America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring
Serial killers. Unsolved murders. Investigations that gripped America. If you think you know these cases, think again. America's Most Infamous Crimes is a Crime House original hosted by Katie Ring. Each week, we go deep on one of the most notorious true-crime cases in American history. Not the quick recap version, but the full story told across multiple episodes every Tuesday through Thursday. We break down what happened, how investigators closed in, and why it still matters.
Episodes
Elizabeth Smart Tells All After 281 Days In Captivity Pt. 3
Brian Mitchell spent years singing hymns in court, disrupting hearings, and faking insanity to avoid standing trial for what he did to Elizabeth Smart. It took nearly a decade to get him in front of a jury. When Elizabeth finally took the stand, she described nine months of daily assault, a cable padlocked around her ankle, and threats against her family that kept her silent even when rescue was w
Elizabeth Smart: She Was In Public For Months After Going Missing Pt. 2
Ed Smart defied police orders and released his daughter's kidnapper's sketch to the public himself. Within four days, someone recognized the man in it. Brian David Mitchell had been hiding in plain sight the whole time, eating at restaurants, preaching on street corners, and sleeping one block from a police station. Elizabeth was right there with him, and nobody said a word.This episode contains d
Elizabeth Smart: Her Family Had Already Met Her Kidnapper Pt. 1
In June 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bedroom at knifepoint while her nine-year-old sister hid under the covers and watched. Her kidnapper knew exactly which door of the house wasn't wired to the alarm. For months, investigators zeroed in on the wrong man. And a sketch that could have broken the case wide open sat untouched in a filing cabinet.This episode contains des
Karen Read: How Her Trial Revealed a History of Local Cover-Ups Pt. 3
Karen Read's first trial ended in a mistrial, and her second ended with a verdict that stunned America. In the final part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring breaks down the retrial, the acquittal, and the shocking fallout still unfolding today, including the disgraced cop Michael Proctor’s link to another infamous murder. This episode contains descriptions of death and references to alleged police m
Karen Read: What the Lead Investigator’s Texts Exposed Pt. 2
An alleged 2:27 AM Google search for "hos long to die in cold." A lead investigator texting "hopefully she kills herself" about the defendant. Destroyed phones, missing surveillance footage, and a coordinated group chat in the days after John O'Keefe's death. The deeper Karen's defense dug, the more questions surfaced about everyone inside 34 Fairview Road. This episode contains descriptions of de
Karen Read: Did She Kill Her Boyfriend…Or Was She Framed? Pt. 1
Karen Read's boyfriend John O'Keefe was found dead in the snow outside a house in Canton, Massachusetts on January 29th, 2022. Within 72 hours, she was charged with his murder. Was she framed? Or did she kill him?Let’s go back to the beginning of one of the most polarizing true crime cases in recent American history, and the country still can't agree on the truth. This episode contains description
D.B. Cooper: After 53 Years, Here's Where the Case Stands Pt. 3
In 2016, the FBI suspended its investigation into D.B. Cooper after forty-five years with no confirmed identity. Then, in 2020, the adult children of a prime suspect found a parachute rig in their mother's shed, and the case came back to life.In the third and final episode on D.B. Cooper, Katie Ring covers the new evidence that reinvigorated the investigation, the DNA question still waiting to be
D.B. Cooper: How A Child Found His Money Nine Years Later Pt. 2
Nine years after D.B. Cooper vanished, an eight-year-old boy digging a fire pit on the Columbia River pulled three rotting bundles of ransom money out of the sand. It was the first physical evidence in nearly a decade, and it raised more questions than it answered.In part two of three, Katie Ring follows the FBI's hunt: the copycat who may have been Cooper himself, the secret hidden in his tie for
D.B. Cooper: The Man Who Hijacked A Plane, Took $200,000 and Vanished Pt. 1
On the day before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man named D.B. Cooper walked up to an airport counter, paid cash for a one-way ticket, and boarded a commercial flight. By the time the plane landed, he had collected $200,000 in ransom, strapped it to his body, and jumped out the back of a jet. No one has seen him since.In the first of three episodes on D.B. Cooper, Katie Ring takes you back to November 24t
The Watts Family Murders: The Shocking Confession That Changed the Case Pt. 3
Two days after his family disappeared, Chris Watts sat down with investigators and agreed to take a polygraph. He said he had nothing to hide.The results told a very different story.In the third and final episode on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring takes us through the interrogation that broke Chris Watts, the confession that led investigators to Shanann, Bella, CeCe, and their unborn son Niko
The Watts Family Murders: What the Surveillance Footage Showed Pt. 2
When Shanann Watts missed her prenatal appointment on the morning of August 13th, 2018, her closest friend knew immediately that something was wrong.In part two of three on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring takes us through the investigation that unfolded in the hours after Shanann, Bella, and CeCe were reported missing. From the unsettling details inside the house, to the surveillance footage
