EP 395 - Elizabeth Jane Croom Bellamy and Ilse Koch

A Paranormal Chicks

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Donna explores the life of Southern writer Elizabeth Jane Croom Bellamy, whose work reflected the grief and moral struggles of post–Civil War America. Her story reveals a woman navigating loss, legacy, and the expectations of her time.

Kerri covers Ilse Koch, the infamous “Witch of Buchenwald,” whose brutality toward concentration camp prisoners became a symbol of human cruelty. Her case exposed the terrifying depths of power and corruption during the Nazi regime.

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0:00.0	Hey, y'all, I'm Donna.
0:20.4	And I'm Carrie.
0:21.3	And we are paranormal chicks.
0:23.3	Episode 3.95.
0:25.5	Y'all, you know what we had done in a hot minute?
0:27.9	Patreoners!
0:28.9	So, not only that, we just hadn't talked about Patreon in quite a few minutes.
0:33.1	So, we're about to tell y'all some names of some people, starting with Bree V from California.
0:39.9	Ray L. from Georgia.
0:42.6	Carla, question mark.
0:44.0	We don't know where you live, so tell us.
0:46.0	And Tanna O from Oregon.
0:49.0	So these awesome people are getting a letter with some stickers and all of that shipped to their house.
0:56.2	That's why we needed to know where Carla lives, not because we're stalkers.
0:59.1	Well, Donna is.
1:00.0	But because they're going to get that shit sent to their house.
1:04.1	And they are getting an extra episode a week.
1:08.6	And right now we're doing...
1:10.8	Well, actually, this only has one more episode and then we're going to change it up. But we're doing worst of the worst where we did worst roommate ever and we did worst X ever. Yep. And then we're doing criminal state of mind. That's where I'm literally taking the states in alphabetical
1:28.3	order. I'm doing so good, y'all, with the states. I'm not, but I'm trying. But we are going
1:34.2	in alphabetical order because I have a list. And I'm picking a crime from each state. And we just did
1:39.3	Mississippi. So next is, Missouri probably. Probably, yeah.
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