Join Naomi as she chats with Rachel Wotton and Mohammed Samrah about the importance of people with disability’s access to sexual and reproductive health services. Rachel, a sex worker and academic in the field and Mohammed, a man of lived experience have a dynamic and eye-opening conversation about sex as a human right. Rachel shares parts of her P…

In this special edition mini-episode, Maddy and Winnie sit down with Public Health Placement Student Jade Scott at the University of Wollongong recording studio. Listen as they reflect on Jade’s project that explored podcast production and how it can be better used as an innovative tool for sexual health education and promotion. This episode was re…

Join Winnie as she sits down with Tessa Opie and Kerrin Bradfield in a nuanced discussion on consent, sex education and porn literacy education for young people. Tessa and Kerrin are dedicated and passionate in empowering others to develop healthy attitudes toward relationships, consent and sex. Listen as they share their dynamic collaboration in c…

"Young people are experts in their own experiences." Maddy chats with Laura Crozier a victim survivor, passionate youth advocate, Affirmative Consent Project Officer, a podcast co-host and ice hockey enthusiast. Laura shares how our life experiences shape not only who we are, but how we can help others. In this episode we are reminded the importanc…

People are not the problem, the problem is the problem. Maddy sits with mental health social worker Danyelle Mei Kaplan and massage therapist Egan Magee. They spend time sharing their coordinates of belonging and explore autonomy and dignity over their own fields of existence. A powerful conversation collating thoughts on collective holding, mutual…

Have you ever wanted to know more about sexological bodywork? Together, Naomi and Stella Topaz from Abundant Body talk through the wheel of consent and the somatic therapy approach of sexological bodywork and how it varies from other types of therapy and sexology. Stella reveals the inside of a sexological bodywork session and walks us through how …

Spend some time and listen to an honest and open conversation about medical consent, consent culture, TransHealth, queer and disability healthcare with Axel Nathaniel Rose. Axel shares with Naomi his lived experience as a queer, transgender, and disabled man, reflecting on the life-long impacts of when medical consent is not given. An empowering ep…

How can we include pleasure in the consent conversation? Listen as founder of Learning Consent Dr Joy Townsend goes beyond the traditional definition of consent and discusses effective role modelling and consent culture in todays society. Learning Consent delivers comprehensive relationships, sexuality and consent education programs for educational…

Naomi is joined by Maggie Smith, a Clinical Nurse Consultant from the T150 clinic at the Albion Centre in Sydney. T150 is an innovative specialist HIV and Sexual Health Service providing holistic care for the transgender and gender diverse community in a dedicated clinical space. Maggie provides clinical insight into TransHealth and unpacks the imp…

Join Maddy as she sits down with Ruiqi Fan, a clinical nurse specialist working at the Sydney Sexual Health Clinic. Ruiqi talks about being an international student to now working with international students in a clinical setting, providing insight into the experience. Listen as we better understand why having multilingual nurses and interpreters i…

How can we treat ourselves with kindness when unexpected emotions arise? Naomi sits down with psychologist Chris Cheers and reflects on the mental health impacts of lockdown on the queer and creative community. His book, The New Rulebook is a practical game changing guide to embracing uncertainty offering radical, evidence-based solutions to improv…

Maddy catches up with Kirli Saunders and dives into the importance of language, decolonization, feminism and queer space. Kirli is a proud Gunai Woman and award-winning multidisciplinary creator and consultant. Awarded NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year in 2020, Kirli is an experienced speaker and facilitator advocating for the environment, gender, r…

Curious about sexology and the difference between a sex therapist, body therapist, sex coach and sex worker? Maddy chats with Aleks from The Pleasure Centre to explore why an individual or couple may seek sex therapy. Offering a safe and inclusive place, Aleks' practice is guided by multiple evidence-based therapeutic approaches. Hear about the Sex…

Join Maddy in conversation with Frances Turner from Nurse Nettie, answering the most commonly asked sexual and reproductive health questions by young people. Nurse Nettie is an online service that provides qualified sexual health information to young people living in New South Wales, Australia. Fran provides a glimpse behind the curtain of how the …

Listen as Naomi chats with Liz and Jan from Relationships and Private Stuff about their lived experience of working with people with disability. People on the autism spectrum, with disability or brain injury face the same issues as other people when it comes to relationships. Friendship is important. And the desire to love and be loved, whether as …

Join Naomi as she unpacks the transgender experience with Sophie from ACON’s TransHub. TransHub is a digital and resource platform providing clear and easy information about gender affirmation and healthcare for all trans and gender diverse people in NSW. Sophie dives deep into the history of transgender language and provides insight into the trans…

