Mugshot Mysteries
Putting mysteries in the lineup. True crime podcast investigating unsolved cases, cold cases, paranormal phenomena, and the stories that won't let you sleep.
Hosts Kathryn and Gabriel dive deep into historical crimes, infamous outlaws, unexplained mysteries, and modern cases that divide America with the kind of dark humor and chemistry that makes hour-long deep dives fly by. From vintage mugshots to ghost ships, from exorcisms to healthcare scandals, from disappeared outlaws to haunted houses: if it's unsolved, unexplained, or unforgettable, we're putting it in the lineup.
What we cover: True crime (historical and modern), cold cases, paranormal investigations, unsolved murders, conspiracy theories, forgotten criminals, and the mysteries that still haunt us. Expect thorough research, psychological analysis, skepticism mixed with curiosity, and two hosts who aren't afraid to disagree, joke, or go down rabbit holes together.
Our vibe: Smart storytelling meets dark comedy. We take the cases seriously but not ourselves. Because sometimes the best way to examine a murder, a haunting, or a centuries-old mystery is with a partner who gets it...and isn't afraid to call you out when you start believing in ghost pirates.
New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes
27 episodes
The Black Dahlia: 48 Hours
January 9, 1947. Elizabeth Short walks into the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. She paces for four hours. Makes calls. Waits. At 10 PM, someone waves through the glass doors. She walks out. Turns south on Olive Street. Forty-eight hours later, h...
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Episode 15
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The Flatwoods Monster: The True Story of West Virginia's 1952 UFO Encounter
September 12, 1952. Seven people climb a hill in Flatwoods, West Virginia after watching a red light streak across the sky. At the top, they encounter something ten feet tall with a spade-shaped head, glowing eyes, and a metallic body. They run...
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Episode 14
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52:01
The Mothman of Point Pleasant: The True Story Behind the Legend
November 15, 1966. Two young couples encounter a seven-foot creature with glowing red eyes and ten-foot wings at an abandoned TNT plant in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Over the next thirteen months, more than one hundred witnesses report seei...
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Episode 13
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59:37
Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery Scotland 1900: Three Keepers Vanished, Rogue Wave Theory, Supernatural Disappearance Unsolved
Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers mystery Scotland December 1900. Three experienced keepers James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur vanished without trace from Eilean Mor island in the Outer Hebrides. No bodies found. No distress sign...
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Episode 12
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Belle Gunness Female Serial Killer La Porte Indiana 1908: Hell's Belle Black Widow Lonely Hearts Murders, 40 Dead, Unsolved Mystery
Belle Gunness La Porte Indiana 1908. America's first prolific female serial killer. A lonely hearts scammer who lured at least 40 men to her farm with promises of marriage, poisoned them, bashed their skulls with a meat cleaver, and buried them...
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Episode 11
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The Hinterkaifeck Murders Germany 1922: Footprints in Snow, Killer in the Attic, 6 Dead - Unsolved True Crime
Germany, 1922. Footprints in the snow leading to a farmhouse. None leading back. Someone walked out of the forest toward the Gruber family home and never left. Days later, all six people inside were murdered with their own farm tool. The killer...
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Episode 10
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The Enfield Poltergeist: Britain's Most Haunted House - 30 Witnesses, Police Report, Real or Hoax?
Britain's most documented haunted house. The true story of the Enfield Poltergeist.August 1977, 284 Green Street, Enfield, London: 11-year-old Janet Hodgson's bed shakes. Knocking from inside walls. A police officer witnesses para...
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Episode 9
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The Cost of Health: The Luigi Mangione Case - From Ivy League to Death Row - (Part 3 of 3)
December 4, 2024, 6:44 AM. Masked shooter kills UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Shell casings etched: "Delay. Deny. Depose." Five days later: 26-year-old arrested at McDonald's. Ghost gun, manifesto, $10K cash in backpack. 57,000 laughing ...
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Episode 8
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56:39
The Cost of Health: Delay, Deny, Defend - The Insurance Denials Behind Luigi Mangione (Part 2 of 3)
$14.6 billion in fraud. The 2025 DOJ Takedown, the largest ever. One billion catheters billed. A couple makes $615 million from fake wound care. While the government chases criminals, insurers legally deny billions in legitimate claims. Using A...
