# Kelly Dwyer

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336. [WISCONSIN] His Evil Double Life || The Murder of Kelly Dwyer

A girl in love, a secret girlfriend, and the horrors he hid.  Contributing writing & research: The Queen of all things, Haley Gray.  For information pertaining to this case, check out the highlight at the top of my profile at Instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley.  Sponsors: Join the loyalty program f…

Thank You, God, We’ll Take it From Here: How Doctors and Scientists Put Themselves in Charge of Sex and Gender, and What it Meant for Drag

Beginning in the 1800s, doctors, researchers, and men of science decided sex and gender was suddenly in their wheelhouse, not the church's. Now if you were queer or cross-dressed, you weren't a sinner, just sick or "inverted." Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Sigmund Freud, and others brou…

ASK A CHICAGOAN 2026

Maybe we're shooting our shot a bit with this title. This was both a fun and a strange episode to put together. Over the course of the year, we've asked all of our guests who either live in Chicago or lived here at one point a series of questions. These were supposed to be rapid-fire, but if you as…

Varsity Athletes and War Heroes: Drag on Campus and in the Trenches in the Time of World War One

Starting in the 1890s, American college students formed all-male clubs to put on elaborate drag plays and musicals. Harvard had Hasty Pudding, the University of Michigan had the Mimes, and the University of Pennsylvania, Mask & Wig. Luminaries from Teddy Roosevelt to Jimmy Stewart were members of t…

Elks, Freemasons, and Knights of Pythias: Womanless Weddings and the Golden Age of Fraternal Orders

There was a time when millions of men across America joined frats for (kind-of) grownups: Elks, Knights of Pythias, and scores of others. What helped them bond with and bromance one another? You guessed it: impersonating women. Lodges totally embraced Womanless Weddings and other drag artistry. Wha…

Parlor Games, Journeymen, and Jilted Brides (and Seances!): The Roots of Womanless Weddings

No one's really sure where Womanless Weddings came from. They seem to have sprung into existence in the mid-1910s in the South. But other amusements, from rowdy Medieval rituals, to vaudeville songs about cheating spouses, to peculiar goings-on in American parlors in the mid-1800s—including seances…

Draggin’ for Dixie: How the United Daughters of the Confederacy Gave Womanless Weddings Their Big Start

Full disclosure: We had wanted to title this episode "Dixie Chicks With D*cks," but then thought the better of it. Did you know that no less a conservative stalwart than the United Daughters of the Confederacy gave Womanless Weddings their start? Yup, men dragged-up to raise money for all those sto…

From More to Enough: Redefining Ambition with Stef Jones, Founder of Feed Media

It has officially been ONE YEAR of podcasting! Woo hoo! To kick off this anniversary I’m so excited to share this episode with you. Today, I sat down with my new friend Stef Jones, founder and CEO of Denver-based PR and marketing agency Feed Media. Stef has been running Feed Media for 23 years, and…

Discount Debutantes: How Clementine Miller Rescued New York’s Elite Daughters

It wasn't just men who needed help with weddings and such. In the 1950s and 1960s, Clementine Miller staged elaborate balls for Manhattan debutantes who hadn't yet found Mr. Good-Enough. Meanwhile, Joshua shares an exchange he had with Don Lemon (who may, or may not, have compared himself to Jesus)…

The Disappearance of Kelly Dwyer

In October 2013, Kelly Dwyer disappeared after a night out in Milwaukee. She was last seen entering her boyfriend's apartment, who told investigators that he and Kelly engaged in drug use, sex, and that she left his apartment the next morning. But security footage showed a different story. "48 Hour…