Criminal Mischief

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The Murder Chronicles is now CRIMINAL MISCHIEF with Carolyn and Branden. From the creative team that brought you The Shadow Girls and The Devil Within, hosts Carolyn Ossorio and Branden Morgan team up to give you a double dose of true crime each and every week. First, Carolyn trains her investigative eye on the darkest corners of the human condition to bring you a weekly story that is terrifying and intriguing with the type of access that only a veteran journalist could achieve. Then Carolyn is joined by Branden for a weekly bonus episode to have a lively (and less professional…) discussion about the case. Criminal Mischief is sure to be your new true crime obsession. Go ahead… scratch the itch.

  1. 1D AGO ·  BONUS

    E|183 The Unravelling (Bonus)

    🎧 Criminal Mischief Episode: The Murdaugh Murders A powerful name. A quiet town. And a story that unraveled everything. ⚖️ The Case In this episode, Carolyn Ossorio takes you deep into the shocking murders tied to Alex Murdaugh—a once-prominent attorney from a legal dynasty in South Carolina. What began as a tragic discovery quickly spiraled into one of the most complex and disturbing cases in recent memory. 📞 The 911 Call It starts the way these stories often do: A frantic call. A husband claiming to have found his wife and son brutally murdered. But even in those first moments… Something doesn’t sit right. 🔍 The Investigation As law enforcement begins to dig deeper, the narrative begins to shift. • Timelines tighten • Alibis fracture • Financial crimes surface And the man at the center of it all? He’s no longer just the caller. He’s the focus. 🎙️ Inside the Interrogation Through police interviews and recorded interrogations, we hear the evolution: 👉 Confidence turning to contradiction
 👉 Control slipping into pressure
 👉 A story that can’t hold together Because the more that’s uncovered… The harder it becomes to explain. 🧾 The Evidence Court records reveal a web far bigger than the murders themselves: • Financial fraud • Abuse of power • A lifetime of manipulation And at the center of it all: A man who believed the system would protect him. ⚖️ The Trial The courtroom becomes the final stage. Where: • Evidence meets narrative • Emotion meets strategy • And the truth—whatever it is—can’t hide forever The verdict doesn’t just close a case. It exposes a legacy. 🧠 The Takeaway This isn’t just a murder story. It’s about: 👉 Power
 👉 Control
 👉 And what happens when both begin to collapse Because when someone builds a life on manipulation… It doesn’t fall apart quietly. 🎧 Listen & Follow 👉 Follow Criminal Mischief wherever you get your podcasts
 📺 Watch on the Evio Creative YouTube Channel
 📱 Follow @thedevilwithinpod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Because the most dangerous people… Aren’t the ones hiding in the shadows. They’re the ones who think they own the light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    31 min

  2. 1D AGO

    E|183 The Unravelling

    🎧 Criminal Mischief Episode: The Murdaugh Murders A powerful name. A quiet town. And a story that unraveled everything. ⚖️ The Case In this episode, Carolyn Ossorio takes you deep into the shocking murders tied to Alex Murdaugh—a once-prominent attorney from a legal dynasty in South Carolina. What began as a tragic discovery quickly spiraled into one of the most complex and disturbing cases in recent memory. 📞 The 911 Call It starts the way these stories often do: A frantic call. A husband claiming to have found his wife and son brutally murdered. But even in those first moments… Something doesn’t sit right. 🔍 The Investigation As law enforcement begins to dig deeper, the narrative begins to shift. • Timelines tighten • Alibis fracture • Financial crimes surface And the man at the center of it all? He’s no longer just the caller. He’s the focus. 🎙️ Inside the Interrogation Through police interviews and recorded interrogations, we hear the evolution: 👉 Confidence turning to contradiction
 👉 Control slipping into pressure
 👉 A story that can’t hold together Because the more that’s uncovered… The harder it becomes to explain. 🧾 The Evidence Court records reveal a web far bigger than the murders themselves: • Financial fraud • Abuse of power • A lifetime of manipulation And at the center of it all: A man who believed the system would protect him. ⚖️ The Trial The courtroom becomes the final stage. Where: • Evidence meets narrative • Emotion meets strategy • And the truth—whatever it is—can’t hide forever The verdict doesn’t just close a case. It exposes a legacy. 🧠 The Takeaway This isn’t just a murder story. It’s about: 👉 Power
 👉 Control
 👉 And what happens when both begin to collapse Because when someone builds a life on manipulation… It doesn’t fall apart quietly. 🎧 Listen & Follow 👉 Follow Criminal Mischief wherever you get your podcasts
 📺 Watch on the Evio Creative YouTube Channel
 📱 Follow @thedevilwithinpod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Because the most dangerous people… Aren’t the ones hiding in the shadows. They’re the ones who think they own the light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    47 min

