Missing persons, murky deaths, and whatever's in the cup.
Episodes open with Abby and Ericka naming what they are drinking, then one of them lays out a case for the other, from the disappearance in 'Kerry Krueger - Missing' to the murder-or-suicide question around Philip Shue. The case talk shares the table with detours into restocking fees, corn maze lines and gifted coffee.
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Crime Over Coffee is a true crime conversation between two hosts, Abby and Ericka, and it stays informal. Episodes open on a cheerful 'good morning', including one that a host says is being recorded at six in the evening. Next comes a roll call of what each host is drinking. The answers range widely: a holiday beer brewed with peaches and pecans, mandarin orange sparkling water, a margarita, pomegranate plum juice, kava hot tea, an apple ale, Folgers hazelnut coffee. Despite the title, coffee is not a given; a friend once teased them for never drinking it, and one host insists she drinks it often. Ericka calls coffee her love language and describes a cupboard stocked with bags people have given her, some of them from Abby. Then the case. One host tells it, the other reacts, and the reacting is where the show earns its place. Case episodes include 'Kerry Krueger - Missing', 'Philip Shue - Murder or Suicide?' and 'Solved Missing Person Cases - Indiana', which sets out to tell two solved-case stories from that state. The Shue discussion shows the method. Lidocaine turns up in his system with no needle marks, and instead of moving on, one host stops to look up how else the drug can be taken. Then the talk swerves to a time one of the hosts breathed in a spray by accident. In the Krueger episode, a woman puzzled when others mention a business trip becomes a thought experiment about how the hosts would handle the same moment. The seasonal episodes loosen things further. 'Merry Christmas!' gathers holiday-themed stories and detours into restocking fees on returns, which one host decides ought to be a crime. In 'Happy Halloween!', neither host knows what the other has brought, and a mask with blood spatter on it prompts one of them to send the other a photo of Ben Kingsley for comparison. The Indiana episode finds room for a corn maze trip where the hayride line kept going past a wall that looked like its end. 'Review: Chaos in the Courtroom' centres on a new show one host found, and it opens with her admitting she had not thought through how to introduce it. The production is unfussy: a dog lobbies to join the Christmas recording, and one intro takes about five tries. Sources are listed in the show notes, listeners are invited to email case suggestions, and the back catalog is a large one. What a listener gets is less a polished case narration than two hosts working through dark stories in real time, detours included.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime as a loose conversation between two hosts, with room for guesses, quick lookups and side stories, rather than a tightly scripted narration.
What sets it apart: The case is only part of the draw. The drink-of-the-day opener, a willingness to stop mid-case and look something up, and detours into restocking fees or corn maze lines give it a kitchen-table looseness that tightly narrated case shows do not aim for.
Listen in each week while true crime enthusiasts Abby and Ericka discuss cases that will keep you up at night. From serial killers to the mysteriously vanished, the crew pours themselves a strong cup of joe and presents real life cases followed by discussion on their thoughts and theories surrounding these events.Email us at [email protected] for questions or to suggest cases you would like us to cover!Facebook: Crime Over Coffee PodcastInstagram: @crimeovercoffee
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A missing-person case shaped by a reported Wyoming trip, conflicting accounts, and an unknown car.
Crime Over Coffee looks at the disappearance of Carrie O'Brien Kruger through the uncertainty surrounding a reported work trip to Wyoming. Abby and Erica follow what friends, family members, and authorities understood about Carrie's plans, with an unknown car in her driveway…
A loose Christmas chat where retail returns, rainy weather, and sleigh bells share the spotlight.
Christmas arrives at Crime Over Coffee in hangout mode, as Erica and Abby move through drinks, cold rain, and an insistent dog before circling holiday-themed crime.
An immediate suicide ruling collides with medical questions and a troubling insurance history in Philip Michael Shue's death.
Philip Michael Shue's death lands in the unsettled space between an immediate suicide ruling and evidence that keeps pulling against it. Crime Over Coffee tracks the questions around the lidocaine in his system, the lack of injection sites or needle marks, and the point that the…
A conversational Indiana missing-person case begins with a routine barn trip and years of unanswered waiting.
Crime Over Coffee's Indiana missing-person episode starts with an ordinary farm routine that becomes years of uncertainty. In August 1952, Ralph Stutzman went out to his barn in LaGrange, Indiana, and did not return.
A conversational Halloween episode where a blood-spattered mask sharpens the chill of a dark, powerless house.
Crime Over Coffee uses Halloween as a loose frame for unsettling stories and easy fall-night banter. The strongest stretch is the dark, powerless house sequence, where police enter after a lawyer's call and find John dead from gunshot wounds, with a blood-spattered Halloween…
True crime with sharp edges and side roads.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
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.
Hosts Abby and Ericka discuss the murder of Elizabeth Barraza, sharing their thoughts and theories over drinks.
Hosts Abby and Ericka discuss true crime cases over coffee, starting with casual banter about coffee preferences before diving into case details.
Crime Over Coffee covers the disappearance of Carrie O'Brien Kruger, who was reported missing on December 7, 1989 after leaving her Burlington, Wisconsin home around 4:30 a.m.
Crime Over Coffee opens with Rob and Michelle Reiner’s deaths, the Conan O’Brien holiday party they attended, and the detail that their son Nick was later picked up the same day.
Crime Over Coffee covers the death of Philip Michael Shue, a 54-year-old Air Force colonel and doctor who died after a violent crash on Interstate 10 near San Antonio, Texas.
Crime Over Coffee covers two solved missing person cases from Indiana: Ralph Stutzman, who vanished from a LaGrange farm in 1952 and was later linked to Florida under the name Delbert Schrock, and Brittany Guard, a 46-year-old Putnam County mother who disappeared after an October 1, 2025 house fire.
Crime Over Coffee’s Halloween episode moves from a 2005 Delaware body mistaken for decor to a 2009 California balcony death that went unreported for five days.
Hosts Abby and Ericka discuss true crime cases over coffee, sharing theories and thoughts.
Hosts interview journalist Bob Cyphers about his investigation into the uncaptured I-70 serial killer.