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WILDCIDE
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Wildcide is a hybrid true crime podcast comprised of the wildest, most bizarre true crime cases mixed with interviews from filmmakers, authors, survivors, researchers, criminal investigators, psychiatrists, therapists and more. Your hosts Chelsea (an allied health professional) and Bailey (a therapist) are sisters who aren’t afraid to dive deep into concepts from systemic issues in the legal field to the pathology of offenders. So come hang out with us while we sing, cry and analyze the wildcides of the world together. Welcome home, besties and baddies!
Episodes
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Take Her Down: The eBay Stalking Scandal
What happens when one of the world's largest corporations decides its critics have become the enemy? In August 2019, David and Ina Steiner, publishers of the independent news site EcommerceBytes, found themselves at the center of a nightmare. Anonymous threats escalated into doxxing, harassment,...
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Shortcide: A Petty Betty's Guide to War
How petty can people be? Apparently...petty enough to go to war. This week's shortcide episode, Chelsea unpacks The Pastry War, where a French baker's complaint escalated into an international conflict, while Bailey explores The War of Jenkins' Ear, proving that one severed ear became the perfect...
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The Kentler Experiment: A Ped*phile Foster Project
In this episode, we dive into the Kentler Experiment, a case so horrifying it sounds impossible but was very real. In late-1960s West Berlin, psychologist Helmut Kentler promoted a dangerous idea: that vulnerable foster boys could be placed with men known to be pedophiles, under the claim that…
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Shortcide: Futbol, FIFA, and Felines?
This week Bailey and Chelsea dive into the unbelievable world where soccer stops being just a game and turns into a full-blown circus of lies, money, ego, and corruption. First, we cover Carlos Kaiser, the legendary “striker” who somehow built a professional soccer career without actually playing...
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The Seven Five: Extortion, Corruption and Dirty Cops
In the 1980s, New York City was already fighting a war in the streets....crack cocaine, violence, fear, and neighborhoods pushed to the breaking point. But in Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct, one of the most dangerous threats wasn’t just coming from the criminals. It was coming from the cops. This…
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Survived: The Incredible Story of Kara Robinson Chamberlain
In this episode, we cover the survival story of Kara Robinson Chamberlain, a teenager whose quick thinking and courage helped expose a predator hiding in plain sight. What began as a terrifying abduction in broad daylight quickly turned into a case that would connect one survivor’s account to a...
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Shortcide: Where Is Ace Ventura When You Need Him?
In this more playful Shortcide episode, Bailey and Chelsea take a funny nod at one of the greatest animal-detective movies ever while covering two real cases that feel like they were made for Ace Ventura himself. First, we head to India, where a parrot allegedly helped identify a killer, because...
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McDonald's Mega McMillions Monopoly Scam
Y'all remember the McDonald's Monopoly game that dominated the 90s? Those addictive peel squares hoping you had gotten the one piece you were missing. Well, this will take you for a walk down memory lane for sure. Obviously if you're listening to this episode, you probably weren't one of those...
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A Missing Link: The Murders of Margarette Eby and Nancy Ludwig
Two women. Two different lives. Two crime scenes five years apart that, at first, seemed completely unrelated. In 1986, Margarette Eby was murdered inside her secluded Flint, Michigan home. In 1991, Northwest Airlines flight attendant Nancy Ludwig was attacked and killed inside a hotel room near...
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Surrogacy Nightmare: The Babies in the Mansion
What first looked like an unbelievable headline about a California couple and an unusually large family quickly turned into a case that drew national attention. Silvia Zhang and Guojun Xuan became the focus of intense scrutiny after authorities linked them to 21 children, many reportedly born...
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Shortcide: What Could POSSIBLY Go Wrong?
In this episode of What Could Possibly Go Wrong?, we dive into two of history’s most bizarre true stories. First, we unpack how Pepsi, in a deal so strange it sounds made up, briefly became the owner of one of the largest navies in the world. Then we head to Australia, where the military launched…
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Corporate Manslaughter? The Byford Dolphin and Paria Disasters
At first, they were called tragic accidents. Sudden, devastating events that seemed to end in the water, in the chamber, in the final moments no one could take back. But as investigations unfolded, the questions began to change — from what happened to who was responsible, who made the decisions...
