Dead Bodies Podcast
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Dead Bodies Podcast
Have you ever seen a dead body? People find dead bodies everywhere, under floorboards, inside chimneys, and in their homes. They’re at crime scenes, disaster scenes and in morgues. There have been dead bodies on the red carpet, in cannibals’ dens, and even advertised in the classifieds. In this...
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149 epizodBonus: Sharnelle and Dee Dee on 'The Boy In The Gold Mine'
While Dead Bodies is on pause for the moment, we are pleased to share a project that Dee Dee has been working on for the last 18 months. It's a true c...
Ep 147 - Ding Dong Ditch
Ding Dong Ditch is a harmless prank that teenagers play. Ring the doorbell and run away. It was not so harmless, though, for a group of teens in South...
Ep 146 - Eaten Alive
In June, 2024, a woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake in central Indonesia. We look at some of the more bizarre deadly snake cases, as wel...
Ep 144 - Alvin Ridley
Alvin Ridley was an eccentric, often combative TV repairman in the town of Ringgold, Georgia in the US, who became reclusive and paranoid after his bu...
Ep 143 - Velma Barfield
Australia, has been abuzz with discussion about the deaths of three people in Victoria, apparently after eating poison mushrooms. In this episode we l...
Ep 142 - Katie Haley
29-year-old Katie Haley was bashed to death with a dumbbell by her vicious, jealous and controlling partner Shane Robertson, while their baby daughter...
Ep 141 - Boiled To Death
A new-age health and wellness workshop went horribly wrong in Quebec, Canada, in 2011, when 38-year-old Chantal Lavigne was literally boiled to death...
Ep 140 - Lucy Letby
Babies sent to the neonatal intensive care unit are usually the most vulnerable, and in need of the greatest care. But instead of nursing them back t...
Ep 139 - The Eye Drops
In 2018 Lana Clayton found her husband Steve lying dead at the bottom of the stairs in their home in South Carolina. At first it was believed he’d had...
Ep 138 - Plane Crash In The Andes
Survivors of a plane crash in the Andes in 1972 had to use great ingenuity to stay alive in the blizzard conditions, with very little food, and as the...
Ep 137 - Garry Hoy
Lawyer Garry Hoy fell to his death from a window on the 24th floor of a Toronto law firm in 1993. Was it suicide, was he pushed, or was there another...
Ep 136 - The Brain Bank Murder
In the UK in 2016, Ian Stewart’s fiancee Helen Bailey goes missing. The investigation into her disappearance leads police to take another look at the...
Ep 135 - Renea Lau
The murder of pastry chef Renea Lau in Melbourne's Kings Domain has been described as one of the city's worst. Senior police were shocked by the bruta...
Ep 134 - Crash Test Dummies, and Where’s Kirsten?
Worldwide, around 1.35 million people die in road accidents each year. Research to make road travel safer is constant, as new technology and design e...
Ep 133 - Adrian Bayley: Part Two, and the cult of Thawee Nanra
Sharnelle continues recounting covering the 2013 trial of Adrian Bayley who was convicted of the rape and murder of Gillian Maher in Melbourne.
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Ep 132 - Lake Mead, and Adrian Bayley: Part One
Drought has seen Nevada’s Lake Mead drop to historic lows, exposing things which have remained underwater for years. In one case, a discovery on the l...
Ep 131 - Lobster Boy, and Phoenix Netts
Grady Stiles Jr. was not only a killer, but a murder victim. He became famous as Lobster Boy in a bizarre travelling sideshow.
While mos...
Ep 130 - Elmer McCurdy, and Stephen Searle
Elmer McCurdy was a drunk and a train robber. It was decades after his death that his body was discovered at an amusement park in California.
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Ep 129 - The Brighton Murders and Joey’s priceless feedback
Today, Brighton is one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs, but in 1853 it was the scene of two bizarre murders, with a bag of sugar left on the victim’...
Ep 128 - Roger Dean, and The Messiest Execution
Nurse Roger Dean was working in a Sydney nursing when he murdered 11 elderly residents by setting a fire to the facility as they slept on November 18...
