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David Avendano Ballina, between the years of 1997 and 2007, ran a Mexican street gang known as "Las Goteras" the gang poisoned and robbed men, “accidentally” killing as many as 70 with simple but deadly eye drops. Ballina lived a life of crime that started at the ripe age of 6, when after he robbed and killed a woman he stopped to try some of her beef stew on the stove. Which forever labeled him with the dreadful nickname…EL HAMBURGUESA!......phew I just shuddered a little.   Check out Patreon and our other shows!: Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: Book: Serial Killers of Mexico by Wensley Clarkson Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rex Heuermann, aka the long island serial killer, has finally confessed! Chimps are now starting gang wars with each other, and a naked prowler who was terrorizing a neighborhood is finally caught! Check out Patreon and our other shows!: Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In the 80’s, Michael Wayne Ryan was a nobody, a high school dropout, who couldn’t hold down a job. But to hear him tell it, he’s one of the greatest human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. He's a Vietnam war vet (not really), where he lost two toes( that part's true). He’s also been a hitman for the CIA(nope), and a mafia hitman as well(not a chance), all this before the age of 40. So it's no wonder this man thought he was “Michael” from the bible, the archangel reincarnate. All he needed now was a few people who shared his vision and hung on every word…yep, we're doing some cult shit.   Check out Patreon and our other shows!: Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Special thanks to "Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio" for the intro music! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de68pYYHbks&list=PLLEnbi5KRv6Z8CMUtLiA81-wQCLVUOKYs&index=13   Sources: https://www.oxygen.com/deadly-cults/crime-time/yahweh-nebraska-farmers-cults-slavery-torture-sodomy-murder Book: “Chambers of Horror” by John Marlowe Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It was 1950’s San Francisco when Philip Garrido was born. He always knew he’d be special, destined for fame and fortune. As a young man he knew he was gonna be a famous rock musician. When that didn't pan out he had a plan B, you know, something more practical, like being the next messiah and being able to directly communicate with God. 0_0 This megalomaniac kidnapped Jayce Dugard and held her for 18 years. This is the heartbreaking story.   Check out Patreon and our other shows!: Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: “Chambers of Horror: Monstrous Crimes of Incarceration” by John Marlowe Police Detail Dugard Kidnapping Case CNN: Nancy Garrido lured, videotaped kids EXCLUSIVE !!Kidnapper Phillip Garrido Speaks About Jaycee Lee Dugard 08 28 09 I AM INNOCENT!!! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It was Monday April 18th, 2016. Missy Beavers was up early and headed to her church in Midlothian, Texas. Where she would lead a Gladiator Bootcamp workout class. Class started at 5am, so Missy got there at 4:18 and started setting up for the class.When students started arriving around 4:45, and entered the classroom, they found Missy lying face up on the floor, not moving, surrounded by broken glass. They immediately called 911, but it was too late. Missy was already gone…but what happened to Missy in those 27 minutes???   Check out Patreon and our other shows!: Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: Book: “The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told” by Jack Rosewood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SqwK6P0mQY Jealousy, Money, and Infidelity: The Case of Missy Bevers. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It was August 22, 1922, in Los Angeles, and German immigrant Fred Oesterreich was in the middle of a heated argument with his wife, Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich. Without warning, when Fred turns around he’s face to face with a man he knew a decade ago, back in Milwaukee, and he’s holding two pistols. Fred didn’t hear the man come in, and most importantly, why was he here in the first place!?  Check out Patreon and our other shows!: Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: Book: “The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told” by Jack Rosewood https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2013/12/ottos-in-attic-or-hell-dolly.html https://historic-horrors.com/2025/05/22/the-man-in-the-attic-a-forgotten-crime-of-passion-from-los-angeles-roaring-twenties/ https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5t1qis/til_an_la_woman_hid_her_lover_in_the_attic_for/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-married-woman-who-kept-her-lover-in-the-attic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGu6ZdWM2Wg&t=581s Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A man changes his legal name to "Literally Anybody Else" just so he can make a point on election ballots. Spoiler alert, his real name is Dustin :/ .....ANYWAY, another man, coincidentally in Florida, got a felony charge for having consensual sex in a porta-potty. I mean, he WAS incarcerated at the time. Then we round it out with a good ole heartbreaking accidental homicide, seriously, we ended this one on a sad note...sorry guys.    