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Morbidology the Podcast - 192: Chelsea Ireland and Lukasz Klosowski

Morbidology the Podcast – 192: Chelsea Ireland and Lukasz Klosowski

By Emily G. Thompson

Kalangadoo means “Big trees in water” in Aboriginal. It’s a locality in Southern Australia, approximately 350 kilometres south-east of Adelaide. It was founded back in 1891, and even today, it had an old-town feel to it, and it remains the centre of a rich, agricultural district. In 2020, however, the residents of Kalangadoo awoke to […]

Feb 20, 2023 • 4 min read

The Coronation Street Killer: Daniel Bartlam

The Coronation Street Killer: Daniel Bartlam

By Emily G. Thompson

On Easter Monday of 2011, a fire was reported in Nottingham. After the flames were extinguished, the body of a woman was discovered...

Feb 16, 2023 • 4 min read

Morbidology the Podcast - 191: Kelley Clayton

Morbidology the Podcast – 191: Kelley Clayton

By Emily G. Thompson

It was a cool night in Caton, New York, in September of 2019. Residents on the rural and wooded Gunnan Road were fast asleep. At least most of them. Shortly after midnight, a resident awoke to a thumping sound on his front door. He opened it up to find his neighbour and their two children.

Feb 13, 2023 • 4 min read

Morbidology the Podcast - 190: Austin, Luke & Cecilia Riggi

Morbidology the Podcast – 190: Austin, Luke & Cecilia Riggi

By Emily G. Thompson

It was around 3PM on the 4th of July, 2010, when the distinctive smell of gas wafted up the nostrils of residents on Slateford Road in Edinburgh, Scotland. As firefighters were called, some neighbours assembled outside out of fear of an explosion. As they gathered around the neighbourhood, a woman appeared on a second-floor balcony of one of the townhouses. She was inconsolable as she screamed: “My children!”

Feb 6, 2023 • 4 min read

Morbidology the Podcast - 189: Jovanni Sierra

Morbidology the Podcast – 189: Jovanni Sierra

By Emily G. Thompson

BallenIsles Country Club is a middle-class gated community in Palm Beach Gardens in Florida. It’s certainly a desirable place to live, somewhere that crime is exceptionally rare and residents can sleep soundly knowing that they are protected by large gates and a security guard. One night in 2018, however, the idyl was shattered when deafening screams began to echo up and down the neighbourhood.

Jan 30, 2023 • 3 min read

Abducted in Broad Daylight: Sheree Beasley

Abducted in Broad Daylight: Sheree Beasley

By Emily G. Thompson

It was a warm summer afternoon in Rosebud, an outer suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, on the 29th of June, 1991. This afternoon, 6-year-old Sheree Beasley was sent to the nearby milk bar by her mother to pick up some groceries. She hopped on her bicycle and made it safely to the milk bar and purchased the groceries. However, Sheree never made it home…

Jan 27, 2023 • 19 min read

Morbidology the Podcast - 187: Stephen & Jennifer Chapple

Morbidology the Podcast – 187: Stephen & Jennifer Chapple

By Emily G. Thompson

It was a cold winter night in Norton Fitzwarren, England, on 21 November, 2021. A married mother of two was at home with her husband when an argument broke out. Shortly afterwards, she was lying in bed alone in the bedroom, when her silence was shattered by deafening screams coming from somewhere nearby…

Jan 17, 2023 • 3 min read

The Controversial Case of Mandy Lemaire

The Controversial Case of Mandy Lemaire

By Emily G. Thompson

On 22 August, 1991, 11-year-old Mandy Lemaire left her home in Tazlina, Alaska, to meet her friend along a rural road. Mandy, however, disappeared somewhere along the way.

Jan 12, 2023 • 8 min read

Morbidology the Podcast - 185: Naomi Jones

Morbidology the Podcast – 185: Naomi Jones

By Emily G. Thompson

It was around 2:45PM on the 31st of May, 2017, when Shantara Hurry received a phone call at work in Pensacola, Florida. She was greeted by her young son. Her heart fell to the pit of her stomach as he said: “Mom, Naomi is nowhere to be found…."

Jan 2, 2023 • 4 min read

Bloodlust: The Tragic Case of Stacey Mitchell

Bloodlust: The Tragic Case of Stacey Mitchell

By Emily G. Thompson

In 2006, 16-year-old Stacey Mitchell went to live with two young women she had recently just met. A couple of days later, Stacey inexplicably vanished...

Dec 29, 2022 • 6 min read

Morbidology the Podcast - 184: Islan Nettles

Morbidology the Podcast – 184: Islan Nettles

By Emily G. Thompson

There is nothing that people want more in this world than to be accepted for who they are. This is especially true for those in the LGBTQ community, who have to fight that extra bit harder for acceptance, even today in 2022. Transgender people remain the most invisible, the least understood and the most stigmatized element of the LGBTQA community, and in 2013, an attack in New York City sent shockwaves throughout the community.

Dec 26, 2022 • 3 min read

The Gruesome Case of Daniel Halseth

The Gruesome Case of Daniel Halseth

By Emily G. Thompson

On 9 April, 2021, the body of Daniel Halseth was found in his burning home. He had been stabbed over 70 times. Suspicion immediately fell onto his own 16-year-old daughter and her boyfriend...

Dec 22, 2022 • 5 min read