Ep 127 - David Fuller, and Marvallous Keene
In this special Christmas episode we cover the 1992 “Christmas killings” in Dayton, Ohio. Marvallos Keene was the head of a gang that murdered six peo...
Ep 126 - Harold Shipman, Sylvia Likens
Harold Frederick Shipman (14 January 1946 – 13 January 2004), known to acquaintances as Fred Shipman, was an English general practitioner who is belie...
Ep 125 - Bobbie Jo Stinnett, and Martin van Butchell
The body of pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett was found in her home in Missouri in 2004. Her unborn foetus had been cut from her womb. The killer, Lisa Mari...
Ep 124 - Candace Newmaker, and Sharnelle in Quarantine
Ten-year-old Candace Newmaker was killed during a bizarre therapy session designed to help her bond with her adoptive mother. She was suffocated by so...
Ep 123 - Owen Pellow and Death on the Stairs
How would you behave if your partner had just been stabbed multiple times, and the police came knocking on your door? We share the police bodycam foot...
Ep 122 - Tia Sharp, Brooke’s Uncle John
12-year-old Tia Sharp went shopping in August 2012 in New Addington, London, England, and it was weeks before her body was found in the roof of her gr...
Ep 121 - The BTK Killer Dennis Rader
“BTK” stands for “bind, torture, kill”: Dennis Lyn Rader gave himself the title. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed ten people in Wichita and Park Ci...
Ep 120 - Sef Gonzales
Sef Gonzales was found guilty of murdering his father Teodoro "Teddy" Gonzales, his mother Mary Loiva Gonzales, and his sister Clodine Gonzales, in Sy...
Ep 119 - Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson.
In 1971, Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson went missing on their way to an end of school year party in South Dakota in the US. It was 42 years before...
Ep 118 - The Loch Ard, and the Kobe Bryant Law
More than 50 passengers drowned when the Loch Ard ran aground in Victoria in 1978. But those weren’t the only deaths along the same rugged Port Campbe...
Ep 117 - Herb Baumeister, and Hanged, Drawn and Quartered
Herbert Baumeister seemed to his wife and children to be a regular businessman and they lived together on an 18-acre horse farm called Fox Hollow. But...
Ep 116 - Richard Speck, Andre Daigle
Richard Speck raped, tortured and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966. And he would have gotten away with it,...
Ep 115 - Elevator and Escalator deaths, and Dead Uncle
Everyone is talking about the footage of Elisa Lam in the elevator in the Netflix documentary Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel. We look i...
Ep 114 - Check Your Boobs
We’re putting the dead bodies aside for this episode, as Sharnelle shares a deeply personal story from a recent event in her life.
Ep 113 - The Bluebelle, and Dorian Corey
The 18-metre sailing ketch The Bluebelle was the scene of several brutal murders in November, 1961, off the Bahamas. The killer survived the sinking o...
Ep 112 - The Philadelphia Cutters, and Elizabeth Bathory
A wicked scheme where tissue and bone were stripped from corpses at funeral homes and then sold them for transplants - without the permission of the f...
Ep 111 - Thomas Easby’s skin, and Lavender Doe
A tiny witness led to Thomas Easby being found guilty of the murder of his family. He was hanged, and trophies that exist to this day were taken from...
Ep 110 - Bega Schoolgirl Murders Part 2, and Coffin Births
Notorious Bega schoolgirl killer Leslie Camilleri was jailed for 28 years for the murder of 13-year-old Prue Bird in 1992. He was already serving two...
Ep 109 - Traigo Andretti, and Bega School girl Murders Part 1
Two schoolgirls were abducted, raped and murdered in Bega, New South Wales, Australia on 6 October 1997. Lindsay Beckett claimed that he killed the gi...
Ep 108 - Eric Edgar Cooke, and Kermit Gosnall
Eric Edgar Cooke was known as the "Night Caller". He terrorised Perth, Western Australia in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, committing at least twen...