The boys have a very macho pitch meeting. Email: [email protected] Leave us a message at (323) 379-2322By Chris Drake, Matt Perry

How one father, determined to reclaim his daughter's memory, brought down Alex Jones.On December 14, 2012, Robbie Parker's daughter Emilie was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary, a tragedy that changed Robbie's life and the country forever. By the next day, Alex Jones was on air claiming the shooting was a hoax. So begins Parker's David and Goliath st…

Hulk, Oz, and Malcom-Jamal. But mostly we just joke about horsesh*t. Leave us a message at 323-379-2322 or [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA’s most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos—so desperate that he agrees to kill an undocumented Mexican street vendor. The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang’s shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a newbo…

We're All Dead is edited before a live studio audience. Call us at 323-379-2322 and leave a message. Email: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

For Yves Trudeau, the blood was all business. An assassin for the Hells Angels in the ’70s and ’80s, Trudeau was known as Apache, the Mad Bumper, and the Mad Bomber. As a contract killer, he did his job so well that the bikers sometimes lent him out to other organized-crime empires in Montreal, including the east-end French gangs led by the deadly …

'Ol pal and comedian Jason Groce joins the pod! Email: [email protected] Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CABy Chris Drake, Matt Perry

Something Big tells the story of the infamous Brown’s Chicken massacre, a brutal case that captivated Chicagoland after remaining unsolved for nearly a decade. Customers know Brown's Chicken for its crispy buttermilk fried chicken and flaky biscuits. The Illinois-based franchise has a reputation for delicious but simple comfort food. But through no…

Chris and Matt disagree about reality. But Matt wins the argument because Chris sneezes. Phone: 323-379-2322 Email: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

The latest collection from true crime master Michael Benson looks at some of the ghastliest murders in Rochester, N.Y., history. One of them takes place in Genesee County, but it's a good one. Stories include: The Davis Street Fiend: The Murder of Tessie Keating; Shallow Grave at Holy Sepulchre: The Murder of Anna Schumacher; The Linden Lunatic: Th…

The title of the episode is revealed in the amazing twist ending. Also Matt burnt his b-hole. Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CA Email: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and ’80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the r…

Hey, it's Matt. I'm too tired to write something clever. This episode is funny. I promise. Email: [email protected] Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CABy Chris Drake, Matt Perry

A twisting, deeply engrossing investigation into the many lingering questions surrounding the sudden disappearance of the McStays, a family of four who vanished from their suburban San Diego home without a trace—until their skeletal remains were found in the Mojave Desert nearly four years later—from New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother…

Chris worked on "The Rehearsal" with Nathan Fielder. They're pretty much best friends. Email: [email protected] Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CABy Chris Drake, Matt Perry

FOLLOW-UP TO THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 22 MURDERS The truth about the deadliest criminal incident in Canadian history has remained untold—until now. Investigative journalist Paul Palango’s 22 Murders examined the April 2020 shooting spree committed by Gabriel Wortman that began in Portapique, Nova Scotia, and ended thirteen and a half hours later …

The boys are in a rush. Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CA Email: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

The inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves. Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous―even deadly―experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending d…

Chris and Matt both watched a video of a child riding a pig to school. This is not mentioned in the episode. Email: [email protected] Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CABy Chris Drake, Matt Perry

On September 6, 1982, convicted murderer Leroy James Chasson made a daring break for freedom from the Massachusetts Correctional Institute-Walpole—one of the most infamous, escape-proof prisons in the country. But this wasn't just any prison break. It was a meticulously planned, five-year effort, made possible by an unlikely accomplice—Kathleen Mac…

Comedian Vince Fabra joins us for our most positive episode yet! Some say Vince is the Neil Brennan of Tom Comedy and others say they have no idea what any of those words mean. Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CA Email: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

In 1971, Montgomery County Deputy Sheriff James Tappen Hall was gunned down outside a Maryland country club. The case went cold—no suspect, no answers, no closure. But his daughter never gave up trying to find her father's killer.Fifty years later, cold case detectives finally reopened the investigation and identified a suspect whose shocking confe…

Woody Harrelson's best friend is a dude named Jedi. This isn't mentioned in the episode. Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CA Email: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

"It was the most horrific crime ever to come before this Court,” said the Judge. A renowned forensic pathologist shouted from the witness stand, “Torture!” when describing the beating three-year-old Kyson Rice took at the hands of a 6-foot 3-inch, 240-pound monster. Read the account of an ambulance team desperately trying to keep a badly beaten boy…

Matt here. Once when I was a kid I pooped under a tree and then informed my dad there was no poop under that particular tree. My ruse did not work. This is not mentioned in the episode. PHONE: 3-BEER-WAD-CA EMAIL: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

Anne JaegerFrom her small-town Michigan roots to becoming a New York Times bestselling author, Ann Rule’s life journey is as fascinating as the cases she covered. Discover how she revolutionized crime writing, influenced FBI profiling, and Rule's fateful encounter with a murderer at just nine years old.Go behind the scenes of Rule’s most infamous c…

The boys discover an overseas listener. Matt is bit by a dog at work while Chris recalls a stripper's wake. Phone: 3-BEER-WAD-CA Email: [email protected] Chris Drake, Matt Perry

London, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ag…

Matt finds a tooth in his house.By Chris Drake, Matt Perry

What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer? During his nearly fifteen-year reign of terror, Ronald Lloyd Bailey’s depraved obsession with sexual sadism held communities across southeast Michigan in a shroud of fear. From the early 1970’s to the mid-1980’s, the former patient at one of Michigan’s foremost psychiatric hospital…

The boys win a major podcast award from Bob Chud.By Chris Drake, Matt Perry

L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Sharon Tate, Natalie Wood, and hundreds of other notable personalities. Choi, an award-winning historian and professor, deftly blends Los Angeles history, death investigat…

Bears used to drive cars.By Chris Drake, Matt Perry

Irma Grese “The Hyena of Auschwitz” entered Adolph Hitler’s concentration camps at the age of 18 as one of the most feared females in Nazi Germany. Before she was 20 years old, Grese became legendary for her insatiable cruelty and salacious liaisons, an alleged predator and sadist. Even Nazi supervisors were forced to curtail her brutal behavior. I…