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He was the guy everyone knew in Phoenix. The eccentric local with the custom car covered in fake blood, the elaborate homemade costume, the prop gun impressive enough to land in an airport exhibit. He called himself the Zombie Hunter. He went to fes…
Gary Allen was eight years old when professionals started writing alarming things about him in official files. He was acquitted of murder at twenty-six. He was convicted of two murders at forty-seven. Everything in between is the story you're abou…
A ten-year-old boy is murdered in his bed in the middle of the night. His mother survives the attack and tells police exactly what happened. And within days, law enforcement has already made up their minds about who did it. What they didn't know was…
There's a house in Slaughter, Louisiana that first responders still struggle to talk about. What they found inside on January 3rd, 2022 was not the result of a stranger, a weapon, or a break-in. The people responsible lived there, both of them, and …
Today's story takes place in the summer of 1973, deep in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Four young campers went into the woods. Only three came back. The man responsible would spend years convincing doctors he couldn't walk, escape prison ins…
So here's what happened in Louisville back in December 2009. A hair stylist goes to a party at a Victorian mansion and never comes home. His family spends six months wondering where he is. Meanwhile, two guys are living in that house, going about th…
On January 30th, 2024, Denice Mohn came home from work and found her husband Michael shot and beheaded in their bathroom. Their 33-year-old son Justin had already uploaded a video to YouTube where he held up his father's severed head and declared hi…
On June 12, 1994, two people were brutally murdered outside a Brentwood condominium. The ex-husband of one victim was charged, tried, and acquitted in a trial that captivated the world. But the acquittal was just the beginning. What followed was a c…
There's this assumption that serial killers are driven by compulsion. By sexual sadism or rage or psychotic delusions. That they're fundamentally broken in a way that makes them kill. But what if I told you about someone who started out as a…
A teenager sits alone in the basement of his mother's house in Montana, holding a severed cat's head in his hands. He's already killed his grandparents. He's six foot four and thirteen years old. Decades later, the FBI will call him one of the most …
Six-year-old Eli Hart was a kindergartener who loved playing on the monkey bars and going fishing with his dad. He was born with medical challenges that required surgeries and hearing aids, but teachers and family said he was always smiling,…
May 31st, 1985. Shari Faye Smith walked to her mailbox and never came back. What happened next was something law enforcement had never really dealt with before. A killer who didn't want ransom. He wanted an audience. And for two weeks, he go…
May 4th, 1970. Seventy-seven National Guardsmen marched onto the Kent State University campus to break up a protest. Thirteen seconds later, four students were dead and nine were wounded. For forty years, the official story was that no one o…
Santa Cruz, 1973. A city already drowning in serial murder violence gets hit with something nobody saw coming. A clean-cut former Boy Scout starts killing strangers because he thinks their deaths will stop California from falling into the ocean. Thi…
November 15th, 1999. Cherica Adams goes to see a serial killer movie with her boyfriend, an NFL wide receiver. Hours later, she's making a 12-minute 911 call, bleeding out in her BMW, naming the man who orchestrated her murder. This is the story of …
Super Bowl Sunday, 2000. While the St. Louis Rams celebrated inside the Georgia Dome, two men from Akron, Ohio were bleeding to death on a Buckhead street. At the center of it all was Ray Lewis, one of the NFL's most feared linebackers, wearing a cr…
November 29th, 1987. Two teenagers looking for privacy pull off Route 40 in Delaware and spot what they think is a mannequin in the road. It's Thanksgiving weekend. The boyfriend drives closer. That's when they realize it's a woman's body, bound and…
March 31st, 2019. A Sunday afternoon in South Los Angeles. Nipsey Hussle is standing in the parking lot of his own clothing store, the one he built to revitalize the neighborhood that raised him. He's helping a friend who got out of prison get som…
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 …