Good Company in the Car: The Bigfoot and Murder and Everything Else Podcast

Carbondale, Illinois is not a big city. What are the chances there’s more than one killer lurking about town?

We've all done it; taking the shortcut through the woods. For one college undergraduate, the time saving route cost her her life, and figuring out who the killer actually was took more than 20 years...

It’s like falling on a bruise! Another diabolical Doctor is exposed!

This week we learn how one pistol of a young lady takes down an admired and adored physician. Candy is our kinda gal!

Jack loves chocolate. A lot! Let’s test his palate, shall we?

A couple episodes ago Jack challenged Kevin to a vodka tasting to see if Kevin could really tell the difference between the cheap stuff and the good stuff. Turns out he could. Now the tables have turned and it's time for Jack to put up or shut up: can he tell the difference between the good chocolates and the not so good. Here we go...

What’s your sign?

For a while in the early 90's, if you lived in New York, there could be deadly consequences to that answer. Listen as two stereotypical Leos discuss the case of the Zodiac killer, and no it's not the one you're thinking of...

The 90’s were no 80’s but what the hell, let’s talk tv...

These two discuss their favorite tv shows from the 90's. It got a bit fractious....

Alcohol, the cause of, and answer to, all our problems!

Jack calls Kevin out on his vodka snobbery...

Here’s another narcissistic homicidal philanderer who just happens to have a medical degree..

To say the relationship Janice Trahan was in was toxic is a dramatic understatement! This one has all the elements save one, there's no insurance policy...

It’s time to talk toys you guys!

Kevin liked his toys growing up. Jack loved his toys then and he still does now! There's whizzers and G.I. Joe and Stretch Armstrong. Hot wheels anyone?

Delaware, the First (worst) State! A man almost gets railroaded for a murder...

If you think Delaware is a small, benign state in the Mid-Atlantic you couldn't be more wrong! It's crimey as hell! Here's just one terrifying example...

Drone Wars, Alexandria style!

When Kevin's toy drone takes on a mind of it's own and flies away, well what happened next was a battle royale between Jack, his neighbors, and a certain know-it-all drone enthusiast...

Hey everybody, these are red flags: uncontrollable anger, heroin addiction, murder and mullets. This episode has all four!

Craig Thrift is a bad man. A very, very, very bad man. One poor woman made the mistake of falling in love with him. This is her tale...

Kevin loved his first real job! Let‘s listen to him reminisce about the hijinks at the Crab Claw!

St. Michaels is a quaint, historic village on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Many restaurants line the idyllic harbor, none being more famous than the Crab Claw! Back in the early 1980's, working at the Crab Claw was a local teen rite of passage. It was literally the movie Caddy Shack except it's a restaurant not a country club...

It‘s called Thrill Killing and it is the worst! Not even Ocean City is safe!

A couple on a Memorial Day visit to Ocean City disappear without a trace. A few days later a burglary at a Hooters will unlock the mystery...

Killing for fame, the Samantha Wohlford story.

A struggling young mother and aspiring YouTube star did the unthinkable to promote her channel...

The 80‘s, great music, good tv! We rank our favorite tv shows from that singular decade!

The 80's had every kind of show you could hope for, and while Kevin watched some, Jack watched a lot so it's his time to shine! Surprise, surprise, Kevin and Jack had very little overlap...

You never write! Bigfoot‘s Himalayan cousin, the Abominable Snowman, is in the crosshairs!

This week we're talking about Bigfoot's super frosty kin that live high up in the mountains of Asia. And remember, Bumbles bounce!

When Jack‘s sister Christie‘s dog got stolen, things got real real, real fast....

Christie was taking her two dogs, Tie and Lucy, for a walk through their rural north Florida paradise when a certain someone disappeared! It didn't take long to find out who the culprits were. Jack recounts the tail, er, tale....

 

While the 1970's were technically the worst, there were some excellent tv shows!

Jack and Kevin name their favorite shows from the 1970's. Surprisingly, or maybe unsurprisingly, they did not have a single one in common!

 

It can't always be homicide and cryptids!

With such an unsure future, it's comforting to look back. A shared experience, classic Saturday morning cartoons!

He was a police lieutenant, that made him the Chief Suspect! Get it? Anyway, yeah, murder.

When a policeman in a rural Ohio town tries to, oh well, we don't wanna give away the plot. Let's just say Fargo-like shenanigans ensue and it takes 10 years before the case is brought to justice. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the hapless Jim Barton...