#114 Sarah Boone - “That's What You Get"Oct 22, 2026 · 48 min📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 114: Sarah Boone - “That’s What You Get” A Murderess Podcast investigation February 23, 2020. Winter Park, Florida. Sarah Boone zipped her boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr. inside a suitcase during what she initially described as a drunken game of hide-and-seek. The next day, Jorge was dead. Four years later, the story seemed to be a bit more complicated...or was it? 📍 Location: Winter Park, Florida → Orange County criminal court proceedings, Orlando, Florida → Florida Depar...PlayPlay #114 Sarah Boone - “That's What You Get"
Murderess Replay: #89 Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To"Oct 15, 2026 · 35 min📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Murderess Replay: Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To" A Murderess Podcast investigation She was a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs of Texas. But on a quiet Monday morning in 2004, Dena Schlosser placed a 911 call that would haunt the nation - telling dispatchers she’d cut off her infant daughter’s arms “because God told her to.” 📍 Location: Plano, Texas 📅 Date of Crime: November 22, 2004 👶 Victim: Margaret Elizabeth Schlosser (11 months old) ⚖️ Verdict: ...PlayPlay Murderess Replay: #89 Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To"
Murderess Mini: Christa Pike - “Boy, Did Tennessee Blow This”Oct 8, 2026 · 22 min📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 113: Christa Pike — “One Hour From Death” A Murderess Podcast investigation September 30, 2026. Nashville, Tennessee. By nine o’clock Wednesday morning, Christa Pike was supposed to have about one hour left to live. The governor had denied clemency. The U.S. Supreme Court had refused to stop her execution. Tennessee was preparing to execute its first woman in more than 200 years. Then the reporters arriving at Riverbend started getting turned away. 📍 Location: Tennessee...PlayPlay Murderess Mini: Christa Pike - “Boy, Did Tennessee Blow This”
#113 Christa Pike (Update!) - “One Hour From Death"Oct 1, 2026 · 24 min📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 113: Christa Pike — “One Hour From Death” A Murderess Podcast investigation September 30, 2026. Nashville, Tennessee. By nine o’clock Wednesday morning, Christa Pike was supposed to have about one hour left to live. The governor had denied clemency. The U.S. Supreme Court had refused to stop her execution. Tennessee was preparing to execute its first woman in more than 200 years. Then the reporters arriving at Riverbend started getting turned away. 📍 Location: Tennessee...PlayPlay #113 Christa Pike (Update!) - “One Hour From Death"
#112 Christa Pike - “It's Harder To Hurt Somebody When They're Talking To You"Sep 24, 2026 · 39 min📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 112: Christa Pike — “It’s Harder to Hurt Somebody When They’re Talking to You” A Murderess Podcast investigation Nineteen-year-old Colleen Slemmer left Job Corps with Christa Pike and two other students. She never came back. Christa told police it was “harder to hurt somebody when they’re talking to you.” 📍 Location: Knoxville Job Corps Center → University of Tennessee agricultural campus → Knox County Criminal Court → Tennessee prison system 📅 Key Dates: January 11, 19...PlayPlay #112 Christa Pike - “It's Harder To Hurt Somebody When They're Talking To You"
#111 Susan Wright - “I Couldn’t Stop”Sep 17, 2026 · 56 min📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 111: Susan Wright - “I Couldn’t Stop” A Murderess Podcast investigation January 13, 2003. Northwest Harris County, Texas. Susan Wright stabbed her husband 193 times. She never denied it. She said years of abuse ended in a desperate fight for her life. Prosecutors said the truth was much darker, and the evidence inside the Wright bedroom told a very different story. 📍 Location: Northwest Harris County, Texas 📅 Key Dates: January 13, 2003 Susan kills Jeff Wright in...PlayPlay #111 Susan Wright - “I Couldn’t Stop”
#110 Taylor Parker - “She Needed A Baby” | Part 2Sep 10, 2026 · 27 min📚 SHOW NOTES🎙 Episode 110: Taylor Parker, Part Two — “She Needed a Baby” A Murderess Podcast investigation October 9, 2020. New Boston, Texas. Taylor Parker’s impossible pregnancy has finally reached the day it is supposed to become real. For nearly ten months, every contradiction had been answered with another lie. On October 9, Taylor reached the one problem a lie could no longer solve. 📍 Location: New Boston and De Kalb, Bowie County, Texas → McCurtain Memorial Hospital, Idabel, Oklahoma →...PlayPlay #110 Taylor Parker - “She Needed A Baby” | Part 2
