Mugshot Mysteries
Some stories are solved. Most aren’t.
The interesting ones refuse to stay buried.
Mugshot Mysteries is a deep-dive podcast hosted by Kathryn and Gabriel, exploring true crime, conspiracies, paranormal encounters, cults, historical disasters, government cover-ups, and the stories that keep people awake long after the episode ends.
Every episode blends immersive storytelling, psychological analysis, dark humor, and the kind of rabbit holes that make you question whether history is telling the full truth.
One week it’s serial killers. The next it’s MKUltra, haunted hospitals, vanished ships, UFO encounters, or deaths that still don’t make sense decades later.
Kathryn brings the research. Gabriel brings the questions, the theories, and occasionally a comment so out of pocket it completely derails the conversation.
Expect deep dives, unexpected tangents, and at least one moment where Kathryn has to stop and say, “Wow. Wow wow wow.”
If it’s disturbing, unexplained, historically strange, or impossible to forget… it belongs in the lineup.
New episodes every week.
Episodes
28 episodes
MKUltra: The Sleep Room - CIA Brainwashing & Dr. Ewen Cameron Pt. 3
You're right, I pulled the BBC source and some framing straight from your Part 2 example. Here it is rebuilt clean, sourced only from what's actually in the Part 3 script.MKUltra Part 3: "The Sleep Room"A 26-year-old mother of fiv...
MKUltra: The Names - Operation Midnight Climax & Edgewood Arsenal Pt. 2
A man checks himself into a psychiatric hospital for depression and dies after being injected with an experimental Army chemical warfare compound.A young painter in Paris accepts a drink from a stranger and spends the next forty years tr...
MKUltra: Nine Days - The Death of Frank Olson Frank Olson Pt. 1
On the night of November 28th, 1953, a man named Frank Olson went out a tenth-floor window at the Statler Hotel in New York City. He was 43. He was a biological warfare scientist for the United States Army. He had a wife and three kids in Maryl...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Inside America’s Most Haunted Hospital
Six thousand people died in this building. The architecture was specifically designed so the living would never see the bodies leave. A five-hundred-foot underground tunnel. A motorized rail cart. A nickname nobody on staff gave it.They ...
The Zodiac Killer: 2,500 Suspects Pt. 4
Two thousand five hundred people formally investigated. Fifty new names proposed every year. Fifty-seven years. Not one charge. Not one conviction. Not one answer.That is where Part 4 begins.Kathryn and Gabriel finally get to the ...
The Zodiac Killer: The Code Breakers Pt. 3
December 11th, 2020. A software developer in Virginia, a mathematician in Melbourne, and a Belgian programmer get on a video call. Between them: a 340-character cipher unsolved since 1969. The FBI tried. The NSA tried. Fifty-one years of nothin...
The Zodiac Killer: Dear Editor Pt. 2
August 8th, 1969. A schoolteacher named Donald Harden and his wife Bettye sit at their kitchen table in Salinas, California with a newspaper spread in front of them. On the front page is one-third of a 408-character coded message sent by a seri...
The Zodiac Killer: The Murders That Started It All Pt. 1
September 27th, 1969. A man in a homemade black executioner hood walks out of the tree line at Lake Berryessa and approaches two college students picnicking on a small island. He ties them up. Then he stabs them. Then he drives 45 minutes to a ...
Chicago Tylenol Murders 1982: Sealed for Your Protection
September 29, 1982. A twelve-year-old girl takes one Tylenol for a sore throat and never wakes up. Six more strangers die across Chicago suburbs in three days. Same brand. Different stores. No connection except a bottle on a shelf.Someon...
The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 2
July 15th, 1997. Gianni Versace, the man who dressed Princess Diana, Madonna, and Tupac, who built the supermodel era, who chose the face of Medusa as his logo, is shot twice on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by a 27-year-old serial kille...
The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 1
July 15th, 1997. Gianni Versace, the man who dressed Princess Diana, Madonna, and Tupac, who built the supermodel era, who chose the face of Medusa as his logo, is shot twice on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by a 27-year-old serial kille...
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: The Crime of the Century
March 1, 1932. The most famous man in America puts his twenty-month-old son to bed. By 10 PM, the nursery is empty. A ransom note on the windowsill. A homemade ladder against the house. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping had begun.Charles Lin...
