Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

In 2020, a report submitted to San Diego County Crime Stoppers prompted police to begin looking into allegations involving inappropriate online communication with a minor. Detectives soon discovered the suspect was not a stranger hiding behind an anonymous profile. Instead, the investigation pointed toward a correctional deputy working for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. As investigators gathered evidence, the scope of the case continued to grow, and what they uncovered would lead to one of the most disturbing law enforcement scandals in the region.Full interogation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NtaOHvqPq8&t=386sOur other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In the early hours of May 1, 1999, sixteen year old Marianne Vaatstra disappeared while cycling home through the quiet countryside of Friesland in the Netherlands. Later that morning, her body was discovered in a field near the village of Veenklooster, the victim of a brutal rape and murder. The crime shocked the nation and quickly became one of the most controversial investigations in Dutch history. For more than thirteen years, the killer remained unknown, until finally a groundbreaking DNA investigation finally revealed the truth.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

Dead Man’s Flats is one of the strangest place names in the Canadian Rockies, and most people passing through have no idea where it came from. But the name isn’t just local legend, it traces back to a real and disturbing crime. In the spring of 1904, a man named François Marret murdered his own brother inside their small cabin along the Bow River, striking him with an axe while he slept before dumping the body into the water nearby. More than a century later, the land where it happened still carries the memory of that crime in its name.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In the summer of 1999, a quiet financial office in Atlanta became the final stop in a three day killing spree for one man. Before the gunfire erupted at his work place, this man had already murdered his wife and children inside their suburban apartment. By the time police closed in, twelve people in total were dead and more than a dozen were wounded.However, investigators also uncovering disturbing links to an earlier unsolved double murder, which would increase his murder count to 14.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In March 1981, a quiet courtroom in Lübeck, West Germany, erupted in gunfire when a mother shot the man accused of killing and assualting her seven year old daughter. The shocking act instantly transformed a tragic child murder case into one of the most controversial true crime stories in modern German history. But to truly understand how that moment happened, you have to go back to the years of grief, legal battles, and growing anger that led a grieving mother to take justice into her own hands.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

The Smurl family never expected their home to become the center of a national paranormal mystery. Over the course of more than a decade, they claimed their quiet duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, became the stage for unexplained noises, violent incidents, and a growing sense that something unseen was watching them. As their story spread, it drew in priests, skeptics, and the famous demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, turning a private nightmare into a public spectacle. What followed would leave behind one of the most controversial haunting cases ever recorded, still argued about decades later.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In the fall of 2009, police in Cleveland entered a house expecting to arrest a man accused of sexual assault. Instead, they stepped into one of the most shocking crime scenes in the city’s history. Hidden inside the home, and buried in the yard, were the remains of eleven women. They were the victims of a killer who had blended into the neighborhood for years. What followed was a devastating investigation that exposed not only a serial murderer, but a long trail of missed warnings and overlooked disappearances.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In October 1970, a thirteen year old girl stumbled into a Los Angeles welfare office, weighing just 59 pounds she had spent nearly her entire life strapped to a chair in a darkened bedroom, cut off from language, sunlight, and normal human contact. She could barely walk, could not speak grammatically, and had lived almost entirely without language. Soon the scientific community would descend on her case, and the world came to know her as Genie.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In the woods of a small New Hampshire town, four bodies were hidden in two metal barrels and left to decay in silence. For decades, no one knew who they were, where they came from, or who had killed them. The only certainty was that they had been beaten to death and abandoned far from home. What followed was a relentless investigation that would not only expose a serial killer who lived under stolen identities, but also help pioneer the use of genetic genealogy, changing the way cold cases are solved forever.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

For years, residents of Nehe, a quiet city in Heilongjiang Province of China, watched people vanish without explanation. Travelers arrived by train, stepped into the streets, and were never seen again. Police had few leads and even fewer answers, while rumors spread through the community. It wasn’t until a routine arrest in 1991 that investigators finally uncovered the gruesome truth hidden beneath an unremarkable home.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In September 2015, three people in the small communities of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, were caught up in a series of violent events that would leave the entire region shaken. What began with the murder of a senior living alone quickly escalated into the killing of a young father and the sudden disappearance of his two year old daughter under a province wide Amber Alert. As police raced against time to find the missing child, evidence began pointing back toward someone from inside the community. With every hour that passed, the case grew more urgent, more complicated, and more unsettling.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