#109 Taylor Parker - “The Pregnancy That Never Existed” | Part 1Sep 3, 2026 · 34 min📚 SHOW NOTES🎙 Episode 109: Taylor Parker, Part One — “The Pregnancy That Never Existed” A Murderess Podcast investigation October 9, 2020. New Boston, Texas. East Texas. Taylor Parker tells Wade Griffin she is pregnant, even though a hysterectomy has made that impossible. Instead of backing away from the lie, Taylor builds an entire world around it: a prosthetic belly, a gender reveal, promises of land and millions of dollars and more. 📍 Location: Northeast Texas — primarily Bowie County, New...PlayPlay #109 Taylor Parker - “The Pregnancy That Never Existed” | Part 1
#108 Bernadette Protti - "The Fear of Being Weird"Aug 27, 2026 · 42 min📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 108: Bernadette Protti — “The Fear of Being Weird” A Murderess Podcast investigation June 23, 1984. Orinda, California. A fifteen-year-old kills another fifteen-year-old because she’s terrified people will think she’s weird, then goes back to school and lives among everyone searching for the killer. When a fake invitation, a Ford Pinto and five stab wounds finally lead investigators back to Bernadette, the question becomes bigger than who killed Kirsten. 📍 Location: Ori...PlayPlay #108 Bernadette Protti - "The Fear of Being Weird"
Murderess Podcast Is Back | New Episodes, New Cases, Same Quiet JuryAug 19, 2026 · 1 minMurderess Podcast is back. I’m Sidney Smith, and the Quiet Jury is officially back in session. The relaunch begins with four episodes covering Kouri Richins, Bernadette Protti, and a two-part investigation into Taylor Parker, a woman who spent nearly ten months faking a pregnancy before the lie demanded something real. This next chapter of Murderess Podcast goes deeper into the people, the evidence, the contradictions, the psychology, and the choices behind women who kill. New episodes every ...PlayPlay Murderess Podcast Is Back | New Episodes, New Cases, Same Quiet Jury
#107 Kouri Richins - “Are You With Me?”Aug 19, 2026 · 1 hr📚 SHOW NOTES 🎙 Episode 107: Kouri Richins - “Are You With Me?” A Murderess Podcast investigation March 4, 2022. Kamas, Utah. When 39-year-old Eric Richins is found dead in his bedroom, his wife Kouri says they had spent the night celebrating a major real-estate closing. She made him a drink, he went to bed, and hours later she found him cold and unresponsive. An autopsy reveals fentanyl intoxication, but no fentanyl is found in the home, there is no eyewitness to a poisoning, and the medical ...PlayPlay #107 Kouri Richins - “Are You With Me?”
#106 Erin Caffey - "The Door She Opened (Revisited)Dec 18, 2025 · 32 min🎙 Episode 106: Erin Caffey — “The Door Was Unlocked” This episode revisits a story that meant a great deal to someone who believed deeply in this show March 1, 2008. Emory, Texas. Just after midnight, a fire erupts at a quiet brick home on a rural road. Firefighters expect an accident. Instead, they discover something unthinkable. Inside the house: A mother and two young boys, shot execution-style. A father barely alive — burned, bleeding, whispering a truth no one expects. Down the road, a t...PlayPlay #106 Erin Caffey - "The Door She Opened (Revisited)
Murderess Replay: #30 Amanda Lewis: The Poolside TragedyDec 4, 2025 · 51 minWhat's up Murderess Accomplices! In this week's episode, Sidney and Jamie cover a drowning, a grieving mother and a child’s accusation that changed everything. In this special rerun, we revisit the Amanda Lewis case — a story built on memory, doubt, and the thin line between accident and intent. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay Murderess Replay: #30 Amanda Lewis: The Poolside Tragedy
#105 Omaima Nelson - "Thanksgiving in Blood" (A Murderess Podcast holiday special)Nov 27, 2025 · 32 min🎙 Episode 105: Omaima Nelson — “Thanksgiving in Blood” A Murderess Podcast holiday special Thanksgiving weekend, 1991. Costa Mesa, California. A 56-year-old man named Bill Nelson is supposed to introduce his new wife to his daughter over dinner. He never makes it. Instead, neighbors hear a garbage disposal grinding through the night. Police find body parts wrapped in newspaper and tinfoil. Hands fried in oil. A head boiled and stored in a freezer. And a 23-year-old Egyptian-born woman named O...PlayPlay #105 Omaima Nelson - "Thanksgiving in Blood" (A Murderess Podcast holiday special)
