Introducing: Wisecrack

Hell and Gone

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.3 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Hi, Hell and Gone listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest release, Wisecrack!

Wisecrack: Edd Hedges, the once chubby kid without many friends, is now a young, handsome, stand-up comedian, packing theaters from London to Sydney. After making a name for himself on the road as “The Millennial Mike Birbiglia,” Edd returns to his hometown village, Stansted Mountfitchet, UK, to headline a charity event after a four-year absence, giving him a few days to reconnect with his working-class family.

What Edd didn’t know was that his schoolmate – a boy that had bullied him, making his adolescence years a living nightmare – had begun to unravel during the years Edd was building his career. The former star athlete was on a downward spiral, in and out of jail. The most popular kid in town was now the town milkman, and on that night, he would become the town murderer… with Edd still on his mind.

This genre-bending event will weave in Edd's stand up set, recounting the scariest night of his life, and the deadliest night in his small village. “Wisecrack,” the world's first mash-up of true crime narrative and stand-up comedy, is one tough act to follow.

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0:00.0	School of Humans.
0:05.4	Helen God Murder Line actively investigates cold case murders in an effort to raise public awareness, invite witnesses to come forward, and present evidence that could potentially be further investigated by law enforcement.
0:18.0	While we value insights from family and community members, their statements should not
0:22.2	be considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts inherent in cold cases.
0:28.5	We remind listeners that everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
0:34.2	Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply that anyone who has not been convicted of a crime is guilty of any wrongdoing.
0:42.5	Thanks for listening.
0:44.0	Please welcome to the stage, Ed Hedges.
0:51.5	My name is Ed. Everyone say hello, Ed.
0:53.6	Hello, Ed. I'm from a very rural background myself, my dad is a farmer and my mom is a cousin, so like
0:59.8	it's not like, not loads going on.
1:05.4	Ed Hedges, a slender, floppy-haired up-and-comer stands on the stage.
1:10.9	He was captivating and quirky and had the audience eating out of his hand.
1:16.7	And then the whole night took a turn.
1:27.4	On the 22nd of July 2015,
1:30.5	I woke up to that noise coming from my front door.
1:36.5	It was the loudest thing I've ever heard in my life.
1:39.5	And at the end of my bed, staring out of my window, there is someone standing.
1:45.5	She is terrified.
1:49.9	And she says, whatever you do, do not turn on the lights.
1:58.1	Inquests into the death of a woman and a man.
2:00.6	They found the lifeless body slumped on the sofa and covered in her own congealed blood.
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