Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Introducing: Firebug Jul 22, 2021

From the co-creator of The Ballad of Billy Balls, Crimetown, and the host of Morally Indefensible comes a new podcast, Firebug. In the early 1990s, a manuscript for a novel called “Points of Origin” lands at literary agencies across the country. It tells the story of a fictional serial arsonist who lights up southern California. The thing is… the fires described in the novel may actually be real. Was Points of Origin a work of fiction, or the confessions of a prolific arsonist and murderer? Host Kary Antholis goes on a journey to figure out where fiction meets reality.

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Black Label S2E11: Marcella Lightner-Thrash - Semper Fi Jul 22, 2021

Writer: Gemma Harris

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Black Label S2E10: The Devil Made Me Do It Jun 15, 2021

Listener, if anything in today’s episode has raised any issues for you, or if you or someone you know is at risk, please call the 24 hour National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 1-800-273-8255 in the United States, or your relevant emergency number.

For further information about managing postpartum mental health, please contact your treating doctor. You can also visit www.womenshealth.gov/mental-health.gov or www.panda.org.au.

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Black Label: Machete May 14, 2021

Writers: Haley Gray, Justin Drown

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In two parts, one longer, this episode explores an increasingly desensitized internet and the dark corners of the web that's ripe for radicalization. Part 01 explores a horrific crime that's met callous jokes by users that don't bother to hide their identity. Part 02 is a deep dive into internet radicalization and its effects after nearly two decades.

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S2E29: Quick Cuts May 01, 2021

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Black Label S2E4: Mathew Borges Apr 23, 2021

Mathew Borges was a teenager entirely different from Lee Manuel Viloria-Paulino. While Lee was happy, positive, and able to impart encouraging wisdom to his friends on life and meaning, Mathew was a darker soul.

CW: Detailed Descriptions of Extreme Violence

Writer: Fiona Guy

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S1.5E2 - Richard Russell - The Q400 Incident Apr 01, 2021

Today’s story is something a little different. Our protagonist didn’t set out to hurt somebody else. He didn’t harm innocent people. He didn’t snap in the heat of the moment and do something shocking that can’t be undone. There was no violent crime of passion or cold blooded premeditation.

In the United States, over 900,000 people work in the aviation industry, so that’s a considerable amount of people in whom we place a great amount of trust to help keep us safe in the air. What you’ll hear about today baffled and disturbed both the public and the loved ones of the person concerned in equal measure.

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Suicide

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Obscura Live: Keri Richardson - Mortician Mar 26, 2021

Host: Gemma Harris

Guest: Keri Richardson

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S1.5E3 - Justin Rey - The Dismemberment Mar 22, 2021

On October 24, 2017, police received a call from the manager of a U-Haul storage facility located near Kansas City, Missouri The Manager reported that a man had been illegally squatting inside the unit with his two children. The alarm inside the facility had gone off the night before, indicating that someone was present in the unit overnight. That man was Justin Todd Rey.

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Black Label S2E2: Mother Mar 04, 2021

Writer: Fiona Guy

Content Warning: Graphic Audio, Maternal Filicide

The maternal instinct of a mother is an all-encompassing level of emotion. To love, nurture, and protect their child is biologically embedded, a bond that can never be broken. That is how it should be. But life is a complex matrix of relationships, emotions, and decision-making, and the human psyche is a powerful fighting force. Maternal filicide, the murder of a child by their mother, is a murky understudied arena where those natural instincts are replaced with an entirely different kind of drive. A drive that takes away the very life they previously gave so lovingly.

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S2E28: Rebecca Zahau - Butterfly Feb 18, 2021

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S2E27: Lisa Nowak - The Diaper Astronaut + Q&A Fireside Chat Feb 01, 2021

Writers: Heather Sutfin, Josh Lam

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S2E26: Morgan Huxley - Here By The Sea Jan 22, 2021

Neutral Bay’s commercial centre is Military Road. One of the busiest arterial roads on the lower north shore, it’s the main gateway to Sydney’s picturesque and world renowned northern beaches. The most popular and historic commercial establishment in Neutral Bay is The Oaks Hotel which opened in 1885. As the social hub of the suburb, The Oaks is an institution where lower north shore residents relax, celebrate, or enjoy a quiet drink. It’s certainly not a place locals go, expecting to not make it home.

