The darkest true crime cases are the ones you&#39;ve never heard of. Obscura investigates murders written off as accidents, disappearances dismissed as runaways, and obscure cases buried in forgotten files. Host Justin Drown delivers unflinching investigations through real archival audio, court records, and graphic forensic detail. No comedy. No sanitized narratives. Only the complete truth. New episodes every Tuesday.

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Extreme Audio Warning: Towards the back half of this episode, it features audio involving children and a mother in extreme audible distress. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Black Label: Nothing but Sadness

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Paul John Knowles, famously nicknamed &#34;The Casanova Killer,&#34; was an American serial killer who terrorized the United States during a brutal, four-month cross-country crime spree in 1974. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Casanova: Paul John Knowles - Part 02

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American serial killer responsible for at least 18 murders during a violent multi-state killing spree.  Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Casanova: Paul John Knowles - Part 01

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The Harold Easter case involves the tragic in-custody overdose death of 41-year-old Harold Easter in January 2020 after an arrest by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) in North Carolina. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Black Label: The Price

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John Michael Hughes is a convicted murderer from Simpsonville, South Carolina, who, along with members of his family, orchestrated the January 2015 ambush and slaying of his estranged son-in-law, John Michael Ferrell. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

John Michael Hughes - The House on Stonegate Road

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Paul Michael Stephani, known as the &#34;Weepy-Voiced Killer,&#34; was an American serial killer who murdered three women and attacked two others in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area between 1980 and 1982.﻿ Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Paul Michael Stephani - The Weepy-Voiced Killer

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George T. Greer is a Kentucky man who was arrested in February 2024 for a violent samurai sword attack that killed one woman and severely injured two other people while he was under the influence of drugs. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

George "Tommy" Greer - Meth Swordsman

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The tragic 2015 true-crime case of 7-week-old Data Toria Hancock, an Oregon infant who died of severe starvation and maltreatment. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Milk Money: The Death of Data Hancock

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Today we explore a tragic 2022 emergency call that shattered a quiet Louisiana neighborhood and left four young children trapped in a real-life nightmare.Outro Song: Yeah RightArtist: Willa MaeIntro Song: AfflictionArtist: SubRosa Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Tyler Derochowski - Blood in the Dirt

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On September 7, 1997, city park workers discovered the remains of a newborn boy near the Moses statue in Albany&#39;s Washington Park. Because his identity was initially unknown, the City of Albany and local funeral directors held a proper, deeply moving memorial service and burial for the infant. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Baby Moses - Citizen of Albany, Child of God - Part 02

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On September 7, 1997, city park workers discovered the remains of a newborn boy near the Moses statue in Albany&#39;s Washington Park. Because his identity was initially unknown, the City of Albany and local funeral directors held a proper, deeply moving memorial service and burial for the infant. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Baby Moses - Citizen of Albany, Child of God - Part 01

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Matthew Hoffman, often referred to as the &#34;Leaf Killer&#34;, is an Ohio man serving a life sentence for the 2010 murders of three people and the kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl. Intro Song: AfflictionArtist: SubRosa Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Matthew Hoffman - House of Leaves

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Martinez met a married woman on a dating app. He eventually met up with her and her husband, Anthony Brines. After a night of drinking, smoking marijuana, and using a Ouija board, a violent altercation broke out that would change their lives forever.  Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Edward Martinez - The Third Wheel

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Obscura is not AI slop. It will never be AI slop. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Obscura is not AI slop. It will never be AI slop.