The Watts Family Murders: What the Netflix Doc Missed Pt. 1
From the outside, the Watts family had everything: a beautiful home in Colorado, two young daughters, and a social media presence full of smiling family photos. Behind those posts, their marriage was quietly falling apart.In the first of three episodes on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring traces who Shanann Watts really was, how she and Chris built their life together, and the huge secret Chris
The Clutter Murders: The Trial, the Execution, and Capote's Obsession Pt. 3
The jury took 40 minutes to convict Dick Hickock and Perry Smith of the Clutter family murders. On the gallows five years later, Perry Smith's last words were an apology.In the third and final episode on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring walks through what actually happened inside the farmhouse that night, based on the killers' own confessions. Then the trial, the executions, and the complica
The Clutter Family: Why They Were Killed For $50 and A Radio Pt. 2
The Clutter family was murdered for approximately $50 in cash and a radio. The safe full of money that the killers drove 400 miles to find never existed.In part two of three episodes on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring introduces the two men responsible: Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the lie that brought them to River Valley Farm, and the investigation that quietly closed in while they belie
The Clutter Family: Who Murdered Them In Their Own Home? Pt. 1
On the night of November 14th, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were bound and shot dead in their farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas. Nothing of value had been stolen. The doors, as always, had been unlocked.In the first of three episodes on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring traces who the Clutters really were, and the morning when friends and neighbors arrived for church and found them gon
Caylee Anthony: The Evidence the Jury Never Heard Pt. 3
On the day Caylee Anthony was last seen alive, someone searched "fool-proof suffocation" on the Anthony family computer. It was Casey's preferred browser. The jury never heard a single word about it.
In the third and final episode on the death of Caylee Anthony, Katie Ring breaks down the verdict that stunned 40 million Americans, the bombshell computer evidence discovered after the trial, and the
Caylee Anthony: What Forensics Found On Her Changed Everything Pt. 2
Three pieces of duct tape were found on two-year-old Caylee Anthony's face. One of them had the outline of a heart-shaped sticker on it. Matching stickers were found in Casey Anthony's bedroom.
In part two of three episodes on the death of Caylee Anthony, Katie Ring walks through the forensic evidence that turned a missing child case into a murder trial, and the defense's explosive counter-theory
Caylee Anthony Vanished: The Disturbing Lies Her Mother Told Pt. 1
In the summer of 2008, two-year-old Caylee Anthony vanished, and her mother Casey didn't report her missing for thirty-one days. In that time, she got a tattoo, went to nightclubs, and stayed at her boyfriend's apartment. When Casey's car turned up at a tow yard, a former police officer recognized the smell coming from the trunk. He was Caylee's grandfather. He said nothing.
In the first of three
Aileen Wuornos: The Confession, the Trial, and the Execution Pt. 3
She confessed to seven murders to protect the woman she loved. She went to trial represented by a real estate attorney in a capital case. And the day before her execution, she told a filmmaker that God was taking her to heaven on a spaceship.
In the third and final episode on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring closes the book on one of the most complicated cases in American criminal history, tracing the c
Aileen Wuornos: How She Kept Getting Away With Murder Pt. 2
By the spring of 1990, Aileen Wuornos had killed once and gotten away with it. So she kept going.
In part two of three episodes on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring traces the six men killed after Richard Mallory: who they were, what happened to them, and how investigators across multiple Florida counties began to realize they were dealing with something entirely new. All while Aileen's girlfriend Tyria
Aileen Wuornos: The Story Behind America's Most Feared Female Killer Pt. 1
Before Aileen Wuornos became one of America's most feared female serial killers, she was a 13-year-old girl who was assaulted and impregnated by a stranger, gave birth completely alone, and came home to a family that blamed her.
In the first of three episodes on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring traces the story of a woman the world expected to be a victim, and how a lifetime of abandonment, abuse, and b
The Tylenol Murders: Why No One Was Ever Charged Pt. 3
More than forty years after seven people died after taking poisoned Tylenol in the Chicago area, the suspects investigators chased would consume decades of their careers.
In the third and final episode on the Tylenol murders, Katie Ring digs into the two men at the center of the investigation: one who taunted the FBI with letters to the President while evading capture, and one whose story took a s
The Tylenol Murders: Two Suspects, Two Investigations, Zero Answers. Pt. 2
A week after seven people died from poisoned Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson received a handwritten letter demanding one million dollars. It was the first real break in the case, and it raised more questions than it answered.
