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That's So Fcked Up

Ashley Love Richards

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That's So Fcked Up is a true crime lite podcast primarily about cults, but also murder and other generally awful things. TSFU brings you enthralling stories while looking at what causes them to happen. Join host Ashley Love Richards as she and her various co-hosts discuss what inspires people to do the awful things that they do. Nature? Nurture? Society? Let's investigate from our couches together!
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The Lighthouse

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Theo Hayez is missing in Byron Bay, a beautiful beachside town on Australia’s most easterly mainland point, frequently in the spotlight for its famous residents. Theo's from Brussels. He's 18 and on a backpacking holiday when he vanishes in May 2019. Behind the scenes local volunteers who've never met Theo begin searching and investigating with his family, parallel to a major police investigation. At the request of Theo's family, The Australian newspaper's national crime correspondent David ...
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FindKristen

Dennis Mahon

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Kristen Modafferi was just 18 when she vanished while on vacation in the San Francisco Bay Area. This podcast is all about her case and our goal is to hopefully get someone with information to send us a tip.
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We are Probaytion, the people that work in the bay area, and specifically in the Alameda County Probation Department. We have real conversations about all the aspects of probation; the work of rehabilitation and the work to lesson criminal behavior in our inner cities. We take a balanced look at community supervision and we have honest conversations with the people that people our offices. There’s more than meets the eye of the government employee, we actually do care. We share conversations ...
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Happy Saturday friends! This week's episode is a bit late because there's so much up to date info in it! OJ is dead, as most of you probably know. Ash gives the deets surrounding his death. If you'd like to hear our previous episode on the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, that episode is available exclusively to Patrons here. Netfli…
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Note: This episode originally aired in December 2022. There has been a recent resurgence of talk about the Synanon organization, thanks in part to documentaries released on Max and Paramount+. So we decided to reach back to December 2022 for a re-release of our Synanon episode. Synanon started out as an alternative to AA, a rehab program for "dope …
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Where do we even start with "Dr." flipping Phil. He's not a licensed anything, accept for a-hole, and hasn't been for years. He's known for berating and being abusive towards guests, enabling victims of addiction, exploiting mental illness, and maybe best of all, sending multiple kids to Troubled Teen institutions. ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episo…
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Have you seen the colorful ads enticing you to come experience "China before Communism" through the art of song and dance at a Shen Yun performance? What about the far-right wing newspaper "The Epoch Times" that preaches misogynistic, racist, homophobic and prejudiced views? They're both owned by the dangerous cult of Falun Gong which Ash tells Cai…
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In 2014, two friends named Kris Kremers (21) and Lisanne Froone (22) headed from their home in the Netherlands to Panama to go on a trip to go sightseeing, and with the goal of doing community service. On April 1st, they left their host family’s house in Panama to go on hike and disappeared in the forests of Panama. ✨If you wanna get your TSFU epis…
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TSFU Presents is BACK! This season Ash is joined by various friends from other awesome indie podcasts! Our first episode is with Alecia Watson from Twisted & Uncorked! Ash and Alecia go down the Project Modern Day Knight rabbit hole, PMDK is an $18,000 bootcamp for men who wants to go from beta boy to Alpha Man. It's a toxic masculinity mess... her…
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In this episode of Probaytion in Alameda County Show, Deputy Probation Officer Natalia Milner and her previous client, Dimitri Randolph share insights into the journey of adult supervision. Through their candid conversation, they explore the challenges and triumphs of navigating the probation system. Natalia and Demetri candidly discuss the signifi…
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✨If you want to hear the rest of this episode and ALL FOURTEEN of the other Bible episodes, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! We started this segment over a year ago with Genesis (the first book, for my other Biblically-challenged friends)!✨ Happy Good Friday! That works as a special holiday greeting to our friends who celebrate and als…
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"The untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV; hearing harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today." - Investigation Discovery Ash and Fallon dig into the new docu-series "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side …
