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Six months in jail. Three months actually served. That's what former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner received after being convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious Chanel Miller. In another case, Candon Dahle received 180 days in jail following years of sexual abuse of a child. Different cases. Different circumstances. But both raise a question we can't stop thinking about: Why does the future of the person who committed sexual violence so often become part of the conversation about what punishment is appropriate? In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita revisit the Brock Turner case, Chanel Miller's powerful victim-impact statement, and the case against Candon Dahle. They examine how we measure the harm of sexual violence, what research tells us about its long-term effects, and whether the justice system adequately accounts for consequences that may not leave visible injuries. And just when the answer seems obvious, another case raises a much harder question. Part 2 is available now for patrons and drops Thursday for everyone else. 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Sponsors: Rula: Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance.  Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/TFC #rulapod © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

How do you prove who ordered a murder when the people behind it never directly speak to the killers? The murder of Florida State law professor Dan Markel led investigators from two hired killers to Katherine Magbanua, Charlie Adelson, and eventually Donna Adelson. But connecting the evidence to the people accused of arranging the murder would take years, an elaborate FBI undercover operation, secretly recorded conversations, and multiple trials. In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita break down the FBI's infamous "bump" operation, the Dolce Vita restaurant recording, Katie Magbanua's changing testimony, and Charlie Adelson's extraordinary extortion defense. Then there's Donna Adelson's murder trial, the bizarre testimony about wet, moldy, stapled money, and the family member who ultimately testified against his own mother. Following Hulu's Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel, we're examining the trial evidence, the competing explanations, and the questions that remain surrounding Wendi Adelson and the family's involvement. After more than a decade of investigations and trials, what did it finally take to secure convictions — and what has justice meant for Dan Markel's family? 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials   Support the Show and Join the Conversation: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

Dan Markel was a Florida State University law professor and father of two when he was shot in his own garage in Tallahassee, Florida, in July 2014. What initially looked like a mysterious murder would become one of the most shocking murder-for-hire cases in Florida history. At the center of the investigation was the wealthy Adelson family: Dan's ex-wife Wendi Adelson, her brother Charlie Adelson, and their mother Donna Adelson. As investigators followed surveillance footage, phone records, financial transactions, and a trail of connections between Miami and Tallahassee, a disturbing question emerged: Who wanted Dan Markel dead badly enough to hire killers? In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita break down Dan and Wendi's bitter divorce and custody dispute, the murder investigation, the hitman joke Wendi told police, and the evidence that eventually connected the suspected killers to the Adelson family. With renewed attention on the case following Hulu's four-part documentary Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel, we're going beyond the documentary to examine the evidence, testimony, and family dynamics behind this extraordinary case. Want Part 2 Early and Ad-Free? It's available now on Patreon, or Thursday on the main feed. 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials   Support the Show and Join the Conversation: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Sponsors: Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to Smalls.com/QUEENS. © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

The Caleb Flynn murder trial centered on one question: who killed Ashley Flynn? Caleb Flynn said an intruder broke into their Ohio home and shot his wife while he slept—but investigators said the physical and digital evidence told a different story. We reconstruct Caleb's account of the Ashley Flynn murder against the damaged garage door, missing 9mm handgun, Apple Watch, AirPods, 911 call and police interviews; examine the real holes in the investigation and the questions surrounding Alleigha Botner; and break down the defense closing argument, the State's rebuttal and the jury's guilty verdict.   🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials   Hang with us/Support the Show: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes   Support the Show By Checking Out Our AMAZING Sponsors: Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to Smalls.com/QUEENS. © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

Hours before Ashley Flynn was shot twice in the head in her Ohio home, her husband, Caleb Flynn, was secretly messaging his mistress, Alleigha Botner: "February 16th. Day I'll never forget." "You're about to be free." "I choose you." We break down the Caleb Flynn affair, more than 100,000 messages between Caleb and Alleigha, their disturbing conversations about Ashley dying, and the escalating relationship that prosecutors said led to Ashley Flynn's murder. Part 2 is available now Early and Ad-Free for Patrons! 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Sponsors: SKIMS: Shop my favorite loungewear and pajamas at https://www.skims.com.  #skimspartner © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

Plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was accused of murdering attorney Steven Cozzi, whose body has never been found. Then Kosowski made an extraordinary decision: he would represent himself in his own first-degree murder trial. There is no body. No autopsy. No eyewitness to Steven's killing. And no definitively identified murder weapon. So how do you prove a murder happened at all? In Part 2 of the Tomasz Kosowski case, we follow the forensic trail prosecutors say connects Steven's blood from the law-firm bathroom to Kosowski's truck, garage and car — and the digital evidence they used to reconstruct where Kosowski went after Steven disappeared. Then the trial gets even stranger. Kosowski cross-examines the state's experts, asks a prosecutor to get inside a trash bag, tries to stage a courtroom demonstration involving a roughly 190-pound person in a cart, presents no defense case — and ultimately argues his own innocence directly to the judge. And then Judge Joseph Bulone delivers his verdict. How do you prove a murder without a body — and what happens when the man accused of committing it decides to become his own lawyer? 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

Florida plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was locked in a bitter legal battle when attorney Steven Cozzi disappeared from his law firm — leaving behind his phone, wallet, keys, and a bathroom covered in blood. Investigators say the man responsible was Kosowski, who had been locked in a civil lawsuit against Cozzi's clients. But what police uncovered after Steven disappeared went far beyond a courtroom grudge: surveillance footage, a suspicious wagon, a remote dumpster, more than $280,000 in cash — and what investigators described as a "murder bag" inside Kosowski's car. Steven's body has never been found. In Part 1, we follow the case from the lawsuit that started it all through Steven's disappearance, the manhunt for Kosowski, and the evidence police found after pulling him over hundreds of miles from home. Part 2: How do you prove a murder when there's no body — especially when the accused killer decides to defend himself? 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

A fake delivery driver. A fake church member. A fake Guinness World Records rep. A fake raffle. An AI deepfake. According to Bricks & Minifigs, these weren't just YouTube stunts—they were pieces of an alleged racketeering enterprise. In Part 2, we dig into BAM's 95-page lawsuit against Reckless Ben, the RICO allegations, the arrests and protective order, disputed claims about police conduct, the viral "Mormon Mafia" theory, and the court order that temporarily forced Ben's videos offline. Then, after lawsuits, millions of views and an eventual settlement, we come back to the question that started this entire mess: Where are the LEGO? 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

In an attempt to help his dad sell his valuable Star Wars LEGO collection, Bryan Mansell places them on consignment with his local Bricks & Minifigs store. The store changes hands. And somewhere along the way, a huge portion of the collection becomes impossible to account for. Enter YouTuber Reckless Ben. What starts as an attempt to help a family recover their LEGO quickly turns into fake businesses, undercover stunts, a fake religion, a forged "contract," small claims lawsuits, police showing up—and eventually, arrests. But there's something millions of viewers didn't know when Ben's investigation went viral: by the time his first video dropped, this fight had already been escalating for months. And Bricks & Minifigs was about to tell a very different version of the story. 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials   Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

TW: Child Murder Part 2 picks up exactly where we left Jessica. What happened that night — and everything she did afterward — would take her all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and raise a question most people assume they already know the answer to: do police actually have to protect you, even when you have a court order in hand? Nikita — an attorney herself — takes us through how the Court got there, what the justices actually decided, and the reasoning behind a ruling that still shapes what we expect from police today. Then we widen the lens. We put Jessica's case next to Gabby Petito's, ask why an anonymous bomb threat can trigger more urgency than a documented, named danger, and come back to the question at the heart of this entire arc: when no one can know for certain what someone will do, who ends up paying for that uncertainty? 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Bonus Episodes © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

Jessica Gonzales did everything the system told her to do. She got a restraining order against her estranged husband. Colorado law said police had to enforce it — the word "shall" was written right into the statute. So when her three daughters went missing on the night of June 22, 1999, Jessica called Castle Rock police. And called them again. And again — nine times over the course of ten hours, showing officers the order and telling them exactly where her husband was. Each time, she was told to wait. This episode kicks off a new Question Arc: if we can recognize danger before it becomes deadly, why don't we act on it? Jessica's case is where we're starting — not with the Supreme Court decision that would eventually make Castle Rock v. Gonzales a landmark case, but with the night itself, hour by hour, exactly as she lived it. We're holding the rest for Part 2. Because before we ask what the law required police to do, you need to understand what they actually did. TW: Child Murder 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Sponsors: Rula: Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance.  Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/TFC #rulapod Smalls: For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to Smalls.com/QUEENS.  © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

