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This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)
30 episodes
The Murder of Calum Simpson: Do We Really Treat Male and Female Victims Differently? - Part 2
Ep 454 · Aug 13, 2026 · 32 min
After researching dozens of studies, court decisions, and primary sources, we discovered the answer wasn't nearly as simple as we expected. Do men receive more justice than women? Are women taken less seriously? Or are different myths shaping how we perceive different victims? In Part 2, we examine what the research actually says about victim credibility, gender stereotypes, reporting, prosecution, and sentencing—and why the evidence challenged some of our own assumptions. Because the biggest su…
The Murder of Calum Simpson | The Question We Couldn't Ignore- Part 1
Aug 11, 2026 · 52 min
A Facebook post comparing the murder of Calum Simpson to violence against women raised a question we couldn't stop thinking about: Do we treat violence against women differently than violence against men? At first, the answer seemed obvious. Then we started reading the court records. In this episode, we tell Calum Simpson's story—from the night he met two strangers to the evidence presented in court—and explain why one social media post sent us down a much bigger investigation. This is Part 1 of…
A Toxic Love Story: Pretending to Be Michelle, Pretending to Be Angela- Part 2
Aug 6, 2026 · 42 min
Michelle Hadley spent 88 days in jail waiting to stand trial. Then the evidence changed everything. In Part 2, we follow the digital trail that unraveled the prosecution's case and exposed an elaborate web of fake accounts, fabricated messages, and deception hiding in plain sight. But this isn't just a story about catfishing. It's about confirmation bias, tunnel vision, and what happens when investigators become so convinced they've found the right suspect that every new piece of evidence seems…
A Toxic Love Story: Who Is Lilith?- Part 1
Aug 4, 2026 · 44 min
When Angela Diaz tells police she's being stalked, terrorized, and targeted through a series of increasingly disturbing messages, the evidence seems to point in one direction. Michelle Hadley. Ian Diaz's ex-girlfriend. But as investigators build their case, one question keeps getting harder to answer: Who is Lilith? In Part 1, we trace the bizarre campaign of emails, fake identities, and escalating threats that convinced police they had found the person responsible. Along the way, we ask a bigge…
Aarushi Talwar: Convicted on a Theory? Part 2
Jul 31, 2026 · 50 min
By the time investigators accused Rajesh and Nupur Talwar of killing their daughter Aarushi and Hemraj Banjade, the case had already moved through multiple suspects, disputed forensic evidence, and competing theories of what happened inside the family's Noida home. In Part 2 of the Aarushi Talwar case, Tyrella and Nikita examine the evidence used against the Talwars, including the golf club and kukri theories, the forensic and investigative failures, their 2013 conviction and life sentences, and…
Aarushi Talwar: Wrong by Morning- Part 1
Ep 449 · Jul 28, 2026 · 50 min
In 2008, 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar was found dead inside her family's home in Noida, India. Within hours, police had named the family's missing housekeeper, Hemraj Banjade, as their prime suspect. There was one enormous problem: they hadn't searched the entire property. Tyrella and Nikita walk through the first 24 hours of the Aarushi Talwar case — the locked bedroom, the family's nightly routine, the initial crime scene investigation, the search for Hemraj, and the discovery that completely up…
Introducing: Tyrella Off the Record
Jul 25, 2026 · 7 min
I'm launching something new: Tyrella Off the Record. If This Feels Criminal is where we slow down, dig deep, and ask the bigger questions, Tyrella Off the Record is where I'll help you keep up with true crime as it's happening. Ya'll know I'm following these cases like a hawk and I figured why not talk about them with you?!? Hearings. Trials. New filings. Breaking case developments. I'm following the cases you care about and breaking down what happened, why it matters, and what you need to know…
Conor McGregor: What Happened When He Faced a Civil Jury- Part 2
Ep 448 · Jul 23, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
