Episodes

The frightening true story of the Crossbow Cannibal seems entirely fictional. Through 2009 and 2010, Stephen Griffiths brutalized three women in West Yorkshire, England. After murdering each one with his crossbow, he dismembered them and even consumed...

Serial murderer Gary Ray Bowles spent the year of 1994 charming men in gay bars by offering them sex in exchange for money. Once in their homes, Gary would surprise them by bashing their head in with whatever object was nearest to him. More...

Dubbed as being the evilest duo in Britain, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley kidnapped, tortured, and brutally murdered five children in just the span of two years in the 1960s. The twisted couple would lure the children into their car before bringing them...

Gerald James Bordelon was an American convicted murderer and sex offender who was executed in Louisiana for murder. Bordelon was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Courtney LeBlanc, his 12-year-old stepdaughter. Bordelon waived his...

Blaze Bernstein was a kid that had a lot going on. Described as a generous and gentle person with a brilliant mind and a sharp sense of humor, Blaze was on his way to having everything he ever wanted in this world. That was before the promising teen...

You’ve heard me say it countless times on this podcast… people around you are committing murders. You aren’t (hopefully), but that doesn’t mean the guy waving at you while raking his leaves as you jog by on your neighborhood run is innocent. The nice...

When the police found Alan Bono brutally murdered in his apartment, it shocked the residents of Brookfield, Connecticut. This was the first murder ever recorded in the town's 193-year history. The case was seemingly open-and-shut, though. Several...

The vibe was going strong at Club Rol-Lexx, a Miami strip club, when two black men stepped out to go to their pickup in the club parking lot. They were sitting in the two front seats when they were approached by a person that, in hindsight, was the...

A string of murders between 1911 and 1912 created a culture of fear and chaos in Louisiana. Investigators thought they had their man. He didn’t put up much of a fight during his own trial and even his own family testified against him. It turns out, he...

They thought he was a freak and handicapped, but he would show them just how powerful he was. Yeah, his hands could have been used for good and could have continued the good name of the family business… but he chose a different path. An abusive,...

The pressure of being a child actor was almost more than he could take. But now… Now, as an adult, it was a different kind of unbearable. The acting jobs had dried up for the most part, along with the the stardom, the fandom…all the admiration…all the...

Fantasies are okay… completely normal, right? For a family man with a mundane existence, life was fine... in a plain, uneventful kind of way. He didn’t mind the appearance of his outwardly boring existence... because that façade served him well and...

In 2007, 15 year old Carly Ryan had a boyfriend. An internet boyfriend that she had never met. An internet boyfriend that she had never met, that actually didn’t even exist. Carly was catfished by a much older online predator, and he tricked her into...

The meeting scheduled for 3:00 pm on February 12, 2010, was a mundane one. Routine, really. It was located on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Thirteen professors and...

In June of 2014, Cooper Harris was strapped into his rear facing car seat, like he was most mornings. His father, Justin Ross Harris, drove them to chick fil a for a quick breakfast before dropping him off at daycare, and then heading to work. Little...

In early February, 2002, Alan Bates and his wife, Terra Bates, pulled up to a home in Birmingham Alabama to pick up Alan's two young daughters from their mother’s house so Alan could spend time with them. They were, maybe, a little nervous and ready...

Joseph Edward Duncan led a very troubled life. A life that lead to him to being sentenced to eleven consecutive life terms, and waiting for execution on death row for over fourteen separate counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder. Subscribe...

What would you do if you suspected your own family member was one of America's most-wanted criminals? All your life, you thought this person wasn’t capable of violence and yet you were now put in front of evidence suggesting they had killed three...

Before serial killer Eugene Barrett took his final victim in 1995, he had already been in prison for murder twice—but been released early each time. When the parole board decided to let Eugene go, they were effectively giving the death sentence to two...

In the early 90’s, George Russell Jr was an affable fixture in the care-free nightclubs of Bellevue. Those who met him thought George was a charming guy with a big, friendly smile who liked to treat his friends with a round of drinks. But if you...

Early in the morning on May 23rd, 1934. A car sped down a country road, heading towards Sailes, Louisiana when gunmen suddenly opened fire. The driver, a twenty-five-year old man, was struck in the head, killing him instantly, and the woman beside him...

​Aaron Hernandez was an up-and-coming NFL star in 2013 after being drafted to the New England Patriots just three years earlier. He had a growing family and a life that many people dream to have. But as we know, not everything is as it appears and...

There is nothing new about parents disapproving of their child's relationship. But while the situation normally results in maybe a tantrum and a few days of the silent treatment, 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson came up with a far more sinister plan to...

One Saturday night back in 2016, a post was made on Orlando's Pulse nightclub Facebook page at 2:09 AM, which read: "Everyone get out of pulse and keep running." The urgent message gave no context of what was happening, but within the next few hours,...