Bad Acts: A True Crime Podcast
Twisted true crime tales of dark deeds and despicable people. New episodes every Thursday. Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus episodes here: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 251
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Ep. 205 — The Heart Thief & The Lady Gunslinger
First, we’ll talk about Elena Estrada, a woman who literally cut out a man’s heart.
Then, we’ll talk about Mae Woodman, who had no sense of humor with a practical joke and decided to co…
Ep. 204 – The Bathtub Cannibal, a.k.a. The Butcher of Tompkins Park, Part 2
We’re still in New York City to talk about the murder of Monika Beerle and the bad choices of an aspiring cult leader named Daniel Rakowitz. Also, WTF, Sylvia??
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Ep. 203 – The Bathtub Cannibal, a.k.a. The Butcher of Tompkins Square Park, Part 1
Today, we’re going to New York City to talk about the murder of Monika Beerle and the bad choices of an aspiring cult leader named Daniel Rakowitz.
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Ep. 202 — It’s All on Tape: The Murder of Karen Perez
In April 2016, 15-year-old Karen Perez celebrated her quinceañera surrounded by family and friends. A month later, she didn’t come home from school on a Friday afternoon. Her family was…
Ep. 201 Hidden Bodies: Murder & Makeshift Graves
In September 2023, Essex Police uncovered a disturbing pair of murders in a nondescript rowhouse. For 4 years, 36-year-old Virginia McCullough lived with the bodies of her murdered pare…
Ep. 200 — The Reverend & The Mother: The Unraveling of the Hopkins Family
In December 2004, 36-year-old Arleatha Hopkins disappeared. Her husband, Reverend Anthony Hopkins, told multiple stories about what happened to her, and no one questioned him for nearly…
Ep. 199 — Acid, Axes, & The First Woman to Die in the Electric Chair
17-year-old Ida Place had the stepmother from hell. When her father William married Martha Place, he probably didn’t expect her to become a total psycho. But she definitely wasn’t respo…
Ep. 198 Tri-State Crimes: The 2022 Crime Spree of Caleb Anderson
On August 1, 2022, 18-year-old Aurora Dahl went for a run in Michigan that she barely survived. The next day, someone killed Patrick Ernst in his Wisconsin home. Another murder down in …
Ep. 197 – Tillie Klimek, Murderess of Chicago
Tillie Klimek has many nicknames, among them “The Black Widow of Chicago,” “The High Priestess of the Bluebeard Clique,” and—my favorite—“The Premonition Poisoner.” She was rumored to b…
Ep 196 - Murder in Paradise: The Plastic Surgeon & The YouTube Star
In August 2023, trash collectors working at a garbage dump in Thailand discovered a fertilizer bag filled with dismembered human remains. The body parts came from an island that’s popul…
Ep. 195 – The Meeks Family Murder: A Historical Crime
In May 1896, a fiend attacked 5 members of the Meeks Family with a gun and a blunt object—allegedly an ax or hatchet. One family member survived to point the finger at the family’s kill…
Ep. 194 - The Disappearance & Murder of Katherine Foster
When 18-year-old Katherine Foster disappeared, her friends and family banded together to find her. Two days later, searchers found her body in a wooded area near the University of South…
Ep. 193 - The Murder of Christina Yuna Lee
In February 2022, Christina Yuna Lee was followed into her apartment complex in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood. Her neighbors called the police, who arrived in minutes—so why do…
Ep. 192: The Cemetery Hill Family Murder
In December 2020, Timothy Saunders discovered a horrific scene in his daughter’s home on Cemetery Road. His daughter, Risa Saunders, lived in the house with her husband Daniel Long, and…
Ep. 191 - You Want a Piece of Me? The Top 3 Funniest Pie Crimes
This week, we’re going to take a break from talking about traumatic crimes. Instead, we’re going to tell you about some ridiculous crimes involving pie. Trust us, you’ll enjoy this epis…
Ep. 190 - 90 Seconds of Horror: The Murder of Warren Barnes
In February 2021, “the Reading Man” of Grand Junction, a man named Warren Barnes, became the target of an aspiring serial killer. Two days after Warren was last seen by his friends, a l…
Ep. 189 - The Sex Doll Killer: The Murder of Kristen Trickle
On Halloween 2019, 26-year-old Kristen Trickle died in her bed. The coroner ruled it a suicide, but both Kristen’s family and the detectives on her case knew that it had to be murder. T…
Ep. 188 – The Murder of Dedra Lawrence & Deanna Lawrence
In November 2017, 24-year-old Dedra Lawrence was sharing a home with her mom, 46-year-old Deanna Lawrence.
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Ep. 187 - The Murder of Regilla “Jill” Stacy
In 2013, 48-year-old Jill Stacy was canning homemade salsa made from veggies she grew on the morning someone brutally murdered her. Investigators suspected she knew her killer, but they…
Ep. 186 - The Buffalo Narrows Ax Murders
As police arrived to arrest him, murderer Frederick Moses McCallum sat at a kitchen table, drinking tea. The priest he’d called to the crime scene stood nearby. Inside the small house i…