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It's Women's History Month and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than to talk about the OG women of like... the entire world (according to some), Lilith and Eve! Haven't heard of Lilith? It's because she was pretty naughty, so we're excited to introduce her to you! In Ash's first ever Bible lesson back in 2022, former co-host Michelle …
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Linda Hazzard billed herself as a "fasting specialist" despite no formal medical degree and little training. She believed that all diseases came from food, and starving was the only cure. She opened her “sanitarium” in Olalla, Washington in the early 1900s, calling it Wilderness Heights. But residents of the small town called it "Starvation Heights…
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Ash and Fallon wrap up "Psychotic Psychology" and the insane story of Project MKUltra. During the early Cold War and Korean Wars, in the late '40s and early '50s, the CIA became a super paranoid and obsessed spy agency, working on the notion that communists might have perfected some kind of a drug or technique that could control the human mind. Pro…
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The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it deserves! Ash and Fallon break down the third episode, and there's some good news at the end of this one! In the final episode, "Follow the Money", we find that, "with programs around the globe and exorbitant tuition, money was rolling in — but where was it going? A trail of dodgy d…
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"Years after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman who is haunted by her experiences decides to expose the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry." - Netflix The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping is in the worldwide top ten on Netflix for a very good reason! The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it de…
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"Years after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman who is haunted by her experiences decides to expose the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry." - Netflix "The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping" is in the worldwide top ten on Netflix for a very good reason! The Troubled Teen Industry is finally getting the exposure that it …
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We saved the mother of all fucked up psychology studies for last... MKUltra. During the early Cold War and Korean Wars, in the late '40s and early '50s, the CIA became a super paranoid and obsessed spy agency, working on the notion that communists might have perfected some kind of a drug or technique that could control the human mind. Project MKUlt…
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This week Fallon tells Ash about Lake Lanier, is a reservoir in north central Georgia that stretches across 5 counties, with 695 miles of coastline. It's an extremely vacation spot, and it's also a place which is famous for tragic deaths, hauntings and UFO sightings. TW: racial violence. ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays …
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In a 1967 World History class in Northern California, teacher Ron Jones turned about 200 kids into enthusiastic would-be Nazis. The "experiment" that he conducted went from a one day exercise in obedience to a week long lesson in terror and shame. ✨If you'd like access to over 140 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad…
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In this enlightening episode, we dive deep into the world of reentry within probation, featuring a team of dedicated professionals from Alameda County Probation and the Center of Reentry Excellence (CORE) program. Together, Corrine Lee, Janene Grigsby, and Pat Mims provide invaluable insights into the transformative services offered by CORE and its…
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Two teens from Canada go on a killing spree and murder three victims. Yet at the end of this story, we end up with five bodies... TW: gun violence and suicide. ✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 150 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like th…
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TW: This week we discuss the brutal murder and torture of enslaved persons in the U.S. in the 1800s. Upon further research (unfortunately after the recording of the episode), Ash found that "slave" is no longer a politically correct term, but it IS used throughout the episode. If that word or the subject matter is particularly upsetting to you, you…
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PATRONS GET TSFU EPISODES ON TUESDAYS INSTEAD OF FRIDAYS, AND THIS WEEK YOU CAN GET IN ON THAT ACTION TOO!⁠ This story is leading Netflix's Top Ten right now for a damn good reason, this case is BANANAS y'all! We couldn't wait until Friday to tell you about it so we released this week's episode early. Feel the luxury that Patrons do, no waiting for…
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If someone told you to give a stranger an electric shock, to the point where you're severely harming and possibly even killing that stranger... would you do it? What if they were in a white lab coat with a clipboard? The Milgram experiment is one of the most famous and controversial psychological experiments on obedience and has had a lasting effec…