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MMIW: The Winnipeg Serial Killer (Part 2)
In Part 2 of this case, the investigation into Jeremy Skibicki reveals the full scope of what happened inside a small apartment in Winnipeg and how multiple women became connected to one of the most disturbing serial murder cases in modern Canadian history. As investigators reconstruct timelines,...
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MMIW: The Winnipeg Serial Killer (Part 1)
Three women vanish from the same area of Winnipeg within weeks of each other. At first, their disappearances don’t raise widespread alarm—lost phones, unstable housing, and the realities of life on the margins make it easy for cases like these to slip through the cracks. But their families knew...
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Sinister Minister: The Case of Arthur "A.B." Schirmer
A trusted pastor. A small Pennsylvania church. And a string of tragedies. When a man named Joseph Mesante walked into a church office in Reeders, Pennsylvania and ended his life, the story seemed heartbreakingly simple: a husband devastated by the discovery of his wife’s affair with their pastor,...
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Shortcide: The Butterfly Effect
History doesn’t always change because of grand decisions. Sometimes it changes because of a wrong turn… or a forgotten petri dish. In today's Shortcide, Bailey tells the unbelievable story of how a driver’s accidental turn down the wrong street placed Archduke Franz Ferdinand directly in front of...
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Understanding Domestic Violence with Jennifer Salmons, LPC
Domestic violence is rarely as simple — or as obvious — as people expect it to be. In this special Wildcide interview episode, Bailey and Chelsea sit down with domestic violence expert and therapist Jennifer Salmons for an honest, deeply practical conversation about how abusive relationships...
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Against All Odds: The Tracey Thurman Case
Tracey Thurman did everything a victim is told to do. She left her abusive husband. She reported threats. She obtained a restraining order. She called the police again and again — documenting a danger everyone could see coming. On June 10, 1983, after months of ignored warnings, Tracey was…
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Heist of the Century: The Brink's Robbery
Boston, January 17, 1950. Just after 7 p.m., a group of masked men walked calmly into the Brink’s Armored Car Company building and carried out what would soon be called the “Crime of the Century.” There was no chaos. No gunfire. No panic. The robbers moved with precision — wearing disguises,...
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Bad Blood (Literally): The Case of Dr. John Schneeberger
In 1992, a respected small-town physician was accused of sexually assaulting one of his patients during a routine appointment. The allegation shocked the tight-knit Canadian community — but what happened next was even more unbelievable. Despite a DNA test meant to settle the case once and for…
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Shortcide: Beware of the Curse!
Glitter, gasoline, and a whole lot of bad luck. In this eerie Shortcide episode, Bailey and Chelsea unravel two of the most famously cursed objects in modern lore: a diamond drenched in tragedy, and a Porsche with a fatal appetite for chaos. Chelsea races into the doom-laced legacy of James…
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Infamous: Stolen Valor and the Case of Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema
After 9/11, America was desperate for heroes. Jonathan Keith Idema was more than willing to step into the role. What followed was a decades-long con built on stolen valor, inflated credentials, intimidation, and a relentless trail of lawsuits, fraud charges, and outright lies. He claimed to be...
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White Collar: Big Pharma, Insys, and Blood Money
It starts in the most familiar place imaginable: a doctor’s office. A patient in pain. A prescription that feels like relief. But behind that quiet moment was a pharmaceutical company running a million-dollar playbook. Today's case dives into the rise and collapse of Insys Therapeutics, a drug...
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Nightmare in Albuquerque
In the mid-2000s, Albuquerque, New Mexico was gripped by a fear it couldn’t quite name. People were being found dead inside their homes — with no connections and without clear motives. At first, the cases appeared unrelated. Different neighborhoods. Different victims. Different MO. No obvious...
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Shortcide: What Are the Odds!? (ADHD Version)
HAPPY NEW YEAR WILDCIDERS! We begin 2026 with a WILD Shortcide. In today's Shortcide, we’re diving into two of the most impossibly timed brushes with fate you’ve probably never heard of. Bailey tells the story of a stranger who makes a split-second decision on a train platform… and ends up saving...
