Category: Episode

  • The Weirdest New Jersey (NJ Horrors and Haunts with Jesse Pollack)

    Hey there fiends, Leslie is taking a little time off to be the cutest and spookiest new mom in all the land, which means…(imagine a drum roll) guest hosts! This week we bring you several tales of homegrown horror from our friend and previous guest, author Jesse Pollack. Jesse is a contributing columnist for Weird…

  • We Would Be Deadlines (Rabbit Holes #1)

    As lovers of information Holly and Leslie frequently fall down “rabbit holes” while researching cases for you. Sometimes they’re newsworthy, sometimes they’re silly, sometimes they’re suggestions from you and sometimes they’re just plain weird. No matter which rabbit hole they fall down, they all have one thing in common, they’re interesting enough to pull you…

  • Gone to pieces (The Murder of Shad Thyrion)

        In the very pre daylight hours of February 23rd 2022 Tara Pakanich heard the storm door to her basement close. Tara’s 24 year old son, Shad Thyrion was staying with her at the time in that very basment, and had been entertaining an old friend, a woman named Taylor Schabusiness. Tara upon hearing…

  • Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (30 Minute Movie)

    This week WWBD took a little break – Holly needed some much needed rest, and Leslie and Jon were moving their son into college! So the team needed a moment and we thought, why not go into the vault and pull out an originally patron only episode of 30 minute horror movies for you all…

  • This Barbie is Evidence (The unsolved murder of Rosie Tapia)

    This week we are talking about a case that has been touted as Utah’s most famous unsolved murder. Trigger warning: this one is about a child and there is mention of sexual assault.   At 5 am on August 13th 1995, Lewine Tapia woke from a sound sleep with a start. The house appeared to…

  • Dirty Minded Girls (Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme Part 2)

    You may know this case as the Heavenly Creatures murder…. The world we inhabit is an ever changing place, one lifetime can contain many lives if we’re lucky. This is the story of two women: rural riding instructor Hilary Nathan and internationally famous novelist, Anne Perry, who once lived as two completely different people. Anne…

  • Dirty Minded Girls (Pauline Parker & Juliette Hulme part 1)

    You may know this case as the Heavenly Creatures murder…. The world we inhabit is an ever changing place, one lifetime can contain many lives if we’re lucky. This is the story of two women: rural riding instructor Hilary Nathan and internationally famous novelist, Anne Perry, who once lived as two completely different people. Anne…

  • Money. Fame. Sex. Glamour. (Andrew Cunanan)

    Many of you will know this case will be simply known as the murder of ultra famous, incredibly rich, Italian Fashion designer and icon Gianni Versace, but there is ever so much more to it than that. For a case that is so widely covered we were stunned to learn that we barely knew it…

  • Lost in Brick City (Sakia Gunn)

    Newark NJ can be a difficult place to grow up in. The crime rate is high, the income rate is low and gun violence is not an uncommon sight. Fortunately Newark has seen improvements in the last 20 years but in in 2003, when Sakia Gunn and her friends walked the litter lined streets, Newark…

  • All Is Not Well! (The Ratcliff Highway Murders)

    In this campfire re-do Holly takes us back to the Regency Era and tells the very bloody story of The Ratcliff Highway Murders. It was too good not to do on a main episode! You can hear the original campfire stories over on our Patreon if you are a subscriber – if you are not…