Necronomipod

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover George Metesky — the Mad Bomber of New York City, the man who spent sixteen years planting homemade pipe bombs in movie theaters, phone booths, and transit terminals all over Manhattan while the NYPD ran itself in circles trying to find him. From 1940 to 1956, Metesky planted over thirty devices, wrote taunting letters to the press, and never killed a single person — and we'll get into why that appears to have been entirely by design. What makes this case genuinely fascinating is how it ended: not through detective work, but through a criminal psychologist named James Brussel who studied the case files and produced a profile so precise it named the suspect's suit style. We'll break down how a workplace grudge against Consolidated Edison curdled into a sixteen-year obsession, how the newspapers that spent years mocking the police ultimately handed them their man, and how Brussel's work on this case laid the foundation for modern criminal profiling as we know it today. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the case of Lisl Auman — the only person in Colorado history convicted of murder while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car. In 1997, a 21-year-old woman brought some guys along to retrieve her stuff from an ex-boyfriend's place in the mountains. What followed was a high-speed chase, a standoff at a Denver apartment complex, and the shooting death of Officer Bruce VanderJagt — a murder committed by her associate Matthaeus Jaehnig, who then turned the gun on himself. Lisl never fired a shot. She was already under arrest when it happened. She got life without parole anyway. We'll break down the felony murder rule that made it possible, the two cops who suspiciously revised their reports two days after the fact using nearly identical language, and how a dying Hunter S. Thompson threw the full weight of his gonzo legacy behind getting her out — rallying everyone from Warren Zevon to Johnny Depp to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers along the way. It took eight years, but the Colorado Supreme Court finally agreed something had gone very wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the folklore of Trinidad! We're diving into six figures from one of the most culturally mixed islands in the Caribbean — the Soucouyant, a skin-shedding vampire who flies through the night as a ball of fire; the Douens, faceless spirits of unbaptized children with backwards feet; La Diablesse, a beautiful woman with a cow's hoof hidden under her dress who lures men into the forest; Gang Gang Sara, a woman who flew across the Atlantic from Africa and lost her power; the Duppy Baby, a roadside spirit that grows heavier the longer you hold it; and the silk cotton tree that connects all of them. West African tradition, French Catholic structure, and centuries of survival all compressed into the stories people in Trinidad still tell their kids today. https://www.necrnomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jan Broberg was kidnapped twice — by the same man — while her parents stood by and did nothing. In this episode of Necronomipod, we cover the true crime case behind the Netflix documentary Abducted in Plain Sight: how Robert Berchtold groomed Jan Broberg over years, manipulated her entire family, and carried out not one but two abductions. We break down how Berchtold gained the family's trust, the psychological manipulation and control he built over Jan, how the first kidnapping unfolded, and how he managed to insert himself back into their lives for a second abduction. We also cover the FBI investigation, the eventual reckoning, and where Jan Broberg is today. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we get into the disappearance and murder of Misty Morse! We’ll go through Misty’s last known movements, the search, and how investigators focused on her boyfriend, Brent Huck - including the key evidence and the details that prosecutors said tied him to the case. Then we get into the trial, the defense arguments, and how the verdict landed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover serial killer Carl Eric “Charlie” Brandt! We’ll start with the night in 1971 when 13-year-old Charlie shot and killed his mother and seriously wounded his father, then was allowed go on and live what looked like a normal, quiet life. Then we’ll get into what happened in 2004 when he was found dead by suicide in Florida, and police discovered what Charlie really was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us as we head to Taiwan and cover the Wu family exorcism case! In 2005 a horrifying series of events unfolded when a family became convinced that one of their own was possessed by an evil spirit. This spiraled into days of ritual abuse, beatings, and starvation, all carried out in the name of saving a soul. We'll go through the timeline step by step, explain the religious beliefs involved, including Taoist folk practices, written fú charms, and the sudden claim that Guanyin Bodhisattva had taken over. From there, we'll dig into how an entire household lost touch with reality at the same time. Then we'll wrap up the investigation, the arrests, and how the courts tried to make sense of this crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we discuss the Lane Bryant killings in Tinley Park, Illinois! On February 2, 2008, a man walked into a Lane Bryant store, forced employees and customers into the back, and killed five women before taking off. One woman survived the attack, and her call for help kicked off a huge investigation that still hasn’t led to an arrest. We’ll walk through what’s known from the beginning. The timeline inside the store, the suspect description and sketch, the forensic evidence investigators talked about, and the major leads and suspects that have surfaced over the years. Then we’ll get into where the case stands now, and what questions are still hanging out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight we’re digging into the case of Jonathan