After nearly six years, Nikita Hand finally walked into a Dublin courtroom and faced Conor McGregor. In Part 2, we break down the 12-day civil trial: Hand's testimony, McGregor's claim that their encounter was consensual, the CCTV footage the defense said undermined her story, the medical and physical evidence presented to the jury, and the strategies used to challenge Hand's credibility. Then, after six hours and ten minutes of deliberation, the jury returned its verdict. We follow what happene…
Conor McGregor : Why He Was Never Criminally Charged- Part 1
Ep 447 · Jul 21, 2026 · 40 min
In 2018, Nikita Hand accused Conor McGregor of raping her in a Dublin hotel. Prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges—but six years later, Hand took McGregor to civil court. The medical evidence documented extensive injuries. McGregor's DNA placed him at the scene. But prosecutors ultimately declined to bring criminal charges. Nikita Hand didn't stop there. In Part 1, we walk through what happened that day according to the evidence and testimony, the aftermath of the alleged assault, the d…
Karen Read — The Lawsuit That Could Take Down Two Police Departments (Part 2)
Ep 446 · Jul 16, 2026 · 55 min
The same week Karen Read's lawsuit went public, the man at the center of it tried to avoid testifying. A month later, a furious judge accused someone of leaking his sealed medical information to the internet — ordered 32 attorneys to certify under oath they weren't responsible, and stopped just short of a gag order. Then Read's own team fired back, arguing the entire premise was wrong. This episode: the deposition wars playing out across three separate lawsuits, a retired lieutenant's failed fig…
Karen Read — The Lawsuit That Could Take Down Two Police Departments (Part 1: The Complaint)
Ep 445 · Jul 14, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Karen Read walked out of her second trial acquitted. Weeks later, she filed a lawsuit that isn't about whether she killed John O'Keefe — it's about the two police departments that investigated her, and what they knew about the men running that investigation before they ever put them on the case. This episode: the 87-page complaint Read filed against Massachusetts State Police and the Town of Canton, the decade of texts from lead investigator Michael Proctor and Canton Sergeant Sean Goode that th…
Charles Guiteau: "I Merely Shot Him" | James Garfield Assassination- Pt. 2
Ep 444 · Jul 9, 2026 · 39 min
"I did not kill the president. The doctors did. I merely shot him." That was Charles Guiteau's defense. In 1881, a failed lawyer and preacher convinced himself he'd single-handedly won James Garfield the presidency — and that the president now owed him a job. When the reward never came, he decided Garfield had to die. In Part 2 of Founding Felons Week, Tyrella and Nikita get into who Guiteau really was and how he got there: the Oneida free-love commune that rejected him, his pattern of latching…
Assassination of James Garfield: The Bullet Didn't Kill Him | Pt. 1
Ep 443 · Jul 7, 2026 · 39 min
Founding Felons is back! A bullet put President James Garfield on the floor of a train station in 1881 — but it wasn't the bullet that killed him. In Part 1 of Founding Felons Week, Tyrella and Nikita trace the unlikely life of James A. Garfield: the dirt-poor Ohio farm boy who couldn't swim but dreamed of being a sailor, and the self-taught general who went on to win the closest popular-vote election in U.S. history. Four months into his presidency, he was shot at a Washington train station — a…
Maternal Instinct: How Taylor Parker Landed on Death Row — The Part Netflix Skipped | Pt. 2
Jul 2, 2026 · 52 min
After the guilty verdict, most people wait quietly. Taylor Parker wrote a confession to the murder — and signed it as someone else. Part 2 is the half the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct never showed. After she was convicted of capital murder, Taylor Parker ran a months-long jailhouse operation to frame other people for the killing of Reagan Simmons-Hancock — forged confessions, fabricated co-conspirators, the works. Then came the penalty phase and one question: was Taylor Parker calculati…
Maternal Instinct (Netflix): How Taylor Parker Faked a Pregnancy & Murdered Reagan Hancock | Pt. 1
Jun 29, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min
Before she was a Netflix documentary, Reagan Simmons-Hancock had a name, a daughter, and a baby due in weeks. This is the part the cameras skipped. The Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tells the story of Taylor Parker, who faked a pregnancy for nearly a year — fake ultrasounds, a silicone belly, even a gender reveal — before committing one of the rarest and most disturbing crimes there is: fetal abduction. In 2020, in the tiny town of New Boston, Texas, that lie ended in the murder of her f…
