My Second Self and I: We Talk About Weird Crimes
My Second Self and I is the unique comedy/true crime show where one of the hosts is just a disembodied voice! Join Matt and his Co-host Alex (the voice in his head) as they take you through a weird, wacky, wild, or otherwise unbelievable true crime story! The research is all real, the jokes come fast, and you never know what Alex might have to say....does your brain always say what you want it to say?
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The Scalp Hunter, or Canal Killer, John Patrick Sweeney is spending the remainder of his life behind bars for the gruesome acts he commited. A serial domestic abuser, murderer and talented artist, Sweeney is a terrifying example of how sneakily a psychopath can weave you into their web of despair!
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This week is a new serial killer I've never heard of! This time for sure! Tommy Lynn Sells was known as the coast to coast killer and confessed to upwards of 70 murders over a career spanning nearly 20 uninterrupted years of chaos and pain! This one is quite a bit more disturbing than a lot of the other cases I've talked about, so buckle up for a wild ride!
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This week is a new serial killer i've never heard of! Well, maybe. There's a lot of interesting things going on in this story. Paul Zeininger, or Gerald Eugene Stano as he's later called, confessed to over 40 murders of young women, but is he really guilty of everything he's been accused of or confessed to? Let's go over everything i've found and see what we can figure out!
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This week is another anthology episode! Hurray! We are excited to be back, so we thought what better way to return from a long impromptu hiatus than with the most fun type of episode I know how to produce! If you aren't familiar, this is where I tell 3 separate crazy stories that have nothing to do with each other and it's just a fun time!
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This week is the final volume of Around the World in 30 days! A series of episodes where I do exclusively non american crime stories! This week we're going to Germany to look at theangriest man i've ever heard of! A spree killer who suffered from multiple forms of tuberculosis, yes there's more than one type apparently, and took his frustrations out on the people he cared about!
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This week is the third volume of Around the World in 30 days! A series of episodes where I do exclusively non american crime stories! This week we're going to Finland to look at the lake bodom murders! A story so mysterious and brutal that it served as a jumping off point for crime writers for the last 60 years, as well as the name one of my favorite metal bands!
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This week is the second volume of Around the World in 30 days! A series of episodes where I do exclusively non american crime stories! This week we're going to Canada to look at one of the most disgusting, yet also unique ways to murder someone ever! Gilbert Paul Jordan lead a life of ever increasingly violent crimes that took the lives of at least 10 people and we're gonna talk about it!
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...This week is the first volume of Around the World in 30 days! A series of episodes where I do exclusively non american crime stories! This week we're going to the land down unda to take hitchike our way across the Hume Highway from Sydney to Melbourne, and we might check out the Belanglo State Forest along the way! It's a fun episode!
I also learned the Shostakovich Waltz Number 2 to play in the background for this. If you also ...
This week is the last volume of Time Travel Tragedies! We're covering a story about a man named Thomas Neil Cream and how he murdered his way across two continents, including two cities with the same exact name! How did we get here? Well, click play and find out!
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/496279408/?terms=thomas%20neill%20cream&match=1 (subscr...
Oh snap! It's a bonus episode! This is the third volume of the Anthologies of Weirdness that I like to do from time to time! In this episode you'll find 3 stories that are all equally crazy in their own regard, but have absolutely nothing to do with the other! It's a really good excuse to talk about some wild stuff and make jokes about the crazy parts of life you might not otherwise hear about!
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This week's volume of Time Travel Tragedies takes us back to the glory days of the old west! A time when the rugged, the strong, and the determined were the only ones to really thrive and survive! This week we're talking about one of the lesser known bandits of the era, a man that is now widely known as the Kentucky Cannibal!
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This week's volume of Time Travel Tragedies takes us back to yet another name we're all familiar with, Jack The Ripper! So much mystery, so much blood, so many missing organs, so few answers to so many questions! As always it's sure to be a fun time to take a listen!
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https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/ (so comprehensive!)
This week's volume of Time Travel Tragedies takes us back to another name we're all familiar with, H.H. Holmes! The man with the infamous murder castle was a lifelong swindler and led a very interesting and very busy life! I have some questions that i'm going to attempt to answer and it's going to be a lot of fun today!
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https://mysteriouschicago.com/top-ten-myths-about-h-h-holm...
Lizzie borden took an axe....and threw it in the basement! Was she actually the culprit in the famous case from Fall River? Why did they call the maid an entirely different name than her real name? Maybe you're like me and have heard the name and never bothered reading about her, or maybe it's just been a while since you have. Either way this is what we're doing today! This month is a whole bunch of stories that took place before 1...
This week we're going back down mexico way! A former luchadora turned violent criminal? Find out what kind of life one has to live in order to wind up as one of mexico's most notorious Serial Killers!
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https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Juana_Barraza#Known_Victims
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/what-happened-to-mexican-serial-killer-juana-barraza
We're going back across the pond to the UK again! This time we're taking a look at one of UK's most infamous killers, and what she did to earn a top spot in the UK penal system!
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https://theswaddle.com/the-difference-between-asocial-and-antisocial/
SURPRISE! IT'S A BONUS EPISODE! This one is about a seemingly innocent sweet old lady with a terrible secret! Sometimes, things aren't always exactly as they seem, and this lady is one of the scariest examples of that!
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https://allthatsinteresting.com/dorothea-puente
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/dorothea-puente/
This week is an angel of death serial killer! We're gonna talk about one of the worst nurses ever and how she managed to kill possibly up to 60 children and babies! What kinds of things does a person like this say? Can you tell if somebody is lying or not? I had a lot to say this week and I think you'll leave here pleasantly surprised!
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This week I take a look a brutal pseudo-religious cult organization that i've never heard of before! What I thought was going to be a story about a female serial killer turned into SO MUCH MORE than I anticipated. This one is definitely not for the faint of heart!
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https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/aldrete-sara.htm
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-05-16-fi-385-story....
This week I have one of the more interesting ghost stories i've ever read about! The ghost of Hammersmith! A strange case that lingered around the halls of the british legal system for almost 200 years before it was finally resolved!
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https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/10/the-case-of-a-ghost-haunted-england-for-over-two-hundred-years/
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