Episodes

The Digital Leash: Serial Murder Under Government Supervision In Orange County, California, between October 2013 and March 2014, registered sex offenders Steven Dean Gordon and Franc Cano abducted, raped, and murdered at least five women while...

The Bleach Killer: The Kimberly Saenz Murders In April 2008, licensed vocational nurse Kimberly Clark Saenz committed one of the most disturbing healthcare serial killings in American history at a DaVita dialysis clinic in Lufkin, Texas. The homicide...

Nobody Would Miss Them: The Craigslist Murders of Richard Beasley In 2011, Richard Beasley of Akron, Ohio was convicted in the homicide investigation surrounding the murders of Ralph Geiger, 56, David Pauley, 51, and Timothy Kern, 47 — three men...

FBI Most Wanted to Motivational Speaker to Murderer: Edward Wayne Edwards Edward Wayne Edwards, born Charles Wayne Murray, was an armed robber who landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1961 before reinventing himself as a celebrated...

The Alexandria Assassin: The Strange Descent of Charles Severance In December 2003, Nancy Dunning, wife of Alexandria, Virginia Sheriff James Dunning, was shot and killed after answering a knock at her front door, launching a cold case homicide...

Fuzzy Slipper on the Gas Pedal: The Mackenzie Shirilla Murder Case On July 31, 2022, in Strongsville, Ohio, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove a 2018 Toyota Camry into a brick wall at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing her 20-year-old boyfriend...

The Grief Book: How Kouri Richins Hid a Murder Behind a Children's Story In March 2022, Eric Richins of Kamas, Utah died of acute fentanyl intoxication, with five times the lethal dose detected in his system. His wife, Kouri Richins, was convicted of...

Burlap and Blueprints: Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach Murders In April 2026, Rex Andrew Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of at least eight women in one of the most devastating serial homicide cases in Long Island history, after a...

Always Laughing: How Demorris Hunter Hid a Serial Killer Behind a Friendly Face In 2002, California parolee Demorris Andy Hunter shot and killed forty-one-year-old Ivora Denise Huntley in Oakland after she intervened in a domestic assault, then fled...

The Peacemaker: Jesse Alvarez and the Murder of Mario Fierro On February 1, 2021, Mario Fierro, a 37-year-old social studies teacher and football coach at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego, California, was shot and killed outside his home...

Black Swan Murder: The Trial of Ashley Benefield In Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on September 27, 2020, retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer Douglas Benefield was fatally shot by his wife, Ashley Benefield, a former professional ballerina and Trump...

Carroll Edward Cole: The Man Who Asked to Be Stopped Carroll Edward Cole was convicted of murdering at least thirteen women across California, Nevada, Wyoming, and Texas between 1971 and 1980, making him one of the most prolific and underdocumented...

Six Months of Warnings: What Rochester Missed Before the Brom Massacre In February 1988, sixteen-year-old David Brom murdered his parents, Bernard and Paulette, and two of his younger siblings, Diane and Richard, with an axe at their home in...

Britain's Most Disturbing Love Story: The Moors Murders Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted and murdered five children between July 1963 and October 1965 in and around Manchester, England, burying their victims on Saddleworth Moor in what became the...

This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go her...

The Rise and Fall of Pretty Boy Floyd: Corn Liquor and Submachine Guns In October 1934, FBI agents shot and killed Charles Arthur Floyd, known nationwide as "Pretty Boy" Floyd, in an Ohio cornfield, closing the book on one of the most controversial...

The Phantom of Heilbronn: The Most Dangerous Woman Nobody Could Find For over a decade, European law enforcement hunted a woman they called the Phantom of Heilbronn, a suspected serial killer whose DNA appeared at more than forty crime scenes across...

This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go her...

The Teflon Don: How John Gotti Ran New York and Lost Everything In 1985, John Gotti orchestrated the assassination of Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano outside Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan, setting off one of the most aggressive...

The Smiling Confession: How Alyssa Bradburn Planned Her Father's Death In June 2024, 68-year-old Timothy Bradburn flew home from Hawaii to fix a leaking roof at his Spokane, Washington house. He walked through the front door holding his suitcase and...

This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go her...

Ice Cream and a Shallow Grave: The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping In September 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease was abducted from his Kansas City Catholic school and murdered within hours, setting off the largest ransom demand in American history....

The Pine Barrens Body: Who Killed Cody MacPherson? In September 2017, 20-year-old Cody MacPherson disappeared from Pemberton Township, New Jersey, launching a six-month investigation that eventually drew in New Jersey State Police homicide...

Who Killed the Rhoden Family? The Wagner Family's Pike County Massacre Explained In April 2016, eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families were found shot execution-style across four separate locations in Pike County, Ohio, in what became one of...