  3. MAY 12 ·  BONUS

    E|182 Hollywood: Part Seven - It's Showtime! (Bonus)

    🎧 Criminal Mischief Episode 182: Hollywood — Part 7: The Finale It was never going to end quietly. After years of calculated hits, shifting patterns, and rising confidence, the man known only as Hollywood finally made the mistake that ended it all: He took the wrong money. 💰 The Trap In this final chapter, we hear directly from the detective who tracked him down. Because this time, the vault wasn’t just holding cash. It was holding a tracker. Within minutes of the robbery, law enforcement had a live signal—and a location. The hunt was over. 🚐 The Confrontation On a busy street in Seattle, in the pouring rain, the getaway van was surrounded. No escape routes.No time to think. Just pressure—and a decision. 🔫 The Shootout What followed wasn’t an arrest. It was chaos. • Gunfire in the streets • Civilians nearby • Officers closing in A full-scale shootout that turned a calculated criminal career into something desperate and unpredictable. ⚠️ The Escape And somehow… He got away. But not for long. Because once the system catches up to you—once it knows where you are, how you move, and how you think— The ending becomes inevitable. 🎬 The Parallel If this feels familiar… It should. The comparisons to Point Break are impossible to ignore. The thrill.The confidence.The escalation. And ultimately… The collapse. Except this wasn’t a movie. This was real. 🧠 The Final Takeaway Hollywood didn’t fall because he wasn’t smart. He fell because he couldn’t stop. Because at a certain point, it’s no longer about the money. It’s about the momentum. 🎧 Listen & Follow 👉 Follow Criminal Mischief wherever you get your podcasts 📺 Watch on the Evio Creative YouTube Channel 📱 Follow @thedevilwithinpod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Because in the end… It’s not the plan that gets you caught. It’s the moment you stop thinking you can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    32 min

  4. MAY 12

    E|182 Hollywood: Part Seven - It's Showtime!

    🎧 Criminal Mischief Episode 182: Hollywood — Part 7: It's Showtime! It was never going to end quietly. After years of calculated hits, shifting patterns, and rising confidence, the man known only as Hollywood finally made the mistake that ended it all: He took the wrong money. 💰 The Trap In this final chapter, we hear directly from the detective who tracked him down. Because this time, the vault wasn’t just holding cash. It was holding a tracker. Within minutes of the robbery, law enforcement had a live signal—and a location. The hunt was over. 🚐 The Confrontation On a busy street in Seattle, in the pouring rain, the getaway van was surrounded. No escape routes.
No time to think. Just pressure—and a decision. 🔫 The Shootout What followed wasn’t an arrest. It was chaos. • Gunfire in the streets • Civilians nearby • Officers closing in A full-scale shootout that turned a calculated criminal career into something desperate and unpredictable. ⚠️ The Escape And somehow… He got away. But not for long. Because once the system catches up to you—once it knows where you are, how you move, and how you think— The ending becomes inevitable. 🎬 The Parallel If this feels familiar… It should. The comparisons to Point Break are impossible to ignore. The thrill.
The confidence.
The escalation. And ultimately… The collapse. Except this wasn’t a movie. This was real. 🧠 The Final Takeaway Hollywood didn’t fall because he wasn’t smart. He fell because he couldn’t stop. Because at a certain point, it’s no longer about the money. It’s about the momentum. 🎧 Listen & Follow 👉 Follow Criminal Mischief wherever you get your podcasts
📺 Watch on the Evio Creative YouTube Channel
📱 Follow @thedevilwithinpod on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook Because in the end… It’s not the plan that gets you caught. It’s the moment you stop thinking you can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    48 min

  5. MAY 5 ·  BONUS

    E|181 Hollywood: Part Six — Greed (Bonus)

    🎧 Criminal Mischief Hollywood: Part Six — Greed The story continues… and the stakes get higher. In Part Six of our series on Seattle’s most elusive bank robber—known only as Hollywood—the operation doesn’t just continue. It evolves. 💰 The Escalation What began as a bold first hit has now stretched into a three-year run. And with time comes confidence.
With confidence… comes risk. Hollywood isn’t just robbing banks anymore. He’s refining the system: • New members brought into the crew • Roles becoming more defined • Execution becoming faster… cleaner… more ambitious And then comes the shift. 🏦 From Drawers to Vaults At some point, the teller drawers stop being enough. Too small. Too predictable. So Hollywood makes a decision: 👉 Skip the front lines
👉 Go straight for the vault It’s a move that changes everything. Higher reward. Higher exposure. No margin for error. 🧠 The Pattern Beneath the Chaos On the surface, Hollywood looks erratic. • Different neighborhoods • Sometimes the same bank—two, even three times • No obvious geographic logic But chaos has a limit. Because eventually… money leaves a trail. And investigators start to notice something subtle—but critical: 👉 His spending habits Not flashy. Not reckless. But consistent enough to form a pattern. And that pattern? It begins to suggest when—and where—he might strike next. ⚠️ The Turning Point This is where it shifts. Because once law enforcement moves from reaction… to prediction… The clock starts ticking. Not just on the next robbery. But on Hollywood himself. 🔜 What’s Next As the net tightens, the question isn’t whether Hollywood will strike again. It’s whether he can stop himself. 🎧 Listen & Follow 👉 Follow Criminal Mischief wherever you get your podcasts
📺 Watch on the Evio Creative YouTube Channel Because in the end… It’s not the first score that gets you caught. It’s the one you didn’t need to make. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    35 min

