Crime at Bedtime
Crime at Bedtime is a podcast for those who love crime stories, even as they drift off to sleep. Hosted by Jack Laurence, each episode presents fascinating crime tales in a relaxing manner. The show is written and hosted by Laurence, and is produced independently.
Episodes
Maximum John: The Assassination of Judge John Wood by Charles Harrelson
The assassination of Judge John Wood on the 29th of May 1979 was the first killing of a sitting United States federal judge in the 20th century, and the man who pulled the trigger was a Texas contract killer named Charles Harrelson. On that spring morning in San Antonio, Texas, the 63-year-old federal judge known to defence lawyers as "Maximum John", for the harsh sentences he handed drug traffick
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: Andrew Cunanan's Killing Spree
The assassination of Gianni Versace on the 15th of July 1997 was the shocking end of one of the deadliest killing sprees in modern American history. On that summer morning, the world-famous Italian fashion designer walked home from a café to his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina, and was shot dead on his own front steps by a 27-year-old man named Andrew Cunanan. But Gianni Versace was not Andrew
The Attack on Nancy Kerrigan: The Tonya Harding Olympic Scandal
The attack on Nancy Kerrigan on the 6th of January 1994 became one of the most notorious scandals in the history of the Olympic Games, and it involved one of the most famous rivalries in sport: Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. On that afternoon, at the United States Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, the reigning American champion Nancy Kerrigan finished a practice session and walked down a
If It Doesn't Fit: The O.J. Simpson Case
At approximately 12 minutes past midnight on the morning of Monday the 13th of June 1994, in the leafy Los Angeles neighbourhood of Brentwood, a group of residents on South Bundy Drive were woken by the barking of a distressed Akita dog. The dog was wandering the street. It had blood on its paws. It had blood on its coat. The dog belonged, as the neighbours knew, to a 35-year-old woman named Nicol
The Thing on the Hill: The Mothman of Point Pleasant
Shortly after midnight on the morning of Tuesday the 15th of November 1966, in the small Ohio River town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the county of Mason, two young married couples in a black 1957 Chevrolet drove out along State Route 62 to see what there was to see at the abandoned munitions plant seven miles north of town. The plant had been decommissioned since the end of the Second Wor
Listen in app The Firing Squad: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
At approximately 12:35 in the morning on Wednesday the 29th of April 2015, in a small clearing in the jungle of a prison island called Nusa Kambangan, off the southern coast of Central Java in Indonesia, a group of eight men and one woman stood in a line, facing a 13-member firing squad. Two of them were Australians. The younger of the two was 31 years old. His name was Andrew Chan. He had been bo
The Woman Who Took the Cartel's Mother: Yadira Guillermo García
On the morning of Tuesday the 13th of December 2016, a video began to circulate on Mexican social media that would, within 48 hours, be seen by millions of people around the world. It had been recorded in the small town of San Miguel Totolapan, in the state of Guerrero, in the Tierra Caliente region of south-western Mexico. It showed a middle-aged woman speaking directly into the camera, in Spanis
The Fishermen and the Craft: The Pascagoula Abduction
At approximately 11 o'clock on the evening of Thursday the 11th of October 1973, two men walked into the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in the small Gulf Coast city of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and told the sheriff on duty that a few hours earlier, on the west bank of the Pascagoula River, they had been abducted by aliens. The older of the two men was Charles Hickson. He was 42 years old. He was a
The Elf Cleric: The Menhaz Zaman Murders
At approximately 10 o'clock on the evening of Saturday the 27th of July 2019, a 23-year-old man in the Toronto suburb of Markham, Ontario, logged in to a private chat server on the messaging app Discord and began, in real time, to type a message that would be seen, over the course of the following 18 hours, by dozens of video gamers scattered across the world. His name was Menhaz Zaman. His userna
The Family Court Bomber: Leonard Warwick
On the morning of Wednesday the 29th of July 2015, New South Wales Police homicide detectives arrested a 68-year-old retired firefighter at his home in the south-western Sydney suburb of Campbelltown. His name was Leonard John Warwick. The charges laid against him ran to 32 offences, including four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, and thirteen counts of causing bodily harm or prope
Wow!: The Signal from Sagittarius
