The 10 Best Based on a True Crime Podcast Episodes
1) Minisode: Bodiless Murders & Phenomena (aka Creepers)
Phenomena, directed by Dario Argento stars Jennifer Connelly who, while attending boarding school discovers she has a psychic connection to insects and teams up with Donald Pleasance and a chimpanzee ...Show More
2) Episode 7: Clairvius Narcisse, Zombies & The Serpent and the Rainbow
On May 2, 1962, Clairvius Narcisse was pronounced dead after suffering a brief illness at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti, and was buried in a cemetery near his village. In 1981, he returned t...Show More
3) Minisode: Sharks vs Humans & JAWS
We love #SharkWeek, we figured that this minisode would be a perfect time to chat about shark versus human attacks and JAWS. Based on a True Crime is a podcast where Chelsea’s love of true crime and D...Show More
4) Episode 9: Real Life Home Invasions & The Strangers
Do stories of home invasion freak you out? They terrify us! In this episode, we chat about a handful of real-life home invasions, including the Sharon Tate murders at the hands of the Manson Family. W...Show More
5) Episode 39: Party Monster
In the early 90s, Michael Alig rose to prominence as a club promoter and founding member of the Club Kids, before being arrested for the vicious murder of Angel Melendez while high on ketamine. His st...Show More
6) Episode 40: Ted Bundy and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
The heinous crimes of Ted Bundy captured a nation as he stood trial for murder in Florida. At the time, few knew his true body count, in a series of murders that spanned multiple states on the other s...Show More
7) Episode 33: Wolf Creek & Ivan Milat
In the Fall of 1992, seven bodies were found in the Belanglo State Forest, all belonging to young people who had disappeared while hitchhiking in New South Wales, Australia. The account of a man who s...Show More
8) Episode 32: Memories of Murder & the Hwaseong Serial Killer
In the early morning hours of September 15, 1986, the body of 71-year-old Lee Wan-im was found in the rice fields hear her home, strangled to death and bound with her own clothing. Crimes like this we...Show More
9) Episode 27: True Crimes Based on Movies
The common thread in the movies we’ve covered has been their inspiration by real-life crimes, whether they are factual retellings, or original stories grown from a single headline or memory. But movie...Show More
10) Episode 28: Murder in the First & Henri Young
In 1939, convicted bank robber Henri Young tried and failed to escape from Alcatraz. Three years later, after spending time in solitary confinement, he stabbed Rufus McCain, a fellow escapee, to death...Show More