Nashvillains digs into the darkest true crimes in Music City's history. Serial killers who stalked its streets. A bomber who tried to bring it to its knees. Con artists, killers, and the occasional scandal from behind the studio glass.
Some of these cases made national headlines. Others were buried and nearly forgotten. All of them happened here, in the shadow of the honky-tonks.
Every episode is a deep dive into a real case — the people, the motives, the moment everything turned. No dry true-crime checklist. Just gripping, edge-of-your-seat storytelling that gives these stories the weight they deserve.
Nashvillains explores unsolved and true crimes in Nashville's history with detailed investigation and factual accounts. Listeners sensitive to true-crime content should be aware: this show discusses murder and violent crime in depth. Not recommended for young children.
A city this rich in music and heritage has more than a few dark tales woven into its history — and those stories deserve to be told. Hit follow, and you'll never look at Music City the same way again. Nashvillains. Because sometimes it all comes down to three chords and a murder.
The state of Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike and failed. Twice. In The same night. This is the story of that fateful night in Nashville, the reason she was sentenced to death, and more importantly, the victim of her crime, Colleen Slemmer
13 Oct 2026
9: A Bullet Instead of A Ballot - The Murder of Senator Tommy Burks
Byron Looper legally changed his middle name to "Low Tax" so it would be printed on the ballot. In the fall of 1998, he was running for the Tennessee State Senate against a man who had held his seat for twenty years. Fifteen days before the election, that man was dead … and Looper's was the only name left on the ballot. What happened next had never happened in Tennessee before.
6 Oct 2026
8: All Is Not Calm - The Nashville Christmas Day Bombing
On Christmas morning 2020, an RV parked on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville began telling an empty street that there was a bomb inside it. Six Metro police officers walked toward it anyway. Sixteen months earlier, a woman had told police exactly what was in that vehicle — and nobody could do a thing about it.
This is the Nashville Christmas Day bombing: the fifteen-minute countdown, the officers who evacuated a city block in their own voices, the communications collapse that took 911 service down across four states, and the warning that came too early to matter.
Plus the answer the FBI did not make public until five years later — what Anthony Warner actually believed, and why he thought it had to be a bomb.
29 Sept 2026
7: Stand by Your Story - The Abduction of Tammy Wynette
On October 4, 1978, Tammy Wynette walked out of a Green Hills department store with a birthday present for her youngest daughter, got into her car, and heard a man's voice behind her say one word: drive. She turned up eighty miles later on a back road with a broken cheekbone. Nobody was ever arrested. And forty-eight years on, some of the people closest to her still don't believe it happened.
22 Sept 2026
6: Innocense Lost: The Taking of Marcia Trimble
On February 25, 1975, nine-year-old Marcia Trimble left her Green Hills home to deliver Girl Scout cookies and never came back. For 33 years, Nashville police chased the wrong suspects — a teenage neighbor above all — while the man who killed her had been in their own jail since just days after she vanished. It took DNA to finally put a name on it.
15 Sept 2026
5: The Invisible Body
Ten years after his wife Janet disappeared, Perry March is convicted of her murder in a rare case in which the victim's body was never found.
8 Sept 2026
4: Justin Parks Wants To Be A Star
Paul Dennis Reid wanted to be famous, and when he realized he wasn't going to be a Country Music star, he took another to fame. He became a serial killer.
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