Writer: Gemma Harris

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S2E25: The Truro Serial Murders Dec 31, 2020

Writer: Gemma Harris

In Adelaide and around the southern coastline, residents and tourists alike flock to the pristine beaches that offer some respite from the sweltering heat. But if you drive north of the city, the landscape is a different story. Leaving the outskirts of the city, the historic bluestone buildings give way to suburban and industrial sprawl. Aside from the wheat fields, the terrain further inland quickly becomes desolate and harsh. The grass - where there is any - is brown, not green. As you travel along the straight, flat road, the distance between towns becomes greater, and in between there is no sign of human life as far as the eye can see. If you’re unfamiliar with the area, the remoteness of this part of the state seems like the middle of nowhere, and it’s easy to feel completely cut off from civilisation. And while red dirt and flat plains stretch for miles all the way to the horizon, whether in the pitch black of night or the blazing heat of a mid-summers day, there is nowhere to run if you need to make a hasty escape from something. Or someone. In the dead of night, the only light to show the way is the moon overhead. With no one around for miles, the silence is deafening.

CW: Sexual Abuse, Rape, Extreme Violence

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Black Label S2E9: House of Horrors Dec 16, 2020

Writer: Fiona Guy

Listener, the case you are about to hear is the darkest I’ve covered this season. The acts carried out behind closed doors in this case are among the most heinous that can be imaged. In 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee, a loving family had their world ripped apart. Evil entered their lives in the days after Thanksgiving in that year. They could never have known it was coming. There were no warning signs. There’s a saying that’s often banded around. That it’s the quiet ones we have to watch and look out for. This case is an example of why sometimes that statement is absolutely true.

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S2E24: Renae Marsden - With Friends Like These - Part 01 and Part 02 Nov 13, 2020

Writer: Gemma Harris

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Lost Episodes: Halloween Specials '18 and '19 Oct 29, 2020

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Black Label S2E8: Lauren Giddings Oct 23, 2020

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S2E23: Shanda Sharer - Follow The Leader Sep 09, 2020

The chilly midwinter morning of 11 January 1992 in southern Indiana was shaping up to be ideal for quail hunting. At around 10:45am on the outskirts of Jefferson Proving Ground just outside the town of Madison, two brothers caught sight of something off the side of Lemon Road as they drove along. The men jumped out of their pickup and walked through an isolated open field toward what looked like a department store mannequin laying on the ground. It was a strange location to stumble upon something so out of place. But as the men moved closer, their confusion turned to horror...

Writer: Gemma Harris

Content Warning: Extreme Violence, Sexual Abuse

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S2E22: Heather Heyer - Pay Attention - Part 02 Jul 31, 2020

In April 2017, following some months of debate, Charlottesville voted to remove the statue of Robert E Lee. But this stalled in early May, when a temporary injunction issued by the court prohibited the removal of the statue for another 6 months. By this time, the city’s former Lee Park had become the preferred venue for various neo-Confederate and far right wing political groups to hold public events in Charlottesville. This included demonstrations protesting the removal of the statues. These protests were met with peaceful resistance from anti-racism counter-protestors, but tensions between the two groups usually escalated. Attempts to keep them separated weren’t always successful, and intervention by law enforcement only served to further incite backlash from both sides. It’s against this socio-political backdrop that today’s story unfolded.

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Graphic Audio

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S2E21: Heather Heyer - Pay Attention - Part 01 Jul 22, 2020

In April 2017, following some months of debate, Charlottesville voted to remove the statue of Robert E Lee. But this stalled in early May, when a temporary injunction issued by the court prohibited the removal of the statue for another 6 months. By this time, the city’s former Lee Park had become the preferred venue for various neo-Confederate and far right wing political groups to hold public events in Charlottesville. This included demonstrations protesting the removal of the statues. These protests were met with peaceful resistance from anti-racism counter-protestors, but tensions between the two groups usually escalated. Attempts to keep them separated weren’t always successful, and intervention by law enforcement only served to further incite backlash from both sides. It’s against this socio-political backdrop that today’s story unfolded.

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Graphic Audio

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S2E20: James Byrd Jr - On The Map Jun 10, 2020

Writer: Gemma Harris

What you’re about to hear didn’t happen all that long ago. Unfortunately for the victim in today’s story, more extensive legislative protection came too late for what transpired one unusually hot June in east Texas. But it proved to be the catalyst for much-needed reform when it comes to prosecuting hate crimes, and for taking a small step towards attempting to address pervasive and entrenched racism. And as we know, we still have a long, long way to go.

