Episodes

The Joker Killer: James Holmes and the Aurora Theater Massacre James Eagan Holmes murdered twelve people and injured seventy others during the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises at a Colorado movie theater on July 20, 2012. The Aurora theater...

The Flint Serial Slasher: Elias Abuelazam In August 2010, Elias Abuelazam was arrested at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport while attempting to flee to Israel after a brutal stabbing spree that terrorized Flint, Michigan. The serial killer...

Natural Selection: How Religious Extremism Killed Mary Anne Welch On August 2, 2018, ten-month-old Mary Anne Welch died of starvation in Solon Township, Michigan. Her parents, Seth Welch and Tatiana Fusari, were convicted of felony murder and...

Birmingham's Forgotten Serial Killer: Jack Harrison Trawick Jack Harrison Trawick murdered Stephanie Gach in Birmingham, Alabama in 1992 after abducting the 21-year-old college student from her apartment complex parking lot. The homicide...

The Birthday Cake Killers: Inside the 1973 Victor Massacre In November 1973, Douglas Gretzler and Willie Steelman murdered nine people in Victor, California, including the Parkin family and their neighbors. The homicide investigation revealed a...

Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson Case Explained They called her the Female Charles Manson. In October 2000, two people were shot to death in an Indianapolis drug house. Sarah Jo Pender bought the shotgun that morning at Walmart. Her...

The Cereal Killer: Frozen Breast Milk Solved a Michigan Murder Christina Harris died in her Davison, Michigan home in September 2014 from a heroin overdose. The 36-year-old mother's death was ruled accidental. Her husband Jason Harris collected...

Bible John: The Ballroom Killer Patricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald, and Helen Puttock were murdered between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland after meeting their killer at the Barrowland Ballroom. The unsolved homicide investigation spawned one of...

Seven Deadly Sins: The Valhermoso Springs Massacre The 2020 Valhermoso Springs murders left seven people dead in Morgan County, Alabama, when Frederic Rogers and John Michael Legg opened fire during a drug dispute that escalated into a mass homicide....

Death Cap Mushroom Poisoning: The Australian Family Lunch Murders Erin Patterson murdered her former in-laws Gail Patterson, Don Patterson, and Heather Wilkinson using death cap mushrooms in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia on July 29, 2023. The...

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...