Karmelo Anthony: The Sentence That Split the Country | Pt. 2
Jun 25, 2026 · 45 min
Caysen Allison stabbed a classmate more than once and got 10 years. Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf once and got 35. Both said it was self-defense. Part 2 opens at Anthony's sentencing in Frisco, Texas — including the victim impact statement from Austin's mother that reframes the whole debate — then sets the case beside a strikingly similar one out of Belton: same self-defense claim, very different ending. Tyrella and Nikita break down the 35-year sentence, the data on sentencing disparit…
Karmelo Anthony: "I'm Not Alleged. I Did It." - Pt. 1
Ep 439 · Jun 23, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
A handcuffed 17-year-old corrects the officer reading him his situation: "I'm not alleged. I did it." Behind him, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf is dying under a track-meet tent. In April 2025, Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf — two teenagers from rival Frisco, Texas high schools who'd never met — ended up under the same tent at a district track meet. Four minutes later, one of them was gone, and the case split the internet long before it reached a courtroom. Tyrella and Nikita walk through the co…
Michael Jackson The Verdict: The Witness Who Flipped- Pt. 2
Jun 18, 2026 · 37 min
In 2005, Wade Robson swore under oath that Michael Jackson never touched him — and helped win the acquittal. In 2026, he's asking a different jury to believe the opposite. Part 2 picks up where Netflix's "The Verdict" stops. Tyrella and Nikita get into what the documentary left out: the $20M+ Jordan Chandler settlement, the Robson and Safechuck lawsuits against Jackson's companies, and the credibility questions on both sides — a memoir he didn't disclose, a Grand Canyon trip his own mother contr…
Michael Jackson The Verdict : 14 Not Guilty - Pt. 1 of 2
Jun 16, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min
Fourteen counts. Not guilty on every single one. Twenty-one years later, Netflix has reopened the case — and one of Michael Jackson's own defense witnesses is about to change his story. In June 2005, Michael Jackson walked out of a Santa Barbara courtroom acquitted of all 14 child sexual abuse charges. Netflix's new three-part docuseries "The Verdict" revisits that 2005 trial, and in Part 1 Tyrella and Nikita break it down episode by episode — the Martin Bashir interview that started it all, the…
Lindsay Clancy: The 54 Minutes & Where It Stands | Pt. 2
Jun 11, 2026 · 47 min
When Patrick Clancy walked back into that house after 54 minutes, it was silent. Three small children were in the basement. Lindsay was outside on the ground. Part 2 of TFC's Lindsay Clancy coverage picks up the night of January 24th, 2023 — the minute-by-minute timeline, the phone evidence the prosecution is relying on, and Lindsay's own account of what she says happened once Patrick left. Tyrella and Nikita also break down the full toxicology, the competing expert arguments about what was acti…
Lindsay Clancy: She Asked for Help 13 Times | Pt. 1
Jun 9, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min
She was a labor and delivery nurse at Mass General. She screened in the severe range for postpartum depression, told her care team again and again that something was deeply wrong, and checked herself into the top psychiatric hospital in the country. The day after her final psychiatrist appointment, all three of her children were gone. In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita walk through who Lindsay Clancy was before January 24th, 2023 — the manic episodes after her second birth, the medication cascade tha…
Courtney Clenney: "Is Love Going to Kill Me?" - Pt. 2
Jun 4, 2026 · 55 min
Five weeks before he died, Christian Obumseli sent his girlfriend a text that read: "Is love going to kill me?" He was dead 33 days later, and she was not arrested for four months. This is Part 2 of the Christian Obumseli case. Christian was a 27-year-old Nigerian American from Dallas — a former college linebacker, an engineering grad, a guy his whole community called a light in the room. He fell hard for Courtney Clenney, an OnlyFans creator making close to two million dollars a year. What foll…
Courtney Clenney: She Said She Threw the Knife | Pt. 1
Jun 2, 2026 · 58 min
