America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring
Crime House 31 episodes Nov 11, 2026
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
The Murdaugh Murders: 50 Seconds That Destroyed Alex Murdaugh’s Alibi Pt. 2
At 8:44 PM on June 7th, 2021, Paul Murdaugh filmed a 50-second video of a dog at his family’s kennels. Minutes later, he and his mother Maggie were dead. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Murdaugh murders, Katie Ring walks through that night hour by hour and the investigation that kept circling back to the man who called 911. A change of clothes nobody could explain, a roadside shooti
The Murdaugh Murders: The Family Dynasty No One Could Touch Pt. 1
For 87 years, the Murdaugh family ran the top prosecutor’s office in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, and their name was enough to make problems go away. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Murdaugh murders, Katie Ring digs into the secrets hiding behind that power: millions missing from clients’ settlements, two deaths nobody looked at hard enough, and a 2019 boat crash that left a 19-year-
Mother Knows Murder Extra: Emmy winner Niecy Nash and daughter Dia La Ren Talk Murder
Most nights, Niecy Nash and her daughter, Dia, end up in bed talking true crime, and now they’re inviting you in.If you love America's Most Infamous Crimes, you are going to love Crime House’s new podcast out tomorrow called Mother Knows Murder. It’s the same team that helps us make this podcast!Mother Knows Murder is hosted by actress Niecy Nash and her daughter, Dia Nash. Each week, one of them
HEADLINE: Makeup Heir and Convicted Sexual Predator Andrew Luster Released
This week’s Headline: On October 11th, 2026, makeup heir and convicted serial rapist Andrew Luster walked out of prison a free man. In 2003, he fled to Mexico in the middle of his trial for drugging and sexually assaulting women, until Dog the Bounty Hunter tackled him at a taco stand. A judge sentenced him to 124 years. So how is he already out? The answer will make you furious.Head over to our Y
Cassie Jo Stoddart: Two Trials, Two Killers, and One Tape Pt. 3
When Brian Draper’s murder trial opened in April 2007, his lawyer told the jury that his client thought he and Torey Adamcik were just "making a movie." Then the jury watched the real footage. In the final part of our series on the "Scream" murder, Katie Ring takes you through two trials, two killers pointing fingers at each other, and the twenty-year fight by Cassie Jo Stoddart’s family to keep t
Cassie Jo Stoddart: Her Killers Were Hiding in the Basement Pt. 2
A little after 10 PM on September 22nd, 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart’s boyfriend called his friend Torey to ask where he was. Torey whispered that he was at the movies. He was actually in the basement, one floor below Cassie. In the second part of our series on the "Scream" murder, Katie Ring takes you inside the night Cassie Jo Stoddart was killed: a house where the lights kept going out, a dog growl
Cassie Jo Stoddart: Behind The “Scream” Inspired Murder Pt. 1
On a Friday morning in September 2006, sixteen-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart looked up from her locker and smiled at a camera. The two boys holding it were her friends. That night, they planned to kill her. In the first part of our series on the "Scream" inspired murder, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning: a house-sitting job out past the edge of town, two classmates obsessed with Scream and Colu
HEADLINE: HBO Docuseries "The Pet Cemetery Murders"
This week’s Headline: we unpack the case behind HBO's creepiest new docuseries, "The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story." In 1985, Dorothy Lou Thompson was in a legal fight over her Louisiana pet cemetery. Ten days before her court date, she vanished, and weeks later she was found in the Mississippi River. The case sat cold until 2009, when a caller told detectives he knew who did it. His reason
The Black Dahlia: Does New Evidence Prove Who Really Killed Elizabeth Short? Pt. 3
“Supposing I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn’t prove it now.” Detectives caught those words on a hidden microphone in 1950, and still crossed the man off their list. In the final part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring covers a rogue police psychiatrist, a detective who accused his own father, a codebreaker who says he cracked a Zodiac cipher, and the 1947 suspect two sepa
