Notorious cases, researched and retold by two unfiltered hosts.
True Crime Dumpster has Amy and Kevin working through one case per episode, from Herbert Baumeister to the abuse allegations against John of God. The research is read out plainly, but the mood stays loose, with jokes, talk about home life and blunt reactions when a detail lands hard.
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True Crime Dumpster is a two-host true crime show, and Amy and Kevin run it loosely, describing the whole thing as something they do for fun. Each episode is named for one case. The range is wide: Herbert Baumeister, John of God, Isaac Wright Jr., the murder of Jenna Nannetti and two episodes on Ronald Gene Simmons. Episodes open with the same dumpster gag. Some also play a first-person clip from someone tied to the case before the hosts introduce themselves. After that, the method is simple. The case is read out from research, and the sources are not hidden: at the top of the second Simmons episode, the list includes Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Wikipedia and the Clark County prosecutor's website. The Simmons story is spread across both parts. The first covers his upbringing, the moves forced by his stepfather's job and his Navy posting in Washington State. The second reaches the killings of his children and grandchildren around a family gathering after Christmas, and one host admits that a detail about a young daughter's school essay is going to get to them. Reactions like that shape how the show sounds. The narration keeps getting broken up by the other host's responses, which range from flat disbelief to open disgust. In the Baumeister retelling, odd details about his marriage lead up to the moment his teenage son carried something into the house on a stick: a skull. The John of God episode is the hardest to hear. It follows people who went to the self-styled healer for help and say he sexually abused them, and the hosts call it predatory, in so many words. They are also willing to argue with the record. In the Jenna Nannetti case, Mike's story about spending hours in a park talking about relationships is dismissed as unrealistic, and the hosts point out that the case keeps twisting just when it seems finished. Not every story here is about a killer. The Isaac Wright Jr. episode follows a man facing a life sentence who wrote legal briefs from prison. First he helped another inmate, then he used the ruling that came out of that case to reverse his own kingpin conviction, and the hosts plainly admire him. Between cases, talk about home life drifts in, sign-offs get fumbled, and the closing promise to keep 'talking out the trash' stays the same. It is unpolished, and for the right listener that is the appeal.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime told by two ordinary voices rather than a polished documentary, and who is comfortable with blunt reactions and rough humor alongside very grim facts.
What sets it apart: It feels homemade on purpose: sources are named out loud, the hosts argue with the accounts in a case, and jokes sit right next to cases of family murder and abuse. It also makes room for stories like Isaac Wright Jr.'s, where the subject fights his own conviction from prison.
Join hosts Kevin and Amy as they talk trash and dumpster-dive tales of the grimiest, greasiest characters in true crime.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grim, research-heavy continuation that makes the family's deaths painfully concrete.
Ronald Gene Simmons, Part II remains fixed on the 1987 murders of Simmons's family, following the awful sequence as relatives arrived for after-Christmas plans, were killed, and were placed in the living room before Simmons left for a drink and later came back.
A loose, uneasy return maps a family history that gets darker with each branch.
Ronald Gene Simmons, Part I brings True Crime Dumpster back after a long pause, opening with the hosts loosely measuring the gap and settling into the first half of a two-part story.
A backyard skull turns Herb's family explanation into the episode's most chilling domestic detail.
True Crime Dumpster returns after a roughly half-year pause with a relaxed look at Herb Baumeister, tracing his family background, his unusual marriage to Julie, and the moment their son Eric brought a skull in from the wooded backyard at Fox Hollow Farms.
A prisoner's legal strategy beats a life sentence, then runs into the 70 years still left behind.
Isaac Wright's story plays like a legal thriller built from paperwork and patience. Convicted in a New Jersey kingpin case and facing a life sentence, he studied the law from inside prison, helped another prisoner fight drug charges, and turned that knowledge toward the jury…
A disturbing look at John of God as a figure accused of turning spiritual authority into sexual abuse and control.
John of God opens on the lure of miracle work, then steadily turns toward testimony that portrays him as a predator who used private consultations, gifts, and claims of psychic ability to control women.
Central Coast mornings with real local texture.
Hip hop's court cases and killings, answered clip by clip.
Missing children and the people who never stop searching.
An empire where even the cheering is arranged.
