Crime Scene
Crime Scene is a weekly true crime podcast from The Binge, a Sony Music Entertainment Original Production. Hosted by Jonathan Hirsch and investigative reporter Cooper Moll, each episode delves into compelling cases with real photos and videos. The show aims to provide a fresh perspective on stories that deserve a second look.
Episodes
He Paid Online Spellcasters to Curse His Wife. Then She Vanished | Maya Millete
In January 2021, Maya Millete, a mother of three from Chula Vista, California, disappeared. Surveillance cameras captured no footage of her leaving her neighborhood, and her body has never been found.
Jonathan and Cooper walk through the case against her husband, Larry Millete. Maya had told her family that if anything happened to her, Larry would be the reason. She had just borrowed $10,00
Heidi Planck: She Walked Into an LA High-Rise and Vanished — w/The First Degree’s Alexis Linkletter
On October 17, 2021, Heidi Planck left her son’s football game at halftime and disappeared. About an hour later, surveillance footage captured her walking her dog behind a luxury high-rise in downtown Los Angeles. Three hours after that, the dog was found alone on the building’s 28th floor. Heidi was nowhere to be found.
The building had cameras throughout its corridors and key-card access at its
Introducing: “The Journey, ” from In the Dark
“The Journey,” an audio investigation hosted by the New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman, unravels the mystery of how Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, a wealthy Los Angeles couple, obtained dozens of children through nearly as many surrogates—and exposes a scandal that threatens to undermine the entire surrogacy industry.
In Episode 1, "Gifts," a woman in Texas agrees to carry a child for the couple.
Who Shot Tupac?
Thirty years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down at a Las Vegas stoplight, the first person ever charged in his murder is finally on trial. But with no gun, no DNA, and no living eyewitness willing to identify the shooter, the case hinges on one extraordinary question: did Duane “Keffe D” Davis spend two decades confessing to his role in Tupac’s death, or just selling a story too good to stop telli
The Real Lizzie Borden Murders
Before you watch the new Netflix series, you need to know the real story.
Lizzie Borden’s infamous rhyme says she gave her mother forty whacks, but nearly every word of it is wrong. Now, as Netflix’s new Monsters series tells the story again, we return to the blood-soaked house that launched more than a century of books, films, and theories, all chasing the same impossible question: if Lizz
9/11 Cold Case
On the night of September 11th, while New York’s detectives were pulled toward the ruins of Lower Manhattan, a Polish immigrant gets lost on his way to a cleaning job and is shot dead on a Brooklyn street. Henryk Siwiak becomes the only homicide New York City records that day, but with no witnesses, no suspect, and a crime scene swallowed by history, the question of who killed him has remained una
What Happened to Jodi?
A rising Iowa news anchor leaves for work before dawn and vanishes just steps from her own front door, leaving behind a bent car key, scattered belongings, and one of the most haunting crime scenes in the state’s history. Thirty-one years later, Jodi Huisentruit is still missing, and the search for her has become a second kind of mystery.
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Unholy Matrimony | The Story of Mica Miller
A pastor’s wife is found dead in a North Carolina state park, and the evidence leads authorities to one clear conclusion: suicide. But as the paper trail she left behind begins to surface, a very different story emerges about a marriage unraveling behind the pulpit, a congregation forced to reconsider the man it trusted, and a federal case that asks not how Mica Miller died, but what was happening
Where Are the Missing Scientists? Inside the Conspiracy Part 1: Los Alamos, Lies, and Videotape
When a Los Alamos lab worker vanishes after an ordinary morning in northern New Mexico, the clues left behind only make the story stranger. Nearly a year later, her remains are found in the forest, but no one can say what happened to Melissa Casias. Her case is caught between a family's suspicion, a town's unanswered questions, and a conspiracy theory that reaches all the way to Washington…which w
Introducing “RedHanded”
Today, we are sharing part one of a two-part series from the award-winning true crime podcast RedHanded, hosted by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire. RedHanded is the UK's #1 True Crime podcast, covering everything from high-profile murders and cults to con artists and cultural catastrophes, always asking not just what happened, but why.
In part one, Suruthi and Hannah dive into the disturbing ca
Murder in Redway
How do you murder someone in a small town with no forced entry…and get away with it for a decade?
