This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)
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Dissecting the cases everyone's talking about. From true crime to celebrity courtrooms and pop culture legal drama — Tyrella and Nikita break it all down with the commentary your group chat wishes it had. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Crime. Culture. Commentary. For bonus episodes and premium content, find us on Patreon!
By the time investigators accused Rajesh and Nupur Talwar of killing their daughter Aarushi and Hemraj Banjade, the case had already moved through multiple suspects, disputed forensic evidence, and competing theories of what happened inside the family's Noida home. In Part 2 of the Aarushi Talwar case, Tyrella and Nikita examine the evidence used against the Talwars, including the golf club and kukri theories, the forensic and investigative failures, their 2013 conviction and life sentences, and the 2017 Allahabad High Court decision that acquitted them. How did an investigation this troubled produce a conviction? And when does following the evidence become forcing the evidence to fit a theory? Listen to Part 1 first for the crime scene and the chaotic first 24 hours of the investigation. Content note: This episode discusses the death of a minor and includes non-graphic discussion of forensic and autopsy findings.
In 2008, 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar was found dead inside her family's home in Noida, India. Within hours, police had named the family's missing housekeeper, Hemraj Banjade, as their prime suspect. There was one enormous problem: they hadn't searched the entire property. Tyrella and Nikita walk through the first 24 hours of the Aarushi Talwar case — the locked bedroom, the family's nightly routine, the initial crime scene investigation, the search for Hemraj, and the discovery that completely upended the police's first theory. It's a case that raises a question at the heart of This Feels Criminal: what happens when investigators decide what happened before they've finished looking at the evidence? Part 2 covers the shifting suspects and theories, disputed forensic evidence, the Talwars' conviction, and the High Court decision that ultimately acquitted them. Content note: This episode discusses the death of a minor.
I'm launching something new: Tyrella Off the Record. If This Feels Criminal is where we slow down, dig deep, and ask the bigger questions, Tyrella Off the Record is where I'll help you keep up with true crime as it's happening. Ya'll know I'm following these cases like a hawk and I figured why not talk about them with you?!? Hearings. Trials. New filings. Breaking case developments. I'm following the cases you care about and breaking down what happened, why it matters, and what you need to know next—without requiring you to spend your entire day watching court or scrolling social media. And we're kicking things off at the perfect time: the Lindsay Clancy trial begins Monday. I'll be following the trial closely on Tyrella Off the Record, with regular recaps of the testimony, witnesses, rulings, and major developments. Today, I'm sharing the first episode here on the TFC feed so you can hear what to expect. After this episode, Lindsay Clancy trial updates will continue on the Tyrella Off the Record feed, so make sure you follow or subscribe there if you want to follow the trial with me. 🎙️ FOLLOW TYRELLA OFF THE RECORD Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tyrella-off-the-record/id6794704654 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033VL90FS28EOqc0XOGg4C True crime moves fast. I keep you updated. 📩 Want the important updates in one place without being tied to social media? Join The Record Briefing, my free weekly email: https://rebrand.ly/offrecord
After nearly six years, Nikita Hand finally walked into a Dublin courtroom and faced Conor McGregor. In Part 2, we break down the 12-day civil trial: Hand's testimony, McGregor's claim that their encounter was consensual, the CCTV footage the defense said undermined her story, the medical and physical evidence presented to the jury, and the strategies used to challenge Hand's credibility. Then, after six hours and ten minutes of deliberation, the jury returned its verdict. We follow what happened next—including the damages awarded, McGregor's appeals, and what the case says about the way sexual assault allegations are investigated, prosecuted, defended, and discussed. And as McGregor attempted to stage a public comeback, we return to the part of his story that shouldn't be erased: the civil jury verdict Nikita Hand fought nearly seven years to obtain. To be clear: This episode is based on the evidence presented in court and the public record. If you're looking for a defense of Conor McGregor, this probably isn't the episode for you. Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of sexual assault, physical injuries, and trauma.