  6. MAY 5

    E|181 Hollywood: Part Six - Greed

    🎧 Criminal Mischief Hollywood: Part Six — Greed The story continues… and the stakes get higher. In Part Six of our series on Seattle’s most elusive bank robber—known only as Hollywood—the operation doesn’t just continue. It evolves. 💰 The Escalation What began as a bold first hit has now stretched into a three-year run. And with time comes confidence.
With confidence… comes risk. Hollywood isn’t just robbing banks anymore. He’s refining the system: • New members brought into the crew • Roles becoming more defined • Execution becoming faster… cleaner… more ambitious And then comes the shift. 🏦 From Drawers to Vaults At some point, the teller drawers stop being enough. Too small. Too predictable. So Hollywood makes a decision: 👉 Skip the front lines
👉 Go straight for the vault It’s a move that changes everything. Higher reward. Higher exposure. No margin for error. 🧠 The Pattern Beneath the Chaos On the surface, Hollywood looks erratic. • Different neighborhoods • Sometimes the same bank—two, even three times • No obvious geographic logic But chaos has a limit. Because eventually… money leaves a trail. And investigators start to notice something subtle—but critical: 👉 His spending habits Not flashy. Not reckless. But consistent enough to form a pattern. And that pattern? It begins to suggest when—and where—he might strike next. ⚠️ The Turning Point This is where it shifts. Because once law enforcement moves from reaction… to prediction… The clock starts ticking. Not just on the next robbery. But on Hollywood himself. 🔜 What’s Next As the net tightens, the question isn’t whether Hollywood will strike again. It’s whether he can stop himself. 🎧 Listen & Follow 👉 Follow Criminal Mischief wherever you get your podcasts
📺 Watch on the Evio Creative YouTube Channel Because in the end… It’s not the first score that gets you caught. It’s the one you didn’t need to make. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    45 min

  7. APR 28 ·  BONUS

    E|180 Hollywood - Part Five: Whetted Appetite (Bonus)

    🎙️ Criminal Mischief Episode 5: Whetted Appetite The first robbery. The first rush. The beginning of something far bigger than anyone realized. In 1992, Seattle was booming. Money was everywhere—tech money, retail money, cash moving faster than the city could keep up. And into that chaos stepped a man who would soon become a legend. They would call him Hollywood. But in this episode, he isn’t a legend yet.
He’s just a man walking into a bank… for the very first time. 💰 The Job That Started It All On a quiet day in 1992, Hollywood and a single accomplice execute their first robbery—a Seafirst Bank in Seattle. No theatrics. No mythology. Just a plan… and the nerve to follow through. They walk out with roughly $20,000 in cash—and more importantly, something far more dangerous: Confidence. Because the truth is, the robbery works too well.
No one gets hurt.
No one stops them.
And they disappear without a trace. That first clean getaway would ignite a spree that would eventually span nearly 20 robberies and more than $2 million stolen across the Pacific Northwest But in this moment?
It’s just the beginning. 🎭 Becoming “Hollywood” This episode explores how a single successful robbery transforms a man into a persona. Before the disguises became legendary…
Before the FBI gave him a name…
Before the mythology took hold… There was this job. We examine how Hollywood begins to understand the psychology of fear, control, and performance—less a criminal, more a director staging a scene. Because from this point forward, every robbery would become more elaborate… more theatrical… and far more dangerous. 🧠 Inside the Mind of a First-Time Bank Robber Carolyn speaks with a retired FBI agent who breaks down what law enforcement looks for in a first-time offender—and why Hollywood immediately stood out. • The precision of the timing • The control inside the bank • The absence of panic These weren’t beginner mistakes.
This was something else. Something practiced. Something deliberate. As one investigator would later suggest, this wasn’t luck—this was the start of a system. 👁️ The Teller Who Was There For the first time in this series, we hear from a bank teller who witnessed the robbery firsthand. What did Hollywood say?
How did he move?
What did it feel like to be on the other side of the counter? The answers are quieter—and more unsettling—than you might expect. Because what stands out isn’t chaos.
It’s control. 🔥 The Appetite Is Born This episode isn’t about the biggest score. It’s about the moment something clicks. The moment a line is crossed…
and instead of fear, there’s exhilaration. Within months of this first robbery, Hollywood would escalate—hitting multiple banks in rapid succession and refining the method that would make him one of the most prolific robbers in U.S. history But here, in Episode 5, you hear the spark. 🎧 What You’ll Learn in This Episode • How Hollywood planned and executed his first bank robbery • Why that initial success changed everything • The early indicators that caught the attention of the FBI • What it’s like to experience a robbery from inside the bank • How a single decision turned into a multi-year crime spree 📌 Why This Episode Matters Every criminal story has a turning point. This is his. Because before the disguises…
before the headlines…
before the manhunt… There was a single robbery. And it worked. 🔔 Follow, Rate & Review If you’re following the Hollywood series, this is where everything shifts. Be sure to follow Criminal Mischief so you don’t miss what comes next—because the robberies are about to get bigger… and far more brazen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

