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Hello true crime gurus! Welcome to Crime and Carbs; a tasty twist on true crime. Listen in each week as we dive into true crime stories and provide you with reviews on delicious carby indulgences from both national and local Utah restaurants, as well as recipes of our own.
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A routine call turns ominous when Lynn sounds drunk and says Chris made her a drink.
The episode traces a small Australian community tragedy through the uneasy hours around Lynn's last phone call with her mother. Counseling had left some hope in the air, but when Chris answers and eventually puts Lynn on, she sounds drunk and oddly withdrawn.
A custody conflict turns vicious when Tara discusses permanently harming Kelly through a hit man.
A planned killing arranged in a KFC parking lot gives the episode its grim center. Tara tells Jenny that Kelly should be injured permanently or killed, then meets the hit man on July 28, 2015, to talk through the job.
A backyard fire, disturbed ground, and a missing student give this conversational true-crime episode its uneasy center.
A University of Utah student's disappearance takes Crime and Carbs into a backyard where small, ordinary details begin to feel deeply unsettling.
A conversational true-crime episode where a diamond ring becomes Dan's flawed attempt to slow an affair down.
An affair drives "Fooled," with Dan caught between Trish, Yesenia, and the consequences he keeps trying to handle at a distance. Yesenia comes across as more possessive in some accounts, though the relationship is described as intense throughout, and the episode wisely leaves…
A teacher's concern leads police into a brightly lit Victorian mansion where music plays over a terrible discovery.
America's most infamous midlife crisis opens in loose, snack-crinkly mode, with Lucy and Erin debating Carbo Crime Mates, candy-wrapper noise, and the uneasy appeal of ASMR.
True crime with cocktails and chaos.
True crime with table-talk bite.
True crime with rough-edged comic detours.
True crime with sharp Scottish banter.
Alphabetized true crime with dark, talky edges.
Crime and Carbs episode 21 centers on Lynette Sims, Christopher Dawson, and their twin-brother circle, with the hosts tracing a marriage that begins at age 22 and then fractures in 1981.
A black van with the license plate “nobody” opens the episode with a stoplight joke that the hosts turn into a running discussion about murder suspicions and tinted windows.
Crime and Carbs tracks the disappearance of Mackenzie Lueck, a 23-year-old University of Utah student from California who vanished after arriving in Salt Lake City and taking a Lyft to Hatch Park.
Crime and Carbs episode 18, “Fooled,” follows Patricia “Trish” Willebrandt, her husband Dan Willebrandt, and his affair with Yesenia, a younger woman he met after pulling over in his Jaguar.
Crime and Carbs episode 17, “Mid-Life Murder,” follows the List family in Breiden, a 19-room Victorian mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, and shows how the house became part of the crime.
Crime and Carbs episode 16 follows the October 11, 2011 disappearance of five-year-old Jesse Shockley from Glendale, Arizona, after her mother Jerese Hunter returned from a store run and found the apartment door open.
Crime and Carbs centers on Andrew Uradales, a former Marine and security guard, who is linked by ballistics to three Illinois murders and at least five California killings.
The episode centers on Jonathan Schmitz, a 24-year-old waiter in Lake Orion near Detroit, and a cold call from The Jenny Jones Show about a “secret admirer.” The setup moves through Jenny Jones’s shift from daytime self-help to tabloid TV, including comparisons to Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Springer, before revealing how Jonathan expected a romantic meet-cute.
Crime and Carbs episode 13, “Chance Encounter,” covers the October 2018 abduction of 13-year-old Jamie Kloss in Barron, Wisconsin, after Jake Patterson saw her at a bus stop.
Crime and Carbs episode 12 centers on the 1984 killing of 22-year-old Bradley Perry in Brigham City, Utah, a town the hosts describe through the Peach City drive-in, peach orchards, and a small main street.
The hosts discuss a Halloween-themed true crime story and share their thoughts on a Netflix series.
The hosts discuss their love for fall and Halloween decorations before introducing a true crime story about a selfie that upends a young girl's life.
The hosts introduce the podcast, discuss personal hardships, and set up a true crime story about an Australian cook.
The hosts introduce their true crime podcast with a comedic twist, discussing a brutal burglary in Utah and their carb-themed segments.