The Last Meal Podcast
True crime cases that all end in the death penalty. We look at the history of the death penalty, last meals, and what abhorrent things a person can do that results in the ultimate punishment.
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7 hours ago
7 hours ago
1 hr 10 min
On today's episode...the home of the first Pizza Hut. Did y'all expect anything else? Kansas is just a giant wheat field after all. A giant wheat field full of horrible murderers.
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Sep 25, 2026
Sep 25, 2026
1 hr 17 min
On today's landmark episode...we're revisiting a handful of cases covered by my all-time favorite podcast, Sword and Scale. What can I say? I'm a shameless grifter and an obsessed fangirl.
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Sep 18, 2026
Sep 18, 2026
1 hr 18 min
On today's episode...a trip back to the year I had the craziest hair of my life. There were a record number of executions that year, so you bet I packed this one full of all kinds of depravity.
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Sep 11, 2026
Sep 11, 2026
1 hr 46 sec
On today's episode...a trip out to the chemical capital of the US. They have an unnaturally high number of murder-suicides, parricides, and other nasty crimes. This one is a wild ride.
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Sep 4, 2026
Sep 4, 2026
1 hr 19 min
On today's MONSTER of an episode...twelve executions (and 13 last meals) from the year I partied so hard I couldn't even remember my name.
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Aug 21, 2026
Aug 21, 2026
1 hr 1 min
I caught a bad case of the sad recently, but...I'm here this week to tell you about quite a few nasty crimes that ended in death sentences in the Hoosier State. I even threw in a last meal at the end that the perpetrator in that case did not deserve. At all.
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Aug 14, 2026
Aug 14, 2026
19 min
On today's episode... A brutal Utah cold case from 1995. Something about this one really struck me, so I decided to look into it and put an episode together. Rosie's family has been waiting almost exactly 31 years for answers.
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Aug 7, 2026
Aug 7, 2026
52 min
On today's episode...the year I grew up. So many horrible men were executed that year for crimes that made me nauseous. This one's got a variety of terrible things and some very interesting last meals. Come back tomorrow to watch my Rumble Short featuring one of these last meal requests. I cooked it for my family last week.
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Jul 31, 2026
Jul 31, 2026
52 min
On this week's super late episode, we venture out to the land of drive-by shootings and the world's first McDonald's. There's a case in here that's so bad I had to take breaks while writing it so I could cry. Y'all have been warned.
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Jul 12, 2026
Jul 12, 2026
1 hr 1 min
On this week's insanely late episode... A look back at the year the timeline shifted and everything went to hell. There were so many killers put to death in 2012. It was difficult to pick just a few to cover.
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