Stephanie Gawboy, a beloved massage therapist, was found shot to death on her own table in Redway, California — deep in Humboldt County's cannabis country — five days after anyone last saw her alive. No broken locks. No signs of a struggle. Just a community full of people who thought they knew her, a
Out Now: What She Buried
A man goes missing. Fifteen months later, his family finds a fresh concrete slab poured in his backyard. What's buried underneath changes everything.
Five years ago, journalist Justine van der Leun started sending letters to Kwaneta Harris, a convicted murderer in a Texas prison. She was also a gifted writer, ""Mama Detroit"" to the women around her. She swore the story wasn’t what it seemed.
Ouija Board Murders with Two Girls One Ghost
In 2001, a 53-year-old Oklahoma grandmother with no criminal record sits her daughter and two granddaughters around a Ouija board, convinced the planchette isn't a game – it’s a direct line to God. By morning, her son-in-law is dead.
This week on Crime Scene, Jonathan and Cooper are joined by paranormal expert Sabrina Deana-Roga (Two Girls One Ghost) to unpack one of the only cases where a
Mommy and Clyde
Sante Kimes had a hundred names, a hundred cities, and a con for every one of them. For decades, she got away with it. But when one scheme finally goes wrong, investigators don't just find a fraud case — they find a partner in crime nobody saw coming even for the Dragon Lady.
Her son.
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An Interview with Michelle Hadley
She was framed as a stalker, branded a criminal, and nearly lost everything for crimes she didn't commit. When we first covered The Fake Stalker, listeners heard the unbelievable case of Michelle Hadley - a woman accused of terrorizing another woman, only for investigators to uncover a far more disturbing truth.
Now Michelle sits down with Jonathan to share what it was like to survive the o
Nightmare in Chowchilla
A school bus never makes it home. Twenty-six children and their driver disappear without a trace, sending a small California town, and the nation, into panic. On the 50th anniversary of the Chowchilla kidnapping, we revisit the crime everyone remembers... and the story almost no one knows.
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The DA Killer
A Texas prosecutor is shot dead in a courthouse parking lot. Eight weeks later, the county's own DA and his wife are murdered in their home. As an entire county arms up waiting for the next hit, anonymous messages taunt investigators and point toward gangs and cartels — but the real killer is closer, and stranger, than anyone guessed. This is the Kaufman County DA murders.
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The Real Fugitive: Murder of the Fourth of July
On July 4, 1954, a pregnant woman was bludgeoned to death in her Ohio home, and suspicion immediately fell on her husband, a young surgeon who claimed a "bushy-haired" intruder was responsible. The case became a media sensation and later inspired the film The Fugitive. Decades on, the question remains: did Dr. Sam Sheppard get away with murder, or did the system nearly destroy an innocent man?
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Where is Kristin Smart?
A 19-year-old Cal Poly freshman leaves a Memorial Day party in 1996 and never makes it back to her dorm. No body, no crime scene – just one last person seen walking beside her in the dark.
For nearly 25 years, the case of Kristin Smart went cold — kept alive only by a family that refused to stop asking questions. It took a small-town sheriff willing to break silence and an outsider podcaster meth
BONUS: Inside the Mind of Rex Heuermann — with Dr. Joni Johnston
On June 17th, Rex Heuermann was sentenced to life in prison without parole — but the verdict only deepens the question at the heart of this case. What kind of man keeps a private "how to get away with murder" playbook and still convinces his wife, his neighbors, and his coworkers he's just an ordinary Long Island dad?
In this Crime Scene bonus, forensic psychologist Dr. Joni Johnston joins us to
Gilgo Beach Killer
A Long Island architect and family man pleads guilty to killing multiple women — finally putting a name and a face to a case that haunted New York for more than a decade.
But as investigators unearth Rex Heuermann's private "how to get away with murder" playbook and the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit prepares to sit across from him, the real chill comes from how carefully he studied the people h
Hollywood Con Man
He had the trailers. He had the real law-enforcement locations. He had photos of himself grinning beside power players in Washington. The one thing Joseph Medawar didn't have was the show — a patriotic prestige drama about the Department of Homeland Security that he raised millions to produce, and that never aired a single frame.
