Worse Than Fiction

27/05/2022

This episode is a Patreon exclusive. I invited my friend Tz from Tapes from the Darkside to discuss a brutally horrific murder that you probably haven't heard of. It's an unscripted, more casual format, but the crime is...well, just listen. It's truly Worse Than Fiction.

Research provided by Lana McCall.

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18/03/2022

Worse Than Fiction, Episode 14: Satan in the Flesh, is now available wherever you get podcasts.

A serial killer terrorizes several people and their families. A good deal of it could have been prevented.

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29/10/2021

Truly Worse Than Fiction.

28/10/2021

I've uploaded a Halloween Special episode. to the feed. It's a fictional crime story written by EF Benson.

You can find it anywhere you get podcasts, just search Worse Than Fiction.

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24/09/2021

273,843 Males are currently listed as missing in the US.

268,744 Females are currently missing in the US.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/240387/number-of-missing-persons-files-in-the-us-by-age/

These stats are purely based on biological s*x, so I don't want to hear anything about Trans, non-binary, etc. They are included in these statistics, which are either/or, for simplicities sake.

It's great that Gabby Petito got so much attention and was found so quickly, regardless of the outcome.

Here's my problem. Why does no one seem to give a s**t about the missing/murdered males? Do we not matter as much?

There is also the fact that 77.3% of murder victims in the US are males. Why do we give them less attention than others? What the f**k is up with this missing/murdered white girl syndrome that the media has?

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/expanded-homicide?fbclid=IwAR2WHVspGK_ZRJ36_TiWBkFlZixzfQdALe0DEAsMEjlUrqdRBYQ0tr25wng

If you go look at your list of favorite true crime podcasts, there appears to be a theme. They mostly cover stories of missing/murdered white females. Why don't they give more attention to the "others"?

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05/08/2021

I posted this in the private group, but I also want to post this here:

"Firstly, does anyone have any good true crime/ horror novel recommendations available on Audible? I have a credit to spend, and no idea what to spend it on.

Secondly, I think I'm getting back to a place in life where I can sanely dig back into writing. Myself and the fam just got home from a much-needed vacation this week, and I'm feeling good.
I'm going to set a date now for the next episode, and if I don't meet it, I give you all full permission to hunt me down and force me to finish it.

The Predator will be released by the 30th of this month. Not that I recommend that anyone listen to it though....it's a f**king gnarly story almost on the level of Andrei Chikatilo, or at least it WOULD have been on that level eventually, had this pile of s**t not gotten caught as early as he did.

The 30th. That will be the day, and my lovely wife Miranda will hold me to it!"

-Les

30/06/2021

I'm not dead yet! ....I will be one day, but this isn't that day! I have posted about where I've been on both Twitter, and in the Facebook group, so if you want to interact directly with me, or get any news I might have, those are the best places to find it.

This is a short true crime story I wrote a while back that I was personally involved in. The Murder of Paul Brown in Hamiltion Ohio. I've pulled it from Patreon exclusivity, and I give to you all. It's...intimate, and very real, especially to me since it was so close to home. Just listen to it, this story probably has more soul than anything I've ever released.

Content Warning by Emily G. Thompson of the Morbidology podcast: https://morbidology.com/morbidology-podcast/

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21/05/2021

You will be hearing music by the amazing 20SIX Hundred in future episodes of WTF. In the meantime, go check out his extensive catalogue of awesome synth greatness!

HELLKAT, with a score by 20SIX Hundred, is now available to stream on Amazon Prime. https://20sixhundred.bandcamp.com/album/hellkat-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

18/05/2021

On the morning of December 22, 2016 Taylor Anne McAllister, 22, was found brutally murdered in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Taylor was found around 8 A. M. in an alley on 63rd Ave. S. by a man collecting cans. She’d been brutally beaten, bruised, and was n**e from the waist down. Her body was covered in bug bites and tire tracks. Her neck, face, and chest had severe hemorrhaging. According to the medical examiner, her eyes had the worst petechia that he’d ever seen. The inside of her mouth was filled with cuts, bruises, and abrasions. Her cause of death was listed as homicide by asphyxiation.
DNA under her fingernails and on her neck matched Robert “Bertie” Butler, son of the founder of Bob’s Carpet Mart. She was removed from his residence after Butler called four individuals to pick her up. They drove her lifeless body over 25 miles away and dumped her in the alley. Butler’s DNA was the only one found on Taylor’s body.
Despite DNA and testimony from participants, no one has been charged with her murder.
We’re begging anyone with any information, no matter how small you think it may be, please contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780. Please help bring justice for this precious girl’s parents and surviving twins.

This is Need you now by Lady Antebellum and I really hope you like it, because I recorded it like 10 times before I got it right and my fingers are killing m...

09/05/2021

"The Pentagon estimates that 80 to 90 percent of s*xual assaults go unreported, and admits that only 8 percent of cases that are investigated end in prosecution (compared with 40 percent for civilians arrested for s*x crimes). To add insult to injury, 80 percent of those convicted are still honorably discharged."

-Jamala Rogers, STL American

07/05/2021

One in three women in the are victims of assault. That’s just what we KNOW.

02/05/2021

Do you ever get so damn involved and invested in working on a case that it's almost all consuming? Well, that's what I'm doing.

New WTF Unsolved content is coming soon.
-Chelsea

29/04/2021

We flip the tables in this discussion. I've been on the interviewer side of a few conversations with the amazing Kate Wallinga, but this time around, I was allowed to ramble on, and on, about whatever.

Go check it out!

Whether it’s your podcast, your habits, or life in general, there are almost always areas for improvement… even if it’s already pretty great. Guest: Les, Worse Than Fiction, Worse…

26/04/2021

We all remember a time when our mother or father, warned us about trusting strangers. This episode t