Real Crime Tales

About Real Crime Tales

Real Crime Tales goes beyond the crime. Every case we cover — serial killers, fugitives, cold cases, and the criminals who hid in plain sight for decades — is examined through a single lens: not just what happened, but who had the chance to stop it, and why they didn't. These are the stories of double lives carefully constructed over years. The charming GP who ended 215 of his patients' lives. The celebrated counterculture icon who hid his girlfriend's body in a trunk for 18 months. The dating show contestant the FBI had been hunting for years. The people who fooled everyone — and the systems that let them. Every episode is built from court records, investigative journalism, police reports, and primary sources. No speculation dressed up as fact. No exploitation. The victims stay at the center of every story we tell. This is true crime told the right way — accurate, thorough, and unafraid to ask the harder question underneath every case: how did we get here, and who left the door open? New episodes every week. Want early access and the fully uncensored version of every episode — with the precise language we have to soften for other platforms? Support the show on Patreon at patreon.com/cw/realcrimetales. Three dollars a month keeps this podcast independent.

Publisher

Gilbert Almonte

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Jul 2026

Latest episode

24 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Oct 2026

   She Killed 11 People and Giggled Through Her Confession | Nannie Doss

   🎙️ Early access on Patreon right now: https://www.patreon.com/cw/realcrimetales She buried five husbands, two daughters, a grandson, a granddaughter, her mother, and her sister. She did it over thirty years. And when investigators finally sat across from her, she asked if she could keep her romance magazine — and giggled through the whole confession. Nannie Doss was called the Giggling Granny by the press, the Lonely Hearts Killer by investigators, and a sweet, pleasant neighbor by everyone...

2. 

   17 Oct 2026

   He Asked Police If His Floppy Disk Could Be Traced. They Said No. It Could. The Dennis Rader Story.

   🎙️ Support the channel on Patreon — early access to every episode: https://www.patreon.com/cw/realcrimetales In January 2005, a serial killer sent police a question. He had been writing to them on and off for 31 years. Letters, poems, packages left in cereal boxes, communications dropped in UPS boxes. He had named himself BTK, which stood for Bind, Torture, Kill. He had described his own crimes in precise detail. He had taunted investigators across three decades and ten confirmed victims wh...

3. 

   15 Oct 2026

   The Last Woman Texas Executed: The Full Story of Karla Faye Tucker

   https://patreon.com/cw/realcrimetales On the morning of June 14, 1983, a man drove to his coworker's apartment in Houston because his coworker hadn't shown up for their carpool. The front door was slightly open. Inside, he found two people dead — both struck more than twenty times with a pickax. The weapon was still embedded in one of the bodies. The woman who did it was 23 years old, strung out on a three-day drug binge, and driven by a grudge that had been building for years. Her nam...

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