Episodes

This is the prelude to my upcoming new true crime podcast Fake Shaman about a con-witch who moved to Maine with dollar signs in her eyes and psychedelic mushrooms in her Coach bag. Be sure to sign up at fakeshaman.com for the...

We hear a sad tale from "Sarah," the long-suffering wife of one of Richard Lavigne's victims. She tells us about her husband's abuse at the hands of the murderer-priest and the impact it had their family. And how it got worse...

On the night of May 21, 2021, the unpunished murderer and former Catholic priest Richard Lavigne died at the age of 80 from COVID. The local district attorney claimed he was getting ready to arrest the former priest and charg...

In what was supposed to be the season finale of Unholy Father s, we tie up some loose ends and visit the spot where Danny Croteau was murdered on April 14th, 1972. Since this episode first aired in Feb. 2020, there's been a c...

The latest episode of Unholy Fathers is much different than the previous 11, thanks to the calming presence of my high school classmate Cat, who is the youngest sister of Danny Croteau, the 13-year-old altar boy murdered by t...

A quick refresher on the sins and crimes of Richard Lavigne, the worst of all the bad priests in the Catholic diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts: In 1972, Lavigne murdered Danny Croteau, the sweet and innocent 13-year-old ...

There are only a handful of good priests in the Unholy Fathers saga of the sins and crimes committed by the child-raping clergy of Springfield, Massachusetts. From Bishop Thomas Dupre to Richard Lavigne to the scores of other...

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Before discussing Part 4 of Father X’s story of sins and crimes from my Unholy Fathers podcast, here’s a New Year’s prediction: In early January, Donald Trump will doze off during an “Alien Disclosure” press conference after ...

Using the element of surprise, and a bottle of 100 proof bourbon, Crash gets Father X to tell his tale of woe. Get full access to The Crash Report at www.crashbarry.com/subscribe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...

Father X — as of August 2025 — is dead. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, though, the now-deceased priest was alive and busy molesting altar boys while pretending to be a Holy Man. This episode of “Unholy Fathers” explains how X w...

This episode is the first of four featuring the very bad Catholic priest I call “Father X” who served at St. Matthew’s Church in Indian Orchard in the mid-1980s. Yesterday I googled him and discovered the former “holy man” di...

Compared to the murderer Father Richard Lavigne, Father Charles Sullivan almost seems like a nice guy. But he wasn’t. This is the first of two episodes detailing the life and times of a priest who was arrested on his way to k...

For decades after he brutally beat Danny Croteau to death, Father Richard Lavigne served as a Catholic priest while continuing to rape young boys. In this episode, Lavigne is arrested for molesting two brothers, but a Massac...

In this second episode of Season One of Devils and Dirtbags , we learn of a bizarre Catholic cult on the Connecticut and Massachusetts border that had some pretty weird sexual/spiritual practices. Also, “Mark Baxter,” who exp...

Father Richard Lavigne was the lone suspect in the vicious killing of a 13-year-old altar boy on April 14, 1972 on the banks of the Chicopee River in western Massachusetts. Despite plenty of circumstantial evidence, there was...

Tonight is the 20th annual lowering of a sardine from the roof of an art museum in Eastport, Maine’s easternmost city. (Lubec is the easternmost town.) A lot of people don’t know this, but the now-famous sardine lowering trad...

Things are getting weird out there. in these days leading to the 2024 election, in Maine and across the country, hard right extremists are trying to destroy democracy. In this episode, we discuss strategies on how to fight th...

CONTENT WARNING: In this episode of Disinfomaniacs, Crash and Andy discuss Maine millionaire and wannabe gov Eliot Cutler and his arrest and jail sentence for possessing child sex abuse material. Then Crash explains how a fla...

Crash takes a deep dive on why the fishy tale by GOP leader of the Maine House of Representatives of a rogue wave, angels and God is scientifically impossible. Also, Crash discusses the sternman's serious injuries due to Bill...

CW: This episode deals with allegations of sexual abuse, as well as domestic violence, grooming and discusses of heroin addiction. Listener be warned. You'll hear Justin Whynot, the vice-chair of the local Moms for Liberty ch...

In this episode we cover Hammer-the-chud-cult leader's recent decision about his land in Springfield, Maine and Shawn McB (the creepy dude from Trans-Panic in Maine, Parts 1 and 2) and his run for town council in Hampden Main...

CW: Lots of bad language and anti-LGBTQ rantings by a lunatic. NSFW or for kids. In this episode, we show a real life example of the trickle down impact of the hateful rhetoric being spewed by right-wing media influencers. C...

In this episode, we tell the saga of Boneface, a Florida con-artist who duped Hammer (the neo-nazi setting up a compound in Maine) into believing he was an Ukrainian Freedom Fighter who fought and killed Russians alongside Az...