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True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

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What really happened — and why does the official story never quite add up?

True Crime Obsessed is the podcast that goes beyond the headlines to examine real criminal cases with the detail they actually deserve. Each week, host Jack breaks down real cases — from cold cases buried in court archives to high-profile investigations the media got wrong — using a research-first approach that separates fact from speculation. This isn't shock value. It's criminal investigation done seriously.

Jack spent years studying forensic psychology and criminal behavior, and has interviewed detectives, defense attorneys, and survivors to build a framework for understanding how crimes happen, how investigations unfold, and where the system fails. He brings that background to every case so you walk away with context, not just chills.

True Crime Obsessed is for listeners who are done with surface-level storytelling. If you've ever found yourself three hours deep into a true crime thread at midnight, questioning every detail, wanting someone to actually explain the evidence — this show was built for you.

New episodes are released every day, running 18 to 25 minutes. Each case gets the full breakdown it needs — no filler, no cliffhangers designed to string you along.

If real cases and criminal investigation are your obsession, you've found your podcast. Subscribe now and never miss a case.Copyright Obomedia Network
Episodes
  • The Prophecy of Reese Poan: Serial Killer from Wisconsin

    The Prophecy of Reese Poan: Serial Killer from Wisconsin
    Apr 25 2026
    Thirty-five years ago, Reese Poan confessed to a church friend exactly how she feared dying: decapitated. Months later, it happened that way. Investigators of both cases never sat together until October 2024. Is there an unidentified serial killer in Wisconsin because no one looked at the complete map?

    In this episode, you will unravel twelve dismemberment cases scattered between 1982 and 2021, eleven female victims, heads and hands amputated in different counties, and the reporter who compiled evidence that the FBI ignored for years. You will discover how a direct lead was lost in a witness's memory, why the tribal chief investigated the death of his own cousin for thirty years without being excluded as a suspect, and what geographical connection links a violent ex-boyfriend to the remains of Julia Bayz in Black River Falls.

    Case Details
    Main Victim: Reese Poan, 35 years old, mother and daughter of a domestic violence victim
    Other Victims: Ray Torlot (18 years old, cousin of Reese), Julia Bayz (36 years old), and at least nine more unresolved cases
    Date: Disappearance of Reese: summer of 1989; Ray Torlot: October 1986; Julia Bayz: June 1990
    Location: Wisconsin, multiple counties (Shaban, Vernon, Kenosha, Jackson, Menominee)
    Status: No confirmed arrests; investigation reopened October 2024 with FBI involvement

    - Reese mentioned the name of her alleged attacker to witness Geraldine two months before disappearing, but Geraldine forgot the name when she testified to the police
    - Tribal chief Torlot, cousin of Ray, led the investigation into his own death for nearly thirty years without being formally excluded as a person of interest
    - Julia Bayz was reported missing five months after her last sighting, her remains were found in plastic bags unidentified until 2015
    - Investigators answered "yes and no" to the question of whether Ray Torlot was murdered, without explanation, raising suspicions of systematic negligence

    How is it possible that a reporter saw in 2024 what twelve agencies did not connect in forty years?

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    24 mins
  • The Letter That Predicted Her Death: The Tree That Condemned Fred

    The Letter That Predicted Her Death: The Tree That Condemned Fred
    Apr 24 2026
    A woman writes her own death sentence two weeks before disappearing. No body. No chain of evidence. But a tree holds what three years of investigation could not find. The story of Charlotte Grabby and how a wooden ring condemned Fred.

    In this episode, you will discover how plant forensic science solved an impossible crime, why a witness took three years to confess, and what dark connections remain unresolved after four decades. Charlotte predicted her death in writing. Her son disappeared before testifying. And Fred has just been released.

    Case Details
    Victim: Charlotte Grabby, 39 years old, farmer
    Date: July 24, 1981
    Location: Marshall, Illinois, United States
    Status: Fred Grabby sentenced to 75 years; released July 15, 2022

    - Charlotte wrote a letter on July 10 predicting that Fred and his accomplice might kill her, but no one believed her until after her disappearance
    - Neighbors who knew her swore that the woman they saw driving her car had curly blonde hair, but Charlotte had dark straight hair
    - Without a body, pathologists from the University of Illinois analyzed the growth rings of a tree where her body was supposedly burned and found diesel and oil residues only on the side that the witness pointed out
    - Charlotte's son disappeared three years later in California days before testifying in the second trial; he was found murdered with multiple gunshot wounds, case never solved

    How do you convict a murderer when he destroyed all physical evidence, killed the key witness, and the only evidence is a tree?

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    20 mins
  • The Retiree Who Caught the Valentine's Ghost

    The Retiree Who Caught the Valentine's Ghost
    Apr 23 2026
    A retiree discovered genealogy as a hobby and solved a Valentine's Day murder eleven years later from her computer. Art Sarin saw the killer escape in 2007, but classic forensic science never found him. In November 2018, a DNA test from a 2011 bank robbery identified the man who left his perfectly arranged sneakers by the door: David Mabrio, a normal neighbor from Carlsbad, already dead when he was found.

    In this episode, you will discover how genetic profiling and investigative genealogy revolutionized impossible cold cases. The killer of the "Valentine's Day Crime" lived in the same city where he killed, passed by his victim's parents on the night of the crime, and evaded all databases for a decade because he had no recorded criminal history. You will see how a forensic technique that did not exist in 2007 - and a family tree reconstructed by a grandmother from her home - solved what fifty swabbed suspects could not.

    Case Details
    Victim: Jodine Sarin, 29 years old, assistant director with intellectual disability
    Date: February 14, 2007
    Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
    Status: Closed case; posthumously identified killer in November 2018

    - Why did the complete DNA of the killer available since 2007 not produce a match in eleven years of searching?
    - How did a swab from an unrelated bank robbery in 2011 become the final piece of the puzzle?
    - What did David Mabrio do the week after he was swabbed in 2011 that completely changed his behavior?
    - Did Marissa Mabrio know who her ex-partner was when she first denied recognizing the sneakers?

    Who solves impossible crimes: detectives or the person who builds the correct family tree?

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    23 mins
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