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On the 29th of May, 2016, and a Ford Explorer SUV was driving down Hana Highway in Maui, Hawaii. The 64-mile-long Hana Highway is often nicknamed “The Road to Hana” and is a popular scenic drive with more than 50 bridges to drive over, surrounded by…
A series of vicious cycles. They can usually be found littering the lives of convicts, addicts and misfortunate people trapped in the conditions they were born into. But one life in particular would be marred by these vicious cycles and result in a …
William Lester Suff was convicted of his first crime in 1974, when he and his wife Teryl were accused of fatally beating their infant daughter. Although Teryl’s conviction for the murder was eventually reversed because of a lack of evidence, William…
In the summer of 1943, witnesses crammed themselves into the execution chamber of Sing Sing Prison, New York, preparing themselves to witness history. The stench and smoke of the prisoner who had already faced his execution by the electric chair sti…
The Start of a Quiet Evening — Until It Wasn’t
March 12th, 1999, Doctor David Tipton approached his home in Decatur, Alabama, a little bit earlier than usual. He and his housewife, Karen, had plans to go to the theater that evening, and as he hung …
The Traumatic Childhood of Robert Maudsley: Life at Nazareth House
1961, Liverpool, London. An eight-year-old boy and his three older siblings stand outside the Nazareth House, a Roman Catholic orphanage, waiting to go home. For many children in ch…
In March 2021, Terri Cohee was in her son’s room, putting clothes away and cleaning up, when she found an unfamiliar container at the bottom of his wardrobe. She was curious, and opened up the container to see what was inside. Terri pulled out a hea…
“Bonny,” a voice on the recording of a phone call between two friends asked. “Did you ever stop and try to figure out why you’re only attracted to famous people?”
Bonny’s answer was swift and seemed to come to her easily. “Being around celebrities …
Charismatic, handsome, and elusive—that’s how people described Ted Bundy, one of America’s most infamous serial killers. Everyone knows the name Ted Bundy, but not many know about his early years as Theodore Cowell. In this episode, we explore the t…
The Heartbreaking Disappearance of Justine Vanderschoot
It was the 2nd of September, 2003, when Lynnette Vanderschoot first began to realize that her daughter was missing. There was no sign of 17-year-old Justine in the family home, and when Lynnet…
Richard Farley: When Obsession Turns Deadly
Love at first sight is often a dream come true, but what happens when it spirals into deadly obsession? In 1988, former US Navy member Richard Farley found out, and the results were shockingly brutal.
Li…
Gregory Gunn was a man who was all about one word: family. He grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, during the seventies and eighties, was one of eight siblings and was absolutely determined to make a better life for the people he cared about. He was the …
Dean Clouse Jr and Tina Linn had the whirlwind romance that most of us only read about in books and see in movies. In 1978, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, Dean was nineteen and Tina was fifteen years old when they stepped into each other’s lives and cha…
The Shocking Case of Austin Harrouff – A Crime Beyond Explanation
On August 15th, 2016, a man in Florida was just about to head to bed when he heard a terrible scream from across the street. Jeff Fisher then stopped in his tracks. He knew that the …
On October 23, 1969, a child came into the world and straight into a life raging with difficulty. Christina Boyer’s mother was a drug addict and when she found herself suddenly responsible for another, fragile human life, she decided that she couldn…
In January 1964, Ronald Dominique was born. His parents lived in a trailer park along with baby Ronald and his five older siblings, and the family struggled financially throughout Ronald’s childhood and teenage years.
There wasn’t much joy to be f…
Alicia Goes Missing
On August 16th, 2005, Sean Hine pulled up outside his girlfriend’s house with a pit in his stomach. He’d only seen her the night before and had even dropped her off at her front door around midnight, but since then, Alicia Ross …
It was easy to get lost in the 1980’s and 1990’s in Los Angeles. The city was rife with turmoil and entire neighborhoods sunk deep into decrepit disrepair from the ongoing crack epidemic. Crime rates and homelessness were high, higher than reside…
Bianca Devins and Brandon Clark: A Tragic Story of Manipulation and Violence
17-year-old Bianca Devins and 21-year-old Brandon Clark viewed their relationship very differently. In early 2019, the two of them first connected on Instagram when Bra…
Christopher Dorner came into the world with one word that would shape his life for better and for worse: integrity. Born in the summer of 1979, he grew up in California and later graduated from Southern Utah University. Those who knew him described …
Kenneth McDuff grew up in Rosebud, Texas, the fifth of six children in a seemingly idyllic family. His father, John Allen, ran a successful concrete business during the Texas construction boom of the 1960s. However, beneath the surface, the McDuff’s…
Susan Wright, the Blue-eyed Butcher
Whether you think of her as the ‘Blue-eyed Butcher’ as the media named her, or a victim of domestic abuse as defense witnesses testified, the story of Susan Wright is shocking.
Every court case has two sid…
Michael Ross’s childhood growing up on a Connecticut chicken farm might have looked idyllic from the outside, but in reality, he was raised in a household full of turmoil. Born in 1959, Michael was the eldest of Patricia Laine and Dan Ross’s four ch…
On May 8th, 1998, a family in San Francisco, California, welcomed their third child into the world and became complete. This was the Tibbetts family and Rob and Laura Tibbetts now had two sons and a little baby girl, a girl who’d grow up to become a…