Loose Units: The Podcast

In the final episode for 2024, Paul and John wheel through a rolodex of current crime headlines, culminating in a revelation from on high.

John and Paul look at the balls dropped by Boulder police, the press pile-on, and the legacy of this tragic case.

The Assad regime has toppled, and left behind a surreal cache of treasures. John ruminates on their worth, before he and Paul chat about a recent grisly find at Sydney airport.

Netflix's new documentary about this infamous case spurs John and Paul to finally begin looking at one of the most storied crimes in US history? Did the family do it? Or was an intruder too blame?

John and Paul take a blow-by-blow look at the case dividing a small town, and captivating true crime obsessives the world over.

On today's Loose Ends, John (eventually) makes a truly odd admission about a shameful deep from his past.

In 1989, 24-year old Tracey Wigginton committed a murder which consumed the public's attention - and with good reason. Was her moniker accurate? Did Brisbane briefly fall prey to a vampire, or was this nothing more than a tragedy amplified by the tabloids?

Paul tells John about a Bitcoin heist, before he and John take a look at the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. Will John accept Rizz?

In 1989, an assassination and a federal police investigation led to Paul's descent into nightmare. John takes Paul on a trip back in time in this look at a notorious Australian cop-killing.