You're Killing Me

Shawnee & Joel Harris
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You’re Killing Me is an Australian true crime podcast that tells the country’s most haunting cases with depth, accuracy and storytelling that puts you inside the moment. Hosted by Shawnee & Joel, each episode unfolds like a documentary you can hear — combining narrative storytelling, extensive research, detailed timelines, and emotionally grounded scene-setting. No fluff. No shortcuts. No sensationalism. Just real cases, real people, and the real Australia behind the headlines. Whether you binge true crime on long drives, late nights or school pick-up queues, You’re Killing Me delivers.

  1. 5d ago

    Ep 25: He Built a Submarine by Hand, Invited a Journalist Aboard, and Dismembered Her at Sea — The Peter Madsen and Kim Wall Case

    Pre-dawn. Copenhagen. The sound of helicopter rotors cutting through dark water. The Danish Coast Guard had been searching since before midnight. Three Navy vessels, working a grid pattern across Køge Bay. They were looking for a sixty-foot submarine that had gone down the previous evening and not come back. A lighthouse keeper spotted it first. A shape on the grey chop. Radio contact was made. Standing on the hull with both arms raised above his head was a man. He gave his name when asked. He was the submarine's owner. Its builder — steel plate by steel plate, crowdfunded money and volunteer labour. By all accounts, the largest privately built submarine in history. His passenger's return to shore had been the last message she ever sent. Kim Wall was 30 years old. A Swedish freelance journalist who had written for TIME, Vice, The Guardian and the New York Times. Someone her colleagues described as genuinely curious, deeply principled, and utterly fearless in the field. She had boarded Peter Madsen's submarine UC3 Nautilus on the evening of August 10th, 2017, for what was supposed to be a short interview trip. She had texted her boyfriend that she was on the sub. She said she'd be home soon. What Peter Madsen did to Kim Wall on that submarine is one of the most disturbing things this podcast has ever covered. And the story of who he was before that night — the TED-talking, crowdfunded, charismatic inventor who convinced an entire city he was visionary — makes it worse. This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the murder of Kim Wall and the case of Peter Madsen — a story about a woman who deserved far better, and a man who was nothing like what he seemed. Topics: Peter Madsen | Kim Wall | Danish true crime | submarine murder | Copenhagen | Scandinavian true crime | journalist murder | UC3 Nautilus | 2017 | true crime Europe | YKM New episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.

  2. Jul 20

    Ep 24: Apartment 603: Ellen Greenberg Was Found Stabbed 20 Times in Her Locked Apartment — and the Coroner Called It Suicide | The Case That Won't Close

    January 26th, 2011. Philadelphia. A major blizzard is shutting the city down. A man returns from the gym to the apartment he shares with his fiancée. The door is latched from the inside. He knocks. No answer. He calls out. Nothing. After a few minutes he makes a decision and steps inside. Ellen Greenberg is on the kitchen floor, slumped against a cabinet. She is 27 years old. There is a ten-inch serrated knife in her chest. Ellen had been stabbed twenty times. Ten of those wounds were to the back of her head. The medical examiner ruled it a suicide. What followed is one of the most baffling, contested and heartbreaking cases in modern true crime — a ruling that her parents refused to accept, that forensic experts called catastrophically wrong, that federal prosecutors eventually agreed was worth a second look, and that still, to this day, has no resolution. This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the death of Ellen Greenberg — the Philadelphia case that asks how a woman can be stabbed twenty times and have it called self-inflicted, who had the most to gain from that ruling, and why the fight for answers is still very much alive. Topics: Ellen Greenberg | Philadelphia true crime | unsolved murder | suicide or homicide | cold case | forensic pathology | apartment 603 | Cyril Wecht | 48 Hours | true crime 2011 | YKM New episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.

