Episodes

An 18 year old girl tortures and kills another teenager and is sentenced to death. Does she belong on Death Row? You decide.  Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/16-christa-pike Written, hosted, produced by Erica Kelley Researched by...

In 1987, Willie Grimes is accused of the rape of an elderly white woman. He has an alibi and there is no physical evidence. And yet he is still taken to trial and convicted. It would take 24 years to prove his innocence. Sources:...

The murder of an 18 year old girl, the mayor, a cover up and the 20 year investigation that blew the lid off. Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/14-the-babysitter-murder Special thanks to author Michael Bishop for graciously talking...

For five months, beginning in November of 2012, a pair of arsonists would terrorize Accomack County, Virginia, setting more than 80 fires. This is a love story. Happy Valentine’s Day. Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/13-burning-love...

In 1999, PFC Barry Winchell was beaten to death in his bed in the barracks of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He had been harassed and abused for months over his relationship with a transgender show girl named Calpernia Addams. His murder and the subsequent...

In 1999, Karen Tipton was murdered in the small town of Decatur, Alabama. A biased judge, ruthless defense attorneys and unethical media coverage would turn her killer's murder trial(s) into a three ring circus. And her husband and daughters are the...

In 1991, a young mother is murdered. Small town cops have their suspect almost immediately. But they do not arrest. Years pass, and Kathy Page's father started a billboard campaign calling out her ex-husband as the suspect and the police as corrupt....

Cyntoia Brown was 16 years old when she committed murder. But it isn’t as simple as that. She was also a rape victim, pimped out and had been abandoned as a child. Did the system fail her? Sources:...

A scandalous double murder in a small Kentucky town notorious for police corruption. Will there be justice? Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/the-kentucky-bordello-murders Written, hosted, produced by Erica Kelley Researched by Erica...

A scandalous double murder in a small military town with a long history of corruption plays out like a hillbilly soap opera in the national spotlight. Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/the-kentucky-bordello-murders Written, hosted,...

The Thanksgiving Day murder of a beautiful young teacher.  Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/the-thanksgiving-day-murder-of-ashley-scott US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247...

A young mother and her two daughters are brutally murdered. A man is accused. It takes 20 years and three trials. Was justice finally served? Legal scholars still argue to this day.... Sources:...

The tragic conclusion to The Ballad of Zack and Addie: the murder/suicide of Addie Hall and Zack Bowen in post-Katrina New Orleans. Voice Actors: Brandon Hawkins as Zack Bowen and Jamie Stevens as Lana Shupack Sources:...

A hurricane, a troubled young veteran and a volatile but mesmerizing poet...set for a collision course that would shake the unshakable city of New Orleans to its core. Voice Actors: Brandon Hawkins as Zack Bowen & Jamie Stevens as Lana Supack...

a scandalous murder in one of the richest towns in Tennessee. Sources: https://www.southernfriedtruecrime.com/1-a-murder-in-brentwood Voice Actors: Kayla C. as the bartender, Bethany T. as the ex-girlfriend, Kayla K. as the DA, Jamie Stevens as the...

Each week, your host, Erica, will be serving up a southern fried true crime dish for your earbuds. Both historical and contemporary cases, Erica will be exploring dark stories from the Deep South.