Killers, ghosts, conspiracies and murderless capers, all tagged.
Twisted and Uncorked has Alecia and Sierra working through a string of San Pedro killings, a haunted boarding house and a robber who sent fast-food staff into the freezer with their coats. Episode titles carry a tag, from SERIAL KILLER to MURDERLESS, so the mood is labelled before a word is said.
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Twisted and Uncorked puts true crime, hauntings, conspiracy and myth in one feed, and Alecia and Sierra talk their way through all of it. The organising idea is right in the titles. Each title ends with a tag, SERIAL KILLER, HAUNTED, CONSPIRACY or MURDERLESS, so the kind of darkness on offer is clear before the first word. The serial killer cases include the axe man of New Orleans and a string of San Pedro killings. In the San Pedro story, women vanished after leaving bars. One of them was Katherine Medina, seen climbing into a stranger's cab in 1974 after a fight with her husband and later found in Harbor Lake Recreational Park. The details are grim, and the show states them plainly. What the show adds is the hosts' own reactions. A dismissive line about another lonely woman in a lonely city gets a sarcastic jab at the police work. The story also pauses for a personal aside about never letting an argument end without making up. The HAUNTED episodes deal in stories tied to particular buildings. A boarding house tale piles up guests pushed toward the stairs, someone nearly shoved from a third-story window, and the room where a World War II veteran burned in his bed while the rest of the room was untouched. Visitors, the story goes, still catch a brief smell of burning there, which earns a one-word verdict: gross. Then there is MURDERLESS, the tag that most sets the show apart. These episodes deal in crime without a body count. One follows Jeffrey Manchester, a fast-food robber described as gentle and polite. He told McDonald's employees to get their coats before sending them into the freezer so they would not be cold, and he was arrested in North Carolina in 2000 after a worker reached a silent alarm. Another MURDERLESS episode reads out odd news stories, including a December 2006 report of a 12-year-old arrested for opening a Christmas present without permission. The hosts think the parents took it too far. The robber episode begins with a traded fun fact and promises homework by the end. CONSPIRACY episodes stretch toward myth. In 'Episode 222 - No Christmas Without Aliens - CONSPIRACY', the conversation compares two versions of Medusa's origin and asks what might lead people to invent a woman who turns onlookers to stone. Christmas keeps coming up too. It is in titles such as 'Episode 221 - A Really Bad Santa - SERIAL KILLER', and a New Year's week episode begins with a joke about a jolly man on a roof with toys. The language can turn blunt, including a pointed swipe at the corporations that lost money to that polite robber. The mix is the draw: dark material from two people who keep reacting as the story unfolds.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants true crime, ghost stories and conspiracy talk in one feed and likes hearing two hosts react out loud as a case unfolds. The MURDERLESS episodes suit someone who wants a crime story without a body count.
What sets it apart: Every title carries a tag, SERIAL KILLER, HAUNTED, CONSPIRACY or MURDERLESS, so a listener can choose the mood before starting. The MURDERLESS episodes, with polite robbers and odd news stories, give the show a lighter side next to its darker cases.
A truly twisted podcast hosted by best friends Alecia and Sierra. Join us every Tuesday as we tell a new true crime, paranormal, cult or conspiracy case; whatever you're craving, we have you covered. You can expect some serious chills, fun facts, the occasional banter, and well researched case information. Thank you for listening and remember to keep it twisted!
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An unsolved New Orleans killing spree takes on an eerie wartime and Spanish flu-era charge.
Twisted and Uncorked looks back at the Axeman of New Orleans, the unidentified killer active in New Orleans, Louisiana, and nearby communities including Gretna from May 1918 to October 1919.
A haunted boarding house shaped by fire, violence, and an uncertain basement mystery gives the episode its pull.
A boarding house turns into a busy haunted stage in this installment of Twisted and Uncorked, with stories of people being pushed toward stairs, nearly shoved from a third-story window, and shadowy figures lingering in the crowd.