On the evening of Monday the 15th of August 1977, in a field outside the small town of Delaware, Ohio, a radio telescope the size of three football fields was listening to the sky. There were no astronomers present. The telescope could not be steered. It sat on the ground, pointed straight up, and let the rotation of the Earth do its work for it. As the planet turned, patches of the night sky drif
The Boot on the Beach: The Killing of Antonio Neill
On the afternoon of Tuesday the 1st of January 2019, a group of beachcombers walking along Jetty Island, a small sandy island in the estuary off Everett, Washington, found a black Timberland work boot half-buried in the sand. It had been in the water for some time. The leather was waterlogged, the laces crusted with silt. Inside the boot was a human foot. Within days, DNA testing had matched the f
Missing: Madeleine McCann
On the evening of Thursday the 3rd of May 2007, a British couple on holiday in the resort of Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve coast finished dinner with friends at a tapas restaurant, roughly 50 metres from the ground-floor apartment where their three children were sleeping. Kate and Gerry McCann had, over the course of the evening, taken turns checking on the children at approximately half-hour
The Thing on the Hill: The Flatwoods Monster
At approximately 7:15 in the evening on Friday the 12th of September 1952, three young boys were playing in the schoolyard of Flatwoods Elementary School, in the small Appalachian town of Flatwoods, West Virginia. It was almost fully dark. One of them looked up. A bright, pulsating object was streaking across the sky. It appeared to descend and crash on a nearby hillside, on the property of a loca
The Biggest Lie: Bernie Madoff
On the morning of Thursday the 11th of December 2008, two FBI agents knocked on the door of a penthouse apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The man who answered the door was 70 years old, silver-haired, and one of the most respected figures on Wall Street. His name was Bernard Lawrence Madoff. He had served as chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. He had advised the Securities and Exchange
The Taxi Driver: Sian O'Callaghan and Becky Godden
At just before three in the morning on Saturday the 19th of March 2011, a 22-year-old woman named Sian O'Callaghan left a nightclub in the centre of Swindon, Wiltshire, and began the 800-metre walk home to the flat she shared with her boyfriend. She never arrived. Within days, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher of Wiltshire Police had identified a suspect. Within a week, he had made a decision
An Adventure: The Versailles Time Slip
On the afternoon of Saturday the 10th of August 1901, two English women stepped off a train at Versailles, near Paris, on holiday together. One was 55-year-old Charlotte Anne Moberly, the first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. The other was 38-year-old Eleanor Jourdain, her incoming Vice Principal. They toured the palace. They found it uninspiring. They opened their guidebook and decided to
The Disappearance of Ray Gricar
On a warm Friday morning in April 2005, Ray Gricar, the sitting District Attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, walked out of his office in Bellefonte, got into his red Mini Cooper, and drove east on Route 192 towards the town of Lewisburg. He was 59 years old. He was eight months from retirement. He had spent 20 years as one of the most respected prosecutors in central Pennsylvania. At 11:30 th
The Springfield Three
On the morning of the 7th of June 1992, a 19-year-old woman named Janelle Kirby drove across Springfield, Missouri, to a small house on East Delmar Street, looking for her two best friends. They had graduated from high school the day before. They were supposed to be driving down to a resort in Branson. When Janelle pushed open the unlocked front door, she found the family's terrier agitated, the g
The Lost Cosmonauts
On a winter night in 1961, in a stone bunker on a hilltop outside Turin, two young Italian brothers sat in front of a wall of homemade radio equipment and heard something they would spend the rest of their lives trying to explain. The slow, wet sound of a man breathing his last breaths from somewhere above the Earth. Over the following years, Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia would re
The Woodchipper Murder: Helle Crafts
At just past three in the morning on the 19th of November 1986, a snowplough driver named Joseph Hine was driving along the edge of Lake Zoar in rural Connecticut when he saw something that did not belong. A rented truck. A woodchipper attached to the back. And a man standing beside it, operating the machine, in the middle of a snowstorm, in the middle of the night. Hine kept driving. He had a job
Maternal Instinct: Taylor Parker
For eleven months, Taylor Parker told everyone she was pregnant. She posted gender reveals on social media. She showed off sonograms. She accepted gifts. Her boyfriend believed her. Her friends believed her. So did a young mother in New Boston, Texas named Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who had let Taylor photograph her wedding the year before and had defended her against the doubters. But Taylor Parker
