Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Listener, as you’ll hear, the facts of today’s story and the events that unfolded just prior to Memorial Day Weekend in 1997, show what happens when the paths of strangers collide in such a way that not everyone necessarily emerges from a fateful chance encounter alive... Writer: Gemma Harris Sources: www.obscuracrimepodcast.com/s2e04r  Support our sponsors: http://withcove.com/obscura For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

The conclusion of our two part series on the murders of Joann and Alex Katrinak. We hope you behaved and stayed off Wikipedia.  Writer: Stephanie Moore CW: Child Death  Support our sponsors: www.nativedeodorant.com  Promo Code: OBSCURA For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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In December 1994, Andrew Katrinak arrives home to an empty house. At 10:40 p.m. he calls 911 to report his family missing.  So begins a case that features a missing wife, a missing baby, and the husband who gave news interviews repeatedly asking for the return of his wife and son.   Writer:  Stephanie Moore CW: Child Death For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Today’s story is not that of a romance per se, but about another special kind of relationship. The type of relationship some of us are lucky enough to have in our lives at least once - it’s the story of best friends. It’s also a story about testing the bounds of friendship. How far would you go for a friend? At what price? What would you do when the world is conspiring against your unique and inexplicable bond? Pauline Parker, Juliet Hulme, and he murder of Honora Parker. Writer: Gemma Harris  Support us: https://www.patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcast Support our advertisers: https://www.simplecontacts.com/obscura20 https://molekule.com + Use checkout code: Obscura Sources: BOOKS Graham, P. (2011). So Brilliantly Clever. Awa Press. ARTICLES  The Press, 20 Sep 1994. ‘Hulme describes teenage plot to kill friends mother’. Press Weekend, 6 Aug 1994. ‘Solved: Hulme’s greatest secret’. Press Weekend, 5 Oct 1991. ‘Murder without remorse’.  Star-Sun, 2 Sep 1954. ‘Girl murderers’ sentence - decision on place of detention’.  Star-Sun, 1 Sep 1954. ‘Girl murderers sentence’.  Star-Sun, 31 Aug 1954. ‘Detention of murderesses is problem’.  Star-Sun, 30 Aug 1954. ‘Ministers to decide future of murderesses’ and ‘Teenagers sentenced to detention for murder’. The Press, 30 Aug 1954, ‘Girls guilty of murder’.  Star-Sun, 28 Aug 1954. ‘Closing stages of teenagers’ murder trial’ and ‘Murder trial: Symptoms enumerated’. The Press, 28 Aug 1954. ‘Murder charge. Hearing of evidence completed. Addresses to jury today’. Star-Sun, 27 Aug 1954. ‘Crown rebuts opinions about girls’ insanity’ and ‘Murder trial’. Star-Sun, 24 Aug 1954. ‘Murder trial - Mother cross-examined’ and ‘Supreme Court Trial - Witnesses tell of finding body’. Star-Sun, 23 Aug 1954. ‘Two teenagers face charge of killing woman’, ‘Discovery of body described’, ‘Court told about families’,‘Called to Park’, and ‘Had operations’.  Clarkson, N. 17 June 1989. ‘Separation threat trigger for a brick attack’, The Press.  WEBSITES  http://www.adamabrams.com/hc/faq2/Section_7/7.2.html  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%E2%80%93Hulme_murder_case  https://web.archive.org/web/20070901015408/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/parker_hulme/index.html https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/pauline-parker  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/heavenly-creatures-pauline-parker-and-juliet-hulme-are-found-guilty-of-murder https://web.archive.org/web/20071019040936/http://www.anneperry.net/3.html  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10371147  https://web.archive.org/web/20060721114131/http://www.domusaurea.org/borovnia/hilary.html https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/1938/thesis_fulltext.pdf;jsessionid=394241F76ECC03AB3A6A7D02B0538A34?sequence=1 http://www.pridenz.com/queer_history_parker_hulme_murder.html  http://www.crime.co.nz/c-files.aspx?ID=18  https://www.ilamhomestead.co.nz/home  https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/trials-notable/page-17  http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Digitised/ParkerHulme/Page24.asp  PODCASTS One More Crime, The Case of Pauline Parker & Juliet Hulme. 25 Feb 2018. Crimelines, Parker Hulme Murder. 15 Jan 2018. Nothing Rhymes With Murder, The Parker-Hulme Case. 13 Sep 2017. Ladykillers, Parker - Hulme Murder. 18 Mar 2017. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Louisa Vesterager, Maren Ueland, and the trial of 24 people. Listen to the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/obscuracrimepodcast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Nannie Doss is a rare type of serial killer. Her past combined with seemingly innocent appearance make it somewhat easier to ask a tough question about serial killers and mass murderers. Is it possible that there are forces beyond their control causing them to commit the heinous act, for which they ultimately become famous?  Writer: Josh Lami CW: Children, Sexual Abuse For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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For the one year anniversary of Obscura we're returning to our first episode and doing the case justice this time. As an added bonus we're including Black Label 06 - Crush for free. For the sake of not getting kicked off iTunes, this is the censored version of Black Label 06... but it still has teeth. If you'd like to access the full version you can get access on Patreon. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Writer: Heather Sutfin The story of a mother, the abuse she inflicted on her family, a body found burning, and another found decaying in a box.  TW: Child abuse, extreme physical violence, sexual violence For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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This is the case a senior Indianapolis investigator has described as the "most sadistic" case he ever investigated in the 35 years he served with the Indianapolis police. This is the story of Sylvia Likens and The Skeleton Lady. TW: Child Abuse, Extreme Violence, Sexual Abuse Writer: Josh Lami For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

TW: Self-harm, Child-harm  At twenty-three years old, Steinke was seemed to be adept at very little and was the antithesis of ‘cool’ to just about everyone who knew him. Steinke suffered physical and emotional abuse for most of his life. He dropped out of high school as a teenager, and at the time he murdered the Richardson family, was living in a trailer park with his mother. An unequivocal victim of circumstance, Steinke was dealt a bad hand from the get-go. Was it a pass to commit murder? Of course not. Is there any such pass? For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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While not owned by the university directly, since being founded in 1953, the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System has had close ties to the University of Michigan, becoming part of the pipeline where many medical students would find themselves receiving hands-on experience caring for the men and women who had severed in the armed forces. It was likely the inexperience of many of the doctors and nurses on staff within the hospital, compounded with the poor health of many of the patients the hospital oversaw, that allowed an abnormally high influx of respiratory arrests and failures to go initially unnoticed in the summer of 1975. By the time the FBI became involved, over 35 patients had been afflicted and 10 had died as a result of mysterious poisonings. Sources: See Website For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy