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Dead Bodies Podcast

Dead Bodies Podcast

Dead Bodies Podcast 5 Episodes May 2, 2025

Podcast exploring the strange and often startling places where dead bodies are discovered, from underfloorboards to chimneys and even on red carpets. Hosted by crime reporter Sharnelle Vella and radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy, each episode examines how a body ended up where it did and the lasting impact on the person who found it. The show features interviews with professionals who work with death daily as well as ordinary people who were unexpectedly confronted with a corpse. It's a true-crime series focused on the human stories behind these macabre discoveries.

Episodes

Bonus: Sharnelle and Dee Dee on 'The Boy In The Gold Mine'
Bonus: Sharnelle and Dee Dee on 'The Boy In The Gold Mine' May 2, 2025 00:13:24 While Dead Bodies is on pause for the moment, we are pleased to share a project that Dee Dee has been working on for the last 18 months. It's a true crime investigation into the disappearance of 12-year-old Terry Floyd in Avoca, Victoria, Australia, in 1975. The trailer is available now, and the first three episodes launch on Monday, May 5. In this bonus episode, Sharnelle and Dee Dee discuss her
Ep 147 - Ding Dong Ditch
Ep 147 - Ding Dong Ditch Jul 8, 2024 00:27:37 Ding Dong Ditch is a harmless prank that teenagers play. Ring the doorbell and run away. It was not so harmless, though, for a group of teens in Southern California in 2020, when the homeowner they pranked turned predator.
Ep 146 - Eaten Alive
Ep 146 - Eaten Alive Jul 1, 2024 00:42:30 In June, 2024, a woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake in central Indonesia. We look at some of the more bizarre deadly snake cases, as well as a man who tried to be swallowed alive by an anaconda.
Ep 144 - Alvin Ridley
Ep 144 - Alvin Ridley Jun 16, 2024 00:46:53 Alvin Ridley was an eccentric, often combative TV repairman in the town of Ringgold, Georgia in the US, who became reclusive and paranoid after his business closed. Suspicious eyes fell upon him when he reported a woman - who he said was his wife - dead in his home. Lawyer McCracken Poston took on the job of defending him in a murder case that everyone said could not be won.
Ep 143 - Velma Barfield
Ep 143 - Velma Barfield Oct 16, 2023 00:36:01 Australia, has been abuzz with discussion about the deaths of three people in Victoria, apparently after eating poison mushrooms. In this episode we look at serial poisoner Velma Barfield, who in 1984 became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.

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