Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

Mandy and Melissa open with school-break chatter, then move into a Thursday story about TikTok murders and the uneasy pull of viral fame.

She drove her daughter to school at 7:15 AM, and by 10:48 AM, her car was found locked in a Kroger parking lot with her purse still inside.

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast opens its NXIVM: The Promise of Empowerment (Part 1) episode by contrasting the group's public image as a leadership program with its secretive use of branding, starvation, blackmail, and a master-slave hierarchy.

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast covers the 1988 von Stein case in Washington, North Carolina, where Leith von Stein was killed and Bonnie von Stein was left severely injured.

True crime podcast episode with two distinct stories about theft driven by passion rather than profit.

Moms and Mysteries covers Thabo Bester, a South African convicted rapist and murderer who grew up without a birth certificate, no ID, and later used fake passports and aliases.

Kelsey Barrett vanished on Thanksgiving Day 2018 in Woodland Park, Colorado, after baking cinnamon rolls and caring for her one-year-old daughter.

Ronnie Chasen, a 64-year-old Hollywood publicist behind campaigns for films like Driving Miss Daisy, Slumdog Millionaire, and The Hurt Locker, was shot in Beverly Hills on November 16, 2010 after leaving a movie premiere.

Janie Ballard was discovered in her Little Rock, Arkansas home on September 13, 2003, with more than 70 stab wounds and her Cadillac gone from the driveway.

The story opens with a domestic call in Louisville.

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast focuses on the killing of Florida State law professor Dan Markel, whose July 18, 2014 shooting in Tallahassee began as a routine morning and turned into a major investigation.

Moms and Mysteries revisits the case of Nikki Cheng Saelee McCain, a woman born in a Laos refugee camp on November 9, 1984, who later grew up in the Seattle, Washington area.

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast ties six prank-related cases to real-world harm, starting with Andrew Finch in Wichita, Kansas, who was killed after a false hostage call traced back to Tyler Barriss.

Jeffrey Manchester, later known as Roofman, robbed more than 40 restaurants across nine states after cutting holes in roofs and hiding in restrooms until employees opened the doors.

Mandi and Melissa pick back up with the Dan Markell case.

Mandy and Melissa open with a familiar chat about cooler days, Florida weather, and hoping for some fake snow.

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast takes on the 1931 case of Julia Wallace, beginning with a January 19 phone call from someone calling himself R.M.

Mandi and Melissa revisit the Rodin family murders, also known as the Pike County Massacre, six years after their earlier coverage.

Mandi and Melissa open by asking how science, which is supposed to help people, can sometimes get strange and go badly off the rails.

For $4,000, someone hired a guy to cut off his toes and eat them. It's Florida, man.

Moms and Mysteries investigates 2016 Krugersdorp appointment murders: three professionals (financial advisors, real estate agent) lured, strangled, robbed across four days.

Part 2 of NXIVM coverage details the criminal trial of Keith Raniere, cult leader who built a criminal enterprise disguised as a self-help company.

Moms and Mysteries: Jane Mixer 1969 murder case.

Moms and Mysteries hosts Mandi and Melissa present Nicole Sanchez's story, recorded while Mandi recovers from major hip surgery.

Mandi and Melissa open in holiday mode.

A hunter in Georgia thought he had found a wild hog in the woods.

Moms and Mysteries revisits the murder of Lauren Burke.

Moms and Mysteries starts with a birthday invite that should have stayed small.

Mandy and Melissa open by marveling at how lawsuits can get this ridiculous.

Two Florida moms discuss the case of Gerhard and Ariel Koenig, exploring the duality between public persona and private reality.

Two Florida moms discuss a bizarre and violent attack on a young mother in Carrollton, Texas, in 2020.

Two Florida moms discuss a historical true crime case of a woman who prescribed starvation as a cure, leading to deaths.

The episode explores the Dunning-Kruger effect through the bizarre case of MacArthur Wheeler, who robbed banks believing lemon juice made him invisible.

Two Florida moms discuss the murder of Navy Seaman Angelina Resendiz, whose body was found in a duffel bag.

Two Florida moms discuss a recent guilty verdict in a true crime case they've been following, with dark humor and personal commentary.

Two Florida moms discuss a brutal family murder case in Pendleton, South Carolina, that was solved eight years later.

Two Florida moms discuss a case where a romance writer's husband was murdered, exploring clues and motives.

Two Florida moms revisit a cold case with a major update, discussing the story of Nikki Chang Saley McCain.

The episode recounts the 1908 murder of Hazel Irene Drew in Troy, New York, with the hosts discussing the case and their personal banter.