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Grim cases, bad choices, dark laughs.
Counting Worms treats murder, unusual deaths, dumb schemes, and foolish crimes as dark story fuel. Scott and Sarah trade stories, jokes, local shout-outs, and running bits without sanding away the ugly details.
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Counting Worms is true crime with a crooked grin. The show focuses on murder, unusual deaths, disastrous schemes, foolish criminals, and the many ways ordinary judgment can collapse into catastrophe. Scott and Sarah are the recurring names, and their rhythm is central to the appeal. They tease each other, pause for side jokes, comment on their own formats, and keep the mood closer to a late-night kitchen-table conversation than a polished documentary. The stories still carry weight. Episodes include murder, suicide, sexual violence, child abuse, break-ins, and crimes built from greed or panic. The show does not pretend these events are tidy. Instead, it leans into the uneasy space where horror and absurdity sit next to each other. Theme episodes give it a scrapbook quality, grouping stories around dumb decisions, pranksters getting consequences, death by sex, dogs, or inept burglars. Regular episodes spend more time on a bigger case, following motives, police interviews, confessions, and the details that made investigators suspicious. The pair often acknowledges sources and calls out listener cities, giving the series a homegrown, word-of-mouth feel. It can be blunt. It can also be oddly warm, because the banter keeps pulling the listener back from the worst details before the next turn in the case. Counting Worms works best for true-crime fans who like messy human behavior, gallows humor, and stories that move quickly without sounding scripted. It is not reverent crime reporting. It is researched storytelling for people who can handle grim subject matter when it comes wrapped in sarcasm, disbelief, and recurring jokes about the show's own tiny empire.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who like unusual deaths, foolish criminals, and conversational gallows humor more than prestige-documentary seriousness. It fits audiences comfortable with grim cases told in a loose, sarcastic style.
What sets it apart: Counting Worms stands out through its contrast: murder and death stories delivered like an offbeat domestic conversation. The recurring theme episodes, listener-city shout-outs, and Scott-and-Sarah back-and-forth give it a scrappy, inside-joke identity.
Join us for a light-hearted look at how some people have met their demise. From murder to disease to stupidity, the Grim Reaper finds each and every one of us...eventually. Hear stories of the unusual, gruesome, creepy-crawly, brutal and unbelievable ways people ended up counting worms.
A toy Yoda next to a family murder case: your sense of humor needs room to change gears.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A laughter-led Counting Worms turns Florida roadside weirdness and a South Australian sinkhole into loose, welcoming comedy.
Counting Worms frames this theme episode around laughter, starting with a Florida windshield incident before drifting into comic turns on a holy shirt, accents, and the hazards of being 20.
A conversational true crime episode follows a murder-for-hire confession and the police hesitation that follows.
This conversational true crime episode centers on a murder-for-hire account that quickly turns toward Bob Beshara and Joe Gantz. After Bob points police toward Gantz, a man he knew through odd jobs on rental properties, Gantz shows up at the station within hours.
Scott and Sarah follow exposed indecency, a Seal Beach break-in, DNA evidence, and toe sucking into a deeply odd theme-isode.
Death By Sex 3 tracks Scott and Sarah through a strange theme-isode of invasive sexual encounters, moving from a dog-walk incident where Richard exposed himself to a same-day home break-in in which a sleeping woman woke to him sucking her toes.
A resignation, a 911 call, and a typed note turn ordinary danger into something darker.
Danger arrives in ordinary packaging: a resignation letter for a difficult boss, a 911 call from a daughter's home, and a typed note that shifts a suspected suicide toward something more troubling.
A toy Yoda prank turns into a lawsuit, a settlement, and a Toyota payoff.
Counting Worms follows a restaurant April Fool's joke that slid from workplace prank into legal trouble. Jody is told she has won a new Toyota, only to be handed a toy Yoda, and the gag quickly loses its shine when she resigns and takes action against Gulf Coast Wings, Inc.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
["Counting Worms: Murder, True Crime and Death uses 'Ep 106: Dumb - Plain & Simple 3' to braid together five stories about bad decisions, roadside chaos, and police embarrassment.", "Scott and Sarah host the episode, with Scott narrating the cases and Sarah reacting to the details, which gives the show its comic back-and-forth.", "The through-line is simple: what happens when ordinary situations like driving, parenting, policing, and banking go wrong because of one bad choice.", "The biggest beats include a turtle through a Daytona Beach windshield, a five-day subway ride by 11-year-old Kareem Granton, 46 Brazilian police officers stripped on a roadside, a 30-meter sinkhole handstand in Mount Gambier, and a pantsless Cobb County burglary that ends with a taser standoff."]
Counting Worms: Murder, True Crime and Death, Ep.
Counting Worms: Murder, True Crime and Death's "Death by Sex 3" links a Madagascar chameleon fact to several sex-related crime stories.
Counting Worms opens with Andreas Flatton getting his final AOK Walker Auto Works paycheck in 91,515 greasy pennies dumped in his driveway with a note that read "fuck you." The main case follows Stacey Castor, whose first husband Mike Wallace died after a sudden collapse and whose second husband David Castor was found with antifreeze clues, a turkey baster, and vomit in the bedroom.
["Counting Worms: Murder, True Crime and Death uses \"April Fools - Pranksters Get Justice\" to track prank stories that end in lawsuits, prison, fines, and deaths.", "Sarah and Scott open with Judy Kashner of Lincoln City, Oregon, who learns Wells Fargo has told her estate she died and then treated her income as unavailable during a refinance.", "The episode then moves to Flint, Michigan, where five teens call rock-throwing from a freeway overpass \"overpassing,\" and Kenneth White dies when a rock enters his van's windshield.", "Later segments cover Jody Berry's Panama City Hooters contest, Rana Zuhair's Lahore ghost prank, Randy Wood's fake hanging, and the Las Vegas van attack that kills Michelle Weissman and Geo Medina Barajas."]
Counting Worms: Murder, True Crime and Death pairs Leah Holland's March 4, 2020 tattoo with the John List case from Westfield, New Jersey.
Counting Worms hosts Sarah and Scott present failed burglary stories involving Christopher Badman, who wore a plastic shopping bag over his head during a hotel theft in Porthcawl, Wales.
Counting Worms: Murder, True Crime and Death presents three reported incidents involving dogs, including an Asiatic black bear mistaken for a puppy and a Labrador retriever that fired a shotgun.
A comedic true crime podcast that explores unusual and gruesome ways people have died.
A light-hearted true crime podcast that explores unusual and gruesome ways people have died.
The hosts discuss unusual death stories with a light-hearted tone, including a news segment about a Ugandian mother of 44 banned from having more children.
The hosts introduce a theme of pranks gone wrong, discussing unusual and gruesome ways people have died.