CW: Graphic Descriptions of Violence, Racially Motivated Violence

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S2E19: Lee Rigby - The Drummer Boy Apr 08, 2020

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Graphic Descriptions of Violence

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S2E18: Leigh Leigh - Property of the Clan Mar 11, 2020

One adolescent rite of passage where many of these key memories are formed - both good and bad - is parties. For many of us, parties during our teenage years often marked the many ‘firsts’ in a young persons’ life. The first time we could drive after getting our licence. Our first kiss. The first time we experiment with cigarettes, alcohol or harder drugs. For many teens, it’s their first encounter with sex. Unfortunately for some girls, that encounter isn’t always consensual, but instead traumatic. In those situations, we’d like to think that if we, or someone we knew, was raped or sexually assaulted at a party, the person responsible would be ejected and police contacted. Sadly, we know that in reality that doesn’t happen for a range of reasons. It’s cold comfort, but on those occasions, we hope that police will be contacted in the days following the attack, in an attempt to bring the assailant to justice.

But that can only happen if the survivor makes it home from the party in the first place.

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Rape, Extreme Sexual Abuse Involving a Minor

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S2E17: Henry Brisbon - The I-57 Killer Feb 26, 2020

In 1973, three brutal murders were carried out along Interstate 57 in Illinois. The man responsible, with three accomplices, was Henry Brisbon. He was just 17-years-old. Henry Brisbon has been called the poster child for capital punishment. He is a man whose violent history has left a trail of destruction behind him. This story is about the lives he destroyed.

Writer: Fiona Guy

CW: Rape, Details of Extreme Violence

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S2E16: Matthew Shepard - Equal Rights Feb 05, 2020

CW: Homophobic Slurs, Rape, Hate Crimes

Writer: Gemma Harris

Perhaps you already know this story - or think you do. But as you’ll hear, what happened just outside a town in the midwest state of Wyoming on a chilly fall night in the late 1990s, had haunting parallels with coyote hanging. What started as a grisly warning would become the catalyst for a watershed movement nationwide. One that would see the LGBTQ community finally make a breakthrough when it came to breaking down bigotry and prejudice.

Listener, if anything in today’s story has raised any issues for you, or if someone you know needs help, you can contact the LGBT National Hotline in the United States and Canada on 1 888 843 4564 for confidential support.

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S2E15: Jeffrey R. MacDonald - The Fort Bragg Murders Jan 22, 2020

At 3:40am on February 17, 1970, a phone call was received by the operator in Fayetteville, North Carolina . The person on the other end of the line was requesting assistance at the MacDonald home on Castle Drive. At 3:42am, another call was made from the same address, this time being patched through to military police in Fort Bragg. A stabbing had been reported.

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Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Child Death

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S2E14: Christine Eadie & Helen Scott - At World's End Jan 11, 2020

Today’s story takes us across the pond and back in time to 1970s Scotland. Christine Eadie and her friend Helen Scott had known each other since childhood. On October 15, 1977, after a night on the town, their last stop for the night was one of the many popular pubs in the area, The World’s End. Christine and Helen were seen by a police officer walking off with the two men down Saint Mary Street. It was the last time they were seen alive.

Edit: Unfortunately, Angus has been pronounced as "Agnes". This was not caught during the recording phase and a deadline had to be met. I can only promise to do better in the future. - Justin

Writer: Gemma Harris

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CW: Rape, Murder, Child Death

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Obscura: Black Label - Burn [Full Episode] Dec 25, 2019

Researcher: Haley Gray

Writer: Stephanie Moore

CW: Intense Graphic Audio

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S2E13: Debora Green - The Farrar Family Dec 11, 2019

Listener, what happens when your home is destroyed in a natural disaster or accident and you lose the very people you need around you? You have no home to go to, and are cast adrift without the people you love who you rely on to make difficult times easier to bear. You feel abandoned and alone.

And listener, what happens if that ‘accident’ that destroyed your home and killed your loved ones wasn’t actually determined to be an accident at all, but something far more sinister, caused by the last person on earth you’d suspect? This is what we contemplate in today’s story.

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Child death, Animal Death

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S2E12: Baby Doe - The Murder of Bella Bond Nov 27, 2019

Writer: Fiona Guy

In 2015 the discovery of a child’s body on a secluded area of beach sparked a quest to find the child’s real identity and who was responsible for her death. The death of a young child is a tragic event. The death of a young child due to murder is an event that lights a fire under all involved, to seek the truth and achieve justice for that child and life they have lost. Justice is not a straight-forward concept in this case as you will hear. I will leave it up to you listener to decide for yourself, if justice, in this case, was truly achieved.

