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Episode 179: Fifty States of Murder: Idaho
The wait is over! The update is finally here! Eli and Mel dive straight into the deep end as they revisit one of the first cases the DUSE covered way back in 2022: the quadruple murder of four college students in Moscow, Idaho. Sure, Eli’s theory about a local cult having a hand in the brutal slayings was wrong — very wrong — but the truth is even harder to believe. From the bizarre story…
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Episode 178: Christmas Special: Illinois
It’s a very merry murdery Deliver Us Some Evil Christmas special! Eli and Mel slide down the chimney to share the gruesome story of one family who just didn’t have what it took to get through the holidays in one piece. It might not have been a dark and stormy night back in 2013 but Christmas morning revealed something much worse than a stocking full of coal to the windy city when eighteen-year-old Alexis Valdez…
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Episode 177: Fifty States of Murder: Tennessee
The DUSE rises to #33 on the top Fifty States of Murder chart with a damning expose on the fraud, hypocrisy, dirty dealings, and general scumbaggery just beneath the surface of the country music industry. It all came as a surprise to Kevin Hughes when he took a bullet for daring to demand honesty instead of a bribe. It was 1989 and even the cops couldn’t fathom corruption so deep it could cost a man…
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Episode 176: Fifty States of Murder: Mississippi
What do you get when a rich woman goes missing, there’s no shortage of suspects, but almost no evidence? The latest episode of Fifty States of Murder, of course! Eli and Mel document the unsolved disappearance of Jacqueline Levitz, a wealthy social climber who went through three husbands before vanishing in late 1995. Was she bumped off by jealous relatives? Or maybe it was one of the working stiffs she stiffed when she liquidated her…
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Episode 175: Fifty States of Murder: Maryland
The DUSE waxes philosophical in our latest episode of Fifty States of Murder as Eli and Mel paint a picture of innocence lost in post-WWII America and the influence of pivotal thinkers like Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and of course Friedrich Nietzsche. What does existentialism have to do with murder? We’re glad you asked! It took disenchanted jazz musician Melvin Rees to figure it out after he dropped out of college and turned…
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Episode 174: Fifty States of Murder: Wyoming
Get ready for another trip to the wild wild west as The DUSE books a room for you at the Murder Inn! The hostess is one heckuva cook so long as you like your steak dinner with a wink and a nod and a generous helping of arsenic. Then again, Polly Bartlett didn’t target just any old traveler. She wanted a very special kind of man: the kind with too much cash, too few friends,…
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Episode 173: Fifty States of Murder: Nevada
The West Coast has seen its share of murderers but how many of them flagged down a cop and said hey, I’m thinking of becoming a murderer? TWICE! And how many cops, parole officers, and shrinks who encountered this guy just passed him off onto someone else? If you guessed all of them, you’re right! Eli and Mel found no evidence of an actual clown car but they’re sure there must have been one as…
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Episode 172: Fifty States of Murder: Connecticut
Fifty States of Murder rolls on — right across that overgrown lawn your neighbors are always complaining about. That’s right folks, it’s time for another pit-stop on our cross-country tour: the story of William Devin Howell, a man who earned the nickname The Sick Ripper in a year-long rampage of violence and death. Eli and Mel are here to give you the facts, mock the fiction, and warn you in no uncertain terms to stay…
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Episode 171: Halloween Special: Massachusetts
Happy Halloween from your friendly neighborhood true-crime pumpkin heads at Deliver Us Some Evil! And what better way to celebrate the spooky season in style than putting a new spin on an old story: the infamous Salem Witch Trials! If you think necks were stretched over religious hysteria, food poisoning, or something out of a Women’s Studies class… well, YOU’RE WRONG. It was a land grab! Eli and Mel trace the roots of the conflict…
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Episode 170: Three Year Duse-i-versary Special: Vermont
What’s the difference between a podcast host who researches serial killers as a hobby and a budding psychopath who researches serial killers as a hobby? Motivation? Destiny? Being in the right place at the wrong time? Seriously, we’re asking you. We don’t know. What we do know is that Eli and Mel have been doing the DUSE for three years! The only casualty has been a few marbles here and there, which is more than…
