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Mugshot Mysteries
by Kathryn and Gabriel
Some stories are solved. Most aren’t. The interesting ones refuse to stay buried. Mugshot Mysteries is a deep-dive podcast hosted by Kathryn and Gabriel, exploring true crime, conspiracies, paranormal encounters, cults, historical disasters, government cover-ups, and the stories that keep people awake long after the episode ends. Every episode blends immersive storytelling, psychological analysis, dark humor, and the kind of rabbit holes that make you question whether history is telling the full truth. One week it’s serial killers. The next it’s MKUltra, haunted hospitals, vanished ships, UFO encounters, or deaths that still don’t make sense decades later. Kathryn brings the research. Gabriel brings the questions, the theories, and occasionally a comment so out of pocket it completely derails the conversation. Expect deep dives, unexpected tangents, and at least one moment where Kathryn has to st
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The Angel Makers: The Village Where Women Poisoned Their Husbands
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries A whitewashed kitchen in rural Hungary, sometime in the 1920s. A woman boils strips of flypaper in a pot, skims the arsenic residue off the top, and bottles it. In the next room her…
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Lindsay Clancy: Postpartum Psychosis, a Mistrial, and the Case That Divided Us
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries Please note: this episode discusses the deaths of three young children, suicide, and postpartum mental illness. If you are a new mom and you are not in a good place right now, it is okay…
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Lizzie Borden: The Hatchet Murders Everyone Got Wrong
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries You know the rhyme. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. Almost every word of it is wrong. It wasn't an axe, it was a hatchet. Not her mother, her stepmother. Not forty...
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Hex Hollow: The 1928 Witch Murder of Nelson Rehmeyer
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries The last week of November, 1928. York County, Pennsylvania. In an isolated hollow that has carried one family's name for generations, a neighbor finds sixty-year-old potato farmer Nelson...
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CERN: The God Machine, the Weasels & the Courtyard Ritual Pt. 2:
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries In 2008, six months before the Large Hadron Collider switched on, two men filed a federal lawsuit in Honolulu to stop it, arguing the machine might create a black hole and swallow the…
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The Mandela Effect: Did CERN Change Your Memories? Pt. 1
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries June 2026. One hundred meters beneath the border between Switzerland and France, two beams of protons that have circled a 27-kilometer ring for eighteen years are steered out and dumped…
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Ruth Snyder: The Jazz Age Murder That Invented True Crime
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes and original case files on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries January 12, 1928. Inside Sing Sing, hardened crime reporters stand shoulder to shoulder in the witness room, and at the center sits a woman: hair shorn for the...
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Victor Lustig: The Con Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Twice
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes and original case files on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MugshotMysteries Paris, 1925. The Eiffel Tower is rusting, expensive to maintain, and quietly rumored in the papers to be a candidate for demolition. To most Parisians, that's...
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Son of Sam: Did David Berkowitz Act Alone? Pt. 3
Support Mugshot Mysteries and unlock 12+ bonus episodes on Patreon Yonkers, 1976. Above the Hudson sits the ruin of what was once the grandest garden estate in America, its terraces gone feral, its old stone gatehouse renamed the Devil's Cave by local teenagers. And through 1976 and into 1977,...
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Son of Sam: How a Parking Ticket Caught David Berkowitz Pt. 2
Brooklyn, July 31, 1977, a few minutes past two in the morning. A patrol officer writes up a yellow Ford Galaxie parked too close to a fire hydrant, tucks the ticket under the wiper, and drives on. He never looks inside the car. He has no reason to. That parking ticket will do more to end the...
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Son of Sam: Fear City and the Year New York Didn't Know Pt. 1
Summer 1975. Tourists landing at JFK are handed a pamphlet by off-duty police officers. On the cover is a hooded skull. The title is "Welcome to Fear City," and inside is a survival guide advising visitors to stay off the streets after six, never ride the subway, and if at all possible, not to…
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Escape from Alcatraz: Did They Survive? The 60-Year Manhunt Pt. 2
San Francisco, 2013. A letter arrives at a police station with no return address. The writer says his name is John Anglin. He says he escaped Alcatraz in June 1962 with his brother Clarence and Frank Morris. He says he is eighty-three now, and sick, and the last one left. And he makes an offer:...
