True crime with yarn in hand.
Hooked on Crime Pod mixes true-crime cases with crochet culture, moving from serious case narration to yarn projects and artist shoutouts. Henny’s delivery is direct, informal, and emotionally present, especially when cases involve mental health, children, hate, or mass violence.
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Hooked on Crime Pod is a true-crime show with yarn on the table. Henny moves between criminal cases, personal updates, crochet projects, and spotlights on craft artists, creating a format that feels handmade rather than studio-smoothed. The case range in its episodes includes Andrea Yates, Elizabeth Olten, Matthew Wayne Shepard, the Pulse nightclub shooting, and Florida Man incidents. Those subjects give the show a broad true-crime lane, from highly serious tragedies to stranger news stories with a more chaotic tone. The Andrea Yates episodes show Henny working through a multi-part account while repeatedly acknowledging the weight of mental health, family pressure, postpartum crisis, and institutional failure. The Elizabeth Olten episode centers on a child murder case and carries clear anger toward fascination with the perpetrator. The Matthew Wayne Shepard episode is framed through shock, grief, and confusion at the hatred behind the attack. The Pulse nightclub material focuses on the night of the shooting and the need to remember what happened. Then the Florida Man episode changes gear, bringing in Jordan as a true-crime newbie for a lighter, more reactive run through bizarre news stories. The shift is sharp, but it matches the show’s personality. It can be heavy, funny, scattered, and intensely sincere within the same recent window. Crochet is woven through that same rhythm. Henny talks about patterns, faux fur yarn, crochet designers, artist pages, Etsy shops, and Ravelry sources as part of the show’s world. These craft moments create breathing room around material that often involves violence, loss, mental illness, and cruelty. They also make the show feel anchored in a small creative community, not just in the usual true-crime archive. The production voice is intimate and self-aware, with Henny noting when research is unfinished, when life has interrupted publishing, or when a case has become emotionally difficult to carry. That openness is part of the texture. The show is best understood as true crime told by someone who does not hide the work, the frustration, or the personal reaction behind a neutral narrator mask. It is not detached. It is blunt, craft-adjacent storytelling for listeners who can handle difficult cases and want a host whose presence stays visible throughout.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true-crime case storytelling with blunt emotional reactions and frequent craft-community detours. It is a fit for someone comfortable with heavy subjects when they are paired with casual, personal narration.
What sets it apart: The crochet thread is not cosmetic: artist spotlights, patterns, hooks, yarn, Etsy, and Ravelry appear alongside the cases. That maker-community texture separates it from cleaner, more anonymous true-crime formats.
Lets craft together while I tell you about true crime cases. I am very blunt, opinionated, and I try my best to bring you these stories in a way that is authentic. We have spotlight crochet artists, crochet tips and tricks, and I hope you get hooked on this podcast. Please follow me at facebook.com/hookedoncrimepod y'all stay safe and get to hookin' 🖤Hooked on Crime Pod is a podcast that discusses true crime. Listener discretion is advised.
Crochet hook ready: Henny's three-part Andrea Yates account asks you to settle in.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A somber third part on Andrea Yates, mental-health failures, and the 9-1-1 call after the bathtub.
Part three of Hooked on Crime Pod's Andrea Yates deep dive stays with the heaviness of the case, especially the host's struggle to make its many pieces fit into any neat summary.
A close, unsettling account of psychiatric warning signs before the Yates case reaches its deadliest turn.
Part two of Hooked on Crime Pod's Andrea Yates story follows a psychiatric crisis as the later murders come into view. The episode traces Yates' admission to Methodist hospital after a suicide attempt, her reluctance to consent to psychotropic medication, and the remorse she…
A measured case history of Andrea Yates's perfectionism, religious fears, and worsening mental-health symptoms.
Andrea Yates's story is handled as a careful case history, shaped by perfectionism, family expectations, religious belief, and the pressure to appear composed.
Strange stories, checked for loose threads.
True crime with haunted-house energy.
Dark cases told between friends, clip by clip.
Killers, ghosts, conspiracies and murderless capers, all tagged.
Hooked on Crime Pod's third Andrea Yates episode follows Andrea from the March 31, 2001 emergency detention attempt at Devereux Texas through the June 20 bathtub killings and the later insanity proceedings.
Hooked on Crime Pod's Andrea Yates Part 2 follows Andrea's 1999 psychiatric stays after a trazodone overdose at Methodist Hospital and a later admission to Memorial Spring Shadow Glen in Houston.
["Hooked on Crime Pod's Part 1 follows Andrea Yates from Hallsville, Texas, to Methodist Hospital after a June 16, 1999 trazodone overdose and Dr.
Henny recounts how nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten disappeared from St.
In this Halloween Week 2021 episode, the host follows Jeremy Bryan Jones after police identify him as the fugitive using the alias John Paul Chapman.
Hooked on Crime Pod recounts Matthew Wayne Shepard's life from Casper, Wyoming, through his studies at TASIS in Switzerland and the University of Wyoming.
Host Henny discusses the five-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, recounting the events of June 12, 2016.
The host introduces a true crime case about Junko Furuta, a 17-year-old girl from Japan, warning listeners about its graphic content.
Host Hennie discusses the missing person case of Darian Hudson from Stillwater, Oklahoma, at the request of a friend.