Jeffrey Manchester's polite robberies, freezer-bound employees, and 45-year sentence make a strange crime story even stranger.
Jeffrey Manchester's fast-food robberies make for a strange, uneasy story because the details sit so awkwardly together. He was careful with employees, asked them to bring their coats into the freezer, promised no one would be hurt, and planned to alert police once he had the…
A strange Christmas-present arrest turns a family punishment into a police matter.
This episode revisits a bizarre 2006 story in which a 12-year-old boy was arrested after opening a Christmas present without permission. After he unwrapped a Nintendo Game Boy Advance, his family called police, he was charged with petty larceny, and he spent four hours at the…
A holiday conspiracy detour uses Medusa to ask how legends begin.
Christmas gets a conspiratorial makeover as the hosts pull toys, the Bible, mythical creatures, aliens, and the origins of legend into one holiday-framed discussion.
Strange stories, checked for loose threads.
True crime with haunted-house energy.
True crime with yarn in hand.
Dark cases told between friends, clip by clip.
The hosts introduce the episode with banter and a fun fact about penguins, then transition to a case about a disappearance they discovered through a YouTube channel.
In this episode, hosts Alisha and Sierra discuss a nautical disappearance case, starting with banter and a questionable fun fact about a young sailor.
Twisted and Uncorked closes with the Axeman of New Orleans, a case of attacks in New Orleans and Gretna from May 1918 through October 1919.
Twisted and Uncorked Episode 225 centers on the SK Pierce House in Gardner, Massachusetts, a nearly 7,000-square-foot Victorian mansion built in the 1870s by furniture maker S.K.
["Twisted and Uncorked episode 224 follows Jeffrey Manchester, a 1971 California-born Army veteran who worked at McDonald's before becoming known as the rooftop robber.", "Alisha and Sierra frame the episode around a New Year's trip back to 1998, then open with a UK lobster-boiling law and the Yorkshire sport of ferret legging.", "Jeffrey Manchester is said to have robbed about 60 McDonald's, Burger King, and KFC locations between 1998 and 2000 by cutting through roofs and locking employees in freezers.", "The story then moves to his June 15, 2004 prison escape, his hidden life inside Toys R Us and Circuit City in Charlotte, and the alias John Zorn that eventually unraveled the case."]
Twisted and Uncorked episode 223 is a Christmas crime roundup built from chimney burglaries, prank Santa letters, a Barbie car heist, and a pocket full of snakes.
["Twisted and Uncorked episode 222, \"No Christmas Without Aliens - CONSPIRACY,\" links Christmas banter to Medusa, aliens, and stone imagery.", "Alicia Watson and Sierra Zorn compare the familiar Medusa version with an older monster origin and then shift to a 2000 CIA document summarizing a 1991 KGB report.", "The report describes a Soviet platoon in Ukraine, a low-flying saucer, five beings with large heads and black eyes, and 23 soldiers left as stone poles.", "Alicia and Sierra also compare that story with Sodom and Gomorrah, a Smithsonian sloth portrait, and a \"succorith\" sketch while keeping the tone joking and conversational."]
Twisted and Uncorked Episode 221 examines Adolf Lottenberg, a former San Pedro cab driver linked to four women raped and strangled during the 1970s.
Twisted and Uncorked’s Episode 220 examines the 1981 disappearance of 13-year-old Mary Day from a military family in California.
Twisted and Uncorked examines Helltown, the nickname given to Boston Village in Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley after residents left their homes in the 1970s for a planned national recreation area.
Twisted and Uncorked, hosted by Alisha and Sierra, examines Esther Cox's alleged 1878 disturbances in Amherst, Nova Scotia, beginning with a box that reportedly leapt from her hands.
Twisted and Uncorked examines the March 1918 disappearance of the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot collier carrying 11,000 tons of manganese ore from Barbados toward Baltimore.
A podcast where hosts Alecia and Sierra discuss true crime, paranormal, cult, and conspiracy cases with banter and research.
The hosts introduce a special guest episode discussing a historical true crime case with lighthearted banter.