The Circleville Letters: A Small Town Stalked by an Anonymous Killer
1977. Circleville, Ohio. An anonymous letter writer terrorizes a town for nearly two decades. Over 1,000 letters exposing affairs, corruption, and secrets. Then attempted murder.Mary Gillispie, a school bus driver, was accused of having ...
The Black Dahlia: Hollywood's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder
January 9, 1947. Elizabeth Short walks into the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. She paces for four hours. Makes calls. Waits. At 10 PM, someone waves through the glass doors. She walks out. Turns south on Olive Street. Forty-eight hours later, h...
The Flatwoods Monster: West Virginia's 1952 UFO Encounter That Terrified a Nation
September 12, 1952. Seven people climb a hill in Flatwoods, West Virginia after watching a red light streak across the sky. At the top, they encounter something ten feet tall with a spade-shaped head, glowing eyes, and a metallic body. They run...
The Mothman of Point Pleasant: Prophecy, Paranoia & the Silver Bridge Collapse
November 15, 1966. Two young couples encounter a seven-foot creature with glowing red eyes and ten-foot wings at an abandoned TNT plant in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Over the next thirteen months, more than one hundred witnesses report seei...
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse: Three Men Vanished Into Thin Air (1900)
Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers mystery Scotland December 1900. Three experienced keepers James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur vanished without trace from Eilean Mor island in the Outer Hebrides. No bodies found. No distress sign...
Hell's Belle: The Belle Gunness Story — America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer
Belle Gunness La Porte Indiana 1908. America's first prolific female serial killer. A lonely hearts scammer who lured at least 40 men to her farm with promises of marriage, poisoned them, bashed their skulls with a meat cleaver, and buried them...
The Hinterkaifeck Murders: A Killer Lived in Their Attic — And No One Was Ever Caught
Germany, 1922. Footprints in the snow leading to a farmhouse. None leading back. Someone walked out of the forest toward the Gruber family home and never left. Days later, all six people inside were murdered with their own farm tool. The killer...
The Enfield Poltergeist: Britain's Most Haunted House — Real Phenomenon or the Greatest Hoax Ever Told?
Britain's most documented haunted house. The true story of the Enfield Poltergeist.August 1977, 284 Green Street, Enfield, London: 11-year-old Janet Hodgson's bed shakes. Knocking from inside walls. A police officer witnesses para...
The Cost of Health: The Luigi Mangione Case - From Ivy League to Death Row - (Pt. 3 of 3)
December 4, 2024, 6:44 AM. Masked shooter kills UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Shell casings etched: "Delay. Deny. Depose." Five days later: 26-year-old arrested at McDonald's. Ghost gun, manifesto, $10K cash in backpack. 57,000 laughing ...
The Cost of Health: Delay, Deny, Defend - The Insurance Denials Behind Luigi Mangione (Pt. 2 of 3)
$14.6 billion in fraud. The 2025 DOJ Takedown, the largest ever. One billion catheters billed. A couple makes $615 million from fake wound care. While the government chases criminals, insurers legally deny billions in legitimate claims. Using A...
The Cost of Health: The Broken System That Made Luigi Mangione Inevitable (Pt. 1 of 3)
December 4, 2024. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is killed outside a Manhattan hotel. Bullet casings read: "Delay. Deny. Depose." UnitedHealth's Facebook post gets 62,000 reactions...57,000 are laughing emojis. Supporters raise over $1 mil...
The Mary Celeste Ghost Ship Mystery: 10 People Vanished. Only the Ship Survived.
December 4, 1872. A ship appears on the horizon. No one at the wheel. No response to signals. The boarding party finds her: the Mary Celeste, drifting 400 miles east of the Azores. Ten people vanished: a captain, his wife, their two-year-old da...
D.B. Cooper: He Hijacked a Plane, Jumped Into a Storm, and No One Ever Found Him
The night before Thanksgiving, 1971. A man in a business suit. A bomb in a briefcase. $200,000 in twenties. And a jump into the freezing darkness over Washington state.This week on Mugshot Mysteries, we're diving into the only unsolved a...