Take a look, it's in a book: Murder, My Dude! We're taking a look at the Stephen King book so controversial, that the legendary author removed it from store shelves. Rage was originally published under a pseudonym, and it inspired a series of horrendous crimes (mostly in Kentucky, for some reason). This week, we explore those stories! BUT FIRST! Th…

Murder, My Dude returns to Episode 168! (or is it 169?) Dorothy Stratten was not only one of the top playmates for Playboy Magazine in 1980, but she was also seemingly poised for crossover superstardom in Hollywood, where she drew the attention of one director in particular… By the end of the year, she was brutally murdered before her 21st birthday…

Murder, My Dude returns for the 167th (and possibly final?) time! In the Winter of 2013, LAPD officers and police in surrounding areas found themselves the targets of a rampaging killer hell-bent on getting even for what he thought was a broken system that had victimized him and cost him his livelihood. Christopher Dorner was a vigilante with a twi…

It’s September, and back to school season is in full swing on Murder, My Dude! While that usually means homework and recess for most people, for us, it means school bus accidents and one of the most sinister killer’s we’ve ever covered. Andrei Chikatilo’s life was a Stalinist horror story, with an upbringing dominated by birth defects, intentional …

This week’s feature is a rough one, given the age of one of the victims and how preventable his death was. 20 years after his tragic killing, we look at both the murder of one-year-old Zachary Turner as well as the killing of his father, Andrew Bagby. We also explore the tireless efforts of Andrew’s friends and family to make sure that their deaths…

It may be August, but Murder, My Dude is thinking cool thoughts! If you’ve watched your share of late night HBO in the 90s or 2000s, you may already be a little familiar with the story of Richard “The Iceman” Kulkinski, the self-professed hitman who seemed to love killing more than anything (with the possible exception of talking about killing). Ho…

No, it’s not a shameless effort to court Red Hot Chili Peppers fans, this week, we venture North to explore a Canadian true crime case that left the nation fearing for (or just straight up fearing) their youth in the mid/late 1990s. What happened to Reena Virk was every parent’s worst nightmare, and the ensuing legal wrangling is a case study in bo…

It’s a day full of fun and fireworks, and to celebrate the 4th of July, we’re releasing this week’s episode a few days early! And in our very special Independence Day episode, we’re going to look at not one, not two, but THREE stories of historical American Murders: the first known murderer in the colonies that would become the United States, an in…

Yeah, Father’s Day was almost a week ago, but in the spirit of, “better late than never,” Murder, My Dude is going to celebrate it the only way we know how: the worst way humanly possible! When most people think of killing one’s parents, the name that springs into mind immediately is Menendez. Even by their own testimony, Lyle and Erik Menendez sho…

It’s another of our tentpole episodes of the year this week: our 4th rendition of Pride, My Dude! And in this episode, we travel to our CONFIRMED SECOND BIGGEST MARKET!!! In the glorious, wonderful, please recommend the podcast to a friend United Kingdom, where we’ll explore the notorious Grindr (and Fitlad and Sleepyboy) Killer, who exploited ques…

This week, we celebrate the birth of one of our own: Jackson Welles! We do this by discussing The Shining, the film released on the exact day of his birth, and by looking into the case of legendary murderous robbers on the lam Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow. The story of the outlaw duo brought down in a hail of gunfire is so ubiquitous, it seems like…

In our latest episode, Jackson and B.P. (or is it Maximum Jackson-um and Pope Barnabas?) pay tribute to Florence Nightingale on what would’ve been her 203rd birthday, if only people lived that long. And they do it in a way only Murder, My Dude can: by highlighting the very worst of the profession that she’s synonymous with. Charles Cullen is one of…

In our latest episode, Murder, My Dude returns to the land of the rising sun to take a look at a pair of killings that drew international attention to a controversial custom. Carita Ridgway and Lucie Blackman were both hostesses, workers at Tokyo nightclubs who were tasked with being extra-attentive to parts of the club’s clientele - generally olde…

This week's episode finally delves deep in to a thrilling, cutthroat world that we've never explored before: the insurance industry. On a serious note, the brutal death of terminally ill Betsy Faria showed how depraved human beings can truly be. The terminally ill wife and mother of two was stabbed over 50 times, including once through an eye, and …

The weather is warming up, and schools are letting out. It’s time once again for SPRING BREAK!!! But the fun and frivolity all too often turns deadly, and perhaps never more horrifically than in the case of Mark Kilroy, a Texas Longhorn who went to the Gulf Coast to party like it was 1989, and he never returned. The story of his demise has to be he…

For the fifth time, Murder, My Dude turns its eyes toward the Emerald Isle to celebrate our oldest special: Murder O’Dude. And it’s a wild one, filled with bad accents and butchered pronunciations! Oh yeah, and a case. The death of Mary Gough Whelan was caused by an accidental fall down the stairs according to her husband, Colin. Investigators soon…

