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True Crime Blueprint
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True Crime Blueprint takes you on a deep dive into the cases that changed how we understand murder, serial killers, and justice itself. From infamous names to crimes forgotten by time, each episode breaks down the facts, the evidence, and the real people behind the headlines.
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The Gray Man of New York: The Albert Fish Story
2d ago00:21:00Tap to summarizeThe Gray Man of New York: The Albert Fish StoryAlbert Fish was 64 years old when Detective William King caught him in December of 1934. He looked like somebody’s grandfather. He had murdered ten-year-old Grace Budd in 1928 at an abandoned house called Wisteria Cottage, and six years later he mailed her mother a letter describing the crime. This is the full deep-dive into the man known as the Gray Man, the Brooklyn Vampire, and the Werewolf of Wysteria. We trace his childhood at Saint John’s Orphanage, the collapse of his marriage, the murders of Francis McDonnell and Billy Gaffney, the six-year cold case that nearly defeated the NYPD, the letter that solved it, and the trial that exposed everything American psychiatry and the M’Naghten Rule could not contain. Includes historical context on 1920s child welfare, the founding of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit decades later, Dr. Fredric Wertham’s sealed psychiatric files, and what this case says about who America protected and who it left behind.This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.com
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Lies, a Fake Belly, and a Murder
1w ago00:24:04Tap to summarizeLies, a Fake Belly, and a MurderIn October 2020, Taylor Rene Parker drove to a small town in East Texas with a silicone belly under her shirt and a scalpel in her bag. By the end of that morning, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was dead and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage had been cut from her body. In this deep dive on True Crime Blueprint, we walk through the entire Taylor Parker fetal abduction case from the beginning. Her childhood in Titus County, Texas. Her early marriages. The hysterectomy she hid for five years. The eight million dollar fake check. The Mexican Mafia lie she told her boyfriend Wade Griffin to keep him from leaving. The ten months of fake pregnancy posts, fake ultrasound photos, and a fake gender reveal party. And finally the morning of October 9, 2020, in New Boston, Texas. We cover the trial, the death sentence, the appeals, the 2026 Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct, and where the case stands today. This is one of fewer than forty documented fetal abductions in modern history, and the most detailed walkthrough you'll find.This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.com
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Going Postal in Goleta: The Jennifer San Marco Story
2w ago00:25:08Tap to summarizeGoing Postal in Goleta: The Jennifer San Marco StoryOn a January night, a former mail clerk drove from a small New Mexico town back to the Santa Barbara processing center she'd been quietly retired from a couple years earlier for being too sick to work. She had a 9mm pistol she bought legally at a pawn shop, a stack of notebooks full of grievances, and a plan she'd been building in her head since her mind started slipping in 2001. By the time the night was over, seven people were dead.In this episode of True Crime Blueprint, we go all the way back to her quiet Brooklyn childhood, her bounce through California corrections and police dispatch, the slow-motion breakdown her coworkers watched happen on the sorting floor, the gun shop background check that should have stopped her and didn't, the seven people who lost their lives because every system meant to catch her looked the other way, and the bizarre forgery scheme that came after one of the murders.This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.com
Transcribe →The Plastic Coffin: Greed, Twins, and the Legacy of Sean Dugas
3w ago00:24:20Tap to summarizeThe Plastic Coffin: Greed, Twins, and the Legacy of Sean DugasIn August 2012, Sean Dugas, a well-loved former crime reporter and avid Magic: The Gathering collector in Pensacola, Florida, was beaten to death with a hammer by a pair of identical twin brothers who had been living in his home. His body was stuffed into a plastic container, sealed under a layer of concrete, and buried in a backyard in rural Georgia. The motive? A card collection worth up to $100,000. But this story doesn't end there. Out of the wreckage of Sean's murder, a friend built one of the most unusual homeless outreach organizations in American history, a Bitcoin-funded sanctuary called Satoshi Forest that is still fighting for the unhoused today. This is the complete, deeply human story of two broken brothers shaped by chaos, a man who loved dragons and spoons and craft beer, and how one brutal act of greed accidentally changed the way we think about charity, cryptocurrency, and what we owe each other. This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.comContact: joe@10minutemurder.com
Transcribe →Mackenzie Shirilla and the Crash That Became a Murder Case
May 2500:28:44Tap to summarizeMackenzie Shirilla and the Crash That Became a Murder Case In the early morning hours of July 31, 2022, a black Toyota Camry rocketed down a dead-end industrial road in Strongsville, Ohio at 97 miles per hour and buried itself into a brick wall. Two young men died at the scene. The 17-year-old driver survived with three broken ribs, a fractured femur, and 8.1 grams of mushrooms tucked into her shirt. What investigators found on her phone, in the car's black box, and in a GPS tracking app on her friends' phones transformed what looked like a tragic accident into one of the most watched and debated murder trials in recent memory. This is the story of Dominic Russo, Davion Flanagan, and Mackenzie Shirilla. It's about a four-year toxic relationship, a dead-end road she had driven before, a Prada slipper wedged against the accelerator pedal, and the single one-day filing deadline that permanently blocked new neurological evidence from ever reaching a courtroom. This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.comContact: joe@10minutemurder.com
