiz
Between 1997 and 1999, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz crisscrossed the United States by freight train, murdering at least nine people in their homes, all located near railroad tracks. Dubbed “The Railroad Killer,” he left behind a trail of victims…
The Polish House of Horrors
In 2023, police raided a quiet home in rural Poland and uncovered one of the most disturbing incest cases in recent memory. What they found buried in the basement revealed years of abuse, manipulation, and the deaths of multiple infants. Th…
The Chinese Black Dahlia - Diao Aiqing
In 1996, a college student vanished from her dorm at Nanjing University. Days later, her butchered, dismembered, boiled remains were found scattered across the city, over 2,000 pieces in total. The victim was 19 year old Diao Aiqing, a quie…
The Wendys Restaurant Massacre
Just before midnight on May 24, 2000, seven Wendy’s employees were called to the basement of their Queens, New York restaurant for what they believed was an end of shift meeting. Instead, they were ambushed, bound with duct tape, suffocated…
The Big Bad Wolf Murder - Doreen Erbert
On October 31, 1984, 25 year old Doreen Erbert, who was eight months pregnant, was brutally murdered in her San Jose home by a masked intruder wearing a wolf costume. Her 4-year-old daughter witnessed the horror while hiding, and her husban…
The Vampire of Kraków - Karol Kot
He looked like an ordinary student, he was quiet, well mannered, and barely out of his teens. But between 1964 and 1966, Karol Kot turned the streets of Kraków into his hunting ground, attacking elderly women and children with chilling prec…
Amy Allwine’s Dark Web Murder
In May 2016, FBI agents arrived at the Minnesota home of Amy and Stephen Allwine with a chilling message: someone had attempted to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill Amy. The anonymous user had paid thousands in Bitcoin to a site called …
Lawnchair Larry Walters
On July 2, 1982, a 33 year old truck driver named Larry Walters launched himself into the skies above Los Angeles using a lawn chair and 45 helium filled weather balloons. Within minutes, he had ascended to 16,000 feet, drifting directly in…
The Tragic Murder of Annie Kasprzak
nnie Kasprzak was just 15 years old when she vanished from her quiet suburban home in Riverton, Utah. A note left behind suggested she had run away, but within 24 hours, her beaten body was discovered in the icy waters of the Jordan River, …
The Family Vlogger - Ruby Franke - Part 2
uby Franke rose to online fame as the matriarch of 8 Passengers, a YouTube family vlog that gained millions of views for its portrayal of traditional parenting and everyday life. But behind the scenes, a much darker reality was unfolding, o…
The Family Vlogger - Ruby Franke - Part 1
Ruby Franke rose to online fame as the matriarch of 8 Passengers, a YouTube family vlog that gained millions of views for its portrayal of traditional parenting and everyday life. But behind the scenes, a much darker reality was unfolding, …
Taylor Parker - Fetal Abduction
Reagan Hancock was just 21 and weeks from giving birth when her life was stolen in one of the most disturbing crimes in recent memory. Taylor Parker, who had faked an entire pregnancy to her boyfriend, brutally attacked Reagan in her own ho…
Incest, Murder & Suicide: Steven & Katie Pladl
When 18 year old Katie Fusco contacted her biological parents, she was looking for answers about her adoption and identity. What followed was a deeply disturbing chain of events. She moved in with her birth family, became romantically invol…
The Hammersmith Ghost Murder
In early 1804, a man was shot dead in a London street, but not by a criminal, but by someone who believed he was firing at a ghost. The killing was rooted in panic and superstition as a white clad ghost was said o be roaming the streets. Th…
The I-70 Killer
In 1992, a cold-blooded killer stalked small shops across the Midwest, striking without warning and disappearing into the endless flow of the interstate. Six victims. Three states. One haunting mystery. Over 30 years later, the man known on…
The Covid Cover Up Murder - Gretchen Anthony
In March 2020, 51 year old Gretchen Anthony vanished from her home in Jupiter, Florida. Strange text messages claimed she was hospitalized with COVID-19, but there was no record of her anywhere and her car was found abandoned outside a medi…
The Monster with 21 Faces
In 1984, Japan was a place where crime was rare, and trust in police was rock solid. That made what happened next all the more shocking. A major candy company CEO was kidnapped straight from his own home while he was in the bath. What follo…