Foul Play: Crime Series
by Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins · 362 episodes
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Welcome to Foul Play: Crime Series, the riveting true crime podcast that takes you on a deep dive into the world's most gripping cases. Each season unravels a unique case—choose one that intrigues you and dive in.
Latest episodes
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37 min
Delaware & Montana: What the River Knows
Season 40: America's 250th -- fifty true crime stories from fifty states. Delaware, 1891. A headless body in acommercial canal, the head never recovered. Montana Territory, 1889. A…
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38 min
Arkansas & Michigan: Town Secrets, 1875-1912
Season 40: America's 250th — 50 states, 50 forgotten crimes. Two communities. Two murders decades apart.In the Arkansas Ozarks, a town rushed to convict a man on circumstantial evi…
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39 min
Kansas and Virginia: Badges, Betrayal, and Frontier Justice
Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary — fifty states, fifty crimes, two hundred and fifty years. This double--feature episode covers Kansas and Virginia.A city marshal with a gold…
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38 min
1898 America: The Burning of Baker, McGeisey & Sampson
Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary -- 50 states, 25 double-feature episodes. Two fires burned in 1898America. One in South Carolina, where a mob murdered a Black postmaster and…
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36 min
Rhode Island & North Dakota: Who Killed the King?
Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary -- 50 states, 25 double-feature episodes. This is Episode 13, coveringRhode Island and North Dakota with two true crime cases from the 1880s…
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38 min
Hawaii and Louisiana: The Plantation's Shadow, 1887-1889
This episode is part of Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary -- 50 states, 25 double-feature episodesexploring the cases that shaped American history from every corner of the cou…
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36 min
Wyoming and New York: Children in the Dock, 1892
Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary — fifty true crime stories from fifty states. Wyoming, 1892. A fiftee-n-year-old orphan train rider murders two young men in a boxcar and bec…
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37 min
New Mexico & Illinois: Two Political Murders, No Justice
Season 40: America's 250th Anniversary. Fifty states. Fifty crimes. Two hundred and fifty years of Americanhistory, told through the true crime cases that other shows leave behind.…
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57 min
The Keepers, Where Are They Now
Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins close out their reunion by going down the list of the people who appeared in the Netflix documentary The Keepers, where they are today, who is still…
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53 min
The Suspects and the Silence
Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins continue their first sit-down in over a year, working through the second half of the questions listeners submitted through the show's Facebook commun…
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38 min
California & Alabama: When the Mob Decided to Be the Law
This episode contains descriptions of murder, mob violence, historical racial violence, and the execution of a convicted killer. If you need to skip this content, advance past the…
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45 min
New Hampshire & Colorado: Two Forgotten Murders, 1886–1897
This episode contains discussions of murder, execution, racial violence, and a botched public hanging. If you need to skip any section, the chapter markers below will help you find…
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1 h 22
Who Killed Sister Cathy, The Mary Statue and Unanswered Questions
Shane Waters and Gemma Hoskins sit down together for the first time in over a year for a wide-ranging conversation about the unsolved 1969 murder of Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik in…
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41 min
Massachusetts & Tennessee: Two Axe Murders, 1893 & 1897
This episode contains detailed descriptions of violent death, including axe murders and decapitation. If you need to skip this content, advance to the chapter markers below. Suppor…
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36 min
Texas & Philadelphia: When Justice Wore a Price Tag
This episode contains discussions of murder, arsenic poisoning, the deaths of children, and historical criminal trials. Ifyou need to skip any portion, advance past that segment us…
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32 min
Nevada & Georgia : Women on the Gallows, 1873-1890
Historical SignificanceIn Georgia, a Webster County posse pursued Susan and Enoch one hundred twenty-five miles to Coffee County, Alabama. The grand jury indicted both on May 27, 1…
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40 min
Missouri & North Carolina : Love Songs and Death
July 1877. A dirt road in rural Missouri. A fifty-eight-year-old woman named Martha Parrish is shot dead by her own son-in-law while trying to rescue her daughter from an abusive m…
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33 min
Ohio & Washington: Justice Buried for a Century
Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of gun violence, intimate partner violence, poisoning, and discussions of coercive control in same-sex and heterosexual relation…
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31 min
Idaho & Alaska: Gold Fever and the Men Who Killed for It
Billy Wimbish - was born around 1859. A Black man who made his life in the Alaska Interior, Wimbish earnedrespect among the miners of the Fairbanks district. In 1906, he served as…
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33 min
Maryland & Indiana: Forbidden Desires, 1878-1889
Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of gun violence, intimate partner violence, poisoning, and discussions of coercive control in same-sex and heterosexual relation…