Author: We Would Be Dead

  • Cover Girl Interrupted (The Ivory Soap Murders)

    In 1937 Pin up party girl Veronica Gedeon was a fixture in the pages of many true crime magazines. Her blond hair, bright eyes and slender figure were sure to sell more copies of whatever pulp periodical cover she graced on any given week that all of its competitors combined. So, when Veronica was discovered…

  • Pick A Crime (St. Patrick’s Day Live Campfire 2024)

    Welcome to our live game of Irish True Crime Roulette! This year’s St. Patrick’s Day livestream featured 3 classic Irish true crime stories from the book Foster’s Book of Irish Murder. All three were picked at random, live, with the help of our fiends, and as usual feature some lively color commentary. We are happy…

  • The Short Straw (The Horrible Fate of the Francis Spaight)

    It’s our Irish episode fiends, and boy did we find an eerie tale this year! Just before Christmas in 1835 the British merchant ship, The Angerona, was on it’s way from Newfoundland to Teignmouth when the captain spotted something strange. Off in the distance he saw a large vessel, ravaged by a storm, with no…

  • The Big Sleepover (The Suspicious Death of Tamla Horsford)

    On November 3rd 2018, 40 year old Tamla Horsford of Cumming Georgia,  attended a birthday party with nine fellow football moms. The party took place at Jeanne Meyers’ Spacious 6 bedroom home in a well to do local subdivision called Quail Hollow. Since there would be alcohol at the party, everyone was invited to stay the…

  • Forever Young Love (Patricia Mann & Jesse McBane)

    On February 12th 1971, young lovers Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane attended a Valentines day dance, they left at approximately 11:30 PM to go parking and never returned. The next morning’s Jesse’s car was discovered but there was no sign of him or Patricia anywhere. After two weeks of searching their bodies were found 3.9…

  • Let’s Talk Docs (Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God)

    This episode is a special one fiends, We decided to give you a little peek inside something new we’re doing! Welcome to the first meeting of Let’s Talk Docs, our patrons only true crime documentary discussion club!  Once a month we’ll be discussing a true crime documentary via live stream and our patrons will be…

  • Mother May I? (Love Has Won Cult) [REBROADCAST OF EPISODE 67]

    This week, we are releasing a special episode where we discuss the new Max documentary, Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God. In preparation for that episode, we are rebroadcasting our coverage of the Love Has Won cult for you all to catch up on! And if you haven’t already, go watch the documentary,…

  • Melted (Snowmen)

    Whether they’re singing of Silver and Gold, Holding the ghost of your dead father, dreaming of summer or running here and there all around the square saying catch me if you can, The snowman has become an enduring symbol of wintertime holidays. But, as you might have guessed, snowmen weren’t always the jolly happy souls…

  • Anomalies (The Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard Part 2)

    *This is a part 2, so if you haven’t listened to part one, do so now* In this Part of the strange saga of the Blanchard women we take a in depth look at the copious medical disorders Dee Dee claimed Gypsy had, and the treatments she suffered because of them. We follow the thin…

  • Mother Knows Best (The murder of Dee Dee Blanchard Part 1)

    Community darling Dee Dee Blanchard had been through it all, divorce, abuse, poverty and a medically complicated child who required too many procedures to count. To top it all off Dee Dee and her young daughter Gypsy Rose lost their home and all their belongings during hurricane Katrina, so when habitat for humanity built them…