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Note: This episode was recorded a couple of months ago! Two weeks ago, on Saturday February 3, 2024, a 12 year old boy was found dead by authorities, naked from the waist down, at Trails Carolina, a "wilderness therapy" camp in North Carolina. This happened just 5 1/2 weeks after the release of Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare, a Netflix documentary that …
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Skidmore, Missouri... the town that got away with murder. After decades of Ken "Rex" McElroy tormenting everyone in the small town of Skidmore, with no assistance from law enforcement, a few of the townspeople decided to take matters into their own hands. They got on some vigilante sh!t and shot ol' Ken in broad daylight in front of at least 45 peo…
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Happy Valentine's/Hallmark Day, whichever you prefer! Here's our V-Day episode from last year where Ash and former co-host Michelle Mosher were joined by very special guest co-host, comedian Dawn Brody from the podcast HILF: History I'd Like To Fck! This holiday the gals bring you your own tales of dating, romance and love gone wrong. We got a tooo…
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It's not a Listenersode, it's just an episode... but really it's our first annual TSFU V-Day Horrorsode! Here's a throwback from V-day 2022, with former co-host Cameron Dexter. Enjoy! Hey gang and Happy belated Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day or Masturbation Day! We hope you were getting showered with affection... or burning down capitalistic buil…
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"After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears, haunting the couple with a new series of tortures." - Netflix Netflix's new true crime docuseries is worth the watch and has a very important message. Stop treating victims as suspects. In this episode, Ash is again joined by…
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"After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears, haunting the couple with a new series of tortures." - Netflix Netflix's new true crime docuseries is worth the watch and has a very important message. But Ash asked and you answered! This two part episode will be a short reca…
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Chowchilla was the largest ever kidnapping in United States History. It happened in a small town where no one would have expected it, during a summer day in 1976. What this is famous for is not just the kidnapping but on how it has impacted how people view victims, especially child victims, of childhood trauma and how they are treated. In this epis…
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THIS IS THE SECOND PART OF A 2 PART EPISODE, LISTEN TO PART 1 FIRST! In August of 1971, Dr. Philip Zimbardo put 18 male college students into a basement and assigned half of them guard roles, and the other half prisoner roles. A two week "study" devolved into complete madness quickly and ended after just six days. ✨If you'd like access to over 125 …
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Barbenheimer DONE and back to regularly scheduled TSFU Presents! This month Ash and Fallon talk about social psychology experiments that happened during the 20th century. It seems many men set out to prove how evil humans were, and succeeded, when they didn't perform experiments correctly and without bias and interference... In August of 1971, Dr. …
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Welcome to another insightful episode of Probaytion, the podcast that delves into the world of probation in Alameda County. In this episode, we are honored to have an exclusive interview with Brian Ford, the Acting Chief Probation Officer of Alameda County. With an impressive twenty-two years of experience in government service, Chief Ford brings a…
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This is the story of a priest of the Congregation of Christ Baptist church in Camden, New Jersey who had his 18 year old daughter murdered for being such a "harlot". Walter Dworecki was a terrible person and unfortunately, no matter what Wanda did, she didn't stand a chance... Special thank you to all of our new Patrons! Thank you for joining our C…
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We did it! We covered what's been called "the Barbenheimer of true crime", Gypsy Rose and Natalia Grace, in FULL! And we don't know about y'all but we're sooo excited to be releasing new non Gypsy and Natalia content ASAP. Look for a brand new TSFU episode about a good 'ol fashioned muuuuurder tomorrow! "The confrontation between Natalia and Michae…
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"Natalia and Michael square off again in a no-holds-barred confrontation. Natalia is looking for more than answers from Michael, and she wants evidence and admissions to the abuses she suffered at the hands of Michael and Kristine." - Amazon Ash is joined by cult survivor and friend of the podcast, Chauntee Pitts for 4 out of 6 of these episodes! F…