And this week, we do something completely different! It’s an extra-special Murder, My Dude with more of a freeform conversation and a bit of a rest for our usual segments. Instead, we’re going to take a look at our favorite murder-themed TV shows and movies. And, unlike always, we DON’T play a game of Who Died The Worst! --- Support this podcast: h…

The weeks immediately following the attacks on September 11, 2001 were wrought with paranoia and a sense that something else bad was going to happen imminently. Those fears were made real on a smaller scale when it soon emerged that members of the media and the United States Senate were mailed letters containing spores carrying the deadly anthrax b…

Stay away from the woods (and wooded areas) - this week we’re taking a look at the Green River Killer! Gary Ridgway currently holds the second-largest confirmed body count of any serial killer in American history. He was able to evade law enforcement for decades by hiding in plain sight (and because DNA testing was in its infancy). This week, we lo…

Be careful who you pick up on the side of the road. In our 6th Season Finale, we cover a case straight out of your Netflix watch list and explore the case of Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker! Was the charismatic vagabond a folk hero, a cold-blooded murderer, or something in between? We explore his case in this smash, smash, su-MASH of an episod…

Murder, My Dude returns with an episode that’ll make you think twice before you open your medicine cabinet! Chicago was terrorized in the early 1980s with a wave on inexplicable cyanide poisonings that ultimately caused nationwide hysteria and a mistrust of consumer products that lasts to a certain degree to this day. In our latest episode, we expl…

This week, Murder, My Dude heads to the Big Apple to ring in the new year. We’re not talking about the ultra-glitzy modern-day Times Square, but instead the more rough-and-tumble Times Square of the 1970s and 80s, where “street performers” trafficked in something far more salacious than knockoff Marvel and Sesame Street costumes. This was the New Y…

For a large part of the late 2000s/early 10s, Casey Anthony was quite possibly the most hated person in America. Suspected in the death of her three-year-old daughter Caylee, images of Anthony partying it up while her child was missing drew intense anger across the country. Anger that was joined by disbelief when Anthony was found not guilty of her…

This week, Jackson and B.P. discuss the case of a femme fatale who has been an international fugitive for over a half-century. Sharon “La Pistolera” Kinne always wanted to grow beyond her humble Midwestern origins, and she had a knack for either getting what she wanted or punishing those who kept it from her. Time after time, she evaded the law, an…

This week, it's a double shot of true crime comedy goodness that takes us to the Treasure State! Montana may not be a gigantic population hub, but Big Sky Country has definitely seen its share of twisted true crime tales. In this episode, we take a look at two of them: the tragic 1973 death of Susie Jaeger, which led to a case that created a milest…

Murder, My Dude is back for the second week in a row with a famous case from the early part of this century: the highly publicized murder of Bonny Lee Bakley. Bakley had been married to her 10th husband, TV star Robert Blake. Blake wound up being thrust into the center of the case, which dominated headlines for years after and is still hotly debate…

Murder, My Dude is back, and we’re going back to the VERY beginning of the show. Episode 1 saw Jackson and B.P. review the 2018 version of Halloween during its theatrical run, and this week, they take a look at the final film in the Blumhouse-Haddonfield trilogy: Halloween Ends! If you want to skip right to it, the review starts around 42 minutes i…

On the latest Murder, My Dude, we go back in time to explore the case that helped create the True Crime genre itself. The 1959 killing of the Clutter Family rattled the Kansas community where it happened, but years later, it was the work of famous author Truman Capote that made the story a national phenomenon. What would motivate someone to slaught…

Join us this week as Murder, My Dude goes Hollywood! Well, goes off-Broadway at the very least. Adrienne Shelly was on the precipice of the biggest success of her career behind the camera when it was all taken away from her by an unlikely assailant. If her husband hadn’t tirelessly pursued the truth, her killer would have likely never faced justice…

Keep ahead of the true crime curve and get the latest scoop before the newest Netflix True Crime miniseries by listening to Jackson and B.P. covering the ongoing saga involving Lori Vallow and her husband Chad Daybell as they await trial for the deaths of Lori’s daughter and stepson, Tylee Ryan and J.J. Vallow. But before we delve into the Sins of …

On a 1978 Episode of the hit show The Dating Game, Bachelor #1 was harboring a horrible, horrible secret. Rodney Alcala’s downward spiral started with a broken home, and while his story has made true crime headlines, his sickening crime spree should perhaps be most remembered for how many chances the vicious murderer was inexplicably given. This we…

There’s a major announcement in this week’s Murder, My Dude, and, sadly, the show may never be the same again. But not everything is changing - we’re still providing a huge dose of true crime comedy goodness! In this episode, we take a look at the case of a set of bombings that set shockwaves through Salt Lake City in 1985. The investigation that f…

Our latest episode may have omitted one of the core parts of the Murder, My Dude Formula: The Murder! Melissa Caddick was at the top of the Australian financial industry for the better part of a decade, gracing magazine covers and earning too good to be true returns for her clients. Notice we didn’t say seemingly too good to be true returns. Meliss…

