Morbid

4.7 (68K) · TRUE CRIME · UPDATED WEEKLY

A true crime, creepy history and all things spooky podcast hosted by best friends Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley. It's sometimes funny, sometimes serious, always compelling.

3D AGO

Episode 470: The Torso Murder — The Cleveland Butcher's Last Known Victim

In the 1930s, a serial killer known as the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" terrorized Cleveland, Ohio, leaving headless, dismembered torsos around the city. Eliot Ness himself couldn't catch him. Alaina and Ash explore the final confirmed victim and the theories about the killer's identity that persist to this day.

10D AGO

Episode 469: We Need to Talk About the Lake Bodom Murders

On a summer night in 1960, four Finnish teenagers camping at Lake Bodom were attacked while they slept. Three died. The sole survivor's story changed over decades. The case remains officially unsolved — and the theories range from a drifter to the survivor himself.

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Morbid After Dark: Haunted Asylums Edition

Alaina and Ash go full ghost mode in this extended bonus episode, exploring three of America's most notoriously haunted abandoned psychiatric institutions — including one that Ash actually visited and refused to talk about until now.

24D AGO

Episode 468: The Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard

The horrifying true story behind HBO's The Act and the debut of "Munchausen by proxy" in the cultural lexicon. Dee Dee Blanchard fabricated her daughter Gypsy Rose's illnesses for years. When Gypsy finally snapped, the consequences shocked the nation and raised impossible questions about victimhood and justice.

31D AGO

Episode 467: Spring-Heeled Jack — Victorian Urban Legend or Something Worse?

A Victorian-era figure said to breathe blue flames, leap over buildings, and terrorize women across England. Was Spring-Heeled Jack a folk legend, a costumed predator, or something stranger? Alaina and Ash dig into the historical record and it gets weirder than you expect.

38D AGO

Episode 466: The Villisca Axe Murders

In June 1912, someone killed eight people — including six children — inside a farmhouse in Villisca, Iowa. The house still stands. The killer was never definitively identified. Over 100 years later, it remains one of the most chilling unsolved mass murders in American history.

45D AGO

Episode 465: The Disappearance of Maura Murray

On February 9, 2004, UMass student Maura Murray drove into the New Hampshire wilderness, crashed her car, and was never seen again. No body. No definitive leads. No closure for her family. It's one of the internet's longest-running cold case obsessions — and Morbid breaks down every theory.

52D AGO

Episode 464: H.H. Holmes — America's First Serial Killer (Revisited)

With the new documentary series reigniting interest in H.H. Holmes, Alaina and Ash revisit one of their earliest and most-requested cases. Holmes built a murder castle in Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair. The confirmed victim count is low — the suspected count is staggering.

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Hosts & Guests

Alaina UrquhartHost & Forensic Autopsy Technician

Ash KelleyCo-Host

4.7

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68K Ratings

Best true crime duo in podcasting

Alaina and Ash have the chemistry that most podcast hosts spend years trying to manufacture. It feels like listening to your two funniest friends research murder — which sounds wrong but is somehow exactly right. The forensic detail Alaina brings is unreal.

MorbidNation · Mar 4, 2026

Funny AND scary AND sad

What Morbid does better than almost any other true crime podcast is hold multiple tones at once. They can make you laugh and then hit you with something so devastating you have to pause and breathe. They never let you forget the victims are real people.

TrueCrimeGal · Feb 17, 2026

A staple of the genre

Been listening since episode 50. The show has grown so much — production quality, research depth, everything. Alaina's forensic background makes the medical details actually accurate, which is refreshing. A few episodes drag but the classics are classic for a reason.

PodcastObsessed · Jan 25, 2026

About

Morbid is a true crime and all-things-spooky podcast hosted by lifelong best friends Alaina Urquhart, a forensic autopsy technician, and Ash Kelley. What started as two friends recording in a closet has grown into one of the most beloved true crime podcasts in the world, with millions of listeners. Their unique dynamic — Alaina's forensic expertise combined with their shared dark humor and deep empathy for victims — has carved out a distinct space in the genre. From historical horrors to modern-day mysteries, cult classics to unsolved disappearances, Morbid explores the darkest corners of human behavior while never losing sight of the humanity of those affected. The podcast is distributed by audiochuck, the network also behind Crime Junkie.