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This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

True Crime

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Frequency: 1 episode/6d. Total Eps: 457

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!

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Castle Rock v. Gonzales: She Had a Restraining Order. Police Told Her to Wait. | Part 1

Episode 463

Tuesday, September 15, 2026 • Duration 57:07

Jessica Gonzales did everything the system told her to do. She got a restraining order against her estranged husband. Colorado law said police had to enforce it — the word "shall" was written right into the statute.

So when her three daughters went missing on the night of June 22, 1999, Jessica called Castle Rock police. And called them again. And again — nine times over the course of ten hours, showing officers the order and telling them exactly where her husband was. Each time, she was told to wait.

This episode kicks off a new Question Arc: if we can recognize danger before it becomes deadly, why don't we act on it?

Jessica's case is where we're starting — not with the Supreme Court decision that would eventually make Castle Rock v. Gonzales a landmark case, but with the night itself, hour by hour, exactly as she lived it.

We're holding the rest for Part 2. Because before we ask what the law required police to do, you need to understand what they actually did.

TW: Child Murder

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Death of a Pastor's Wife Part 2: She Asked for Help. Was the Law Built to Hear Her?

Thursday, September 10, 2026 • Duration 56:08

By 2024, Mica Miller was leaving her marriage. She was documenting what she said was happening to her, working with an attorney, seeking legal protection—and telling friends she was afraid.

Then, on April 27, Mica called 911 from a state park in North Carolina. Hours later, she was dead.

In Part 2 of our coverage of Death of a Pastor's Wife, we walk through Mica's final weeks, the day of her death, the investigation and extraordinary aftermath.

And the question from Part 1 follows her outside the church: What happens when someone finally recognizes coercive control and asks for help—but the systems around her aren't built to recognize the danger in time?

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Death of a Pastor's Wife Part 1: When Control Sounds Like Faith

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 • Duration 01:05:26

Mica Miller was 13 when she first met John-Paul "JP" Miller—the pastor who would eventually become her husband. Long before their relationship became romantic, JP had already become her pastor, mentor, trusted adult, and spiritual authority.

In Part 1 of our coverage of Netflix's Death of a Pastor's Wife, we trace their relationship from its beginning through the disturbing allegations about what Mica experienced behind closed doors.

But Mica's story raises a much bigger question: What happens when coercive control has the language of God behind it?

We're talking spiritual abuse, submission and "helpmate" theology, the very different ways shame and grace can be distributed inside the church—and what happens when the person claiming God's authority is also the person no one seems able to hold accountable.

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The Lindsay Clancy Trial, Part 2: The Commonwealth's Own Experts Push Back

Friday, September 4, 2026 • Duration 01:26:39

In Part 2 of our coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial, we hear from Lindsay's family, the hospital chaplain who spent hundreds of hours with her after the deaths of her children, and Dr. Phillip Resnick—a nationally recognized forensic psychiatrist and expert on filicide who evaluated Lindsay and concluded she was not criminally responsible.

Then the Commonwealth calls three psychiatric experts of its own in rebuttal.

They ultimately agree with prosecutors on the question that matters most: Lindsay was criminally responsible. But getting there produces some of the most surprising testimony of the entire five-week trial—and at times, the Commonwealth's own experts seem to complicate the case prosecutors spent weeks building.

One exchange in particular forces a Commonwealth expert to confront the prosecution's own opening theory head-on. His answer is one of the biggest moments of the trial.

Finally, both sides make their closing arguments and give the jury two dramatically different explanations for the same evidence.

Lindsay Clancy killed her children. That has never been disputed.

After five weeks of testimony, the question the jury must finally answer is the one this entire trial has been building toward:

Was she criminally responsible when she did it?

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The Lindsay Clancy Trial, Part 1: What Did the Commonwealth Actually Prove?

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 • Duration 01:19:10

For weeks, the Commonwealth built its case against Lindsay Clancy. But as witness after witness took the stand, some of the testimony began to complicate the story prosecutors had laid out for the jury.

In Part 1 of our coverage of the Lindsay Clancy trial, Tyrella walks Nikita—who hasn't been following the trial day-to-day—through the Commonwealth's case from opening statements through the end of its case-in-chief.

Lindsay does not dispute that she killed her three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The question at the center of this trial is whether she was legally criminally responsible when she did it.

We break down Patrick Clancy's testimony, Lindsay's mental-health treatment and medication history, the prosecution's timeline and theory of the crime, and what the Commonwealth's own witnesses actually told the jury.

Because by the time the prosecution rested, the question wasn't simply what evidence they had presented.

It was how well their theory held up against it.

