Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Murder podcast?? -- True Crime Episodes: Part 3
Episode Date: October 17, 2025Episodes:Ep 1 - Part 2: Mommy Dearest - Lori Vallow & Chad DaybellA doomsday cult, missing children, and murders that shocked the nation. Ep 3 - Part 2: Trouble in Celebration - The Todt Family Murde...rsA quiet Florida town rocked by family annihilation. Ep 8 - Part 1: Terror in the Capital - The DC SnipersTwo men who turned daily errands into fatal targets. Ep 18 - Part 1: BFFs Gone Wrong - Bernie TiedeThe small-town funeral director who killed his wealthy friend. Ep 20 - Part 1: Call the Keystone Cops - It's Fatty ArbuckleHollywood’s first scandal, a death at a party, and a career destroyed. Ep 21 - Part 2: The Least Great Showman - Grady StilesThe “Lobster Boy” whose life in the sideshow ended in murder. Ep 57: A Most Dangerous Game - Alexander Pichushkin - The Chess Board KillerThe Russian “Chessboard Killer” who wanted 64 victims. Ep 81 - Responsible journalism? The Stephen Glass storyLies, fabrications, and careers killed by deceit. Ep 91 - Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night: Going PostalWorkplace shootings that coined a phrase. Ep 104 - Big Trouble in Little Skidmore, MissouriA rural town’s vigilante justice against its most feared man isn’t its only story. Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: doomedtofailpod@gmail.com
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Hello and welcome to doomed to fail. My name is Taylor, and along with my friend Fars, we bring you stories of historical disasters and failures. We started off, as you may know, as like more true crimey and relationship focused. But I have a bunch of murder episodes that I've been recapping, and here's a couple that we didn't already talk about. Episode one, part two, is on Lori Vallow and Chad DeBell. This is episode one. You also give us grace when listening to it, but also I hate these two.
I think since then they've been both sentenced to, you know, a lot of years in prison, but like the pictures of them getting married is the people getting married so happy when they'd already murdered people, children, is wild.
Episode three part two, another family murder, sorry, is about the Tote family in, okay, several things.
One, Tote is their last name, T-O-D-T, that means dead in German.
I know that, that is weird.
They lived in Celebration, Florida, which is that fake-ass Disney town.
next to Disney World, we're now, I don't know, I can only assume everybody has the measles.
And it's not, it wasn't great. It's actually really awful. He's in jail.
Episode 8, part one. This is actually a super interesting historical, I think, moment is the D.C.
snipers. If you remember, it was in the 90s and someone was shooting people just at gas stations.
They didn't know what was coming from. And just the idea that you shoot wherever you are in,
like, Maryland and around Washington, D.C. was really scary. And then it was all about grooming and
PTSD and just wild.
Episode 18, part one is about Bernie Teed.
He is a man who killed an older woman for her money, essentially.
Episode 20, part one is about Faddy Arbuckle.
This is a maybe murder.
He was acquitted, but his career was never the same.
I'm not convinced that he did it.
But I don't know.
Let me know what you think.
Episode 21, part two is about Grady Stiles,
who is a person who was in a like a side show because he had like hand deformities but he also
was a murderer so that's why episode 57 is about the chessboard killer I don't remember anything
about this episode so you know anyway episode 81 is about Stephen Glass a journalist who was
potentially killed also and episode 91 is about going postal which is the idea of kind of like
workplace annihilator that has happened several times at the U.S. post office. So we talked a little bit
about that. I'm keen to continue to blame Ronald Reagan for everything. And then finally, episode
104 is about Skidmore, Missouri, which is the place where Ken Melkoroy lived. I talked about
him last week or the week before, and he's someone who the whole town killed because he was a jerk.
It's a very small town, but like there's a lot of trauma and crazy things that happened there. So check that
out. So those are our murder episodes. I recapt it this week, last week, in the week before. If you
have any ideas or questions or stories that you want us to talk about, please let us know.
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