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Escape from Alcatraz: How 3 Men Beat the Rock Pt. 1
June 12, 1962. 7:15 in the morning, Alcatraz. A guard reaches through the bars of cell 138 to wake a sleeping inmate, and the man's head rolls off the pillow and shatters on the concrete. It is made of soap, toilet paper, and real human hair. Frank Morris has been gone for nine hours. And he is…
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The DC Sniper: One Got the Needle. The Other Is Still Inside. Pt. 3
November 10, 2009. Inside a Virginia execution chamber, the man at the center of one of the most infamous killing sprees in American history is asked if he has any final words. He says nothing. No confession, no apology, no reason, the same thing he offered every stranger he killed. Minutes…
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The DC Sniper: The Woman Who Knew Who the Killer Was Pt. 2
While five million people were afraid of a stranger, one woman was afraid of a name. She lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington with her three children, watched the same coverage as everyone else, the faceless sniper, the white van, the lone white male the experts kept describing, and did…
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The DC Sniper: 23 Days, 10 Dead, and the Hunt for the Wrong Man Pt. 1
October 2002. For twenty-three days, an invisible killer turns the suburbs around the nation's capital into a shooting gallery. People are cut down doing the most ordinary things imaginable, pumping gas, mowing a lawn, reading on a bench, loading groceries, stepping off a bus. Ten will die. A...
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The McDonald's Monopoly Scam: How Uncle Jerry Stole $24 Million
He spent his whole career guarding the game. Then he robbed it blind. For more than a decade, McDonald's Monopoly turned a paper sticker peeled off a fries box into the most reliable lottery in America. Cash, cars, grand prizes worth a fortune. There was just one problem. The winners were never...
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The Truth About Gypsy Rose Blanchard | Munchausen by Proxy, Murder & the Pink House
A twenty-three-year-old woman has never walked in public. Has never eaten without a feeding tube. Has leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, brain damage from a premature birth. Has been to more than a hundred doctors. Has had her teeth removed and her head shaved weekly to mimic chemotherapy.…
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The Pascagoula Abduction: The Most Credible Alien Encounter Ever Recorded?
A sheriff leaves two suspects alone in an interrogation room and steps out. The recorder is still running, and they have no idea. He is certain that the moment the door clicks shut, the act will drop. Instead the younger man is sobbing, and the older one, trying to hold them both together, says...
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MKUltra: The Sleep Room - CIA Brainwashing & Dr. Ewen Cameron Pt. 3
A 26-year-old mother of five walks into a respected Montreal hospital because she cannot sleep. She has postpartum depression. The most decorated psychiatrist alive puts her into a drug-induced coma for eighty-six days, delivers more than a hundred rounds of electroshock, and loops a recording of...
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MKUltra: The Names - Operation Midnight Climax & Edgewood Arsenal Pt. 2
A 42-year-old man checks himself into a New York psychiatric hospital for depression after his marriage ends. Five weeks later a doctor injects him with 450 milligrams of an Army chemical-warfare compound, a mescaline derivative no human had ever been given at that dose. Two hours and twenty-two...
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MKUltra: Nine Days - The Death of Frank Olson Pt. 1
A biological warfare scientist goes out a tenth-floor hotel window at 2:30 in the morning. The man sharing his room, a CIA chemist, does not call an ambulance or the police. He calls his boss at the agency. The official verdict is suicide, and it holds for twenty-two years. What the family does…
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Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Inside America’s Most Haunted Hospital
You are lying in a hospital bed on a hilltop above Louisville in 1932. Every window in the building is open, because your doctors believe freezing air is medicine, and there is actual snow on your blanket. You have tuberculosis. You have been here for months, maybe years, and you cannot leave....
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The Zodiac Killer: 2,500 Suspects Pt. 4
The Zodiac is long gone, or quietly elderly, and his case is still open. More than two thousand five hundred suspects have been formally investigated. Not one has ever been charged. And then, in December 2025, a self-taught codebreaker stands up and claims the one cipher nobody ever solved has...