The Boy Who Was His Own Grandfather
A young father in Vermont was changing his eighteen-month-old son's nappy when the little boy looked up at him and said something that no toddler should be able to say. Daddy, when I was your age, I used to change your nappies. His father searched his face for a smile. There was none. The little boy looked back at him with the calm certainty of a child stating a fact. And the strange thing was, hi
The Erdington Murders: 157 Years Apart
On the morning of the 27th of May 1817, a 20 year old woman named Mary Ashford was found dead in a water-filled pit near the English village of Erdington. She had been at a dance the night before. She had been sexually assaulted before her death. The man last seen with her, a 24 year old named Abraham Thornton, was arrested and acquitted in a trial that would become one of the most controversial i
Breck's Last Game: The Murder of Breck Bednar
On the 17th of February 2014, a 14 year old British boy named Breck Bednar took a pre-paid taxi from his mother's home in Surrey and travelled 30 miles to a flat in Grays, Essex. He believed he was going to meet a friend from his online gaming group. A friend who was going to give him a tour of his computer business. A friend who had spent months earning his trust. By the next morning, Breck was d
The Ghosts of Muncaster Castle
High on a hillside above the River Esk in Cumbria stands one of the oldest occupied houses in England. Muncaster Castle has been home to the Pennington family for over 800 years. A king once sheltered here after losing his throne. A cruel jester named Tom Fool once stalked its grounds. A young carpenter was beheaded in its stables. A housemaid was murdered on the road outside its main gate. And in
The Track Meet: Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf
On the morning of 2 April 2025, a rainy day in Frisco, Texas, a routine high school track meet ended with a 17 year old boy bleeding out in his identical twin brother's arms. Austin Metcalf, an honour student and football star, had been stabbed once through the heart with a pocket knife. The young man who killed him, 17 year old Karmelo Anthony, ran across the bleachers and was arrested moments la
From the Vault - The Lufthansa Heist
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From the Vault - No one admits to a crime they didn't do
In 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was brutally murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment. Police were desperate for answers — and soon turned their attention to a young man named Christopher Tapp.What followed would become one of America’s most controversial wrongful conviction cases.Despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime, Christopher Tapp was convicted after hours of intense police inte
From the Vault - The Man Who Faked His Death
In 2002, former prison officer John Darwin was presumed dead after vanishing while canoeing off the coast of Seaton Carew. His broken canoe was found. His wife mourned publicly. His sons believed he was gone forever. But John Darwin wasn’t dead — he was living in secret, just metres from his old life.This is the extraordinary true story of how a man faked his death to escape debt, lied to his fami
From the Vault - The Pig Farm Murders
Hello legends, Jack here, host of Crime at Bedtime. I'm currently travelling to the US because my other show, One Minute Remaining, was lucky enough to be nominated for an award. I’ll be back very soon, but while I’m away, I’m diving into the vault to bring you some of my favourite and most terrifying Crime at Bedtime stories from the past three years.One of my favourite movies of all time is Snat
From the Vault - Sin City Shadows
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Introducing - The Just Sleep Podcast
"The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1904, featuring Holmes's confrontation with a ruthless blackmailer who preys on the secrets of the wealthy, forcing Holmes to go outside the law to retrieve compromising letters for a client, Lady Eva Blackwell, and ultimately leading to Milverton's death, which Holmes witne
From the Vault - Lars Mittank
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Should I Marry a Murderer? The Tony Parsons Case
On 29 September 2017, retired Royal Navy veteran and cancer survivor Tony Parsons set out on a 104-mile charity bike ride through the Scottish Highlands. He stopped at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel for a coffee just before midnight, then cycled into the darkness. He was never seen alive again. For more than three years, Tony's family searched for answers as the case grew cold. Then in 2020, a Glasgow
The Seven Year Dream
In June 2025, a 19 year old woman in Lyon, France, was placed into a medically induced coma. For the next three weeks, she lay still in a hospital bed, kept alive by machines while her body healed. But inside her mind, something extraordinary was happening. Clélia Verdier was falling in love. She was getting married. She was giving birth to triplets she named Mila, Maïlée, and Miles. She was buryi
The Woman in the Bushland