#104 Sharon Kinne - Part 4 (Final) - "La Pistolera’s Disappearing Act"Nov 20, 2025 · 32 min🎙 Episode 104: Sharon Kinne — “La Pistolera’s Disappearing Act” Part 4 of a multi-part series December 1969. A blackout sweeps through Iztapalapa Prison in Mexico City. Within minutes, one of the world’s most elusive inmates — La Pistolera — is gone. No gunfire. No alarms. No chase. For years, rumors cross borders: sightings in Guatemala, whispers of new lovers, even claims of another murder. But while the world chased her legend, Sharon Kinne quietly built a new identity in small-town Canada...PlayPlay #104 Sharon Kinne - Part 4 (Final) - "La Pistolera’s Disappearing Act"
Murderess Replay: #39 The murder of an icon. Yolanda Saldivar does the unforgivable to a generation of fans and the family of Selena.Nov 13, 2025 · 54 minWhat's up Murderess Accomplices! In this week's episode, Sidney and Jamie cover the murderess who took the life of a beloved musical star. It's Yolanda Saldivar. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay Murderess Replay: #39 The murder of an icon. Yolanda Saldivar does the unforgivable to a generation of fans and the family of Selena.
#103 Sharon Kinne - Part 3 - “Trials, Mistrials, and Mexico”Nov 6, 2025 · 47 min🎙 Episode 103: Sharon Kinne — “Trials, Mistrials, and Mexico” Part 3 of a multi-part series January 1962. A packed courtroom in Independence, Missouri. The state charges Sharon with the first-degree murder of her husband, James Kinne. The trial hinges on the testimony of a teenager who says she offered him a thousand dollars to “get rid of” James. The jury believes him. Sharon is convicted and sentenced to life in prison. But that verdict doesn’t hold. Over the next two years, Missouri’s lega...PlayPlay #103 Sharon Kinne - Part 3 - “Trials, Mistrials, and Mexico”
The Jolly Rancher Kissing Trick! (Don’t Try This) - Featuring a clip from Running in Slow MotionNov 3, 2025 · 2 minIf you’re into this kind of back-and-forth, me and my wife Tamra host a podcast called Running In Slow Motion. It’s where we talk real life, marriage, growth, and everything in between — and it’s honestly one of my favorite things I get to make. Running In Slow Motion New episodes every Thursday. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay The Jolly Rancher Kissing Trick! (Don’t Try This) - Featuring a clip from Running in Slow Motion
Murderess Replay: #58 The Devil herself, Karla Homolka!Oct 30, 2025 · 1 hr 32 minWhat's one the worse thing a woman could do? Got your answer?! Well, listen here and see if you're right on course with Karla Homolka. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay Murderess Replay: #58 The Devil herself, Karla Homolka!
#102 Sharon Kinne - Part 2 - “The Widow and the Lover's Wife”Oct 23, 2025 · 24 min🎙 Episode 102: Sharon Kinne — “The Widow and the Lover’s Wife” Part 2 of a multi-part series May 1960. Independence, Missouri. Patricia Jones leaves work after a phone call, telling coworkers she’ll be right back. She never returns. Hours later, her car is found abandoned. Days later, her body is discovered in a lovers’ lane field—shot four times with a .22. And in the background, a young widow named Sharon Kinne was already drawing whispers. Just two months earlier, she had buried her husban...PlayPlay #102 Sharon Kinne - Part 2 - “The Widow and the Lover's Wife”
I'm Back, Quiet Jury!Oct 23, 2025 · 1 minThanks for sticking with me through the replays — a new episode of Murderess Podcast drops on tomorrow. 🎙️ Tap the link, subscribe, and come hang with us. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay I'm Back, Quiet Jury!
Murderess Replay: #78 This one was a bit complex. But, she is still a Murderess. Stephanie Lapotka.Oct 9, 2025 · 37 min🎙 MURDERESS REPLAY: #78 Stephanie Lopatka MURDERESS PODCAST is back! Same host and a new research squad brings you Season 4. I'm back. And we have a pretty strange one to kick off 2024 and Season 4. Come on in. LISTEN. SUBSCRIBE. SHARE Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay Murderess Replay: #78 This one was a bit complex. But, she is still a Murderess. Stephanie Lapotka.
