Bianca Sloane
102 episodes listed below
Love gone wrong, told straight.
The Dark Side of Love tells relationship-driven murder cases with a sharp eye for manipulation, bad decisions, and warning signs. Its episodes move from biography to motive to investigation, keeping the victims visible while calling out the people who created the danger.
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The Dark Side of Love looks at murder through the relationships that made it possible. Its territory is not random violence, but intimacy under pressure: marriages, affairs, friendships, rivalries, family bonds, and romantic triangles. The show is brisk and story-forward. Episodes tend to begin with the person at the center of the case, then build outward into the romance, conflict, money problem, lie, obsession, or humiliation that changed the stakes. The result is true crime with a strong narrative engine. It can cover a husband whose death is first framed as sudden grief before fentanyl becomes the real question. It can follow a Halloween weekend, a car-scene rivalry, and a young woman whose social world turns lethal. It can also rewind to earlier cases about teenage jealousy, missing wives, stories that do not add up, and friendships that fracture into suspicion. The show uses documentary programs, newspapers, court details, medical findings, and family remarks as texture. It does not float above the facts. It walks through them, often pausing to say when someone’s story is absurd, cruel, convenient, or plainly not adding up. That bluntness gives the series its shape. Victims are treated as people with families, plans, jobs, quirks, and futures. Suspects are not given soft lighting just because the setup is dramatic. The episodes are especially strong when a public story turns out to be the wrong story, as with cases where grief, charity, or romance becomes a cover for something darker. The pacing rarely lingers for atmosphere. It prefers sequence, contradiction, and consequence. That makes the show useful for listeners who like a full case arc without losing momentum. It is also a fit for people drawn to the emotional mechanics of true crime: jealousy, control, denial, performance, and the bad choices people keep dressing up as love. The Dark Side of Love is grim, but not cold. It has empathy for the people who were harmed and very little patience for the people who made harm inevitable.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who like relationship-centered murder cases with clear timelines, pointed commentary, and a victim-aware focus. Best suited to those who want case detail without a clinical or overly solemn tone.
What sets it apart: The show stands out for pairing sourced, chronological case narration with plainspoken skepticism about manipulative partners, jealous rivals, and stories that do not add up. It keeps the pace moving while still making room for motive, media framing, and aftermath.
Hosted by suspense novelist, Bianca Sloane, The Dark Side of Love is a weekly true crime podcast dedicated to all the ways loved ones turn on each other, often with deadly results. Whether it's murderous husbands, women who kill, lethal boyfriends, dysfunctional families, or just a good old-fashioned WTF, look no further. From crimes that shook the world to cases you may not have ever heard of, the stories are suspenseful, emotional, and compelling.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bianca Sloane traces intimate betrayals through clear timelines while keeping victims' lives central to each case.
Bianca Sloane builds each case from the people and relationships involved, then follows the rupture through investigation and legal consequences.
A roadside robbery story starts to wobble, and Bianca Sloan lets you hear the cracks.
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A sideshow triangle turns Halloween weekend into fatal fallout.
Bianca Sloan keeps the story moving with a clear timeline, following Leilani Beecham from a sideshow social circle through school, cosmetology ambitions, and into Halloween weekend on October 30, 2021.
A grim Richins case walk-through with strong timeline grip and a sharp eye for the suspicious.
Corey Richens' path from an Oklahoma childhood to a Heber City adolescence gives the episode its shape, and the opening around the grief book and Eric's sudden death lands well.
A grim Baltimore case that turns darker when a simple act of kindness ends in death.
The piece opens on a cold Baltimore night and builds a murder case around a familiar trap: a woman and baby, a cardboard sign, and a good deed that ends in violence.
A Miami murder case told with restraint, skepticism, and a slight drag in the margins.
Bianca Sloan keeps this Miami case grounded in plain facts. It starts with a 1996 night out for Marlon Barnes and Tim Juanica Lumpkins and moves toward a scene that points away from random robbery, with family context and campus memory giving the timeline some weight.
A custody-fight murder case told briskly, with the details doing the heavy lifting.
The episode treats Laura Ackerson's disappearance as a custody fight turned murder case, and it keeps the timeline tight. Grant Hayes moves from bitter ex to the man who suddenly proposes a random Wednesday visit, then the story follows the Raleigh pickup, the U-Haul counter,…
Measured true crime with uneasy questions.
Leilani Beecham sits at the center of a jealous, party-fueled case.
Corey’s 2023 grief book only makes the Utah chatter louder.
The host celebrates the 100th episode of their true crime podcast by sharing their personal top 10 most impactful episodes, starting with the first episode about Mark and Lori Hacking.
This episode continues the true crime story of Rachel Wade and Sarah Ludeman, two teenage girls embroiled in a deadly love triangle over manipulative boyfriend Josh Camacho.
This episode explores the true crime story of Edith Thompson and Freddie Bywaters, a post-World War I London scandal involving a miserable marriage, passionate affair, and murder that captivated the public for decades.
Bianca Sloan opens on a cold December night in Baltimore.
Bianca Sloan focuses on the case she calls "The Last Quarter," centered on the 1996 murders of Marlon Barnes and Tim Juanica Lumpkins.
Laura Ackerson's disappearance turns into a custody-war murder case.
This true crime episode explores the chilling case of Amanda Canales and Kevin Lewis, where a seemingly charming romance in 2007 leads to murder after Kevin's true nature is revealed.
This episode explores the 2010 murder of Heidi Firkus in St.
This episode explores the 1991 suspicious deaths of Leslie Clark and Trevor Buchanan in Northern Ireland, initially ruled a suicide pact but later revealed through a confession to involve darker truths.
This episode explores the tumultuous relationship between French pop singer Claudine Longet and Olympic skier Spider Sabich, which culminated in a murder case in Aspen, Colorado.
This episode explores the story of Clara Harris, a Colombian immigrant who achieved the American dream as a dentist but shocked everyone by murdering her husband after discovering his affair.