In 2018, Nikita Hand accused Conor McGregor of raping her in a Dublin hotel. Prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges—but six years later, Hand took McGregor to civil court. The medical evidence documented extensive injuries. McGregor's DNA placed him at the scene. But prosecutors ultimately declined to bring criminal charges. Nikita Hand didn't stop there. In Part 1, we walk through what happened that day according to the evidence and testimony, the aftermath of the alleged assault, the decision not to prosecute, and the years-long road to a civil courtroom—including the terrifying attack at Hand's home just months before the trial began. To be clear: This episode is based on the evidence presented in court and the public record. If you're looking for a defense of Conor McGregor, this probably isn't the episode for you. Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of sexual assault, physical injuries, and trauma. Part 2 covers the trial, the verdict, and McGregor's comeback, dropping Thursday. Patrons can listen now. 🎧 Listen ad-free & early on Patreon: patreon.com/killerqueenspod 📱 Instagram: @thisfeelscriminal 📌 Subscribe so you don't miss the trial updates. Sources: Forbes, Uncrowned, UFC.com, Parade, The Daily Beast, CBC News, The Irish Times, RTÉ, The Journal, CBS News, The Irish News, Irish Examiner, Soap Central, Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Newsweek, The Mirror, MMA Mania, Irish Legal News, TIME, EssentiallySports, Celebrity Net Worth, ITV News
The same week Karen Read's lawsuit went public, the man at the center of it tried to avoid testifying. A month later, a furious judge accused someone of leaking his sealed medical information to the internet — ordered 32 attorneys to certify under oath they weren't responsible, and stopped just short of a gag order. Then Read's own team fired back, arguing the entire premise was wrong. This episode: the deposition wars playing out across three separate lawsuits, a retired lieutenant's failed fight to avoid his own subpoena, a young witness caught between a court order and Army basic training, and the timestamp discrepancy that Read's lawyers say unravels the whole leak story. Plus: what happened to the second officer at the center of this — and what any of it actually means for two police departments that would very much like this to go away. ⚠️ Content warning: this episode continues the discussion from Part 1 and includes references to the same explicit language quoted in court filings.
Karen Read walked out of her second trial acquitted. Weeks later, she filed a lawsuit that isn't about whether she killed John O'Keefe — it's about the two police departments that investigated her, and what they knew about the men running that investigation before they ever put them on the case. This episode: the 87-page complaint Read filed against Massachusetts State Police and the Town of Canton, the decade of texts from lead investigator Michael Proctor and Canton Sergeant Sean Goode that the lawsuit calls a "cesspool of abject hatred," and the separate federal complaint — quietly incorporated into this filing — that lays out, allegation by allegation, how Read's team says the investigation itself was manufactured. We're not re-litigating the murder case. Two juries already did that. This is about what happens after — institutional accountability, not a verdict. ⚠️ Content warning: this episode includes racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic language quoted directly from a public court filing, including slurs.
"I did not kill the president. The doctors did. I merely shot him." That was Charles Guiteau's defense. In 1881, a failed lawyer and preacher convinced himself he'd single-handedly won James Garfield the presidency — and that the president now owed him a job. When the reward never came, he decided Garfield had to die. In Part 2 of Founding Felons Week, Tyrella and Nikita get into who Guiteau really was and how he got there: the Oneida free-love commune that rejected him, his pattern of latching onto powerful men and then turning on them, the ten-week media circus of a trial, and the 1882 execution where he asked for an orchestra. It ends on the grim irony of a man who spent his whole life desperate to be remembered — and got his wish, as a brain on display at the Mütter Museum. New here? Start with Part 1 (the shooting and the nearly 80 days) before this one. Content warning: this episode discusses an assassination, capital punishment, child abuse, and preserved human remains.
Founding Felons is back! A bullet put President James Garfield on the floor of a train station in 1881 — but it wasn't the bullet that killed him. In Part 1 of Founding Felons Week, Tyrella and Nikita trace the unlikely life of James A. Garfield: the dirt-poor Ohio farm boy who couldn't swim but dreamed of being a sailor, and the self-taught general who went on to win the closest popular-vote election in U.S. history. Four months into his presidency, he was shot at a Washington train station — and then handed over to his doctors. We get into the shooting, Dr. Charles Burleigh Purvis (the first Black physician to treat a sitting president, and the one man in the room who was right), and the nearly 80-day medical disaster that followed — the finger-probed wound, the misfired Alexander Graham Bell metal detector, and the sepsis that did what the gun couldn't. Part 2 drops Thursday: the assassin, Charles Guiteau, and a trial that went completely off the rails. Patrons can listen now. Content warning: graphic 19th-century medical detail and descriptions of an infected gunshot wound.
After the guilty verdict, most people wait quietly. Taylor Parker wrote a confession to the murder — and signed it as someone else. Part 2 is the half the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct never showed. After she was convicted of capital murder, Taylor Parker ran a months-long jailhouse operation to frame other people for the killing of Reagan Simmons-Hancock — forged confessions, fabricated co-conspirators, the works. Then came the penalty phase and one question: was Taylor Parker calculating, or was she sick? Tyrella and Nikita break down the dueling experts, the 2022 death sentence that landed her on Texas death row, the appeals that have since run out, and where Taylor Parker is now. You'll hear the forged confessions, the jail calls, just how rare fetal abduction really is — and why the hosts chose to end on Reagan and her baby, Braxlynn, not the woman who killed them. Missed Part 1? Start there for Reagan's story and the years of deception that led to October 9th. Content warning: graphic violence, the death of an infant, and discussion of suicide. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline).
