https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-with-good-wine--7063878enTrue CrimeCopyright Roman's Storieshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/20f00ba652a9f45b80bea6ac96730777.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-with-good-wine--7063878Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:54:37 +0000Roman's StoriesRoman's Storiesfeeds@spreaker.comTrue Crime With Good Wine is the show for people who want their murder served at room temperature. No rushed timelines. No dramatized reenactment music every thirty seconds. Just a single narrator, a glass of something worth drinking, and the kind of...truetrueepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-who-needed-an-audience-the-btk-killer--72412543
Between 1974 and 1991, a man in Wichita, Kansas murdered ten people. He called himself BTK — Bind, Torture, Kill — and he gave himself that name in letters he sent to newspapers and police, because the murders alone were not enough. He needed to be known for them. He needed an audience. During those seventeen years, Dennis Rader was a compliance officer for the city of Park City, a president of his church council, a Cub Scout leader, a husband, and a father. Nobody suspected him. Nobody was close to catching him. In 2004, after more than a decade of silence, he made contact again — unable to tolerate a local news story suggesting he might be dead or imprisoned. He asked investigators, in one of his communications, whether a floppy disk could be traced. They lied and told him no. He used a floppy disk. The metadata led directly to his church and his name. He was arrested in February 2005, thirty-one years after his first murders, and pleaded guilty to all ten counts. He is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences in Kansas. One narrator. No shortcuts. Pour yourself something good.

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Between 1974 and 1991, a man in Wichita, Kansas murdered ten people. He called himself BTK — Bind, Torture, Kill — and he gave himself that name in letters he sent to newspapers and police, because the murders alone were not enough. He needed to be known for them. He needed an audience. During those seventeen years, Dennis Rader was a compliance officer for the city of Park City, a president of his church council, a Cub Scout leader, a husband, and a father. Nobody suspected him. Nobody was close to catching him. In 2004, after more than a decade of silence, he made contact again — unable to tolerate a local news story suggesting he might be dead or imprisoned. He asked investigators, in one of his communications, whether a floppy disk could be traced. They lied and told him no. He used a floppy disk. The metadata led directly to his church and his name. He was arrested in February 2005, thirty-one years after his first murders, and pleaded guilty to all ten counts. He is currently serving ten consecutive life sentences in Kansas. One narrator. No shortcuts. Pour yourself something good.

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On the night of June 12th, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death outside Nicole's Brentwood condominium in Los Angeles. Her white Akita, with bloody paws, led a neighbor to the bodies. Within days, every piece of physical evidence pointed at one man — Nicole's ex-husband, O.J. Simpson, NFL legend, actor, and one of the most famous people in America. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. What followed was 252 days of live televised criminal proceedings that split the country along racial lines, produced the most quoted line in American legal history, and ended with a jury acquitting O.J. Simpson in less than four hours. Three years later, a civil jury found him liable and awarded thirty-three and a half million dollars to the victims' families. He never paid most of it. He died in April 2024. The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman have never been prosecuted to conviction. One narrator. No shortcuts. Pour yourself something good.

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On the night of June 12th, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to death outside Nicole's Brentwood condominium in Los Angeles. Her white Akita, with bloody paws, led a neighbor to the bodies. Within days, every piece of physical evidence pointed at one man — Nicole's ex-husband, O.J. Simpson, NFL legend, actor, and one of the most famous people in America. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. What followed was 252 days of live televised criminal proceedings that split the country along racial lines, produced the most quoted line in American legal history, and ended with a jury acquitting O.J. Simpson in less than four hours. Three years later, a civil jury found him liable and awarded thirty-three and a half million dollars to the victims' families. He never paid most of it. He died in April 2024. The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman have never been prosecuted to conviction. One narrator. No shortcuts. Pour yourself something good.

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From Seattle in 1974 to Florida in 1978, Ted Bundy killed at least thirty women across six states while enrolled in law school, escaping prison twice, and presenting himself to the world as charming and normal. In April 2026, DNA testing added a new confirmed victim to his list. The full story of how he operated, how he was caught, and what he said from death row.