  3. Jul 12

    Ep 23: Heaven's Gate: 39 Bodies, Black Tracksuits and Nike Sneakers — Inside the UFO Cult That Convinced Its Members Death Was a Spaceship | True Crime Cults

    The drive from Los Angeles to Rancho Santa Fe takes just under two hours. On the afternoon of March 26th, 1997, two men made that drive. One of them knew what they were going to find. The other only had half the story. The man who knew had packed a video camera on instinct. At 18341 Colina Norte, the door was unlocked. Inside one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in California, despite the warm March sun outside, were 39 deceased people lying on bunk beds in identical black tracksuits, purple shrouds pulled over their faces, and Nike sneakers on every pair of feet. Every single death was deliberate. Every single one was finished. Heaven's Gate was a UFO religious cult founded in the 1970s by Marshall Herff Applewhite — a man with a beautiful voice, a devastating charisma, and a belief that the human body was simply a temporary vehicle. That the Hale-Bopp comet passing Earth in 1997 was their signal. That death wasn't an ending. It was a boarding. This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the full story of Heaven's Gate — how Applewhite built it, who joined, why they stayed, and what it tells us about belief, belonging and the terrifying power of a person who makes leaving feel impossible. Topics: Heaven's Gate | cult | Marshall Applewhite | UFO cult | mass suicide | Rancho Santa Fe | Hale-Bopp | true crime cults | religious cult | 1997 | YKM New episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.

  4. Jul 5

    Ep 22: Roch Thériault & The Ant Hill Kids — He Called Himself Moses and Performed Surgery Without Anaesthesia | Burnt River Ontario | Canadian Cult True Crime

    In 1989, a woman named Gabrielle walked into a hospital in rural Ontario. She'd made it to the road somehow — flagged down a car, let strangers drive her somewhere with lights. Her left arm below the elbow had been cauterised. Burned shut. Someone had taken it. That someone was Roch Thériault. And Gabrielle was one of the lucky ones. From 1978, Thériault — a charismatic, volatile Quebec-born man who declared himself Moses and then God — built a commune deep in the Canadian wilderness that became one of the most brutal cult environments in North American history. What began as a survivalist religious group in Thetford Mines drew in dozens of followers, eventually settling near Burnt River, Ontario, where the real horror unfolded. For years, almost nobody outside the trees knew it was happening. This episode traces Thériault's origins, his psychological hold over his followers, the escalating violence, the escape of Gabrielle Lavallée, and the murder of Solange Boilard — the crime that finally put him away for life. ⚠️ Content warning: extreme physical abuse, sexual abuse of adults and children, graphic medical violence, procedures performed without anaesthesia. This one is serious. Come back when you're ready, or it's completely okay not to. Roch Thériault | Ant Hill Kids | Burnt River Ontario | Canadian cult | true crime Canada | cult leader | Gabrielle Lavallée | Solange Boilard | Moses cult | medical torture | cult abuse | Canadian true crime podcast | You're Killing Me

  5. Jun 28

    Ep 21: Kathleen Folbigg — Twenty Years in Prison for Crimes Science Says Never Happened | NSW True Crime | Wrongful Conviction Australia

    In 1999, Craig Folbigg was going through boxes as his marriage collapsed. Somewhere in the house, his fourth child had just died. He was looking for something — anything — to make sense of it. He found a notebook. Then another. Handwritten diaries his wife had never shown him. He sat down and read them. Then he made a decision that would define the next twenty years of Kathleen Folbigg's life. Kathleen was convicted in 2003 of murdering three of her four children — Caleb, Patrick, Sarah, and Laura — who died between 1989 and 1999 in their New South Wales home. The case rested heavily on her diaries, on statistical improbability arguments, and on the now-discredited logic of Roy Meadow's Law: that lightning doesn't strike the same family four times. For twenty years, she was Australia's most reviled woman. Then a scientific inquiry, led by Nobel laureate Peter Doherty, identified genetic mutations in the children that could explain their deaths. On June 5, 2023, the NSW Governor pardoned Kathleen Folbigg. She had served twenty years for crimes science now says may never have happened. This episode traces the full story: Kathleen's violent beginnings — a father who murdered her mother when she was eighteen months old — four children, four deaths, a diary weaponised in a courtroom, and one of the most significant miscarriages of justice in Australian legal history. ⚠️ Trigger warnings: infant death, child loss, discussion of justice system failures. Kathleen Folbigg | Australian true crime | wrongful conviction | miscarriage of justice | SIDS | infant death | Roy Meadow's Law | Peter Doherty inquiry | NSW pardon 2023 | four babies | Craig Folbigg | CALM2 gene | Australia's worst female killer | true crime podcast | You're Killing Me

  6. Jun 22

    Ep 20: Taylor Parker — She Faked a Pregnancy, Then She Took Someone Else's Baby | New Boston Texas 2020 | True Crime

