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True Crime Bloodlines

True Crime Bloodlines

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Some cases are never truly closed. The files go cold, the headlines fade — but the questions remain.

True Crime Bloodlines is a podcast that goes beyond the surface of real crime cases to expose what most investigations miss: the family ties, inherited patterns, and generational secrets that turn ordinary people into killers. This isn't standard criminal investigation content. Every case is examined through the lens of bloodlines — how violence, manipulation, and obsession travel through families across decades.

Jack is a former forensic case researcher with over eight years of experience consulting on cold cases and studying criminal psychology. He has spent years inside police archives, court transcripts, and victim advocacy files that never made the evening news. That background shapes every episode — no speculation without evidence, no drama without facts.

This show is built for listeners who feel like true crime podcasts scratch the surface but never go deep enough. If you want criminal investigation analysis that connects the dots between psychology, family history, and crime, you are in the right place.

New episodes drop every Tuesday, running between 18 and 25 minutes. Each case is fully researched and presented as a standalone investigation, so you can start anywhere.

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Episodes
  • The corpse that danced: seven years of secrecy

    The corpse that danced: seven years of secrecy
    Jun 7 2026
    The dancing corpse: seven years of secret: The necrophilic obsession of Carl Tanzler and Elena de Hoyos in Key West

    A child's cart carried a secret that crossed the line between mourning and madness. For seven years, a man lived with a reconstructed corpse in his home without anyone discovering it, feeding an obsession that began with a recurring dream decades earlier. How can someone dance every night with the remains of a dead woman and continue to pretend normalcy to the world?

    In this episode, we explore the central contradiction: Carl claimed to act on divine mandate, but he hid his crime by visiting an empty mausoleum for five years. We analyze how an X-ray technician without medical training became a serial killer of emotional reality, reconstructing a body with piano wire, glass eyes, and wax while speaking to his creation every morning. The lingering question: was it an act of extreme love or the most disturbing manifestation of possessive control?

    Victim: Elena de Hoyos
    Date: October 31, 1931 (death); 1933-1940 (cohabitation with corpse)
    Location: Key West, Florida
    Status: Charges dropped due to legal loophole

    - Carl exhumed the corpse two years after the death, transporting it in a child's cart through the streets of Key West without raising suspicion.
    - He reconstructed the body with piano wire threaded through bones, glass eyes, rags as stuffing, and facial wax, evidence of systematic planning over the years.
    - He visited the empty mausoleum for five more years after the exhumation, a deliberate cover-up strategy that demonstrates total awareness of illegality.
    - The charges for desecration and illegal removal were dropped due to legal insufficiency in Florida, leaving Carl without criminal consequences despite irrefutable evidence.

    Elena de Hoyos, Carl Tanzler, Key West 1931, tuberculosis, mausoleum, exhumation, necrophilia, obsession, pathological mourning, corpse reconstruction, true crime Spanish

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    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use in whole or in part is prohibited without prior written authorization from OBOMEDIA. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com.

    Recommended Listening:
    If you are a fan of deep-dive investigative podcasts and suspenseful storytelling like Crime Junkie, True Crime with Kendall Rae, Dateline NBC, 48 Hours, Morbid, 20/20, Betrayal Season 5, MrBallen Podcast: Strange Dark & Mysterious Stories, My Favorite Murder, Criminal, Murder at the U, Snapped: Women Who Murder, Serialously with Annie Elise, Casefile True Crime, or The Epstein Files, this will be your new favorite podcast.

    Topics Covered:
    True crime podcast, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, serial killers, missing persons, real crime stories, investigative journalism, homicide investigations, forensic science, interrogations, 911 calls, true crime daily, true crime 24 hours podcast, unexplained deaths, true crime stories English.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    19 mins
  • Three doors, three deaths: impossible decisions

    Three doors, three deaths: impossible decisions
    Jun 6 2026
    Three doors, three deaths: impossible decisions: The mysteries of Wade Steffy, Robert Dahmer, and Jason Chase

    A basement door without a lock. A desert where rescue becomes condemnation. A mountain where the official search arrives too late. Three people disappeared mere meters from civilization, in places where death lurked through decisions that seemed ordinary. How does one die so close to help without anyone finding them?

    In this episode, we explore three real cases where a single wrong door, an incorrect drop-off point, or voluntary camping culminated in irreversible tragedy. We analyze the police inspection that failed, the rescue that turned into a fatal trap, and the unidentified toxin that would remain hidden for 15 years. Was it negligence, bad luck, or the architecture of fate?