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The Zodiac Killer: The Code Breakers Pt. 3
December 11, 2020. The world is nine months into a pandemic. A software developer in Virginia gets on a video call with a mathematician in Melbourne and a programmer in Belgium. Three people, three countries, three time zones, and on the screen between them sits a 340-character cipher that the…
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The Zodiac Killer: Dear Editor Pt. 2
It is a clear Saturday afternoon at Lake Berryessa in September 1969. Two college students are picnicking on a small spit of land when a man steps out of the tree line. He is wearing a homemade black executioner's hood with clip-on sunglasses over the eyeholes and a white crossed-circle symbol...
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The Zodiac Killer: The Murders That Started It All Pt. 1
September 27th, 1969. A man in a homemade black executioner hood walks out of the tree line at Lake Berryessa and approaches two college students picnicking on a small island. He ties them up. Then he stabs them. Then he drives 45 minutes to a payphone and calmly reports the crime to police. He…
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Chicago Tylenol Murders 1982: Sealed for Your Protection
Go look at a bottle of Tylenol. A glued box, a cap you push and twist, a foil seal on the rim, maybe a wad of cotton. Three layers of protection between you and a headache pill, and if any seal is broken, you put it back without thinking. None of that existed before September 1982. Before then…
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The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 2
On a bright July morning in 1997, the most famous fashion designer in the world walks back to his Miami Beach mansion with the morning papers. As he puts his key in the gate, a young man steps up behind him and fires twice into the back of his head. The killer had spent his entire life trying to...
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The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 1
It is the morning of July 15, 1997, on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. A fifty-year-old Italian man in sandals walks back from the café with his morning paper. At the iron gate of his mansion, a younger man steps out of nowhere and fires twice into the back of his head. The dead man is Gianni…
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Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: The Crime of the Century
In March 1932, the most famous man on earth puts his twenty-month-old son to bed in a remote New Jersey farmhouse. Hours later the crib is empty, a homemade ladder lies broken under the window, and a ransom note sits on the sill. Charles Lindbergh, the pilot who crossed the Atlantic alone and...
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The Circleville Letters: A Small Town Stalked by an Anonymous Killer
You walk to your mailbox in a small Ohio town where everyone knows your name. Inside is an envelope with no return address, postmarked Columbus, written in aggressive block letters. It says they know what you did. It says they have been watching your house. It says they know about your children....
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The Black Dahlia: Hollywood's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder
January 15, 1947. A young mother pushing a stroller down a quiet Los Angeles street sees something white in a vacant lot, so white she thinks it's a discarded mannequin. It isn't. It's the body of twenty-two-year-old Elizabeth Short, cut clean in half, drained of blood, washed, and posed. Within...
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The Flatwoods Monster: West Virginia's 1952 UFO Encounter That Terrified a Nation
September 12, 1952. In a West Virginia town of three hundred people, four boys watch a red light streak across the sky and come down behind a hill. They run for help, and a small group climbs into the dark with a flashlight and the family dog. Near the top, the dog bolts. A foul metallic smell...
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The Mothman of Point Pleasant: Prophecy, Paranoia & the Silver Bridge Collapse
November 15, 1966. Two young couples are driving the back roads near an abandoned WWII explosives plant outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, when their headlights catch two red eyes near a gate. The thing is shaped like a man, but bigger, seven feet tall, with folded wings and a hypnotic red...
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The Flannan Isles Lighthouse: Three Men Vanished Into Thin Air (1900)
December 26, 1900. A relief ship reaches a lighthouse on a remote rock twenty miles off the Scottish coast and finds it dark and silent. The keeper who climbs the 160 steps finds a stopped clock, a lamp prepped but never lit, and two of three coats gone from their hooks. Three experienced...
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Hell's Belle: The Belle Gunness Story — America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer
In 1907, lonely men across the Midwest read a newspaper ad: a comely widow with a fine Indiana farm seeks a gentleman equally well provided, with a view to joining fortunes. Triflers need not apply. At least forty men answered. They packed their bags, withdrew their savings, and traveled to La...