Transcribe →Burlap and Blueprints: The Gilgo Beach Serial Murders
May 1800:31:21Tap to summarizeBurlap and Blueprints: The Gilgo Beach Serial MurdersRex Heuermann was a Long Island architect with a wife, two kids, and a client list that included American Airlines and Nike. He was also a serial killer who murdered at least eight women and kept notes on it like a construction project. The Gilgo Beach case is terrifying on its own. The reason it took thirty years to solve runs straight through a corrupt police department that buried the investigation to protect its chief.This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.comContact: joe@10minutemurder.com
Transcribe →Don King: The Story Behind the Hair, the Hype, and the Homicide
May 1100:28:51Tap to summarizeDon King: The Story Behind the Hair, the Hype, and the HomicideBefore he was the man with the electric hair screaming "Only in America," Donald King was a numbers kingpin in Cleveland who killed two men and beat the system both times. This episode goes deep into the forgotten murders, the backroom judicial deals, the mob wars, and the extraordinary political connections that turned a convicted killer into one of the most powerful figures in sports history. From a 1941 steel mill explosion that shaped everything, to a 1966 stomping death on a Cleveland sidewalk that should have ended it all, this is the Don King story you've never heard told this way. True Crime Blueprint digs into the psychology, the sociology, and the straight-up audacity of a man who built an empire on the graves of two forgotten men.This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.comContact: joe@10minutemurder.com
Transcribe →The Game That Never Ends: Chuck Dederich and the Synanon Cult
May 400:27:46Tap to summarizeThe Game That Never Ends: Chuck Dederich and the Synanon CultWhat started as a miracle on a Santa Monica beach became one of the most dangerous cults in American history. In 1958, a sober alcoholic named Chuck Dederich gathered a handful of heroin addicts in a small storefront and built something the medical establishment refused to: a community where broken people could get clean. It worked. LIFE magazine called it a tunnel back to the human race. Senators endorsed it. Sociologists praised it.Then something shifted.In this deep-dive episode of True Crime Blueprint, we follow the full arc of Synanon: from racial integration and radical honesty, through forced vasectomies and dissolved marriages, to a paramilitary force built to silence journalists and lawyers. We end where the story detonates into public consciousness — a rattlesnake, its rattles surgically removed, coiled inside an attorney's mailbox. This is a story about what happens when a genuinely good idea meets an ego with no ceiling, and what it left behind.This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.comContact: joe@10minutemurder.com
Transcribe →Corn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy Floyd
Apr 2700:28:29Tap to summarizeCorn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy FloydHe robbed banks during the Great Depression, destroyed mortgage papers so regular people wouldn't lose their farms, and handed out cash to strangers on the side of the road. The FBI called him Public Enemy Number One. The people of Oklahoma called him a hero. Pretty Boy Floyd was one of the most complicated criminals in American history, and the story of his life, his death, and the controversy that followed is unlike anything you've heard before. In this deep-dive episode of True Crime Blueprint, we go beyond the legend to examine the poverty, the system, and the relationships that shaped Charles Arthur Floyd into the outlaw who helped birth the modern FBI. If you think you know this story, you don't. Not yet.True Crime Blueprint explores the psychology, history, and human drama behind America's most compelling true crime cases.10minutemurder.comContact: joe@10minutemurder.com
Transcribe →Grape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Apr 2000:34:12Tap to summarizeGrape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and JonestownJim Jones started with a dream that sounded reasonable. Racial equality. Communal living. Taking care of people the government forgot. In post-war Indiana, that message resonated. By the mid-1970s, the Peoples Temple had thousands of followers, serious political clout in San Francisco, and the ear of some of California's most powerful politicians.Then on November 18, 1978, deep in the jungle of Guyana, South America, 918 people died. Including 304 children.Today we go deep on the full story of how a broken child from rural Indiana weaponized the most sincere human desires, for belonging, for equality, for a better world, and built an institution so psychologically fortified that by the time anyone understood what it had become, the exits were already gone.This is the story of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the largest loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster before September 11, 2001. The people who died were American citizens who believed they were building something real. Understanding how it happened is the only honest tribute we can pay them. This is True Crime Blueprint.10minutemurder.comContact: joe@10minutemurder.com#JimJones #Jonestown #PeoplesTemple #JonestownMassacre #TrueCrime #CultLeader #RevolutionarySuicide #MassSuicide #TrueCrimePodcast #CultDocumentary #TrueCrimeHistory #CriminalPsychology #TrueCrimeCommunity #AmericanHistory #DarkHistory
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