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Morbidology

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.

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Monday · 58 min
379: Tatiana Casap & Donald Mayer
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, the bins were remaining empty, and nobody was coming and going. It wasn’t...
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September 14 · 1 hr 2 min
378: Carly Ryan
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 found would send shockwaves across the globe but the story started almost...
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September 14 · 9 min
Introducing Campus Killings Season 5 premiere; Episode 79 The case of Haley Anderson
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 mutual friend’s apartment. But this friend was nowhere to be found. An...
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September 7 · 1 hr 12 min
377: Christian Choate
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 on a quiet trailer park in Gary, Indiana, while neighbours gathered, still...
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August 31 · 1 hr 31 min
376: 2022 Raleigh Shootings
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 through the quiet suburban streets. He was dressed head to toe in...
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August 31 · 5 min
Introducing DNA ID Episode 205 The case of Eileen Zarlenga
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 remained missing for 4 days, and when she was found, it was not good news. ...
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August 24 · 52 min
375: Michael Menson
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 grass verge at the side of the road. He was on fire. The driver could not...
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August 17 · 48 min
374: Karen Rolin
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 humid air. She never made it back home.
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August 10 · 1 hr 4 min
373: Ellie Nesler
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 hallway outside, the mother of one of his victims sat waiting. Before the...
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August 3 · 1 hr 12 min
372: Laken Riley
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 in all black was seen peeping into another woman’s window. Their paths...
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July 27 · 1 hr 2 min
371: Jimmy Ryce
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 him less than five minutes to reach the front door. But Jimmy never made it...
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July 20 · 1 hr 8 min
370: The Starved Rock Murders
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 canyons. Nobody ever saw them alive again. SPONSORS - Nutrafol: Find out why...
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July 13 · 47 min
369: Valda, Sally & Damien Connell
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 broken into. Just a few moments after he returned, he received a strange...
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July 6 · 43 min
368: Hailey Owens
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 had her phone in hand, stopping now and then to snap a selfie. That was...
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June 29 · 55 min
367: Caroline Glachan
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 what happened to her would remain unsolved for 27 years, sustained by one...
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June 22 · 46 min
366: The Swartz Family
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 close-knit community, force a prosecutor to question his own instincts, and cause...
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June 15 · 1 hr
365: Rita Politte
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 eventually they fell asleep. In the early hours of the following morning, they...
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June 8 · 56 min
364: Zymere Perkins
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 covered in bruises, welts, and broken bones - evidence of months of brutal...
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June 1 · 1 hr 2 min
363: Julie Williams & Lollie Winans
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, Lollie. She was supposed to be back by the 28th. Three days had passed....
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May 25 · 1 hr 9 min
362: Nona Dirksmeyer
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 student, was found brutally beaten to death in her apartment. Her boyfriend...
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