Podcasts by Crime Nerds
Do you love learning about true crime cases, but you also have a short attention span? Then Crime Nerds is for you!
Further podcasts by Coy Adkins
Podcast on the topic Wahre Kriminalfälle
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Kitty Genovese from 2022-02-09T04:00
The thing that makes most cases prominent in the media is usually, who the victim is, who the suspect is, or if it’s a case where the details that are released just captures the attention of th...
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Robert Durst Part 2 from 2022-02-02T04:00
I did a previous episode on Robert Durst. By now, you probably already know the story. Wealthy real estate heir whose wife went missing. His best friend was found murdered. Then when he was in h...
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Henry Lee Lucas from 2022-01-19T22:00
Henry Lee Lucas was born in 1936. He had a troubled childhood and an even more troublesome adult life. When Henry was arrested for murder and at his first appearance, he asked the judge, "W...
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Robert Hoagland from 2022-01-12T05:00
On July 28th, 2013, Robert Hoagland bought a map from a gas station. He was supposed to pick his wife up from the airport the following day, but when her plane landed, he was no where to be foun...
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Tiffany Whitton from 2022-01-05T04:00
For most people, we see the articles on social media or news papers, that lead with a headline such as, “a body is found” and they list off the location where it was found. For most of us, it...
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Robert Wykel from 2021-12-08T04:00
Robert Wykel was retired and enjoying living his life in the great North West. He loved the outdoors, collecting jewelry, and remodeling old cars. One day, he was approached with a deal to buy a...
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Debra Jackson from 2021-11-24T04:00
In a lot of murder cases, the suspect is the one that goes unidentified for a long period of time. This case was the opposite. There was a suspect, a trial, and a conviction. But, it was the vic...
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Bobby Franks from 2021-10-27T04:00
In May of 1924, two people carried out what would be called the crime of the century. They methodically planed the kidnapping of Bobby Franks, the son of an extremely wealthy Chicago family. To ...
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Brianna Maitland from 2021-10-20T05:00
In March of 2004, an abandoned car was found at an old farmhouse in Vermont. When Brianna Maitland didn't return home from work, it was eventually learned that the abandoned car was hers. T...
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Tiffany Daniels from 2021-10-06T05:00
In August of 2013, 25 year old Tiffany Daniels went missing. A lot of strange things happened around the time of her disappearance. The day before, her boyfriend moved to a new town several hour...
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Zebb Quinn from 2021-09-29T02:00
18 year old Zebb Quinn grew up in Asheville, North Carolina. He was a quiet kid who kept to himself. He loved fishing and his high school ROTC program. The friends that he had, they adored him. ...
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Brittanee Drexel from 2021-09-18T05:00
Brittanee Drexel went on a spring break trip in 2009 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. After a few days on the trip, she went to hang out with a friend. A security camera showed her leaving the h...
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Michelle Martinko from 2021-09-08T05:00
In 1979, 18 year old Michelle Martinko went to the mall to pick out a new coat for the winter. When she didn't return home that night, her parents reported her missing. When the officers re...
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Jessica Heeringa from 2021-09-01T05:00
A woman bought a lighter at a gas station. Just a few minutes later a man goes inside to pay for gas, but the clerk isn't there. In that small window of time, Jessica Heeringa went missing,...
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Amy Bradley from 2021-08-17T20:00
In 1998 Amy Bradley went on a cruise to the Caribbean with her dad, mom, and younger brother. It was supposed to be a great time, she had just graduated college, got her own apartment, and was g...
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Jerry Brudos from 2021-08-04T05:00
Jerry Brudos was a serial killer from the Portland, Oregon area. From the outside, he was married and had kids. That seemed normal enough. But, there was a dark secret that he was hiding. Specif...
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The Jamison Family from 2021-07-24T05:00
In October of 2009 a family of three went missing after looking at a 40 acre lot for sale in Oklahoma. The family consisted of Bobby, Sherilynn, and Madyson Jamison.
Their truck was fo...
