Welcome to The M Word After Dark! A true crime podcast that explores everything murder, mystery and the missing. I'm your host Mariana, join me every Monday for full deep-dive cases and on Friday Frights, where listeners share their own encounters with the macabre. Lock your doors and step into the shadows with me. Because when it comes to crime.. the truth is darker than fiction.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to The M Word After Dark! A true crime podcast that explores everything murder, mystery and the missing. I'm your host Mariana, join me every Monday for full deep-dive cases and on Friday Frights, where listeners share their own encounters with the macabre. Lock your doors and step into the shadows with me. Because when it comes to crime..
Recent episodes include "Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders" (8 June 2026, 19 minutes), "Bain Family Murders" (18 May 2026, 37 minutes), and "The Killing of Sharon Lopatka" (6 April 2026, 35 minutes).
The M Word After Dark publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 17 episodes.
Booking probability for The M Word After Dark is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The M Word After Dark requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The M Word After Dark's contact route on record: verified email.
The M Word After Dark is a true crime show with 17 episodes published.
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<p>In June 1977, more than 100 Girl Scouts arrived at Camp Scott in Oklahoma for what should have been a summer filled with campfires, friendships, and adventure.</p><p>By the next morning, three girls—Lori Farmer...
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<p>On the morning of June 20, 1994, five members of the Bain family were found shot to death inside their home in Dunedin, New Zealand. Four days later, the only surviving family member, 22-year-old David Bain, was...
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<p>In 1996, Sharon Lopatka left her home in Maryland after weeks of online conversations with a man she had never met in person. Days later, she was dead.</p><p>What makes this case different isn’t just how it...
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<p>In 2016, 51-year-old John Lang was found dead inside his Fresno, California home after a fire broke out. His death was ruled a suicide.</p><p>But in the weeks leading up to it, John documented what he believed was...
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<p>In 1996, a group of teenagers who called themselves vampires became the center of a murder case that shocked the country.</p><p>At the center of it all was 16-year-old Rod Ferrell, who claimed he was a 500-year-old...
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<p>26 years ago, in the early morning hours of February 14, 2000, 9-year-old Asha Degree vanished from her home in Shelby, North Carolina — walking alone into the darkness during a storm.</p><p>What happened next has...
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<p>Israel Keyes didn't follow the usual pattern. </p><p>He didn't stay in one state. He didn't target one type of victim. He buried weapons years before using them and traveled across the country to create distance...
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<p>This episode marks 22 years since Maura Murray disappeared.</p><p>On a cold night in February in 2004, Maura's car was found abandoned on a rural road in Haverhill, NH. She was nowhere to be found- and she has never...
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<p>This episode tells the story of Mary Vincent, a teenager whose life was permanently altered by a single ride and a brutal act of violence. What followed wasn't just survival, but an almost impossible will to live...
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<p>Wade Steven Wilson didn't come out of nowhere. Looking back, there were signs of instability, violence and repeated encounters with the justice system long before October 2019. But over the course of one night...
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<p>In 1994, 13 year old Nicholas Barclay disappeared from his neighborhood in San Antonio, Texas. At first, police thought it looked like maybe another run-away case. Then years later a call came in from Spain. Someone...
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<p>On Christmas Eve 1945, a house fire changed the Sodder family forever. By morning, five of their children were gone- and what followed never quite added up.</p><p>In this episode of The M Word After Dark, we walk...
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<p>In the early 1980s, a series of brutal attacks shook Minnesota- but it wasn't just the violence that haunted investigators. It was strange 911 phone calls. </p><p>After each attach, a man would call 911 with his...
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<p>This week we dive into one of Europe's most haunting disappearances - the case of 28 year-old Lars Mittank. What began as a summer vacation in Bulgaria spiraled into paranoia, fear and a final chilling moment caught...
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<p>In the spring of 1946, the quiet border town of Texarkana was plunged into an unprecedented reign of terror. Known simply as the "Moonlight Murders" a mysterious, hooded figure—dubbed the "Phantom Killer"—stalked...
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<p>This week's is a Monday Murderer. Late 1950's, Plainfield, Wisconsin- a town so small, everyone knew everyone. No one locked their doors until Ed Gein.</p><p>We discuss one of the most horrifying discoveries in true...
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<p>Welcome Crime Amigos to The M Word After Dark your favorite new true crime podcast! This Halloween night, step into the shadows with your host, Mariana. Tune in every Monday to explore the darkest side of crime...
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