CW: Child Death, Drug Abuse

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S2E11: Edward Baldock & Tracey Wigginton - Satanic Panic Nov 13, 2019

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Sexual Abuse, Graphic Descriptions of Murder

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S2E10: Ronald Dominique - Swamp Thing - Part 02 Oct 15, 2019

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Rape, Murder, Graphic Descriptions

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S2E09: Ronald Dominique - Swamp Thing - Part 01 Oct 03, 2019

Writer: Gemma Harris

CW: Rape, Murder, Graphic Descriptions

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S2E08: Robert Hansen - The Hunter - Part 02 Sep 12, 2019

CW: Rape, Sexual Abuse

Writer: Gemma Harris

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S2E07: Robert Hansen - The Hunter - Part 01 Sep 04, 2019

CW: Rape, Sexual Abuse

Writer: Gemma Harris

Most of us are familiar with reality tv shows where people are isolated in remote locations around the world to test and demonstrate their skills, stamina and endurance required to overcome the obstacles presented by mother nature. Extreme temperatures, exposure, hunger, dehydration, and exhaustion - not to mention threats from native wildlife, all pose additional complications.

Listener... what happens when you’re stranded and don’t have that experience and those survival skills? No idea how far away you are from the closest town? No way of knowing when - or if - you’ll be rescued? And listener - what if, stranded in the middle of nowhere, the movement of the person you could suddenly hear as they made their way through the trees towards you, belonged to someone who wasn’t coming to help you - but to hunt you?

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S2E06: The Hart Family Crash - Part 02 Aug 12, 2019

On March 26, 2018 in the late afternoon, the California Highway Patrol was called out to a crash site on US highway 101 in the affluent Mendocino County, town of Westport, California. A hundred feet down a jagged cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sat a 2003 GMC Yukon SUV registered to Jennifer Jean Hart, or Jen as she was called. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered the SUV held an entire family, but not just any family. This was a family affectionately known as “the Hart Tribe” by their friends and by their community.

Writer: Stephanie Moore

CW: Suicide, Child Abuse, Racism

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S2E05: The Hart Family Crash - Part 01 Aug 06, 2019

On March 26, 2018 in the late afternoon, the California Highway Patrol was called out to a crash site on US highway 101 in the affluent Mendocino County, town of Westport, California. A hundred feet down a jagged cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sat a 2003 GMC Yukon SUV registered to Jennifer Jean Hart, or Jen as she was called. Upon closer inspection, it was discovered the SUV held an entire family, but not just any family. This was a family affectionately known as “the Hart Tribe” by their friends and by their community.

Writer: Stephanie Moore CW: Suicide, Child Abuse, Child Death, Racism

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S2E04: The Murder of Michael McMorrow - Strawberry Fields Forever Jul 24, 2019

Listener, as you’ll hear, the facts of today’s story and the events that unfolded just prior to Memorial Day Weekend in 1997, show what happens when the paths of strangers collide in such a way that not everyone necessarily emerges from a fateful chance encounter alive... Writer: Gemma Harris Sources: www.obscuracrimepodcast.com/s2e04r Support our sponsors: http://withcove.com/obscura For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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S2E03: The Murders of Joann and Alex Katrinak - Part 02 Jul 10, 2019

The conclusion of our two part series on the murders of Joann and Alex Katrinak. We hope you behaved and stayed off Wikipedia. Writer: Stephanie Moore CW: Child Death Support our sponsors: www.nativedeodorant.com Promo Code: OBSCURA For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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S2E02: The Murders of Joann and Alex Katrinak - Part 01 Jun 26, 2019

In December 1994, Andrew Katrinak arrives home to an empty house. At 10:40 p.m. he calls 911 to report his family missing. So begins a case that features a missing wife, a missing baby, and the husband who gave news interviews repeatedly asking for the return of his wife and son. Writer: Stephanie Moore CW: Child Death For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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S2E01: The Murder of Honora Parker - Heavenly Creatures Jun 12, 2019

Today’s story is not that of a romance per se, but about another special kind of relationship. The type of relationship some of us are lucky enough to have in our lives at least once - it’s the story of best friends. It’s also a story about testing the bounds of friendship. How far would you go for a friend? At what price? What would you do when the world is conspiring against your unique and inexplicable bond? Pauline Parker, Juliet Hulme, and he murder of Honora Parker. Writer: Gemma Harris

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BOOKS Graham, P. (2011). So Brilliantly Clever. Awa Press. ARTICLES The Press, 20 Sep 1994. ‘Hulme describes teenage plot to kill friends mother’. Press Weekend, 6 Aug 1994. ‘Solved: Hulme’s greatest secret’. Press Weekend, 5 Oct 1991. ‘Murder without remorse’. Star-Sun, 2 Sep 1954. ‘Girl murderers’ sentence - decision on place of detention’. Star-Sun, 1 Sep 1954. ‘Girl murderers sentence’. Star-Sun, 31 Aug 1954. ‘Detention of murderesses is problem’. Star-Sun, 30 Aug 1954. ‘Ministers to decide future of murderesses’ and ‘Teenagers sentenced to detention for murder’. The Press, 30 Aug 1954, ‘Girls guilty of murder’. Star-Sun, 28 Aug 1954. ‘Closing stages of teenagers’ murder trial’ and ‘Murder trial: Symptoms enumerated’. The Press, 28 Aug 1954. ‘Murder charge. Hearing of evidence completed. Addresses to jury today’. Star-Sun, 27 Aug 1954. ‘Crown rebuts opinions about girls’ insanity’ and ‘Murder trial’. Star-Sun, 24 Aug 1954. ‘Murder trial - Mother cross-examined’ and ‘Supreme Court Trial - Witnesses tell of finding body’. Star-Sun, 23 Aug 1954. ‘Two teenagers face charge of killing woman’, ‘Discovery of body described’, ‘Court told about families’,‘Called to Park’, and ‘Had operations’. Clarkson, N. 17 June 1989. ‘Separation threat trigger for a brick attack’, The Press. WEBSITES http://www.adamabrams.com/hc/faq2/Section_7/7.2.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%E2%80%93Hulme_murder_case https://web.archive.org/web/20070901015408/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/parker_hulme/index.html https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/pauline-parker https://nzhistory.govt.nz/heavenly-creatures-pauline-parker-and-juliet-hulme-are-found-guilty-of-murder https://web.archive.org/web/20071019040936/http://www.anneperry.net/3.html https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10371147 https://web.archive.org/web/20060721114131/http://www.domusaurea.org/borovnia/hilary.html https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/1938/thesis_fulltext.pdf;jsessionid=394241F76ECC03AB3A6A7D02B0538A34?sequence=1 http://www.pridenz.com/queer_history_parker_hulme_murder.html http://www.crime.co.nz/c-files.aspx?ID=18 https://www.ilamhomestead.co.nz/home https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/trials-notable/page-17 http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page24.asp PODCASTS One More Crime, The Case of Pauline Parker & Juliet Hulme. 25 Feb 2018. Crimelines, Parker Hulme Murder. 15 Jan 2018. Nothing Rhymes With Murder, The Parker-Hulme Case. 13 Sep 2017. Ladykillers, Parker - Hulme Murder. 18 Mar 2017. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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S1E36: Missing Mona Biddy May 02, 2019

For the one year anniversary of Obscura we're returning to our first episode and doing the case justice this time. As an added bonus we're including Black Label 06 - Crush for free. For the sake of not getting kicked off iTunes, this is the censored version of Black Label 06... but it still has teeth. If you'd like to access the full version you can get access on Patreon. For information regarding your data privacy,

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Obscura: Black Label 04 Preview Feb 23, 2019

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S1E28: Jonathan Richardson - The Outbuilding Feb 13, 2019

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S1E27: Corey Feldman's Fight Against Pedophilia Feb 06, 2019

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S1E22: Zack and Addie Dec 18, 2018

For today’s show we cover a lot of ground. I figure I can only tell the story of Zach and Addie once…so…I better do the story justice. To finish out the year on the main feed, I’ve chosen to go out with a bang. Get comfortable. Because you’re about to hear about one of what I consider to be one of the most interesting true crime stories. A long with the intertwining history surrounding the tragedy that created a tangled web of misery and devastation. Now, let’s get on with it. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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S1E21: The Murder of Brandon Teena Dec 13, 2018

The murder of Brandon Teena thrust the trans community into the forefront of public discussion. Before the early 1990s, transgender people were a silent minority within society. When the case we'll be discussing had originally received national coverage, the disregard of preferred pronouns and dead naming were not considered offensive and some of the audio clips, legal transcripts, and direct quotes used in creating this episode may reflect that. This episode will also include unedited audio of a police interview with a rape victim, which may be too distressing for some of our listeners. You've been warned. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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S1E20: Nick Stoutzenberger - The Mouth of Madness Nov 29, 2018

Today we discuss person so revolting he triggered my gag response. This is a first for the show. The episode skated on the edge of becoming a black label. This is a slow incline into the mouth of madness.

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