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Episode 7
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44:41
The Cost of Health: How We Got Here - The System That Created the Luigi Mangione Case (Part 1 of 3)
December 4, 2024. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is killed outside a Manhattan hotel. Bullet casings read: "Delay. Deny. Depose." UnitedHealth's Facebook post gets 62,000 reactions...57,000 are laughing emojis. Supporters raise over $1 mil...
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Episode 6
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The Mary Celeste Ghost Ship Mystery: 10 People Vanished. Only the Ship Survived.
December 4, 1872. A ship appears on the horizon. No one at the wheel. No response to signals. The boarding party finds her: the Mary Celeste, drifting 400 miles east of the Azores. Ten people vanished: a captain, his wife, their two-year-old da...
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Episode 5
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D.B. Cooper: He Hijacked a Plane, Jumped Into a Storm, and No One Ever Found Him
The night before Thanksgiving, 1971. A man in a business suit. A bomb in a briefcase. $200,000 in twenties. And a jump into the freezing darkness over Washington state.This week on Mugshot Mysteries, we're diving into the only unsolved a...
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Episode 4
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55:48
Colonial Parkway Murders: DNA Solved 2 of 8. Who Killed the Rest?
Between 1986-1989, eight young people were murdered or vanished along Virginia's Colonial Parkway. For 37 years, families sought answers. In January 2024, DNA identified a suspect: Alan Wade Wilmer Sr., a commercial fisherman who died in 2017.<...
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Episode 3
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The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel: The Vatican Case That Divided Science and Faith
July 1, 1976. Bavaria, Germany. Twenty-three-year-old Anneliese Michel dies weighing 68 pounds after 67 exorcism sessions over ten months. Her parents and two Catholic priests believed they were saving her soul from demonic possession. Medical ...
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Episode 2
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Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers Found Dead in the Snow. What Really Happened?
In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers cut through their tent from the inside and fled into the freezing Ural Mountains wearing only underwear. When searchers found their bodies weeks later, the scene was inexplicable: one missing her...
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Episode 1
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55:21
The Gardner Heist: The Players - Who Did It, Who Was Whacked, and Other Conspiracies - (Part 3 of 3)
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1The art is gone. The frames hang empty. But the real mystery isn't what happened that night in 1990, it's what happened after.In Part 3, we introduc...
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The Gardner Heist: Bloodlines and the Mob’s Origin Story - (Part 2 of 3)
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1If you haven't listened to Part 1, start there. This week, we step deeper into Boston's underworld.March 18, 1990. Thirteen masterpieces worth $500 ...
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59:40
The Gardner Heist: The World’s Biggest Art Theft is Also Unsolved - (Part 1 of 3)
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1March 18, 1990. Two men dressed as Boston police officers walk into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 1:24 AM. Eighty-one minutes later, they walk out...
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52:34
Eddie Dodson: Drugs, Hollywood and 64 Bank Robberies
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1In the 1980s, Eddie Dodson went from Melrose Avenue antique dealer to the most prolific bank robber in FBI history. Known as the "Gentleman Bandit," he rob...
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Pearl Hart: The Only Woman in Yuma Prison - America's Last Stagecoach Robber
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1She wasn't a sharpshooter. She wasn't part of a gang. She wasn't even trying to make history. But Pearl Hart, stagecoach robber, courtroom rebel, and media...
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Charles Ponzi: The Man Who Invented the Ponzi Scheme
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1Boston, 1920. Thousands crowded School Street with cash in hand—bank clerks, widows, dockworkers—all chanting one name: Charles Ponzi. For one blazing seas...
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Ruth Snyder: Femme Fatale, Tabloid Murderess and the Electric Chair
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1January 1928: New Yorkers awoke to a front page screaming DEAD! Beneath it was a blurred photo of a woman in the electric chair, captured at the moment of ...
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Bertha Liebbeke: The Fainting Siren - Nebraska's Most Famous Con Artist
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1She looked like the girl next door. Polite, well-dressed, maybe a little flustered. But behind the lace gloves? A master manipulator who pulled off some of...
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Victor Lustig: The Con That Sold the Eiffel Tower
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1Victor Lustig. 63 aliases. Master manipulator. The man who sold the Eiffel Tower...twice.THE STORY: Victor Lustig (1890-1947) | Born Austria-...
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Claude F. Hankins: The 14-Year-Old Sent to San Quentin - America's Youngest Maximum Security Prisoner
⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 11904 California: Claude F. Hankins, 14 years old, shot and killed his employer. But this wasn't just a juvenile crime—it was a desperate act rooted in chil...
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