Episodes

From Best Friend to Murder: The Missy Avila Story In October 1985, 17-year-old Michele "Missy" Avila was found murdered in Big Tujunga Creek in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, her body submerged under a 100-pound log. The homicide...

Mississippi's Most Controversial Murder Trial: The Jessica Chambers Case On December 6, 2014, Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old from Courtland, Mississippi, was found burned over 93% of her body in a murder investigation that would grip the nation. The...

The Babysitter Who Knew Too Much: Kimberly Cargill Capital Murder Kimberly Cargill murdered Cherry Walker in Whitehouse, Texas on June 18, 2010 to prevent the mentally challenged babysitter from testifying at a child custody hearing. The Smith County...

The Fake Pregnancy That Led to Murder: Taylor Parker's Deadly Deception Taylor Parker murdered Reagan Simmons-Hancock in New Boston, Texas on October 9, 2020, brutally attacking the 21-year-old pregnant woman and cutting her unborn baby from her...

Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse James William T. Anderson, known as "Bloody Bill," was a Confederate guerrilla fighter who terrorized Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War, becoming one of the most brutal figures in...

Burned and Flushed: The Dennis Nilsen Serial Killer Case Dennis Nilsen murdered at least twelve young men between 1978 and 1983 in North London, making him one of Britain's most prolific serial killers. The investigation into the Muswell Hill...

Bible Belt Strangler: The 40-Year Hunt for a Killer Who Targeted Redheads So there's this case that's been sitting in the shadows for over 40 years. Between 1978 and 1992, women with red hair started turning up dead along interstates across the...

Thanksgiving Day 2012: How Byron Smith Executed Two Teen Burglars Byron David Smith, a 64-year-old retired security engineer, shot and killed teenagers Nicholas Brady and Haile Kifer during a home invasion in Little Falls, Minnesota on Thanksgiving...

The Barron Wisconsin Murders and Jayme Closs’s Escape You know what terrifies me most about this case? Jake Patterson had never met Jayme Closs. Never spoken to her. He saw her getting on a school bus one morning and decided right then that he was...

Keith and Elaine Dardeen: A Family Trying to Escape Death The Dardeen family was supposed to be starting over. Keith and Elaine were packing up their lives in rural Illinois, seven months pregnant with their second child, ready to leave behind a...

Self-Defense or Murder? The Stillwater Bail Bonds Office Shooting A bail bondsman in Stillwater, Oklahoma shoots her own client in the back as he tries to escape through a window. She claims self-defense. He's unarmed. A jury decides her fate in less...

Richard Ramirez: Inside the Mind of the Night Stalker In 1985, serial killer Richard Ramirez terrorized Southern California during a brutal murder spree that left at least 13 people dead across Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Night Stalker, as he...

Is Lucy Letby A Baby Killer: The Medical Evidence Is Under A Microscope What happens when doctors raise alarms about babies dying on their watch, and hospital executives tell them to apologize to the person they suspect? The Lucy Letby case seemed...

The 50-Year Grudge: Carl Ericsson's Fatal Revenge on His High School Rival When 73-year-old Carl Ericsson walked up to Norman Johnson's door in Madison, South Dakota on a freezing January night in 2012, he was about to settle something that had been...

Betrayed By Blood: The Daughter Who Orchestrated Her Family's Slaughter Terry Caffey woke up to gunfire in his bedroom. His wife was shot beside him. His sons were screaming down the hall. Shot five times himself, Terry crawled through flames and...

The Shoe Fetish Slayer: Inside Jerry Brudos' House of Horrors When a 19-year-old encyclopedia saleswoman knocked on the wrong door in Portland, Oregon in January 1968, she walked into the nightmare that would define one of Am...

Mark Branch: The Grocery Clerk Who Thought He Was Jason Voorhees When 18-year-old Sharon Gregory was found dead in her Greenfield, Massachusetts home in October 1988, her twin sister knew exactly who did it. Mark Branch had been obsessed with horror...

The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective Fear In November 1938, the town of Halifax, England, became paralyzed by fear. People stopped going to work. Businesses closed. Vigilante mobs formed in the streets. And a man took his own life...

Inside the Murder Castle: The True Story of H.H. Holmes and His Killing Factory Herman Mudgett didn't become America's most notorious serial killer by accident. He built a three-story hotel in Chicago specifically designed to kill people, and he did...

From Unsolved Mysteries to Hollywood: The Jeepers Creepers Murder Case When a couple's quiet Sunday drive turned into a terrifying chase on a Michigan backroad in 1990, they had no idea they'd just witnessed the aftermath of murder. This is the story...

The First Female Serial Killer: Why Aileen Wuornos's Case Still Matters When Aileen Wuornos was executed in 2002, the state of Florida called her a cold-blooded serial killer. But her story is way more complicated than that. We're talking about a...

The Jeannette DePalma Case: When Satanic Panic Destroyed a Murder Investigation What really happened to 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma in 1972? For over 50 years, wild stories about devil worship and ritual sacrifice have overshadowed the truth about...

The Disappearance of Branson Perry: Three Witnesses, Zero Answers When 20-year-old Branson Perry walked 30 feet from his house to a shed on an April afternoon in 2001, three people were watching. He never made it back. This case has every element...

The Ellen Greenberg Case: When Forensic Science Says Murder but the City Says Suicide When a young teacher was found dead with 20 stab wounds, ten of them in the back of her neck, Philadelphia officials called it suicide. Her family has spent 14...