S.2 E.3 Facts Of The Case - Who Killed Brittany Phillips?

Brittany's case isn't considered "cold" by the Tulsa Police Department. Meaning: public information - because this is an open investigation - is hard...

S. 2 E. 2 Who Killed Brittany Phillips: New Evidence

S. 2 E. 1: Who Killed Brittany Phillips?

Episode 19: Christmas Ghosts: Grumpy Victorians, MySpace Goths and Listener Stories

Happy Christmas, or yule, or Saturnalia or whatever you celebrate this time of year --- when the veil is thinnest between here and the great hereafter...

Episode 18: Megan Gannon: Science Journalist, New Old Bones and Sacred Histories

Megan Gannon is a science journalist focusing on archeological digs and discoveries. She was born and raised in NY but now lives full time in Berlin. ...

Episode 17: Vodnik the Water Goblin: Classic Tale From The Land of My People

Did you ever worry about being abducted by a creepy green water sprite while doing your laundry in a pond? I didn't either until I headed back to the...

Episode 16: How to Report Your Worthless Public Health Official: A Love Story

 
COVID19 getting you down? Feel helpless if you live in a state that doesn't really seem to care about science? 
This episode could help...

Episode 15: Jessica Pishko: Sheriff Accountability Expert on Sheriff's as Coroners, Lack of Oversight and Yes Anti-Mask Sheriff's

NOTE!! There is some graphic detail in this episode. 
 
Did you know that too often elected county sheriffs have no oversight? This week I...

Episode 14: The Great And Wild Patti: The Lark Ascending (Happy Halloween)

My good friend Patti tells me all about her dad, her love of halloween (and it is THE most wonderful time of year), the Troubles and maybe some dandy...

Episode 13: Bennington Triangle: Shirley Jackson's Missing Girls

Shirley Jackson is one of my favorite authors - dead authors that is. She is famous for her works The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Alw...

Episode 12: Cathy Hart: First Degree Murder Trail Juror, Sequestration Expert, Noted Minnesotan

Cathy was a juror seated in a 2006 murder trail. After two weeks in the courtroom the jury - her jury - was sequestered for two nights until they reac...

Episode 11: Happy Birthday Dad: Gall Stones, Wooden Legs and Playing the Long Game

Leo Kopsa was born on October 14, 1936 - to wish dad a happy birthday I present gall stones, wooden legs and playing the long game.  I can only share...

Episode 10: Interrupting My Expressly All Dead Podcast Because: Proud Boys, Racists, Repeat

When needs must - going back to the well of my reporting back in 2018 about the Proud Boys in bed with the GOP because FFS they got a shout out on a p...

Episode 9: Niki Conrad, Dead Dads and the Society of Patriotic Mask Wearers

Niki Conrad is the daughter of Nick and Nedra Conrad. She was born and raised in Fort Dodge Iowa. As a fellow Iowan she is naturally spectacular. In a...

Episode 8: Grief Kitty

Dirty Word Alert
 
Today I explain how against my best efforts I gave in to adopting a kitty who ended up saving my life - and biting my l...

Episode 7: Ether, Chloroform and the Curse Of Eve

Genesis 3:16 is pretty clear on the matter of ladies, childbirth and pain. An even-tempered Old Testament God cursed Eve and her offspring (which, I m...

Episode 6: Heather, Medical Death Investigator - The 60% More Death Stuff Cut

This is an expanded version of my interview with Heather, a friend and medical death investigator in our home state of Iowa. 


The...

Episode 5: Torch Number One, Prague Spring and he Velvet revolution

Over 30 years ago Czechoslovakia staged he Velvet Revolution. So named because from the outside looking in the revolution - resulting in expulsion of...

Episode 4: Jonestown: The Recovery Effort, Secondary Trauma Victims and PTSD

Society’s understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder was limited in 1978 and associated almost exclusively with wartime experiences, falling unde...

Episode 3: Ann Neumann: COVID19, Death and Life in America (Part One)

Ann Neumann is the Author of The Good Death: An exploration of Dying in America. We cover a lot of ground in this episode. There is so much to yap abo...

Episode 2: My Dead Great Great Grandpa

Fortunetellers, strangers poking a dead man's body in the early 1900s death on full display. My Great great grandpa had the decency to die out in publ...

My Dead Great Great Grandpa

In 1916 James Titus was sucked under a train on his way home from seeing a traveling fortune teller. He's my twice great grandpa and today on dead to...

Episode 1: Heather, Medical Examiner Investigator

Heather is a medical examiner investigator. She has been a nurse for 9 years and working in death investigation for 3 years. She and I grew up in the...