This week, Jonathan and Cooper trace how a B-movie producer in Los
The Antifreeze Murders
A church organist in Springfield, Missouri buries her husband, then her son, both written off as victims of the same nasty “flu.” When a third family member suddenly collapses, that “coincidence” starts to look more like design than fate, and the question becomes who inside the Staudte house was quietly deciding who lived and who died.
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The Runaway Bride
Four days before a 600‑person Georgia wedding, a churchgoing bride laces up for a quick jog and disappears, leaving her keys and three‑carat ring behind like she’s been plucked out of her own love story. As search teams flood the town and the FBI closes in on her fiancé, a call from hundreds of miles away blows apart the kidnapping tale and leaves everyone wondering whether Jennifer Wilbanks was r
Mountain Man Mike
A reclusive “mountain man” in the Montana backcountry lives off the grid with his wolf‑dogs and a stack of trespass complaints, convinced the rutted dirt track to his cabin is his to control. When he disappears and dismembered remains in garbage bags surface along a lonely mountain pass, the bad blood on Turk Road suddenly looks less like a neighbor dispute and more like the start of a chilling qu
The Grief Author | Annie Elise Reaction to Kouri Richins Sentencing
Kouri Richins has been sentenced — and we're breaking down every detail with Annie Elise. But first, Cooper and Jonathan share the wild ride that got Kouri here.
Convicted of aggravated murder for poisoning her husband Eric with five times a lethal dose of fentanyl, Kouri faced either 25 years to life or life without parole.
The prosecution asked for the maximum — and Eric's own sons said
The Fake Stalker
A pregnant Orange County newlywed tells police she’s being hunted by her husband’s unhinged ex, waving vicious emails and Craigslist ads as proof, and Michelle Hadley is swiftly cast as the jealous stalker from central casting. But when detectives start pulling the digital thread for themselves, the whole story warps, and the real mystery becomes who was actually in danger.
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Evil Twin
In a quiet Irvine apartment complex, a 911 call about a home invasion brings police to two women bound in a bathtub and a blue Mustang outside, where the driver calmly insists she’s the victim inside - until officers realize she’s her identical twin. What begins as a bizarre break‑in quickly twists into an alleged murder‑for‑hire plot between sisters, and the real question becomes how a normal sib
The Pizza Bomber
A pizza delivery driver robs a bank with a bomb locked around his neck—and dies on live TV.
What begins as a shocking heist spirals into a chilling investigation involving a body in a freezer, a volatile mastermind, and a group of unlikely conspirators.
At the center of it all is a question that still divides investigators:
Was Brian Wells in on it—or set up from the start?
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Zankou Chicken Murders
In Los Angeles, a family-built chicken chain becomes a citywide obsession, with lines out the door and garlic sauce that borders on myth. When the mogul behind its expansion walks into his sister’s Glendale home
one morning and executes her and their 75-year-old mother before turning the gun on himself, the killings expose a buried history of illness, paranoia, and an inheritance war inside one of
Kentucky Brothel Murders
In a tiny Kentucky military town, two young women are slaughtered inside a “massage parlor” everyone knows is a brothel; then the cops crowd the scene as crucial evidence mysteriously disappears. As dirty officers and jealous lovers circle the case, the question becomes whether anyone in Oak Grove actually wants these murders solved or just their secrets kept.
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The Sugar Land Murders
On the night a Texas family gathers to celebrate their son’s college “graduation,” the party ends in a staged ambush that leaves two of them dead and the survivors bleeding on the floor. As detectives start tugging at the loose threads in the family’s story, the case turns into a brutal test of one father’s faith, forcing him to decide whether he can forgive the man who tried to have him killed.
The Boys on the Tracks
Two teens are found dead on railroad tracks. The official ruling? An accident.
But the scene tells a different story.
In 1987, two Arkansas teenagers were found dead on a set of railroad tracks under circumstances that defied easy explanation. Despite unusual evidence at the scene--including a destroyed firearm and reports of missing materials--their deaths were officially ruled an accident.
Welcome to Crime Scene
This is Crime Scene Weekly, a show that plunges you into cases you can’t stop thinking about.
Join Jonathan Hirsch, host of My Fugitive Dad and Dear Franklin Jones as he teams up with investigative reporter and podcaster Cooper Moll to revisit the cases that deserve a second look.
Crime Scene is everything you love about a true crime mini-series condensed into a single episode every week.
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