Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Murder podcast?? -- True Crime Episodes: Part 2

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, friends. Welcome to doomed to fail. My name is Taylor, and along with my friend Fars, we bring you historical stories, dramas, disasters, failures, and some true crime and murders. We definitely started out more true crime than we ended up, but, you know, we still do a little bit of it. So to give you a rundown of our murder episodes, this is part two. Last week, I talked about the beginnings of our murder episodes, and now I have a handful from the middle. So episode 107 is about the Port Arthur Massacre, where a dude who is insufferable, went on a rampage and shot a bunch of people at a tourist destination, shot as landlords, terrible stuff. And then afterwards, like rational people, Australia banned those kind of weapons and made it more of a thing to get them if you do need them for no reason. I don't even know if you can get like an automatic weapon in Australia anymore. And you know what? Gun deaths went down, if you can imagine. Episode 111 is about John Norman Collins, who was a serial killer in Michigan in the 1970s. He, I remember one part of this story.

Starting point is 00:01:13 A woman was like hitchhiking because I was due in the 70s and he like took her to a store. And then she was leaving the store and she's like, oh, if I don't get murdered. And she like totally did, which is sad. episode 120 is about two dudes down in south america um louis garavito and pedro lopez and they killed a lot of people um in sort of like the jungles of south america episode 123 is about the cecil hotel so the cecil hotel is in downtown los angeles which is awful um and i say that with confidence i don't know fight me i think i don't like it but farston i used to work down there and so we started working there together is where we met in 2013, and we were like a block away from the Cecil Hotel when

Starting point is 00:01:58 Elisa Lam's body was found in the water tower. Do you remember that? Like, they found it because people were like, oh, the water I'm using to brush my teeth is turning black. What could it be? And it was a good body. And there's more too. So that was fun. We laughed a lot. Just because we have memories, not because of the murders. We're sad for Lisa Lam. She wasn't murdered, but it was sad. Episode 129. It's sort of a war murder story, also a medieval story. St. Olga of Kiev. She is a saint, despite the fact that she had many, many, many, many, many, many people killed in revenge of her husband's death, and she did it in some awesome ways. It's another story that absolutely George R.R. Martin knows about. Episode 139, murder and the Galapagos is a story of, like, these people moved, these Germans, moved to this little island, and they wanted to, like, have this cute little society, and then this, like, woman who said she was a Duchess or something moved there. Anyway, it's a movie with Jude Law and Anna Darmus. It's relatively new.

Starting point is 00:02:57 Let me know if you've seen it. Episode 148 is about Jack the Ripper. It's fun. Victorian England, things are terrible, unless you're rich, as you know. And I read a great book about Jack the Ripper's victims. And I am now of the mind that I think that he killed them when they were asleep, which explains some stuff about, you know, where their bodies were and such. And it's a terrible time to be a woman.

Starting point is 00:03:22 living on the streets for a thousand reasons um not just that you could get murdered in your sleep episode 154 media of executioner it's not necessarily murdered but people die episode 171 john wilkes booth this guy um obviously like you know but i can't not express to you how famous he was it's like tom cruz and it it just blows that mind so it's fun you get to learn about John Wilkes Booth's family, comes from an acting family. His father was from England and he was like an actor, you know, you know. Episode 173 is on about Jamal Jamal Khashoggi. He is a journalist who was murdered by the Saudi government.

Starting point is 00:04:08 There is episode 176 about Elizabeth Bathory, who is another medieval time period person who in a castle killed a lot of like young maidens for their blood, that kind of thing. And she will remind you of episode 183, Delphine Laloree, who is a woman who lived in New Orleans and had enslaved a bunch of people and tortured them unbelievably in her attic. Kathy Bates plays her in the American Horror Story version, if you want to, like, picture her. Two more. Episode 190 is about German Wings Flight 9525, which is where the pilot was just like going to kill everybody and he did crash into a mountain. And then episode 197 is the prequel, I guess, to Amityville Horror, which we love, even though we don't believe the Lutz's at all.

Starting point is 00:05:01 Or, of course, we don't believe the Warrens either. But it is about the actual real-life murder of the Defeo family by their oldest son, who claimed that demons spoke to him and made him do it. Maybe he did have some sort of schizophrenia or something, we're here at things, but no excuse to murder your family. And it also is interesting because of the way they were found and all those things. Not ghosts, but sad. Anyway, let me know what you think.

Starting point is 00:05:31 I have one more week of murder highlights, but you can always go back and look at our episodes. We have over 200. They are on the internet wherever you listen to podcast. They're on YouTube. They're everywhere. Email me, doomed tofell pod at gmail.com. There's something we're missing. All socials, dune to fill pod.

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Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Murder podcast?? -- True Crime Episodes: Part 2

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