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From Seattle in 1974 to Florida in 1978, Ted Bundy killed at least thirty women across six states while enrolled in law school, escaping prison twice, and presenting himself to the world as charming and normal. In April 2026, DNA testing added a new confirmed victim to his list. The full story of how he operated, how he was caught, and what he said from death row.

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From the Zodiac killer, to john wayne gacy, to Luigi Mangione, and even Slender man. On this episode we go over many of the top true crime stories in a compilation of the last 100 years.


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From the Zodiac killer, to john wayne gacy, to Luigi Mangione, and even Slender man. On this episode we go over many of the top true crime stories in a compilation of the last 100 years.


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On November 18th, 1978, in a remote jungle settlement in Guyana, South America, nine hundred and eighteen people died in a single afternoon. At the instruction of one man. His name was Jim Jones, and he had spent two decades building the Peoples Temple — a church that started as a genuine force for racial equality and social justice in Indiana and California, and ended as a death cult in the jungle. This is the full story. How Jim Jones went from a child staging animal funerals in rural Indiana, to a preacher with the ear of governors and presidential candidates, to a drug-addicted, paranoid cult leader who relocated a thousand followers to the jungle and rehearsed mass death with them until it felt normal. How Congressman Leo Ryan flew to Guyana to investigate reports of abuse, and was shot forty-four times on an airstrip trying to leave. How Jones gathered his people in the pavilion, mixed cyanide into a grape drink, and told them that dying together was a revolutionary act. And how a forty-four-minute cassette tape captured everything, including a woman named Christine Miller who stood up and argued against it — and was shouted down by the crowd.




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On November 18th, 1978, in a remote jungle settlement in Guyana, South America, nine hundred and eighteen people died in a single afternoon. At the instruction of one man. His name was Jim Jones, and he had spent two decades building the Peoples Temple — a church that started as a genuine force for racial equality and social justice in Indiana and California, and ended as a death cult in the jungle. This is the full story. How Jim Jones went from a child staging animal funerals in rural Indiana, to a preacher with the ear of governors and presidential candidates, to a drug-addicted, paranoid cult leader who relocated a thousand followers to the jungle and rehearsed mass death with them until it felt normal. How Congressman Leo Ryan flew to Guyana to investigate reports of abuse, and was shot forty-four times on an airstrip trying to leave. How Jones gathered his people in the pavilion, mixed cyanide into a grape drink, and told them that dying together was a revolutionary act. And how a forty-four-minute cassette tape captured everything, including a woman named Christine Miller who stood up and argued against it — and was shouted down by the crowd.




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In May 2014, three sixth-grade girls went to a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin after a birthday sleepover. Two of them had spent five months planning what would happen next. Twelve-year-old Morgan Geyser stabbed her classmate Payton Leutner nineteen times in the woods. One wound came within a millimeter of Payton's heart. Then Morgan and her friend Anissa Weier walked away and headed toward the highway, planning to walk to a mansion in northern Wisconsin where they believed a fictional internet character named Slender Man was waiting for them. This is the full story — where Slender Man came from, how a Photoshop contest in 2009 became one of the internet's most elaborate mythologies, how two twelve-year-old girls came to believe in it completely, what happened in those woods, how Payton Leutner survived, how Morgan Geyser's undiagnosed schizophrenia shaped everything, what happened in the trials, and the most recent update: in November 2025, Geyser cut off her ankle monitor and fled to Illinois just two months after being granted conditional release — and was sent back to psychiatric care in December 2025. The Slender Man case is one of the most disturbing intersections of internet culture and real-world violence in modern American history. One narrator. No shortcuts. Pour yourself something good.