Bethany Decker from 2021-07-10T09:00
When Bethany Decker went missing in the beginning of 2011, she was in the middle of a "love triangle." Cases typically aren't solved within an hour, within 48 hours, or even overn...
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The Millbrook Twins from 2021-07-03T11:00
The story of Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook is a tragedy that should have never happened. Their case is one that left a family frustrated and without answers. For over twenty years it seemed l...
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Patricia Meehan from 2021-06-19T06:00
This is one of the most bizarre missing person cases you could ever hear about. Patricia "Patty" Meehan went missing in 1989 when she was 37 years old. But one of the oddest things abo...
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Brianna Denison from 2021-04-14T05:00
In 2008, 19 year old Brianna Denison returned to her hometown of Reno, Nevada for a long weekend with friends. After returning to her friends house in the early morning hours, Brianna went to sl...
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Janet March from 2021-03-26T05:00
In 1996, a children's book illustrator from Nashville, Tennessee went missing. To everyone on the outside, her life seemed perfect, she was married to her college sweetheart, they had two g...
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Jennifer Kesse from 2021-03-11T06:00
Jennifer Kesse disappeared in 2006 while she was on her way to work. This is a case that has had NASA, the FBI, private investigators, and multi-million dollar companies involved, and there are ...
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Michael VanZandt from 2021-02-12T14:00
Michael VanZandt went missing in Hermosa Beach, California in 2016 after a night out with some friends. This case is one that sort of left me in a little bit of shock. There were so many instanc...
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Lorenzen Wright from 2021-01-29T06:00
Lorenzen grew up playing basketball in Memphis, Tennessee. In many ways, he became the face of Memphis throughout his college and professional years playing.
Lorenzen's life ended...
Missing - Tara Calico from 2021-01-14T16:00
Imagine walking in a parking lot and you come across a picture on the ground. The picture is of a young woman and boy tied up in the back of a van. To make things even creepier, the picture came...
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Clinton Prison Escape from 2021-01-07T15:00
Imagine being a prison guard at a maximum security prison. You're doing your early morning bed checks, the same bed checks that you've done every day for years and years. Wait. This mo...
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Sharon Kinne from 2020-12-02T05:00
Sharon Kinne has been missing since 1969. But she isn't your average missing person, Sharon has been a suspect in multiple murders. Some people even consider her to be a serial killer. You ...
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Missing - Suzanne Lyall from 2020-11-01T05:00
In 1998, a young college student seemed to have disappeared without a trace. Years later, there may be more questions now about her disappearance than back in 1998.
This is the story of...
One Moment from 2020-10-09T07:00
October is domestic violence awareness month. This episode isn't a true crime story. This is the first two chapters of my book, One Moment. One of the characters in the story is escaping an...
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Murdered - Brett Cantor from 2020-10-02T07:00
In the early 1990's, Brett Cantor was up and coming in the Los Angeles music and night club industry. In 1993 Brett was killed and just a couple of years later O.J. Simpson was on trial for...
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Tamisha Ridge from 2020-09-17T16:00
Tamisha "Meesha" Ridge was a young mother who started a very successful YouTube show in the early days of YouTube. She quickly turned it into a thriving business to support her and her...
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Helen Claire Frost from 2020-08-28T14:00
Helen Claire Frost was a teenager when she disappeared from Canada in 1970. There are a few theories in her disappearance but it comes down to two main questions: did she disappear on her own? O...
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The Coulthurst Family from 2020-08-21T20:00
In 1982, Mark, Irene, Kimberly, and John Coulthurst were aboard their very large commercial fishing boat along with their four crew members; Mike Stewart, Dean Moon, Jerome Keown, and Chris Heym...
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Wanted - Alex Castillo from 2020-08-13T20:00
In 2016, 23 year old Sandy Le arranged to meet a friend at a gas station, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Then she went missing. As police began looking into her disappearance, they learned that t...
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John Paul Sr. from 2020-07-31T15:00
John Paul Sr. moved to America from the Netherlands when he was a teenager. He went to Harvard and became extremely successful working on Wall Street. He started a racing team and also became su...
