Vile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast
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Virginia crime, history, and hard questions.
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Vile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast covers murders, public scandals, contested convictions, and Virginia history with a storyteller's eye for motive and evidence. Jenny moves between archival detail, courtroom conflict, and blunt personal asides without sanding down the horror of the cases.
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About Vile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast
Vile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast follows Virginia crime and history through cases where the facts still feel unsettled, ugly, or politically loaded. Jenny anchors the show with plainspoken narration and a willingness to sit with disputed evidence. Recent episodes show the range clearly. The Carroll County Courthouse Massacre brings the show into violence, family reputation, deputies, trials, and conflicting accounts. The Sean Connor Cameron episode turns toward an unsolved Hampton murder and gives space to family recollection, timelines, missing calls, a recovered car, and the limits of camera evidence. The Haysom murders receive a multi-part treatment that moves through the crime scene, Jens Soering, Elizabeth Haysom, investigative decisions, trial testimony, sock-print evidence, shoe-print evidence, and later expert review. The Falwells material widens the frame into Virginia religious and political history, including abortion, evangelical institutions, and changing public positions. The Shopping Cart Killer minisode works from reported police information while emphasizing victims, missing-person searches, and public safety. Across that spread, the show is less interested in tidy endings than in how a story hardens into public belief. Jenny often compares versions of events and lets friction stay visible. She cites documentaries, journalism, local reporting, court testimony, and source lists, while keeping the delivery personal rather than academic. The tone can be warm with listeners, but the cases are handled seriously. There is a recognizable mix of horror, skepticism, local familiarity, and anger at avoidable failures. The Virginia focus is not decorative. Place shapes the courthouse, the sheriff's office, the subdivision, the county line, the motel, and the memories surrounding each case. The show is strongest when a case has paperwork, folklore, official confidence, and unanswered questions all pulling against each other. It suits a listener who wants true crime with research texture and a narrator who is comfortable making judgment calls while still admitting uncertainty. It is not detached reporting. It is case storytelling with a point of view, a stack of sources, and a deep interest in what Virginia chooses to remember.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants researched true crime rooted in Virginia places, family accounts, and unresolved evidence. It also fits someone who prefers a narrator with personality over a strictly neutral case file style.
What sets it apart: The show ties individual crimes to Virginia's local memory, institutions, politics, and courtroom record. Its edge comes from Jenny's mix of source-driven detail, blunt skepticism, and personal connection to the state's stories.
In their own words
VILE VIRGINIA is a true crime and history storytelling podcast that pokes at the dark underbelly of the Commonwealth of Virginia. SIC SEMPER TYRANNUS, Y’ALL.For more information visit www.vilevirginia.com! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/vile-virginia-a-true-crime-podcast--4092316/support.
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Episodes
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Episode 72 - The Story of the Carroll County Courthouse Massacre
Hidden gemVile Virginia: A True Crime Podcast tells the Carroll County Courthouse Massacre story, starting with Floyd Allen's March 14, 1912 trial in Carroll County, Virginia.
Sep 13, 2022·33m·2 clips - 2
Justice for Seany - Help Solve Sean Cameron's Murder
Jun 28, 2022·17m - 3
THROWBACK EPISODE - Vile Virginia Presents: The Falwells - Episode 4 Bait and Switch - (The Abortion episode)
Hidden gemVile Virginia follows Jerry Falwell from Thomas Road Baptist Church to Lynchburg Bible College and Liberty University, while tying his rise to Paul Weyrich, the Heritage Foundation, and ALEC.
May 3, 2022·33m·3 clips - 4
Episode 71 - The Story of the Haysom Murders - Part 4
Hidden gemVile Virginia's final Haysom murders installment follows Jens Soering after his September 4, 1990 two consecutive life sentences and his transfers through Mecklenburg State Prison, Keen Mountain, Wallens Ridge, and Buckingham Correctional Center.
Apr 5, 2022·55m·3 clips - 5
Episode 70 - The Story of the Haysom Murders - Part 3
Hidden gemVile Virginia's "Episode 70 - The Story of the Haysom Murders - Part 3" centers on Jens Soaring's 1990 Virginia murder trial for the March 1985 deaths of Derek and Nancy Hasem.
Mar 29, 2022·32m·3 clips - 6
Episode 69 - The Story of the Haysom Murders - Part 2
Hidden gemVile Virginia's "Episode 69 - The Story of the Haysom Murders - Part 2" follows the April 3, 1985 Bedford County scene where Derek and Nancy Haysom were found stabbed in Loose Chippings with no forced entry.
Mar 15, 2022·26m·1 clip - 7
Episode 68 - The Story of the Haysom Murders - Part 1
Hidden gemVile Virginia opens on the April 3, 1985 murders at Loose Chippings, where two wealthy and well-connected socialites, Derek Hasem and Nancy Hasem, were found dead.
Mar 8, 2022·26m·1 clip - 8
BONUS MINISODE - The Shopping Cart Killer
Feb 22, 2022·16m - 9
Episode 67 - The Story of The Norfolk Four - Part 2
Hidden gemVile Virginia's Episode 67 follows the Norfolk Four case as Joe Dick, Daniel Williams, Eric Wilson, and Derek Tice are pulled into the Michelle Morbosco murder through Detective Glenn Ford's interrogations.
