True Crime Conversations: Gillian Pensavalle, Alvin Williams, and Lanie Hobbs

True Crime Conversations: Gillian Pensavalle, Alvin Williams, and Lanie Hobbs

Author: True Crime Obsessed December 21, 2025 Duration: 1:05:43
Hey Fam! We're back as promised with the second true crime conversations episode.  This time it's Gillian's turn, Chatting with Lanie Hobbs from True Crime Cases with Lanie and Alvin Williams of Affirmative Murder.  They chat about their origin stories with true crime, their recording processes, and the importance of getting all kinds of different perspectives out in the world when telling these true crime stories. 

Check out Alvin and Lanie's Stuff:
True Crime Cases with Lanie: Welcome to True Crime Cases with Lanie, a podcast dedicated to examining the most compelling true crime cases. Join your host Lanie as she delves deep into the details of each case, providing insight into the motives and actions of both the victims and perpetrators. But True Crime Cases with Lanie is not just another true crime podcast. Lanie brings a unique perspective to each case, highlighting the ethical implications of each crime and the ways in which our justice system.
Affirmative Murder: Affirmative Murder is the true crime comedy podcast hosted by Alvin Williams and Francel Evans. Each week they swap murder stories from marginalized communities, while trying not to rant about anything from fast food, to what is actually buried in graveyards...Follow them as they shed a light on the darker side of true crime, pun intended.

If you've ever found yourself deep in a documentary rabbit hole, captivated by a real-life mystery but needing a friend to process it all with, you've found your people. True Crime Obsessed is the place where gripping stories meet genuine conversation and unexpected laughter. Each episode, the hosts dive into a true crime documentary, breaking down the facts, the filmmaking, and the often-bizarre details that these stories unearth. It's less about the shock value and more about the shared experience of trying to understand the incomprehensible, all through the unique lens of people who are, well, obsessed. You'll hear passionate recaps, thoughtful commentary, and the kind of relatable reactions-from outrage to darkly comedic disbelief-that happen when you're watching from your couch. This podcast lives in the space between Society and Culture, treating these real narratives with the gravity they deserve while acknowledging the catharsis of discussing them with a sense of community and even humor. It’s for anyone who analyzes every frame, questions every interview, and then immediately needs to talk about it. Join the obsession.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

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Podcast Episodes
489: Andrea Yates: The Cult Behind the Killer Part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:09
In part 2, we start to understand the severity of Andrea's postpartum depression - an illness that went untreated so long that it developed into a psychosis. And even after she recovered from it the first time and she an…
488: Andrea Yates: The Cult Behind the Killer Part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:57
On June 20, 2001, 36-year-old Andrea Yates did the unthinkable when she drowned her five children in the bathtub of her family home. For decades, that was all anyone knew. We called her crazy, evil, unforgivable. We coul…
487: Manhunt: Joanne Dennehy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:17
In March 2013, thirty-year-old Joanne Dennehy went on a violent ten-day rampage in the UK - murdering three men and severely wounding two others in vicious and random attacks. She had a driver and a hostage - YES, A HOST…
486: Hunting Phil Spector (from "Homicide: Los Angeles") [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:25
On February 3, 2003, cops were called to the home - OH EXCUSE ME, I MEANT TO SAY SUUUUUUPER TACKY CASTLE. YES CASTLE - of music producer and "legend" Phil Spector. Spector claimed that a woman had come into his home and…
485: Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:48
In the early morning hours of June 5, 2002, a man appeared in 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart's bedroom at her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He put a knife to her neck, told her if she screamed he would kill her, and marched…
484: Satan Wants You [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:05
As we always used to say IT'S NEVER THE SATANIC CULT IN THE WOODS--THEY DON'T EXIST! But try telling to Michelle Smith and Dr. Lawrence Pizder, whose book Michelle Remembers was published in 1980 and IS STILL RUINING LIV…
483: Murder in Monaco [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:08
On December 3, 1999, billionaire Edmond Safra and his nurse Vivian Torrente died in a house fire in his 10,000-square-foot Monaco loft. The circumstances are... insane. Like, in the most secure country in the world, surr…
482: The Secrets We Bury [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:38
FAM...I KNOW WE SAY THIS A LOT, BUT THIS ONE IS WILLLLLLLD. In the early 1960, we don't know exactly when, George Carol went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came home. His four kids spent decades wondering what ha…
481: The Trouble in Bardstown [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:15
For 35-year-old Crystal Rogers, nothing was more important than her family - her parents, her four kids, and her long-term boyfriend, Brooks. So on July 4th weekend, 2015, when all of these people realized that none of t…