You’re Killing Me is an Australian true crime podcast that tells the country’s most haunting cases with depth, accuracy and storytelling that puts you inside the moment.
Hosted by Shawnee & Joel, each episode unfolds like a documentary you can hear — combining narrative storytelling, extensive research, detailed timelines, and emotionally grounded scene-setting.
No fluff. No shortcuts. No sensationalism.
Just real cases, real people, and the real Australia behind the headlines.
Whether you binge true crime on long drives, late nights or school pick-up queues, You’re Killing Me delivers.
Ep 29: She Was 22, Newly Married, and Supervising the Teenager She Sent to Kill Her Husband | Pamela Smart
A 22-year-old newlywed. A brand new house. A husband who adored her.
On the surface, Pamela Smart had everything.
But eight months into her marriage, she began an affair with a 15-year-old student named Billy Flynn — a boy she supervised as part of her job at the school district. And somewhere along the way, the affair became something else entirely.
Billy didn't just fall in love with Pamela. He killed for her.
On May 1, 1990, Gregg Smart came home to his townhouse in Derry, New Hampshire, and was shot once in the back of the head by three teenage boys who had been waiting inside. He was 24 years old. He and Pamela had been married for less than a year.
What followed was one of the first murder trials to be televised live in the United States — a case so sensational, so stranger-than-fiction, that it inspired a Gus Van Sant film, a Joyce Carol Oates novel, and decades of debate about who, exactly, was the mastermind.
Because Pamela Smart has maintained her innocence ever since. And the boys who pulled the trigger, who traded plea deals for testimony against her, walked free years ago.
Pamela is still in prison. She will be there for the rest of her life.
The question that never quite goes away: did a teenage boy murder a man because a woman told him to? Or did a teenage boy murder a man and then blame the woman he loved to save himself?
This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the murder of Gregg Smart — the New Hampshire newlywed whose death became a media spectacle, a courtroom circus, and one of the most contested convictions in true crime history. She looks at the affair, the manipulation, the teenage boys at the centre of it, the trial that gripped a nation, and the question that Pamela Smart's case has never stopped asking: what does it actually mean to be guilty?
Topics: Gregg Smart murder | Pamela Smart | Billy Flynn | Derry New Hampshire murder | true crime New Hampshire | murder for hire | teen killers | manipulation and murder | televised murder trial | wrongful conviction true crime | To Die For true crime | 1990 murder case | true crime podcast Australia | You're Killing Me podcast | YKM
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30 Aug 2026
Ep 28: She Survived. He Served 8 Years and Killed Again. | The Mary Vincent Case — Lawrence Singleton | California True Crime 1978
Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence and extreme violence.
September 29th, 1978. Central California. The valley south of San Francisco.
A fifteen-year-old girl named Mary Vincent needed to get to Los Angeles.
She'd been staying at her uncle's place in Berkeley, trying to get some ground back under her feet after a rough few months. She stuck out her thumb on Highway 5. A man in his fifties pulled over. He seemed normal enough. Said he could detour, drop her at the freeway. No trouble at all.
She climbed in.
What Lawrence Singleton did to Mary Vincent in Del Puerto Canyon that night is one of the most violent crimes ever committed against a surviving victim in American criminal history. He raped her. He hacked off both of her forearms with a hatchet. He threw her into a ravine and left her for dead.
Mary Vincent did not die.
With both arms ending at the elbow, she fashioned makeshift tourniquets from her own clothing, climbed out of the canyon, and walked — barefoot, bleeding, fifteen years old — until she reached a road and flagged down help. She survived six hours in that ravine. She survived the surgery. She survived the trial. She sat in court and pointed at Lawrence Singleton and told a jury exactly what he did.
He was convicted and sentenced to fourteen years. He served eight. California law, at the time, could not keep him longer.
When he was released in 1987, communities across California refused to have him. He ended up housed on state prison grounds because nowhere else would take him. He was supposed to be monitored. He was supposed to never be able to do it again.
In 1997, Lawrence Singleton murdered a woman in Tampa, Florida. Her name was Roxanne Hayes.
This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the full story of Mary Vincent — her survival, her testimony, the sentence that failed her, and the killing that followed when the system let Singleton walk. This is a story about one of the most extraordinary acts of human resilience ever documented, and one of the most catastrophic failures of a criminal justice system to protect the people it exists to serve.
Mary Vincent's strength deserves to be known. This case deserves to be talked about.
Topics: Mary Vincent | Lawrence Singleton | California true crime | 1978 | sexual violence survivor | criminal justice failure | Del Puerto Canyon | Roxanne Hayes | survivor testimony | American true crime | YKM
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24 Aug 2026
Ep 27: The Unlocked Phone: A Road Worker Found a Mobile in the Street and Triggered One of the Most Disturbing Criminal Discoveries in Modern History | The Baksheev Cannibal Case
September 11th, 2017. Krasnodar, southern Russia.
A road crew worker is clearing a stretch of street when he finds a mobile phone lying on the ground. It's charged. There's no password. No lock screen.
He looks at the photos.
What he sees sets off one of the most gruesome criminal discoveries in modern Russian history.
What police found when they traced that phone to an apartment in Krasnodar confirmed everything the photographs suggested — and then some. Dmitry Baksheev and his wife Natalia had been operating out of that apartment for years. The investigation that followed, the military tribunal that tried them, and the full scope of what they had done was so disturbing that the Russian state moved to suppress significant portions of it.
What we know is bad enough.
This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the Baksheev cannibal case — the 2017 Krasnodar discovery that briefly surfaced in international headlines before disappearing, and the gap between what tabloids reported and what the actual investigation revealed.
Topics: Baksheev | Dmitry Baksheev | Natalia Baksheeva | Krasnodar cannibals | Russian true crime | cannibal case | 2017 | Russian serial killers | military tribunal | YKM
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