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"Natalia returns to the Barnett's house of horrors as she confronts the neighbor who turned her back on her. Kristine's nefarious plan to get rid of Natalia now includes taking down Michael as well. Natalia prepares to confront Michael again." - Amazon TW: Extreme child abuse. 🚨THIS IS FROM YOUTUBE LIVE AND WILL HAVE SOME AUDIENCE INTERACTION. IT'S…
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"Natalia details the horrifying multi-faceted conspiracy by the Barnetts to get rid of her. From having Natalia re-aged as an adult to attempting to institutionalize her, there was nothing the Barnetts would not try to rid themselves of Natalia." - Amazon TW: Extreme child abuse. 🚨THIS IS FROM YOUTUBE LIVE AND WILL HAVE SOME AUDIENCE INTERACTION. I…
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“In an explosive confrontation, Natalia demands answers from Michael about why they adopted her. Law enforcement officials involved in the case answer questions about the Barnetts' true motivations behind adopting Natalia.” - Amazon Ash is joined by cult survivor and friend of the podcast, Chauntee Pitts for 4 out of 6 of these episodes! Find the i…
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“In a jaw-dropping premiere, Natalia attempts to fill the missing pieces of her life by learning the truth about her age. Meanwhile, shocking new information reveals that the Barnetts knew more about Natalia when they adopted her than they ever let on.” - Amazon Ash is joined by cult survivor and friend of the podcast, Chauntee Pitts for 4 out of 6…
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Ash has covered Natalia Grace twice in the past, once with Megan from Give Us Morgue and once with co-host Ali. When Ash first discussed Natalia's case with Megan, they were very skeptical about whether Natalia was a conniving little person or an abandoned little girl. Once the first season of "The Curious Case of Natalia Grace" aired, Ash and Ali …
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"Less than two weeks before her wedding, cold feet and past loves haunt Gypsy and threaten her impending nuptials. While some family members plead with Gypsy to postpone the wedding, her fiance meets with them and argues otherwise. With the biggest day of her life drawing near, Gypsy faces her greatest fears: does she deserve to be happy, and will …
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"Gypsy reveals a life-changing secret she’s been keeping from even her closest family members: she is engaged to be married. While she and her fiance divulge the intimate details of their friendship turned romance–and their upcoming prison wedding–Gypsy recalls appearing in court for her mother’s murder as her life of lies unfolds before a stunned …
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"Desperate to escape her mother, Dee Dee, Gypsy turns to Nick Godejohn, her long-distance boyfriend from a Christian dating site. The young couple hatches a plan to murder Dee Dee and be together forever. As Gypsy recalls the details of that fateful night, she goes before the parole board and learns whether she’ll get an early release from prison."…
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"After running away, Gypsy is lured home by her mother with promises of freedom and independence. Behind closed doors, Dee Dee chains Gypsy to the bed and uses witchcraft to put a voodoo hex on her daughter. With no end in sight from a life of abuse and fear, a desperate Gypsy pulls a loaded gun on her mother leading to a shocking turn of events." …
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THIS IS THE SECOND PART - LISTEN TO THIS AFTER YOU LISTEN TO "INTERVIEW WITH ANNA LEBARON FROM 'DAUGHTERS OF THE CULT'"! Three years ago Ash and Cam sat down with one of Ervil's daughter's Anna, and Bryce Allred, the great-grandson of Rulon Allred, a rival polygamist cult leader, and one of Ervil's victims. They discussed in-depth their individual …
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THIS IS THE FIRST PART - LISTEN TO THIS FIRST! Three years ago Ash and Cam had the pleasure of speaking with Anna LeBaron, one of 51 children of murderous Mormon polygamist cult leader Ervil Lebaron, AKA the Mormon Manson, and author of the harrowing and poignant memoir The Polygamist's Daughter. Anna's book describes her experiences of being shipp…
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Listen to Ash and Fallon break down the second episode of the six part docu-series on Lifetime! "When Hurricane Katrina devastates Louisiana, Gypsy and her mother, Dee Dee, are relocated to Springfield, Missouri. There, Gypsy comes to the grim realization she's addicted to pain medication. And when Gypsy runs away to be with her new boyfriend, ther…
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"On the eve of Gypsy Rose Blanchard's parole hearing, after spending nearly seven years in prison for the murder of her mother, she is ready to share shocking revelations and disturbing secrets for the first time. The now 31-year-old takes us into her earliest childhood memories of unfounded medical conditions and allegations of sexual abuse." - Li…
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Join Ash and Fallon for an update on Gypsy Rose! The gals talk about Ash's previous episode on Gypsy, her mother DeeDee's extreme manipulation of medical professionals, and the DSM's (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) new term for Munchausen Syndrom by Proxy (MSBP), Facticious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA). They also talk …
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