Homocidal Tendency: A Queer True Crime Podcast

This week, we are stepping away from the grim and the gruesome to explore one of the most bizarre, darkly comedic true crime stories in history. ​Meet Steven Jay Russell, the "King Con." He didn't use shivs, explosives...

The Freeway Killer Saga Part 3 : Randy Kraft " The Scorecard Killer " The 1970s Southern California hitchhiking culture met its ultimate predator not in a windowless van, but in a pristine Toyota Celica. In the grand...

​If you grew up in the eighties, you know exactly what a bootleg VHS tape looks like. The tracking is warped, the shadows are pitch black, and the audio sounds completely demonic. Well, in 1987, Scotland Yard...

The Freeway Killer Saga - Part 2 William Bonin ​In Part 2 of our Freeway Killer Saga , we track the terrifying escalation of William Bonin. We explore how a catastrophic failure by a state hospital and a backlogged...

The Freeway Killer Saga - Part 1 Patrick Kearney " The Trash Bag Killer " Southern California in the 1970s was a sun-drenched paradise, but its massive, sprawling freeway system became the ultimate hunting ground for a...

There is a specific kind of isolation built into the architecture of a Japanese love hotel. You enter a soundproof room, you pay through frosted glass, and you vanish into the neon-soaked streets. But in July 2023, the...

In February 1961, Houston high society violently collided with the city’s underground margins. What started as a $30 encounter ended with a wealthy real estate tycoon shot six times, doused in high-octane gasoline, and...

In late summer 1997, a gruesome discovery on the quiet shores of Hog Island, Rhode Island, shattered a family’s hope and changed a missing persons investigation into a cold case mystery. But the severed foot that washed...

By day, Virginia’s Colonial Parkway is a scenic, historic drive. By night, in 1986, it was a suffocating, pitch-black trap. ​In Episode 31 of Homocidal Tendency , Matt dives into the heartbreaking and brutal 1986...

Washington D.C. is a city built on carefully managed reputations and dangerous secrets. On February 10, 2015, the pristine public life of high-profile intellectual property lawyer David Messerschmitt collided with a...

What connects a 3:30 AM execution on a freezing Idaho dirt road to a white Dodge Durango abandoned in the Arizona desert nine years later? In the late 90s, Gary and Barbara Loesch were systematically hunted and murdered...

​The Fourth of July is a celebration of freedom, but in the summer of 1999, one soldier learned that the most dangerous place he could be was in his own barracks, surrounded by his brothers-in-arms. ​In this episode of...

​What happens when the justice system itself becomes the monster? In Episode 27, we are stepping away from our usual murder cases to uncover one of the most chilling examples of systemic corruption and moral panic in...

A missing two hours. A blood-soaked staircase. A medical paradox that defies the laws of blunt-force trauma. ​In Episode 26 of Homocidal Tendency , we strip away the sensationalism to examine the chilling death of...

We just wrapped our mid-season finale with Episode 25, and while I am taking a brief hiatus to recharge the batteries, the feed isn't going dark. In this special, fast-paced bonus episode of Homocidal Tendency , we...