True Crime & Headlines with Jules + Jen
YOU DESERVE TO BE FOUND! Hosted by -- Jules and Jen, who aim to not just share the HOW, but analyze and assess the WHY behind the crimes they report on. This is a place where we encourage everyone to always dig deeper into the crimes -- beyond the headlines. We get down to business quickly and focus on the victims first. Let's learn and push ourselves to ask the big questions from the big players. Catch up on episodes while we work hard behind the scenes to bring you two upcoming fundraising true crime podcasts: The Homicide Tree or NO Listen to the entire first season of Jules' long form investigative podcast Missing in Hush Town, available everywhere. Listen to Jen's short-form investigative podcast series The Unseen Truth, available everywhere. Email us: outreach@fireeyesmedia.com This is a proud production of women-owned Fire Eyes Media, LLC Original music composed by "Audio Steve" Stephen C. Nill Follow us on Instagram: @yourhostjules @jenriverainvestigates
Episodes
July 31, 2025 • 37 mins
Introducing the full length investigative podcast, In Esto.
IN ESTO - What really happened to Adrianna Hutto?
Episode 1 - "Everything's Purple"
Amanda and Alan live in his double-wide trailer in Northern Florida. He is a butcher and she works overnights at a care home. He has two teenagers who often visit and she has a 7 (Adrianna) and a 6 (AJ) year old who share a room. Alan goes to work early and leaves Amanda's kids under the supe...
IN ESTO - What really happened to Adrianna Hutto?
Episode 1 - "Everything's Purple"
Amanda and Alan live in his double-wide trailer in Northern Florida. He is a butcher and she works overnights at a care home. He has two teenagers who often visit and she has a 7 (Adrianna) and a 6 (AJ) year old who share a room. Alan goes to work early and leaves Amanda's kids under the supe...
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June 10, 2025 • 49 mins
True Crime Feed Takeover
Welcome back to True Crime and Headlines! As you all may know Jules is currently in the UK & Jen is working hard behind the scenes running our FEM podcast network.
While they're away, we have a very special feed takeover with some of our favorite podcasts, so you'll still get weekly episodes with cases you'll want to hear.
Today we're sharing Jen's newest episode from her nonprofit podcast, Case Uncovered....
Welcome back to True Crime and Headlines! As you all may know Jules is currently in the UK & Jen is working hard behind the scenes running our FEM podcast network.
While they're away, we have a very special feed takeover with some of our favorite podcasts, so you'll still get weekly episodes with cases you'll want to hear.
Today we're sharing Jen's newest episode from her nonprofit podcast, Case Uncovered....
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June 3, 2025 • 38 mins
True Crime Feed Takeover
Welcome back to True Crime and Headlines! As you all may know Jules is currently in the UK representing Fire Eyes Media and all our podcasts at CrimeCon UK & Jen is working hard behind the scenes preparing for the launch of our new podcast on the FEM netowrok, In Esto with N. Leigh Hunt.
While they're away, we have a very special feed takeover with some of our favorite podcasts, so you'll still get weekl...
Welcome back to True Crime and Headlines! As you all may know Jules is currently in the UK representing Fire Eyes Media and all our podcasts at CrimeCon UK & Jen is working hard behind the scenes preparing for the launch of our new podcast on the FEM netowrok, In Esto with N. Leigh Hunt.
While they're away, we have a very special feed takeover with some of our favorite podcasts, so you'll still get weekl...
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May 27, 2025 • 46 mins
Special Guest Episode:
Our friend Holly from the weekly true crime podcast, Crime with Holly, steps in to our feed today to share the story about Michelle Martinko. Cedar Rapids, Iowa was a safe place to raise a family in 1979. People trusted their neighbors, left their doors unlocked, and kids played outside until the streetlights came on. But all of that would change on December 19th, 1979 when 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was...
Our friend Holly from the weekly true crime podcast, Crime with Holly, steps in to our feed today to share the story about Michelle Martinko. Cedar Rapids, Iowa was a safe place to raise a family in 1979. People trusted their neighbors, left their doors unlocked, and kids played outside until the streetlights came on. But all of that would change on December 19th, 1979 when 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was...
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May 20, 2025 • 50 mins
In this heartfelt episode, Jen sits down with Nichole Schmidt and Tara Petito, the mother and stepmother of Gabby Petito, to have a heart-to-heart conversation about Gabby’s life, legacy, and the incredible work they’re doing through the Gabby Petito Foundation. Nichole and Tara open up about their personal experiences with the media, their grief, and how they’ve channeled that pain into creating something powerful. The Gabby Petit...
