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A conversational second look at Molly Young's death, centered on the gunshot Ritchie says he slept through.
Molly Young Part 2 returns to the unresolved 2012 death of a young woman from Carbondale in Southern Illinois, with the case framed around questions that still do not sit neatly.
A loose, Illinois-rooted start to Molly Young's tragic story, centered on host chemistry and complicated relationship patterns.
Killinois With Bird and Cam opens in a loose, personality-forward mode, moving from sports talk and Bears fandom into a brief return to Robert Goyvich, corruption, and Illinois politics before settling into Molly Young's tragic story.
A measured look at Blagojevich's lopsided Illinois exit, built around recorded evidence and local absurdity.
Rod Blagojevich tracks the Illinois governor's final move in office: appointing former state controller Roland Burris to Obama's Senate seat, then moving into impeachment proceedings that ended his tenure.
Blagojevich's Chicago network, a Yugoslavian rescue effort, and a money-driven governor's race put his political story in motion.
Blagojevich's political story begins with the practical value of a Chicago network. He brings in fellow Chicagoan Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and civil rights icon Jesse Jackson Sr.
A tangled phone-record dispute gives Clifford Anderson's case its clearest tension.
Clifford Anderson's case rests on phone evidence from the day Deb Dewey went missing, but the episode keeps showing how slippery that evidence becomes under courtroom pressure.
A raw, focused episode on police torture allegations, coerced confessions, and the convictions that followed.
The episode lays out a grim account of police torture allegations, coerced confessions, and the convictions that followed. It keeps the focus on what minorities can face in police custody, then narrows in on Andrew Wilson, whose injuries led a medical officer to ask Cook County…
Strange cases, loud banter, no polish.
Behavior, evidence, and accountability.
Case files with a psychological verdict.
Courtroom chaos, case updates, sharp reactions.
True crime, hauntings, horror, and Sunday Scaries.
Bird, Cam, and journalist Deb revisit Molly Young's 2012 death in Carbondale, Southern Illinois, after Jackson County elections raised hopes for new officials to recheck the case.
["Killinois With Bird and Cam opens as its first episode of 2021, moves from a Bears game on Nickelodeon, and turns to the March 23, 2012 death of Molly Young in Carbondale, Illinois.", "Molly's sister Holly Powell and mother Kathy Young describe her as artistic, intellectual, and depressed at times, and the episode notes a national photography competition placement, journal writing, and a thyroid-cancer scare that ended in surgery.", "Richie Minton, a 911 dispatcher, is presented as Molly's manipulative boyfriend, with Kathy saying he threatened to kill himself whenever she tried to leave and Holly saying Molly feared how he would treat children.", "The sharpest questions come from the 911 call, the overdose-to-gunshot shift, and the claim that Richie's lawyer and parents arrived before Molly's family understood what had happened."]
Bird and Cam frame Rod Blagojevich's story around the Barack Obama Senate vacancy, where private bargaining became the episode's biggest hook.
Bird and Cam frame Rod Blagojevich Part 2 around a 13% approval rating, a 2003 Springfield tree-lighting blowup, and a Christmas dinner fight tied to Richard Mill and Tony Rescoe.
Killanoi with Bird and Cam covers Deborah Dewey's August 2016 murder in Spring Valley, Illinois, after listener Celia Villagomez sent the case suggestion.
Killanoid with Bert and Cam examines John Burge’s Chicago Police Department career and allegations that his officers tortured African-American suspects into confessions.
Killinois With Bird and Cam examines Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, an 11-year-old Chicago boy whose 1994 case triggered a Chicago Police Department and FBI manhunt.
Killinois With Bird and Cam examines the 1994 killing of five-year-old Eric Morse at Chicago's Ida B.
Bird and Cam examine the 1976 disappearance and murder of sixteen-year-old Pamela Maurer in Woodridge and Lisle, Illinois.
Bird and Cam examine the death of 19-year-old Kanika Jenkins after she was found in a Crown Plaza walk-in freezer in Rosemont, Illinois.
The hosts discuss an unsolved true crime case involving a corrupt Chicago politician.
The hosts introduce a special episode of their Illinois true crime podcast, hinting at a deviation from their usual murder cases to cover tragic stories with mixed outcomes.
The hosts banter and introduce their true crime podcast focused on Illinois cases.
The hosts introduce a special episode about a very recent true crime case in Illinois, soliciting listener input.