The Black Dahlia: A Crime Scene with No Blood or Prints Pt. 2
Elizabeth Short’s mother was told her daughter had won a beauty contest. It was a reporter’s trick to get her talking, and the truth came minutes later. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring covers the morning Elizabeth was found, the newspaper war that rewrote who she was, and an envelope of her belongings scrubbed clean of every fingerprint.Head over to our YouT
The Black Dahlia: The Truth Behind Her Last Night Alive Pt. 1
Before she was “the Black Dahlia,” Elizabeth Short was a movie-struck kid from Massachusetts whose father vanished off a Boston bridge, then turned up alive twelve years later. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring traces who Elizabeth really was: the fiancé she lost days before the war ended, the stories she told strangers to get by, and the last place anyone can
HAUNTED TAKEOVER: Hidden History | The Jersey Devil
Something has crept into this feed…For Halloween, Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat has slipped through the walls to haunt your feed with an episode just for you.For nearly three hundred years, something strange has been stalking the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey: a winged, hooved, horse-headed creature first reported in 1735 and seen by hundreds in a single terrifying week in January 1909
HEADLINE: Philadelphia’s Father & Son Serial Killer Duo?
This week’s headline: A possible father-and-son serial killer duo unfolding in Philadelphia. A parking stop led police to Raymond and Eugene Horsch’s house: a basement lab, five urns, over a million photos and videos and a hidden safe. Five women appear dead in those files, and investigators just dug up bones in the backyard. Years earlier, Raymond published a “fictional” serial killer confession.
Christa Pike: What Really Happened During Her Failed Execution? Pt. 3
On September 30th, 2026, Colleen Slemmer’s mother traveled from Florida to watch the state of Tennessee execute Christa Pike. She’d been waiting thirty years. Officials administered two doses of a lethal drug, and Christa didn’t die. In the third and final part of our series on Christa Pike, Katie Ring covers the thirty years of appeals that followed her death sentence, the night the execution fai
Christa Pike: The Satanic Murder of Colleen Slemmer Pt. 2
The night of Colleen Slemmer’s murder, Christa Pike came back to her friend’s room and told her what she’d done. Then she showed her something she’d brought back: a chilling souvenir from the attack. In the second part of our series on Christa Pike, Katie Ring covers the murder, the investigation that came together in just 48 hours, and the trial that put an eighteen-year-old on death row.Head ove
Christa Pike: Tennessee Tried To Execute Her, And Failed Pt. 1
On September 30th, 2026, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row. Two doses of a lethal drug later, she was still breathing. Now, she’s walking and talking. In the first part of our series on Christa Pike, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning: Two teenage girls, two very different childhoods, and the one place they were both sent to get their live
HEADLINE: Mica Miller
This week’s Headline: the case that’s been all over your feed since the Netflix documentary dropped. Mica Miller alleged years of emotional, physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse by her husband, a charismatic pastor in Myrtle Beach. She filed for divorce. She told people close to her she was afraid for her life. Two days after he was served with her papers, she was dead. And her husband has a lot
The Sodder Family: A Mystery Photo of Their "Dead" Son Showed Up in the Mail Pt. 3
Twenty-three years after the fire, Jennie Sodder opened an envelope with no return address and found a photo of a grown man with her son's face. On the back: "Louis Sodder." In the final part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring covers the mystery bones pulled from the cellar, a drunken claim in a Texas town, and a long-buried secret that could change everything.Head over to our
The Sodder Family: Took The Investigation Into Their Own Hands Pt. 2
For weeks, Jennie Sodder burned bones in her backyard, and every single time, they survived. So how did five children vanish in a fire without leaving a trace? In the second part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring covers the one-day inquest that closed the case, the sightings that suggested the kids were still alive, and a box the fire chief buried in the ashes.Head over to ou
