True crime, punishment, and unsettled questions.
Eye for an Eye follows violent crimes, strange headlines, and long-running mysteries through the facts, the trial record, and the sentence. Its conversations move from gallows humor to sober victim remembrance without losing sight of accountability.
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Eye for an Eye is a true-crime conversation show with a courtroom spine and a restless curiosity for cases that still feel unsettled. The central question is less about shock than consequence: what happened, what can be proved, and what punishment follows. Its episodes cover notorious crimes, current developments, cold mysteries, and headline oddities. The register is informal and blunt. Matt, Lisa, and Jules can move from jokes and side chatter into trial counts, charging decisions, and sentencing stakes in the same stretch of audio. That looseness is part of the show’s identity. It feels like a table conversation among people who follow cases closely, react emotionally, and still want the legal structure kept in view. The Dyatlov Pass episode leans into uncertainty, cycling through possible explanations without pretending the mystery has been solved. The Sofia Koval episode is framed as a developing case, with attention to adult-court charges, juvenile sentencing limits, immigration consequences, and the sadness around the alleged crime. The Robert Bowers episode gives weight to the victims, the community impact, federal hate-crime counts, and the sentencing context in Pennsylvania. Updates on Tupac and Biggie show the podcast’s interest in cases that remain culturally alive. WTH3 installments bring a stranger, quicker rhythm, where the hosts react to baffling crime stories such as a stolen alligator. Through the Looking Glass interviews shift the format toward expertise and lived experience, including conversations with Casey Sherman and a homicide detective. The show is not polished in a cold, documentary style. It is conversational, sometimes chaotic, and openly reactive. Its stronger moments come when that energy meets serious attention to victims, law, and aftermath. Listeners get legal process, case background, irreverent commentary, and a sense that unresolved details are worth sitting with.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who like conversational case coverage, legal aftermath, and blunt reactions more than tightly scripted narration. It especially suits people who follow developing cases, infamous crimes, and unresolved mysteries.
What sets it apart: Eye for an Eye mixes sentencing-focused case discussion with loose roundtable energy, listener involvement, oddball crime-news reactions, and interview episodes. It can swing from courtroom detail to raw disbelief without losing the thread of accountability.
A look into the interdiction and sentencing of some of history's most infamous killers and criminals. Delve into the cases that have haunted headlines for decades and those left in the shadows of the justice system. Listen closely as you may find a new perspective on justice that, at times, you may be surprised you agree with. Join your hosts Lisa, Matt, and Jules while they answer the age old question, "Does the punishment fit the crime?"
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Case records become open arguments about culpability, sentencing, and the limits of certainty in Matt and Lisa's conversational roundtable.
Eye for an Eye treats punishment as an argument to be tested, with Matt, Lisa, and their co-hosts moving from case records into candid discussion of culpability and sentencing.
The crime starts your argument; Matt and Lisa make room for your take on the sentence.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A February 1959 mystery that keeps its grip by refusing to settle into certainty.
This episode opens with a listener discretion warning and settles into the Dyatlov Pass mystery, an unsolved case set in February 1959 in the Ural Mountains of Soviet Russia.
A pet-store alligator theft stays vivid through sharp details and easy, conversational banter.
The episode stays anchored in a pet-store alligator theft at the Beckley Pet Store, with a clear chain of events that gives the story its shape.
A case study in memory, punishment, and the legal machinery between them.
Eye for an Eye frames the case around whether punishment fits the crime, then builds that argument through memorial detail and a careful walk through the court chronology.
A familiar case gets a more personal, looser pass, with the show's usual wandering edge.
The episode revisits the Porco case with a guest who has a personal connection, and that gives the conversation more bite than a routine recap.
A case-file style pass through allegations and lawsuits that keeps returning to control, status, and retaliation.
Matt and Lisa host Shay and Gab for a discussion that moves through allegations and lawsuits around Sean Combs without losing its shape. Shay's background in journalism, sociology, and library science, along with Gab's work in mental health and re-entry, gives the episode a…
A current case told with blunt curiosity, uneasy urgency, and a loose but immediate host dynamic.
This episode keeps its focus on an active case, with the tension of something still taking shape. Matt and Lise work through the video, the manifesto language, the later tracking of the man, and the claim that he was trying to build support for a coup overthrow, while also…
A hometown hoax, revisited by someone who grew up there.
The hosts and guests delve into the extensive allegations against Sean Diddy Combs, covering 120 accusers, including minors, and spanning decades.
The hosts explore the case of Justin Mohn, a Levittown man who decapitated his father and posted a video online ranting about leading a militia against the government.
The hosts revisit the Chris Porco case, where a son was convicted of murdering his father and assaulting his mother with an axe.
["Eye for an Eye Episode 113, Aliens, Government Experiments, and Katabatic Winds, centers on the 1959 Dyatlov Pass mystery at Dead Mountain in Soviet Russia.", "Matt, Lisa, and Joe Saint walk through Igor Dyatlov's nine hikers, all ages 20 to 24, and the tent found cut open from the inside.", "They review the autopsies, the frozen bodies scattered over weeks, the missing tongue, the fractured skulls and ribs, and the orange spheres reported in the sky.", "The conversation tests avalanche, infrasound, military, animal, interpersonal-conflict, paranormal, and catabatic-wind theories before leaning toward a government secrecy explanation."]
Eye for an Eye reports that 14-year-old Sofia Koval faces a manslaughter charge after her grandmother died in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida.
["Matt and Lisa open WTH3 with a Clearwater, Florida case where police say Serena Wolf left a $5,000 tip on a $55 cafe bill using her boyfriend's credit card after an argument over a ticket home to Buffalo, New York.", "They describe the charge as felony grand theft and debate whether the server should keep the money or the boyfriend should be reimbursed.", "The second story moves to Beckley, West Virginia, where surveillance video showed a man stuffing a live three-month-old alligator under his shirt while a second man distracted the clerk.", "Their discussion broadens into exotic-animal permits, zoo enclosures, and a video of an orangutan that Lisa says was peeing into its mouth."]
Eye for an Eye covers the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood and the case of Robert Bowers.
Matt and Lisa of Eye for an Eye review the Tupac Shakur homicide case through Dwayne Keith Davis's 2009 police interview and 2023 arrest.
A podcast examining the cases and sentencing of notorious criminals, questioning if punishment fits the crime.
A podcast examining the cases and sentencing of notorious criminals, questioning if punishment fits the crime.
The hosts interview author Casey Sherman about his true crime book 'A Murder in Hollywood' and his investigative work on the Boston Strangler case.
The hosts introduce a guest, a retired NYPD officer and author, who discusses his books and background.
Eye for an Eye examines Austin Harrouff, a Florida State University student whose 2016 case returned to public attention after his sentence in November.
Hosts introduce Season 3 of a true crime podcast that examines infamous killers and the justice system, teasing a special guest.
A podcast examining the interdiction and sentencing of infamous killers and criminals, exploring whether punishment fits the crime.
Hosts discuss a haunted tour in New Orleans related to a murder case, setting up their analysis of crime and punishment.
This episode details the murder and disappearance of Laura, a mother of two, by her partner Grant Hayes.