Feb 1, 2022·42m·2 clips - 10
Episode 66 - The Story of The Norfolk Four - Part 1
Jan 25, 2022·28m - 11
Episode 65 - The Story of the UVa Baby Switch
Jan 11, 2022·29m - 12
Episode 64 - The Story of the Weed Kings of Northern Virginia - Part 2
Dec 14, 2021·36m - 13
Episode 63 - The Story of The Weed Kings of Northern Virginia - Part 1
Dec 7, 2021·28m - 14
Vile Virginia Presents: The Falwells - Episode 5 - Falwell Vs Flynt
The host critiques Jerry Falwell's autobiography for omitting significant controversies, exploring the dark side of Virginia's history.
Oct 13, 2021·28m - 15
Vile Virginia Presents: The Falwells - Episode 4 - Bait and Switch
Sep 28, 2021·33m - 16
Vile Virginia Presents: The Falwells - Episode 3 - Church
Sep 14, 2021·40m - 17
Vile Virginia Presents: The Falwells - Episode 2 - Pranks
Aug 24, 2021·34m - 18
Vile Virginia Presents: The Falwells - Episode 1 - Garland
Aug 17, 2021·31m - 19
Vile Virginia Presents: The Falwells - Prologue
Aug 3, 2021·13m - 20
Episode 62 - The Story of Irene Morgan vs. The Commonwealth of Virginia
The episode recounts Irene Morgan's 1944 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white couple, highlighting Virginia's Jim Crow laws.
Jul 20, 2021·27m - 21
Episode 61 - The Story of Joe Giarratano, The Lawyer of Death Row
Jul 6, 2021·26m - 22
Episode 60 - The Story of Earl Washington Jr. - The Innocent Man
Jun 22, 2021·27m - 23
Episode 59 - The Story of Susan Cummings and the Polo Player Murder
Jun 8, 2021·29m - 24
MISSING IN VIRGINIA - Christopher Douthat
May 27, 2021·25m - 25
Episode 58 - The Story of the Lyon Sisters
May 18, 2021·31m - 26
Episode 57 - The Story of the High's Ice Cream Murders
May 4, 2021·31m - 27
Episode 56 - The Story of Cory Voss, The Murdered Sailor
Apr 20, 2021·27m - 28
Episode 55 - The Story of John and Lorena Bobbitt
Apr 6, 2021·29m - 29
Episode 54 - The Story of Clara Jean Schwartz, The High Priestess of Chaos
Mar 23, 2021·26m - 30
Episode 53 - The Story of The Murdered Professor
Mar 9, 2021·27m - 31
Episode 52 - The Story of Deborah Fitzjohn and the Vampire Rapist
Feb 23, 2021·27m - 32
Episode 51 - The Story of the Mecklenburg Six - Escape from Death Row Part 3
Feb 9, 2021·44m - 33
Episode 50 - The Story of The Mecklenburg Six - Escape from Death Row Part 2
Jan 26, 2021·28m - 34
Episode 49 - The Story of The Mecklenburg Six - Escape from Death Row Part 1
Jan 19, 2021·23m - 35
Episode 48 - The Story of Roger Keith Coleman
Jan 5, 2021·25m - 36
Episode 47 - Montie Rissell - VIrginia's First Serial Killer
Dec 15, 2020·26m - 37
Episode 46 - The Story of Henrietta Lacks
Dec 1, 2020·30m - 38
Episode 45 - The Story of Amy Lynn Bradley - Vanished at Sea
Nov 17, 2020·30m - 39
Episode 44 - The Story of the Haunting at the Exchange Hotel
Oct 27, 2020·25m - 40
Episode 43 - The Story of The Bunny Man
Sep 29, 2020·23m - 41
Episode 42 - The Story of Ed Chen - The Secret Murderer
Aug 25, 2020·28m - 42
Episode 41 - The Story of Carrie Buck and Eugenics in America
Aug 4, 2020·24m - 43
Episode 40 - The Story of Martese Johnson and the Over-Policing of America
Jul 28, 2020·24m - 44
Episode 39 - The Story of John Brown
Jul 21, 2020·35m - 45
Episode 38 - The Story of Prince Edward County Schools and Massive Resistance
The episode starts with a trivia segment and an ad, then transitions into a historical true crime story about Barbara Johns' 1951 protest in Farmville, Virginia.
Jul 14, 2020·24m - 46
Episode 37 - The Story of Raymond Byrd and the Last Lynching in Virginia
This episode recounts the 1926 birth of a mixed-race baby in Virginia and the ensuing scandal and false rape accusation against the black father.
Jul 7, 2020·24m - 47
Episode 36 - The Story of Loving vs. Virginia
This episode recounts the 1958 police raid on Richard and Mildred Loving, a landmark case in interracial marriage history.
Jun 30, 2020·23m - 48
Episode 35 - The Story of Ota Benga
This episode tells the story of Otabenga, an African man exhibited in the Bronx Zoo Monkey House in 1906, and his tragic journey ending in Lynchburg, Virginia.
May 12, 2020·21m - 49
Field Trip - D.B. Cooper
The episode explores the unsolved DB Cooper hijacking mystery as a break from typical true crime stories.
May 5, 2020·24m - 50
Field Trip - The Mystery of The Mary Celeste
The host discusses the mysterious case of the Mary Celeste, a ship found abandoned at sea in 1872.
Apr 14, 2020·23m