The Sodder Family: Kidnapped or Died In The Fire? Pt. 1
On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family went to bed with nine children under one roof. By sunrise, the house was ash and five children were gone, without a single bone left behind. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring covers the warnings nobody took seriously, a night where everything that could go wrong did, and a father who knew it was no accident.Head over
VERDICT: Caleb Flynn
This week, Katie Ring has the full breakdown on the case dominating headlines: the Caleb Flynn trial. In February 2026, the worship pastor and former American Idol contestant called 911 to report that an intruder had shot his wife, Ashley, in their Tipp City home. More than 107,000 messages with his mistress, a crime scene that looked staged, and an Apple Watch that kept counting steps while he cl
BTK: How A Floppy Disk Led Police Straight to Him Pt. 3
After thirty years of silence, BTK came back, and this time he couldn't stop sending packages. In the third and final part of our series on BTK, Katie Ring covers the communications that gave investigators everything they needed, the floppy disk that ended it, and the day Wichita found out the man they'd been looking for had been living right there the whole time.Head over to our YouTube channel t
BTK: Church Leader, Father, and Serial Killer Pt. 2
BTK went silent for nearly a decade and Wichita slowly exhaled. Investigators assumed he might be dead. He wasn't, he'd just stopped writing letters. In the second part of our 3-part series on BTK, Katie Ring covers the years the city thought it was over, the murders that proved it wasn't, and the man living an extraordinarily ordinary life right in the middle of all of it.Head over to our YouTube
BTK: The Killer Who Refused To Go Uncredited Pt. 1
In January 1974, a family of four was found bound and killed in their Wichita home. The killer left nothing behind. Four months later, a letter arrived at a local newspaper describing details only the murderer could know, signing off with a name he'd chosen for himself: BTK. In the first part of our 3-part series on BTK, Katie Ring traces the early murders, the taunting communications that made hi
TRENDING NOW: Lindsay Clancy
This is Trending Now, America's Most Infamous Crimes' new segment for the cases everyone is talking about right now. This week, Katie Ring has the full breakdown on the Lindsay Clancy trial. In 2023, Lindsay Clancy's three young children were found dead in their Duxbury home, and she was charged with their murder. A postpartum psychosis defense, a husband whose behavior raised almost as many quest
H.H. Holmes: The Confession He Sold From His Prison Cell Pt. 3
After nine victims and a decade of schemes, H.H. Holmes was finally caught. Not for murder, not for fraud, but for something far smaller. In the third and final part of our series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring covers the detective who followed children's unmailed letters across six cities, the trial that America couldn't look away from, and the confession that became his biggest lie yet.Head over to
H.H. Holmes: The Woman Who Signed Over Her Fortune to Him and Vanished Pt. 2
H.H. Holmes had three wives, none of whom knew the others existed. He insured his building with four different companies, set it on fire, and kept running schemes while two women vanished from his building during the World's Fair. In the second part of our 3-part series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring covers the con man's most audacious scheme yet, and the business partner who knew too much and paid fo
H.H. Holmes: The Real Story Behind America's First Serial Killer Pt. 1
You've heard of H.H. Holmes. The murder castle, the gas chambers, two hundred victims lured from the World's Fair. Almost none of it is true. In the first part of our 3-part series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring strips away the legend and tells you what's actually in the record: The medical school scams, the two wives who never knew about each other, the building that hid things behind its walls, and
Charles Manson: Every Unhinged Moment From His Trial Pt. 3
Charles Manson walked into his murder trial with an X carved into his forehead. A sitting president declared him guilty mid-trial. A defense attorney disappeared into a national forest and turned up dead. In the third and final part of our series on Charles Manson, Katie Ring covers the trial that turned a criminal into a celebrity, fifty years of theories nobody can agree on, and the mother who t