    32 min

  8. APR 28

    E|180 Hollywood - Part Five: Whetted Appetite

    🎙️ Criminal MischiefEpisode E|180: Whetted Appetite The first robbery. The first rush. The beginning of something far bigger than anyone realized. In 1992, Seattle was booming. Money was everywhere—tech money, retail money, cash moving faster than the city could keep up. And into that chaos stepped a man who would soon become a legend. They would call him Hollywood. But in this episode, he isn’t a legend yet. He’s just a man walking into a bank… for the very first time. On a quiet day in 1992, Hollywood and a single accomplice execute their first robbery—a Seafirst Bank in Seattle. No theatrics. No mythology. Just a plan… and the nerve to follow through. They walk out with roughly $20,000 in cash—and more importantly, something far more dangerous: Confidence. Because the truth is, the robbery works too well. No one gets hurt. No one stops them. And they disappear without a trace. That first clean getaway would ignite a spree that would eventually span nearly 20 robberies and more than $2 million stolen across the Pacific Northwest But in this moment? It’s just the beginning. This episode explores how a single successful robbery transforms a man into a persona. Before the disguises became legendary… Before the FBI gave him a name… Before the mythology took hold… There was this job. We examine how Hollywood begins to understand the psychology of fear, control, and performance—less a criminal, more a director staging a scene. Because from this point forward, every robbery would become more elaborate… more theatrical… and far more dangerous. Carolyn speaks with a retired FBI agent who breaks down what law enforcement looks for in a first-time offender—and why Hollywood immediately stood out. The precision of the timing The control inside the bank The absence of panic These weren’t beginner mistakes. This was something else. Something practiced. Something deliberate. As one investigator would later suggest, this wasn’t luck—this was the start of a system. For the first time in this series, we hear from a bank teller who witnessed the robbery firsthand. What did Hollywood say? How did he move? What did it feel like to be on the other side of the counter? The answers are quieter—and more unsettling—than you might expect. Because what stands out isn’t chaos. It’s control. This episode isn’t about the biggest score. It’s about the moment something clicks. The moment a line is crossed… and instead of fear, there’s exhilaration. Within months of this first robbery, Hollywood would escalate—hitting multiple banks in rapid succession and refining the method that would make him one of the most prolific robbers in U.S. history But here, in Episode 5, you hear the spark. How Hollywood planned and executed his first bank robbery Why that initial success changed everything The early indicators that caught the attention of the FBI What it’s like to experience a robbery from inside the bank How a single decision turned into a multi-year crime spree Every criminal story has a turning point. This is his. Because before the disguises… before the headlines… before the manhunt… There was a single robbery. And it worked. If you’re following the Hollywood series, this is where everything shifts. Be sure to follow Criminal Mischief so you don’t miss what comes next—because the robberies are about to get bigger… and far more brazen. 💰 The Job That Started It All🎭 Becoming “Hollywood”🧠 Inside the Mind of a First-Time Bank Robber👁️ The Teller Who Was There🔥 The Appetite Is Born🎧 What You’ll Learn in This Episode📌 Why This Episode Matters🔔 Follow, Rate & Review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Murder Chronicles is now CRIMINAL MISCHIEF with Carolyn and Branden. From the creative team that brought you The Shadow Girls and The Devil Within, hosts Carolyn Ossorio and Branden Morgan team up to give you a double dose of true crime each and every week. First, Carolyn trains her investigative eye on the darkest corners of the human condition to bring you a weekly story that is terrifying and intriguing with the type of access that only a veteran journalist could achieve. Then Carolyn is joined by Branden for a weekly bonus episode to have a lively (and less professional…) discussion about the case. Criminal Mischief is sure to be your new true crime obsession. Go ahead… scratch the itch.

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