Geetha Angara was a senior Chemist working at the Passaic Valley Water Commission in Totowa, New Jersey. When she was promoted, there was a lot of animosity & hostility towards her. On February 8, 2005, she was found dead in a water tank. Bruising on her body in the autopsy indicated someone tried to strangle her and her cause of death was drowning…

On the evening of November 29, 2006, 28-year-old Avis Banks was 5 months pregnant. She got home after a long day of work only to be brutally murdered. INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/EMAIL:criminalcuriosity@gmail.comTHANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

Joseph Christopher was a serial killer in the 1980s. He tried to get mental health help and was denied and 14 days later he began his murder spree. He is responsible for the murders of 13 black men and boys in Buffalo, New York. He was dubbed by the media as both the ".22 Caliber Killer" and the "Midtown Slasher." INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.c…

Cari Farver met a man in 2012, shortly after she went missing, and for the next 3 years Dave and his nonserious partner Liz would be harassed with thousands of emails and texts but it was only a cover for a jealous lover's murder. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ EMAIL: criminalcuriosity@gmail.com THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!…

Ronald and James Allridge were brothers and serial killers who killed three people and committed numerous armed robberies in Fort Worth, Texas in 1985.INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/EMAIL:criminalcuriosity@gmail.comTHANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

David Nixon was a successful businessman living a nice life in Grapevine, Texas. In 2002 he was murdered and with forensic testing and using tire impressions, they were able to find his killer. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ EMAIL: criminalcuriosity@gmail.com THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!…

Carl Watts also known as the "Sunday Morning Slasher" murdered girls and women over an eight-year period in Michigan, Canada, and Texas. Until he was caught in 1982. HAPPY 50TH EPISODE! THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYONE THAT HAS LISTENED. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ EMAIL: criminalcuriosity@gmail.com THANK YOU FOR LISTENI…

Francine Hughes was an American woman who, after thirteen years of domestic abuse, set fire to the bed where her live-in ex-husband Mickey Hughes was sleeping, on March 9, 1977, in Dansville, Michigan. Mickey was killed and the house was destroyed in the resulting fire. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: 800-799-7233https://www.thehotline.org/ INSTAGRAM: h…

The gruesome murder of 18-year-old Shannon Siders in Newaygo, Michigan, in mid-July 1989. Her body was discovered three months later, and the case remained unsolved for over two decades. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ EMAIL: criminalcuriosity@gmail.com THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!…

On May 3, 2002, a 7-year-old girl walked half a block to school in Milwaukee. Since then there have been theories and more questions about what happened to Alexis Patterson 21 years ago. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ EMAIL: criminalcuriosity@gmail.com THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Episode analytics…

Laurie Bembenek was a former police officer who was convicted of murdering her husband's ex-wife in 1981. Her story gained national news in 1990, when Bembenek escaped from Wisconsin's Taycheedah Correctional Institution and was apprehended in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The Colonial Parkway murders took the lives of at least 8 victims along the Colonial Parkway in Virginia, between 1986 and 1989 and the case is still unsolved. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ EMAIL: criminalcuriosity@gmail.com THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!

In 1985, a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal, Suzanne Marie Collins was tortured, raped, and killed. She was working in Millington, Tennessee's Naval Support Activity Mid-South at the time of her murder. Collins, a trainee at the base, was due to graduate from avionics training on the day of her death. Sedley Alley, the man who is believed …

On March 19, 2000, 19-year-old Chester Poage was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by 3 men, he thought were his friends in Spearfish, South Dakota. The 3 men were convicted and 2 were sentenced to death, one dying in 2007 from the lethal injection, the other is the only death row inmate in the state of South Dakota, and the third one was sentenced…

Oliver Northup and his wife Claudia had been happily married for 17 years when they were tortured, killed, and mutilated in their home by a 15-year-old kid. Daniel Marsh was ten years old when he began fantasizing about killing people and becoming a serial killer. This case sparked a debate concerning the sentencing of teenagers who commit heinous …

Gary Schaefer is an American murderer, kidnapper, rapist, and suspected serial killer suspected of killing three girls in Springfield, Vermont between 1979 and 1983. He confessed to two of the killings and remains a suspect in the third, although he was only convicted of one and sentenced to 30 years in prison.INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/cr…

In the Summer of 2004, 24-year-old Tamika Huston went missing in Spartanburg, SC. Her ex-boyfriend was a prime suspect until DNA evidence ruled him out. Her case didn't get national media attention because, at the same time, Laci Peterson and Natalie Holloway's cases were in the news. A key found in Tamika's car led police to give Tamika the justic…

After Thanksgiving on November 27, 1998, 25-year-old Corey Parker was expected to show up to work at the Ragtime Tavern, when she did her manager became concerned, the manager sent one of the cooks to check on her. Police would soon a disturbing scene. After going through many suspects, one man Robert Denny refused to give up his DNA, until one day…