Charles Manson: What Really Happened Inside Sharon Tate’s House? Pt. 2
The LAPD had the killers' fingerprints within hours of the Cielo Drive murders, had three crime scenes with the same signature, and arrested Charles Manson ten days later on an unrelated charge, then let him go. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Manson murders, Katie Ring covers the two nights that paralyzed Los Angeles, the investigation that almost completely failed, and the woman i
Charles Manson: How He Built A Cult Out Of Runaway Kids Pt. 1
Charles Manson spent more than half his life locked up, read at a seventh-grade level, and failed at the only thing he ever actually wanted: a record deal with a music label. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Manson murders, Katie Ring traces the childhood that built him, the runaway kids he assembled into a family, and the nine people whose lives were about to run into his.Head over t
Gypsy Rose Blanchard: From Prison To Reality Star Pt. 3
When police knocked on the door in Wisconsin expecting to find a missing disabled girl, Gypsy Rose Blanchard answered it standing on her own two feet. In the third and final part of our series on Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Katie Ring covers the murder, the Facebook post that blew it all open, the trial that split two people into two very different sentences, and the life Gypsy has been building since s
Gypsy Rose Blanchard: She Asked Her Online Boyfriend To Kill Her Mother Pt. 2
While her mother slept, Gypsy Rose Blanchard got online. She had a secret Facebook account, a boyfriend 600 miles away who knew the truth, and a plan slowly taking shape. In the second part of our 3-part series on Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Katie Ring covers the years Dee Dee tightened her grip, the secret relationship that gave Gypsy her first taste of freedom, and the moment she decided there was onl
Gypsy Rose Blanchard: The Abuse Her Mom Disguised As Love Pt. 1
Gypsy Rose Blanchard had chromosomal defects, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, leukemia, and the mind of a seven-year-old…according to her mother Dee Dee. In the first part of our 3-part series on Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning, to the Louisiana bayou, the mother who learned that being sick got you everything you wanted, and the little girl who spent 23 years believing ev
John Wayne Gacy: Why His Lethal Injection Didn't Go As Planned Pt. 3
John Wayne Gacy had a police tail and invited the officers in for coffee. He cooked them breakfast and told them a clown could get away with murder. He believed it right up until investigators went into the crawl space. In the third and final part of our series on John Wayne Gacy, Katie Ring covers the confession nobody expected, the trial that rewrote what a monster looks like, and the five victi
John Wayne Gacy: The Neighbor, Husband, and Killer Clown Pt. 2
There was a smell in John Wayne Gacy's house that never went away. He always had an excuse. His neighbors believed him. His employees believed him. Even a survivor who handed police his name and license plate wasn't enough to stop him. In the second part of our 3-part series on John Wayne Gacy, Katie Ring covers the years the bodies kept piling up, and the 15-year-old boy who finally brought it al
John Wayne Gacy: The Night He Got Into a Coffin with a Corpse Pt. 1
John Wayne Gacy seemed like your ordinary neighbor. But underneath the surface, he was hiding urges he couldn't explain: ones that started in a Las Vegas funeral home basement, and ended with a body buried under his own house. In the first part of our 3-part series on John Wayne Gacy, Katie Ring traces the childhood that shaped him, and the double life he kept carefully hidden.Head over to our You
The Boy in the Box: They Found His Name, But Not His Killer Pt. 3
In 2002, a woman told investigators she'd watched the Boy in the Box die as a child, and she knew two facts that had never been made public. Investigators were split. Then, two decades later, forensic genealogy did what no detective ever could. In the third and final part of our series on the Boy in the Box, Katie Ring covers the witness who divided the investigators, the DNA breakthrough that cha
The Boy in the Box: A Phone Call From A Psychic Changed Everything Pt. 2
