True crime with live-wire nerve.
Talk Murder To Me treats true crime like a late-night livestream that keeps swerving between jokes, questions, and ugly facts. The show moves through serial killers, missing persons, domestic abuse, paranormal stories, and bizarre headline cases with a restless, conversational charge.
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Talk Murder To Me is a true-crime show with the energy of a livestream that wandered straight into a case file. It rarely enters quietly. Episodes can open with snow talk, chat checks, Discord reminders, surprise drinks, ad reads, personal updates, or a side debate about whiskey before the violence arrives. That looseness is part of the texture. The show does not pretend to be a sealed, clinical documentary; it behaves more like a room full of people waiting for the story to get bad, then reacting as it does. Recent material ranges widely, even under a true-crime banner. Richard Speck gets a multi-part treatment, Sergei Ryakhovsky brings the show into Russian serial-killer territory, and the Kiena Dawes episode moves through pregnancy, violence, and domestic abuse with a heavy emotional charge. Other episodes track the still-moving disappearance of Sudiksha Konanki, the murder of Suzanne Eberson Adams, and the paranormal mythology around Annabelle and Dan Rivera. Then there is Andy the goose, a disabled bird whose story turns from small-town sweetness into a crime scene. The show likes cases with a hook, but it is not satisfied with the hook alone. It lingers on timelines, physical details, contradictions, police records when available, and the uneasy space where reporting is incomplete. The narration can speculate out loud, then pull itself back. It asks what is known, what is assumed, and what may still be hidden. The result is fast, messy, and unusually present-tense. It can be irreverent without making the victim disappear. It can be sentimental without sanding off the ugliness. Audience participation matters here, with community requests, live comments, and recurring callouts shaping the room around the case. That gives Talk Murder To Me a different charge from smoother true-crime productions. It is less about pristine pacing and more about heat: the shock of the facts, the argument over what they mean, and the human need to keep talking after the story turns awful.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who like blunt, conversational storytelling, active community energy, and cases that range from serial killers to strange headline tragedies. It is best for audiences comfortable with grim subject matter and an irreverent delivery style.
What sets it apart: Talk Murder To Me stands apart through its livestream-like shape: banter, chat reactions, audience requests, and real-time uncertainty stay in the finished experience. The show feels immediate and unruly while still building detailed case timelines.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Talk Murder To Me pairs conversational case narration with candid attention to uncertainty, abuse dynamics, unusual victims, and the hosts' immediate reactions.
Talk Murder To Me treats case narration as a live, unruly conversation. The host moves from the coercive abuse suffered by Kiena Dawes to Richard Speck's crimes, paranormal claims surrounding Annabelle, and the killing of Andy, a disabled goose.
A murder case pauses for a bourbon-is-whiskey argument, if that's your kind of detour.
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A loose Richard Speck opener that turns late-night details into a lively conversation.
The Richard Speck episode settles into a loose, talk-first rhythm, circling Born to Raise Hell and the details that give the case its shape. The hosts bring in the book by psychologist Dr.
A locked-house case, a missing autopsy, and a murder-suicide story that does not hold.
The episode frames the case as a locked-house mystery, with a secure house, a summoned voice, and a death that keeps being checked against the evidence. It does not hurry past the difficult details.
Dan Rivera's July 3 death and Annabelle's crawl give this episode a cold edge.
Talk Murder To Me centers Dan Rivera, a Ghost Hunters figure, army veteran, and paranormal investigator who studied under Ed and Lorraine Warren, and links his July 3 death to the lasting pull of Annabelle.
A tender, grieving story about Andy, the no-footed goose who became Hastings' unlikely celebrity.
Andy, a no-footed goose, gives this Talk Murder To Me episode its odd, tender pull. In Hastings, Nebraska, he is fitted with size-zero Nike baby shoes and rides through town in the passenger section of Gene's bright orange Triumph TR7.
A raw, talkative true-crime episode that makes the abuse pattern feel immediate.
The episode centers the death of Kina Dahls, a 23-year-old hairdresser from Lancashire, and keeps the surrounding abuse and isolation in clear view until the train tracks become the final scene.
A Surrey case where consent, exploitation, and a body part in a drawer collide.
Surrey first appears as a quaint, green-looking suburb, then the episode pivots into a case built around amputations, promised video revenue, and a prosecutor calling Gustafson an "arch manipulator." The details are grim without needing extra emphasis: procedures at his home or…
A chatty Richard Speck episode that stays close to the case and its rough edges.
This Talk Murder To Me episode stays centered on Richard Speck and Born to Raise Hell, with the hosts leaning on the book by psychologist Dr. Seforin and the statement from Ms. Amoro. The opening details land hard: a man at the door, a mask, and the strong smell of alcohol.
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
This episode begins a two-part series on the 1966 Richard Speck case, focusing on the murder of eight student nurses in a Chicago townhouse.
The hosts of Talk Murder To Me cover the case of Marius Gustavson, known as the 'Eunuch Maker,' who ran a website earning 300,000 euros from videos of self-amputation and castration.
This episode features an exclusive interview with Karen Conti, the attorney who represented serial killer John Wayne Gacy in his efforts to avoid death row, delving into the legal aspects of his case.
This episode recounts a gruesome 2009 crime scene at a luxury Miami Beach hotel where police found blood everywhere in the lobby.
Talk Murder To Me opens Part 1 in Marion, Indiana, spring 1993, a week after 19-year-old Indiana Wesleyan student Tricia Reitler walked to a Marsh grocery store and never returned.
Talk Murder To Me resumes Richard Speck’s 1966 case at Chicago’s Star Hotel, where police found him bleeding two days after eight nurses were killed.
Snow chatter opens the room.
This episode introduces a true crime story about the murder of Suzanne Eberson Adams, exploring how an AI voice might have been involved in the crime.
It opens on Dan Rivera.
This true crime episode investigates the bizarre murder of a disabled bird in Hastings, Nebraska, exploring it as an unlikely crime story.
The March 2025 Talk Murder To Me episode follows 20-year-old pre-med student Sudiksha Konanki’s disappearance from Punta Cana’s Riu Republica.
The show opens chatty, with banter and sponsor chatter, then settles into July 22, 2022, on the train tracks at Ray Lane in the UK, where the body of a 23-year-old hairdresser from Fleetwood, Lancashire is found after she is hit by a train.
This episode introduces the brutal case of Sergei Ryakhovsky, known as 'The Hippopotamus,' a serial killer from Balashikha, Russia, in a true crime narrative format.
This episode explores the bizarre case of Marius Gustavson, known as the 'Eunuch Maker,' involving self-amputations and a police search in Surrey, UK, as part of a series on unique headline crimes.
This interview features Antonia Commack, an advocate for missing and murdered indigenous people (MMIP), discussing her personal experiences with friends' murders and her activism in Alaska.