Note: This episode was recorded a couple of months ago! Two weeks ago, on Saturday February 3, 2024, a 12 year old boy was found dead by authorities, naked from the waist down, at Trails Carolina, a "wilderness therapy" camp in North Carolina. This happened just 5 1/2 weeks after the release of https://www.netflix.com/title/81449757, a Netflix documentary that reached the top ten, detailing the start of the "therapeutic wilderness camp" industry. "Out-of-control teens across America were sent to a therapy camp in the harsh Utah desert. The conditions were brutal, but the staff were even worse." - Netflix Follow UNSILENCED on https://www.instagram.com/unsilenced_now/ and visit their https://www.unsilenced.org/ for more information on the Troubled Teen Industry! TW: Child abuse. In this episode, Ash is joined by friend of the show and host of the hilarious podcast https://www.livelaughlarceny.com/, Trevin. ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

Skidmore, Missouri... the town that got away with murder. After decades of Ken "Rex" McElroy tormenting everyone in the small town of Skidmore, with no assistance from law enforcement, a few of the townspeople decided to take matters into their own hands. They got on some vigilante sh!t and shot ol' Ken in broad daylight in front of at least 45 people... but apparently, no one "actually saw" what happened and Ken's murder is unsolved to this day. ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx -Audio editing by River Innes. -Research by Elizabeth Vandenbosch. -Sources: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McElroy - https://allthatsinteresting.com/ken-mcelroy - https://www.insideedition.com/the-unsolved-murder-of-missouri-town-bully-ken-rex-mcelroy-no-one-saw-a-thing-54856 - https://morbidology.com/the-town-that-got-away-with-murder/ - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7315955/Documentary-series-No-One-Saw-Thing-examines-Missouri-town-killed-bully.html - https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/us/16bully.html - https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/y6vkku/ken_mcelroy_the_town_bully_murdered/ - https://people.com/crime/new-crime-documentary-no-one-saw-a-thing-sundance/ - https://www.historicmysteries.com/ken-mcelroy-skidmore-missouri/ - https://fox2now.com/news/true-crime/missouri-town-keeps-bullys-murder-a-secret-for-40-years/ - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/no-one-saw-thing-entire-town-murdered-monster-got-away/ - https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/episode-60-ken-mcelroy-the-town-that-got-away-with-murder/id1250599915?i=1000419212107 - https://www.podcastone.com/episode/Ken-McElroy - https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2019/11/14/ken-rex-mcelroy - https://www.insideedition.com/the-unsolved-murder-of-missouri-town-bully-ken-rex-mcelroy-no-one-saw-a-thing-54856 - https://www.harrymaclean.com/post/ken-rex-mcelroy-s-lost-son - https://crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/classics/ken_mcelroy/8.html - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353928 - https://nodawaycountymus.wixsite.com/mcelroy/timeline#:~:text=1952%3A%20Ken%20McElroy%20marries%20his%20first%20wife%20Oleta.,was%2016.%20The%20couple%20then%20moved%20to%20Colorado. - https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/ken-rex-mcelroy-vigilante-murder-skidmore-unsolved - https://medium.com/@michaelmoran/the-creepiest-small-town-in-america-skidmore-missouri-deb4d0cc1c22

Happy Valentine's/Hallmark Day, whichever you prefer! Here's our V-Day episode from last year where Ash and former co-host Michelle Mosher were joined by very special guest co-host, comedian Dawn Brody from the podcast HILF: History I'd Like To Fck! This holiday the gals bring you your own tales of dating, romance and love gone wrong. We got a toooon of submissions from Colorado, Denver in particular, so ladies- we are so sorry, and thank you for sharing your horror stories with us! Be safe out there everyone, love hurts. Find Dawn from HILF: History I'd Like To Fck here: - https://www.dawnbrodey.com/ Follow HILF: History I'd Like To Fck on: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livelaughlarcenypodcast - Dawn's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawn_brodey/ ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

It's not a Listenersode, it's just an episode... but really it's our first annual TSFU V-Day Horrorsode! Here's a throwback from V-day 2022, with former co-host Cameron Dexter. Enjoy! Hey gang and Happy belated Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day or Masturbation Day! We hope you were getting showered with affection... or burning down capitalistic buildings, and just generally enjoying that special Hallmark holiday yesterday. This week we have a special twist on a normal Listenersode, today we have dating horror stories from listeners like you! Ash and Cam read stories from Kristine, who met a potential cult leader on a dating app, an anonymous listener who was stalked by a terrifying Todd in college and another anonymous listener whose co-worker was murdered by his step-son. Love kills y'all! ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

"After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears, haunting the couple with a new series of tortures." - Netflix Netflix's new true crime docuseries is worth the watch and has a very important message. Stop treating victims as suspects. In this episode, Ash is again joined by friend of the podcast Chauntee Pitts, this time Ash summarizes the third episode of "https://www.netflix.com/title/81620852". Ash and Chauntee also discuss stuff that the doc left out, answers to questions left unrevealed and some theories that we believe definitely hold some weight! ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