Murderess Replay: #29 The Live Show Is Coming On Sept. 15th!! (Today we're talking Rose West)Oct 2, 2025 · 1 hr 28 min🎙 MURDERESS REPLAY: #29 Rose West In this Murderess Replay, we revisit the story of Rose West — one half of Britain’s most infamous killer couple. Behind the walls of 25 Cromwell Street, Rose and Fred West built what neighbors thought was an ordinary family home. Instead, it became a house of secrets, abuse, and murder. This episode traces Rose’s role as both partner and instigator, exploring how she balanced the image of a mother with the reality of unspeakable crimes. From the victims hidde...PlayPlay Murderess Replay: #29 The Live Show Is Coming On Sept. 15th!! (Today we're talking Rose West)
Murderess Replay: #51 Apple Colorists, Kevin Hart and Joe Rogan and (The Manson Women)Sep 25, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min🎙 Murderess Replay: Ep. 51 — The Manson Women August 1969. The world remembers the names Tate and LaBianca — but behind Charles Manson’s cult of personality stood a group of young women whose devotion turned deadly. In this Murderess Replay, host Sidney Smith revisits the story of Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten — women who followed Manson into violence and infamy. Through trial transcripts, witness accounts, and the haunting image of a cult turned murderous, we explo...PlayPlay Murderess Replay: #51 Apple Colorists, Kevin Hart and Joe Rogan and (The Manson Women)
#101 Sharon Kinne - Part 1 - “The Pretty Widow”Sep 18, 2025 · 26 min🎙 Episode 101: Sharon Kinne — “The Pretty Widow” Part 1 of a multi-part series Independence, Missouri. March 1960. A husband found dead in his bed. A young wife weeping, a toddler daughter blamed. Police call it an accident. Sharon Kinne walks free. But before that shocking day, there was a restless teenager pushing against small-town life. A whirlwind marriage at sixteen, two children by nineteen, and a reputation for glamour, ambition, and danger. In Part 1 of Sharon Kinne’s story, host Sid...PlayPlay #101 Sharon Kinne - Part 1 - “The Pretty Widow”
#100 Megan Huntsman - Part 2 (Final) - "The Confession"Sep 11, 2025 · 24 min🎙 Episode 100: Megan Huntsman — “The Confession” Part 2 of a multi-part series February 2015. In a Utah courtroom, a mother admits to the unthinkable. What began as a story of one stillborn child has unraveled into a confession of six murders. In Part 2 of the Megan Huntsman story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the interrogation room where eighteen years of silence collapsed into words, and into the courtroom where family voices, prosecution arguments, and judicial disbelief collided. Th...PlayPlay #100 Megan Huntsman - Part 2 (Final) - "The Confession"
MURDERESS REPLAY: #9 Hey man, just give the guy some candy and Pop Tarts.Sep 4, 2025 · 1 hr 19 min🎙 MURDERESS REPLAY: #9 Belle Gunness April 1908. A farmhouse in La Porte, Indiana burns to the ground. When investigators sift through the ashes, they find more than charred timbers. Buried on the property are bodies — dozens of them — each pointing to the same woman at the center of the mystery: Belle Gunness. In this Murderess Replay, host Sidney and his old co-host, Jamie, revisit the story of America’s most infamous black widow. From her early life as a Norwegian immigrant to the trail of...PlayPlay MURDERESS REPLAY: #9 Hey man, just give the guy some candy and Pop Tarts.
