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Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Sunday Oct 18, 2020
Holly and Leslie are recapping horror movies in just thirty minutes. With a ticking timer the girls pass the story back and forth and see if they can cram in all the spooky, hilarious, goodness before time runs out! This new mini podcast (soon to be available monthly to our patrons) is a high energy, raucous, good rime. It's a lot like combining a roller coaster and a haunted house. Please enjoy our first installment, the iconic and insane 1983 horror fever dream, Sleepaway Camp!
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Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.... Or did she? Join WWBD for a deep dive into on of the most famous cases in American true crime history. Perhaps we'll change your mind about Lizzie and the grizzly murders that happened in Fall River so long ago.
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Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
On the morning of November 16th, 1957, Waushara County Wisconsin police officers responded to the report of missing local hardware store owner, Bernice Worden. Berince lived and worked in the nearby village of Plainfield. The investigation that followed lead authorities to an old farm on the outskirts of town. They were in search of a local man who had been the last reported customer Bernice served before the hardware store went mysteriously dark for the rest of the day. What the police would soon discover in that house however, would put sleepy Plainfield on the map, and change the face of horror movies forever.
This episode takes a look at the deeply twisted story of Ed Gein, a quiet and unassuming man who did things beyond the realms of most human imaginations. Hang on to your hats this week fiends, because things get graphic!
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Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Hey fiends! We have a special treat for you! This track is designed as a viewing companion to the movie Tusk! Instructions will be provided at the beginning of the track with a moment for you to pause and start the movie, then a specific landmark wherein you unpause, and BAM! We're with you. Happy viewing!
Included is a link to Kevin Smith's inspiration
Tusk origin story animation
Rent or Buy Tusk the Movie on Amazon
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
4:00 in the evening, on November 10th 2010 came and went and Tina Herrmann never showed up for her shift at the Mt. Vernon, Ohio Dairy Queen. After their shifts had ended, her coworkers set out to find what had held Tina up. Little did they know that they would uncover one of the strangest and most terrifying events in recent history, an event that would lead the police to the strange, leaf filled home of one Matthew Hoffman. Pull up a rake fiends, and join us for this dark and twisted journey.
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Sarah Maynard interview
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Barbara Daly Baekland had it all. Money, power, timeless beauty, a handsome husband and a loving son. This gorgeous socialite was American royalty who lived an untouchable life. How then, did she wind up dead on her kitchen floor at just 51 years old? A single knife wound and a horrifying secret would come to reveal that Barbara Daly Baekeland's life was not all that it appeared to be. Join WWBD for this sordid tale of love, sex, betrayal, manipulation and old Hollywood glamour that's sure to leave you gobsmacked and breathless!
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Samuel Addams Green piece
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Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
WWBD is heating up this week! Leslie takes the reins and tells a story about America’s most prolific serial arsonist. In 2005, arson investigators arrested Thomas Sweatt, a 50 year old KFC Fry Cook, for a slew of arsons in and around the Washington, DC area. They were arresting him for only a handful of recent arsons, but he would go on to confess to 353 fires dating back almost 30 years and killing at least 4 people.
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Read the book my research was based on:
Thomas Sweat: Inside the Mind of DC's Most Notorious Arsonist by Jonathan Riffe
Washington City Paper: Letters From an Arsonist
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Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Nothing is more mysterious and poetic than poison. But, have you ever stopped to consider why? There is poetry in poison and this week we explore the ins and outs of how it works, who uses it and why. Join us for a deep dive into poisons and poisoners from the historic and infamous, to the modern and obscure.
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A Psychological Profile of a Poisoner
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Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
On the morning of September 7, 2012, Karena Rosario found her roommate Faith Hedgepeth, a 19-year-old third-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), bludgeoned to death in her off-campus apartment. Despite finding DNA evidence and a note possibly left by her killer among other compelling pieces of evidence, not a single person has been charged with her murder. The police are still trying to figure out who killed her and why.
This is a frustrating one, fiends. While there are no answers to this unsolved mystery, WWBD dives deep into the case study and explores every possible angle.
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Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
On February 1, 1959, nine experienced hiker/skiers trekked up the remote Ural mountains, the made camp after a day of journeying, by morning all nine were dead. What happened to this intrepid group has puzzled sleuths both amateur and professional since. In this episode WWBD explores many of the wild theories surrounding this unfortunate incident, and dives into why, after so may years, we still don't know for sure which one is correct. Strap in fiends, because this one is a wild ride!
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About Us
We are Holly & Leslie, the hosts of We Would Be Dead. A weekly true crime podcast that finds humanity in the darkness, humor in the history, and the devil in the details. Above all else we recognize that if we had to walk a mile in any of the stories that we tell, we would be dead.