Nine years after an unidentified jogger turned her Colorado Springs running route into an open-air bathroom, TLC is reopening the case of The Mad Pooper. The network’s new two-hour documentary revisits the woman who repeatedly defecated on neighborhood lawns and sidewalks before disappearing without ever being publicly identified.
The Mad Pooper , premiering Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT , promises archival footage, witness interviews, and a fresh investigation into the mystery that left police searching for answers—and residents searching for somewhere safe to step.
The case exploded in September 2017 after Cathy Budde revealed that a female runner had been relieving herself outside her family’s home at least once a week for nearly two months. Budde’s children found the jogger mid-squat and alerted their mother, who confronted her outside the house.
“Are you really taking a poop right here in front of my kids?” Budde recalled asking.…