#99 Megan Huntsman - Part 1 - "The Garage of Secrets"Aug 28, 2025 · 25 min🎙 Episode 99: Megan Huntsman — “The Garage of Secrets” Part 1 of a multi-part series April 2014. A quiet Utah neighborhood. A garage filled with boxes that look like ordinary storage. Inside one of them — a discovery that would unravel eighteen years of silence. In Part 1 of the Megan Huntsman story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the moment Pleasant Grove police opened box after box, finding six infants hidden in plain sight. Through the voices of detectives, neighbors, and family member...PlayPlay #99 Megan Huntsman - Part 1 - "The Garage of Secrets"
#98 Clara Harris - Part 4 (Final) - "Trial of a Wife"Aug 21, 2025 · 32 min🎙 Episode 98: Clara Harris — “Trial of a Wife” Part 4 of a multi-part series February 2003. A Houston courtroom holds its breath. The prosecution plays the tape: a silver Mercedes circling, headlights sweeping across asphalt, a body lying still. The defense pleads sudden passion — the collapse of a wife betrayed. In Part 4 of the Clara Harris story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the trial that transfixed the nation. From excluded evidence and expert testimony to the haunting words of Cla...PlayPlay #98 Clara Harris - Part 4 (Final) - "Trial of a Wife"
#97 Clara Harris - Part 3 - “The Mercedes and Murder: Caught on Camera”Aug 14, 2025 · 30 min🎙 Episode 97: Clara Harris — “The Mercedes and Murder: Caught on Camera” Part 3 of a multi-part series July 24, 2002. A warm Texas night. In the parking lot of the Nassau Bay Hilton, a silver Mercedes-Benz circles under the glow of security lights. Inside, a marriage shatters in real time. In Part 3 of the Clara Harris story, host Sidney Smith takes you inside the moment that transformed suspicion into tragedy. Using case files, witness statements, and the grainy surveillance footage captured...PlayPlay #97 Clara Harris - Part 3 - “The Mercedes and Murder: Caught on Camera”
#96 Clara Harris - Part 2 - “The Other Woman”Aug 7, 2025 · 27 min🎙 Episode 96: Clara Harris — “The Other Woman” Part 2 of a multi-part series She wore perfection like armor. But beneath the surface, something had shifted. Cologne. Late nights. A quiet phone call in the next room. In Part 2 of the Clara Harris story, host Sidney Smith walks us deeper into the unraveling. As Clara’s suspicions grow, a hidden truth begins to surface—one that threatens everything she’s built. With a marriage on the line and dignity slipping through her fingers, Clara hires a p...PlayPlay #96 Clara Harris - Part 2 - “The Other Woman”
#95 Clara Harris - Part 1 - “Cracks in the Perfect Wife”Jul 31, 2025 · 19 min🎙 Episode 95: Clara Harris — “Cracks in the Perfect Wife” Part 1 of a multi-part series Before the headlines… Before the Mercedes… Before the betrayal that would define her name— Clara Harris built a life people envied. In this first installment, host Sidney Smith takes us back to Bogotá, Colombia, where Clara’s story begins—with tradition, ambition, and a vision of the American dream. From top of her dental class to the polished image she curated in suburban Texas, this is the story of a wom...PlayPlay #95 Clara Harris - Part 1 - “Cracks in the Perfect Wife”
Patreon Bonus Sneak Peek - Winnie Ruth Judd - “Someone Helped Pack Those Trunks”Jul 30, 2025 · 1 minHere’s a sneak peek from our latest Murderess bonus episode on Patreon. Hear the full epilogue, exclusive to Murderess supporters, now on Patreon. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay Patreon Bonus Sneak Peek - Winnie Ruth Judd - “Someone Helped Pack Those Trunks”
#94 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 5 (Final) - "The Truth That Never Made Trial"Jul 24, 2025 · 30 min🎙 Episode 95: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Truth That Never Made Trial” Part 5 of a multi-part series For forty years, Winnie’s story was buried beneath headlines, half-truths, and courtroom omissions. But journalist Jana Bommersbach wasn’t content with the official version. In this final installment, host Sidney Smith guides us through the suppressed affidavits, silenced eyewitnesses, and political forces that kept Jack Halloran out of the courtroom—while Winnie stayed locked inside one. From ins...PlayPlay #94 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 5 (Final) - "The Truth That Never Made Trial"
