One-Hundred Pound Baby

Jake’s long-held theory—that his illness wasn’t accidental—takes a jarring turn when a Facebook message arrives from someone he’s never met. Content warning: Drug use/abuse, addiction, medical trauma, death and dying, mental health crises, emotional distress & mature content. Res ...  Show more

Jake’s search for answers pulls him into the unsettling world of Munchausen by proxy—a rare, insidious form of abuse where illness is manufactured for attention. And as he revisits his own medical history, he’s left to wonder: did a real diagnosis conceal something even darker? C ...  Show more

A horrendous and very sad tale comes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, a tale where we learn that the ultimate darkness is sometimes never far from the surface...

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In February 1985, a little girl disappears just steps from home, leaving her mother with a lifetime of unanswered questions. For decades, whispers of a mysterious van, chilling letters, and long-buried secrets have fueled speculation. Now, nearly forty years later, new revelat ...

While our past few episodes have been focused on more recent cases, the one we are going to be sharing with you today takes us back nearly 70 years. But despite how long ago these events took place, the legacy of Ed Gein's crimes lives on in popular culture today. While his name ...  Show more

Ottis Toole is arrested for arson and confesses to a string of murders committed with his lover Henry Lee Lucas. Detectives come from all over to talk to him. Toole confesses to taking a little boy from a mall in Florida, but later denies it. Though Toole takes police to various ...  Show more