For forty years, Remington Bristow spent his nights, weekends, and thousands of his own dollars chasing an answer nobody else could find. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Boy in the Box, Katie Ring covers the man who gave his life to this case, the psychic tip that sent him to a foster home, and the moment investigators finally dug the boy back up to try again.Head over to our YouTub
The Boy in the Box: The Discovery That Haunted Philadelphia Pt. 1
In February 1957, a little boy was found dead in a cardboard box in the woods outside Philadelphia. His photo ran in newspapers across the country. Nobody came forward. Nobody knew his name. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Boy in the Box, Katie Ring takes you back to the afternoon he was found, the autopsy that revealed a short and painful life, and the investigation that had every r
NXIVM Cult: How Keith Raniere's Empire Finally Collapsed Pt. 3
In 2017, Sarah Edmondson showed a reporter her brand mark from the cauterizing pen, and the walls around Keith Raniere's empire finally came down. In the final part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces the collapse of NXIVM: the New York Times exposé that broke it open, Keith's flight to Mexico and arrest in a closet, the trial that ended with 120 years, and the women he tried to own who are no
NXIVM Cult: Behind the "Secret Sisterhood" That Branded Its Members Pt. 2
In 2015, a nineteen-year-old named India Oxenberg accepted an invitation into a secret sisterhood inside NXIVM, and handed over collateral she'd never get back. In the second part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces how DOS, NXIVM's hidden inner circle, was built to blackmail, starve, and brand the women inside it, and how a promise of empowerment turned out to be something else entirely.Head
NXIVM Cult: The Con Man That Fooled the Rich, Famous & Vulnerable Pt. 1
In 1998, a self-proclaimed genius named Keith Raniere launched a self-help company outside Albany, New York, and thousands of people handed over their savings, their schedules, and their secrets to be part of it. In the first of our 3-part series on NXIVM, Katie Ring traces the origins of Keith Raniere: the ordinary suburban man who fabricated an entire identity, built a pyramid scheme, and partne
Maura Murray: The Fingerprint Found In Her Car 20 Years Later Pt. 3
A search dog tracked Maura Murray’s scent exactly 100 yards from her car. Then the scent stopped, as if she'd stepped into a vehicle and disappeared. More than twenty years later, her case is still open, still classified as suspicious, and still without an answer. In the third and final episode on Maura Murray, Katie Ring covers the botched early search, the online obsession that consumed her stor
Maura Murray: The Lie She Told Before Her Disappearance Pt. 2
Maura Murray told her professors there'd been a death in the family. There wasn't. She withdrew almost everything from her bank account, bought alcohol, and drove north alone into a New Hampshire winter. The last person to see her offered a ride. She said no and asked him not to call the police. In the second part of our 3-part series on Maura Murray, host Katie Ring walks through her final hours,
Maura Murray: The Honor Student Who Vanished Without A Trace Pt. 1, featuring Sabrina Deana-Roga and Alexis Linkletter from Crimes Of Reddit
At 7pm on a February night in 2004, 21-year-old Maura Murray crashed her car on a dark New Hampshire road and told a passing driver she was fine. Eleven minutes later, police arrived. The car was still there. Maura was gone. No footprints in the snow. No sign of where she went. In the first part of our 3-part series, host Katie Ring is joined by Crimes of Reddit hosts Sabrina Deana-Roga and Alexis
JFK Assassination: The Files The Government Hid For 60 Years Pt. 3
The Warren Commission said one gunman, no conspiracy. The government's second investigation said it was probably a conspiracy, but couldn't name a single conspirator. And for sixty years, the files that might have answered everything stayed locked away. In the third and final part of our series on the JFK assassination, Katie Ring covers the investigations that contradicted each other, the Zaprude
JFK Assassination: Why Jackie O. Refused to Take Off His Blood for Hours Pt. 2
The president's motorcade was rolling slow through a cheering Dealey Plaza when six seconds changed everything. Kennedy was killed within the hour, and by the end of the weekend, so was the man accused of doing it. In the second part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring covers the assassination itself, the manhunt for Lee Harvey Oswald, and the moment JFK’s accused killer was shot dead on live televis
