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But this is A Trial by Podcast, so we'll let you be the judge.

If you enjoy true crime, morbid history, and evidence-driven storytelling with a dash of gallows humor to make the disturbing (somewhat) tolerable, we suspect this is the pod for you.

07/08/2026

Recording an entire episode on this right now so prepare for a rant episode. I’m fuming. I was going to wait until the trial was over and we have all the facts, but the online discourse I’m seeing is making me sick to my fu***ng stomach, truly.

When I think about what is happening to Patrick Clancy it makes me think of my brother, a father of two young children. I think of what he would have felt finding his children like that, what he would’ve felt realizing it was his wife/their mother who was responsible, and what he would feel if people then accused HIM of doing it himself and framing her. It shatters my heart to even think about it.

To be clear (bc people online like to twist words) I’m not arguing that he was a perfect husband, that he didn’t do bad things at times, that he didn’t make mistakes. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t identify any mistakes he made - I think we should so we can learn from what we can.

This trial and the discourse is making me think so differently about the world of true crime. To accuse someone of taking the lives of their own children WHEN IT IS A KNOWN AND UNDISPUTED FACT that he did not do it is absolutely despicable and anyone making videos of that should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

05/08/2026

She survived a domestic violence attack so severe doctors called it “the most horrific injury a human being could suffer.” Then she survived it a second time — when her body rejected the face that saved her.

Carmen Tarleton’s story isn’t just a true crime case. It’s a domestic violence survivor story about forgiveness, two face transplants, and refusing to let one man’s rage write the ending.

This week on A Trial by Podcast, we’re breaking down the case that made medical history — and the abuse that led to it. Link in bio to listen, available wherever you get podcasts.

🎧 New episode out now — link in bio
💬 If this story affects you, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7: 1-800-799-7233

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27/07/2026

You can hear the whole story in Episode 122 of A Trial by Podcast: The Murder of Konerak Sinthasomphone. It’s available wherever you get your podcasts, the link is in our bio.

14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone escaped Jeffrey Dahmer. He was found naked, drugged and bleeding. After police arrived at the scene, they walked him back up to Dahmer’s apartment, where he was killed within the hour.

17/07/2026

Thought it was a good time to bring this to your attention while everyone is talking about the World Cup…

Eliza Samudio was a 25-year-old Brazilian model whose relationship with Flamengo goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Souza turned violent after she became pregnant with his child and refused pressure to have an abortion, which is illegal in Brazil.

In October 2009, she went to police to report that Bruno had hit her, threatened to kill her if she didn’t abort the pregnancy, and forced her to ingest abortive substances — a claim later confirmed by a urine test, though it took police more than eight months to process the results. By the time authorities acted, she was dead.

On June 10, 2010, she was driven from a farm with her infant son to a house in Belo Horizonte, where she was strangled by Marcos Aparecido, a former police officer hired at Bruno’s direction to carry out the killing. Bruno later told the judge that his friends strangled Samudio, dismembered her body, and fed portions of it to dogs — her remains were never recovered.

In 2013, a jury of five women and two men convicted Bruno of ordering the murder, along with hiding the body and kidnapping the couple’s son; he was sentenced to 22 years and 3 months, with several accomplices also convicted. He continued to play professional soccer after his eventual release, which drew significant public backlash in Brazil.

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World Cup 2026, football, soccer, true crime.

14/07/2026

Listen to our two-part deep dive on Sherri Papini’s disappearance in Episodes 120 & 121 of A Trial by Podcast — available wherever you get your podcasts, link in bio.

He tracked her phone and found it on the side of the road with her headphones, and her hair was tangled in the headphones 🎧

On her right shoulder was a brand of the word Exodus — presumably a reference to the Book of Exodus: the second book of the Bible, telling the story of Moses leading the Israelite people out of slavery in Egypt — a narrative centered on bo***ge, suffering, and ultimately, liberation. The word “exodus” itself means departure or escape.

She gave descriptions of two female captors, saying they played mariachi music for her…

She told James that her husband Keith had been abusing her and she needed a safe place to go. There’s no evidence that Keith had abused her.

