Mugshot Mysteries
Hosts Kathryn and Gabriel dive deep into historical crimes, infamous outlaws, unexplained mysteries, and modern cases that divide America with the kind of dark humor and chemistry that makes hour-long deep dives fly by. From vintage mugshots to ghost ships, from exorcisms to healthcare scandals, from disappeared outlaws to haunted houses: if it's unsolved, unexplained, or unforgettable, we're putting it in the lineup.
What we cover: True crime (historical and modern), cold cases, paranorma…
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July 13, 2026
Escape from Alcatraz: How 3 Men Beat the Rock Pt. 1
June 12, 1962. 7:15 in the morning, Alcatraz. A guard reaches through the bars of cell 138 to wake a sleeping inmate, and the man's head rolls off the pillow and shatters on the concrete. It is made of soap, toilet paper, and real human hair. Frank Morris has been gone for nine hours. And he is not the only one. On the most secure island in America, a prison the government spent twenty-eight years promising could not be beaten, three convicted bank robbers have just walked out through walls they
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July 6, 2026
The DC Sniper: One Got the Needle. The Other Is Still Inside. Pt. 3
November 10, 2009. Inside a Virginia execution chamber, the man at the center of one of the most infamous killing sprees in American history is asked if he has any final words. He says nothing. No confession, no apology, no reason, the same thing he offered every stranger he killed. Minutes later, John Allen Muhammad is pronounced dead. If this were a simpler story, that would be the ending. But the seventeen-year-old pulled from that car beside him is very much alive, and the courts of this cou
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June 29, 2026
The DC Sniper: The Woman Who Knew Who the Killer Was Pt. 2
While five million people were afraid of a stranger, one woman was afraid of a name. She lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington with her three children, watched the same coverage as everyone else, the faceless sniper, the white van, the lone white male the experts kept describing, and did not believe a word of it. Because she was the one person in America who understood that this was not really about strangers at all. Her ex-husband had given himself a new name the year before: John Allen M
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June 22, 2026
The DC Sniper: 23 Days, 10 Dead, and the Hunt for the Wrong Man Pt. 1
October 2002. For twenty-three days, an invisible killer turns the suburbs around the nation's capital into a shooting gallery. People are cut down doing the most ordinary things imaginable, pumping gas, mowing a lawn, reading on a bench, loading groceries, stepping off a bus. Ten will die. A region of five million will learn to weave across parking lots and crouch behind car doors. And for almost the entire siege, the largest manhunt in the area's history will hunt, with total confidence, a ...
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June 8, 2026
The McDonald's Monopoly Scam: How Uncle Jerry Stole $24 Million
He spent his whole career guarding the game. Then he robbed it blind. For more than a decade, McDonald's Monopoly turned a paper sticker peeled off a fries box into the most reliable lottery in America. Cash, cars, grand prizes worth a fortune. There was just one problem. The winners were never random. They were chosen, recruited, and coached by a single man. This week on Mugshot Mysteries, we dig into the McMillions scam, the audacious con that drained an estimated $24 million from the world...
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June 1, 2026
The Truth About Gypsy Rose Blanchard | Munchausen by Proxy, Murder & the Pink House
A twenty-three-year-old woman has never walked in public. Has never eaten without a feeding tube. Has leukemia, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, brain damage from a premature birth. Takes a fistful of medications every day just to survive. Has been to more than a hundred doctors. Has had her teeth removed, her salivary glands surgically excised, her head shaved weekly to simulate chemotherapy. Has spent her entire life in a wheelchair in a pink house in Springfield, Missouri, where the whole town c
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