Case files with unanswered edges.
Redrum Blonde follows one case at a time, with Erin Fleming tracing the known details and lingering questions around deaths, murders, missing-person stories, and public scandals. The show favors clear chronology, named accounts, police steps, and the uneasy gaps that keep a case from feeling settled.
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Redrum Blonde is a true crime show with a strong case-file spine and a conversational hand on the wheel. Erin Fleming introduces the people, the setting, and the known sequence of events, then works through the points where accounts diverge or evidence runs out. The show is especially comfortable with stories that leave a question hanging. Some episodes center on murder. Others circle mysterious deaths, disappearances, bombings, celebrity exploitation, or crimes that became part of public memory. The range is broad, but the method stays recognizable. A death like Thelma Todd's is treated through movements, locations, last sightings, and the strange problem of where the body was found. The Kirsten Costas case brings in witnesses, school circles, police interviews, and suspicion inside a teen social world. Phoenix Mary's story turns on abuse allegations, a missing child, police questioning, and the shock of a woman later being found alive in Arizona. The Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee episode follows the stolen tape as a crime story as much as a celebrity story. The Mad Bomber of New York brings the show into profiling, letters, workplace grievance, and public fear. The Death of Jayne Mansfield places another woman inside a fatal event. Redrum Blonde is not cold. Fleming's delivery includes reactions, uncertainty, and occasional personal check-ins, including comments about the show's community and the cost of making the podcast. That gives the episodes a handmade feel. It can be blunt without turning flashy. The cases are serious, and the show does not avoid painful material, including murder, child abuse, sexual privacy violations, and graphic injury. The best fit is a listener who wants a guided narrative that keeps its attention on names, timelines, investigative steps, and what cannot be proven. It is less about grand theory than the uneasy work of sitting with the record.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime told through timelines, witness accounts, police turns, and unresolved questions. It also fits someone drawn to Hollywood mysteries, public scandals, and hard cases with imperfect answers.
What sets it apart: Redrum Blonde pairs case detail with a noticeably personal, independent-podcast texture, including direct community notes and unsmoothed reactions from Erin Fleming. Its range stretches from celebrity tragedies to murders and notorious public crimes without losing the single-case focus.
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Thelma Todd's body is found in a garage; Erin Fleming asks what you're already wondering.
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A glittering Hollywood night narrows into a garage, where vivid details and stubborn gaps keep the case unsettled.
Thelma Todd's last day wraps old Hollywood glamour around a death that will not settle into one simple shape. The mink coat, blue sequined gown, jewels, and delicate shoes make the discovery in Roland West's garage feel staged by fate, but the episode keeps pulling back to the…
A fractured high school friendship becomes central to a stabbing investigation.
Kirsten Costas's death is framed as a case shaped by a tight teenage social world. After police say she was stabbed, the focus moves to Miramonte High School, where detectives interview hundreds of girls and look closely at the victim's inner circle, the bobbies.
A suspected murder case shifts when a woman identified as Mary turns up in Arizona.
Mary Day's disappearance is built around the details that made her family home look deeply suspicious: violence from her stepfather, a patch of yard her siblings were told to avoid, and cadaver dogs reacting in the backyard.
A celebrity scandal becomes a study of resentment, image-making, and Pamela Anderson's suffering.
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's story comes through as more than celebrity spectacle. The episode tracks the resentment building around Rand Gauthier after he and another worker are met with a shotgun at the Malibu mansion while trying to collect tools.
A psychologically sharp case study of how Brussels read neat letters as signs of grievance, authority resentment, and maternal attachment.
The Mad Bomber of New York works best when it stays close to the strange confidence of Brussels's reading of the bomber's letters. Red Round Blonde follows the profile built from neat handwriting and the uniformed self-presentation: an orderly, punctual worker shaped by…
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Redrum Blonde examines the December 14, 1935 death of Thelma Todd, the "ice cream blonde," who was found in Roland West's garage in Los Angeles.
Red Rum Blonde's "The Murder of Kirsten Costas" traces the June 23, 1984 stabbing of 15-year-old Kirsten Costas in Orinda, California.
Redrum Blonde follows Mary Louise Day, later called Phoenix Mary, through a missing-child case that begins with abuse allegations, a vanished teen, and a woman in Arizona who claims the same identity.
Redrum Blonde follows the theft of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape from a 500-pound safe taken out of their Malibu garage.
Red Rum Blonde's 'The Mad Bomber of New York' follows a Con Edison grievance note signed 'FP' and a bombing campaign that eventually reached 33 pipe bombs and 22 explosions.
Erin Fleming revisits the disappearance of 22-year-old Tony Turner, whose purse, shoes, and journal were found on Pittsburgh's Homestead Grays Bridge on December 30, 2019.
Erin of Redrum Blonde recounts the 1937 murders of Veronica Gedeon, her mother Mary, and boarder Frank Burns in a New York apartment.
The host introduces a new supporter feature on Acast and then transitions into the true crime episode.
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Host Erin Fleming introduces the 50th episode of her true crime podcast, thanking listeners and discussing the show's growth.
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