Bad Acts: A True Crime Podcast

Send us a textOn August 1, 2022, 18-year-old Aurora Dahl went for a run in Michigan that she barely survived. The next day, someone killed Patrick Ernst in his Wisconsin home. Another murder down in Alabama that took the life of Dwight Dixon would link the same suspect to all three cases. Also, I’m sorry to the town of Flomaton, Alabama, for reasons that will become obvious.Patre

Send us a textTillie Klimek has many nicknames, among them “The Black Widow of Chicago,” “The High Priestess of the Bluebeard Clique,” and—my favorite—“The Premonition Poisoner.” She was rumored to be a psychic, and said to have poisoned as many as 20 people, cementing her name as one of the merry murderesses of 1920s Chicago. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badact

Send us a textIn August 2023, trash collectors working at a garbage dump in Thailand discovered a fertilizer bag filled with dismembered human remains. The body parts came from an island that’s popular with tourists—Koh Phan-Ngan. Investigators soon connected this murder to a YouTube star who’s also a member of a famous Spanish acting family, which resulted in the case being

Send us a textIn May 1896, a fiend attacked 5 members of the Meeks Family with a gun and a blunt object—allegedly an ax or hatchet. One family member survived to point the finger at the family’s killers, who turned out to be two very prominent citizens.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspodPodMoth: https://podmoth.network/Ad: Haunted Tales – https://linktr.ee/hauntedtale

Send us a textWhen 18-year-old Katherine Foster disappeared, her friends and family banded together to find her. Two days later, searchers found her body in a wooded area near the University of South Alabama campus. Proving who put her there would be difficult—but not impossible.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspodPodMoth: https://podmoth.network/Ad: The Moustachioed Podca

Send us a textIn February 2022, Christina Yuna Lee was followed into her apartment complex in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood. Her neighbors called the police, who arrived in minutes—so why doesn’t this story have a happy ending?Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspodPodMoth: https://podmoth.network/Ad: Rowan & Pine Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca

Send us a textIn December 2020, Timothy Saunders discovered a horrific scene in his daughter’s home on Cemetery Road. His daughter, Risa Saunders, lived in the house with her husband Daniel Long, and three sons named Gavin Smith, Gage Ripley, and Jameson Long. The crime that had occurred in their small West Virginia home scarred their small town. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/

Send us a textThis week, we’re going to take a break from talking about traumatic crimes. Instead, we’re going to tell you about some ridiculous crimes involving pie. Trust us, you’ll enjoy this episode. It’s officially one of our favorites. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspodPodMoth: https://podmoth.network/Ad: Caffeinated Conspiracies Podcast – https://podcasts.

Send us a textIn February 2021, “the Reading Man” of Grand Junction, a man named Warren Barnes, became the target of an aspiring serial killer. Two days after Warren was last seen by his friends, a local teen’s mom found a severed head and hands in her son’s closet. Also, Junction apparently refers to the confluence of the Colorado River and the Gunnison River—though ther

Send us a textOn Halloween 2019, 26-year-old Kristen Trickle died in her bed. The coroner ruled it a suicide, but both Kristen’s family and the detectives on her case knew that it had to be murder. The evidence kept stacking up until authorities finally had enough to arrest her killer.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspodPodMoth: https://podmoth.network/Ad: Macab at Midnigh