Two moms. Two countries. One shared obsession with true crime.
Paige (Canada) and Samantha (US) dig into the cases that keep us up at night. But through the lens of two working moms who can't stop noticing the parenting details everyone else skips. The missed red flags. The "good mom" myths. The systems that failed the women at the center of it all.
Funny when it can be. Honest when it can't. Always asking the same question: who knew, and why didn't it matter?
New episodes recorded long-distance, drank-coffee-then-wine-while-doing-it, every second week.
Tamla Horsford's death was ruled an accident. Her family never accepted it.
Paige and Samantha examine the case of the 40-year-old mother of five who was found dead beneath a second-story deck after a Saturday night gathering.
They reconstruct the timeline using case records, autopsy materials, investigative reports, and news coverage, separating documented facts from the theories that spread online.
Tamla was alive and laughing at the party. By the next morning, she was gone—and the official explanation was that she fell. Nearly eight years later, questions about what happened remain.This episode explores the evidence, the investigation, the official findings, and the unanswered questions surrounding Tamla Horsford’s death.
17 Aug 2026
Gabby Petito - Episode 5
A beautiful road trip. A van full of dreams. A relationship that looked inspiring online but held something far more dangerous underneath. Gabby Petito’s story is not just a missing person case or a true crime headline - it’s a devastating look at coercive control, the warning signs people miss, and the cost of mistaking jealousy, monitoring, and self-blame for love.
Paige and Samantha trace Gabby’s life with care, beginning with the young artist, sister, daughter, and traveler behind the viral images. They unpack how the polished travel photos, body camera footage, and public fascination can obscure the reality of an unhealthy relationship, and why “why didn’t she just leave?” is almost never the right question.
10 Aug 2026
Laci Peterson - Episode 4
A missing pregnant wife. A secret affair. A boat, a bay, and a case that still splits people more than 20 years later.
If you care about true crime, courtroom strategy, or the cases where every fact has two competing meanings, this is essential listening. It’s a heartbreaking, infuriating, and deeply human look at how a single disappearance became a national reckoning.
27 Jul 2026
Madeleine Mcann - Episode 3
In May 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her bed while her parents had dinner just steps away on a family holiday in Portugal. The kind of ordinary parenting choice most of us have made without a second thought. Nineteen years later, there's still no body, no conviction, and no answers, just a prime suspect who's never been charged and a family that's never stopped hoping.
We're not coming at this as true-crime experts. We're coming at it as two moms who can't stop thinking about how thin the line is between "just checking on the kids" and a nightmare that never ends.
21 Jul 2026
Kaylee Anthony - Episode 2
This is an episode of "Don't Tell the Kids: A True Crime Podcast" hosted by two women recording via webcam. This episode covers the Caylee Anthony case — the 2008 disappearance and death of 2-year-old Caylee Anthony and the subsequent murder trial and acquittal of her mother, Casey Anthony, one of the most widely covered true crime cases in the US.
13 Jul 2026
Chris Watts - Episode 1
Episode 1: The Watts Family Murders.
Frederick, Colorado. August 2018. Shanann Watts came home from a work trip at 1:45am. By morning, she and her two little girls — Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3 — were gone. Her husband went on the news and asked for his family to come back.
He didn't cry.
This is the case that changed something permanently for a lot of us. In our first episode, Paige and Samantha break it down through the mom filter — the red flags that looked different once you've lived the mental load, the friend who showed up when it mattered most, and what it means to be a woman who was talking the whole time and still wasn't heard.
If this episode brought something up for you, support is available:
🇺🇸 National Domestic Violence Hotline: thehotline.org (http://thehotline.org) or 1-800-799-7233
🇨🇦 Shelter Safe Canada: sheltersafe.ca (http://sheltersafe.ca)
🌐 Coercive Control resources: domesticshelters.org (http://domesticshelters.org)
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