On the evening of 3 January 2014, a 39 year old woman was found in bushland at West Hoxton in Sydney's south west. Her skin was peeling from her body. She had suffered horrific burns to over 80 per cent of her face and torso. Doctors would later determine she had been doused in nearly eight litres of hydrochloric acid up to ten days before being discovered. Her name was Monika Chetty. A former nur
D.B. Cooper
On 24 November 1971, a quiet man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305, collected $200,000 in cash and four parachutes… then stepped out of a Boeing 727 into the night over the Pacific Northwest. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we walk calmly through the hijacking, the strange decisions Cooper made, the ransom money found in 1980, and the 2016 FBI decision to sus
The Vanishing Act
On a typical spring break night in 2006, 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer stepped into a bar with friends, but he was never seen leaving. What began as an evening of bar hopping in Columbus, Ohio, quickly turned into one of the most perplexing missing persons cases of our time. CCTV footage captured Brian entering the Ugly Tuna Saloona, but despite extensive searches and investigations, n
The Enfield Poltergeist
A council house in North London. A single mother. Two frightened children. And a haunting that exploded into one of the most documented paranormal cases in modern history.In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we revisit the Enfield Poltergeist with a calm, immersive retelling of the key events: the knocks and violent disturbances, the chilling “Bill” voice, the alleged levitations, and the inve
The Kelly–Hopkinsville Goblin Siege
In August 1955, a terrified Kentucky family burst into a small-town police station claiming they’d spent the night under attack from “little men” that bullets couldn’t hurt. What officers found at the Sutton farmhouse would become one of the strangest and most controversial cases in UFO history. In this episode of Mysteries at Bedtime, we head to rural Kelly–Hopkinsville to walk hour by hour throu
Ape Canyon
In 1924, deep in the wilderness near Mount St. Helens, a group of gold prospectors claimed they were attacked by giant ape-like creatures. The incident became known as the Ape Canyon Attack, one of the earliest and most chilling reports linked to Bigfoot. In this episode, we revisit the miners’ terrifying night inside their remote cabin, the footprints they found, the gunfire, and the mysterious e
Am Fear Liath Mòr
For generations, mountaineers on Ben Macdui have described the same impossible experience: the sound of slow, heavy footsteps behind them… but no one there. Some claim they saw a figure ten feet tall moving through the mist. Others fled down the mountain convinced something was pacing them on the plateau. Known in Gaelic as Am Fear Liath Mòr — the Big Grey Man — this phenomenon has baffled experts
The Vanishing family
When a pickup truck was found abandoned on a remote Oklahoma mountain road, its doors were unlocked, wallets untouched, and a family dog barely alive inside.Bobby and Sherilynn Jamison, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson, were gone.Inside the truck — $32,000 in cash, phones, IDs, and a note that hinted at despair.For years, searchers combed the wilderness with no trace… until four years later
The Officer and the Missing Wife | Drew Peterson
Drew Peterson spent twenty nine years as a police officer in Bolingbrook, Illinois. He wore a badge. He knew the law. He knew exactly how investigations worked.In October 2007, his fourth wife Stacy Peterson vanished without trace. She was twenty three years old. Drew Peterson told police she had left him for another man. Nobody who knew Stacy believed him.As investigators began looking more close
The Vanishing at Lake Oconee: The Dermond Murders
On the afternoon of Saturday 3 May 2014, neighbours in the exclusive gated community of Reynolds Great Waters at Lake Oconee, Georgia, gathered for a Kentucky Derby watch party. Two of the invited guests never arrived. Three days later, a neighbour found 88 year old Russell Dermond's decapitated body in the garage of his million dollar lakefront home. His head was missing. His 87 year old wife Shi
The Ricin Letters: Shannon Richardson
In 2013, three threatening letters laced with the deadly poison ricin were mailed to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and a gun control advocate. The FBI raced to identify the sender as panic spread across the country. But when Texas mother and bit-part actress Shannon Richardson contacted the FBI to point the finger at her husband Nathaniel, investigators quickly realised
The Shawshank of Dannemora: The Great Prison Escape
On June 6, 2015, two convicted murderers escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York—a maximum-security prison that hadn't seen a successful escape in over 150 years. Richard Matt and David Sweat spent months meticulously cutting through steel walls, crawling through tunnels, and navigating the bowels of the prison before emerging through a manhole cover on a street outside t
Where is Shelly?