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Hijacker: A Conversation with Martin McNally
In this exclusive Wildcide interview, Bailey gets the opportunity to sit down with hijacker Martin J. McNally and the directors of the new Netflix documentary Skyjacker, Eli Kooris and Joshua Shaffer. Together, they unpack the unbelievable real story behind the hijacking of Flight 119, the…
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Hijacked: The Case of Martin McNally (Part 2)
In Part 2, we pick up where we left off: Martin McNally has made it out of the sky alive — bruised, concussed, and unaware that the FBI is already tracing the fingerprints that will lead straight to him. Within days, Martin is captured, sentenced to life in federal prison, and shipped to USP…
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Hijacked: The Case of Martin McNally (Part 1)
Long before TSA lines and shoe removal, American skies lived through the *Golden Age of Hijacking*. Between 1968 and 1972, more than 130 airliners were commandeered — and one bored ex–Navy airplane electrician from Detroit decided he could turn that chaos into his big score. Part 1 traces how...
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Mark Hopkinson (Part 2): Killer by Proxy
A key witness disappears. A body is found. A grand jury convenes. And suddenly the man who ruled Bridger Valley through fear is no longer hunting—he’s being hunted. This episode takes you inside Hickey’s bombshell confession, the federal takedown of Hopkinson’s criminal network, the high-security...
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Mark Hopkinson (Part 1): Killer by Proxy
In Part 1 of our two-part deep dive into the Hopkinson case, we trace the origins of one of Wyoming’s most shocking criminal sagas. Beginning in the quiet, rural Bridger Valley—where authority flows through family networks and reputation—we follow the early life of Mark Hopkinson, a charismatic...
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Thanksgiving Shortcide: That's Just How the Fruitcake Crumbles
This Thanksgiving, we’re serving up something sweeter than Aunt Carol’s mystery casserole. When a beloved Texas fruitcake company started bleeding money, nobody expected the sticky fingers behind the mess to belong to the accountant who made the dough. Join us as we unwrap the embezzlement…
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Dr. Daryl Davis: Confronting Racism One Klansman at a Time (Part 2)
Last week in Part 1, we sat down with musician, author, and racial bridge-builder Dr. Daryl Davis—a man who has spent decades sitting across from members of the Ku Klux Klan and asking the world’s most disarming question: “How can you hate me when you don’t even know me?” Daryl shared how simple...
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The Charrette: Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis (Part 2)
In Part 2, we pick up inside Durham’s 1971 school charrette — the collision point where a civil rights legend and a Klan leader are forced to sit face-to-face for ten days and decide the fate of the city’s schools. What begins as shouting, sabotage, and years of rage finally cracks open into...
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Dr. Daryl Davis: Confronting Racism One Klansman at a Time (Part 1)
Dr. Daryl Davis is an international recording artist who has performed and toured all 50 States and around the world. He has performed extensively with Chuck Berry, The Legendary Blues Band (formerly The Muddy Waters Blues Band), Elvis Presley’s Jordanaires, and many others. He is also a man who...
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The Charrette: Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis (Part 1)
In 1971 Durham, North Carolina, a civil rights activist and a Ku Klux Klan leader are forced to share a table—and a title. Before that moment, though, their collision was decades in the making. In this first half of our two-part series, we trace Ann Atwater’s rise from public housing organizer to...
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Shortcide: She's a Bad Mama Jama
This Shortcide is all glitter, salt rims, and felony-level delusion. First up — Rita Crundwell: the beloved small-town comptroller who quietly drained an entire Illinois city for 22 years to fund her rhinestone horse empire. She stole $53.7 million from Dixon — the biggest municipal fraud in U.S....
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Profiling and Victimology: A Conversation with Pioneer Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess
In this episode of Wildcide, we sit down with one of the most influential figures in modern criminal profiling — Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, the real-life inspiration behind Dr. Wendy Carr from Netflix’s Mindhunter. Long before Mindhunter brought behavioral analysis into pop culture, Burgess was...
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Jon Barry Simonis: The Ski Mask Rapist
Between 1978 and 1981, a quiet terror crept through the southern United States. Women and couples were attacked in their own homes—bound, blindfolded, and violated by a man wearing a ski mask who seemed to appear and vanish like a ghost. His name was Jon Barry Simonis, and by the time he was...