By 2024, Mica Miller was leaving her marriage. She was documenting what she said was happening to her, working with an attorney, seeking legal protection—and telling friends she was afraid. Then, on April 27, Mica called 911 from a state park in North Carolina. Hours later, she was dead. In Part 2 of our coverage of Death of a Pastor's Wife, we walk through Mica's final weeks, the day of her death, the investigation and extraordinary aftermath. And the question from Part 1 follows her outside the church: What happens when someone finally recognizes coercive control and asks for help—but the systems around her aren't built to recognize the danger in time? 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

Mica Miller was 13 when she first met John-Paul "JP" Miller—the pastor who would eventually become her husband. Long before their relationship became romantic, JP had already become her pastor, mentor, trusted adult, and spiritual authority. In Part 1 of our coverage of Netflix's Death of a Pastor's Wife, we trace their relationship from its beginning through the disturbing allegations about what Mica experienced behind closed doors. But Mica's story raises a much bigger question: What happens when coercive control has the language of God behind it? We're talking spiritual abuse, submission and "helpmate" theology, the very different ways shame and grace can be distributed inside the church—and what happens when the person claiming God's authority is also the person no one seems able to hold accountable. 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials   Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes   Support Our AMAZING Sponsors: SKIMS: Shop SKIMS Cotton, and all of our favorite pieces, at https://skims.com IQBAR: Text QUEENS to 64000 to get twenty percent off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping.  Message and data rates may apply. © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

In Part 2 of our coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial, we hear from Lindsay's family, the hospital chaplain who spent hundreds of hours with her after the deaths of her children, and Dr. Phillip Resnick—a nationally recognized forensic psychiatrist and expert on filicide who evaluated Lindsay and concluded she was not criminally responsible. Then the Commonwealth calls three psychiatric experts of its own in rebuttal. They ultimately agree with prosecutors on the question that matters most: Lindsay was criminally responsible. But getting there produces some of the most surprising testimony of the entire five-week trial—and at times, the Commonwealth's own experts seem to complicate the case prosecutors spent weeks building. One exchange in particular forces a Commonwealth expert to confront the prosecution's own opening theory head-on. His answer is one of the biggest moments of the trial. Finally, both sides make their closing arguments and give the jury two dramatically different explanations for the same evidence. Lindsay Clancy killed her children. That has never been disputed. After five weeks of testimony, the question the jury must finally answer is the one this entire trial has been building toward: Was she criminally responsible when she did it? 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Partners:  Small Town Dicks presents 'Chasing the Golden State Killer': Investigator Paul Holes joins regular hosts Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons) and twin detectives Dan and Dave Grice for a firsthand account of one of the most significant cold case investigations in American history: the Golden State Killer. Listen to the gripping 10-part series on the Small Town Dicks feed now.   © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠

For weeks, the Commonwealth built its case against Lindsay Clancy. But as witness after witness took the stand, some of the testimony began to complicate the story prosecutors had laid out for the jury. In Part 1 of our coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial, Tyrella walks Nikita—who hasn't been following the trial day-to-day—through the Commonwealth's case from opening statements through the end of its case-in-chief. Lindsay does not dispute that she killed her three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The question at the center of this trial is whether she was legally criminally responsible when she did it. We break down Patrick Clancy's testimony, Lindsay's mental-health treatment and medication history, the prosecution's timeline and theory of the crime, and what the Commonwealth's own witnesses actually told the jury. Because by the time the prosecution rested, the question wasn't simply what evidence they had presented. It was how well their theory held up against it. 🧵 New to This Feels Criminal? Start with The TFC Essentials—our curated collection of the episodes that best capture what this show is all about. Join our email community and get instant access: https://thisfeelscriminal.link/essentials Hang with us: Follow Us on Instagram Like Us on Facebook Join our Case Discussion Group on Facebook Get Killer Queens Merch Bonus Episodes Support Our AMAZING Partners:  Small Town Dicks presents 'Chasing the Golden State Killer': Investigator Paul Holes joins regular hosts Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons) and twin detectives Dan and Dave Grice for a firsthand account of one of the most significant cold case investigations in American history: the Golden State Killer. Listen to the gripping 10-part series on the Small Town Dicks feed now.     © 2026 Killer Queens Podcast. All Rights Reserved Audio Production by Wayfare Recording Music provided by Steven Tobi Logo designed by ⁠Ingrid at Penguin Designing⁠