Crimery
CRIMERY is a long-form true crime podcast that goes beyond headlines to examine the people, psychology, and systems behind some of the most disturbing crimes in American history.
Each episode is built from original research, police records, court documents, and contemporary reporting — presented with narrative restraint and respect for victims and their families. CRIMERY focuses not just on what happened, but how it was allowed to happen, and why certain cases continue to haunt communities decades later.
From unsolved disappearances and cold cases to infamous crimes hidden behind public personas, CRIMERY strips away myth, rumor, and sensationalism to reveal uncomfortable truths — about power, violence, silence, and the cost of looking away.
This is not fast crime.
This is not speculation disguised as storytelling.
These are carefully constructed investigations into crimes that still matter.
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MICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVE
MICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVE
A trusted small-town pharmacist vanishes with his girlfriend and a year later investigators dig into a Kingston Township backyard and uncover a nightmare: multiple shallow graves, including Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett, strangled with plastic ties and buried one atop the other. The tip that cracks the case? An unexpected confession from burglar Paul Weakley that leads police straight to Hugo Selenski’s property—and to a truth more brutal than rumor ever imagined.
In this episode of CRIMERY, we follow the trail from Michael’s double life as a pill-mill pharmacist to the chilling backyard excavation, Selenski’s unnerving reactions, and the long, twisting road to justice. You’ll hear how money, manipulation, and betrayal turned friendship into fatal violence—and how a community struggled to rebuild trust.
What you’ll learn
- How an unrelated burglary case blew open a “missing persons” file.
- Why cadaver dogs targeted a concrete pad—and what crews found beneath it.
- The role greed played from pill ring to murder and cover-up.
Content warning: drug crimes, violence, strangulation, human remains.
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Legal: Everyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Content may include descriptions of violence. Listener discretion advised.
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