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Shortcide: 'Pick Me' Criminals are the WORST
Some people will do anything to be noticed — post, pose, or even escape from jail. This week, Bailey and Chelsea dive into the wild world of “Pick Me” criminals — THE MOST obnoxious types of criminals where their egos outweighed any rational thought. First up, Bailey unpacks the bizarre case of...
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Treatment for Adolescent Offenders with Samantha Ammann, RN, LCSW, CSAT, RYT
Trigger Warning: This interview discusses sexual compulsive behaviors, juvenile sexual offending, trauma, and family dysfunction. Listener discretion is advised. In this episode, Bailey and Chelsea sit down with Samantha, a Licensed Therapist and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), who...
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Adolescent Offender: The Hunter Heckel Case
Trigger Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of sexual assault involving minors and may be distressing to some listeners. In 2021, two assaults inside Loudoun County schools ignited one of the most divisive moral panics in modern America. The perpetrator—a sixteen-year-old named...
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The West Nickel Mines Amish School Shooting
⚠ Trigger Warning: This episode discusses violence against children, trauma, and death. Listener discretion is advised. On October 2, 2006, the quiet farmlands of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, were shattered when a local milk truck driver, Charles Carl Roberts IV, stormed a one-room Amish...
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Trafficked: The Incredible Survival of Iasia Sweeting
The most devastating crimes don’t always start with violence — sometimes, they begin with a promise. A voice that sounds enlightened. Someone who claims to see something special in you… and then, piece by piece, rewrites what love means. What truth means. What safety means. This is the story of...
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Preventing P*dophilic Offending: With Dr. Christoffer Rahm and Allison McMahan
Some crimes don’t begin in the shadows — they start in silence. In this groundbreaking conversation, we sit down with Dr. Christoffer Rahm, psychiatrist and lead researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and Allison McMahan, psychologist and doctoral candidate specializing in early...
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Shortcide: Deathbed Confessions
Some secrets are buried forever. Others come spilling out in the final moments of life — whispered to a nurse, a prison guard, or an investigator when there’s no more time left to lie. In this Shortcide, Bailey and Chelsea dive into the unsettling world of deathbed confessions. Sometimes they…
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Joël Le Scouarnec: France’s Most Prolific Predator
“I acted without any qualms and with a single objective — to commit sexual assaults as often as I could.” Those weren’t the words of a man caught in a single moment of weakness. They were the written confession of Joël Le Scouarnec, a French surgeon who spent more than 25 years preying on…
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Blood Ties: The Murders of Danielle Marzejka and Seren Bryan
When 18-year-old Danielle Marzejka and 19-year-old Seren Bryan vanished from their Clinton Township home in August 2018, friends expected them to pop back up with a laugh and a message. Instead, their belongings remained untouched—their phones, insulin, and treasured keepsakes left behind. Days...
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Kenneth McDuff: The Broomstick Killer
**CORRECTED/UPDATED 9/3: Audio Issues with this episode** Kenneth McDuff was supposed to die in prison. Instead, a broken justice system set him free—and unleashed one of the most sadistic serial killers Texas has ever known. Nicknamed The Broomstick Killer for the brutality of his first murders…
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The Heart that Lived Twice: The Case of Sonny Graham and Terry Cottle
In April 2008, neighbors in Vidalia, Georgia, were jolted awake by the sound of a shotgun blast. The man who died that morning was no stranger — Sonny Graham was a beloved golf director, a husband, a father. But Sonny also carried a secret: the transplanted heart of another man who had died by...
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The Upper West Side Cult: Therapy, Sex, and Control
In this episode, Bailey and Chelsea peel back the layers of a New York story most people never knew was happening right under their noses. At the height of the city’s cultural revolution—where art, politics, and therapy collided—a radical psychotherapy collective promised liberation from…
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Wildcide is a hybrid true crime podcast comprised of the wildest, most bizarre true crime cases mixed with interviews from filmmakers, authors, survivors, researchers, criminal investigators, psychiatrists, therapists and more. Your hosts Chelsea (an allied health professional) and Bailey (a therapist) are sisters who aren’t afraid to dive deep into concepts from systemic issues in the legal field to the pathology of offenders. So come hang out with us while we sing, cry and analyze the wildcides of the world together. Welcome home, besties and baddies!
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