Episodes

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...

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...