Andrea Lea
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True Crime has always been a fascinating subject for me and here I share those stories. Originally named Mystery Murder & Magick. Topics include but not limited to: -True Crime -Missing Persons -Serial Killers -The Unexplained -Cryptids -Paranormal -Current Events
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It pairs conversational case narration with courtroom detail and a clear eye for contradictions that remain unresolved.
Mystery Murder & Mayhem follows cases through biography, investigation, and courtroom aftermath in a conversational, host-led anthology. The range reaches from the beliefs surrounding Lori and Chad Daybell to Jonestown, Ted Kaczynski, the unsolved murder of Robert Eric Juan, and…
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A direct update roundup on Carly Russell, Alicia Navarro, and a still-developing investigation.
Mystery, Murder & Mayhem spends episode 112 on updates instead of a full case, moving from Carly Russell to Alicia Navarro before closing on a disturbing investigation that remains mostly outside public view.
A grim civil rights case shaped into a steady fight over justice, jurisdiction, and belief.
Mississippi Justice follows a 1960s Mississippi civil rights case from Klan violence to the discovery of the buried bodies, then through the long federal fight that followed.
A grim look at how adoption was turned into theft.
Georgia Tann's story lands as a grim account of how an adoption network was twisted into child theft, moving from Memphis streets to the orphanage at the center of the case.
A conversational true-crime episode that opens with a travel update and then moves into two hard-to-believe homicide cases.
This episode starts with a travel update from a three-day mountain getaway, then settles into two homicide cases the host treats as hard to believe.
Conversational true crime that starts with personal chatter, then turns into a harrowing escape story and a missing-persons appeal.
Episode 113 starts in a low-key, conversational register, with weather, school, and family chatter before it settles into a brutal captivity-and-escape story.
A plainspoken Camp Scott retelling that stays with the investigation and the human fallout.
This episode gives the Camp Scott story a steady, grounded shape, moving through the 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scouts murders and the long effort to make sense of what followed.
A conversational cult roundup that stays direct even as the stories get grim.
Number two in the countdown stays with cults, and it moves through three different stories in a plainspoken, conversational way. The host keeps circling back to her disbelief at how people get pulled in and stay there, and that reaction gives the episode its clearest point of…
A grim, chronological retelling that stays grounded in the case's most unsettling details.
This episode tracks Shanann Watts and her two little girls with a clear, chronological hand. The tension comes from the basics: Nicole's concern, the welfare check, and the discovery that Shanann's purse, phone, keys, and car are still at home.
Crime stories with impact and consequence.
Epstein-case coverage with teeth.
Betrayal, evidence, and the breaking point.
This episode details the 1995 murder of nursing student Colleen Slimmer by Krista Pike and her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, driven by jealousy and occult interests.
The host provides updates on three major true crime cases: Carlee Russell's kidnapping hoax and subsequent charges, the miraculous reappearance of Alicia Navarro after four years missing, and the gruesome details emerging from the homicide investigation into Harmony Montgomery's death.
The host returns after a hiatus to share her personal weight loss surgery journey and the sudden medical crisis of her 73-year-old mother, who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia.
The host explores the origin of a viral TikTok soundtrack from the 1985 film Possibly in Michigan, detailing its cannibalistic plot, feminist themes, and controversy sparked by Pat Robertson's criticism.
Host covers Part 2 of Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell case from June 2020 (remains identification) through trial opening arguments.
The host recounts the 1998 unsolved murder of Yale student Suzanne Jovan, detailing the botched police investigation that wrongly accused professor James Vandervelde while ignoring other leads, including a potential suspect who later committed suicide.
The episode follows the disappearance of Shanann and her two little girls, then traces the first cracks that made the situation feel wrong.
Episode 107 starts with the host apologizing for a messy week, then settles into a straight chronological run through Ted Kaczynski’s life and crimes.
The episode starts with a friendly check-in about weather and school starting back, which gives it a familiar kitchen-table feel before the crime reporting takes over.
She opens with a quick mountain getaway update, then pivots into two homicide stories she says are almost hard to believe.
The host opens tired but steady.
The episode centers on the Sider family fire in Fayetteville, West Virginia.
Host Andrea Lee investigates why Christmas songs mention ghost stories, tracing the tradition back to pagan winter solstice celebrations and Yule festivals.
This episode tells the shocking true story of Georgia Tann, a social worker who operated a black market baby adoption ring in Memphis from 1924 to 1950, stealing over 5,000 children from poor families, single parents, mental institutions, and even off the streets.
This episode recounts the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
The host recounts the bizarre 2016 case of the Trump family (no relation to Donald), who abruptly fled their Australian farm in a paranoid state, leaving behind passports and phones.
This episode recounts the 1977 murders of three Girl Scouts at Camp Scott in Oklahoma, a case that remained officially unsolved for decades.
This one lands at number one on the year-end countdown.
The host narrates the story of Kenyell Brown, the Metro Detroit serial killer who murdered several people in 2019-2020.
The host recounts the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.
Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem episode 103 focuses on Lori Vallow Daybell, starting with her 1973 birth in San Bernardino, California, and tracing her four marriages, including Charles Vallow and Chad Daybell.
The episode opens with the hosts revisiting the 1979 film Guyana, Crime of the Century and using it as a way into Jim Jones, the People's Temple, and Jonestown.
Episode 102 of Mystery Murder and Mayhem covers three cult stories in a year-end countdown special.
This episode covers two major true crime stories: the mysterious disappearance and return of Carly Russell in Alabama, including bizarre details from police investigations, and the release of former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten after 53 years in prison.