One reads the case notes, one hears them fresh.
Grace and Lydia split the work: one reads out the researched case while the other reacts out loud, at times hearing the details for the first time. The cases range from British landmarks like the Moors Murders and James Bulger to Junko Furuta in Japan and Fritz Haarmann in Germany.
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Everything with the Girls is a true crime podcast built on two voices, Grace and Lydia, and on the gap between what one of them knows and what the other is about to find out. Episodes tend to work the same way. One host has done the research and reads it aloud, usually moving from background to crime to trial. The other listens, interrupts and reacts. Sometimes that reaction is the whole point. Ahead of the Junko Furuta case, Grace explains that Lydia avoided the research notes on purpose so the story would arrive as a surprise, and the episode begins with a warning that it is not for the faint-hearted. Before the cases start there is sometimes a stretch of ordinary life: lockdown dog walks, a 25th birthday, a COVID jab that knocked one of them flat. One episode opens with the pair reading out the handful of reviews the show had gathered, one of them from a host's dad. The case list moves between the familiar and the obscure. British cases recur: the Moors Murders and Fred and Rose West, each told across two parts, plus James Bulger, Mary Bell, Amelia Dyer, John Haigh, Lesley Whittle, the Shepherds Bush Murders and the Ding family murders. Further afield come Fritz Haarmann, billed as the Butcher of Hanover, Kim Wall in Denmark, Junko Furuta and the Kobe child murders in Japan, and Ed Gein. One title, 'The Murder of Kelly Anne Bates & The Kobe Child Murders', pairs two shorter cases in a single episode. Some runs carry theme banners: 'Couples Who Kill', 'Unsolved Mysteries' with Flight MH370 and the Bermuda Triangle, and 'Halloween', which stretches to witchcraft history, Slenderman, haunted places and American Horror Story. The commentary is opinionated without posing as expertise. Killers who blame their victims get short shrift, and an excuse that does not hold up gets called out the moment it is read. The hosts admit what they do not know, whether that is how to pronounce a name or how sentencing works in Japan, or even closer to home. On Corrie McKeague they set the police conclusion that he climbed into a bin and ended up at a landfill against his family's doubts, the people in CCTV footage who were never identified, and questions about how much footage was checked. On Ed Gein they pause to ask whether their own fascination is any healthier than his taste for lurid magazines, and land on a line between curiosity and obsession. That self-awareness sits beside a great deal of gruesome detail, delivered plainly and sometimes with strong language. The result is less a documentary than two people processing the worst of human behaviour out loud.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes notorious crimes told through loose, chatty back-and-forth wrapped around a researched case summary, and who is comfortable hearing graphic details spelled out plainly.
What sets it apart: The show leans on a split between the host who has read the research and the one hearing it, so the reactions, interruptions and second-guessing become part of the telling. Its range runs from British cases to Japan and Germany and out to Halloween folklore and unexplained disappearances.
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Grace's research catches Lydia cold; you get the case with someone asking the questions you were about to.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A missing-person episode that tests the bin-lorry theory without pretending the case is settled.
Corrie McKeague's disappearance sits in the gap between an intensive landfill search and the explanation that led there. The episode follows the February 2017 search after his phone was said to have last connected to a tower, then weighs the theory that he slept in a bin in the…
A grounded, conversational look at Gein's isolation, fixations, and crimes, with fascination kept mostly in check.
Ed Gein is handled as a grim, conversational case study in isolation, fixation, and the long shadow of his attachment to his mother, Augusta. Grace and Lydia move through the preserved rooms on the farm, his interest in pulp magazines, adventure stories, cannibalism, and Nazi…
A conversational double-case episode is strongest when it stays close to the trial material around Kellyanne Bates' murder.
Kellyanne Bates' murder gives this double-case episode its grim center. She was 17 when her 49-year-old boyfriend, James Patterson Smith, tortured and killed her, leaving injuries so disturbing that the jury accepted professional counselling.
A loose, reactive account of Fritz Harmon, Hanover station, and his disturbing bond with Hans Granz.
Fritz Harmon's crimes unfold through a loose, candid discussion led by Grace and Lydia, beginning with the stray Google search that pointed them toward a man described as Germany's number one serial killer.
A research-led account of Junko Furuta's murder, shaped by two hosts confronting its brutality in real time.
The episode treats Junko Furuta's kidnapping and murder as a harrowing case of prolonged violence, following the 40 days of abuse and the grim identification of her body through dental records.
New England cold cases, carefully told.
Cold cases kept in public view.
Folklore, cryptids, and cautious wonder.
Everything With The Girls covers the disappearance of Corrie McKeague, an RAF gunner who went missing after a night out in Bury St.
["Everything with the Girls centers on Ed Gein, the \"Butcher of Plainfield,\" and links his case to Psycho, Bates Motel, The Silence of the Lambs, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.", "Grace and Lydia describe Edward Theodore Gein's 1906 birth in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, his move to a 155-acre Plainfield farm, and Augusta Gein's fixation on sin, women, and Revelation.", "The episode walks through Henry Gein's 1944 death, Bernice Warden's 1957 disappearance from a Plainfield hardware store, and the search that uncovers human-skin chairs, skull bowls, and a lampshade.", "Grace and Lydia close with Gein's 1968 insanity ruling, his years at Mendota, and the way his name was folded into horror characters like Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill."]
Everything With The Girls splits the episode between Kellyanne Bates, a 17-year-old victim of James Patterson Smith, and the Kobe child murders tied to a 14-year-old suspect.
Everything With The Girls frames Fritz Harman as Germany's number one serial killer and follows his case from Hanover to the Leen River.
Everything With The Girls covers the kidnapping and murder of Junko Furuta, a 17-year-old from Misato, Japan, who worked at a molding factory and had an electronics-retailer job lined up after graduation.
The hosts discuss their shift to covering cults and conspiracies, specifically analyzing the Jonestown massacre.
The hosts discuss the JonBenet Ramsey case, covering her background, family, and beauty pageant career.
This episode delves into the Zodiac Killer case, covering the murders, psychology, suspects, and theories.
The hosts discuss the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short (Black Dahlia) while sharing casual banter about lockdown life and shopping.