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In May 2019, police in Sturgis, Michigan got an anonymous call about a body in an apartment on North Maple Street. When they knocked on Wade Allen's door that night, he told them his girlfriend was an hour away in Kalamazoo. But when officer…
December 20th, 2018. Effingham County Sheriff's deputies show up at a house in Guyton, Georgia, asking about two kids nobody's seen in years. The father tells them the kids are with their mom in South Carolina. Then he breaks. Takes them to …
Tokyo, May 1936. A geisha walks into a police station carrying something wrapped carefully in silk inside her kimono sleeve. When detectives ask what she's hiding, she produces the severed penis of her dead lover. For three days, she's been wanderin…
October 26, 2001. Fort Worth, Texas. A certified nursing assistant leaves a nightclub high on ecstasy, drunk, and stoned. She hits a homeless man on Highway 287. He goes through her windshield. And instead of calling 911, she drives home with him st…
December 9th, 2010. The Soho House in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. A 33-year-old fashion designer is found dead in an overflowing bathtub, fully clothed in a black turtleneck sweater. The scene looks like an accidental drowning. But there's a s…
In August 2018, a father in Michigan called 911 to report his ten-month-old daughter was dead. But before he made that call, he did something else first. He called his lawyer. And he texted someone about selling a goat. When the dispatcher asked if …
November 6th, 1973. A family returns home from bowling night to find their babysitter held hostage. Within hours, nine people are dead. Two children executed on a bed. Adults bound and shot in a closet. And when it's over, the killers go to …
October 24, 2000. A 21-year-old secretary walks into a Walmart in Indianapolis and buys a shotgun. Twelve hours later, two people are dead. She gets 110 years. The shooter gets 75. The prosecutor who called her the Female Charles Manson now …
Christina Harris struggled to hold her spoon while eating cereal one evening in September 2014. By morning, the 36-year-old mother of two was dead. Her husband Jason collected the life insurance money, moved on with his life, and thought he'd gott…
October 30th, 1969. Two sisters leave a Glasgow dance hall with two men they just met. One sister gets dropped off safely at George Square. The other continues on in that taxi, listening to her companion quote Bible verses and condemn adultery. By m…
June 4th, 2020. Seven people are about to sit down for dinner in rural Alabama. The invitation came from two guys they thought were friends. Members of their club. Except Frederic Rogers and John Michael Legg didn't come to eat. They came to make su…
July 29, 2023. A family lunch in rural Australia. Beef Wellington on the menu. By the end of the week, three people are dead and one is fighting for his life with a new liver. The poison? Death cap mushrooms. The person who served the meal? The host…
October 1985. Seventeen-year-old Missy Avila goes for a walk in the Angeles National Forest with two of her closest friends. Three days later, hikers find her body face down in a creek, weighted down by a massive log. What makes this case absolutely…
December 6th, 2014. A 19-year-old walks toward firefighters on a rural Mississippi back road. She's wearing only her underwear. Ninety-three percent of her body is burned. And before she dies the next day, she tries to tell them who did this to her.…
June 18th, 2010. A woman drives down a dark Texas road with a body in her car. Five days later, that same woman will sit in court fighting to keep her kids. But the one witness who could have testified against her? She's already dead. This is the st…
You know that feeling when you realize someone's been lying to you? Now take that lie and stretch it out for ten months. Fake ultrasounds. A gender reveal party. A baby shower. And imagine what happens when that person decides the only way t…
In September 1864, a Confederate guerrilla named Bloody Bill Anderson stopped a train in Centralia, Missouri, lined up 22 unarmed Union soldiers, and had them executed one by one. Then he scalped them. An hour later, he ambushed a Union comp…
Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Nilsen murdered at least twelve young men in North London. He kept their bodies as companions, burned them in his garden, and when that became impossible, tried flushing them down the toilet. Police ignored surv…
There's a stretch of Interstate 75 in Tennessee where, in January 1985, they found a young woman's body down an embankment. Bound. Strangled. Pregnant. Red hair. She'd stay nameless for 33 years. They called her Campbell County Jane Doe. Her…
Sixty-four years old. Retired security engineer. Been burglarized so many times he's sleeping with a gun. Then on Thanksgiving 2012, two teenagers break into his basement. Byron Smith was ready. He'd moved his truck to make the house look em…
October 15th, 2018. A 911 call comes in from a rural Wisconsin home. When deputies arrive four minutes later, they find two parents shot dead and their 13-year-old daughter gone. The killer was twenty seconds down the road when police flew p…
November 1987. A young family in rural Illinois was weeks away from escaping a wave of unsolved murders. Keith didn't show up for work. Police found his pregnant wife, his toddler son, and a newborn baby girl dead in their waterbed. Keith was in a f…
August 9th, 2017. Stillwater, Oklahoma. A man walks into a bail bonds office thinking he's there to talk about selling his car. Minutes later, he's climbing out a window, trying to escape. Then a gunshot. He falls to the pavement outside, dying from…
In the summer of 1985, Southern California became a place where people slept with guns under their pillows and left every light in the house on. Because Richard Ramirez didn't care who you were. Didn't matter if you were 79 years old or six.…