True crime with forensic bite and blunt banter.
Yours in Murder follows criminal cases, disasters, and historical wrongdoing with an eye for evidence that actually matters. Rebecca and Rachel move from palm prints and DNA to treason broadcasts, circus-train wrecks, and murder cases without losing their dry comic rhythm.
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Yours in Murder is a true-crime show shaped by case research, forensic curiosity, and a knowingly rough-edged conversational style. Rebecca and Rachel trade the lead across episodes, moving between murder cases, historical crime, disasters, and episodes that bend the show title a little. The stories in its episodes range from the Maria Ridulph case to the Brown's Chicken Massacre, from identical twins and fingerprint evidence to people charged with treason. It is not a hushed, prestige-crime format. It is chatty, skeptical, and sometimes openly exasperated. That informality makes the forensic material feel usable rather than ornamental. When DNA cannot distinguish identical twins, the show slows down long enough to explain why fingerprints can. When an old investigation mishandles evidence or treats a flimsy clue as important, the hosts say so plainly. The same practical interest shows up in discussions of roadblocks, house searches, old lab limitations, palm prints, and witness identification. Cases are allowed to be complicated. They are also allowed to be weird. A car with flames, a butler who really did it, a propaganda broadcaster, and a circus train disaster can all sit inside the same archive because the show follows the crime-story logic wherever it leads. The banter is part of the texture, from holiday weather to technical problems to jokes about social media and Midwest driving. The subject matter stays heavy. Episodes include murder, child victims, sexual assault references, violence, and adult themes. The appeal is the balance: serious attention to what happened, paired with hosts who do not pretend the recording booth is sealed off from ordinary life. Yours in Murder is especially suited to listeners who want forensic explanation and case chronology without losing the feeling of two people reacting, doubting, and occasionally laughing through the darker corners of the material.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who care about evidence, investigation choices, and the difference between a compelling detail and a useful fact. It also fits anyone who likes conversational hosts with dry humor around grim material.
What sets it apart: The show keeps forensic reasoning close to the storytelling, especially around fingerprints, DNA limits, palm prints, lab choices, alibis, and weak evidence. Its informal back-and-forth gives the cases a sharper, less polished texture than standard narrated true crime.
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A palm print, gold deposition, and flying pants: Rebecca and Rachel reward your taste for criminal footnotes.
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Yours in Murder ends 2020 with a candid, darkly funny reflection on a turbulent year and an uncertain next chapter.
Yours in Murder closes its year-end 2020 look-back by moving between public catastrophe and the show's own uncertain future. Rebecca and Rachel return to the Australian bushfires, fears of possible nuclear war, worldwide protests after George Floyd's killing, and a year when…
A conversational return to Maria Ridolf's disappearance, where a flame-painted car and a later identification sharpen renewed suspicion.
The episode revisits Maria Ridolf's disappearance by narrowing in on John Tessier's missing alibi, the flame-painted car reportedly seen in Sycamore, and a striped sweater that resembled Johnny's description.
A 1918 circus train wreck becomes a vivid account of flying debris, fire, and injured rescuers.
Yours in Murder revisits a 1918 circus train wreck as a grim meeting point between spectacle and catastrophe, tracking the old wooden cars from impact into the fire that followed.
Grave questions, carefully organized.
Paranormal talk with room to wander.
Oz reimagined, then argued with afterward.
Crime memory with prison-wall detail.
Irish true crime, evidence first.
Blunt true crime with awkward sister energy.
["Rebecca and Rachel use Yours in Murder's 2020: Year in Review to compress Sherry Rasmussen, the Osage murders, Richard Jewell, and Hela Crafts into one episode.", "Rebecca says Yours in Murder is going on an indefinite hiatus, and Rachel frames the pause as a decision to protect quality.", "The middle moves through Kate Warren, Mary Grace Quackenbos, Brown's Chicken, the Gardner Museum heist, CeCe McDonald, and Julie Doe.", "The ending turns to Medgar Evers, Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Brandon Mayfield, and Jeffrey McDonald's 'acid is groovy, kill the pigs' claim, plus donations to Black Lives Matter and Moms Demand Action."]
Rebecca and Rachel revisit Maria Ridolf's disappearance from Sycamore, Illinois, and Eileen Tessier's 1994 deathbed statement that John did it.
Yours in Murder’s “Twin Crimes” bonus covers three cases in which twin identities complicate crime stories.
Yours in Murder opens on Maria Ridolph, a Sycamore, Illinois case that was once billed as the oldest solved cold case in American history before a later exoneration left it unsolved.
Yours in Murder's "Radio Traitors" follows American broadcasters Douglas Chandler, Mildred Gillers, and Rita Zucca as they carried Nazi or fascist propaganda over the air during World War II.
Yours in Murder centers on the Hammond Circus Train disaster and the Showman's Rest section of Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, where 53 circus victims are buried.
A forensic scientist and journalist discuss true crime cases, with the episode beginning after advertisements.
Host Rachel introduces a special episode about six murderesses named Mary, starting with Bloody Mary (Mary Tudor), during Women's History Month.
A forensic scientist and journalist discuss the Atlanta Olympic bombing case, focusing on Richard Jewell's role and the investigation.