Feral Nightmares

A woman locks up her salon after a normal workday, then vanishes before Mother’s Day and her own birthday. That’s where we start, with the disappearance of Florida hairstylist Jolene Cummings, a devoted mom in the middle of a divorce who never misses time with her kids. When she fails to show for a custody handoff, the search turns urgent and the questions get dark fast. We walk through the investigation step by step: the early attention on her ex-husband, the volatile boyfri

My earliest memory is flashing blue and red lights, sitting at the top of the stairs in the lap of my uncles girlfriend while my older cousin sat next to us. ​I can close my eyes and see the wood paneling on the walls. The ambulance and patrol car's lights flashing against the front windows of my Nanny and Pawpaw's house. The first house I would call home. ​I don't have any other memories of that night, just a snippet of time sitting at the top of the stairs. I wasn't even tw

A man murders a friend in Paris, commits cannibalism, and then somehow gets to live openly, publish books, and collect attention instead of a life sentence. That is the core horror behind the Kobe Cannibal case, and we walk through it step by step, from Issei Sagawa’s early warning signs and escalating obsession to the killing of René Hartevelt and the shocking failures that follow. If you’re searching for a true crime podcast that doesn’t look away from the hard questions, t