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True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

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  1. 1. 513: Devil in the Mountains · 21 Jul 2026
  2. 2. 514: The Body on the Train (from "Naming the Dead") · 23 Jul 2026
  3. 3. 515: The Yogurt Shop Murders (From "20/20") · 28 Jul 2026
  • 518: Untold: The Shooting at Hawthorne Hill

    11 Aug 2026 · 1h 14m

    Fam!  We're back in the world of sports today: dressage!  Also known as "fancy horse dancing" to us city hicks who'd probably fall off a horse at the first canter (that's a horse-dancing term, right?).  ANYWAY, we've got OLYMPIC-level drama with this episode,

  • 517: Jewels and Jinxes (from "The Real Murders of Orange County")

    6 Aug 2026 · 43 min

    When 68 year old Mario Hernandez didn't show up for family dinner in March of 2005, his family knew something was terribly wrong. Mario was a family man. Nothing would have kept him from that dinner. And when the police refuse to investigate--he's a grown man,

  • 516: Maternal Instinct

    4 Aug 2026 · 1h 27m

    OK, Fam - it's the one you've been waiting for! On October 9, 2020, 27-year-old Taylor Parker was pulled over on a Texas highway. When the cops approached the car, they found a nearly hysterical Parker holding a baby she claimed to have JUST given birth to. It

  • 515: The Yogurt Shop Murders (From "20/20")

    28 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m

    Take a deep breath for this one, Fam! On December 6, 1991, four teenaged girls were found sexually assaulted and murdered in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. The yogurt shop was then set on fire. It would take decades, and a series of unfo

  • 514: The Body on the Train (from "Naming the Dead")

    23 Jul 2026 · 48 min

    Journalist Marresa Burke is on a mission: to give the name back to a man in a cemetery known only as "unknown negro." The man died while riding the rails in the 1960s- - crushed under 5,000 pounds of ice in an ice car. Was it an accident? Was it murder? And wh

  • 513: Devil in the Mountains

    21 Jul 2026 · 1h 3m

    A brutal killer is on the loose, stabbing and shooting people at random. Nobody is safe. All we know about him is that he has "movie star good looks" and drives a car with throat... whatever that means. BUT DON'T WORRY: JOE "WELL, MY MY MY" KENDA IS ON THE CAS

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