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May 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Weekly Dispatch | Jules & Jen: Behind the Scenes | May 09, 2025 Jules & Jen sit down together and share behind the scenes updates on current in-production podcasts, our network progress, and upcoming events! Join us in this casual episode and let us take you a bit behind the scenes as podcast producers. xox Jules & Jen
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May 5, 2025 • 21 mins
Hey everyone, it’s Jen, and welcome back to True Crime and Headlines with Jules and Jen. Today, we're diving into a case that shocked an entire community, set off a nationwide investigation, and reignited debates on crime and safety. It’s a warm summer evening, a quiet suburban trail, a mother of five heading out for a routine jog—one she would never return from. What should have been an ordinary workout became the setting for a ...
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April 14, 2025 • 29 mins
MISSING: Pregnant Mother | Emma Baum | Imagine this: It’s a quiet evening. The sun has dipped below the horizon, and the world is settling into its usual rhythms. Somewhere, a young woman is walking alone, her thoughts likely on the mundane details of her day. Maybe she’s on her way home. Maybe she’s meeting a friend. And then—she vanishes. No witnesses. No struggle. No trace. Just…gone. This is the story of Emma Baum. A story of a...
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April 10, 2025 • 13 mins
Welcome to Weekly Dispatch where we discuss the latest in true crime news each week! This week Jen covers the following news headlines & cases: - We're going to CRIMECON & podcast award nomination - Bryan Kohberger's Amazon records are 'catastrophic' for defense, 'smoking gun' for prosecutors - Chainsaw-Wielding Man Is Fatally Shot by Police in Illinois Nursing Home - How the murder of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman started the...
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March 24, 2025 • 34 mins
Listener discretion is advised. SERIAL KILLER: The BTK Strangler Monster |Bind, Torture, Kill| Part 2 of 2 Bind them. Torture Them. Kill Them. Shout out the listeners who recently left us a 5 star review and rating! Jen and I celebrate each one! Jen will be at Advocacy Con in Indiana the end of March as a guest speaker and creator. Jules will be attending the True Crime Awards UK in London in June- Missing in Hush Town has b...
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March 21, 2025 • 14 mins
Welcome to Weekly Dispatch where we discuss the latest in true crime news each week!
This week Jules covers the following news headlinnes & cases:
-Woman's 1979 cold case rape, murder solved with genetic genealogy; 82-year-old suspect arrested
-Menendez brothers' family hold rally outside of LA County DA's office advocating for their release
-Active-duty US airman charged in killing of missing woman on military base:Quinterius Chap...
This week Jules covers the following news headlinnes & cases:
-Woman's 1979 cold case rape, murder solved with genetic genealogy; 82-year-old suspect arrested
-Menendez brothers' family hold rally outside of LA County DA's office advocating for their release
-Active-duty US airman charged in killing of missing woman on military base:Quinterius Chap...
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March 18, 2025 • 31 mins
Listener discretion is advised.
SERIAL KILLER: The BTK Strangler Monster |Bind, Torture, Kill| Part 1 of 2
Bind them. Torture Them. Kill Them.
A three step process in fulfiling one man’s sick and demonic sexual fantasies. So why share the story? Why do we give these monsters more attention and discussion? Because they took the lives of people who aren’t here to speak up any longer, yet we can. And we will, and we’re here to make sur...
SERIAL KILLER: The BTK Strangler Monster |Bind, Torture, Kill| Part 1 of 2
Bind them. Torture Them. Kill Them.
A three step process in fulfiling one man’s sick and demonic sexual fantasies. So why share the story? Why do we give these monsters more attention and discussion? Because they took the lives of people who aren’t here to speak up any longer, yet we can. And we will, and we’re here to make sur...
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March 14, 2025 • 17 mins
Welcome to Weekly Dispatch where we discuss the latest in true crime news each week!
This week Jules covers the following cases:
- Gene Hackman & wife Betsy Awakara found deceased in New Mexico home
- Connecticut woman holds son captive for 20 years
- Families of the missing come together for Tennessee Missing Children's Day
- "Ghost Adventures" star Aaron Goodwin's wife arrested for murder-for-hire plot
- Brian Kohberger's defense t...
This week Jules covers the following cases:
- Gene Hackman & wife Betsy Awakara found deceased in New Mexico home
- Connecticut woman holds son captive for 20 years
- Families of the missing come together for Tennessee Missing Children's Day
- "Ghost Adventures" star Aaron Goodwin's wife arrested for murder-for-hire plot
- Brian Kohberger's defense t...
