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Twisted, gruesome, sometimes funny, but always true: Real Life Real Crime is a multi-award-winning weekly true crime podcast hosted by Woody Overton.
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Real Life Real Crime | For Ruthie: A Lifer Forever (opens the original)
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This episode of Real Life Real Crime is for Ruthie Cox Doré —a Lifer, a fierce advocate, a loyal friend, and a woman whose second chance became a life spent fighting for and helping others. Woody Overton remembers the Ruthie the Lifers knew, while sharing parts of her remarkable story that many never knew. Ruthie openly spoke about a past involving addiction, bad choices and ultimately eight and a half years of incarceration. But she didn't allow that chapter to define the rest of her life. Ruth
Real Life Real Crime | The Disappearance of Patricia Viola & the Law That Changed Missing-Person Cases (opens the original)
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Cyndi Overton tells the story of Patricia Marie Viola, a New Jersey mother who disappeared without a trace on February 13, 2001. Partial remains recovered at Rockaway Beach the following year remained unidentified for a decade before DNA finally gave Patricia her name back. But while her family waited for answers, husband Jim Viola helped create Patricia's Law, changing how missing-person DNA is collected and compared with unidentified remains. More than 25 years after Patricia disappeared, one
True Crime Time For September 11, 2026 | #JusticeForMadison: The Search Begins (opens the original)
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A major breakthrough changes #WhatHappenedToMadison into #JusticeForMadison. More than ten federal, state and local agencies are searching approximately 15 acres in West Feliciana Parish for evidence connected to the disappearances of Madison Renee Allen and Stephanie Hevia, including possible human remains. Woody shares the latest developments and plays Sheriff Brian Spillman's press conference, where the sheriff says that if investigators find what they expect to find, the definition of serial
Real Life Real Crime | #WhatHappenedToMadison — The Beginning (opens the original)
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Real Life Real Crime returns to the beginning of #WhatHappenedToMadison. Woody Overton sits down with Lynn Rollins to tell the story of her daughter, Madison Renee Allen, from her childhood and struggles with addiction to the events that brought her to Zachary, Louisiana, in 2023. Madison moved into the home of Thomas Morris, appeared to be rebuilding her life, and then vanished. Her last known communication with her mother came on November 29, 2023. As RLRC prepares to reveal a major new develo
True Crime Time For September 9, 2026 | A House of Horrors, a Death-Row Mother & the Mica Miller Case (opens the original)
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Woody covers a disturbing Philadelphia investigation involving Eugene and Raymond Horsch, where authorities recovered hundreds of thousands of images and videos tied to multiple missing women. Plus, a Georgia officer shoots a beloved pet donkey, a Maine man allegedly attacks and kidnaps his mother, an Iranian mother faces execution after filming a burning store, Georgia prepares to execute Stacey Humphreys for the murders of two real estate agents, and Woody revisits the Mica Miller case as John
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