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Murdered - Irene Garza from 2020-07-24T09:00
In 1960, a young school teacher, Irene Garza, went missing in Texas. A few days later, her body was found in a canal. The last place that she was seen was in her Catholic church for confession. ...
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Missing - Maddy Scott from 2020-07-16T06:00
In 2011, Maddy Scott went to a party and went camping by a lake with a friend in Vanderhoof, Canada. But the next morning she wasn't there and she hasn't been seen since. There are lot...
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Murdered - Lisa Kimmell from 2020-07-10T20:00
In 1988, Lisa Kimmell was driving from Colorado to Montana to see her family, but she never made it. The police and media were asking people to keep an eye out for her vehicle, which had a speci...
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Missing - Asha Degree from 2020-07-02T04:00
In 2000, nine year old Asha Degree walked out of her house in the middle of the night, and she hasn't been seen since then. Over the years, different clues have come to light in this case. ...
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Jane Doe 59 / Reet Jurvetson from 2020-06-18T19:00
In 1969, a young woman was found murdered in Los Angeles, California. For 46 years she was known only as Jane Doe 59. Through the investigation by LAPD, they learned that she may have been conne...
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Murdered - Haley Anderson from 2020-06-11T13:00
Haley Anderson was a young college student in New York. She went missing in 2018 and her friends used the "find my iPhone" app to track her phone. That's how they found her and it...
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The Kalamazoo Shootings from 2020-06-04T18:00
In 2016, the town of Kalamazoo, Michigan was terrorized by an Uber driver.
Jason Dalton went on a shooting spree over the course of eight hours, murdering multiple people, and attackin...
Missing - Sneha Anne Philip from 2020-05-28T16:00
There have been two investigation into this case. One by Sneha Philip's family and a private investigator. The other one was done by the New York City Police Department. Both investigations...
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The McStay Family from 2020-05-21T06:00
In 2010, the McStay family; Joseph, Summer, Gianni, and Joseph Jr all disappeared from their home in southern California. Many people thought that the family walked away from their lives to star...
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Missing - Kyron Horman from 2020-05-14T14:00
In 2010, seven year old Kyron Horman went missing. But his case is different than most. He didn't go missing from home, from a park, or walking down the road. He went missing in the middle ...
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The Daytona Beach Serial Killer from 2020-05-07T18:00
Daytona Beach is known for spring break, NASCAR races, the boardwalk, and of course the beaches. But from 2005-2008, there was a serial killer on the loose targeting women.
It would ta...
Missing - Susan Cox Powell from 2020-05-01T21:00
Susan Cox Powell went missing in 2008. Her husband, Josh, quickly became a suspect after his strange actions at the time. As the investigation dug deeper into Josh and Susan's lives, it beg...
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Missing - Steven Koecher from 2020-04-23T17:00
In 2009, a security camera from a house captured Steven Koecher walking down the road in a retirement neighborhood just after he parked his car. Since then, he has never been seen or heard from....
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Murdered - Rebecca Schaeffer from 2020-04-09T04:00
Rebecca Schaeffer was a young actress living in Los Angeles, California. Her hard work, dedication, and talent, brought her a lot of success really fast in the entertainment industry. Little did...
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Murdered - Dan Markel from 2020-03-26T03:00
Dan Markel was a well known law professor at Florida State University. In 2014, in the middle of the day, in a safe neighborhood, Dan was murdered in the driveway of his home.
Almost i...
Robert Durst from 2020-03-12T00:00
Robert Durst comes from a very wealthy family. In fact, his brother currently runs the Durst Organization, which co-developed and manages One World Trade Center. Despite his family's succes...
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Robert Durst from 2020-03-12T00:00
Robert Durst comes from a very wealthy family. In fact, his brother currently runs the Durst Organization, which co-developed and manages One World Trade Center. Despite his family's succes...
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Robert Durst from 2020-03-12T00:00
Robert Durst comes from a very wealthy family. In fact, his brother currently runs the Durst Organization, which co-developed and manages One World Trade Center. Despite his family's succes...
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