    At Taylor Parker's gender reveal party, something wasn't right. The bump didn't look right. The dates on Facebook didn't add up. The ultrasound she'd posted at twelve weeks showed a foetus that looked nothing like twelve weeks. Guests caught each other's eyes across the yard. A medical professional couldn't stop staring. Afterwards, calls were made. Texts were sent to local hospitals. Warnings were issued. Nobody could have predicted what was coming next. On October 9, 2020, in New Boston, Texas — a small town near the Arkansas border where everyone knows your business and you've all sat in the same church pews — Taylor Parker murdered 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who was 34 weeks pregnant. Then she cut Reagan's baby from her womb and drove away. This episode traces everything that came before: the years of faked illnesses, fabricated pregnancies, and a pattern of deception so elaborate and sustained it defies easy explanation. It also tells you who Reagan was — a young mother with a toddler, a life, and people who loved her. This is one of the most disturbing cases we've ever covered. Not because of the violence alone — but because of everything that led to it. ⚠️ Content warning: murder, foetal abduction, graphic violence, factitious disorder, infant death. Taylor Parker | Reagan Simmons-Hancock | New Boston Texas | foetal abduction | womb raider | Texas true crime | capital murder | 2020 murder | faked pregnancy | Munchausen | true crime podcast | You're Killing Me

  7. Jun 16

    Ep 19: Tyler Hadley, Part 1 — He Killed His Parents With a Hammer, Then Threw a Party | Port St. Lucie 2011 | Florida True Crime

    It's mid-July 2011 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Sixty teenagers are packed into a house on Grandeur Avenue — red solo cups, warm beer, music thumping through the walls. The host is 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, and the party is everything he always wanted. His parents, Blake and Mary Jo Hadley, are in the master bedroom down the hall. Behind the locked door, underneath a pile of blood-soaked towels, is why they aren't coming out. Tyler had killed them both with a framing hammer hours earlier. Then he cleaned up, hid the bodies, and sent out the invites. Shawnee traces the story from the beginning: the suburb that promised more than it delivered, Tyler's diagnosis with Major Depressive Disorder, a cocktail of benzos, opioids and MDMA, a family trying to hold itself together, and the psychology of a teenager who felt, as he once put it, a step below everyone else. This is not a story about a monster. It's about how someone gets there — and what everyone around him missed. ⚠️ Content warning: murder of parents, drug use, teen violence, graphic crime scene detail. Tyler Hadley | Port St. Lucie | Florida true crime | parricide | house party murder | Blake Hadley | Mary Jo Hadley | teen killer | hammer murder | 2011 murder | MDD | true crime podcast | You're Killing Me

  8. Jun 10

    RE POST Ep 18: Israel Keyes, Part 2 — The FBI Interrogations, the Confessions, and the Secrets He Took to His Grave | American Serial Killer

    Israel Keyes agreed to talk to the FBI. He just didn't agree to tell them everything. After his arrest in 2012 for the abduction and murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Alaska, Keyes entered into a deal with investigators: he would confess — but on his terms, in his own time, with details released only as he chose. Over months of FBI interviews, he described murders stretching from Vermont to Texas to the Pacific Northwest, including the 2011 killing of Bill and Lorraine Currier in a house he'd never been to before that night. Then, on December 2, 2012, he was found dead in his cell. He had taken everything else with him. The FBI believes Keyes killed at least eleven people across at least ten states over more than a decade. Most of those victims have never been identified. His murder kits — buried in remote locations years in advance — may still be out there. Part Two covers the Samantha Koenig case, the FBI interrogation tapes, the Currier murders, what Keyes did and didn't confess to, and why this remains one of the most haunting open investigations in modern American true crime. ⚠️ Content warning: murder, kidnapping, sexual violence. Israel Keyes | Samantha Koenig | FBI interrogation | Currier murders | serial killer confessions | unsolved murders | Alaska true crime | Vermont murders | murder kits | American serial killer | You're Killing Me podcast

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You’re Killing Me is an Australian true crime podcast that tells the country’s most haunting cases with depth, accuracy and storytelling that puts you inside the moment. Hosted by Shawnee & Joel, each episode unfolds like a documentary you can hear — combining narrative storytelling, extensive research, detailed timelines, and emotionally grounded scene-setting. No fluff. No shortcuts. No sensationalism. Just real cases, real people, and the real Australia behind the headlines. Whether you binge true crime on long drives, late nights or school pick-up queues, You’re Killing Me delivers.

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  • Creator
    Shawnee & Joel Harris
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Shawnee & Joel Harris
  • Show Website
    You're Killing Me