True Crime Brewery
True Crime Brewery is the true crime podcast that brings you deeply inside of a crime and its investigation. Hosts Jill and her pediatrician husband Dick use their medical knowledge and life experiences to share the stories behind some of the most compelling crimes from all over the world. And, just for fun, Dick uses his secondary expertise as a craft beer lover to review the best beers from the regions where each crime occurred. Meet this true crime obsessed couple at the quiet end of the bar to share a delicious craft beer and an immersive storytelling experience.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 89 minutes
- Episodes
- 414
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Fatal Father: The Murders of Aaron & Jacob Jenkinson
Young couple Frances and Darren Jenkinson of Glasgow, Scotland, were happy and attentive parents of 8 week-week old baby boy Aaron when tragedy struck. After 3 bouts of difficulty breathing, their ba…
A Daughter’s Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story
Hann and Bich Ha Pan had high expectations for their daughter Jennifer. She lived a sheltered life filled with piano lessons, figure-skating competitions, and several hours of studying each day. This…
A Monster in the Neighborhood: The Abduction of Jessica Ridgeway
On October 5th, 2012, Sarah Ridgeway called 911 to report her 10 year-old daughter, Jessica, missing. Jessica had left her home at 8:25am that morning to walk to school. At 10:11am, the school left a…
Dead in the Water: The Victims of the Green River Killer
In the 1980s and 1990s, at least 70 women were killed in the Seattle and Tacoma Washington area by the Green River Killer. The victims were mainly prostitutes and runaways who were picked up along th…
When Evil Came to Town: The Son of Sam Murders
This is the first True Crime Brewery commissioned podcast!
Thank you to Todd Feitl—a listener so fascinated by true crime (and beer!) that he paid us to do a TCB episode on the Son of Sam murders. Th…
Death by Dentist: The Murders of Dolly Hearn & Jennifer Corbin
To Dr. Bart Corbin, til death do us part meant murder. In 2004, Jenn Corbin’s 7 year-old son found her murdered in her bed. He knew his father was responsible. In fact, he told anyone who would liste…
Shots in the Dark: The Murder of Reeva Steenkamp
29 year old Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius on Valentine’s Day 2013. He would claim that he thought there was an intruder locked in his bathroom and he shot through the…
Postpartum Psychosis: The Andrea Yates Case
Andrea Yates confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub at home on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time with postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. In her 2002…
The Wife Who Knew Too Much: The Sara Tokars Story
Mother of two Sara Tokars was just learning about her husband’s shady business dealings when she was killed: executed with a gunshot to the head in front of her young children. When the truth came ou…
A Bitter End: The Murder of Laura Ackerson
27 year-old Laura Ackerson was last seen on July 13, 2011, after stopping by the home of her ex-partner Grant Hayes and his wife Amanda Hayes. She was reported missing two days later when she failed…
Forsaken: The Murders of Michael & Alex Smith
On the evening of October 25th, 1994, a 23 year old woman frantically knocked on the door of the McCloud family in the small town of Union, South Carolina. Hysterically, she told a tale of a lone gun…
A Husband’s Rage: The Murder of Rachel O’Reilly
A young mother who was well liked in her small Irish community, Rachel O’Reilly loved life. She loved her children, her home, her friends, and her husband Joe. As her marriage began to deteriorate,…
An Unfit Mother: Where is Baby Gabriel?
Baby Gabriel Johnson has not been seen since 2009. And the only person who knows what happened to him isn’t talking: His mother. Elizabeth Johnson took Gabriel out of state and away from his father w…
Getting Away with Murder: Casey Anthony
The story of murdered toddler Caylee Anthony gained an enormous amount of attention in 2008 when her mother Casey didn’t report her missing for 31 days. When questioned about her daughters whereabout…
Torn from the Womb: A Case of Fetal Abduction
In 2015, Dynel Lane lured 34 weeks pregnant Michelle Wilkins to her home with a Craigslist ad for baby clothes. She beat Michelle and stabbed her before cutting Michelle’s fetus from her body. This i…
Bed of Lies: The Murder of Lori Hacking
The lies told by Mark Hacking to make him feel better about himself and appear successful proved lethal to his wife Lori after they were revealed. Lori Hacking was 5 weeks pregnant and planning a mo…
In Plain Sight: The Ariel Castro Kidnappings
This may be the only True Crime Brewery case that has a happy ending…so sit back and enjoy…but not until we delve into the horrors 3 innocent girls endured for a decade. This is a story of unimagina…
No Girls Allowed: The Daughters of Paula Sims
Does lightening strike twice? Paula Sims expected investigators to believe that it did when she reported her 2 newborn daughters kidnapped at gunpoint…3 years apart.
Join us at the quiet end for a di…