The Murder Blog
Make Something of Yourself: The Murder of Randy Voigt
JoJo Voigt says his dad Randy had been riding him for a while, about all the video games and about getting a job. JoJo was 23, with a gun arrest from the year before and a battery charge he was out on bond for. That bond was less than a week old whe…
Just Felt Mean That Day: Christa Pike and the Knoxville Job Corps Murder
Colleen Slemmer could take a computer apart and put it back together, and she had a shirt that said Computer Geek to prove it. She moved more than 500 miles from home for a job program in Knoxville, Tennessee. A classmate there decided Colleen was a…
Pink Ribbons on Every Lawn: The Unsolved Death of Lilly Bova
A dad in the Chicago suburbs started tying pink ribbons on his lawn and asked neighbors to do the same, and pretty soon they were all over Glenview, Illinois. Every one of them was for his 16-year-old daughter, Lilly. She was learning to drive and p…
The Monster of Atwater Village: The Timothy McGhee Case
A woman gets pulled over by police near the scene of a shooting in Los Angeles, and hiding in the cargo area of her vehicle is a man who lost his cellphone at that shooting and wants it back very badly. Before any of that, he was a chubby kid in Atw…
Modelbehavior63: The Catfishing Murder of Kacie Woody
In a 7th grader's bedroom in Arkansas, there were a couple of crumpled notes in the trash can. Her name was Kacie Woody, and she was 13. On those notes she'd paired her name with a boy's name and worked out the love percentage. There were 2 boys. On…
A Home Movie for Zachary: The Andrew Bagby Case
A man out picking up aluminum cans in a state park in southwest Pennsylvania found a young doctor lying face down on the gravel near his car. There was a thin layer of frost on him. He was 28. His name was Andrew Bagby, and he'd spent years starring…
I Choose You: The Caleb Flynn Case
Ashley Flynn kept notes on her phone about school registration and laundry and appointments, and one about teaching her 2 girls how to pray. In September of 2023, she wrote one about her marriage, and she said she hoped Jesus would intervene. Her hu…
Eight Bodies in Plain Sight: The Poughkeepsie Serial Killer
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 …
The Serial Killer Shrine: The Shaye Groves and Frankie Fitzgerald Case
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…
Blood in the Rocket City: The 1998 Franklin Family Massacre
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…
The Captain Who Hired a Hitman: The Harding Story
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…
Fifty Dollars and a Bus Ticket: The Robert Alton Harris Story
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…
The Beauty School Killer: What Really Happened in Wenatchee
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…
Lies, a Fake Belly, and a Murder
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 …
The Gray Man of New York: The Albert Fish Story
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 …
Mackenzie Shirilla and the Crash That Became a Murder Case
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…
The Zombie Hunter Murders: Phoenix's Most Haunting Cold Case Finally Solved
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…
Operation Misty: The Undercover Sting That Caught a Serial Killer
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…
The Wrong Mother: How Julie Rea Was Convicted of Killing Her Own Son
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…
Sheila and Clay Fletcher: The Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die
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 …
The Shadow of the Adirondacks: Robert Garrow and the Lawyers Who Kept His Deadly Secrets
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…
Jeffrey Mundt and Joseph Banis: The Fourth Street House of Horrors
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…
Justin Mohn: How Right-Wing Radicalization Led to Father's Beheading
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…
From Football Hero to Fugitive: OJ Simpson
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…