Episodes

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...

Patrick Crusius and the Conspiracy Theory That Inspired Mass Murder On August 3rd, 2019, a twenty-one-year-old drove 600 miles through the night to commit what would become the deadliest attack on Hispanic and Latino people in modern American...

The Idaho Four: How a PhD Student Became a Quadruple Murderer You know how some stories stick with you long after you've heard them? This is one of those stories. Four college students in Moscow, Idaho, were living their normal, messy, beautiful...

The Sunday Morning Slasher: Carl Watts and the Deal That Almost Set Him Free Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who slip through every crack in the system. Carl Eugene Watts should have been stopped at fifteen when he first attacked a...

From Disney to Death Row: The Oba Chandler Case That Shocked Florida When Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters took a wrong turn after their Disney vacation, they ended up in Tampa instead of heading home to Ohio. What should have been a simple...

The Golden State Killer: When Evil Wore a Badge We all have that one neighbor who seems a little off, right? Maybe they're too quiet, maybe they mow their lawn at weird hours, maybe they wave just a little too enthusiastically. Well, Joseph James...

The Catfish Killer: How a Snapchat Romance Led to Murder You know that feeling when you hear a story that makes you want to immediately check your teenager's phone? This is one of those episodes. We're talking about nineteen-year-old Denali Brehmer,...

Philadelphia's Shoemaker Killer: How Joseph Kallinger Turned His Son Into a Murderer Sometimes the most disturbing true crime cases are the ones that show us exactly how monsters get made. Joseph Kallinger's story starts with a father who vanished...