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
35 episodes
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. F...
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 thi...
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 lo...
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, loadi...
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 fo...
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. Has been to more than a hundred doctors. Has had her teeth remove...
The Pascagoula Abduction: The Most Credible Alien Encounter Ever Recorded?
A sheriff leaves two suspects alone in an interrogation room and steps out. The recorder is still running, and they have no idea. He is certain that the moment the door clicks shut, the act will drop. Instead the younger man is sobbing, and the...
MKUltra: The Sleep Room - CIA Brainwashing & Dr. Ewen Cameron Pt. 3
A 26-year-old mother of five walks into a respected Montreal hospital because she cannot sleep. She has postpartum depression. The most decorated psychiatrist alive puts her into a drug-induced coma for eighty-six days, delivers more than a hun...
MKUltra: The Names - Operation Midnight Climax & Edgewood Arsenal Pt. 2
A 42-year-old man checks himself into a New York psychiatric hospital for depression after his marriage ends. Five weeks later a doctor injects him with 450 milligrams of an Army chemical-warfare compound, a mescaline derivative no human had ev...
MKUltra: Nine Days - The Death of Frank Olson Pt. 1
A biological warfare scientist goes out a tenth-floor hotel window at 2:30 in the morning. The man sharing his room, a CIA chemist, does not call an ambulance or the police. He calls his boss at the agency. The official verdict is suicide, and ...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Inside America’s Most Haunted Hospital
You are lying in a hospital bed on a hilltop above Louisville in 1932. Every window in the building is open, because your doctors believe freezing air is medicine, and there is actual snow on your blanket. You have tuberculosis. You have been h...
The Zodiac Killer: 2,500 Suspects Pt. 4
The Zodiac is long gone, or quietly elderly, and his case is still open. More than two thousand five hundred suspects have been formally investigated. Not one has ever been charged. And then, in December 2025, a self-taught codebreaker stands u...
The Zodiac Killer: The Code Breakers Pt. 3
December 11, 2020. The world is nine months into a pandemic. A software developer in Virginia gets on a video call with a mathematician in Melbourne and a programmer in Belgium. Three people, three countries, three time zones, and on the screen...
The Zodiac Killer: Dear Editor Pt. 2
It is a clear Saturday afternoon at Lake Berryessa in September 1969. Two college students are picnicking on a small spit of land when a man steps out of the tree line. He is wearing a homemade black executioner's hood with clip-on sunglasses o...
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
Go look at a bottle of Tylenol. A glued box, a cap you push and twist, a foil seal on the rim, maybe a wad of cotton. Three layers of protection between you and a headache pill, and if any seal is broken, you put it back without thinking. None ...
The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 2
On a bright July morning in 1997, the most famous fashion designer in the world walks back to his Miami Beach mansion with the morning papers. As he puts his key in the gate, a young man steps up behind him and fires twice into the back of his ...
The Price of Beauty: The Assassination of Gianni Versace & the Making of a Serial Killer Pt. 1
It is the morning of July 15, 1997, on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. A fifty-year-old Italian man in sandals walks back from the café with his morning paper. At the iron gate of his mansion, a younger man steps out of nowhere and fires twice into...
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: The Crime of the Century
In March 1932, the most famous man on earth puts his twenty-month-old son to bed in a remote New Jersey farmhouse. Hours later the crib is empty, a homemade ladder lies broken under the window, and a ransom note sits on the sill. Charles Lindbe...
The Circleville Letters: A Small Town Stalked by an Anonymous Killer
You walk to your mailbox in a small Ohio town where everyone knows your name. Inside is an envelope with no return address, postmarked Columbus, written in aggressive block letters. It says they know what you did. It says they have been watchin...
The Black Dahlia: Hollywood's Most Infamous Unsolved Murder
January 15, 1947. A young mother pushing a stroller down a quiet Los Angeles street sees something white in a vacant lot, so white she thinks it's a discarded mannequin. It isn't. It's the body of twenty-two-year-old Elizabeth Short, cut clean ...
The Flatwoods Monster: West Virginia's 1952 UFO Encounter That Terrified a Nation
September 12, 1952. In a West Virginia town of three hundred people, four boys watch a red light streak across the sky and come down behind a hill. They run for help, and a small group climbs into the dark with a flashlight and the family dog. ...
The Mothman of Point Pleasant: Prophecy, Paranoia & the Silver Bridge Collapse
November 15, 1966. Two young couples are driving the back roads near an abandoned WWII explosives plant outside Point Pleasant, West Virginia, when their headlights catch two red eyes near a gate. The thing is shaped like a man, but bigger, sev...
The Flannan Isles Lighthouse: Three Men Vanished Into Thin Air (1900)
Here's the Flannan Isles episode in matching format. This is your fourth paranormal-leaning episode, and like Mothman it lands on an honest two-belief ending rather than a single verdict, so I kept the description balanced between the documente...
Hell's Belle: The Belle Gunness Story — America's Deadliest Female Serial Killer
In 1907, lonely men across the Midwest read a newspaper ad: a comely widow with a fine Indiana farm seeks a gentleman equally well provided, with a view to joining fortunes. Triflers need not apply. At least forty men answered. They packed thei...