True crime with best-friend disbelief.
Homicide Homegirls follows Arielle and Amanda through true-crime cases with casual banter, blunt reactions, and case-by-case detail. Recent episodes move from Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women to Timothy O'Bryan, Holly Dunn, Sallie Rohrbach, and The Jonestown Massacre.
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Homicide Homegirls treats true crime as something to talk through, not something to flatten into a neat script. Arielle and Amanda bring a best-friend rhythm to case discussion, with personal sidebars, quick reactions, and blunt disbelief woven around the reporting. The show can sound casual at the top. Then the details arrive. Recent episodes move across Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Timothy O'Bryan, Holly Dunn, Sallie Rohrbach, and a multi-part sequence on The Jonestown Massacre. That range gives the show more than one register. Some installments sit with murdered victims and criminal timelines. Others follow survival, fraud, cult control, institutional failure, or the paper trail around a suspicious story. The Homicide Homegirls often pause over the human detail inside the horror: a survivor asking for help, a victim's family searching, a document request that exposes something larger, a child placed at risk by someone trusted. The response is not detached. It is conversational, angry, sometimes darkly funny, and openly exhausted when the material warrants it. Homicide Homegirls also keeps the mechanics visible. Listeners hear source references, dates, police actions, court details, and moments where one speaker reacts before the next piece of the case lands. That back-and-forth is the draw. It makes the show feel less like a lecture and more like two people trying to hold onto the facts while refusing to normalize what happened. The tone is adult and irreverent, but the victims remain the center. Jokes usually function as pressure release, not as a replacement for attention. Homicide Homegirls is best approached by listeners who want true-crime storytelling with emotion left in the room: messy, direct, personal, and still grounded in the case being told.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants detailed true-crime cases delivered in a casual, adult conversation rather than a polished documentary voice. It also fits someone comfortable with blunt reactions and heavy subject matter.
What sets it apart: The show’s identity comes from the contrast between familiar best-friend banter and grim case detail. Arielle and Amanda let frustration, shock, humor, and fatigue remain audible as the facts accumulate.
Nowadays it seems like everyone is fascinated or intrigued by true crime cases, whether they want to admit it or not. Best friends, Arielle and Amanda, are no different. Join them as they discuss and analyze various true crime cases from murders and abductions to unsolved mysteries.
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A debit-card trail and ATM footage shape a case the hosts connect to the MMIW epidemic.
Homicide Homegirls follows Cecilia's disappearance and death through the financial trail left behind by her debit cards. The episode lays out how Jerry J was arrested in Nevada after being found using Cecilia's debit card at a Las Vegas ATM, then tracks earlier card activity in…
A family murder case turns on life insurance, a sudden Halloween change, and two hosts processing the betrayal aloud.
Homicide Homegirls treats Timothy O'Brien's murder as a case where motive gathers its weight through paperwork and timing. The episode follows detectives to Ronald Clark O'Brien's life-insurance policies: $20,000 on each child taken out a few days before Timothy was killed,…
A blunt, conversational account of survival, deception, and the railroad killer's cruelty.
Part two of Holly Dunn's survival story sets Resendez's violence against the promises that made teenage runaways vulnerable to him: work, travel, and money without identification.
A survivor's desperate escape becomes a close, human account of fear, care, and remarkable composure.
Holly Dunn's escape from the Railroad Killer gives this first installment its grim center. After a brutal assault, she reaches a house where Chad Goetz helps her sit, calls 911, and works to keep her calm without crowding her with another man's presence.
An auditor's perspective gives sharper shape to the case of Sally Rohrbach's murder.
A fraud investigation tilts toward murder as Sally Rohrbach's audit work runs into missing documentation and the explanation that records had been moved offsite after earlier office break-ins.
Strange cases, loud banter, no polish.
Courtroom chaos, case updates, sharp reactions.
Behavior, evidence, and accountability.
Case files with a psychological verdict.
True crime, hauntings, horror, and Sunday Scaries.
Homicide Homegirls Episode 70 centers the MMIW movement and two cases, Cecilia Barbara Finona and Monica Bursier Wicker.
Ronald Clark O'Brien's 1974 Pasadena, Texas Halloween walk ended with 8-year-old Timothy O'Brien dying from cyanide in a giant Pixy Stix.
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Homicide Homegirls hosts Arielle and Amanda conclude their four-part series on Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre by covering Representative Leo Ryan's November 1978 investigation in Guyana.
Homicide Homegirls examines Jim Jones's relocation of People's Temple members from California to Jonestown after Marshall Kilduff and Phil Tracy reported allegations against the church.
Homicide Homegirls examines how Jim Jones expanded the People's Temple after leading roughly 150 followers from Ukiah to a 1968 Martin Luther King Jr.
Arielle and Amanda introduce a four-part examination of Jim Jones, the People’s Temple, and the November 1978 deaths of more than 900 followers in Jonestown, Guyana.
Homicide Homegirls examines the 2017 killing of Benjamin Renick, a Missouri snake breeder whose wife reported a suspected 600-pound anaconda attack.
Arielle and Amanda introduce their true crime podcast, discuss covering cases from various states, and preview a Wyoming case.
Two friends discuss and analyze a true crime case, sharing their excitement about recording together again.
Two best friends discuss and analyze various true crime cases, including murders and abductions, while also sharing personal anecdotes about the pandemic.
Two friends discuss a listener-suggested true crime case, sharing personal quarantine struggles before diving into the details.
Arielle and Amanda discuss the disappearance and murder of Brittany Tiger, a Native American mother of three in Ada, Oklahoma.
The hosts discuss and recap the Netflix true crime documentary series Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, joined by a special guest.
Arielle and Amanda discuss the 2002 murders of three women in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana.
Arielle and Amanda discuss the mysterious death of Michelle O'Connell in St.