She also wasted FOUR YEARS of investigators time on this case.

Check out A Trial by Podcast wherever you get podcasts — we release new episodes every Tuesday and we’re known for our deep dives!

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30/06/2026

You can hear the whole story in Episode 119 of A Trial by Podcast — available wherever you listen to podcasts, link in bio.

Helle Crafts was a Danish flight attendant whose husband, Richard Crafts, killed her in November 1986 at their home in Newtown, Connecticut. After years of marital tension and Helle’s discovery that Richard was having an affair, she had recently consulted a divorce attorney — a move that investigators later believed triggered the murder. Richard, a pilot and part-time police officer, disposed of her body using a rented woodchipper, running her remains through it on the banks of the Housatonic River during a snowstorm.

The crime might have gone unsolved entirely, but a snowplow driver reported seeing a man operating a woodchipper in a blizzard at 3 a.m., which struck him as odd enough to mention. Forensic investigators ultimately recovered bone fragments, a fingernail, a tooth, and strands of blonde hair — enough to confirm Helle’s death and convict Richard. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 1989 in what became one of the first cases in U.S. history to result in a murder conviction without a whole body.

21/06/2026

Looking for someone who loves the pod and wants to join the team — help us grow, gain real video editing experience, and make a little extra money along the way. 🎥 Short-form editor, a few hours a week, remote.

You don’t need any professional editing experience, but you do need some editing experience and be able to work autonomously and learn and grow over time.

Please apply on the website (and not in the DMs 😅) 🫶🏻

20/06/2026

Episode 117 of A Trial by Podcast: Part 2 of the Disappearance of the Springfield Three.

These are the kind of notes Erick leaves while editing 😂

26/05/2026

Hear the whole story in episodes 114 & 115 of A Trial by Podcast. Available wherever you get your podcasts, link in bio!

—Resolution of story below:

On September 28, 2000, former Indiana State Trooper David Camm returned home from a church league basketball game in Georgetown, Indiana, to find his wife Kimberly and their two young children, seven-year-old Bradley and five-year-old Jill, shot to death in the family’s garage. David called police and attempted to revive Bradley, unknowingly contaminating the crime scene in the process.

Just three days later, police arrested David as their prime suspect, despite eleven witnesses placing him at the basketball game at the time of the killings. Prosecutors leaned heavily on blood spatter evidence and his history of extramarital affairs to paint him as a man with motive. He was convicted in 2002 and sentenced to 195 years, but the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in 2004, ruling that testimony about his affairs had unfairly prejudiced the jury.

During preparations for his second trial, defense attorneys ran DNA from a gray sweatshirt found at the crime scene through the federal CODIS database and matched it to Charles Boney — a convicted felon with a prior record for attacking women and stealing their shoes. Despite this evidence, prosecutors pursued a conspiracy theory linking both men, and Camm was convicted a second time in 2006, before the Indiana Supreme Court overturned that conviction in 2009 due to prosecutorial misconduct.

At his third and final trial in 2013, the jury acquitted David Camm of all charges after deliberating for less than a day. Having spent thirteen years in prison for crimes he did not commit, the case has since become a prominent example of investigative tunnel vision and remains one of the most debated wrongful conviction cases in American legal history.

28/04/2026

You can hear the whole story in episode 110 of A Trial by Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts (link in bio).

Born into poverty in one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous favelas, Flordelis dos Santos de Souza clawed her way out not through luck or privilege, but through her faith in God — and she made it her mission to bring as many people with her as she could. By 2019, she was a celebrated gospel singer, a renowned evangelical pastor, a sitting member of Brazil’s Congress, and the mother of fifty-five adopted children she had pulled off the streets and called her own. She was proof that God was real and that He showed up for the forgotten. She was, by every measure that mattered in evangelical Brazil, a living saint. But on the morning of June 16, 2019, her husband was found sh*t 18 times in their garage — and the story Flordelis told about what happened that night would begin to unravel almost immediately. Because the miracle, it turned out, had a very dark foundation. And the saint? She was anything but.

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