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Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Obscura: A True Crime Podcast

Justin Drown 240 episodes Latest May 26, 2026

Obscura investigates the darkest true crime cases that have been overlooked or forgotten. Host Justin Drown delves into murders dismissed as accidents, disappearances written off as runaways, and obscure cases buried in forgotten files. The podcast uses real archival audio, court records, and graphic forensic details to present unflinching investigations. New episodes are released every Tuesday.

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Timothy Dean - Empty Inside Jun 9, 2026 3187 There is a village in the apple country of western New York called Sodus, up in Wayne County near the south shore of Lake Ontario, about thirty miles east of Rochester. This is fruit-belt land, orchard and muck field running back from the lake, roadside stands selling cider in the fall, the big cold lake holding the frost off the trees in spring. In October the orchards go heavy and the light come
Aileen Wuornos: Part 04 - Carnival Jun 2, 2026 3819 Aileen had been pawning items from her victims: tools missing from David Spears's truck, a camera that had belonged to Richard Mallory, other items linked to other victims. Florida law required pawnshops to take a thumbprint from anyone hocking goods, and the prints were on file.Aileen, while filling out pawnshop intake forms, had been using the alias Cammie Marsh Greene. A signed pawn slip wi
Aileen Wuornos: Part 03 - The Bodies May 26, 2026 2468 The wooded lot itself was mixed scrub of the sort that grows in the disturbed soil along an interstate corridor in central Florida. Pine. Palmetto. A few scrub oaks. Spanish moss hanging where the canopy thickened. The understory of vines and dead palm fronds that turns any walk off the shoulder into a careful one.The lot was bordered on one side by the interstate, on another by a service road, an
Aileen Wuornos: Part 02 - The Composite Enemy May 19, 2026 2402 This is part two of a four part series. Last episode, we walked her childhood. The fire at age six. The grandfather and the belt. The kitten in the bucket. The cigarette pig nickname at age eleven. The pregnancy at fourteen. The baby boy taken from her in March of 1971. Her grandmother Britta dying that July. Her grandfather throwing her out a few weeks later. The sleeping bag in the woods on the
Aileen Wuornos: Part 01 - The Girl in the Woods May 12, 2026 2402 She had stopped going to school. She had no money. There was no adult on the planet looking for her. What she had was a sleeping bag in the snow.Her name was Aileen Carol Pittman. The world would come to know her by her grandparents’ last name. Wuornos.Our Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out BetterHelp and use my co
Ray Coriell - No Sanctuary May 5, 2026 2071 In 2011, a quiet neighborhood in Bakersfield, California, was shattered by a crime so severe it left veteran investigators shaken. The case began with the frantic search for a missing eight-year-old girl and ended in a tense, seven-hour SWAT standoff. Ray Coriell, the man at the center of the storm, faced a barrage of charges that exposed a harrowing betrayal of trust and a level of violence that
Double Homicide: The House on Benchor Road - Part 02 Apr 28, 2026 1654 Double Homicide: The House on Benchor Road - Part 02Our Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/OBSCURA for a great deal: https://www.chime.com* Check out Mood and use my code OBSCURA for a g
Double Homicide: The House on Benchor Road - Part 01 Apr 21, 2026 1761 Double Homicide: The House on Benchor Road - Part 01Our Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/OBSCURA for a great deal: https://www.chime.com* Check out Mood and use my code OBSCURA for a g
Neglect: The Streamer and the Silent Crib Apr 14, 2026 1820 A two-year-old boy was found dead in his crib in Clinton Township, Michigan, starved to death while his mother streamed on Twitch. Featuring real court audio from the sentencing, Obscura examines the 2023 case of Sierra Pearl Zaitona and Jonathon Matthew Cheek, two parents who let their child waste away in silence.The boy had been in foster care before being returned to his biological parents, Sie
COLD CASE: Leslie Preer | Chevy Chase, Maryland 2001 Apr 7, 2026 2082 Leslie Preer was murdered in her Chevy Chase, Maryland home on May 2, 2001. For 23 years the case sat cold. This episode features court audio from the August 2025 sentencing and the genetic genealogy breakthrough that finally identified her killer.Leslie Ann Jennings Preer, 48, was a wife, mother, and former University of Florida journalism student. Born in North Kingstown, Rhode Island in 1952 an
Black Label: The Station Nightclub Fire Mar 31, 2026 1954 Black Label: The Station Nightclub FireOur Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out Chime and use my code chime.com/OBSCURA for a great deal: https://www.chime.com* Check out Mood and use my code OBSCURA for a great deal: ht
MURDERED: Leah Kline & Vivian James | Jacksonville, Florida 2019 Mar 25, 2026 1941 Two women strangled in two days by the same man in Jacksonville, Florida -- one killed at a motel on Christmas night, the other a beloved teacher murdered in her own home the next morning. This episode features real interrogation footage and court audio.Leah Kline's life ended on December 25, 2019. She and Zebulon Perkins had been staying at a Westside Jacksonville motel when an argument turne

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