    Victims: Wade Steffy, Robert Dahmer, Jason Chase
    Date: January 2007 (Steffy), August 2005 (Dahmer), December 2002 (Chase)
    Location: Purdue Campus, Death Valley California, Ruahine Range New Zealand
    Status: Closed cases; confirmed negligence in Steffy

    - The basement door without a bolt allowed access to a 2,000-4,000 volt transformer where Wade was continuously electrocuted.
    - Police opened the interior laundry door but did not fully enter; the body was invisible from the threshold during a two-month search.
    - Robert was rescued after six days in Death Valley, returned weeks later, and was dropped off 15 miles from his destination without GPS or a map.
    - Jason died from trifidine toxin from the Urtica ferox plant, a substance not included in standard toxicology; late diagnosis fifteen years later.

    Wade Steffy, Robert Dahmer, Jason Chase, Purdue, Death Valley, Ruahine, homicide, investigation, forensic, mystery, natural killer, imperfect crimes, negligence, true crime Spanish

    If you want to listen to this podcast without ads and have access to premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, is prohibited without prior written authorization from OBOMEDIA. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com.

    Recommended Listening:
    If you are a fan of deep-dive investigative podcasts and suspenseful storytelling like Crime Junkie, True Crime with Kendall Rae, Dateline NBC, 48 Hours, Morbid, 20/20, Betrayal Season 5, MrBallen Podcast: Strange Dark & Mysterious Stories, My Favorite Murder, Criminal, Murder at the U, Snapped: Women Who Murder, Serialously with Annie Elise, Casefile True Crime, or The Epstein Files, this will be your new favorite podcast.

    Topics Covered:
    True crime podcast, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, serial killers, missing persons, real crime stories, investigative journalism, homicide investigations, forensic science, interrogations, 911 calls, true crime daily, true crime 24 hours podcast, unexplained deaths, true crime stories English.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    26 mins
  • The call from the basement of Ibadan

    The call from the basement of Ibadan
    Jun 5 2026
    The call from the basement of Ibadan: The mystery of Lanre Sidiku

    A hidden personal phone transmits the only voice from an underground cell in Nigeria. Lanre Sidiku describes to his friend a prison underground with nine other captives, screams from above, then the line cuts off. His motorcycle appears under a bridge at the edge of a forest.

    In this episode, we explore how a human parts extraction operation functioned for over ten years on the outskirts of Ibadan, the documented police negligence through reports of nighttime screams, and the impossible contradiction: the police demolished the warehouse without excavating the underground cell where Lanre was still alive according to his last call.

    Victim: Lanre Sidiku
    Date: March 22, 2014
    Location: Soka Forest, Ibadan, Nigeria
    Status: No judicial resolution; disappearance confirmed

    - 23 chained survivors found inside the warehouse fenced with barbed wire, unable to confirm the location of the underground cell.
    - Sloping cement sacrifice slab leading to a wooden bowl with dark stains, surrounded by bones with tissue still visible on the floor.
    - Police received reports for ten years about a black Jeep with tinted windows visiting the property between 8:00 PM and 9:30 PM, plus systematic nighttime screams.
    - A man captured lurking around the property later with human tongues and dozens of confiscated SIM cards, executed by a mob without police interrogation.

    Lanre Sidiku, Ibadan Nigeria 2014, disappearance, failed investigation, mystery, serial killer, forensic, criminal minds, corruption, justice, true crime, true crime Spanish

    If you want to listen to this podcast ad-free and have access to premium episodes, we invite you to try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.

    © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
    This episode and its content (audio, text, and associated materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use in whole or in part is prohibited without prior written authorization from OBOMEDIA. For permissions, licenses, and business inquiries, write to: business@obomedia.com.

    Recommended Listening:
    If you are a fan of deep-dive investigative podcasts and suspenseful storytelling like Crime Junkie, True Crime with Kendall Rae, Dateline NBC, 48 Hours, Morbid, 20/20, Betrayal Season 5, MrBallen Podcast: Strange Dark & Mysterious Stories, My Favorite Murder, Criminal, Murder at the U, Snapped: Women Who Murder, Serialously with Annie Elise, Casefile True Crime, or The Epstein Files, this will be your new favorite podcast.

    Topics Covered:
    True crime podcast, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, serial killers, missing persons, real crime stories, investigative journalism, homicide investigations, forensic science, interrogations, 911 calls, true crime daily, true crime 24 hours podcast, unexplained deaths, true crime stories English.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    20 mins
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