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Join hosts Katie and Whitney for a different kind of true crime podcast. You can start with season 1, The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, a deep dive into the most bizarre murder case you've never heard of. Or start with season 2, which covers a different stranger-than-fiction story each week. This bingeworthy show combines meticulous research with a refreshing mix of comic relief and seamless storytelling. There's plenty of room around the campfire--come help us roast murderers and marshmallows!

True Crime Campfire True Crime Campfire

    • True Crime
    • 4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

Join hosts Katie and Whitney for a different kind of true crime podcast. You can start with season 1, The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, a deep dive into the most bizarre murder case you've never heard of. Or start with season 2, which covers a different stranger-than-fiction story each week. This bingeworthy show combines meticulous research with a refreshing mix of comic relief and seamless storytelling. There's plenty of room around the campfire--come help us roast murderers and marshmallows!

    Love Will Tear Us Apart: The Murder of Larry McNabney, Pt 2

    Love Will Tear Us Apart: The Murder of Larry McNabney, Pt 2

    When we left you last week, attorney Larry McNabney’s attempt to become the biggest personal-injury attorney in Nevada had just crashed and burned like the Hindenberg, thanks in no small part to his new wife, Elisa. Elisa was a small-time thief and fraudster from Florida who had thrown the state and her whole life in the rear-view mirror to avoid the possibility of some brief jail time. She’d struck gold when she was hired as an office manager by high-flying attorney Larry in Las Vegas, and rapidly climbed the emotional ranks from employee to mistress to girlfriend to wife. But she had trouble keeping her itchy fingers out of the law firm’s cash register, which led to the state bar banning her from working there and reprimanding Larry. Looking for a new start, the couple moved to Sacramento to try and set the whole business rolling again, and at the start of 2000 Elisa hired 19-year-old Sarah Dutra to help her out with the business. But “helping” was not exactly what she did. Join us for part 2 of this chilling true crime story.

    Sources:
    Cold Blooded by Carlton Smith
    Marked for Death by Brian J. Karem
    ABC's 20/20, episode "Hell in Heels”
    Investigation Discovery's "Evil Stepmothers," episode “She Can’t Hide”
    Seattle Met: https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2022/11/jz-knight-ramtha-yelm-washington-school-of-enlightenment
    Herald-Tribune: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2002/03/15/woman-sought-in-california-murder-has-ties-to-florida/28711016007/

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    • 54 min
    Love Will Tear Us Apart: The Murder of Larry McNabney, Pt 1

    Love Will Tear Us Apart: The Murder of Larry McNabney, Pt 1

    There aren’t many stories older or more widespread than “bad decisions made for a pretty face or a hot body.” Those throbbing biological urges can kick reason and good sense right to the curb. For most of us, this is more likely to happen when we’re young and, y’know, dumb. But there are some people who will always be willing to put their hands in the fire, to risk everything they have for desire. It’s a trait that often goes hand-in-hand with a self-destructive recklessness that’s so fundamental to your nature that it might as well be in your bones. Join us for the story of California's "Marlboro Man murder" and the pair of devious, greedy killers who almost got away with it.

    Sources:
    Cold Blooded by Carlton Smith
    Marked for Death by Brian J. Karem
    ABC's 20/20, episode "Hell in Heels”
    Investigation Discovery's "Evil Stepmothers," episode “She Can’t Hide”
    Seattle Met: https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2022/11/jz-knight-ramtha-yelm-washington-school-of-enlightenment
    Herald-Tribune: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2002/03/15/woman-sought-in-california-murder-has-ties-to-florida/28711016007/

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    • 47 min
    Unfaithful: The Murder of Samira Frasch

    Unfaithful: The Murder of Samira Frasch

    There is freedom in being a narcissist. If you don’t see anyone else in the world as fully real and important, you can do whatever you want, follow your every urge and impulse. And if someone happens to get hurt along the way, well, you probably barely even noticed. A lot of the criminals in our cases fit this mould, grandiose types swinging through the lives of those around them like a flaming wrecking ball. If you’re the only person in the world who matters, it’s easy to lie and cheat and steal. And kill. Join us for the story of a hedonistic doctor and his glamorous model wife, whose opulent life and power-couple marriage spiraled down into chaos, lies and murder.

