Mugshot Mysteries
Some stories are solved. Most aren’t.
The interesting ones refuse to stay buried.
Mugshot Mysteries is a deep-dive podcast hosted by Kathryn and Gabriel, exploring true crime, conspiracies, paranormal encounters, cults, historical disasters, government cover-ups, and the stories that keep people awake long after the episode ends.
Every episode blends immersive storytelling, psychological analysis, dark humor, and the kind of rabbit holes that make you question whether history is telling the full truth.
One week it’s serial killers. The next it’s MKUltra, haunted hospitals, vanished ships, UFO encounters, or deaths that still don’t make sense decades later.
Kathryn brings the research. Gabriel brings the questions, the theories, and occasionally a comment so out of pocket it completely derails the conversation.
Expect deep dives, unexpected tangents, and at least one moment where Kathryn has to stop and say, “Wow. Wow wow wow.”
If it’s disturbing, unexplained, historically strange, or impossible to forget… it belongs in the lineup.
New episodes every week.
Episodes
31 episodes
The McDonald's Monopoly Scam: How Uncle Jerry Stole $24 Million
He spent his whole career guarding the game. Then he robbed it blind.For more than a decade, McDonald's Monopoly turned a paper sticker peeled off a fries box into the most reliable lottery in America. Cash, cars, grand prizes worth a fo...
The Truth About Gypsy Rose Blanchard | Munchausen by Proxy, Murder & the Pink House
A twenty-three-year-old woman has never walked in public. Has never eaten without a feeding tube. Has leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, brain damage from a premature birth. Has been to more than a hundred doctors. Has had her teeth remove...
The Pascagoula Abduction: The Most Credible Alien Encounter Ever Recorded?
A sheriff leaves two suspects alone in an interrogation room and steps out. The recorder is still running, and they have no idea. He is certain that the moment the door clicks shut, the act will drop. Instead the younger man is sobbing, and the...
MKUltra: The Sleep Room - CIA Brainwashing & Dr. Ewen Cameron Pt. 3
A 26-year-old mother of five walks into a respected Montreal hospital because she cannot sleep. She has postpartum depression. The most decorated psychiatrist alive puts her into a drug-induced coma for eighty-six days, delivers more than a hun...
MKUltra: The Names - Operation Midnight Climax & Edgewood Arsenal Pt. 2
A 42-year-old man checks himself into a New York psychiatric hospital for depression after his marriage ends. Five weeks later a doctor injects him with 450 milligrams of an Army chemical-warfare compound, a mescaline derivative no human had ev...
MKUltra: Nine Days - The Death of Frank Olson Frank Olson Pt. 1
A biological warfare scientist goes out a tenth-floor hotel window at 2:30 in the morning. The man sharing his room, a CIA chemist, does not call an ambulance or the police. He calls his boss at the agency. The official verdict is suicide, and ...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Inside America’s Most Haunted Hospital
You are lying in a hospital bed on a hilltop above Louisville in 1932. Every window in the building is open, because your doctors believe freezing air is medicine, and there is actual snow on your blanket. You have tuberculosis. You have been h...
The Zodiac Killer: 2,500 Suspects Pt. 4
The Zodiac is long gone, or quietly elderly, and his case is still open. More than two thousand five hundred suspects have been formally investigated. Not one has ever been charged. And then, in December 2025, a self-taught codebreaker stands u...
The Zodiac Killer: The Code Breakers Pt. 3
December 11, 2020. The world is nine months into a pandemic. A software developer in Virginia gets on a video call with a mathematician in Melbourne and a programmer in Belgium. Three people, three countries, three time zones, and on the screen...
The Zodiac Killer: Dear Editor Pt. 2
It is a clear Saturday afternoon at Lake Berryessa in September 1969. Two college students are picnicking on a small spit of land when a man steps out of the tree line. He is wearing a homemade black executioner's hood with clip-on sunglasses o...
The Zodiac Killer: The Murders That Started It All Pt. 1
September 27th, 1969. A man in a homemade black executioner hood walks out of the tree line at Lake Berryessa and approaches two college students picnicking on a small island. He ties them up. Then he stabs them. Then he drives 45 minutes to a ...
Chicago Tylenol Murders 1982: Sealed for Your Protection
September 29, 1982. A twelve-year-old girl takes one Tylenol for a sore throat and never wakes up. Six more strangers die across Chicago suburbs in three days. Same brand. Different stores. No connection except a bottle on a shelf.Someon...
The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 2
July 15th, 1997. Gianni Versace, the man who dressed Princess Diana, Madonna, and Tupac, who built the supermodel era, who chose the face of Medusa as his logo, is shot twice on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by a 27-year-old serial kille...
The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 1
July 15th, 1997. Gianni Versace, the man who dressed Princess Diana, Madonna, and Tupac, who built the supermodel era, who chose the face of Medusa as his logo, is shot twice on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by a 27-year-old serial kille...
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: The Crime of the Century
March 1, 1932. The most famous man in America puts his twenty-month-old son to bed. By 10 PM, the nursery is empty. A ransom note on the windowsill. A homemade ladder against the house. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping had begun.Charles Lin...
The Circleville Letters: A Small Town Stalked by an Anonymous Killer
1977. Circleville, Ohio. An anonymous letter writer terrorizes a town for nearly two decades. Over 1,000 letters exposing affairs, corruption, and secrets. Then attempted murder.Mary Gillispie, a school bus driver, was accused of having ...
The Black Dahlia: Hollywood's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder
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...
The Flatwoods Monster: West Virginia's 1952 UFO Encounter That Terrified a Nation
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...
The Mothman of Point Pleasant: Prophecy, Paranoia & the Silver Bridge Collapse
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...
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse: Three Men Vanished Into Thin Air (1900)
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...
Hell's Belle: The Belle Gunness Story — America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer
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...
The Hinterkaifeck Murders: A Killer Lived in Their Attic — And No One Was Ever Caught
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...
The Enfield Poltergeist: Britain's Most Haunted House — Real Phenomenon or the Greatest Hoax Ever Told?
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...
The Cost of Health: The Luigi Mangione Case - From Ivy League to Death Row - (Pt. 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 ...
The Cost of Health: Delay, Deny, Defend - The Insurance Denials Behind Luigi Mangione (Pt. 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...