Bonus Clip – “Dutch Bros vs Starbucks” from Running In Slow MotionJul 22, 2025 · 10 minWhile you wait for tomorrow’s next chapter in the Winnie Ruth Judd series, here’s something a little different. This 9-minute clip is from Running In Slow Motion, a podcast I host with my wife, Tamra. We talk life, love, and everyday chaos—with honesty and laughs along the way. In this short clip, we get into: Dutch Bros or Starbucks? If you dig it, follow Running In Slow Motion wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes every Tuesday. Find all episodes where you get your fave pods. Murdere...PlayPlay Bonus Clip – “Dutch Bros vs Starbucks” from Running In Slow Motion
#93 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 4 - "The Girl Who Kept Escaping"Jul 17, 2025 · 28 min🎙 Episode 93: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Girl Who Kept Escaping” Part 4 of a multi-part series She was sentenced to death. Then quietly declared insane. And for the next 40 years, Winnie Ruth Judd slipped through the cracks—sometimes literally. In this chapter of the story, host Sidney Smith guides us through life behind the locked doors of Arizona State Asylum: overcrowded wards, heavy sedation, and a woman slowly fading into the background. But Winnie didn’t stay silent...PlayPlay #93 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 4 - "The Girl Who Kept Escaping"
#92 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 3 - "Trial by Reputation"Jul 10, 2025 · 27 min🎙 Episode 92: Winnie Ruth Judd — “Trial by Reputation” Part 3 of a multi-part series She stood trial. But not just for murder. For being herself—a woman, a mistress, an enigma. In this chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd story, host Sidney Smith examines a courtroom where justice took a backseat to perception. The trial was swift. The defense was hollow. The evidence? Incomplete. And yet, the outcome was inevitable. From the press spectacle to the silent protection of Jack Halloran, Part 3 explor...PlayPlay #92 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 3 - "Trial by Reputation"
#91 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 2 - "Two In the Trunk"Jul 3, 2025 · 36 min🎙 Episode 91: Winnie Ruth Judd — “Two in the Trunk” Part 2 of a multi-part series Two women are dead. One is missing. And a pair of leaking trunks has turned a quiet train station into a national crime scene. In this chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd story, host Sidney Smith takes listeners deeper into the blood-soaked aftermath: a bullet-riddled bedroom, a burning incinerator, and a missing mattress no one can explain. From the shifting details in Winnie’s story to the silence surrounding Jack...PlayPlay #91 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 2 - "Two In the Trunk"
#90 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 1 - "The Woman in the Brown Suit"Jun 26, 2025 · 35 min🎙 Episode 90: Winnie Ruth Judd — “The Woman in the Brown Suit” Part 1 of a multi-part series She was described as frail. Pretty. Melancholic. But behind the soft voice and quiet eyes was a woman unraveling—torn between love, illness, and rejection. In this opening chapter of the Winnie Ruth Judd story, host Sidney Smith takes listeners into 1931 Phoenix, Arizona—where class, power, and gender collided inside a small house on Brill Street. From whispers behind closed doors to a man who ...PlayPlay #90 Winnie Ruth Judd - Part 1 - "The Woman in the Brown Suit"
#89 Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To"Jun 19, 2025 · 35 min🎙 Episode 89: Dena Schlosser — “The Hymn, the Knife, and the 911 Call” Standalone Episode She was a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs of Texas. But on a quiet Monday morning in 2004, Dena Schlosser placed a 911 call that would haunt the nation—telling dispatchers she’d cut off her infant daughter’s arms “because God told her to.” This week, host Sidney Smith takes listeners inside one of the most chilling cases of postpartum psychosis ever tried in an American courtroom. From unmedi...PlayPlay #89 Dena Schlosser - "The Mother Who Said God Told Her To"
MURDERESS REPLAY: #6 The Jetsons was some white man's fantasy.Jun 12, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min🚨 Encore Presentation — Originally released March 2021, this episode remains one of the most discussed on Murderess Podcast. Dive back into the story of Dorothea Puente. Hey listeners — Sidney here. This week, I’m pulling one from deep in the archives. Back when Murderess Podcast was still finding its voice, I was co-hosting with Jamie Camire, and we were experimenting with structure, tone… even titles. So yes — it’s different. But it’s also one of the earliest stories that started shap...PlayPlay MURDERESS REPLAY: #6 The Jetsons was some white man's fantasy.