Michele Diane "Shelly" Miscavige was once one of the most powerful women in the Church of Scientology—the wife of its leader, David Miscavige, and a commanding figure within the organisation's elite Sea Org division. But in August 2005, Shelly vanished from public view following a reported confrontation with her husband. For years, no one outside Scientology's inner circle saw or heard from her. H
The Iceman
Richard Kuklinski was a contract killer who claimed to have murdered over 100 people during his 30-year career as a hitman for the mob. Known as "The Iceman" for his method of freezing victims' bodies to disguise their time of death, Kuklinski lived a double life as a seemingly devoted family man in suburban New Jersey while working as one of America's most prolific contract killers. He used an ar
Boss of Bosses: The Bloody Lunch That Changed the Mafia
July 12, 1979. Brooklyn, New York. Carmine Galante sat on the back patio of Joe and Mary's restaurant, finishing lunch with his cigar clenched between his teeth. At 69 years old, he controlled the heroin trade in New York City. He had built a drug empire worth millions through the French Connection. He had murdered at least 80 people over his career. And he had made a critical error: he declared h
The Baby in White Robes: The 42-Year Search for Holly Clouse
January 12, 1981. A dog wandered into the woods north of Houston and returned home carrying a decomposed human arm. Search parties found two bodies. A young man, bound and beaten to death. A young woman, strangled and posed in prayer. For 40 years, they remained unidentified. Buried in anonymous graves. Forgotten. Until genetic genealogy finally gave them their names: Harold Dean Clouse Junior, 21
The Man Who Walked Out: Death Row's Impossible Escape
On November 3, 2005, Charles Victor Thompson did something no death row inmate had accomplished in the 21st century: he walked out the front door of Harris County Jail using a fake badge and civilian clothes. For 78 hours, one of Texas's most dangerous killers rode freight trains, posed as a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, and evaded a massive manhunt. But Thompson's story didn't start with his audacio
The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar:
In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished beside Louisiana’s Swayze Lake. After eight desperate months, a child was found hundreds of miles away with a travelling handyman — and the Dunbars swore he was their son.The story became a national sensation: a miracle return, a family reunited, faith rewarded.But ninety years later, a simple DNA test exposed one of America’s most haunting cases of mis
The Cinder Lady:
In the summer of 1951, 67-year-old Mary Reeser was found almost entirely incinerated in her armchair in St. Petersburg, Florida — in a fire so strange, the FBI was called in. The walls were untouched. The clock had frozen at 4:20 a.m. And all that remained of Mary was a slippered foot, part of her spine, and a shrunken skull.Her death would become one of the most famous unsolved mysteries in moder
The Mysterious Death of Richard Lancelyn Green:
Richard Lancelyn Green was the world’s leading expert on Sherlock Holmes. A lifelong collector, historian, and passionate Holmesian, he spent years uncovering long-lost treasures tied to Arthur Conan Doyle. But in March 2004, Green was found dead in his London flat under circumstances eerily reminiscent of the detective stories he adored.Did he take his own life, an accident, or something far more
The Mystery of Overtoun Bridge:
Listener discretion advised: This story contains subject matter some may find upsetting.In the quiet Scottish countryside, just outside Dumbarton, lies an elegant stone bridge that has become infamous around the world. Since the 1950s, Overtoun Bridge has drawn eerie attention for a chilling phenomenon: hundreds of dogs have leapt from its walls—many to their deaths—without warning or explanation.