In the second of three episodes on the Tylenol murders, Katie Ring follows the investigation as it begins to fracture from within. As FBI agents, Chicago detectives, and subur
The Tylenol Murders: How Seven Strangers Were Killed in One Night Pt. 1
On a single night in 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol. They didn't know each other, they weren't targeted, and the killer never had to get close to a single one of them.
In the first of three episodes on the Tylenol murders, Katie Ring takes you back to the night it began: the Janus family, struck down one by one in their own home; the twelve-year-old who took two p
Scott Peterson: His Case Isn't As Closed As You Think Pt. 3
Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and sentenced to death. The case against him had no murder weapon, no DNA, and no witnesses. Just circumstantial evidence and a jury that was convinced.
In the third and final episode on the murder of Laci Peterson, Katie Ring covers the trial, the verdict, and the developments that have kept the case alive ever since: a van that burned t
Scott Peterson: $15,000, Bleached Hair, and Four Cell Phones Pt. 2
On Christmas Eve 2002, Laci Peterson vanished. She was eight months pregnant. Her husband Scott said he'd been out fishing. And almost immediately, something about his story didn't add up.
In part two of three episodes on the murder of Laci Peterson, Katie Ring breaks down the investigation that followed: the mistress who came forward, the boat purchased on a deeply suspicious date, and the moment
Scott & Laci Peterson: The Lies He Told Before She Vanished Pt. 1
When Scott Peterson met Amber Frey in November 2002, he told her he was a widower. His wife Laci was eight months pregnant and very much alive.
In the first of three episodes on the murder of Laci Peterson, Katie Ring traces who Laci really was: a warm, outgoing woman from California's Central Valley who fell hard for a charming man with a talent for deception. From the earliest red flags in Scott
Jeffrey Dahmer: The Man Who Escaped & Ended His Killing Spree Pt. 3
On May 27th, 1991, two police officers escorted a dazed, injured teenager back into Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment after he escaped, ignoring the pleas of the women who had called for help. That teenager was dead within the hour.
In the third and final episode on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Katie Ring covers the last chapter of his killing spree: the victims who slipped through every crack in the sy
Jeffrey Dahmer: How He Spent A Decade Killing In Plain Sight Pt. 2
In 1987, Jeffrey Dahmer sat down for Thanksgiving dinner with his family while a dismembered body was hidden in his grandmother's basement below them. Nobody suspected a thing.
In part two of three episodes on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Katie Ring traces the decade between his first murder and the beginning of his full-blown killing spree. As Dahmer's crimes escalated and his methods grew more
Jeffrey Dahmer: The Early Obsessions That Led To His First Murder Pt. 1
In June 1978, eighteen-year-old Steven Hicks had no way of knowing that a chance encounter would cost him his life. It was Jeffrey Dahmer's first murder, and a crime that had been years in the making.
In part one of three episodes, Katie Ring traces the origins of one of America's most notorious serial killers: Dahmer's troubled childhood, his parents' volatile marriage, and the escalating obsessi
O.J. Simpson: The Murder Trial & Verdict That Divided America Pt. 3
With a mountain of forensic evidence and a documented history of abuse, the prosecution had what looked like an unbeatable case. Then, O.J. tried on the gloves.
In the third and final episode on the O.J. Simpson case, Katie Ring breaks down the trial that divided a nation: the Dream Team's strategy, the courtroom twists that changed everything, and the not guilty verdict that stunned half the coun
O.J. Simpson: The Murders, the Manhunt & the Bronco Chase Pt. 2
On June 12th, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were found murdered outside her Brentwood home. Within days, the investigation had a prime suspect. Within a week, that suspect had vanished.
In part two of three episodes on the O.J. Simpson case, Katie Ring covers the months leading up to Nicole's final night, the devastating discovery that followed, and the moment the story bec
O.J. Simpson & Nicole Brown: The Relationship Before the Murder Pt. 1
Before the trial that divided a nation, there was a woman. Nicole Brown grew up in Southern California with dreams of modeling, a close-knit family, and a future full of possibility…until a chance encounter with football legend O.J. Simpson at a Beverly Hills restaurant changed everything.
In the first of three episodes on the O.J. Simpson case, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning: Nicole's chil
Chandra Levy: Why Her Case Remains Unsolved To This Day Pt. 3
After nearly a decade of dead ends, investigators finally had a conviction in the murder of Chandra Levy. Then the case took one final, unexpected turn.
In the third and final episode on the Chandra Levy case, Katie Ring traces the long road from a discovery in the woods of Rock Creek Park to a courtroom verdict, and the twist that no one saw coming. It's the story of a case that seemed solved, th
Chandra Levy: Congressman Gary Condit & The Unraveling Truth Pt. 2
When detectives began looking into Chandra Levy's disappearance, they quickly found themselves at the center of one of the biggest political scandals Washington had seen in years.