Before she was a Netflix documentary, Reagan Simmons-Hancock had a name, a daughter, and a baby due in weeks. This is the part the cameras skipped. The Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tells the story of Taylor Parker, who faked a pregnancy for nearly a year — fake ultrasounds, a silicone belly, even a gender reveal — before committing one of the rarest and most disturbing crimes there is: fetal abduction. In 2020, in the tiny town of New Boston, Texas, that lie ended in the murder of her friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock. Tyrella and Nikita walk through how a con artist with a fabricated oil-and-gas fortune slowly escalated toward the unthinkable. Part 1 traces Reagan's life and the years of deception by Taylor Parker that led to October 9th: the cons, the fake inheritance, the invented villains, and the warnings no one could legally act on. Part 2 covers everything Netflix left out — what Taylor did from behind bars. Patrons have it now; everyone else, it drops Thursday. Content warning: this episode discusses graphic violence and the death of an infant.
Caysen Allison stabbed a classmate more than once and got 10 years. Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf once and got 35. Both said it was self-defense. Part 2 opens at Anthony's sentencing in Frisco, Texas — including the victim impact statement from Austin's mother that reframes the whole debate — then sets the case beside a strikingly similar one out of Belton: same self-defense claim, very different ending. Tyrella and Nikita break down the 35-year sentence, the data on sentencing disparities, the jury and the Batson challenge, the online firestorm, and the appeal — built on the record, not the noise. Start with Part 1 for the trial and the verdict. Content warning: fatal violence involving minors, and a racist remark (quoted and condemned) in the context of public reaction to the case.
In 2005, Wade Robson swore under oath that Michael Jackson never touched him — and helped win the acquittal. In 2026, he's asking a different jury to believe the opposite. Part 2 picks up where Netflix's "The Verdict" stops. Tyrella and Nikita get into what the documentary left out: the $20M+ Jordan Chandler settlement, the Robson and Safechuck lawsuits against Jackson's companies, and the credibility questions on both sides — a memoir he didn't disclose, a Grand Canyon trip his own mother contradicts, and staff who say they saw things they never reported. It's the messy, gray-area aftermath of a not-guilty verdict — and a civil trial set for later this year. This is Part 2. Start with Part 1 for the 2005 trial itself. Content warning: discusses child sexual abuse allegations, grooming testimony, and mental health.
When Patrick Clancy walked back into that house after 54 minutes, it was silent. Three small children were in the basement. Lindsay was outside on the ground. Part 2 of TFC's Lindsay Clancy coverage picks up the night of January 24th, 2023 — the minute-by-minute timeline, the phone evidence the prosecution is relying on, and Lindsay's own account of what she says happened once Patrick left. Tyrella and Nikita also break down the full toxicology, the competing expert arguments about what was active in Lindsay's system at the time the children died, and where the criminal and civil cases stand heading into the July 2026 trial. Part 1 covers who Lindsay was, the medication timeline, and the civil lawsuits — go back and start there if you haven't. Content warning: child death, strangulation, suicide and self-harm, severe mental illness. If you're in crisis, call or text 988.
Two weeks before the crash, Dom Russo was secretly recording her. Days before he died, he used a friend's phone to do it — which tells you everything about where things were. In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita pick up where the evidence gets undeniable: the secret recordings Dom made of Mackenzie in the days before his death, the highway incident two weeks prior where a witness heard her say "I will crash this car right now," the arrest, and the trial that ended with a judge calling Mackenzie Shirilla "literal hell on wheels." They also cover what the Netflix documentary left out — the full picture of a relationship Dom was actively trying to leave, a plea offer the families rejected, a defense with no medical documentation to back it up, and a sentencing hearing that left Davion Flanagan's family stunned by the concurrent sentences. Dom Russo was 20. Davion Flanagan was 19. This is Part 2. Part 1 is live now. Hang with us: 🎧 Listen ad-free & early: patreon.com/killerqueenspod 📱 Instagram: @thisfeelscriminal ⚠️ Content warning: murder, domestic violence, coercive control, suicidal ideation, drug use. National DV Hotline: 1-800-799-7233.