Ho, ho, ho! Merry Christmas in July, my dudes! Wait, I’m being told this isn’t about that Rudolph. Eric Robert Rudolph spent more than his fair share of time on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List (what, exactly, is a fair share of time on that particular list?) partially because of the heinousness of his four bombings - the most infamous of which took …

Murder, My Dude returns with an episode that is definitely NOT for the faint of heart. Anthony Allen Shore, also known as the Tourniquet Killer, was evil personified, and this week, we’re taking a closer look at his life, times, and deeds. If you’re easily disturbed by crimes committed against children, discretion is strongly advised. And before th…

This week, we present a bit of a different episode of Murder, My Dude. This Week In Murder takes center stage in this one, as we take the time to explore the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. Our previous episode was recorded mere hours after news broke of the tragic events in Uvalde, TX, but the two weeks since have provided little …

The late 2002 disappearance of Laci Peterson dominated American media nearly twenty years ago. The expecting mother with the magnetic smile went missing on Christmas Eve, 2002, when she was eight months pregnant with her first child. In the ensuing weeks, attention began to gravitate to her strangely nonchalant husband, Scott. The media attention r…

Throw on your hockey masks and get ready for Summer camp, because this episode comes out on the only Friday the 13th of 2022! And we’re observing the occasion with our first-ever episode Welsh serial killer. After decades of beatings targeted at the gay community, Peter Moore - a gay man himself - escalated to murder. The movie theater owner’s pecu…

It’s a horror story that seems all too possible. A womanis murdered on the streets of New York City. 38 people witness the attack, and no one intervenes or calls for help. But in the time since the horrific murder of Kitty Genovese nearly 60 years ago, many - including Kitty’s own younger brother - have questioned the narrative of the three dozen-p…

Back in the early days of this show, we did Dr. Death, My Dude, an episode devoted to the life and times of controversial physician Jack Kervorkian, the legendary assisted suicide advocate (well, advocate might be too weak of a term). This week, we look at a much more deadly doctor. Harold Shipman was officially convicted of 15 murders, but his act…

This week, it’s one of our most fun, wild, twisty stories yet. Trust us - would we lie to you? One person that certainly would was known to many in New York, New Hampshire, and Boston as Clark Rockefeller (yes, those Rockefellers). Clark rubbed elbows with those in high society all over those locales, but a messy divorce unearthed a murderous truth…

A podcast tradition continues: it’s the fourth annual Murder O’Dude! And the St. Patrick’s Day celebration takes a more modern turn as we explore a 21st Century case, that of the Mulhalls, a troubled family finding itself in the center (or, in Europe, centre) of a controversy that popped up when a severed leg was found floating in Dublin’s Royal Ca…

This week, we’re releasing the show a little early, and it’s a very special episode commemorating and exploring the death of Christopher Wallace/Biggie Smalls/The Notorious B.I.G., as it’s been 25 years since his tragic killing. And because one story can’t be told without the other, we’ll also explore the September 2006 death of fellow hip-hop icon…

Valentine's Day is over, and it's time to look at the darker side of love and murder. Debi and Howie Whitlock's marriage was hitting a rocky patch. Howie's drinking was getting out of hand, and Debi had left and started a relationship with another man, but after some time apart, they were trying to get things right. Just as it seemed all was well, …

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Murder, My Dude closes out its fifth season with one of the most infamous killer couples in true crime history! Charlie Starkweather was a difficult child - a bullied boy who grew up to be a tougher young man who tormented his tormenters. Not long after meeting up with Caril Ann Fugate, however, Starkweather went o…

With the NFL football playoffs drawing to a close soon and the big game on the horizon, this week, Murder, My Dude takes to the gridiron! And we do so with a pair of stories that saw two football stars on opposite ends of the true crime coin. In episode 124, we take a look at the story of Rae Carruth, a once-promising wide receiver for the Carolina…

The first Murder, My Dude of 2022 is positively packed to the gills with true crime comedy goodness! And it start’s with a heaping helping of This Week In Murder - including a briefing on the sentencing of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers and Robert Durst’s death (spoiler: he’s still dead). From there, we take a deeper dive in two cold cases finally brought…

Murder, My Dude closes out 2021 with a trip back in time to New Year’s Eve 1964, and a trio of killings just South of the Canadian Border. When a couple travelling to ring in the New Year with family pulled into a rest stop at the Northernmost tip of the as-yet-unfinished Interstate 81, they found more than a bathroom of questionable quality. The r…

Just in time for the holidays, Murder, My Dude covers a killer who left some very interesting reviews shopping on Amazon.com. Todd Kohlhepp ran afoul of the law from a very early age, and got away with quadruple murder for well over a decade. This episode covers his life, crimes, and the unlikely circumstances behind his capture. BUT FIRST! This We…

Murder, My Dude is back to wake you up from your turkey coma with another with a podcast loaded to the gills with true crime comedy goodness! Before that, however, Jackson Welles takes a moment to share his love for his new favorite show: the Starz hit Outlander. Then it’s on to This Week In Murder, where we discuss the major developments in two ma…