JFK Assassination: The Hours Before That Nobody Talks About Pt. 1
On the morning of November 22nd, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald got up before his family was awake, left his wedding ring on the dresser, and carried a long brown package to work. He told his coworker it was curtain rods. A few miles away, President John F. Kennedy was getting ready for a motorcade through downtown Dallas. In the first part of our 3-part series on the JFK assassination, Katie Ring traces
Idaho Update: Bryan Kohberger Wants His Guilty Plea Thrown Out
Bryan Kohberger stood in court and said, under oath, that he was guilty. Now, right as a new Netflix documentary drops, he's trying to take it all back, claiming his own lawyers coerced him into a false confession. Katie Ring breaks down exactly what's in his handwritten petition, why legal experts think his odds are next to nothing, and new evidence from his own former defense expert that tells a
Ed Gein: What They Really Found Inside His House of Horrors Pt. 3
Police thought finding Bernice Worden in the shed was the worst of it. Then they went inside the house. In the final episode on Ed Gein, Katie Ring covers what investigators found room by room, the trial that took eleven years, and how the quiet handyman from Plainfield became the most influential monster in true crime history.Head over to our YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.you
Ed Gein: He Was Making a Suit Out of Human Skin and Nobody Knew Pt. 2
For ten years after his mother died, Ed Gein kept his secret from everyone in Plainfield. He robbed graves in the dead of night, killed at least two women, and kept right on babysitting the neighbors' kids. In the second part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring covers the decade nobody knew about, and the cold November morning a county sheriff pushed open a shed door and found something that would in
Ed Gein: The Man Who Inspired Hollywood’s Most Iconic Killers Pt. 1
Ed Gein became the real-life blueprint for Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. But before any of that, he was a boy on an isolated Wisconsin farm, raised by a mother who taught him the entire world was sin. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning, to the family that made Ed Gein, the brother he may have killed, and the night he started slipping out to
D4VD Update: New Evidence, Text Messages Revealed Ahead of Murder Trial
A chainsaw. A burn cage. A blue inflatable pool that tested positive for blood. D4VD's preliminary hearing just wrapped and the evidence prosecutors presented is beyond disturbing. America's Most Infamous Crimes host Katie Ring covers everything that came out in court, and what it means for the trial ahead.Head over to our YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@crimehouses
The Billionaire Boys Club: A Son Told The Club to Kidnap His Father Pt. 3
The Billionaire Boys Club had already killed once and were left empty handed. So they kidnapped a wealthy Iranian exile in an attempt to steal his fortune. In the third and final part of our series on the Billionaire Boys Club, Katie Ring covers the second murder, the trials that unraveled everything, and Joe Hunt's stunning decision to defend himself in a death penalty case.Head over to our Ameri
The Billionaire Boys Club: How They Went From Fraud to Murder Pt. 2
Billionaire Boys Club leader Joe Hunt set his sights on what looked like the perfect solution to running out of money: Bringing in a wealthy Beverly Hills businessman named Ron Levin. What Joe didn't know was that Ron was a better con artist than he'd ever be. In the second part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring covers the elaborate sting that cost the club millions, the seven-page murder plan writ
The Billionaire Boys Club's Leader Faked His Entire Resume Pt. 1
In 1983, a group of young men from wealthy LA families built a social club, a Ponzi scheme, and a homemade philosophy that told them the rules didn't apply, and called it the Billionaire Boys Club. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces the origins of Joe Hunt: the brilliant outsider who faked his entire resume, conned his way into Beverly Hills society, and invented a worldview
The Rajneesh Movement: How the Cult's Ringleader Only Served 2.5 Years Pt. 3