In part two of three episodes on the Chandra Levy case, Katie Ring follows the investigation as it zeroed in on Congressman Gary Condit: his secret affairs, his attempts to control the narrative, and a television intervi
Chandra Levy: A Missing Intern, A Politician & A Secret Affair Pt. 1
In May 2001, 24-year-old Chandra Levy vanished from Washington D.C. She was a government intern with a bright future, a prestigious job, and a secret she hadn't told anyone: she was having an affair with a sitting U.S. Congressman.
In the first of three episodes on the Chandra Levy case, Katie Ring traces her journey from a small California town to the halls of power in Washington D.C.: the ambiti
Idaho Murders: How DNA Linked Bryan Kohberger to the Crime Scene Pt. 3
The break in the Idaho murders came down to something the killer left behind without knowing it: a knife sheath, and a single strand of DNA.In the third and final episode on the Idaho student murders, Katie Ring follows the investigation to its conclusion: how cell phone data, genetic genealogy, and surveillance footage led detectives to Bryan Kohberger. After his arrest, the case moved toward tri
Idaho Murders: Why It Took Hours to Call 911 Pt. 2
When one of the surviving roommates described what she saw in the hallway that night, it sent chills through the entire investigation: a masked man, moving through the dark, just feet away from where her friends had been killed.
In part two of three episodes on the Idaho student murders, Katie Ring follows the investigation as it began to take shape. From the knife sheath left behind at the scene
Idaho Murders: The Lives Behind the Headlines Pt. 1
In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death inside their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. They had no idea anyone was coming.
In the first of three episodes on the Idaho student murders, Katie Ring traces who Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were, and what happened on the last night of their lives. From r
Gabby Petito: How Two YouTubers Helped Lead Police to Gabby Petito Pt. 3
In this episode of America’s Most Infamous Crimes, Katie Ring breaks down the final chapter of the Gabby Petito case: from the discovery of her body to the nationwide manhunt for Brian Laundrie, and the unanswered questions that remain.
As investigators followed digital clues, a crucial break came from an unexpected source: travel YouTubers who unknowingly captured Gabby’s van on camera near Sprea
Gabby Petito: The Texts That Made Her Family Suspicious Pt. 2
In this episode of America’s Most Infamous Crimes, Katie Ring continues with part two of our three-part series on Gabby Petito and how her disappearance turned into a nationwide investigation.
When Gabby's mom received suspicious text messages from Gabby's phone, it amplified her concern for her daughter's wellbeing.Meanwhile, Brian Laundrie returned home to Florida alone, driving Gabby’s van... w
Gabby Petito: The Warning Signs Before Her Disappearance Pt. 1
In this episode of America’s Most Infamous Crimes, Katie Ring explores the early warning signs in the Gabby Petito case and the relationship between Gabby and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, before her disappearance. Their van life journey across the United States looked perfect on social media, but behind the scenes, troubling patterns of control, isolation, and emotional tension were beginning to em
Ted Bundy’s Final Rampage: The Chi Omega Sorority Murders Pt. 3
Welcome to America’s Most Infamous Crimes. Katie Ring takes you deep into cases that have left a lasting imprint on society, and still haunt us today. In this final chapter, Katie follows the unraveling of Ted Bundy: from a routine traffic stop to a nationwide manhunt, courtroom spectacle, and two shocking prison escapes. As his identity becomes public and pressure mounts, his violence escalates,
Ted Bundy’s Deadly Trick to Get Away with Murder Pt. 2
Welcome to America’s Most Infamous Crimes. Katie Ring takes you deep into cases that have left a lasting imprint on society, and still haunt us today. In part two of our three part series, Katie examines the escalation of Ted Bundy’s killing spree in 1974, as he used a fake arm sling, calculated charm, and his understanding of police procedure to abduct young women in plain sight across the Pacifi
Ted Bundy: The Truth About His Origin Story Pt. 1
Welcome to America’s Most Infamous Crimes. Katie Ring takes you deep into cases that have left a lasting imprint on society, and still haunt us today. Ted Bundy didn’t fit the image of a killer. He was educated, ambitious, and outwardly composed, the kind of man people trusted without hesitation. In this first episode, Katie traces the early fractures that shaped him: family secrets, rejection, mo
Introducing America’s Most Infamous Crimes
Some crimes are so shocking, they don’t just make headlines, they change a nation. Serial killers. Unsolved murders. Investigations that gripped America. If you think you know these cases, think again.Each week on America’s Most Infamous Crimes, Katie Ring goes deep on one of the most notorious true-crime cases in American history. Not the quick recap version, but the full story told across multip
