Mysteries in Paradise
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True crime podcast about mysteries and murders in the Florida Keys
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Murders in Paradise turns Key West's crimes and local lore into evidence-minded, conversational history.
Murders in Paradise treats Key West as both a crime scene and a living archive. Jen leads the accounts while Jaredad supplies questions, reactions, and dry humor.
A Key West ghost story pauses for the bathroom layout question you never knew you had.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A relaxed season-two return that leans on Keys detail and easy true-crime banter.
Murders in Paradise settles back into season two with a relaxed, self-aware trip through the Keys, drawing on Terry Schmida's True Crime of the Keys, Volume three, and the hosts' easy banter.
A brisk archive dive that makes Key West chicken lore oddly compelling.
Murders in Paradise turns a Key West chicken story into a brisk, curious listen, moving from local lore to newspaper digging and back with good momentum.
A Key West ghost story that stays grounded with bathroom humor, local banter, and a skeptical eye.
Murders in Paradise keeps the Key West ghost story light on its feet. Jen and JR Dad treat Haunted Key West by David L. Sloan with a healthy amount of doubt, but they do not let that drain the fun out of it.
A grim Key West murder case told conversationally, with a vivid sense of place.
Roger Foster's case is laid out with a clear chronology, moving from a missing-person report in Griffin, Georgia, to a motel room near the Key West Charterboat docks and then into a violent investigation.
A clear, conversational account of the loopholes and risks that carried Jewish refugees from Havana to Key West.
Murders in Paradise tracks the ingenuity and risk behind moving Jewish refugees from Havana to Key West, where immigration rules could be bent through claimed family ties, counterfeit papers, disguises, and commercial boat trips.
Key West ghosts, an elevator tragedy, and a dog rescue make for a casually funny paranormal detour.
Murders in Paradise follows a Key West bookstore discovery into a loose, funny run of ghost stories, anchored by Brent's bizarre elevator death: he opens the door, backs in with a cart, falls six floors onto the elevator below, and then has the cart land on him.
A circumstantial case and a not-guilty verdict leave the evidence hanging in uneasy balance.
Murders in Paradise frames the Brandon Mims case as a reminder that persuasive evidence does not always settle a verdict. Jen and JR Dad walk through the chain carefully: a car tied to Mims seen around the time, debit-card receipts at a Chinese restaurant, shotgun shells in his…
A casual true-crime twofer moves from a Sugarloaf Key fugitive to a Corpus Christi restaurant scam, then closes with a rescued baby koala.
Murders in Paradise keeps crime close to the everyday, starting with Catalan Ionesi Lupu, a 51-year-old wanted by Interpol over trafficking women and minors for prostitution in Romania, after he surfaced on Sugarloaf Key.
Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
Her killer, Robert Lynn Bradley, was himself murdered in Texas just a year later. His DNA was in the database for 30 years—never matched.
The hosts discuss the notorious Bonvillain brothers, who committed brutal crimes in the Florida Keys and repeatedly escaped the decrepit Monroe County Jail in the early 1980s.
Hosts Jen and Jerdad investigate the mysterious disappearance of Jason Heath, a local man who vanished from Sugarloaf Key in his boat on November 22nd.
Murders in Paradise opens season two with Jen and GR Dad telling Terry Schmida’s Key West story about Jan Sykora, a 28-year-old Czech dishwasher who comes back with a tire iron during Hurricane Ivan.
Jen and Jaredad turn Murders in Paradise episode 33, 'The Chicken Episode,' into an archive tour of Key West chickens, starting with an April 14, 2006 Florida Today report on a bird-flu roundup of 2,000 to 3,000 birds.
Jen and JR Dad open Murders in Paradise by saying a recent Keys murder is still developing, so they stay on ghost stories for this episode.
Roger Foster, a 17-year-old from Griffin, Georgia, checks into Key West’s Royal Palms Motel on April 9, 1963, and police list him as missing the same day.
Murders in Paradise examines Arlo Haskell's account of Jewish refugees traveling from Havana through Key West during the 1920s, when U.S.
Jen and Jaredad examine reported hauntings at La Concha, a Key West hotel built in 1926 that once housed a rooftop bar and now has a reputedly active fifth floor.
Jen and JR Dad examine Brandon Joseph Mims, a Key West graffiti vandal charged with 18 misdemeanor criminal-mischief counts, two felony counts, six burglaries, and marijuana possession.
Murders in Paradise pairs a Sugarloaf Key case involving Catalan Ionesi Lupu, a 51-year-old man wanted by Interpol, with a 2011 fraud case involving Two Georges Seafood in Tucson.