Circleville: The Town Terrorised by Anonymous Letters
In 1976, the small town of Circleville, Ohio, began receiving letters, hundreds of them.Each one was anonymous. Each one accused neighbours, teachers, and officials of dark secrets. And each one carried the same eerie signature: none at all.The anonymous writer seemed to know everything, where people worked, who they spoke to, even private affairs no one else could have known. Then came the threat
The Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden
In December 1946, 18-year-old Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden set out for a short hike on Vermont’s Long Trail. She was seen by motorists and hikers and then she was gone. Despite one of the largest searches in state history, no trace was ever found. Her case not only unsettled a community, but directly led to the creation of the Vermont State Police, and became part of the legend of
The Vanishing of Walter Collins
In 1928, nine-year-old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the cinema in Los Angeles. Months later, police declared they had solved the case and returned a boy to his grieving mother. But when Christine Collins insisted the child was not her son, she found herself locked in a battle with one of America’s most corrupt police departments and at the centre of a mystery that would spiral into one of
The Havana Syndrome:
In December 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba, began reporting a strange set of symptoms, nausea, dizziness, headaches, and hearing loss. Many described hearing a high-pitched sound, like marbles rolling inside a funnel, just before the illness struck. By 2018, dozens of U.S. and Canadian officials had been affected, sparking panic, diplomatic fallout, and years of investigation.Was it a ne
The Disappearance of Ryan Chambers:
In August 2005, 21-year-old Australian backpacker Ryan Chambers walked barefoot out of an ashram in Rishikesh, India, leaving behind his passport, wallet, phone, and shoes. He was never seen again. For nearly two decades, his family searched across India, chasing rumours and plastering posters from Punjab to Rajasthan.In 2023, a South Australian court finally declared Ryan dead — but the mystery o
Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel:
In January 2013, 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam checked into Los Angeles’ infamous Cecil Hotel. Known for its dark history of crime, tragedy, and mystery, the hotel was the last place Elisa was seen alive.When she failed to check out or contact her family, police launched a search. Two weeks later, security footage of Elisa inside a hotel elevator shocked the world. Her behaviour, pressing
The Double Life: How an FBI Agent Became America's Most Damaging Spy
For 22 years, Robert Hanssen lived two lives. By day, he was a devoted Catholic, a father of six, and a senior FBI counterintelligence officer trusted with America's most guarded secrets. By night, he was Ramon Garcia, a faceless traitor selling those secrets to Moscow for diamonds and cash. He compromised nuclear war strategies, revealed the identities of American spies working inside the KGB, an
The Vanishing Scientists: Ten Disappearances, One Terrifying Pattern
February 27, 2026. Albuquerque, New Mexico. Retired Air Force Major General William McCasland left his home between 11:10am and 12:04pm. He took his wallet, hiking boots, a .38-calibre revolver, and a red backpack. He left behind his phone, glasses, and wearable devices. Seventeen days later, despite helicopters, drones, search dogs, and 700 homes canvassed, there was no trace of him. But McCaslan
The Texas Seven: Eleven Shots on Christmas Eve
On December 13, 2000, seven convicted felons walked out of a maximum-security Texas prison in broad daylight. They overpowered guards, stole weapons, and drove through the front gate in a maintenance truck. For eleven days, they stayed ahead of the largest manhunt in Texas history. Then, on Christmas Eve, they robbed a sporting goods store in Irving. Officer Aubrey Hawkins responded to the call. H
Random Recreational Violence
Between May 2005 and August 2006, Phoenix, Arizona, was terrorised by two men who drove through the city at night, shooting random strangers for sport. Dale Hausner, a Sky Harbor Airport custodian and boxing journalist, and Samuel Dieteman, an electrician from Minnesota, killed at least eight people and injured 19 more in what they called "RV'ing"—Random Recreational Violence. High on methamphetam
The Man Who Vanished from His Chair
On a warm June evening in 1768, a 69-year-old paralysed man named Owen Parfitt sat outside his sister's cottage in Shepton Mallet, England, dressed in his nightshirt and propped up on his folded greatcoat. Just a dozen yards away, farm workers laboured in full view of the porch. Around 7 PM, Owen's elderly sister Mary and a young neighbour, Susannah Snook, went inside to fetch him before an approa
The Architect's Secret
For 33 years, a serial killer hunted sex workers on Long Island, strangling them and dumping their bodies along a desolate stretch of Ocean Parkway. In December 2010, police searching for missing escort Shannan Gilbert discovered four bodies wrapped in burlap near Gilgo Beach—the "Gilgo Four": Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Lynn Costello. Further searches un
The Christmas Shooting - CONNOR HILTON
December 23, 2023. Two days before Christmas. Connor Hilton, 17, invited friends to his Friendswood, Texas home to see his new gun. When Ethan Riley and Ben Bliek arrived, Connor stood up, raised the revolver, and shot both boys in the head. Ethan died on Christmas Eve. Ben survived but was left paralysed. A third teenager locked himself in the bathroom and called 911. Connor told police three dif
Did CERN Break Reality?