    Sources:
    Investigation Discovery's "Diabolical," episode "Mistress Roulette"
    Oxygen's "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered," episode "At the Bottom of the Pool"
    Tallahassee.com: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2015/02/21/frasch-murder-investigation-reveals-couples-torrid-existence/23792489/
    https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2014/04/11/frasch-got-1-million-plus/7582855/
    WTXL News: https://www.wtxl.com/frasch/day-two-of-adam-frasch-trial/article_09c900e2-e248-11e6-89c2-67bd6a5372fb.html https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/01/25/jurors-see-possible-murder-weapon-frasch-case/97031238/
    Tallahassee.com: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/01/26/defense-medical-expert-says-samira-frach-died-after-husband-left/97079960/ https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/01/23/jury-selection-underway-frasch-murder-trial/96941344/

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    • 38 min
    Counterfeit Son: The Murders of Bart and Krista Halderson

    Counterfeit Son: The Murders of Bart and Krista Halderson

    It's not that unusual for people to bend the truth a little to show themselves in a good light, especially when they're young. Maybe you want to impress a crush, maybe you just want to add a bit of glamor to an otherwise normal life. It's mostly harmless...unless the lies get out of control. If someone lies with every beat of their heart, builds an entire alternate reality around themselves, then what happens when that alternate reality is threatened by the truth can get pretty ugly. Join us for the story of a golden-boy son turned double murderer.

    Sources:
    CBS's "48 Hours," episode “The Snapchat Clue”
    Trial footage, People v Halderson
    WMTV15 News: https://www.wmtv15news.com/2021/12/22/halderson-trial/ https://www.wkow.com/news/prosecutor-haldersons-father-about-to-expose-sons-lifestyle-lies-before-homicide/article_4385f8b0-6d96-11ec-bcd0-6b683767931a.html
    Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/fake-spacex-job-murder-dismemberment-lies-1278750/
    Channel 3000 News: https://www.channel3000.com/news/crime/analysts-say-phone-of-chandler-halderson-was-tracked-in-areas-where-parents-remains-found/article_4779b795-67a1-53ba-81d0-3b0261ce3688.html
    WKOW News: https://www.wkow.com/news/crime/chandler-halderson-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-without-parole-for-the-murder-of-his-parents/article_1ec0c0b4-a626-11ec-b6d8-a303892e68f7.html

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    • 36 min
    Out of Your Depth: The Grisly Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916

    Out of Your Depth: The Grisly Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916

    When you were a kid, were you ever scared to go in the swimming pool in case you might get eaten by a shark? Or just get in the bathtub? Hell, one time I even managed to freak myself out just from laying on a waterbed. This is mainly thanks to Steven Spielberg and a 25-foot mechanical shark called Bruce, but “Jaws” wasn’t made in a vacuum. Shark attacks are, thankfully, very rare, but over a century ago there were a series of attacks so shocking and so close together that they cemented the shark as a figure of sharp-toothed horror in the American psyche. The serial killer of the sea, you might say. Basically what we’re sayin’ here folks, is it’s SHARK WEEK on True Crime Campfire. Join us for the terrifying true story of the deadly 1916 shark attacks that inspired the movie "Jaws." This one's not for the faint of heart!

    Sources:
    Close to Shore by Michael Capuzzo
    NY Times Archives: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/07/07/100214613.pdf
    National Geographic Archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20150703224631/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150702-shark-attack-jersey-shore-1916-great-white/
    Pittsburgh Press: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press/106419794/
    Matawan Historical Society: https://matawanhistoricalsociety.org/1916-shark-attack/
    Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/07/25/us-shark-mania-began-with-this-attack-more-than-century-ago/
    https://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/ten-strange-medieval-ideas-animals/

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    • 53 min
    Touched By an Angel: The Murder of Fred Jablin

    Touched By an Angel: The Murder of Fred Jablin

    Leonard Cohen sang, “All I ever learned from love / Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya,” which should certainly strike a chord with followers of true crime. We’ve seen time and again how, after a bitter break-up, a person can go to extraordinary lengths to get their own back, whether the wrongs they’ve suffered are real or exist entirely in their own heads. Join us for a true crime story of greed, revenge, and toxic self-absorption.

    Sources:
    Die, My Love by Kathryn Casey
    48 Hours, S17E29, “Two Wigs, a Gun and a Murder”
    https://richmond.com/from-the-archives/from-the-archives-piper-rountree-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-killing-ex-husband-in/article_b5a5b3be-017c-5a34-a053-e255a947f36b.html
    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7037898
    https://law.justia.com/cases/virginia/court-of-appeals-unpublished/2007/0155062.html
    https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/lawyer-gets-life-in-ex-husband-s-death-1916001.php

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    • 56 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
1.3K Ratings

1.3K Ratings

MandyALL ,

Love it!

A friend turned me on to this podcast and I absolutely love it! The perfect mix of story telling and humor. I enjoy the banter and genuine friendship of the ladies. Good stuff!

Trace2827 ,

The shift downhill is noticeable

Really sad the quality of this podcast has declined

xDearDahliax ,

Katie..

Good podcast but one of the host tries too hard to be funny and it’s a miss Every. Single. Time. It’s cringy and annoying. Other than that, I enjoy the podcast!

Update - I just can’t with Katie. The fake laughs, cringy jokes, sound effects, dramatic storytelling.. unfollow. ✌🏽

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