In the fall of 1984, 751 people in a small Oregon town got violently sick, and nobody knew it was deliberate. In the third and final part of our 3-part series on the Rajneesh cult, Katie Ring covers the unraveling of Rajneeshpuram, the criminal empire investigators found behind its gates, and how the woman who masterminded America's largest bioterror attack walked free after just two and a half ye
The Rajneesh Movement Poisoned Salad Bars To Steal An Election Pt. 2
By 1984, the Rajneesh cult wasn't just battling the outside world: It was at war with its own members. In the second part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring goes behind the gates of the Rajneesh Movement, where fake AIDS diagnoses, forced sedation, a homemade bioweapons lab, and a poisoned salad bar revealed the dark truth about life inside one of America's most dangerous cults.Head over to our Amer
The Rajneesh Movement: The Cult That Legally Took Over A Small Town Pt. 1
In 1981, a spiritual leader named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, known as the "sex guru", moved thousands of followers to an abandoned ranch in rural Oregon and built an entire city from scratch. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces the origins of the Rajneesh movement, the woman who really ran it, and how a town of 75 people was legally taken over and renamed.Head over to our Americ
Richard Ramirez: The Neighborhood That Took Him Down Pt. 3
Richard Ramirez had been a ghost for over a year. Then his mugshot hit the front page, and a neighborhood in East LA caught him themselves, chasing him down the street and pinning him to the pavement before police arrived.In the final part of our three-part series, Katie Ring covers the capture, the trial that became a circus, and the death sentence he brushed off with just five words. This episod
Richard Ramirez: How a 13-Year-Old Boy Helped Catch the "Night Stalker" Pt. 2
By the summer of 1985, Richard Ramirez was striking multiple times a week across Los Angeles: shooting, stabbing, and leaving Satanic pentagrams on the walls of ordinary bedrooms. Gun stores sold out. Locksmiths couldn't keep up. An entire city stopped sleeping with its windows open. In part two of our three-part series, Katie Ring tracks the summer of terror, the two detectives who refused to giv
Richard Ramirez: How His Cousin Taught Him How To Kill Pt. 1
Richard Ramirez grew up sleeping in graveyards to avoid his violent father. At twelve, he found the role model he'd been looking for: a Green Beret cousin who came home from Vietnam with Polaroids of his victims and a philosophy that holding power over life and death made you a god.In part one of our three-part series, Katie Ring traces the childhood of Richard Ramirez that built the “Night Stalke
Candy Montgomery: The Hypnosis Defense That Freed Her Pt. 3
Candy Montgomery's lawyer stood up in front of the jury and admitted his client had killed Betty Gore with an axe. Then he spent eight days convincing them to let her walk free.The defense that followed was so audacious that reporters in the gallery actually laughed out loud. Some of the jurors didn't think it was funny. In the final episode on Candy Montgomery, we cover the trial, the verdict tha
Candy Montgomery: What Caused Her to Snap and Kill Betty Gore? Pt. 2
Candy Montgomery didn't stumble into an affair. She planned it methodically: rules, boundaries, no feelings, and chose her friend Betty Gore’s husband as the man she'd sleep with. For ten months, nobody suspected a thing. On June 13th, 1980, Candy stopped by Betty’s to pick up a swimsuit, and by that night, Betty had been struck with an axe 41 times. The question we’re left with is: what happened
Candy Montgomery: The Last Person To See Betty Gore Before Axe Murder Pt. 1
On the morning of June 13th, 1980, Candy Montgomery stopped by her friend Betty Gore's house to pick up a swimsuit. When she left, she said Betty was perfectly fine. That night, three neighbors found Betty's body in her utility room, struck with an axe 41 times while her baby cried alone upstairs. The bloody footprint on the floor was too small to belong to a man. And the last person to see Betty
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
Recommended
Old Time Radio Mystery, Suspense, & Horror
ABC News Update
Learn English Fast! English Snacks with Amber - Short Lessons to Speak English Like a Native
این نقطه
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
100 Greatest Old Time Detective Stories
Fantasy Flex
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox
Take Back Your Health®
Solved Murders - True Crime Stories
Old Time Radio - Gunsmoke
ESPN SportsCenter Update
