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Let’s drink some beer & explore the stories behind some of history’s most ruthless serial killers, conspiracy theories, alien abductions & cults!
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Lal Bihari, the man who spent 19 years trying to prove he wasn't dead! In 1976 he went to a bank in India to apply for a loan and got told he couldn't have one, because he was deceased. We'll get into what he did about it, and then the organization he started for everybody else this happened to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Two out of Philadelphia. First, there's a guy in a baby doll mask running around Center City at five in the morning chasing people. He caught up to a jogger near City Hall, held his phone up in front of her, and asked if she was ready to die. Then he ducked into a train station and took off. Then the dark one. Cops have spent two months searching a house on Chew Avenue in Olney, and what they've pulled out of there is hard to even wrap your head around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we wrap up our series on the death of John O'Keefe and the trials of Karen Read! In Part 3, we'll get into the Google search fight, and the FKR crowd that showed up outside the courthouse every single day. From there we'll go through both trials, the mistrial in 2024 and the retrial in 2025, and get into what it all means. Spoiler, we don't know. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, Amanda Knox has a stand-up career. She's debuting a comedy show called Cartwheel at the Edinburgh Fringe this month, built on her wrongful conviction. Then, Kerri Rawson, BTK's daughter and a longtime victims' advocate, has had a domestic violence injunction granted against her after her ex-husband's petition. And finally, in a new segment, the Hey Ya'll Update, Gypsy has announced her summer glow-up, which involves a chemical peel, lip filler, and hair extensions. Sorry, Mike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on the death of John O'Keefe and the trials of Karen Read! In Part 2, we'll get into the evidence itself, starting with John's phone. Then the autopsy and the fight over what actually killed him, the dog the Alberts rehomed a few months later, and the broken taillight that the state's whole case leans on. And we'll get into the video out of the Canton police garage, and why the defense says pieces of that taillight kept turning up days after anybody should have found them. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by Boll & Branch: https://www.bollandbranch.com/necro Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Tonight we've got a full update on the Siders family. We'll get into where the grand jury stands, and some paperwork out of Gallia County that fills in a couple of the gaps in this family's timeline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our series on the death of John O'Keefe and the trials of Karen Read! In Part 1, we'll cover who John was, the Boston cop who took in his sister's two kids and raised them as his own out in Canton, and how he reconnected with his old girlfriend Karen Read in 2020. Then we'll get into the night of January 28th, 2022, a blizzard, a couple of bars, and an after-party at a house full of cops. John's body was found in the snow the next morning, and from there we'll get into the investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the Siders family! On June 30th, 2026, sheriff's deputies and state agents went to a house on Ohmer Street in Hamden, Ohio, a village of about 700 people in Vinton County, to serve a warrant on something unrelated. What they found inside was 16 children, ages roughly 18 months to 18, allegedly kept for most of four years in one small room in filth. Four adults were arrested, the grandparents, and the kids' mom and dad. Tonight we get into how a family of 20 ended up in that house, the marriage at the root of it that started when the mom was 15, the homeschool loophole that kept these kids off everyone's radar, and the county-by-county gaps in Ohio's child services that let it go this long. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, we'll get into a guy in Burlington, Connecticut who bought a house "as is" at a foreclosure auction and found the skeletal remains of three people inside, since identified as a mother and son, with no sign of foul play. Then, Danny Masterson is asking the California court of appeals to overturn his 2023 rape conviction, arguing his trial lawyer failed to call key witnesses and put on evidence that could have cleared him. And finally, an 18-month-old in Gilbert, Arizona was pulled from a pool, pronounced dead by a doctor, and found still breathing in the hospital morgue almost six hours later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the idea of a Humanzee! We'll get into the Russian experiments into creating an ape human hybrid, and how that idea carried over to the United States. