Two friends, a grim theme, and the cases behind it.
Kylie and Aubrey pick a theme, such as killers who keep souvenirs or people wrongly convicted, and talk through the cases that fit it, reacting out loud as the details land. The tone is chatty and often horrified, with seasonal small talk up front and blunt verdicts along the way.
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2 Friends 2 Murders Podcast is true crime told as a conversation between two friends. Kylie and Aubrey introduce themselves at the top of an episode, and the small talk comes first. There are spring break and Mother's Day greetings, a Valentine's Day send-off, and a complaint about losing an hour of sleep on Spring Forward Sunday. Then a theme takes over. The titles show how the show is organized: 'Killers with Souvenirs', 'Evidence Caught on Camera', 'Murdered Famous People', 'People Wrongly Convicted', 'Killers who turn themselves in', 'Killer Caregivers'. Each one is a way of grouping cases. The rhythm is narration and reaction. One friend walks through the facts while the other breaks in with disbelief, disgust or a flat 'that is insane.' The facts are specific and often hard to hear. In the souvenir episode, investigators realize they are looking for a serial killer after victims are found with their eyes removed, while a man named Charles goes on volunteering as a baseball coach and living a normal life. The camera episode draws a line early: it covers video used as evidence, not footage of killings, which, as the two put it, no one wants to see. What it does cover is surveillance of a woman named Tamara dragging heavy garbage bags down a staircase at 3 a.m., and the pair linger on how suspicious that looks. The famous-people episode builds a timeline toward Versace's killing on the steps of his home, including a pawn-shop visit the killer made under his own name. The wrongful-conviction episode is openly indignant, framed around how often it happens and how flawed the justice system is. When an eyewitness named Bello recants and then reverses himself again, the response is simply 'give me a break.' That bluntness never lets up. In the caregivers episode, which starts by looking up what the word even means, the reaction to a nanny's supposed grievances is to ask why she did not just quit. Elsewhere, a man's account to authorities of how a woman died is rejected outright and called what it was, a beating. Episode 50 gets its own moment of surprise at the number, along with a promise to distract from the real world as 2021 got under way. Every episode shown here opens with a warning about graphic and explicit content, and the language lives up to it. The sign-offs are warm, wishing listeners a good weekend or a happy holiday before pointing to Instagram and an email address for questions and suggestions. What a listener gets is company: two friends reacting to terrible things the way people actually do.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime with company: two friends reacting out loud, a theme holding each episode together, and plenty of candid outrage alongside the case details.
What sets it apart: It groups cases under unusual themes, such as killers who keep souvenirs, video used as evidence, or caregivers who kill, and the back-and-forth between Kylie and Aubrey carries as much of each episode as the facts do.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Murder souvenirs and Charles's ordinary-looking public life make this conversational case especially unsettling.
Two Friends Two Murders builds its unease around a killer whose talk of souvenirs sits beside crimes marked by victims found with their eyes removed.
A 3 a.m. garbage run becomes the episode's clearest and most unsettling piece of evidence.
The episode finds its strongest frame in the surveillance footage: Tamara hauling large garbage bags down the apartment stairs around 3 a.m., then returning with other items, including a large stew pot holding Valentina's head.
A candid look at famous murders, with the Versace case underscoring how much can remain uncertain behind a headline.
Kylie and Aubrey approach famous murder cases through the uneasy familiarity that surrounds celebrity deaths, opening with their surprise over John Lennon and Marvin Gaye before moving toward the darker patterns behind public violence.
A sober account of how shifting testimony and flawed justice can keep innocent people imprisoned.
Episode 51 treats wrongful conviction as both a human emergency and a systemic one. The hosts ground the discussion in the estimate that 2.3 to 5 percent of U.S.
A loose, reactive episode finds grim complications in cases where killers choose to turn themselves in.
Episode 50 of Two Friends, Two Murders centers on killers who turn themselves in, then pushes past the surface neatness of that premise to look at the harm, contradictions, and unanswered questions left behind.
A caregiver case turns darker as family strain, testimony, and an insanity plea come into focus.
Two Friends, Two Murders episode 46 turns to the unsettling subject of killer caregivers, beginning with the trust given to people who look after children or older adults.
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
Two Friends 2 Murders frames "Killers with Souvenirs" around the overlap between odd collections and murder trophies.
Two Friends 2 Murders uses Evidence Caught on Camera to compare surveillance footage from robberies, abductions, and homicide cases.
Two Friends 2 Murders opens with Kylie and Aubrey comparing famous murder cases, including John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Christina Grimmie, Sharon Tate, and Phil Hartman.
Episode 51 of Two Friends 2 Murders centers on wrongful convictions, opening with the claim that 2.3% to 5% of the 2.4 million people incarcerated in America may be innocent.
Kylie and Aubrey’s 50th episode examines killers who turned themselves in, beginning with Ed Kemper and the question of why suspects surrender when police may not be close to arresting them.
Kylie and Aubrey examine two caregiver-related murder cases, beginning with Jocelyn Ortega, a nanny hired by Kevin and Marina Krim in Manhattan in 2012.
Two friends casually chat about murder cases, starting with unrelated banter before diving into the topic.
Two friends banter and introduce their podcast about discussing two murders.