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: https://www.keranews.org/elections-2026/2026-03-09/literally-anybody-else-is-on-the-ballot-for-north-richland-hills-mayor https://www.sebastiandaily.com/crime/indian-river-county-inmate-faces-escape-charge-after-leaving-jail-barbecue-for-sex-in-portable-toilet-90403/ https://abcnews.com/GMA/News/teen-charged-teachers-death-prank-wrong-speaks/story?id=130962159 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Michael Alig "The Party Monster" was an American club promoter who was convicted of felony manslaughter, along with his buddy "Freeze". He was one of the ringleaders of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City clubgoers who became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: Book: "Chambers Of Horror: Monstrous Crimes of Incarceration"   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We got another double header! This time its a coupl'a cannibals! *Incase you didn't catch the word "Cannibals" being used over and over again...this one is explicit, to say the least. :) For our appetizer, we head back to July 2008, when Vince Li gruesomely murdered a fellow Canadian bus passenger named Tim McLean. Li didn’t stop at murder, he stabbed, beheaded, and even ate parts of McLean’s body. The police eventually arrested him after an hours-long standoff. But WHYYYY!!!???? Who was Vince Li? Why did he kill Tim McLean? And why did he eat him!? Then for the main course, we talk one of the most infamous cannibals to date, Issei Sagawa. A Japanese man claiming to have always had a fascination with human flesh. At the age of 35 he finally acts on it, killing a dutch woman that he had befriended, just so could eat her! Oh and he never did any jail time. He lived a long life and died of old age. It was a paperwork error or something...you know how these things go... 0_0    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/issei-sagawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sagawa-issei.htm https://allthatsinteresting.com/vince-li Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This week we got a double feature! We kick things off with the death of 18-year-old, Anna Kepner. She was found wrapped in a blanket under a bed, surrounded by life jackets, on a cruise ship in November 2025, with very few clues as to what happened to her. Now, her teenage stepbrother has reportedly been arrested and charged….and for damn good reason if you ask us. Then we move on to another case involving a horrific incident that took place in 2019 on Labor Day in Logan, Ohio. 44-year-old photographer Victoria Schaefer was visiting Hawking Hill State Park to take photos. Schaefer had just finished and began walking back up the staircase to leave when there was an unforgettable cracking sound. Schaefer is in a heap on the staircase, not moving. Lying nearby is a large log that somehow "fell" from the cliff above.    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: https://fb.watch/F9QVFZ_aPv/ https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/who-is-Jimmy-hudson-anna-kepners-stepbrother-charged-in-carnival-cruise-ship-death-case-article-153574502 https://www.usmagazine.com/crime-news/news/anna-kepners-stepbrother-arrested-amid-investigation-of-cruise-ship-death/ High School Prank Kills Mom of Four Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

We got two stories this week involving people posing as pilots for completely different reasons, also a guy that gets a bullet in the ass, but he did it. Then we round it out with, what we know so far, about the man in Pennsylvania found with hundreds of sets of human remains on his property.    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Todd Sees was a Pennsylvania man who mysteriously disappeared in 2002 only to be found dead and emaciated, 39 hrs later. Its a case that gained notoriety due to its strange circumstances, mainly witnesses reporting UFOs, a boot found high in a tree, and no signs of foul play. This ones a head scratcher for the ages, especially if you don't believe in aliens! lol *Intro song was HEAVILY inspired by Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down The Line    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Riker's Island Art Heist happened on March 1st 2003, when four prison guards had the brilliant idea to steal an original Salvadore Dali painting, although not his best work, but still, an original Dali, and replace it with an elementary copy. The story of how the painting got there in the first place is almost as good as the heist itself!    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: https://hardcrackers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/B1E1DAC9-D8FC-4D23-8CA4-DAA67115BF75.jpeg Check out the Painting! here:https://hardcrackers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/B1E1DAC9-D8FC-4D23-8CA4-DAA67115BF75.jpeg https://hardcrackers.com/crucifixion-rikers-ysland/     Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Luby's shooting, also known as the Luby's massacre, was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991 at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. The perpetrator, 35-year-old George Pierre Hennard, killed 23 people and wounded 27 others.   Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/gwubom/lunchtime_at_lubys_a_detailed_account_of_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Police May Never Learn What Motivated Gunman : Massacre: Hennard was seen as reclusive, belligerent. Officials are looking into possibility he hated women. - Los Angeles Times https://share.google/nk0iQlF2JQVvYdN4d https://youtu.be/kKNjKD2Lwj0   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Did you know the government keeps track of people who go to the ER to have things removed from their rectums? Oh, well surely you've heard about the lawyer and her dog who are trying to make pets eligible for tax credits via suing the IRS? Don't even get me started on the New York elementary school thats putting kids in solitary confinement! Oh and there was fire in Colorado.....at a weed dispensary:)    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.