GRIMM: A True Crime Podcast

In March 1927, a nine-year-old girl in Queens Village, New York, ran to the neighbors to say someone had hurt her dad and her mom was tied up. Her mother told police two burglars had broken in and taken her jewelry, but detectives didn't believe her for long. This is the case the newspapers called the "Dumbbell Murder."

In Part 2, Erica returns to close out Sherri Rasmussen’s story as the burglary theory that once satisfied investigators begins to unravel. Decades pass before a cold case review and a DNA breakthrough point detectives towards someone almost no one expected.

In Part 1 of this baby break episode, our guest host, Erica, tells the tragic story of Sherri Rasmussen - a brilliant young woman whose promising future was cut short by a shocking murder. As detectives pursue a burglary theory, troubling questions and overlooked clues hint that the truth may be far more complicated.

Two Everett women, murdered four years apart. Two cold cases. Decades of silence — until DNA, a determined detective, and a stick of gum finally caught up with the man who killed them. In this episode, Marina covers the horrific crimes of Mitchell Gaff and how his narcissism contributed to his life sentence.

For years, Gisèle Pelicot knew something was wrong. She was exhausted, losing chunks of time, living with symptoms no doctor could explain. Then her husband of fifty years was arrested, and the truth finally surfaced.In this episode, Marina covers what Dominique Pelicot did inside an ordinary home in the south of France, the dozens of ordinary men who came through its doors, and the decision Gisèle made to waive her anonymity and face every one of them in open court. As she put it: shame must change sides.

*Special Guest Appearance by Colby!*In September 2004, Charlie Brandt and his wife Teri evacuated the Florida Keys ahead of a hurricane and went to stay with Teri’s niece Michelle in Orlando. Two of them never left. What investigators found in that house — and what they would learn about Charlie’s past — would unravel a secret the Brandt family had kept for more than thirty years, and reopen cold cases across South Florida that had been waiting for an answer.

*Special Guest Appearance by Colby!*In 1997, a teacher was raped at her elementary school in Rogers, Arkansas. The man who did it left almost no evidence behind, and for two decades, the case went cold. In 2017, a city worker was shot to death on a country road in a town of 450 people. In episode, Marina discusses how Grant Hardin, a small-town police chief, was the missing link.

In the finale of this series, Marina brings the story of Fred and Rose West to its conclusion. From the police investigation that finally broke the case open, to the discovery of nine sets of remains at 25 Cromwell Street and the fields of Much Marcle, this episode covers the full reckoning: Fred’s confession, his death on New Year’s Day 1995, and the trial that put Rosemary West behind bars for life.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In Part II, Marina picks up where the story left off — inside 25 Cromwell Street, where Fred and Rose West had already gotten away with murder. This episode covers the assault on Caroline Owens, the one victim who survived and went to the police — and what happened when the justice system let Fred and Rose walk free. From there, Marina covers the eight young women murdered at Cromwell Street between 1973 and 1979, and the fate of Heather West, the daughter who never made it out.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

In the first of this series, Marina explores the origins of one of Britain's most notorious killer couples — Fred and Rose West. From Fred's troubled childhood and his first murders in the 1960s, to Rose's deeply disturbed upbringing and how the two came together in Gloucester, this episode traces the making of two killers before the world knew their names.