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In May 2014, three sixth-grade girls went to a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin after a birthday sleepover. Two of them had spent five months planning what would happen next. Twelve-year-old Morgan Geyser stabbed her classmate Payton Leutner nineteen times in the woods. One wound came within a millimeter of Payton's heart. Then Morgan and her friend Anissa Weier walked away and headed toward the highway, planning to walk to a mansion in northern Wisconsin where they believed a fictional internet character named Slender Man was waiting for them. This is the full story — where Slender Man came from, how a Photoshop contest in 2009 became one of the internet's most elaborate mythologies, how two twelve-year-old girls came to believe in it completely, what happened in those woods, how Payton Leutner survived, how Morgan Geyser's undiagnosed schizophrenia shaped everything, what happened in the trials, and the most recent update: in November 2025, Geyser cut off her ankle monitor and fled to Illinois just two months after being granted conditional release — and was sent back to psychiatric care in December 2025. The Slender Man case is one of the most disturbing intersections of internet culture and real-world violence in modern American history. One narrator. No shortcuts. Pour yourself something good.

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Welcome back to True Crime With Good Wine. Tonight we're going somewhere different. Every other episode of this show has been about cases with resolutions — with verdicts, with sentences, with the formal machinery of justice arriving at some kind of answer, however inadequate that answer feels against the size of what was lost. Tonight we don't have that. Tonight we have a case that is almost eighty years old and remains, officially, unsolved. A case that has never stopped generating theories, obsessions, books, films, and the particular brand of cultural fixation that attaches itself to mysteries that refuse to close. Tonight we're talking about Elizabeth Short.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72326948Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:56:27 +0000Roman's StoriesMurder Mystery - The Vacant Lot on Norton Avenue — The Murder of Elizabeth Short Welcome back to True Crime With Good Wine. Tonight we're going somewhere different. Every other episode of this show has been about cases with resolutions — with...
Welcome back to True Crime With Good Wine. Tonight we're going somewhere different. Every other episode of this show has been about cases with resolutions — with verdicts, with sentences, with the formal machinery of justice arriving at some kind of answer, however inadequate that answer feels against the size of what was lost. Tonight we don't have that. Tonight we have a case that is almost eighty years old and remains, officially, unsolved. A case that has never stopped generating theories, obsessions, books, films, and the particular brand of cultural fixation that attaches itself to mysteries that refuse to close. Tonight we're talking about Elizabeth Short.]]>1538avenue,elizabeth,lot,murder,mystery,norton,on,short,the,vacantfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/deny-delay-depose-the-killing-of-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson--72269886
The trials are scheduled for September and October 2026, which means search volume for this case is going to spike hard in the months ahead. Publishing now puts you ahead of that wave.

Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all charges in both the state and federal cases against him. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. All details in this episode are drawn from publicly available reporting and court documents as of May 2026.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72269886Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:25:57 +0000Roman's StoriesTrue Crime With Good Wine — Episode 15: Deny, Delay, Depose | The Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson The trials are scheduled for September and October 2026, which means search volume for this case is going to spike hard in the months...
The trials are scheduled for September and October 2026, which means search volume for this case is going to spike hard in the months ahead. Publishing now puts you ahead of that wave.

Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all charges in both the state and federal cases against him. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. All details in this episode are drawn from publicly available reporting and court documents as of May 2026.]]>1606|,brian,ceo,delay,deny,depose,killing,of,the,thompson,unitedhealthcarefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bryan-kohberger-and-the-idaho-four-murders-true-crime-with-good-wine--72260818https://api.spreaker.com/episode/72260818Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:44:54 +0000Roman's StoriesOn November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death inside their off-campus rental house at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho. Kaylee Goncalves, 21. Madison Mogen, 21. Xana Kernodle, 20. Ethan Chapin, 20. All four were killed...16411122,bryan,chapin,ethan,four,goncalves,guilty,idaho,kaylee,kernodle,king,kohberger,madison,mogen,moscow,murders,of,road,university,xanafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-house-on-homewood-the-killing-of-rob-and-michele-reiner-true-crime--72242448
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