#88 Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door”Jun 5, 2025 · 36 min🎙 Episode 88: Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door” Standalone Episode She didn’t shoot. She didn’t confess. But she went to prison… along with three others. This week, we go inside one of Norway’s most haunting and divisive murder cases — the 1999 triple homicide that tore apart the Orderud family. At the center: Veronica Orderud. Educated. Married. Respected by many. But behind that calm exterior, prosecutors said, was a woman motivated by land, legacy… and cold calculation...PlayPlay #88 Veronica Orderud — “The Silence at the Farmhouse Door”
MURDERESS REPLAY: Susan Smith — “The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger”May 29, 2025 · 19 min🚨 Encore Presentation — Originally released April 17, 2025, this episode remains one of the most discussed on Murderess Podcast. Dive back into the story of Susan Smith, the mother who shocked a nation. Hey listeners — Sidney here. My voice is a little worn out this week from performances and a packed schedule, so while I rest it up just a bit, I’m replaying one of the most downloaded episodes from the archive: Susan Smith — 'The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger.' If you missed this one th...PlayPlay MURDERESS REPLAY: Susan Smith — “The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger”
#87 Karla Faye Tucker — The Woman With the Pickaxe SmileMay 22, 2025 · 54 min🎙 Episode 87: “Karla Faye Tucker — The Woman With the Pickaxe Smile” Standalone Episode She didn’t scream. She didn’t panic. She just smiled—and kept swinging. In this episode, we go inside the brutal 1983 murders of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton—and follow the path of Karla Faye Tucker, a woman who became as infamous for her confession as she did for her conversion. Tucker wasn’t just a killer—she became a symbol. Of remorse. Of redemption. Of the collis...PlayPlay #87 Karla Faye Tucker — The Woman With the Pickaxe Smile
#86 Jasmine Richardson — The Girl Who Smiled Through the BloodMay 15, 2025 · 45 min🎙 Episode 86: “Jasmine Richardson — The Girl Who Smiled Through the Blood” Standalone Episode She was 12 years old. He was 23. And together, they planned the brutal murder of her entire family. In this episode, we trace the chilling case of Jasmine Richardson—a middle school girl who fell under the spell of Jeremy Steinke, a man who claimed to be a 300-year-old werewolf. What began as gothic roleplay online quickly evolved into obsession, violence, and a triple homicide that...PlayPlay #86 Jasmine Richardson — The Girl Who Smiled Through the Blood
Holding Space: New Episode This ThursdayMay 14, 2025 · 1 minThis week’s full episode is almost ready—but needed one more night to breathe. The story drops Thursday morning. Thank you for holding space, and for listening. Tell me what stayed with you—I read every message. Your thoughts might even shape what the Quiet Jury hears next. Support the showPlayPlay Holding Space: New Episode This Thursday
#85 Michelle Knotek — "The House That Hurt People”May 7, 2025 · 44 min🎙 Episode 85: “Michelle Knotek — The House That Hurt People” Standalone Episode Michelle Knotek didn’t kill with knives or rage. She used manipulation, isolation, and slow, invisible cruelty. She took in the vulnerable—friends, family, boarders—and offered them safety. What she delivered instead was psychological torture, starvation, humiliation… and, eventually, death. In this episode, we walk through the haunted halls of her home, where kindness was a weapon, silence was a sentence, and esc...PlayPlay #85 Michelle Knotek — "The House That Hurt People”
#84 Debora Green — "Fire and Poison” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc)Apr 30, 2025 · 18 min🎙 Episode 84: “Debora Green — The Doctor Who Prescribed Her Own Destruction” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc) Deborah Green was a brilliant physician, a mother, and a woman seemingly in control—until everything around her began to collapse. Beneath the facade of success and stability, resentment, betrayal, and emotional unraveling festered. In this episode, we peel back the layers of a woman who burned down her own world—both figuratively and literally. When arson and poisoning collide with...PlayPlay #84 Debora Green — "Fire and Poison” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc)
#83 Lacey Spears — "The Mother Who Needed to Be Watched” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc)Apr 23, 2025 · 35 min🎙 Episode 83: “Lacey Spears — The Mother Who Needed to Be Watched” Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc Lacey Spears was the face of a modern-day “supermom”—blogging her sick child’s journey, documenting his struggles, and building a following around strength and faith. But none of it was real. In this episode, we unravel how one woman used the internet to curate a perfect lie—how she poisoned her son slowly, intentionally, and publicly. Through feeding tubes, social media posts, and fake diagnos...PlayPlay #83 Lacey Spears — "The Mother Who Needed to Be Watched” (Part of the Mothers Who Kill Arc)
#82 Diane Downs — The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger (Part of the “Mothers Who Kill” arc)Apr 17, 2025 · 48 min🎙 Episode 82: Diane Downs — The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger Part of the “Mothers Who Kill” arc Diane Downs said a stranger shot her children. She blamed a man in the trees, her ex-husband, even her daughter. But the truth was far more chilling: Diane did it herself—then drove to the hospital and played the part of the grieving mother. In this episode, we explore her fractured childhood, her obsession with a man who didn’t want her kids, the night she turned her fantasy into a crime scene—an...PlayPlay #82 Diane Downs — The Mother Who Pulled the Trigger (Part of the “Mothers Who Kill” arc)