Gerlach, the Pennsylvanian accused of breaking into mausoleums and graves at Mount Moriah Cemetery and stealing human remains. Cops say they caught him coming out of the cemetery with tools and a bag of remains, and that search warrants later led them to more than 100 sets of human remains at his home and in a storage locker, along with signs he was selling bones online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we head to a quiet village in the UK and get into the Scole Experiment! A run of séances in the 1990s where a small group said they were producing physical paranormal phenomena under semi-controlled conditions, like weird lights in the room, objects moving, and reports of photos and messages showing up on sealed film. We'll get into all the investigative details, and give our thoughts and what we think happened here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! This week we'll get into the recent revocation of Morgan Geyser's release, and some High School Ian rumors around Catholic FamilyLand! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we head to Cohasset, Massachusetts, for the disappearance and murder of Ana Walshe! In the early hours of January 1, 2023, Ana, a 39-year-old real estate executive and mom of three who split time between Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., was last seen at home after New Year’s Eve. Her husband, Brian Walshe, told police she left for a sudden work trip, but investigators couldn’t confirm any ride to the airport or a flight out, and within days the story started falling apart. From there, the case turns into a brutal, evidence-heavy no-body prosecution: prosecutors laid out a trail of surveillance, dumpster runs, and a stack of internet searches about dismemberment and getting rid of remains, along with items recovered from trash processing that they said tied back to Ana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our series on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints! In part five we'll go through Warren's arrest, as well as his trials in Utah and Texas. We'll also dig into the other co-conspirators of Warren's, and where things stand today. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! This time we'll cover a Florida case where a man accused of stealing and crashing a BMW told deputies, “I don’t know, I teleported or something,” and later said, “You saved me from the aliens.” Then we get into the skeptic's take on The Age of Disclosure. Poutine Stuff! Cherokee Phoenix article Auction UFO pics part 1 Auction UFO pics part 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on the FLDS! We'll follow Warren Jeffs as he tightens his grip on Short Creek, kicks kids out of public school, tears down community landmarks, and starts excommunicating longtime leaders while dumping so-called “lost boys” on the side of the highway. We’ll talk about his push to build new “lands of refuge” like the YFZ Ranch, how the forced marriages of underage girls escalated, and how law enforcement, former members, and the courts finally started to push back with raids, lawsuits, and criminal charges, all while Warren slips into hiding on the run from the FBI. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! We’re marking the 45th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder by talking less about Mark David Chapman and more about his wife Gloria. How she was just photographed up in Buffalo still wearing her wedding ring, why she moved from Hawaii to New York to be closer to his prison, and what their strange, super-religious prison marriage has looked like over the years. Then we’ll head to Washington state for the latest on Gary Ridgway, the reports that he’s in end-of-life care versus the DOC saying that’s not true. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on Mormonism and the FLDS! We'll get into how plural marriage went from a secret in Nauvoo to a public doctrine in Utah that put the church on a collision course with the U.S. government. We’ll go through the anti-polygamy crackdowns and the 1890 Manifesto, then follow the believers who refused to give it up into the remote Short Creek community, where they built the FLDS. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and hang out with us on Necro Overtime as we break down the viral “trashed panda” story. The drunk raccoon in Ashland, Virginia that crashed through the ceiling of a liquor store, shattered bottles of bourbon, sampled half the bottom shelf, and passed out on the bathroom floor.  Then we switch gears to the FBI’s newly resurfaced Bigfoot file — a 22-page declassified Vault document from the 1970s where the Bureau actually tested alleged Sasquatch hair. Paranormal Poutine stuff! English Heritage photo LINK Humanoid UFO Iraq LINK Epstein Dental Room LINK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our FLDS series with the birth of Mormon polygamy! We’ll get into Joseph's claimed angel with a drawn sword, the secret plural “marriages” starting with Fanny Alger in the Smiths’ own home, and how that double life eventually blew up in Nauvoo with teen brides, polyandrous sealings, and Emma getting gaslit while being told to accept “all those” wives or be destroyed. From John C. Bennett’s “spiritual wife” scam, to the Nauvoo Expositor calling Joseph out, to the city council literally destroying a printing press and Joseph declaring martial law, we’ll follow the chaos straight into Carthage Jail and the gunfire that left Joseph and Hyrum dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! We’ll break down the latest twist in the Morgan Geyser / Slender Man stabbing case, from her conditional release out of a Wisconsin psych facility to cutting off her ankle monitor, running to Illinois, and now getting dragged back on an extradition order.  Then we’ll head to Thailand for the story of a 65-year-old woman who started knocking from inside her coffin at a temple just before cremation, after her family thought she’d been dead for days and hauled her across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices