This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

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Brock Turner & Candon Dahle: A Promising Young Man- Part 1 Oct 20, 2026

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Six months in jail. Three months actually served. That's what former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner received after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious Chanel Miller.

In another case, Candon Dahle received 180 days in jail following years of sexual abuse of a child.

Different cases. Different circumstances. But both raise a question we can't stop thinking about: Why does the future of the person who committed sexual violence so often become part of the conversation about what punishment is appropriate?

In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita revisit the Brock Turner case, Chanel Miller's powerful victim-impact statement, and the case against Candon Dahle. They examine how we measure the harm of sexual violence, what research tells us about its long-term effects, and whether the justice system adequately accounts for consequences that may not leave visible injuries.

And just when the answer seems obvious, another case raises a much harder question.

Part 2 is available now for patrons and drops Thursday for everyone else.

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Dan Markel Murder: Charlie & Donna Adelson on Trial | Part 2 Oct 15, 2026

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How do you prove who ordered a murder when the people behind it never directly speak to the killers?

The murder of Florida State law professor Dan Markel led investigators from two hired killers to Katherine Magbanua, Charlie Adelson, and eventually Donna Adelson. But connecting the evidence to the people accused of arranging the murder would take years, an elaborate FBI undercover operation, secretly recorded conversations, and multiple trials.

In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita break down the FBI's infamous "bump" operation, the Dolce Vita restaurant recording, Katie Magbanua's changing testimony, and Charlie Adelson's extraordinary extortion defense. Then there's Donna Adelson's murder trial, the bizarre testimony about wet, moldy, stapled money, and the family member who ultimately testified against his own mother.

Following Hulu's Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel, we're examining the trial evidence, the competing explanations, and the questions that remain surrounding Wendi Adelson and the family's involvement.

After more than a decade of investigations and trials, what did it finally take to secure convictions — and what has justice meant for Dan Markel's family?

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The Murder of Dan Markel: The Adelson Family Plot | Part 1 Oct 13, 2026

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Dan Markel was a Florida State University law professor and father of two when he was shot in his own garage in Tallahassee, Florida, in July 2014. What initially looked like a mysterious murder would become one of the most shocking murder-for-hire cases in Florida history.

At the center of the investigation was the wealthy Adelson family: Dan's ex-wife Wendi Adelson, her brother Charlie Adelson, and their mother Donna Adelson. As investigators followed surveillance footage, phone records, financial transactions, and a trail of connections between Miami and Tallahassee, a disturbing question emerged: Who wanted Dan Markel dead badly enough to hire killers?

In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita break down Dan and Wendi's bitter divorce and custody dispute, the murder investigation, the hitman joke Wendi told police, and the evidence that eventually connected the suspected killers to the Adelson family.

With renewed attention on the case following Hulu's four-part documentary Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel, we're going beyond the documentary to examine the evidence, testimony, and family dynamics behind this extraordinary case.

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Caleb Flynn Murder Trial Part 2: Ashley Flynn's Murder, the Intruder Story & Guilty Verdict Oct 08, 2026

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The Caleb Flynn murder trial centered on one question: who killed Ashley Flynn? Caleb Flynn said an intruder broke into their Ohio home and shot his wife while he slept—but investigators said the physical and digital evidence told a different story.

We reconstruct Caleb's account of the Ashley Flynn murder against the damaged garage door, missing 9mm handgun, Apple Watch, AirPods, 911 call and police interviews; examine the real holes in the investigation and the questions surrounding Alleigha Botner; and break down the defense closing argument, the State's rebuttal and the jury's guilty verdict.

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Caleb Flynn Murder Trial Part 1: The Affair & "Actions Will Come Tomorrow" Oct 06, 2026

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Hours before Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head in her Ohio home, her husband, Caleb Flynn, was secretly messaging his mistress, Alleigha Botner: "February 16th. Day I'll never forget." "You're about to be free." "I choose you."

We break down the Caleb Flynn affair, more than 100,000 messages between Caleb and Alleigha, their disturbing conversations about Ashley dying, and the escalating relationship that prosecutors said led to Ashley Flynn's murder.