In 2016, a 13-year-old genius named Max Loughan went viral with an extraordinary claim: CERN destroyed our universe. Not with an explosion—but by shifting us all into a parallel reality. When scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider smashed particles together in 2012 and discovered the Higgs boson, Max believed the sheer energy tore a hole in spacetime, sliding humanity into a neighbouring unive
The Riverdale Actor Who Killed His Mother
March 31, 2020. Ryan Grantham, 21, a Canadian actor known for roles in Riverdale and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, shot his mother Barbara Waite in the back of the head whilst she played piano in their Squamish, British Columbia home. He'd rehearsed the murder for days, walking up behind her with the rifle before losing his nerve. On the day he finally pulled the trigger, he filmed a GoPro confession: "I
The House of Skulls - JONATHAN GERLACH
On January 6, 2026, detectives caught Jonathan Gerlach, 34, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, leaving Mount Moriah Cemetery near Philadelphia with a burlap bag containing the mummified remains of two small children and three skulls. A search of his home revealed over 100 human skulls, mummified hands and feet, decomposing torsos—some hanging from the ceiling—and jewellery from graves. His storage unit con
The Basketball Star Who Vanished at Sea - BISON DELE
In July 2002, NBA champion Bison Dele sailed from Tahiti aboard his catamaran, the Hakuna Matata, with his girlfriend Serena Karlan, French captain Bertrand Saldo, and his troubled older brother Miles Dabord. On July 8, all communication ceased. Twelve days later, the boat returned to Tahiti—renamed, repainted, with patched bullet holes—and only Miles stepped off. Two months later, he tried to buy
The Man Who Blew Up His House - ROBERT FISHER
On April 10, 2001, an explosion destroyed the Fisher family home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Inside, firefighters found Mary Fisher, 38, shot in the back of the head with her throat slit, and her two children—Brittney, 12, and Bobby, 10—with their throats slit in their beds. The gas line had been deliberately severed, accelerant poured in the bedrooms, a candle used as a delayed fuse. Missing: Robert
The Man Who Broke Into Jail
In December 2019, security footage at Nashville's new Downtown Detention Center showed the same man entering the building again and again—sometimes dressed as a supervisor with a clipboard, other times as a labourer hauling buckets. Cameras caught him drilling into walls, grinding, painting. He occasionally covered cameras, but mostly let himself be recorded.When two master keys went missing, inve
The Man Who Vanished from a Moving Bus
On a snowy December night in 1949, 68-year-old James Tedford boarded a bus in Vermont, heading home to the Bennington Soldiers' Home. Fourteen passengers and the driver saw him sleeping peacefully in his seat at the last stop before Bennington. But when the bus pulled into the station, Tedford was gone—his luggage still in the rack, an open timetable on his empty seat. No one saw him leave. No one
Grief Author on trial for Murder | Kouri Richins
Kouri Richins, a 35-year-old Utah mother and real estate investor, was convicted on 16 March 2026 of murdering her husband Eric Richins (39) on 4 March 2022 by poisoning him with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in a Moscow Mule cocktail. Born to engineer parents (father imprisoned for drunk driving when she was 6, mother a compulsive gambler), Kouri became obsessed with wealth and success.
Husband Preserves Murder Scene for 26 Years Until Technology Catches Killer | Namiko Takaba
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