["True Crime Dumpster's part two on Ronald Gene Simmons covers the December 1987 Arkansas killings, the Russellville shootings, and his June 25, 1990 execution.", "Amy and Kevin say they used the Clark County Prosecutors website, Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Janie Jones's About You article, and UPI archives to reconstruct the case.", "The episode highlights Becky's letter saying she was \"a prisoner,\" Gene's taped messages to Sheila with Willie Nelson's \"You Were Always on My Mind,\" and Ann Jansen's jailhouse interviews.", "It closes with Simmons refusing to appeal, choosing lethal injection, and being buried in Varner, Arkansas after no family claimed his body."]
Ronald Gene Simmons killed 16 people in six days, and Amy says the case became the worst mass murder in Arkansas history and the worst crime involving one family in U.S.
["True Crime Dumpster #84 tracks Herbert Baumeister, born April 7, 1947, and the Fox Hollow Farm case near Indianapolis.", "Amy says she built the episode from Ryan Green's audiobook, Ghost Adventures, Murderpedia, and multiple websites after rejecting the book's invented inner monologues.", "The episode moves through Herb's dead-crow prank, his hearse ride to an Indiana University football game, and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles job that ended after he urinated on a letter to the Indiana governor.", "It then follows Julie Sater, Virgil Vandegrift, Tony Harris, and the Fox Hollow search that uncovered an estimated 11 victims and linked the case to the unsolved Interstate 70 killings."]
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True Crime Dumpster #82, John of God, follows the Brazilian faith healer who drew patients to Abadiana, Goias, sold passionflower remedies, and claimed spirit-guided surgeries.
["True Crime Dumpster episode 81 follows the Livermore case of Jenna Nannetti, whose grandmother Linda held a $50,000 to $100,000 life insurance policy tied to Jenna\u2019s college fund.", "Amy and Kevin trace Jenna\u2019s June 2002 marriage to Mike Simons, the rapid collapse of that relationship, and the voicemails she left after saying she had been hit with a baseball bat.", "Her burned car turns up at the Mountain House Cafe, and police later connect Mike, Katie Bellflower, and Jeffrey Hamilton to the disappearance and homicide investigation.", "The story expands again when the hosts bring in the Top of the World incident involving Aspen Loom, which reopens the suspect group around Mike and Katie."]
["True Crime Dumpster episode 80 revisits the Eric Smith case in Savona, New York, where the hosts describe a village with one traffic light and one grocery store.", "Four-year-old Derek Roby is portrayed through details from family and reporting: worms named \"mommy, daddy, brother, and baby,\" baseball, cooking, and helping with lug nuts.", "The crime centers on 13-year-old Eric Smith, a bullied sixth grader with a learning disability who lured Derek off his route to a village recreation program and killed him with a 26-pound rock.", "The back half tracks Smith's family background, psychiatric labels, apology letter, and the Roby family's long fight through repeated parole hearings and residence disputes."]
True Crime Dumpster's "Thanksgiving Leftovers: Omaima Nelson" centers on a Costa Mesa apartment where police found human organs, a fry cooker, and Bill Nelson's head in the freezer.
True Crime Dumpster revisits Charles "Chuck" Morgan, a 39-year-old Tucson escrow agent who vanished on March 22, 1977 after dropping his two daughters at school.
["True Crime Dumpster episode 77, part two follows Theranos from 2013 whistleblower concerns to the company's public unraveling.", "Erica Chung describes a Thanksgiving quality-control run that kept failing, while a research associate deleted the bad data as \"outliers.\"", "Tyler Schultz emails Elizabeth Holmes on April 11, 2014 about doctored research, Sonny Balwani mocks his lab knowledge, and George Shultz's family gets pulled into the dispute.", "John Carreyrou's Wall Street Journal reporting, a CMS warning of \"immediate jeopardy,\" Walgreens suspensions, and Holmes's Forbes valuation dropping from $4.5 billion to zero drive the rest of the recap."]
Hosts Kevin and Amy interview filmmaker Shoel Pamos about his documentary on honor killings.
Hosts Kevin and Amy discuss two murder cases tied by the theme of marriage gone wrong.
Hosts Kevin and Amy return from vacation, banter about their trip, and set up the show's theme of exploring grimy true crime stories.
Hosts Kevin and Amy introduce a special episode with former students, blending true crime with humorous banter.