Cold Case Murder Mysteries
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ryan Krause turns disputed evidence and unresolved timelines into searching, highly personal theories about crime and human behavior.
Cold Case Murder Mysteries starts with recognizable case facts, then follows Ryan Krause into expansive psychological and symbolic interpretation.
A ransom note becomes a psychological Rorschach test; bring your appetite for interpretive leaps.
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A close read of the Ramsey 911 call that treats every word as evidence.
Cold Case Murder Mysteries returns to the JonBenet Ramsey case by focusing on the call Patsy Ramsey made at about 5:52 a.m. on December 26, 1996, after reporting that her daughter had been kidnapped from the family home in Boulder.
A bleak origin story where family damage becomes the case's central evidence.
The episode follows Ed Gein back through the family history that shaped him, starting with a wound in 1879 and moving toward the tight, punishing bond between Augusta and her son Ed.
A forceful, speculative take on MH370 that turns a missing flight into a bigger argument about mystery, motive, and meaning.
Cold Case Murder Mysteries treats MH370 as a study in how mystery hardens into theory. The episode starts with Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, leaving Kuala Lumpur just after midnight on March 8, 2014, then dropping out of…
A dark finale that turns Gein into the framework of modern horror.
This finale treats Ed Gein as the ugly source code for a lot of American horror. It follows the line from Plainfield to Psycho, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill, then returns to the house, where flashlights, mattresses, and the hidden head carry the kind of weight that sticks.
A grim episode that treats violence as emotional evidence, not just physical damage.
Cold Case Murder Mysteries steps away from recap and into a harder, stranger idea: murder horror sits in the body as much as in the story people build around it.
A Ramsey-house chapter where missing time, missed details, and one stubborn note keep the case open.
Cold Case Murder Mysteries stays inside the Ramsey house and makes the ransom note, the first police walk-through, and the gaps around John Ramsey do most of the work.
A locked-room death becomes a bleak psychological argument.
Cold Case Murder Mysteries turns the death of Ellen Greenberg into a hard, unresolved question. Ryan Krause keeps circling the same hinge point, suicide or homicide, and the strongest passages stay close to the physical facts: the engaged latch, the fresh snow, and the absence…
A grim, methodical descent through isolation, rumor, rejection, and the clue that points back to Ed.
This episode follows Ed Gein's adulthood as a slow collapse, from the filth and isolation of the house to the rumors in town and the disappearance of Bernice Warden.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Payne Lindsey's season-long investigation into two disappearances from Nome, Alaska.
CBC's true crime feed tracing Cleo's case into cold cases across its investigative podcast network.
Journalists chase a decades-long trail through a coronial inquest and Rick Bloom's dozens of aliases.
A New York Times reporter reinvestigates Laramie's unsolved 1985 murder of Shelley Wiley.
A locked-apartment puzzle sets the hook.
Ryan Krause opens Cold Case Murder Mysteries: A Pharaoh Entombed in Emotional Wounds by arguing that murder wounds and blood function as emotional signals, not simple measures of physical damage.
The episode starts with a flood.
Ryan Krause opens on the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.
This episode delves into the gruesome crimes and psychological motivations of Ed Gein, exploring how his actions inspired iconic horror characters like Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill.
This episode analyzes the psychological upbringing of Ed Gein, focusing on how his mother Augusta's abusive childhood led her to raise Ed in extreme isolation and denial of affection.
Ed Gein’s home becomes a sealed, filthy little world, shut off from light and company.
At approximately 5:52 a.m., everything begins.
A second 911 call drives the rewind.
Ryan Krause opens Cold Case Murder Mysteries with Ed Gein, calling him the “Butcher of Plainfield” and linking him to Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
The note becomes the crime's pressure point.
The ransom note is where this one starts.