Criminal Broads

The Gonzalez Valenzuela sisters did not have an easy childhood, but when they grew up, they proceeded to steadily destro... Read more

Jasmuheen, an Australian guru who became media catnip in the 90s, seemed kind of spacey and silly. Sure, her belief syst... Read more

Bestselling true crime author M. William Phelps comes onto the podcast to tell us the story of Amy Archer Gilligan, a tu... Read more

Victorian women were expected to be wives and mothers—not killers. Enter Adelaide Bartlett. In her middle-class Victoria... Read more

In 1960s Melbourne, a lot of very wealthy people found themselves wondering if there was more to life, and wouldn’t you ... Read more

Falicia Blakely was only 16 when she met the man who would change the course of her life. At first, Mike Berry was the p... Read more

Bestselling true crime author Harold Schechter comes on the podcast to tell us the story of Belle Gunness, a Norwegian-A... Read more

Once upon a time, in 1930s Texas, a girl named Blanche fell desperately in love with a boy named Buck. She thought they ... Read more

We remember Jack the Ripper as a man who did the brutal work of a typical male serial killer, de-feminizing his victims ... Read more

Meet Irma Grese. She likes boys, girls, movies, makeup, and sadistic torture. She hates her dad, but loves Adolf Hitler.... Read more

In 1982, Kazuko Fukuda strangled her coworker, changed her name, and went on the run—for fifteen years. She was playing ... Read more

Tanya Nelson believed everything her fortuneteller, Ha Jade Smith, told her—until Tanya’s life spiraled out of control, ... Read more

At the end of the 1970s, body after dead body began appearing on the streets and sidewalks and parking lots of Miami. Ma... Read more

In 1998, Beatrice Munyenyezi came from Rwanda to New Hampshire, claiming that she needed sanctuary from the horrific gen... Read more

We all know the story: Lizzie Borden may or may not have taken an ax (okay, a hatchet) and given her mother (okay, stepm... Read more

In 1958, Nebraska was terrified by a spree killing so brutal, so atrocious that it seemed impossible to believe it was p... Read more

Beneath the soft green grass of the Last Supper cemetery, most regular, God-fearing residents of Mobile, Alabama had one... Read more

There were plenty of jobs for women in WW2: nurse, ambulance driver, factory worker. But then there were the other jobs,... Read more

Juanita Spinelli ran a gang of embarrassingly awful Northern Californian crooks who could barely rob enough gas stations... Read more

History remembers them as beautiful booze-hounds. Hollywood turned them into fame-hungry starlets. But who were these mu... Read more