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On a scorching July afternoon, a routine arrival home turns into a neighborhood nightmare. A father steps inside his air-conditioned house to play video games, leaving his sleeping toddler in the car under the assumption that the vehicle&#39;s cooling system is running. Hours later, emergency sirens pierce the quiet suburban cul-de-sac. Intro Song: AfflictionArtist: SubRosa Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Christopher Scholtes - An Unrepentant Man

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The call went out at roughly one forty in the morning on March sixteenth, 2018, and it pulled the Palm Beach County Sheriff&#39;s Office toward a scene that the deputies who responded would not be able to put down easily afterward, because some scenes do not let go of the people who walk into them. What waited inside the house is among the worst this show has had occasion to describe Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Camille Balla - The Ritual

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There is a village in the apple country of western New York called Sodus, up in Wayne County near the south shore of Lake Ontario, about thirty miles east of Rochester. This is fruit-belt land, orchard and muck field running back from the lake, roadside stands selling cider in the fall, the big cold lake holding the frost off the trees in spring. In October the orchards go heavy and the light comes in low and gold across the drumlins, the long humped hills the glaciers left behind. A few thousand people, one central school the whole area feeds into, the worst trouble in a given year usually a bad wreck out on Route 14. The kind of place where a double murder in a driveway on a sunny Monday afternoon does not just grieve people, it cracks the basic understanding they have about where they live. On the twenty-second of October, 2018, a Monday, that understanding broke. It broke on a short residential street called Carlton Street, a block of modest houses near the Sodus Central School, the kind of street where people leave the doors unlocked and the kids ride bikes in the road. At a little after three in the afternoon, in full daylight, with neighbors home and children about, a young couple was shot to death in the driveway of their own home. By the time the first deputy arrived, the shooter was gone and the street had become a crime scene that the people who saw it would carry for the rest of their lives. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Timothy Dean - Empty Inside

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Aileen had been pawning items from her victims: tools missing from David Spears&#39;s truck, a camera that had belonged to Richard Mallory, other items linked to other victims. Florida law required pawnshops to take a thumbprint from anyone hocking goods, and the prints were on file.Aileen, while filling out pawnshop intake forms, had been using the alias Cammie Marsh Greene. A signed pawn slip with a thumbprint, in the name of Cammie Marsh Greene, was sitting in a Daytona Beach pawn shop. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Aileen Wuornos: Part 04 - Carnival

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The wooded lot itself was mixed scrub of the sort that grows in the disturbed soil along an interstate corridor in central Florida. Pine. Palmetto. A few scrub oaks. Spanish moss hanging where the canopy thickened. The understory of vines and dead palm fronds that turns any walk off the shoulder into a careful one.The lot was bordered on one side by the interstate, on another by a service road, and on the other two by more of the same scrub. It had the anonymity of land nobody owns in any way they bother to enforce. People dumped things in there. Refrigerators. Mattresses. The carpet remnant.The men got closer to the carpet. The carpet was covering something.Underneath was a body Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Aileen Wuornos: Part 03 - The Bodies

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This is part two of a four part series. Last episode, we walked her childhood. The fire at age six. The grandfather and the belt. The kitten in the bucket. The cigarette pig nickname at age eleven. The pregnancy at fourteen. The baby boy taken from her in March of 1971. Her grandmother Britta dying that July. Her grandfather throwing her out a few weeks later. The sleeping bag in the woods on the edge of Troy.That is where we left her. Tonight we follow her from there. Our Sponsors: * Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com * Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/obscura for a great deal: https://www.chime.com * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com Support this podcast at — <a rel='payment' href='https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content'>https://redcircle.com/obscura-a-true-crime-podcast/exclusive-content</a> Advertising Inquiries: <a href='https://redcircle.com/brands'>https://redcircle.com/brands</a> Privacy & Opt-Out: <a href='https://redcircle.com/privacy'>https://redcircle.com/privacy</a>

Aileen Wuornos: Part 02 - The Composite Enemy

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The darkest true crime cases are the ones you've never heard of. Obscura investigates murders written off as accidents, disappearances dismissed as runaways, and obscure cases buried in forgotten files. Host Justin Drown delivers unflinching investigations through real archival audio, court records, and graphic forensic detail. No comedy. No sanitized narratives. Only the complete truth. New episodes every Tuesday.