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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…
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Episode 169: Fifty States of Murder: Texas
The DUSE turns the turntables on this week’s episode of Fifty States of Murder as they destroy the reputation of the one state in the union that never fails to put the capital T in capital punishment. It wasn’t mercy that opened the prison door for convicted murderer Kenneth McDuff, but paperwork shuffling bean-counters who wanted to flood the streets with criminals. Can you guess what was on his bucket list as soon as he…
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Episode 168: Fifty States of Murder: Missouri
Buckle up for another marathon episode of Fifty States of Murder as The DUSE takes a page from the dictionary under the word… GROSS! The case of Robert Berdella is the poster child for the ugly underbelly of the 1980’s from the drug-fueled gay sub-culture that definitely wasn’t its own worst enemy to the trash “journalism” of Geraldo Rivera that was determined to link every possible (and impossible) situation to the Satanic Panic. We’re not…
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Episode 167: Fifty States of Murder: Indiana
Fifty States of Murder rolls on as Eli stumps Mel with trivia questions (seriously, aren’t Warsaw and Notre Dame in Europe??) before getting too close for comfort with one of America’s most notorious murderers: Gertrude Baniszewski. This chain-smoking mother of seven could have done a lot of things in the summer of 1965 — hosted a block party, learned to crochet, started a book club for single ladies, you know, normal stuff. Instead she tortured…
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Episode 166: Fifty States of Murder: New Jersey
Want to get away with murder? Make sure no one can spell your name! That’s the secret of New Jersey’s famous freelance hit man, Richard Kuklinski, known as the Ice Man, the Devil, or that really big guy over there with the bad temper and the baseball bat. The DUSE leaves no murder behind as Eli and Mel go the distance with a marathon episode that covers everything from Kuklinski’s nightmare childhood and his teenage…
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Episode 165: Fifty States of Murder: Maine
The DUSE heads north for some anaphylactic shock and the tragic story of a family torn apart by mental illness and murder — TWICE! Constance Fisher was considered “moody” back in the 1950’s but today she’d be a prime target for all those pharmaceutical ads you see on TV. Paranoid? Check. Depressed? Check. Hearing the voice of God telling you to do evil things to your children? Check! Side effects may include paranoia, depression, auditory…
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Episode 164: Fifty States of Murder: Oklahoma
The Wild Wild West is back! Saddle up as Eli and Mel hit the wagon trail headed for Oklahoma and the shocking story of the Rufus Buck Gang! It’s a match made in Hell when five cowboys join forces to settle scores, take out random travelers, and strike a blow against American westward expansion in an eleven day rampage. Liberals want you to believe these were good men pushed too far, but The DUSE doesn’t…
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Episode 163: Fifty States of Murder: New Mexico
Extra! Extra! It’s an extra-special episode of Fifty States of Murder! Eli, Mel, and Ashley join forces to tackle the disturbing case of the notorious Toy Box Killer: David Parker Ray, a man who invested his entire life into kidnapping, torture, and murder. How many women suffered inside the toy box? No one knows for sure. What we do know is that Eli has the deets, Mel has the heebie-jeebies, and Ashley has more questions…
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Episode 162: Fifty States of Murder: Alabama
Guess who’s taking you on a wild trip from wholesome to explosive in the latest episode of Fifty States of Murder! Take a seat right here in the Heart of Dixie and let Eli and Mel school you on the difference between a separatist and a supremacist, and how the road not taken might lead to something far worse than a quiet rural homestead. There might be a quiz, so make sure you take notes…
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Episode 161: Fifty States of Murder: Hawaii
What do bikers, bus stops, and Blockbuster have in common? Find out as Eli and Mel throw down with the beach bums to give you the gruesome details of Hawaii’s first serial murders, a mid-80’s nightmare that left five women dead and the cops without a single lead. Was it a sleazy patron of the local video store? Was it a mainland killer taking a vacation? Was it the guy in the super suspicious creepy…