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Keffe D on Trial for Tupac's Murder: "My Client Is Full of Crap"

Friday, August 28, 2026 • Duration 43:48

For years, Duane "Keffe D" Davis publicly told versions of the story of Tupac Shakur's murder—in interviews, a documentary, and even his own memoir.

Now those statements are at the center of the prosecution's case against him.

But Keffe D's defense has a pretty unusual response: you can't believe him because he's "full of crap."

In Part 2, we break down the opening statements in Keffe D's murder trial and the dramatically different stories being presented to the jury. Prosecutors say Keffe D orchestrated Tupac's killing as retaliation for the beating of his nephew, Orlando Anderson. The defense argues that Keffe D lied and exaggerated for years—and that corrupt law enforcement, missing evidence, conflicting witness accounts, and a deeply flawed investigation leave plenty of room for reasonable doubt.

We also get into the controversial proffer agreement behind Keffe D's original statements, his memoir, the alleged murder weapon, the defense's police-corruption theory, and the major witnesses who could take the stand as the trial unfolds.

After nearly 30 years, someone is finally on trial for Tupac Shakur's murder. But can prosecutors prove their case when their most important witness against Keffe D may be…Keffe D himself?

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Who Killed Tupac? The Murder, the Suspects & the Case Against Keffe D | Part 1

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 • Duration 43:21

Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was shot and killed on the Las Vegas Strip, a man is finally on trial for his murder.

On September 7, 1996, Tupac and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight were leaving the Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas when a white Cadillac pulled alongside their BMW and someone opened fire. Tupac was hit four times. Six days later, he died at just 25 years old.

For decades, theories about his murder have implicated rival gangs, the East Coast–West Coast rap feud, Suge Knight, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, and more. But the case remained unsolved—until investigators turned their attention to a man who had spent years publicly talking about what happened that night: Duane "Keffe D" Davis.

In Part 1, we break down the events leading up to Tupac's murder, the MGM Grand fight that may have set everything in motion, the original investigation, the suspects, Keffe D's extraordinary history of interviews and admissions, and how his own words eventually helped put him on trial almost three decades later.

Because after nearly 30 years of theories about who killed Tupac, a jury is finally going to hear the case.

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Lauren McCluskey: The Warning Signs Were Already There (Part 2)

Thursday, August 20, 2026 • Duration 53:01

In the weeks before Lauren McCluskey was murdered, the danger wasn't invisible.

The stalking. The lies. The escalating threats. The extortion. The repeated contact after the relationship ended. Lauren reported what was happening, asked for help, and kept trying to protect herself.

So if the signs were already there, why wasn't anyone able to recognize what they meant?

In Part 2, we step back from Lauren's case to ask the bigger question we've been working toward: Can we actually tell which abusive relationships are most likely to turn deadly?

We look at what researchers know about intimate partner homicide, the warning signs that matter most, why some seemingly terrifying behaviors aren't as predictive as we might assume, and what happens when known risk factors are scattered across different people and systems instead of being seen together.

Because the problem may not be that there are no warning signs.

It may be that recognizing them is only the beginning.

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Lauren McCluskey: Can We Tell Which Relationships Will Turn Deadly? (Part 1)

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 • Duration 49:28

When 21-year-old University of Utah student Lauren McCluskey ended a brief relationship, she had good reason to believe she'd caught the warning signs early.

The man she'd been dating had lied about his name, his age, and his criminal history. Lauren ended the relationship immediately.

But he didn't leave her alone.

What followed was a terrifying escalation of stalking, harassment, extortion, and repeated attempts to get help — ending less than three weeks later with Lauren's murder on the campus where she lived and went to school.

Lauren's case leaves behind an agonizing question: when we look back after someone has been killed, the warning signs can seem painfully obvious. But are they actually obvious before the violence happens?

In Part 1, we begin Lauren's story and ask a much bigger question: Can we tell which abusive relationships are most likely to turn deadly?

Because if we can identify danger before someone is killed, that changes the question of what we should be doing about it.

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The Murder of Calum Simpson: Do We Really Treat Male and Female Victims Differently? - Part 2

Episode 454

Thursday, August 13, 2026 • Duration 32:29

After researching dozens of studies, court decisions, and primary sources, we discovered the answer wasn't nearly as simple as we expected.

Do men receive more justice than women?

Are women taken less seriously?

Or are different myths shaping how we perceive different victims?

In Part 2, we examine what the research actually says about victim credibility, gender stereotypes, reporting, prosecution, and sentencing—and why the evidence challenged some of our own assumptions.

Because the biggest surprise wasn't whether gender matters.

It was how it matters.

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