“He would explain to me that some people were born whores, and that I was one, and I was a slut and nobody’d want me but him,” a girl told the courts. These are words that are so difficult to hear in any testimony, let alone when w…
“You just don’t get it” a Washington County judge spoke to the defendant in a courtroom earlier this year. “It’s obvious to me that you feel justified. You don’t take any responsibility for the outcome of yo…
So the story goes, in 1983 in Brooklyn, New York, young John Gotti, not quite the infamous leader of America’s biggest crime syndicate just yet, was approached by the leaders of his crime syndicate and ordered to commit a hit on one of their o…
“I’m going to have to kill that security guard…” These chilling words, whether heard or read, are horrifying enough on their own. But they become even more sickening when we realize that the sinister intentions behind them w…
Every once in a while, a person comes along that has us asking whether psychopaths are made or if they are simply born that way. To add to that debate is Joanna Dennehy. Joanna was born in 1983 in St Albans, England, to loving and kind parents. He…
It was the late 1970s, and the city of Columbus, Georgia was being terrorized by serial murderers who were targeting female victims. Several black prostitutes had been found dead in the area, and a killer who the media had nicknamed as the “St…
For most of us, the phrase "look at what you made me do" sounds melodramatic, something straight out of a soap opera that we’d never take seriously. But for others, it's a bone-chilling reminder that their fate lies completely in someone else'…
An Aspiring Officer and Her Roommate In 2013, former Army veteran and aspiring police officer Maribel Ramos disappeared after a chilling 911 call. Her seemingly perfect roommate, KC Joy, harbored a dangerous obsession that turned deadly. Join us as…
For many of us, watching horror movies and listening to true crime podcasts is the closest we will ever knowingly come to the killers living among us, but that wasn’t the case for many young men in America during the 1960’s and 70’…
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, s…
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, W…
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…
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…
“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 he…
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…
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 a…
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 tha…
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 …