From the outside, it looked like a perfect life: a brilliant scientist, a successful marriage, and a prestigious career in pharmaceuticals. But behind the scenes, secret affairs, obsessive surveillance, and carefully crafted lies were quietly taking over. A hidden love triangle inside one workplace would spiral into stalking, betrayal, and brutal violence.What started as love, turned into murder, and eventully expose a calculated killer hiding in plain sight.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

From the outside, it looked like a perfect life: a brilliant scientist, a successful marriage, and a prestigious career in pharmaceuticals. But behind the scenes, secret affairs, obsessive surveillance, and carefully crafted lies were quietly taking over. A hidden love triangle inside one workplace would spiral into stalking, betrayal, and brutal violence.What started as love, turned into murder, and eventully expose a calculated killer hiding in plain sight.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In 1928, nine year old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the movies in Los Angeles, setting off a desperate search that would grip the nation. As police scrambled to close the case and protect their reputation, they forced a false reunion and pressured his grieving mother to accept a child who was not hers. When she refused, she was silenced, institutionalized, and left to fight the system alone. Meanwhile, hidden on a remote chicken ranch, a serial killer was abducting and murdering boys, while authorities looked the other way for years.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In April 2010, twenty five year old Erinn Orcutt was abducted at gunpoint from the Ontario Mills Mall parking lot in California as she left her waitressing job. For seventy two minutes, she was held captive inside her own SUV, beaten, sexually assaulted, photographed, and threatened with death. She escaped only after noticing her attacker’s gun had fallen to the floor and sprinting to a nearby liquor store for help. Within hours, investigators would uncover a chilling truth, that the man responsible was a police detective assigned to investigate sex crimes.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In October 1994, a young mother in Union, South Carolina, told police that a stranger had carjacked her vehicle and driven away with her two small children still strapped in their car seats. For nine days, the case dominated national news as law enforcement searched roads, lakes, and backcountry while the public watched her tearful pleas for the boys’ return. As the investigation unfolded, however, detectives began to find that the story at the center of the search did not align with the evidence they were quietly collecting. It seemed like the one who really knew where the boys were, was someone much closer to them. Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at the time was that Sharon Marshall was not her real name, and that the man claiming to be her husband had been controlling her life since she was a child. To understand how a bright, capable young woman ended up dying under an alias, investigators would have to unravel a story that stretched back decades, across stolen identities, missing children, and a predator who hid in plain sight.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at the time was that Sharon Marshall was not her real name, and that the man claiming to be her husband had been controlling her life since she was a child. To understand how a bright, capable young woman ended up dying under an alias, investigators would have to unravel a story that stretched back decades, across stolen identities, missing children, and a predator who hid in plain sight.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

In October 1994, a woman named Emelita Reeves disappeared from her home in Arlington, Texas, leaving behind her young son and a husband who said she had simply walked away. At first, there was no sign of a crime, just a familiar explanation, delivered calmly, by a retired Army master sergeant. But as detectives began to trace Jack Reeves’ past, they realized Emelita was not the first woman in his life to vanish under strange circumstances, and her disappearance would finally force the past back into the open.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/

On June 13, 2016, Aaron Lee Pajich-Sweetman, an 18 year old with autism, vanished after meeting two women he trusted at a shopping centre south of Perth. Within days, police would trace his final movements through phone records and CCTV footage to a house in Orelia, where evidence of careful planning, digital communication, and amateur concealment began to surface. What followed was the unraveling of a calculated murder carried out by Jemma Victoria Lilley and Trudi Clare Lenon, driven not by rage or desperation, but by fixation on commiting their first murder.Our other podcast: "FEARFUL" - https://open.spotify.com/show/56ajNkLiPoIat1V2KI9n5c?si=OyM38rdsSSyyzKAFUJpSywMERCH:https://www.redbubble.com/people/wickedandgrim/shop?asc=uPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/wickedandgrim?fan_landing=trueYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@wickedlifeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/wickedandgrim/ Instagram:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wickedandgrim/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/wickedandgrimWebsite: https://www.wickedandgrim.com/