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No Body. No Lawyer. The Tomasz Kosowski Murder Trial | Part 2 Oct 01, 2026

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Plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was accused of murdering attorney Steven Cozzi, whose body has never been found. Then Kosowski made an extraordinary decision: he would represent himself in his own first-degree murder trial.

There is no body. No autopsy. No eyewitness to Steven's killing. And no definitively identified murder weapon.

So how do you prove a murder happened at all?

In Part 2 of the Tomasz Kosowski case, we follow the forensic trail prosecutors say connects Steven's blood from the law-firm bathroom to Kosowski's truck, garage and car — and the digital evidence they used to reconstruct where Kosowski went after Steven disappeared.

Then the trial gets even stranger.

Kosowski cross-examines the state's experts, asks a prosecutor to get inside a trash bag, tries to stage a courtroom demonstration involving a roughly 190-pound person in a cart, presents no defense case — and ultimately argues his own innocence directly to the judge.

And then Judge Joseph Bulone delivers his verdict.

How do you prove a murder without a body — and what happens when the man accused of committing it decides to become his own lawyer?

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The Plastic Surgeon, the Missing Lawyer & the "Murder Bag" | Tomasz Kosowski Part 1 Sep 29, 2026

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Florida plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was locked in a bitter legal battle when attorney Steven Cozzi disappeared from his law firm — leaving behind his phone, wallet, keys, and a bathroom covered in blood.

Investigators say the man responsible was Kosowski, who had been locked in a civil lawsuit against Cozzi's clients. But what police uncovered after Steven disappeared went far beyond a courtroom grudge: surveillance footage, a suspicious wagon, a remote dumpster, more than $280,000 in cash — and what investigators described as a "murder bag" inside Kosowski's car.

Steven's body has never been found.

In Part 1, we follow the case from the lawsuit that started it all through Steven's disappearance, the manhunt for Kosowski, and the evidence police found after pulling him over hundreds of miles from home.

Part 2: How do you prove a murder when there's no body — especially when the accused killer decides to defend himself?

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Reckless Ben Got Sued for RICO. Over LEGO | Part 2 Sep 24, 2026

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A fake delivery driver. A fake church member. A fake Guinness World Records rep. A fake raffle. An AI deepfake.

According to Bricks & Minifigs, these weren't just YouTube stunts—they were pieces of an alleged racketeering enterprise.

In Part 2, we dig into BAM's 95-page lawsuit against Reckless Ben, the RICO allegations, the arrests and protective order, disputed claims about police conduct, the viral "Mormon Mafia" theory, and the court order that temporarily forced Ben's videos offline.

Then, after lawsuits, millions of views and an eventual settlement, we come back to the question that started this entire mess:

Where are the LEGO?

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Reckless Ben and the $200,000 LEGO Mystery | Part 1 Sep 22, 2026

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In an attempt to help his dad sell his valuable Star Wars LEGO collection, Bryan Mansell places them on consignment with his local Bricks & Minifigs store. The store changes hands. And somewhere along the way, a huge portion of the collection becomes impossible to account for.

Enter YouTuber Reckless Ben.

What starts as an attempt to help a family recover their LEGO quickly turns into fake businesses, undercover stunts, a fake religion, a forged "contract," small claims lawsuits, police showing up—and eventually, arrests.

But there's something millions of viewers didn't know when Ben's investigation went viral: by the time his first video dropped, this fight had already been escalating for months.

And Bricks & Minifigs was about to tell a very different version of the story.

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Castle Rock v. Gonzales: Do Police Have a Duty to Protect You? | Part 2 Sep 17, 2026

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TW: Child Murder Part 2 picks up exactly where we left Jessica. What happened that night — and everything she did afterward — would take her all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and raise a question most people assume they already know the answer to: do police actually have to protect you, even when you have a court order in hand?

Nikita — an attorney herself — takes us through how the Court got there, what the justices actually decided, and the reasoning behind a ruling that still shapes what we expect from police today.

Then we widen the lens. We put Jessica's case next to Gabby Petito's, ask why an anonymous bomb threat can trigger more urgency than a documented, named danger, and come back to the question at the heart of this entire arc: when no one can know for certain what someone will do, who ends up paying for that uncertainty?

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