Morbidology the Podcast – 71: Leo & Lulu Krim By Emily Thompson In October of 2012, residents in an upmarket and lavish apartment complex in New York City were disturbed by a deafening scream echoing throughout the hallways. A mother had come home to find her apartment pitch black. In the bathroom, as her eyes adjusted to the light, she saw her bathtub spattered in blood and… Oct 26, 2020 • 5 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 70: Michelle Young By Emily Thompson In early November of 2006, police in Wake County, North Carolina, were alerted to an upmarket home in a quiet and secluded neighbourhood. Inside, the discovered tiny bloody footprints that had been made by a wandering little girl who informed them that her mother had “boo boos everywhere.” Her chilling words only hinted at the… Oct 19, 2020 • 5 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 67: Lisa Trubnikova By Emily Thompson Shortly after 2:15AM on the 5th of February, 2015, police in Bourne, Massachusetts, received a flurry of phone calls reporting a car that was up in flames at the Monument Beach condominium complex on Roadhouse Road. When they arrived at the scene and discovered the burning car, they weren’t prepared for what they would find… Sep 28, 2020 • 4 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 63: Hatteras Drive Murders By Emily Thompson Hatteras Drive in Hudson, Florida, backs onto picturesque canals, leading to the Gulf of Mexico. Many residents of this quaint neighbourhood have docks and boats out the back of their homes while fish shacks are peppered throughout the area. Many retirees live in the area and live a simple and quiet life. However in 2014,… Aug 31, 2020 • 4 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 61: David Grunwald By Emily Thompson Palmer is a small rural city in Matanuska-Sustina Valley in Alaska, around 42 miles northeast of Anchorage. It’s easily most known for the annual Alaska State Fair, where Palmer’s agricultural spirit lives on. It’s the type of city where almost everybody knows everybody else and the kind of place where people move so that they… Aug 17, 2020 • 5 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 60: Sarah Stern By Emily Thompson Neptune City in New Jersey is a town of only 4,900 residents. In 2016, a local teenage girl vanished into thin air. Her abandoned car was discovered at the side of a bridge, prompting speculation that she had ended her own life. This speculation was further exacerbated when one of her close friends came forward… Aug 10, 2020 • 6 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 57: Emani Moss By Emily Thompson According to the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services statistics, in 2012, the agency reported 152 deaths of children that they had been in contact with. This was an alarming average of almost three children per week. Then the following year, DFCS came under scrutiny once again, when a young girl was found dead… Jul 20, 2020 • 6 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 55: Melissa Trotter By Emily Thompson According to The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, females between the ages of 12 and 19 are the most victimized segment of the U.S. population. In Montgomery County, Texas, in 1998, 19-year-old Melissa Trotter vanished after studying for finals in the library at Montgomery College. Almost immediately, an ex-convict was penned as the… Jul 6, 2020 • 6 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 54: Jamie Rose Bolin By Emily Thompson Cannibalism is arguably one of the most taboo crimes of all. Although most societies connect cannibalism with ancient Amazonian tribes or even rumors of devil worshiping rituals, fantasies of cannibalism are not entirely uncommon among killers, even more so if their motive for murder was sexual or sadistic. In Purcell, Oklahoma, in 2006, a little… Jun 29, 2020 • 5 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 53: Generro Sanchez By Emily Thompson If found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, a killer is sent to a psychiatric hospital where they remain until they are considered sane in the eyes of the law whether that be one year or 40 years. It is the defence that stirs the most controversy because of the struggle to align the law… Jun 21, 2020 • 5 min read