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover the murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock! On October 9th, 2020, Reagan was 21 years old and about eight months pregnant when she was killed in her home in New Boston, Texas. The woman who did it had spent months faking a pregnancy of her own. Her name was Taylor Parker. Tonight we'll go through who Reagan was, the deception that led Taylor to her door, the investigation, and the 2022 trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Steven Pladl! In 1998, Steven and his wife put their infant daughter up for adoption, and a family in New York raised her as Katie Fusco. Eighteen years later, after she turned 18, Katie reached out to her biological parents and moved in with them. Within months Steven left his wife, and what developed between him and Katie is the reason this case exists. They married in 2017, lying on the paperwork about being related. They had a son. They were arrested for incest in early 2018 once it all came to light. Tonight we get into how it happened, the abuse in Steven's past, and the bond decision that left him on the street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! First, a downed US F-15 pilot, rescued after being shot down over Iran back in April, told intelligence officials he saw something strange before he ejected: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish. Then, a Cornell paper that figured out why AI chatbots, when asked to write a story, keep inventing the same character. His name is Elias Thorne, he's almost always a lighthouse keeper, and he shows up in two-thirds of all the stories these things generate. We'll get into where this tupla-like entity came from and why the machines can't stop summoning him. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we close out our series on Gary Ridgway! Tonight we'll get into the science caught up to Gary, and the plea deal that spared his life. Then the sentencing in December 2003, where the families finally got to stand up and look him in the face. And finally, where Gary is today, and case still being closed into the 2020's. Sponsored Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we continue our series on Gary Ridgway! We start with the day a desperate task force flew down to Florida and sat across from Ted Bundy, who told them how a killer like this thinks, because he was one. Then the 1987 search that got them a sample they couldn't use yet. The task force shrinking down to one detective working it alone. And Gary just settling into a quiet third marriage while the whole thing went dormant. Sponsored Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Back in December we covered the disappearance of Gretchen Fleming, last seen leaving the My Way Lounge in the early morning hours of December 4th, 2022, with the case stuck cold and a former cop named Preston Pierce as the named person of interest. Tonight we've got the updates. Human remains turned up in Wirt County, West Virginia in September 2025, and genetic testing confirmed they were Gretchen's. That ID opened the door, and we'll go over all the updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we kick off our series on Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer! We covered this one back in 2019, came in under an hour, so we're doing it right this time. We start at the beginning, with Gary's childhood outside Seattle, the early warning signs, his time in Vietnam, and the religion he carried around right next to what he was actually doing. Then the killings, starting with the bodies that surfaced in the Green River in the summer of 1982. How he worked the strip along Pacific Highway South. The one woman who got into his truck and lived. And a task force that had Gary, by name, more than once, and let him drive off every time. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necromomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight for another installment of Necro Overtime! Or at least that's what we told Mike. What we actually have for him tonight is a full Gypsy Rose Blanchard Extravaganza! First, Gypsy's ex Ryan Anderson is clapping back after she called him a clout leech. Then, Gypsy's new bikini photos and the latest round of headlines about her post-prison weight loss. After that, her take on Mackenzie Shirilla, saying remorse hasn't hit her yet but when it does it'll hit her like a train, why she doesn't see Shirilla getting parole, and her thoughts on Mackenzie's hookups behind bars. And finally, Gypsy's new TikTok outfit-of-the-day videos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Fritz Haarmann, the Butcher of Hanover! In the chaos of post-war Germany, Haarmann worked the central train station as "Detective Haarmann," offering runaway boys a meal, a job, or a place to sleep. Between 1918 and 1924, he murdered at least 24 young men in his apartment and sold cheap black-market meat to the neighborhood. We'll get into how a man with fifteen prior convictions was left to patrol a station full of vulnerable kids, the accomplice who picked victims for their clothing, and the discovery that finally cracked it open! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Grab a beer and join us tonight as we cover Robert Smalls, the enslaved man who stole a Confederate warship and sailed his family to freedom. On May 13th, 1862, while the three white officers of the CSS Planter were ashore for the night, Smalls put on the captain's hat, fired up the engines, picked up his wife and children, and navigated past five Confederate checkpoints in the dark giving the correct signals at every one. We'll walk through how he pulled it off, what he did after, and why a man born into slavery ended up serving five terms in the United States Congress. and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices