You're Killing Me

You’re Killing Me is an Australian true crime podcast that tells the country’s most haunting cases with depth, accuracy and storytelling that puts you inside the moment.Hosted by Shawnee & Joel, each episode unfolds like a documentary you can hear — combining narrative storytelling, extensive research, detailed timelines, and emotionally grounded scene-setting.No fluff. No shortcuts. No sensationalism.Just real cases, real people, and the real Australia behind the headlines.Whether you binge true crime on long drives, late nights or school pick-up queues, You’re Killing Me delivers.

You're Killing Me is a true crime podcast hosted by Shawnee & Joel Harris, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Shawnee & Joel Harris hosts You're Killing Me, a true crime show with 27 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  Ep 26: Nobody Saw a Thing: The Town Bully of Skidmore, Missouri Was Shot Dead in Broad Daylight in Front of 60 Witnesses — and Every Single One of Them Went Silent | Ken Rex McElroy

  Aug 9, 20261h 12m

  Skidmore, Missouri. Population: 437. The kind of town where people leave their doors unlocked, everybody knows everybody's business, and grudges last generations. For over twenty years, one man had terrorised it completely. Accused of rape, arson, assault, cattle theft, child abuse. He had been charged again and again. He had walked free every single time. The legal system — the one designed to protect people exactly like the residents of Skidmore — had failed them, repeatedly, absolutely. His name was Ken Rex McElroy. And everyone in town was afraid of him. On July 10th, 1981, McElroy walked out of the D&G Tavern in broad daylight, climbed into his blue Silverado, and was shot dead in front of sixty witnesses. When police arrived and asked what happened, every single person in that town said the same thing. Nobody saw a thing. The Ken Rex McElroy case is one of the most extraordinary true crime stories in American history — not because of the murder, but because of everything that came before it. The victims who couldn't get justice. The system that kept failing. And the moment a town of 437 people collectively decided they'd had enough. This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the full story of Ken Rex McElroy — who he was, what he did, why nobody could touch him, and what happened in Skidmore on July 10th, 1981 that no one will ever officially explain. Topics: Ken Rex McElroy | Skidmore Missouri | vigilante justice | small town murder | unsolved murder | Missouri true crime | town bully | American true crime | cold case | YKM New episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.

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  Episode #25

  Ep 25: He Built a Submarine by Hand, Invited a Journalist Aboard, and Dismembered Her at Sea — The Peter Madsen and Kim Wall Case

  Jul 26, 20261h 13m

  Pre-dawn. Copenhagen. The sound of helicopter rotors cutting through dark water. The Danish Coast Guard had been searching since before midnight. Three Navy vessels, working a grid pattern across Køge Bay. They were looking for a sixty-foot submarine that had gone down the previous evening and not come back. A lighthouse keeper spotted it first. A shape on the grey chop. Radio contact was made. Standing on the hull with both arms raised above his head was a man. He gave his name when asked. He was the submarine's owner. Its builder — steel plate by steel plate, crowdfunded money and volunteer labour. By all accounts, the largest privately built submarine in history. His passenger's return to shore had been the last message she ever sent. Kim Wall was 30 years old. A Swedish freelance journalist who had written for TIME, Vice, The Guardian and the New York Times. Someone her colleagues described as genuinely curious, deeply principled, and utterly fearless in the field. She had boarded Peter Madsen's submarine UC3 Nautilus on the evening of August 10th, 2017, for what was supposed to be a short interview trip. She had texted her boyfriend that she was on the sub. She said she'd be home soon. What Peter Madsen did to Kim Wall on that submarine is one of the most disturbing things this podcast has ever covered. And the story of who he was before that night — the TED-talking, crowdfunded, charismatic inventor who convinced an entire city he was visionary — makes it worse. This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the murder of Kim Wall and the case of Peter Madsen — a story about a woman who deserved far better, and a man who was nothing like what he seemed. Topics: Peter Madsen | Kim Wall | Danish true crime | submarine murder | Copenhagen | Scandinavian true crime | journalist murder | UC3 Nautilus | 2017 | true crime Europe | YKM New episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.

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  Episode #24

  Ep 24: Apartment 603: Ellen Greenberg Was Found Stabbed 20 Times in Her Locked Apartment — and the Coroner Called It Suicide | The Case That Won't Close

  Jul 19, 20261h 16m

  January 26th, 2011. Philadelphia. A major blizzard is shutting the city down. A man returns from the gym to the apartment he shares with his fiancée. The door is latched from the inside. He knocks. No answer. He calls out. Nothing. After a few minutes he makes a decision and steps inside. Ellen Greenberg is on the kitchen floor, slumped against a cabinet. She is 27 years old. There is a ten-inch serrated knife in her chest. Ellen had been stabbed twenty times. Ten of those wounds were to the back of her head. The medical examiner ruled it a suicide. What followed is one of the most baffling, contested and heartbreaking cases in modern true crime — a ruling that her parents refused to accept, that forensic experts called catastrophically wrong, that federal prosecutors eventually agreed was worth a second look, and that still, to this day, has no resolution. This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the death of Ellen Greenberg — the Philadelphia case that asks how a woman can be stabbed twenty times and have it called self-inflicted, who had the most to gain from that ruling, and why the fight for answers is still very much alive. Topics: Ellen Greenberg | Philadelphia true crime | unsolved murder | suicide or homicide | cold case | forensic pathology | apartment 603 | Cyril Wecht | 48 Hours | true crime 2011 | YKM New episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.

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  Episode #23

  Ep 23: Heaven's Gate: 39 Bodies, Black Tracksuits and Nike Sneakers — Inside the UFO Cult That Convinced Its Members Death Was a Spaceship | True Crime Cults

  Jul 12, 20261h 21m

  The drive from Los Angeles to Rancho Santa Fe takes just under two hours. On the afternoon of March 26th, 1997, two men made that drive. One of them knew what they were going to find. The other only had half the story. The man who knew had packed a video camera on instinct. At 18341 Colina Norte, the door was unlocked. Inside one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in California, despite the warm March sun outside, were 39 deceased people lying on bunk beds in identical black tracksuits, purple shrouds pulled over their faces, and Nike sneakers on every pair of feet. Every single death was deliberate. Every single one was finished. Heaven's Gate was a UFO religious cult founded in the 1970s by Marshall Herff Applewhite — a man with a beautiful voice, a devastating charisma, and a belief that the human body was simply a temporary vehicle. That the Hale-Bopp comet passing Earth in 1997 was their signal. That death wasn't an ending. It was a boarding. This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the full story of Heaven's Gate — how Applewhite built it, who joined, why they stayed, and what it tells us about belief, belonging and the terrifying power of a person who makes leaving feel impossible. Topics: Heaven's Gate | cult | Marshall Applewhite | UFO cult | mass suicide | Rancho Santa Fe | Hale-Bopp | true crime cults | religious cult | 1997 | YKM New episodes every Monday. Follow so you never miss one.

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  Episode #22

  Ep 22: Roch Thériault & The Ant Hill Kids — He Called Himself Moses and Performed Surgery Without Anaesthesia | Burnt River Ontario | Canadian Cult True Crime

  Jul 5, 20261h 48m

  In 1989, a woman named Gabrielle walked into a hospital in rural Ontario. She'd made it to the road somehow — flagged down a car, let strangers drive her somewhere with lights. Her left arm below the elbow had been cauterised. Burned shut. Someone had taken it. That someone was Roch Thériault. And Gabrielle was one of the lucky ones. From 1978, Thériault — a charismatic, volatile Quebec-born man who declared himself Moses and then God — built a commune deep in the Canadian wilderness that became one of the most brutal cult environments in North American history. What began as a survivalist religious group in Thetford Mines drew in dozens of followers, eventually settling near Burnt River, Ontario, where the real horror unfolded. For years, almost nobody outside the trees knew it was happening. This episode traces Thériault's origins, his psychological hold over his followers, the escalating violence, the escape of Gabrielle Lavallée, and the murder of Solange Boilard — the crime that finally put him away for life. ⚠️ Content warning: extreme physical abuse, sexual abuse of adults and children, graphic medical violence, procedures performed without anaesthesia. This one is serious. Come back when you're ready, or it's completely okay not to. Roch Thériault | Ant Hill Kids | Burnt River Ontario | Canadian cult | true crime Canada | cult leader | Gabrielle Lavallée | Solange Boilard | Moses cult | medical torture | cult abuse | Canadian true crime podcast | You're Killing Me

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