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The Grim Curriculum

The Grim Curriculum

Written by: Dina Valentine and Charlotte Smelt
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Welcome to The Grim Curriculum, a Canada based podcast, with hosts Charlotte and Dina. Join us as we chat about True Crime, Cryptids, Historic Events, and a whole lot more. If it’s macabre and nightmarish, we want to discuss it. Join us every Saturday for a new episode. Be sure to listen with the lights off.Medina Valentine and Charlotte Smelt 2022 True Crime World
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  • Hadden Clark - Part Two: When the Rot Is Revealed
    Jan 24 2026

    In the final part of our series on Hadden Clark, the story moves out of the shadows and into the public eye. This episode follows Clark’s arrest and the investigation that finally brought his crimes to light. After the murder of a woman whose mother believed Hadden deserved a second chance, investigators knew they could not afford to let him walk free again. What followed was a long and frustrating investigation. Clark was deliberately uncooperative, evasive, and often openly obnoxious, doing everything he could to derail the process. But eventually, the persona known as “Kristen” emerged, and with it came cracks in Hadden's story. Little by little, the truth began to surface.

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    37 mins
  • Hadden Clark - Part One: The Beginning of Something Rotten
    Jan 17 2026

    In Episode 185, we begin a new series on Hadden Clark, a man known to many as the cross-dressing cannibal. As we always do, we start at the beginning. This first chapter focuses on Clark’s parents, his family lineage, and the environment that shaped his early life. Hadden was one of four siblings, and he would not be the only one in the family to find himself on a very dark path. On the surface, his upbringing appeared stable, even respectable. But beneath that polished exterior was a household marked by dysfunction, secrecy, and deeply troubling dynamics. Clark’s story raises uncomfortable questions about nature versus nurture. Was violence always there, waiting to surface, or was it cultivated over time through trauma and instability? As we dig into his childhood and family history, it becomes clear that whatever the answer, the foundation was far from healthy. This is only the start. And it is anything but sunshine and rainbows.

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    51 mins
  • Ruth Snyder: Love, Betrayal, and Old Sparky
    Jan 10 2026

    In this week’s episode, we travel back to the 1920s, a time of speakeasies, jazz, and newspaper headlines has jaws dropping everyday. At the centre of one of New York's most sensational stories was Ruth Snyder, a suburban housewife whose plan to be rid of her husband set off a chain of events that would shock the public and change crime reporting forever. We walk through Ruth’s marriage to Albert Snyder, the sordid affair with corset salesman Henry Judd Gray, and the clumsy murder plot that spiralled into front-page scandal. And of course, we couldn't talk about this case without mentioning the infamous hidden-camera photograph that captured Ruth’s final moments in the electric chair, an image that became one of the most recognisable crime photos of the twentieth century.

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    Watch the video episode on Patreon

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    Email us your strange, unusual or hair-raising experience to ⁠thegrimcurriculum@gmail.com

    For all the other places you can support us by checking out our TGC Merch, & Social Media Links: ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/thegrimcurriculum⁠⁠

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    38 mins
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