Episodes

The Staircase Murders Part 2: When the Star Witness Turns Out to Be a Fraud Michael Peterson sat in prison for eight years after being convicted of murdering his wife. The case seemed closed. But then someone started looking into the blood spatter...

The Staircase Murders Part 1: Two Dead Women, Two Staircases, One Suspect Michael Peterson called 911 at 2:40 a.m. saying his wife fell down the stairs. But the words he chose in that call would haunt him for years. Seven deep cuts to her scalp. No...

BTK Dennis Rader: When Your Neighbor Is Literally a Serial Killer What happens when the guy measuring your lawn for code violations is also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history? Dennis Rader spent 31 years hiding in plain sight...

The Truth About Ilse Koch and the Human Skin Lampshade Legend She was called the Bitch of Buchenwald, the Witch, the Beast. Her name became synonymous with Nazi evil, her face plastered across newspapers worldwide. But here's what makes Ilse Koch's...

Gulf War Ghosts: The Jeffrey Hutchinson Death Row Case What happens when a decorated Gulf War veteran's mind becomes a casualty of war that no one wants to acknowledge? Jeffrey Hutchinson's story isn't your typical family annihilation case. This is...

Adeline Watkins and Ed Gein: Separating Fact From Fiction When Ed Gein was arrested in 1957, the press needed someone to explain how a monster could hide in plain sight. Enter Adeline Watkins, a quiet woman from Plainfield who claimed a decades-long...

The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders: How DNA Finally Solved a 34-Year-Old Cold Case In December 1991, four teenage girls were murdered inside an Austin yogurt shop. The crime scene was burned. The evidence was destroyed. Two innocent men went to prison...

The Pixy Stix Killer: How Ronald O'Bryan Weaponized Halloween Halloween 1974 was supposed to be another night of trick-or-treating in Pasadena, Texas. Instead, it became the night that changed Halloween forever. When 8-year-old Timothy O'Bryan died...

The Midnight Baseball Bat Murders: A Grandson's Unthinkable Crime When a 20-year-old calls 911 covered in blood claiming he has no memory of the night, investigators uncover one of New Jersey's most devastating family tragedies. Louis and Betty Simon...

Adnan Syed Part 2: Alternative Suspects, DNA Evidence, and Legal Chaos After Serial turned Adnan Syed into the most famous convicted murderer in podcast history, his legal team kept fighting. What happened next reads like legal fiction: prosecutors...

Adnan Syed Part 1: Cell Phone Evidence and the Conviction That Started It All When a teenage girl goes missing in Baltimore, police follow the oldest rule in the book: look at the ex-boyfriend. What they found was Jay Wilds, a friend willing to...

The Death of Candace Newmaker: When Therapy Becomes Torture Sometimes the people we trust most to help our children are the ones who cause the most harm. In April 2000, ten-year-old Candace Newmaker traveled from North Carolina to Colorado for what...

Hidden in Plain Sight: How Joseph Naso Killed for 50 Years Undetected When a routine probation check in 2010 uncovered a handwritten "List of 10" on a kitchen table in Reno, Nevada, investigators had no idea they were about to crack open decades of...

The Grim Sleeper: How a Pizza Crust Ended 25 Years of Terror The Grim Sleeper terrorized South Central Los Angeles for over two decades, targeting vulnerable women while hiding behind a facade of normalcy. Lonnie Franklin's 25-year killing spree...

The Scottsdale Explosion: How Robert Fisher Murdered His Family and Disappeared What happens when a man's deepest fear becomes his family's nightmare? Robert Fisher's story shows how childhood trauma, control, and the terror of becoming what you hate...

From Cat Killer to Cannibal: How Online Sleuths Tracked Down Luka Magnotta When someone posts animal cruelty videos online, where's the line between justice and vigilantism? This is the story of how a group of internet sleuths tracked down a man they...

America's Deadliest School Attack: The Bath School Disaster of 1927 What happens when financial ruin meets unchecked rage? In 1927, a small Michigan farming community learned the devastating answer when Andrew Kehoe, their own school board treasurer,...

The Feral Child Who Became Florida's Deadliest Serial Killer When a six-month-old baby was abandoned at a Schenectady orphanage in 1952, nurses found a child so traumatized he could barely speak and had resorted to eating his own waste to survive....

The True Crime Author Whose Greatest Mystery Was Her Own Daughter's Death When eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette called her mom to say she was breaking up with her boyfriend, it should have been routine relationship drama. Instead, it became the...

The Serial Killer Who Begged for Help and Got Ignored Here's what makes the Charles Ray Hatcher case absolutely infuriating. This young man literally wrote a letter from prison begging for psychological help, and every single person in authority...

The Cup That Cracked A 30-Year Murder Case: Mandy Stavik's Story When 18-year-old Amanda Stavik went for a Thanksgiving weekend jog in the tiny town of Acme, Washington, nobody expected her to vanish without a trace. What happened next would haunt...

Naval Academy Confession: The Murder That Shocked Texas Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who think they're perfect. In 1995, two teenage honor students had their entire lives mapped out - military careers, marriage, maybe even space...

Robert Lee Yates: The Decorated Soldier Who Hunted Women for Sport You know that feeling when you find out your seemingly perfect neighbor has been living a completely different life? Robert Lee Yates took that concept and ran it straight into...

The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: Four Girls Who Changed America Forever Four girls were getting ready for Youth Day at church on September 15, 1963, doing what kids do before big moments - checking their hair, smoothing their dresses, making...