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The Hinterkaifeck Murders: A Killer Lived in Their Attic — And No One Was Ever Caught
In the spring of 1922, on an isolated Bavarian farmstead, the head of the household notices footprints in the snow leading from the forest straight to his property. None lead back. The family has been hearing footsteps in the attic for months. The maid quit half a year earlier, convinced the…
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The Enfield Poltergeist: Britain's Most Haunted House — Real Phenomenon or the Greatest Hoax Ever Told?
August 1977, a council house in Enfield, North London. A single mother is putting her four children to bed when the beds start to shake and knocking comes from inside the walls. She runs to the neighbors, who hear it too. They call the police, and a constable watches a chair slide across the…
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The Cost of Health: The Luigi Mangione Case - From Ivy League to Death Row - (Pt. 3 of 3)
Note: This episode was released on December 22, 2025. The case has continued to develop since then. In January 2026 a federal judge dismissed the count that had made the case death-penalty eligible, taking capital punishment off the table, and prosecutors declined to appeal. A New York state…
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The Cost of Health: Delay, Deny, Defend - The Insurance Denials Behind Luigi Mangione (Pt. 2 of 3)
Fourteen point six billion dollars in intended fraud, uncovered in a single 2025 enforcement action, the largest healthcare fraud takedown in Justice Department history. And that's just the criminal kind. While the government chases stolen billions, insurers are legally denying billions more in...
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The Cost of Health: The Broken System That Made Luigi Mangione Inevitable (Pt. 1 of 3)
How did America end up with a healthcare system that a huge chunk of the country views not as a safety net but as an adversary? The answer isn't a conspiracy. It's ninety-six years of accidents, wartime tax quirks, political compromises, and quiet corporate transformations, each step sensible to...
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The Mary Celeste Ghost Ship Mystery: 10 People Vanished. Only the Ship Survived.
December 4, 1872. Four hundred miles off the Azores, the crew of the Dei Gratia spots a ship drifting strangely, sails torn, no one at the wheel. They watch for two hours, then board her. She is completely deserted. Ten people, a respected captain, his wife, their two-year-old daughter, and seven...
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D.B. Cooper: He Hijacked a Plane, Jumped Into a Storm, and No One Ever Found Him
The night before Thanksgiving, 1971. A calm, polite man in a business suit hands a flight attendant a note saying he has a bomb. He asks for $200,000 in twenty-dollar bills and four parachutes, releases all thirty-six passengers once his demands are met, and then, somewhere over the dark forests…
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Colonial Parkway Murders: America's Forgotten Serial Killer
October 12, 1986. A park ranger on Virginia's Colonial Parkway finds a white Honda with the engine still running and two young women dead in the back seat, their throats cut. Cathleen Thomas, a 27-year-old naval officer, and Rebecca Dowski, a 21-year-old college student, had been on a date the...
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The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel: The Church-Sanctioned Exorcism That Ended in Death
July 1, 1976. In a small Bavarian town, 23-year-old Anneliese Michel dies weighing 68 pounds, her body broken by malnutrition and dehydration after ten months and sixty-seven exorcism sessions. The people around her, her parents and two Catholic priests, genuinely believed they were fighting for...
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Dyatlov Pass Incident: Nine Hikers Found Dead in the Snow. What Really Happened?
In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers cut through their tent from the inside and fled into the freezing Ural Mountains wearing only underwear. When searchers found their bodies weeks later, the scene was inexplicable: one missing her tongue and eyes, two with crushed rib cages but no...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Some stories are solved. Most aren’t. The interesting ones refuse to stay buried.
Mugshot Mysteries is a deep-dive podcast hosted by Kathryn and Gabriel, exploring true crime, conspiracies, paranormal encounters, cults, historical disasters, government cover-ups, and the stories that keep people awake long after the episode ends.
Every episode blends immersive storytelling, psychological analysis, dark humor, and the kind of rabbit holes that make you question whether history is telling the full truth.
One week it’s serial killers. The next it’s MKUltra, haunted hospitals, vanished ships, UFO encounters, or deaths that still don’t make sense decades later.
Kathryn brings the research. Gabriel brings the questions, the theories, and occasionally a comment so out of pocket it completely derails the conversation.
Expect deep dives, unexpected tangents, and at least one moment where Kathryn has to st
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