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Emily G. Thompson

Emily G. Thompson is a true-crime author and freelance writer from Northern Ireland. She has her own website and award-winning podcast, Morbidology, which boasts of over 300k downloads each month. The weekly true-crime show looks at cases from all around the world and highlights systemic failures in various systems. It recently won "Best International Podcast" at the iHeartRadio awards. She is the author of Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956–1998, the co-author of DK’s Unsolved Murders:True Crime Cases Uncovered, and DK’s Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder, Mysteries Uncovered: True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained.
On Trial… For Murder
Killers Caught
Killers Caught
Mysteries Uncovered
Mysteries Uncovered
Cults Uncovered
Unsolved Murders
Cults Uncovered
Unsolved Murders
Unsolved Murders

Books

On Trial… For Murder
Killers Caught
Killers Caught
Mysteries Uncovered
Mysteries Uncovered
Cults Uncovered
Unsolved Murders
Cults Uncovered
Unsolved Murders
Unsolved Murders

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