The Murder Blog
The Pizza Guy, the Bomb, and the Heist: The Final Delivery of Brian Wells
Who Was Brian Wells?
Brian Douglas Wells was, by all accounts, the human equivalent of a reliable clock. Forty-six years old, a pizza delivery man with a decade-long tenure at the same pizzeria, and a guy who didn’t just show up—he always showed up…
Netflix’s ‘Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey’ Exposes New Clues and Old Mistakes in the Unsolved Murder
Netflix’s Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey Dives into the Unsolved Mystery
The Netflix docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey takes a deep dive into the chilling and endlessly frustrating investigation surrounding the 1996 murder …
Murder, Manipulation, and Madness: The Steven Gordon Case
The Unlikely Defense: A Killer in Court
It’s one thing to represent yourself in court; it’s another to represent yourself in court and treat it like an open mic night where the goal is to air every grievance, implicate half your contact list, and s…
The Dexter Killer: When Fiction Inspires Fatal Reality
Mark Twitchell: The Dexter Wannabe Who Took Method Acting Way Too Far
Mark Twitchell fancied himself a visionary, the kind of filmmaker who wasn’t afraid to explore the darker corners of human nature. The problem was, he didn’t stop at storytelling…
The Green River Killer: Unraveling the Mind of Gary Ridgway
Introduction to the Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway’s Dark Legacy
The First Victim: Wendy Lee Coffield and the Beginning of a Nightmare
Picture this: It’s 1982, and the serene waters of Seattle’s Green River are about to become the backdrop for o…
The Murder Factory: A True Crime Tale of Arsenic and Greed
The Chilling Beginnings of Amy Archer-Gilligan
In the suffocating heat of a Connecticut summer in 1916, a determined woman sat across a desk from a man she hoped could deliver justice. Nellie Pierce clutched a worn envelope, her brother’s name scra…
George Russell Jr.: The Class Clown Who Became a Serial Killer
A Not-So-Classic Family Beginning
Florida, 1958. George Waterfield Russell Sr. and his wife, Joyce, had their first child, George Russell Jr., and, on paper, it probably looked like a classic, happy family was in the making. But reality had other p…
Silent Night, Sinister Night: The Mystery of Joanna Yeates
Joanna Yeates: A Promising Life in Clifton, Bristol
Joanna Clare Yeates had a lot going for her. Born in 1985 in Hampshire, England, she was the kind of person who seemed to make all the right choices—good schools, good degree, and finally, a good …
The Sunset Strip Killers: Los Angeles’ Forgotten Nightmare
The Dark Cloud Over L.A.’s Sunset Strip
Between 1980 and 1983, Los Angeles was in the grip of something dark, something that hung in the air along the Sunset Strip like a fog no one wanted to see. Women were disappearing—vanishing off streets and s…
Samuel Little: The Unmasking of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer
Confessions from a Convicted Killer
Most killers don’t confess. Even when faced with damning evidence, they sit tight, maintain their innocence, and cling to whatever sliver of denial they can muster. But then, there’s Samuel Little. When this co…
The Fatal Crash of Mackenzie Shirilla: Accident or Intentional Tragedy?
A Routine Morning Turns to Horror: The Crash on July 31, 2022
On a quiet morning in Cleveland, Ohio, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla was behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry, accompanied by her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanag…
Unmasking Evil: The Life and Crimes of Ted Bundy
The Beginning of a Monster: Bundy’s Childhood and Early Influences
Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont, at a facility for unwed mothers. Originally named Theodore Robert Cowell, Bundy’s childhood began with deception. Hi…
Inside the Helter Skelter: The Twisted Journey of Charles Manson and His Cult of Chaos
Inside the Helter Skelter: The Twisted Journey of Charles Manson and His Cult of Chaos
Act One: The Early Years of Chaos
A Boy Named "No Name": The Troubled Childhood of Charles Manson
November 12, 1934. A cold, dull day in Cincinnati, Ohio. In…
A Quiet Town’s Darkest Day: The Disappearance of Molly Bish
Who Was Molly Bish? A Snapshot of Her Life
It was in the summer of 2000 that would change young Molly Anne Bish’s life forever. While other sixteen-year-olds across Massachusetts were home from school for the summer season, Molly was on her way to …
Room 311: The Murder That Haunts Chattanooga
A Close Encounter with True Crime History
Today, I would like to do something a little different and talk about a case a little closer to home for me personally. For those of you just joining us or new to the podcast, we usually cover true crime st…
Billy the Kid Unmasked: The Real Story Behind the Wild West's Most Notorious Outlaw
The Early Years: From Henry McCarty to "Kid Antrim"
The wild, wild west, a place where outlaws could become members of law enforcement overnight, or vice versa for that matter, and a place where many would carve out a level of fame and fortune that…
Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell: Inside the Doomsday Cult That Shocked the World
Lori’s Early Life and Tumultuous Marriages
In 1973, Lori Cox was born to Mormon parents in San Bernardino County, California. She got married for the first time at 19 years old but swiftly divorced her new husband, marrying another man three years …
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax… But Did She Really? The True Story
“Lizzie Borden took an ax,And gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one.”
Immortalized for the savage and sickeningly cold killing of her parents, Lizzie Borden has gone down in history as one of the …
The Witch Hunt That Broke Salem: The Final Chapter of the Trials
“I verily believe in my heart that Giles Corey is a dreadful wizard, for since he had been in prison, he or his appearance has come and most grievously tormented me.”
Giles Corey: The Unlikely Defendant
Before Giles Corey found himself facing accu…
The Rise of Witch Hysteria: Inside Salem’s Darkest Days
How It All Started: The Strange Case of Betty and Abigail“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” reads the Bible and there was one infamous village in particular that was dead-set on living by that doctrine.It was in Salem, 1692, that nine-year-old…
The Cartel, the Mistress, and the Mastermind: The Gruesome Truth Behind Four Murders
“I know you know what’s going on and why we’re here,” an officer spoke to the person who’d just opened the door he’d knocked on. “We’re investigating a murder.”The woman he was talking to was fifty-year-old Ermalinda Palomo, but what the off…
Halloween Horror: The Liske Family Murders
The Liske Family Murders: A Halloween Tragedy in Martin, Ohio
“This was the most disturbing murder scene I’d seen over the course of my career,” a state prosecutor would later describe the case he had just been a part of. “I can still see it to thi…
How A Man Became A Monster: The Gainesville Ripper
A Childhood of Trauma: The Making of Danny Rolling
Daniel Rolling had a childhood unlike most. His father, James Harold Rolling, was a Korean War veteran turned Shreveport police officer. In 1953, he married Daniel’s mother, Claudia, when she was o…
Caught On Camera: The Secret Inside Carly's Room
The Chilling Discovery in Carly's Room
Let me take you back to a cold day in March 2024. Picture a mother—Ashley Smylie, a high school math teacher—getting news no parent wants to hear: something disturbing is happening in her own home. A c…