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True Crimecast

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True Crimecast is a podcast that adds a unique perspective to the true crime genre. John and Jamie dig into new cases and revisit old ones to try to get to the truth. Each episode takes on a different case and the hosts share both details and theories about what really happened.

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#985
Friday · 17 min
Royal Bidet - Chicken Fighting Ring
Kentucky uses 12 agencies to track down and indict five chicken fighters, and a crew steals a toilet made of solid gold.
#984
Wednesday · 21 min
MurderGPT - Knives Down Under
A former NFL player consults ChatGPT when trying to cover up a murder, and a recent machete ban in Australia leads to the most dangerous geocaching event ever.
#980
Tuesday · 50 min
The Retrial - John O'Keefe and Karen Read (Part Two)
In April 2025, Karen Read returned to Norfolk Superior Court facing a second murder trial for the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. With lead investigator Michael Proctor officially fired and a complete roadmap from the first trial, both sides delivered an explosive replay of contested digital evidence, accident reconstruction, and claims of corruption. Also, who and what is a Turtleboy?
#983
September 21 · 38 min
Criminal Defense Investigations - Interview with Amber Kaset
Amber Kaset is a criminal defense investigator and mitigation specialist with more than 20 years of experience and over 1,000 cases. She spent seven years as an investigator with the Public Defender's Office in Nashville before founding AK Investigations in 2010. Today she leads a team of investigators and mitigation specialists working with defense attorneys nationwide on serious felonies, drug cases, complex federal cases, wrongful convictions, death penalty cases, and large civil matters. htt
#982
September 18 · 17 min
The Construction Site - Lingerie and Cucumbers
A (Florida, of course) man is caught at a construction site hiding a weapon in his unmentionables, and a would-be robber in Scotland gets himself in a pickle.
#981
September 16 · 16 min
Get the Bucket - Grab the Vest
Can one person give consent to another person to shoot them? If not, what would justify throwing a bucket of feces on another human?
#979
September 15 · 56 min
34 Fairview - John O'Keefe and Karen Read (Part One)
Did Karen Read strike her boyfriend with her vehicle, or was she framed by a tight-knit circle of local law enforcement? The death of John O'Keefe sparked one of the most divisive criminal cases in modern New England history. In Part One of our two-part series on True Crimecast, we examine O'Keefe's legacy as a dedicated officer and guardian, the timeline of the night at the Waterfall Bar, the controversial 2:27 a.m. phone search, and the investigative missteps that ultimately led to the lead tr
#978
September 11 · 18 min
Cargo Largo - Dangers of the Swamp
When cornered by the police, you have a few options: drive away, turn yourself in, or...swamp. What would you choose? And a girl finds an extra special gift in her Barbie box.
#977
September 9 · 15 min
All You Can Eat Fraud - The Governer and the Receiver
What is worse: Pretending to be an NFL player to defraud women of over $1 million? Or being a former govorner charged with not supporting your adoption son?
#976
September 8 · 55 min
Postpartum Psychosis - Andrea Yates
How does the legal system weigh moral awareness against severe psychiatric delusion? The tragedy of the Yates family forced a national reckoning on the M'Naghten legal standard, the vital distinction between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, and medical accountability. In this episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John examine the years of psychiatric breakdown leading to June 20, 2001, the coercive religious teachings of street preacher Michael Woroniecki, the commonalities with th
#975
September 4 · 19 min
Locked In - Streaking Success Stories
A man gets locked in a car (that he's trying to steal), and we find out what happens when you streak on a sports field/court/pitch.
#974
September 2 · 15 min
Rolls on the Run - Sunrise, Florida Heist
A truckload (literally) of cinnamon rolls go missing, and a college football locker room turns into a crime scene.
#971
September 1 · 40 min
44 Pounds of Plutonium - Karen Silkwood
Karen Silkwood was a mother, a union activist, and a whistleblower who sacrificed everything to expose corporate negligence and protect her fellow workers. Whether her fatal crash was a tragic accident or a targeted hit, the disappearance of her binder of evidence and the tens of pounds of unaccounted plutonium remain two of the biggest unanswered mysteries in American industrial history.
#973
September 1 · 15 min
The Accused - Cheryl Ann Araujo (Patreon Exclusive Preview)
On March 6, 1983, 21-year-old Cheryl Ann Araujo walked into Big Dan’s Tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to buy cigarettes. What followed was a nightmare: a two-hour assault on a pool table while a room of bystanders watched, cheered, and did nothing. When Cheryl chose to report the crime, she became the central figure in the first televised rape trial in American history, where her name and address were broadcast nationwide and defense attorneys subjected her to brutal victim-blaming cross-e
#972
August 31 · 32 min
A Double Life - Interview with Author Dr. Mikita Brottman
Mikita Brottman is an acclaimed nonfiction author, psychoanalyst, and professor whose work explores the darker and more complicated corners of human behavior. Her books include A Double Life, Guilty Creatures, Couple Found Slain, and An Unexplained Death, a Gold Dagger Award finalist. With professional experience in forensic psychiatric facilities and the Maryland prison system, Brottman brings a unique psychological perspective to true crime. Rather than simply asking who committed a crime and
#970
August 28 · 17 min
Universally Loved - Dolly Parton
The entire country mourns as we lost Dolly Parton this week. So we found a few stories about crimes commited against her. You know she never committed a crime. Dolly never did anything wrong.
#968
August 26 · 21 min
House Bill 4 - Legislation in Action
Kentucky has passed a new bill against grooming, and it’s already making a difference. Plus, there’s a story about a ninja burglar. #PowerRangers
#969
August 25 · 50 min
DNA on Trial - Juliana Redding
When 21-year-old aspiring model Juliana Redding was found strangled in her Santa Monica apartment, police uncovered a bizarre crime scene: a lit candle left in a gas-filled room intended to trigger a lethal explosion. Investigators recovered an unprecedented amount of foreign DNA...on the stove, the front door, the victim’s phone, and even her throat. Would they be able to find the source of that DNA. And if they did, would it even matter?
#967
August 24 · 39 min
Wait...That's Weird - Interview with Anna Sonoda
Anna Sonoda, LCSW is a graduate of Emory University, where she double-majored in Anthropology and French Studies, and earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Georgia in 2006. She became a licensed clinical social worker in 2009. With a career spanning counseling convicted sexual offenders, working in residential mental health, leading anger management and domestic violence programs, and supporting individuals with dual diagnoses, Anna brings rare, front-line expertise into th
#965
August 21 · 19 min
Undercover Shrubbery - The Wrong Number
What if the best way to deter texting and driving was to dress up like a bush? And if you got a murder for hire call on your voicemail, what would you do?

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