This month we give our run down and review of the 2022 Netflix documentary, Don't Pick Up the Phone, which account the 10 year span of "hoax" calls in which a person pretending to be a police officer called up fast food managers and had them perform strip-searches on employees suspected in thefts. We discuss what sexual offense category this fits under and what psychological processes are at work with the people submitting to these outlandish requests by the caller.

Bring your energy drinks and your pom poms, as we navigate our way through the world of youth sports and parents behaving badly at their children's games. We review several examples from a covert assault on the field to an infamous murder for hire plot and what the research says about parents who over-identify with their children's successes and failures.

In 1926 Los Angeles, no one was bigger than Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, megachurch and radio evangelist. But this remarkable woman went missing during a swim in the Pacific Ocean, only to "resurrect" five weeks later. We discuss the therories and aftermath of her disappearance and review the key issue with people who fake their own victimization.

Liar, Liar, pants on fire. Is pathological lying a symptom or a psychopathology all on it's own? Let's see what the research says in this first episode of 2023!

Today we bring you the strange tale of Dolly Oesterrich and her lover that she kept in her attic for years! It was a cozy arrangement until the day he came out of hiding to commit murder.

We are changing our tune... well, maybe changing our perspective to inform our tune. In this revisit of a previous topic (Episode 50 Police Pursuits), we discuss the damage of police pursuits more in-depth and bring you a few, specific stories of tragedy that unfortunately are only a drop in the bucket. 

This month we review Season 3, Episode 9 of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix, which focuses on two stories of children being ripped away from their families by a parent. These are educated, once seemingly loving individuals who clearly plotted for elaborate schemes to disappear with their children. We venture to speculate on the psych issues that could be happening in these case- maybe we need to do a full episode on Parental Abduction int he future!

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Please enjoy this audio from our live presentation at the 2022 True Crime Podcast Festival. We teamed up with Women & Crime to discuss the Sherri Papini case in depth.

This case occurred in 1937 Los Angeles and was one of the most haunting & horrific crimes to occur since the murder of little Marion Parker a decade earlier. The Babes of Inglewood were three little girls who went missing in broad daylight while playing at the community park. However, this case is very likely also about one of the the earliest wrongful convictions of a high-profile crime.

The doctors get into the psychology behind the behavior of hoarding and how it can rise to criminal thinking & activity.

This month, Dr. Scott & Dr. Shiloh review the docuseries 11 Minutes, a victim-driven perspective on the mass shooting event that took place 5 years ago at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.

What is with the incidents of airline violence and freak outs in the past 2 years? The doctors layout the evolution of the violence spike and discuss some likely factors. They also discuss sexual violence that occurs on airplanes and give you examples of the last year's biggest brawls in the air. Buckle up!

Let's go all the way back to the late 1800's and recap the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. The trial of Elva Shue's murderer is the only case in which testimony about a ghost helped convict her murderer!

As we gear up to head to the PNW, we though it fitting to discuss the subsection of Major Depressive Disorder: Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.). This is a research-heavy episode as we look at all side of this diagnosis, as well as how to intervene & treat the "winter blues" on steroids.

This month's documentary review episode is on Netflix's, I Just Killed My Dad, a journey into child abduction, neglect, and DV/ IPV, as well as how the criminal justice system works for lower income people and juveniles. Lots to talk about in this one!

As we gear up to head to the PNW, we though it fitting to discuss the subsection of Major Depressive Disorder: Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.). This is a research-heavy episode as we look at all side of this diagnosis, as well as how to intervene & treat the "winter blues" on steroids.

In this storytelling episode, the doctors recount the true crime story from the hit book & film, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, while exploring themes of sexuality and sexual expression in the South in the 1980's, before getting into the practices of Hoodoo. This episode is a nice transition from their recent trip to Savannah into spooky season!

Travel back to 1927 Los Angeles with us and the guys from the L.A. Meekly podcast. Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran are Los Angeles- born comedians who have been doing their monthly LA history podcast for going on nine years. We cover the kidnapping and brutal murder of 12 year-old Marion Parker by William Edward Hickman from psych and historical perspectives.