Gwendolyn Graham & Catherine Wood were two nurses working in Alpine Manor, a retirement home. They soon became lovers that would go on to murder five innocent, vulnerable patients that were suffering from Alzheimer's disease.INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/EMAIL:criminalcuriosity@gmail.comTHANK YOU FOR LISTENING!…

On November 9, 1996, in Torbay, Canada, Gary O'Brien allegedly abducted his three sons, Adam, 14, Trevor, 11, and Mitchell, 4. Since Gary's divorce, he had custody of the children on Saturdays. This Saturday was supposed to be like any other Saturday. Only this time Gary called his ex-wife Diana, and stated that he wouldn't be bringing the kids bac…

Lorenzen Wright was a basketball player, who played for 13 seasons in the NBA. On July 18, 2010, he went missing after failing to attend his sister's baby shower. 10 days later his body was found and his ex-wife Sherra Robinson & her friend Billy Raye Turner were found guilty of his murder. Sherra collected his $1 million life insurance; 10 months …

On September 28, 2000, David Camm's wife, Kim, and two children 7-year-old Bradley and 5-year-old Jill were all murdered in the garage. David would end up being convicted of their murder twice, acquitted on the third, and spending 13 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ EMAIL: crim…

In 1971 and 1972, 6 black girls were abducted and murdered in the Washington D.C. area, the killer was dubbed "The Freeway Phantom" because of their use of the freeway to get in and get out. 52 years later, there are no witnesses, no leads, and the serial killer has remained unidentified. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/ E…

Linda Andersen was the mother of three children in Mississauga, Ontario, in 2003. She was an alcoholic and suffered from depression. Her daughters were fed up with her spending on alcohol since they wanted new clothes and a house with a swimming pool. They planned to murder her and use the internet to do so. Because they were juveniles at the time …

Barry Winchell, a 21-year-old private first class stationed at Fort Campbell, was dating a transgender woman, Calpernia Adams, when he was murdered by his roommate, for who he was dating. His death brought to light the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which is quite a shocking policy.

In the late 1990s, Sante and Kenny Kimes were known as Mommy and Clyde, and they were involved in a string of crimes across the United States, beginning with stealing, forgery, scams, and eventually ending in murder because they wanted money.

Dana Satterfield was a successful 27-year-old woman, she was a mother to her two children and the owner of her own hair salon. In 1995 she was found murdered in her own salon, and the case would go cold for 10 years after her daughter without knowing it would help solve her mother's murder. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/criminalcuriositypod/…

Ashley Pond, 12, went to the bus stop every morning to get to school when she went missing one day in January 2002. Authorities initially classified her as a runaway, but after two weeks, they changed their minds. Miranda Gaddis, another girl who is a friend of Ashley Pond, goes missing in March 2002. Ashley reported unwanted and inappropriate beha…

Officers Richard Phillips and Milton Curtis were both murdered in 1957 after pulling over a man for running a red light. The murders stayed unsolved for 46 years until 2002 when they were solved thanks to technology, handwriting analysis, a family member contacting the police and how the police officers marked their killer for life. They were succe…

15 year old twins Jeanette and Dannette went missing on March 18, 1990 in Augusta, Georgia. The two went to their Godfather Ted’s house in Bethlehem, Georgia where the twins used to live, about 40 minutes away. They went to get money for their bus fare and that was the last time they were seen. A couple days before they went missing, they mentioned…

In May 2005, the bodies of 40-year-old Brenda Groene, her boyfriend 37-year-old Mark McKenzie, and her 13-year-old son Slade Groene was found in their home in Couer d'Alene, Idaho. Brenda's two other children 8-year-old Shasta and 9-year-old Dylan Groene were missing until 7 weeks later, Shasta and her kidnapper Joseph Duncan were found at Denny's …

Dr. Darryl Sutuorius a well-respected heart surgeon, was recently divorced after 30 years of marriage. He met 45-year-old Dante Britton in 1995 through a dating service and got married 4 months later. As the relationship started to head south, Darryl did some digging on his wife and unleashed a can of worms. Darryl struggled with his mental health …

In this week's episode, Jade discusses the life and crimes of the serial killer, John Robinson he was also a con man, embezzler, kidnapper, and forger. He began recruiting women to work for him in 1984 up until 2000 when he was finally caught. He would hire women to his no-existent company, with the promise of a place to stay, paid training, and a …

In August 2004, 40-year-old Merrian Carver disappeared on 7 day Royal Caribbean cruise from Seattle to Alaska. Her ship steward was the last person to see her, he reported her missing multiple times when his supervisor told him "forget about it and do your job." This case deals with NDAs, Private Investigators, a lot of negligence by the cruise lin…