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True Crime Campfire

society · EN · 413 episodes

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About this Podcast:

Join hosts Katie and Whitney for a different kind of true crime podcast. You can start with season 1, The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, a deep dive into the most bizarre murder case you've never heard of. Or start with season 2, which covers a different stranger-than-fiction story each week. This bingeworthy show combines meticulous research with a refreshing mix of comic relief and seamless storytelling. There's plenty of room around the campfire--come help us roast murderers and marshmallows! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support .

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What is True Crime Campfire about?

Join hosts Katie and Whitney for a different kind of true crime podcast. You can start with season 1, The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, a deep dive into the most bizarre murder case you've never heard of. Or start with season 2, which covers a different stranger-than-fiction story each week.

What has True Crime Campfire covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Heroes and Villains: The Murder of Bob McClancy" (23 October 2026, 45 minutes), "Foreign Substance: A Grab Bag of Poisoners" (16 October 2026, 44 minutes), and "The Misfit: Serial Husband John Smith Pt 2 (FINALE)" (9 October 2026, 57 minutes).

How often does True Crime Campfire publish?

True Crime Campfire publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 413 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on True Crime Campfire?

Booking probability for True Crime Campfire is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. True Crime Campfire requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. True Crime Campfire's contact route on record: verified email.

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True Crime Campfire is a society show with 413 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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    Heroes and Villains: The Murder of Bob McClancy

    Oct 23, 202645 min

    Most of us have ordinary lives, with all its joys and heartbreaks, and that’s more than enough…but not for everyone. There will always be some people who want a brighter spotlight than their life has provided for them...

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    Foreign Substance: A Grab Bag of Poisoners

    Oct 16, 202644 min

    There are few crueler ways to harm someone than through poison. It turns your own body against you, making you a prisoner in a failing shell. Being poisoned can be terrifying, agonizing, drawn out for weeks or months…or...

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    The Misfit: Serial Husband John Smith Pt 2 (FINALE)

    Oct 9, 202657 min

    In last week’s episode, we met John Smith, a lying, manipulative weirdo who almost certainly had killed his missing second wife, Fran. Towards the end of that episode, we learned that John had been married before, to a...

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    The Misfit: Serial Husband John Smith, Pt 1

    Oct 2, 202643 min

    If there’s one old folktale that finds a frequent echo in true crime stories, it has to be ‘Bluebeard,’ about a man who marries and then murders a series of wives. It’s a pattern we’ve seen time and again, with both...

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    The Bad Son: The Charles Family Murders

    Sep 25, 202641 min

    All of us have some tensions and frustrations with our families, and that’s fine. It’s just normal human nature. But for some people, these rough edges to everyday family interactions become absolutely unbearable, an...

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    Ancient Evil: A Grab Bag of Real Life Monsters

    Sep 18, 202649 min

    Do you think people will still be talking about Scott Peterson or Chris Watts in a hundred years? How about five-hundred? Probably not, right? But there are some acts of cruelty and depravity that echo down the...

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    Respawn: A Grab Bag of Deaths That Weren't What They Seemed

    Sep 4, 202646 min

    Death is not always the end. We’re not stepping into any kind of spiritual territory here, though, we’re talking about the very earthly fact that just because someone appears to be dead, it doesn’t necessarily mean that...

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    Real People. Real Crimes. | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT

    Aug 31, 20268 min

    Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love going down internet rabbit holes, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina...

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    Resistance: The Life of Spy Krystyna Skarbek Pt 2

    Aug 28, 202659 min

    Last week, we introduced you to Krystyna Skarbek, a daring resistance agent who smuggled valuable intelligence and thousands of refugees out of Nazi-occupied Poland. When we left off last week, she and her lover Andrzej...

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    Resistance: Spy Krystyna Skarbek Pt 1

    Aug 21, 202653 min

    James Belushi once wrote, “Heroes aren’t born, they’re cornered.” It’s often extraordinary, and sometimes horrifying, circumstance that compels a person into actions they’d never have imagined previously. This week’s...

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    Book Smart: The Crimes of William Coday

    Aug 14, 202651 min

    You can’t judge a book by its cover. There’s no shortage of gold-hearted biker dudes and wicked ministers—you can’t really know what someone’s like inside right away. Like that guy in the library over there, with the...

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    Changeling: The Crimes of Frederic Bourdin

    Aug 7, 202649 min

    In Irish and other European folklore, a changeling is a fae child that is swapped with a human baby to be raised by humans. Sometimes it’s because the fae needed human milk to survive, in others, it’s because the fae...

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    Cruelest Cut: The Murder of Elaine O'Hara

    Jul 31, 20261 hour

    In August of 2012, the family of an Irish woman named Elaine O’Hara reported her missing. Investigators located her car near the seashore, but found no sign of Elaine herself. She had been struggling with her mental...

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    The Heir: The Murder of Ben Novack Jr. Pt 2

    Jul 24, 20261h 4m

    In Part One of this story last week, we followed the rise to riches of hotel owner Ben Novack Sr. and his glamorous model wife Bernice, and the spoiled yet lonely life of their son Benji. When we left off, Ben and...

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    The Heir: The Murder of Ben Novack, Pt 1

    Jul 17, 202649 min

    It has sometimes been said that great wealth is a curse—usually by people who have never had to go hungry, but there is something to it. The idea of the miserable millionaire goes back much further than Ebeneezer...

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    The Princess and the Poisoner: The Crimes of Arthur Waite

    Jul 10, 202656 min

    There are some crimes and schemes that must be just about as old as humanity itself. I’m sure handsome scammers have been wooing the daughters of wealthy families for about as long as the concepts of marriage and...

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    Freefall: The Crimes of Emile Cilliers

    Jul 3, 202650 min

    In his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde tells the story of a handsome young man who makes a deal with the Devil—his soul, in exchange for eternal youth and beauty. But there is a portrait of Dorian in the...

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    The Secret Life: The Murder of Stefanie Rabinowitz

    Jun 26, 202649 min

    It’s almost impossible to know someone perfectly. Everyone has their private thoughts and hidden moments from their past, and this is usually no problem at all, it’s all just inconsequential things. Usually, but not...

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    Creep: Serial Killer Wayne Nance Pt 2

    Jun 19, 20261h 7m

    When we left you at the end of part 1, Wayne Nance had begun his career as a serial killer with the murder of Donna Pounds. As much as he tried to blend into normal society—joining the Navy, working as a bouncer at a...

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    Creep: Serial Killer Wayne Nance Pt 1

    Jun 12, 202644 min

    In the 1970s in Missoula, Montana, there was a brief epidemic of unsolved violent murders that shocked the small city down to its roots. A dark rumor spread quickly—the deaths must be the work of some sinister Satanic...

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