Over My Dead Pod

Andrei Chikatilo became one of the most infamous serial killers in history — but for years, authorities in the Soviet Union struggled to stop him. Known as the Rostov Ripper and the Red Ripper , Chikatilo terrorized the...

On August 25, 2000, 25-year-old Kristin Laurite pulled off I-40 in Morrilton, Arkansas for a break on her cross-country move to start a new life. She never got back on the road. What followed was a 5-year mystery, a...

A hidden bunker deep in the Washington wilderness. A husband and father who vanished without a trace. And a horrifying discovery that proved his escape plan came at an unimaginable cost. In this episode of Over My Dead...

A hidden bunker deep in the Washington wilderness. A husband and father who vanished without a trace. And a horrifying discovery that proved his escape plan came at an unimaginable cost. In this episode of Over My Dead...

On the morning of September 12, 2001, as the nation reeled from the events of 9/11, one family's nightmare unfolded quietly in a small town in upstate New York. Michele Anne Harris, a devoted mother of four, vanished...

On the morning of January 24, 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse left for work—or so everyone believed. When she never arrived at her office, her family knew something was terribly wrong. What followed would become one of...

In the late 1800s, one woman left a trail of death and deception that shocked America and earned her a place among history's most notorious female killers. In this episode of Over My Dead Pod, we dive into the...

When a series of brutal sexual assaults terrorized the Toronto area in the late 1980s and early 1990s, investigators struggled to identify the man responsible. That man was Paul Bernardo—a serial rapist who would later...

In May 1996, 19-year-old college freshman Kristin Smart vanished after attending an off-campus party near California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. What initially appeared to be a missing person case...

In this episode of Over My Dead Pod , we dive into one of the most disturbing and controversial cases in Massachusetts history: the story of Daniel LaPlante and the brutal murders of the Gustafson family. Before he...

In April 2016, the quiet farming community of Pike County, Ohio was shattered when eight members of the Rhoden family were found brutally murdered across four different crime scenes in what investigators described as a...

On the night of December 6th, 2014, nineteen-year-old Jessica Chambers was found walking down a rural road in Courtland, Mississippi, engulfed in flames. Nearly every inch of her body had been burned. And yet somehow...

This Mother’s Day, we’re covering two heartbreaking cases that reveal the darkest side of family tragedy and the devastating consequences of violence within the home. In 2022, California mother Angela Flores shocked the...

On a bitter December night in 1956, two sisters left a Chicago movie theater and vanished into the cold—never to return home. Barbara and Patricia Grimes were inseparable. Music lovers, devoted daughters, and like so...

When a marriage turns bitter, most people file for divorce—others take a far darker path. In this episode, we dive into the chilling case of Ira Bernstein and Kelly Gribeluk, whose relationship spiraled into a shocking...