Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
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The darkest true crime cases are the ones you've never heard of. Obscura investigates murders written off as accidents, disappearances dismissed as runaways, and obscure cases buried in forgotten files. Host Justin Drown delivers unflinching investigations through real archival audio, court records, and graphic forensic detail. No comedy. No sanitized narratives. Only the complete truth. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Timothy Dean - Empty Inside
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,…
Aileen Wuornos: Part 04 - Carnival
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…
Aileen Wuornos: Part 03 - The Bodies
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…
Aileen Wuornos: Part 02 - The Composite Enemy
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.…
Aileen Wuornos: Part 01 - The Girl in the Woods
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…
Ray Coriell - No Sanctuary
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…
Double Homicide: The House on Benchor Road - Part 02
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Double Homicide: The House on Benchor Road - Part 01
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Neglect: The Streamer and the Silent Crib
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…
COLD CASE: Leslie Preer | Chevy Chase, Maryland 2001
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…
Black Label: The Station Nightclub Fire
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MURDERED: Leah Kline & Vivian James | Jacksonville, Florida 2019
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…
MURDERED: Abraham Shakespeare | Lakeland, Florida 2009
Abraham Shakespeare won thirty million dollars in the Florida Lottery. Three years later, he was dead -- shot twice, buried under concrete in Lakeland, Florida. This episode features real court…
SERIAL KILLER: The Bayou Strangler (Part 2 of 2) | Houma, LA 1997-2006
For nearly a decade, a predator stalked the quiet marshlands and sugarcane fields of southeastern Louisiana, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. In this episode, we dive into the chilling case…
SERIAL KILLER: The Bayou Strangler (Part 1 of 2) | Houma, LA 1997-2006
For nearly a decade, a predator stalked the quiet marshlands and sugarcane fields of southeastern Louisiana, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. In this episode, we dive into the chilling case…
KILLER: George Sodini | Bridgeville, PA 2009
In Bridgeville, PA, George Sodini executed a chilling attack inside a gym. Featuring real audio. George Alfred Sodini, 48. He was a systems analyst, once invisible and misunderstood, who turned his…
MURDERED: Marvin Morales | Sacramento, CA 2010
Marvin Morales found brutally murdered in his Sacramento, CA home. Real audio of police investigation. Marvin Aris Untalan Morales, young and full of potential, became a tragic figure in Sacramento.…
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BLACK LABEL: The Stalker Files
A fan’s obsession turned fatal — The Stalker Files revealed.Ricardo López was an ordinary name behind an extraordinary obsession. He convinced himself he knew Björk intimately, though they had never…
MURDERED: Brandon Paul Janssen | Fountain, FL 2020
Brandon Paul Janssen's tragic tale unfolds in Fountain, FL. Featuring real court and investigative audio. Brandon Paul Janssen, once a beacon of innocence, faced the malign neglect of those who…
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Obscura: A True Crime Podcast has published 242 episodes since November 2018, covering topics in Documentary, History.
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