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There's a house two blocks from a college campus where a family lived for two years with eight bodies hidden in the attic and the basement, and the excuse for the smell was a dead raccoon. That's just one of the smaller details in this story. Let's …
Her bedroom looked like a shrine to serial killers. Framed photos of the Yorkshire Ripper, Myra Hindley, Rose West, right there on the wall. And when her boyfriend ended up dead in her bed, prosecutors say she used every trick she'd picked up from y…
In 1998, in a subdivision called Camelot in the safest part of Huntsville, Alabama, a seventeen-year-old boy from an aerospace family came home from school and quietly gathered a sledgehammer, a hatchet, a butcher knife, and a tool nobody could expl…
On a quiet September afternoon in 2022, a Sacramento HVAC contractor drove to an empty house in rural Kentucky for an emergency service call. He never made it home. What investigators uncovered cracked open a case involving a California Highway Patr…
Two sixteen-year-old best friends sat in a parking lot eating cheeseburgers and planning a fishing trip. About an hour later they were dead, and the man who killed them drove back to his house and finished their food. Fourteen years later, the state…
She told her classmates she'd be back in fifteen minutes. She walked out to her car on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon in a town where everybody knew everybody, and she never came back. What investigators found over the next eight months... in an apar…
She had a silicone belly under her shirt, a scalpel in her bag, and ten months of lies riding on what happened in the next thirty minutes. Taylor Parker pulled into that driveway in October 2020 with one goal, which was to walk out with a baby that …
In November of 1934, a Manhattan mother asked her son to read her a letter that had come in the mail. She was illiterate. The letter was from the man who killed her ten-year-old daughter six years earlier, and he wanted her to know everything. This …
A 17-year-old girl behind the wheel. Her boyfriend in the passenger seat. His friend in the back. A dead-end industrial road in Ohio at 97 miles per hour with the accelerator pressed all the way to the floor. Two people died. One survived. And the d…
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 stra…
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, alwa…
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 got one…
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 ordere…
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 …