"After a harrowing home invasion and kidnapping in 2015, a couple is accused of staging the ordeal when the woman reappears, haunting the couple with a new series of tortures." - Netflix Netflix's new true crime docuseries is worth the watch and has a very important message. But Ash asked and you answered! This two part episode will be a short recap of the documentary AND stuff that the doc left out, answers to questions left unrevealed and some theories that we believe definitely hold some weight!In this episode, Ash is joined by friend of the podcast Chauntee Pitts, and Chauntee brings us through the first two episodes of "https://www.netflix.com/title/81620852". ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx

Chowchilla was the largest ever kidnapping in United States History. It happened in a small town where no one would have expected it, during a summer day in 1976. What this is famous for is not just the kidnapping but on how it has impacted how people view victims, especially child victims, of childhood trauma and how they are treated. In this episode, Fallon summarizes the latest true crime hit on MAX, https://www.hbo.com/movies/chowchilla, and also tells us info not given in the doc! ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx -Audio editing by Dallas Hernandez. -Research by Fallon Morey. -Sources: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chowchilla,_California - https://web.archive.org/web/20151103185845/http://www.ci.chowchilla.ca.us/city%20facts/history.htm#1976 - https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/17/archives/26-children-found-safe-after-being-kidnapped-from-bus-in-california.html?_r=0 - https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/us/chowchilla-dirty-harry-kidnapper-denied-parole-trnd/index.html - https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22570738/chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping - https://doi-org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1176/ajp.140.12.1543 - https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/02/health/chowchilla-childhood-trauma/index.html

THIS IS THE SECOND PART OF A 2 PART EPISODE, LISTEN TO PART 1 FIRST! In August of 1971, Dr. Philip Zimbardo put 18 male college students into a basement and assigned half of them guard roles, and the other half prisoner roles. A two week "study" devolved into complete madness quickly and ended after just six days. ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx -Research assistance by Toni Wormold. -Audio editing by Tina Lukic. -Sources: - https://exhibits.stanford.edu/spe - https://www.prisonexp.org/setting-up - https://www.britannica.com/event/Stanford-Prison-Experiment - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/14/17464516/stanford-prison-experiment-audio - https://gen.medium.com/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62 - https://www.letexier.org/IMG/pdf/LeTexier_Debunking-the-SPE_American-Psychologist_2019.pdf

Barbenheimer DONE and back to regularly scheduled TSFU Presents! This month Ash and Fallon talk about social psychology experiments that happened during the 20th century. It seems many men set out to prove how evil humans were, and succeeded, when they didn't perform experiments correctly and without bias and interference... In August of 1971, Dr. Philip Zimbardo put 18 male college students into a basement and assigned half of them guard roles, and the other half prisoner roles. A two week "study" devolved into complete madness quickly and ended after just six days. PART 2 AVAILABLE ON OUR FREE PATREON NOW! ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx -Research assistance by Toni Wormold. -Audio editing by Tina Lukic. -Sources: - https://exhibits.stanford.edu/spe - https://www.prisonexp.org/setting-up - https://www.britannica.com/event/Stanford-Prison-Experiment - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/14/17464516/stanford-prison-experiment-audio - https://gen.medium.com/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62 - https://www.letexier.org/IMG/pdf/LeTexier_Debunking-the-SPE_American-Psychologist_2019.pdf

This is the story of a priest of the Congregation of Christ Baptist church in Camden, New Jersey who had his 18 year old daughter murdered for being such a "harlot". Walter Dworecki was a terrible person and unfortunately, no matter what Wanda did, she didn't stand a chance... Special thank you to all of our new Patrons! Thank you for joining our CultFam: Jennifer, Taylor, Stacy, Patricia, Suzy, Elena, Kelly, Alex, Kendra, Danita, Erin, Sierra, Olivia, Misty, Ashley, Selena, Rebecca, Mallory, Hope, Annie, Emily, Sharyn, Jessica and Jenna! ✨If you'd like access to over 125 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our https://patreon.com/tsfu for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment! https://www.patreon.com/TSFU 🚨Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tsfuthepodcastlive 🕸️Visit That's So Fcked Up's Website: https://tsfuthepodcast.com/ 🎉Support our work and get all kinds of nifty perks: https://www.patreon.com/TSFU ☕️Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/tsfuthepodcast 📲Subscribe to our podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thats-so-fcked-up/id1508752329 🎧or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2zo86q0aYvNSg8prn1k73N?si=590fae149eb24218 📸Follow TSFU on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tsfuthepodcast/ 🩷Follow Ash on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ashleyloverichards/ 👾Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/c2HwBUDsUx