He texted her "Is love going to kill me?" and was dead 33 days later. What the medical examiner found next changes everything. Christian Obumseli was a 27-year-old Nigerian-American engineer and former college linebacker who met OnlyFans creator Courtney Clenney in Tulum in 2020. Over the next two years, their relationship became increasingly violent — documented in police body cam footage, elevator surveillance video, and Christian's own text messages describing being stabbed in the leg, cut on…
Mackenzie Shirilla: 'Hell on Wheels' The Trial, The Verdict & What Dom Knew -Pt. 2
May 28, 2026 · 49 min
Two weeks before the crash, Dom Russo was secretly recording her. Days before he died, he used a friend's phone to do it — which tells you everything about where things were. In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita pick up where the evidence gets undeniable: the secret recordings Dom made of Mackenzie in the days before his death, the highway incident two weeks prior where a witness heard her say "I will crash this car right now," the arrest, and the trial that ended with a judge calling Mackenzie Shirill…
Mackenzie Shirilla: She Threatened It Two Weeks Before- Pt. 1
May 26, 2026 · 57 min
Two weeks before the crash, a witness heard Mackenzie Shirilla say "I will crash this car right now." On July 31, 2022, she did — at over 100 mph, into a brick building, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and his friend Davion Flanagan. Netflix released a documentary called The Crash. It covered the case. It did not cover everything. In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita walk through the victims' backgrounds, the four-year relationship between Mackenzie and Dom, and the evidence of coercive control, pr…
DoorDash Girl: The Evidence She Posted Herself - Pt. 2
May 22, 2026 · 46 min
She posted it to TikTok before she called the police — and then 30 million people saw it. That decision may send her to trial on two Class E felonies. In Part 2 of the viral DoorDash case, Tyrella and Nikita break down the charges against driver Livvy Henderson: unlawful surveillance and dissemination of unlawful surveillance images. They walk through exactly why the prosecution's job may be easy, what the Ring camera footage could reveal, and why the DA skipped the fast-track plea route and wen…
DoorDash Girl: 30M Views, Then a Felony Arrest | Pt. 1
May 19, 2026 · 44 min
She posted a video of a man — unconscious, partially nude, in his own home — and 30 million people believed every word she said. Within weeks, she was the one under arrest. Olivia Henderson is a 23-year-old DoorDash driver from Oswego, New York, who went viral in October 2025 claiming a customer had sexually assaulted her during a delivery. The video exploded on TikTok before anyone thought to ask questions. Then police pulled the Ring camera footage from the customer's home, and her story start…
Missing Scientists: Your Brain Is the Conspiracy | Pt. 2
May 14, 2026 · 36 min
A Substack post became a federal probe in eight weeks. That's faster than most podcast episodes get edited. So what actually happened — and what does it mean that it can happen again? In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita move from the individual cases and start interrogating the system. They break down apophenia — your brain's tendency to find patterns even where none exist — and trace exactly how one influencer newsletter traveled from fringe post to White House press briefing to multi-agency FBI inve…
Missing Scientists: She Predicted Her Own Death. Then It Happened. | Pt. 1
May 12, 2026 · 52 min
A plasma physicist texted a former spy: "If you ever see a report that I killed myself — I most definitely did not." Then that's exactly what the report said. In under eight weeks, one Substack post turned into a White House briefing, an FBI probe, and a House Oversight Committee inquiry. The story: 11 deaths and disappearances of US government-connected scientists. But is it a pattern — or a story about how the internet decides what gets investigated? Tyrella and Nikita go case by case through…
d4vd Case Part 2: 40 Terabytes of Evidence, CSAM on His Devices & The Preliminary Hearing
May 7, 2026 · 47 min
In Part 2 of our d4vd and Celeste Rivas Hernandez update, Tyrella and Nikita cover what prosecutors dropped at the April 23rd status hearing — exactly one year to the day Celeste was last seen alive. Prosecutors told the judge that Burke's iPhone and iCloud contain a significant amount of child sexual abuse material, and they've only reviewed one terabyte out of eight. They also break down the full 40-terabyte evidence scale, the court-authorized wiretap, why charges took so long to file, what c…
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