Join hosts Katie and Whitney for a different kind of true crime podcast. You can start with season 1, The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, a deep dive into the most bizarre murder case you've never heard of. Or start with season 2, which covers a different stranger-than-fiction story each week. This bingeworthy show combines meticulous research with a refreshing mix of comic relief and seamless storytelling. There's plenty of room around the campfire--come help us roast murderers and marshmallows!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support.
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When we left you at the end of part 1, Wayne Nance had begun his career as a serial killer with the murder of Donna Pounds. As much as he tried to ble...
In the 1970s in Missoula, Montana, there was a brief epidemic of unsolved violent murders that shocked the small city down to its roots. A dark rumor...
Our homes are supposed to be where we’re the safest. It’s where we’re our most vulnerable. Last week, we told you about someone who would use that vul...
In the military, a “gray man” refers to a service member who neither outperforms or underperforms his or her comrades. Someone who seamlessly fits int...
I don’t know about you, campers, but I like to have emergency plans for any eventuality. For example, what if I find myself in the center of a maze wi...
People can be pretty strange. And not just people—as we’ll see in one story of this week’s episode, you can add all our extended family of primates to...
Today we’re sharing something a little different from our friends at ABC News and 20/20. It’s the first episode of a brand new original true crime ser...
I’m sure most of you have heard some variant of the phrase, “nobody wants to see how the sausage gets made,” which refers to the often messy procedure...
Secrets can ruin everything. Not little ones, we’re talking big, looming secrets that might change your life forever if they were ever brought out int...
Anger can be useful. If you need to defend yourself or those you love, or if you need to stand up against some outrage in your community, anger can gi...
Love can be a pretty hard thing to define. It’s easier to say what it is not. Love is not secretly following someone and trying your best to keep her...
Many of the stories we cover revolve around the disintegration of a marriage. It’s often a deeply traumatic event, upending entire lives and making an...
Life, obviously, is easier with money. Without having to scrabble and hustle just to survive, you can be free to pursue whatever interests and fascina...
If you’re unlucky, you might have at least one person in your life who just drives you crazy, someone with whom every interaction has an edge of mutua...
Every night in the city, there are people out looking for something. Usually it’s just fun and excitement, but there are also those who go out looking...
It’s hard to convict someone of murder without a body. Even if it’s plain to everyone with a lick of common sense that the victim is dead and this is...
Thanks to books and movies, and very occasionally real life, the idea of the genius killer has become pervasive. But most murderers are not dazzlingly...
Love is supposed to make you better. Your partner should push lift you up and make you want to improve yourself, improve life for you both. Sometimes,...
In the cases we cover, there are types of relationship that frequently crop up between killer and victim, romantic partners or romantic rivals most of...
