Every case has a moment investigators return to.
For Victor von Doom, it happens in a university laboratory in New York.

After leaving Latveria on an academic scholarship, Doom enters Empire State University as a promising but isolated student. It is here that he encounters Reed Richards — a peer of comparable intellect whose caution and restraint stand in direct contrast to Doom’s certainty and ambition.

This episode reconstructs the events surrounding a disputed experiment designed to breach the afterlife. Warnings are issued. Calculations are challenged. The machine is activated anyway. What follows is an explosion that leaves Doom physically scarred, professionally disgraced, and permanently altered in how he understands blame.

Through conflicting accounts, institutional records, and behavioral analysis, The Richards Incident examines how a single failure becomes a lifelong fixation — and how the subject’s refusal to accept responsibility marks the first clear escalation in an already fragile pattern.

This is not the moment Doom becomes powerful.
It is the moment he decides the world is against him.

Graphic Evidence — Doctor Doom, Part Two.
The file remains open.

Before the armor.
Before the throne.
Before the world learned his name.

This episode opens the case file on Doctor Doom by examining the conditions that shaped him long before his first crime.

Born in a Romani camp outside the Latverian city of Hassenstadt, Victor von Doom’s childhood is defined by poverty, persecution, and loss. His mother vanishes under circumstances tied to forbidden power. His father dies fleeing a regime that offered no protection. What remains is a child who learns, early on, that survival belongs to those who seize control.

Through public records and behavioral analysis, this episode explores how grief, isolation, and exceptional intelligence converge — and why the foundations of Doom’s later actions are already visible before he ever leaves his homeland.

This is not the story of a villain yet.
It’s the story of conditions.

Graphic Evidence — Doctor Doom, Part One.
The file is open.

Some criminals leave fingerprints.
Others leave cities, governments, and worlds.

Graphic Evidence is a true-crime–style investigative podcast examining the most dangerous offenders in recorded history — individuals whose actions reshape nations, destabilize reality, and leave behind patterns too large to ignore.

Each case is presented as an open file, reconstructed from public record, disputed accounts, and behavioral analysis. Wyat and Jessica examine escalation, obsession, power, and recidivism as if these events occurred in real time, with real consequences.

This podcast never breaks kayfabe.
Secret identities remain sealed.
Contradictions are allowed to stand.
The archive is ongoing.

Some subjects are masked vigilantes’ enemies.
Some are criminal heads of state.
Some briefly save the world before proving they cannot live without control.

No prior knowledge is required.
No cases are ever truly closed.

Graphic Evidence — Extraordinary offenders. Open cases.