The Horrific Crimes of the Aspirin Bandit

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

True Crime, Paranormal, Dark History, Comedy, Exhibit C

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On February 4, 1941, Bronx police officers were called to the home of John and Catherine Pappas for a report of a homicide. Based on the evidence, detectives theorized that someone had been invited into the Pappas apartment while Catherine was home alone and that same someone had strangled her to death, then ransacked the apartment looking for valuables. To investigators the scene resembled a fairly straightforward robbery-homicide; however, to detective Ed Burns, there were elements of the crime scene that bore a striking similarity to another assault and robbery case he’d been assigned to just two weeks earlier in another part of the Bronx.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.
0:02.1	And I'm Alena.
0:03.3	And this is morbid.
0:21.1	This is morbid. I know. It's so weird. I feel like we very Bitch. On the weekend.
0:39.2	I know. It's so weird. I feel like we very rarely record on the weekends. We try not to. The weekend. The weekend. If you've seen the Urban Legend movie. Which I hope you have. If you haven't, go watch it. If you haven't, what the hell are you doing? What the Helliante? What's that? If you haven't seen the urban ledge movie, then where the hell are you doing? What the hell, Yante? What's that? If you haven't seen the urban ledge movie, then where the hell are you? I don't think that one really worked, but whatever.
0:45.9	I don't think it did. Okay, I didn't need you to double down on my own opinion. But here's
0:50.8	the thing I really liked it. Okay, that's good. I'm just very tired. Yeah, no big facts. So tired. We had our first live show last night at the Wilba. At the Wilba.
1:01.0	At the Wilba King, ye old Wilbur. The old Wilbur is what we found out it's called. It was so much fun. You guys, I said on my Instagram Astara, you showed up and you showed out. You did. You showed in every direction. You should in, up, down, left, right, center, everywhere. Under on top. It was so much fun. And like, we had a couple of, like, hiccups, like, super minor hiccups. And you guys were just lollin with us. Yeah, because they were funny hiccups. They were, no, they were right. You know, ruined anything.
1:28.1	But, like, it started right away when I didn't know when I was supposed to go on the stage. I know. And I think everyone heard me over the microphone be like, do I go? Do I go? And I literally was like, yeah, just go. Just go. Go. But yeah, so that was so much fun and we got to meet a bunch of you.
1:43.9	It was just, it was great.
1:45.4	I know.
1:45.7	Everyone we met was so lovely.
1:47.5	The vibe was so good in there. It really was. Like you guys really brought some just delicious vibes. Yeah, here's the thing. You're going to be hearing this after it already happened just because of the way the cookie crumbles. But Sunday crowd, you better have brought it. I hope you brought it. Because Friday brought it. Yeah, they brought it. Yeah, so yesterday's crowd. Yeah. Hope you brought it. And shout out to Lauren, who made us the coolest cross stitch I've ever seen. And was the sweetiest Bobiti, sorry. Give me the most awkward hug of human human existence because my shoes were so high and the stage was high up. So I like went to give her a side hug, but I kind of just leaned on her. I think I just grabbed your arm or your hand. Elena's not a huger, but you, but you, you hugged. I hugged. Yeah. And I hugged and we all hugged. Hey, it's good. It's all, I love you guys. Yeah, I say I'm not a huger, but then I just go and hug everyone. Yeah. You are. Maybe I'm a I'm a huger. You know what? I'm coming out of the closet as a huger. You are. You're officially saying it. Here I am. Here she is. Except don't hug me. I'll hug you. Yeah, that's all. It's like if I want to hug you, I'll hug you.
2:51.1	Yeah.
2:51.6	Yeah.
2:52.0	So if I hugged you, I wanted to hug you.
2:54.1	Look at that.
2:54.8	Look at that. Except don't hug me. I'll hug you. Yeah, that's all. It's like, if I want to hug you, I'll hug you.
2:51.2	Yeah.
2:51.4	Yeah.
2:51.7	So if I hugged you, I wanted to hug you.
2:54.0	Look at that.
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