Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes

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Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes explores true stories of belief taken too far: murderous cults, criminal cover-ups, mass manipulation, and the conspiracies that still won't die. Hosted by Vanessa Richardson, three weekly episodes dig into cases like Jonestown, Heaven's Gate, CIA mind control experiments, and presidential assassinations. This is true crime at the intersection of faith, fear and manipulation.Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes is a Crime House Original, powered by PAVE Studios. Follow us on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to @crimehousestudios on YouTube and follow us @crimehouse on Instagram.

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CRIME: Ricky McCormick & the Encrypted Notes

2026-11-13 · 42 min · Episode 141

On June 30th, 1999, sheriff's deputies found a man's body in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri, and nobody had reported him missing. In his pockets were two handwritten pages, more than thirty lines of capital…
SPECIAL: Elizabeth Holmes and the Crimes Behind "You Can See Everything"

2026-11-12 · 39 min

In 2003, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos, promising to run hundreds of medical tests from a single finger-prick of blood. By 2014, investors valued the company at $9 billion. But the technology never…
CULT: Twin Flames Universe

2026-11-11 · 45 min · Episode 140

By 2017, Jeff and Shaleia Divine were running Twin Flames Universe out of rural northern Michigan, selling a promise: everyone has one predestined soulmate, and for a fee, they would tell you who yours was. Members paid…
Mother Knows Murder Extra: Emmy winner Niecy Nash and daughter Dia La Ren Talk Murder

2026-11-10 · 45 min

Most nights, Niecy Nash and her daughter, Dia, end up in bed talking true crime, and now they’re inviting you in.If you love Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes, you are going to love Crime House’s new podcast out now…
CONSPIRACY THEORY: What Happened to Betty and Barney Hill?

2026-11-09 · 42 min · Episode 139

On the night of September 19th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill were driving home through the White Mountains of New Hampshire when a light in the sky started following their car. Barney pulled over, looked through…
CRIME: The Jamison Family Disappearance

2026-11-06 · 41 min · Episode 138

On October 8th, 2009, Bobby and Sherilynn Jamison and their six-year-old daughter Madyson drove into the Sans Bois Mountains of Oklahoma to look at land, and vanished. Eight days later hunters found their pickup locked…
CULT: Aleister Crowley & the Chamber of Nightmares

2026-11-04 · 41 min · Episode 137

In 1920 Aleister Crowley rented a farmhouse above Cefalù in Sicily and called it the Abbey of Thelema, a school for unlearning everything society had taught you. Residents greeted the sun four times a day, took whatever…
CRIME: Ed Gein: Two Murders, Three Horror Films

2026-11-02 · 42 min · Episode 136

In November 1957, police in Plainfield, Wisconsin went looking for a missing hardware store owner, Bernice Worden, and found her body in a shed behind Ed Gein's farmhouse. Inside the house, they found furniture,…
CRIME: Hex Hollow: The York Witch Trial

2026-10-30 · 45 min · Episode 135

On Thanksgiving Eve in 1928, three men broke into a farmhouse in Rehmeyer's Hollow, an area of York County, Pennsylvania known locally as Hex Hollow, looking for a book. Nelson Rehmeyer was a farmer and a practitioner…
CULT: The Process Church: Christ and Satan

2026-10-28 · 48 min · Episode 134

Founded in London in the mid-1960s by two former Scientologists, Robert de Grimston and Mary Ann MacLean, the Process Church of the Final Judgment taught that Christ and Satan were not opposites but complementary forces…

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Oldest episode in feed: 07/2025 · over a year
Typical length: 40 min
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