We Would Be Dead

Oct 24 2024 200 ep. 91 mins 90
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We are Holly & Leslie, the hosts of We Would Be Dead. A weekly true crime podcast that finds humanity in the darkness, humor in the history, and the devil in the details. Above all else we recognize that if we had to walk a mile in any of the stories that we tell, we would be dead.

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Consumed (Mercy Brown and the New England Vampires)

Oct 24 2024 100 mins  
On a sunny day in November of 1990 three young boys decide to sneak off and play in the gravel pits at a local landscaping store for the afternoon. Little did they know that they were about to open a doorway into the world of colonial American vampires. This week we plunge head first into the strange and mysterious practice of vampire exhumations. Along the way we'll uncover the s

Daddy's Home (The Burari Deaths)

Oct 11 2024 129 mins  
We're starting off spooky season with one of the most haunting cases in true crime history. This case, referred to internationally as “The Burari Deaths” walks the thin line between devotion and madness, faith and delusion, mortal and paranormal. At 7:15 AM on July 1st, 2018 Gurcharan Singh went outside to meet his neighbor, Lalit Chundawat, for their morning walk. That mornin

Dragonflies (The Murder of Laci and Connor Peterson, Part 2)

Sep 26 2024 112 mins  
Sorry for leaving you all with a crazy cliff hanger last week but it had to be done! When we left off Laci Peterson had gone missing from her Modesto CA home on Christmas Eve day 2002. After a cursory investigation authorities had their eyes on her husband scott. This week we'll see how a pair of burglars with the worst luck in the world threw this case for a loop, a loop that coul

Dragonflies (The Disappearance of Laci and Connor Peterson, Part 1)

Sep 19 2024 87 mins  
On Christmas Eve morning 2002 Scott Peterson said goodbye to his pregnant wife Laci, got in his car and left to go golfing. When he returned home late that afternoon Laci was gone. Friends and family members leapt into action furiously trying to find Laci. Little did they know that they would find themselves launched into a horrifying media circus. Soon after, Laci's loved ones beg

Copycat (The Friday the 13th Killer with Jon Katity) [REBROADCAST OF EPISODE 167]

Sep 13 2024 89 mins  
Rebroadcast of WWBD Episode 167 about the Friday the 13th Killer.

True Crime TLDR: The Career Girls Murder

Aug 22 2024 66 mins  
It's a Lesliesode!!! This week's double sized TLDR takes you through the murders of Emily Hoffert & Janice Wylie, deemed the Career Girls Murder. It's a windy, twisty road that finally leads us to justice - but not without really f-ing up first. Click To Learn More https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/08/29/89957611.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 https://en.wik

Road To Nowhere (The Disappearance of Brandon Swanson)

Aug 08 2024 101 mins  
Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, 19 year old Brandon Swanson left a going away party for a friend. He started off on the half hour drive home to his parents house in Marshall Minnesota, taking back roads through dark cornfields when he found himself in unfamiliar territory. Brandon tried to turn his car around but ended up stuck off the road in a ditch. He called his parents

Folie à Deux Minus One ( TLDR Anna Stubblefield and Derrick Johnson)

Aug 02 2024 91 mins  
This week's super sized TLDR takes you through the complicated, one sided love story of Anna Stubblefield and Derrick Johnson. It's the story that inspired the much talked about Netflix Documentary: Tell Them You Love Me. Click To Learn MoreClick here to watch "Tell Them You Love Me" on Netflix WWBD Merch Buy your WWBD swag here! Join the Conversation

The Trail's Gone Cold (The Disappearance and Murder of Angela Nicole Bradbury)

Jul 24 2024 88 mins  
Mitchell County Iowa, July 12th 2021, 5:27 PM. A local girl was taking a walk down the Greenbelt River Trail when something strange and terrifying caught her attention. She looked once, rubbed her eyes thinking she must be seeing things, and then looked again. Upon further inspection it was clear that no she wasn't seeing things, there among the lush grass and stately trees was a h

True Crime TLDR: Gay Nazis (Ernst Röhm and the Eldorado Cabaret)

Jul 03 2024 50 mins  
Happy Pride Fiends! Alright we know it's July, but we had one more pride episode on the books so we're giving it to you anyway. This one is for the musical theater fans! Before The stonewall there was the Edorado Cabaret, a german, multi locational, enlightened, anything goes wonderland where liberation was was abundant. We have learned that you cannot talk about LGBTQ+ history wit