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March 11, 2025 • 45 mins
Welcome back to True Crime and Headline with Jules + Jen! Today's episode is brought to you by Jen's bi-weekly true crime podcast - Case Uncovered.
September 26th, 2003, started out just like any other day for 32-year-old husband & father, Eric Nelams as he headed off to work....but it would end in murder. Eric's family and friends never saw it coming—and 20 years later, they are still left with one haunting question - who kille...
September 26th, 2003, started out just like any other day for 32-year-old husband & father, Eric Nelams as he headed off to work....but it would end in murder. Eric's family and friends never saw it coming—and 20 years later, they are still left with one haunting question - who kille...
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March 7, 2025 • 19 mins
Welcome to Weekly Dispatch where we discuss the latest in true crime news each week!
This week Jen covers the following cases:
- Casey Anthony claims to be a legal advocate on Tik Tok
- Brian Laundrie's lawyer connected to Bin Laden
- Historian discovers Jack the Ripper's real identity
- 2-year-old killed in drive by shooting - killer still at large
- Utah man found dead in car in Idaho - ruled a homicide
- Scammer cons 70-year-old woman ...
This week Jen covers the following cases:
- Casey Anthony claims to be a legal advocate on Tik Tok
- Brian Laundrie's lawyer connected to Bin Laden
- Historian discovers Jack the Ripper's real identity
- 2-year-old killed in drive by shooting - killer still at large
- Utah man found dead in car in Idaho - ruled a homicide
- Scammer cons 70-year-old woman ...
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ONLINE SEXUAL PREDATORS- Keeping Our Children Safe w/The Innocent.org's Nate Lewis // Season 3 Ep. 3
https://theinnocent.org/
Nate Lewis joins Jules for a conversation about the realities of the dangers of unmonitored children Internet access and the correlation to children sex trafficking. The numbers are staggering. Nate shares that 1 in 5 children will be solicited online for sex before the age of 18.
Every adult needs to hear th...
https://theinnocent.org/
Nate Lewis joins Jules for a conversation about the realities of the dangers of unmonitored children Internet access and the correlation to children sex trafficking. The numbers are staggering. Nate shares that 1 in 5 children will be solicited online for sex before the age of 18.
Every adult needs to hear th...
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February 27, 2025 • 32 mins
Hi, everybody! This is a special-release episode of Jules' coverage of the ongoing and current homicide case of loving mother and daughter- Ivelisse Lugo, from our collaborative podcast, You Should Be Here (available everywhere now!). Jules was asked by Ivelisse's family to cover this case and it's time-sensitive. The muder suspect is currently at large- we need your help.
And you may have already heard...but Jen and Jules are bring...
And you may have already heard...but Jen and Jules are bring...
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February 25, 2025 • 36 secs
Weird True Crime, hosted by Gina and Amber, dives into the stranger-than-fiction cases while ensuring to remain victim-centered and focused. Subscribe today, wherever you get podcasts.
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Say hi to them on Instagram: @weirdtruecrime
a Fire Eyes Media podcast
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Say hi to them on Instagram: @weirdtruecrime
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February 25, 2025 • 50 mins
We're Back!
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 2!
New Episodes EVERY Tuesday & Thursday!
On today's episode Jen does a deep dive into the case of Gabby Petito. In Spring of 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé Brian Laundrie set out on a van life journey traveling across the US. Gabby had big dreams of becoming a travel influencer and she was well on her way to make that happen…
But in August of 2021, not long after a domestic d...
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 2!
New Episodes EVERY Tuesday & Thursday!
On today's episode Jen does a deep dive into the case of Gabby Petito. In Spring of 2021, 22-year-old Gabby Petito and her fiancé Brian Laundrie set out on a van life journey traveling across the US. Gabby had big dreams of becoming a travel influencer and she was well on her way to make that happen…
But in August of 2021, not long after a domestic d...
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February 18, 2025 • 39 mins
We're Back!
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1!
New Episodes EVERY Tuesday!
When Kyle was an adult, he learned his father's lifelong dark secret:
whereas everyone believed his father to be a family man and Chicago firefighter, he was living a double life...as a Chicago hitman for the mafia.
Jules sits down with Kyle Tekiela, host and producer of the chart-topping true crime podcast, Crook County. Kyle takes us behind the scenes into the wh...
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1!
New Episodes EVERY Tuesday!
When Kyle was an adult, he learned his father's lifelong dark secret:
whereas everyone believed his father to be a family man and Chicago firefighter, he was living a double life...as a Chicago hitman for the mafia.
Jules sits down with Kyle Tekiela, host and producer of the chart-topping true crime podcast, Crook County. Kyle takes us behind the scenes into the wh...
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