Scams, Money, & Murder
Scams, Money, and Murder is a true crime podcast that explores the intersection of greed and crime. Hosts Vanessa Richardson and Carter Roy delve into stories of scams, lies, and deadly crimes, revealing the dark side of money. The show releases new episodes twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays. It is a Crime House Original powered by PAVE Studios.
Episodes
Reddit's Most Disturbing Deceptions
What happens when the people closest to you have been lying from day one?Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana-Roga react to four of Reddit's most disturbing deceptions. A woman discovers her boyfriend's online friend group may have been him the whole time. A boyfriend hides a device in his girlfriend's closet and plays dumb while it slowly drives her to paranoia. A woman realizes the new man she's
Brandon Swanson: The 47-Minute Call
In May 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents to say his car had slid off the road and he needed a ride. He swore he knew exactly where he was. But when his parents' flashing headlights never found him, Brandon started walking toward town, his father still on the line, until he yelled two words and went silent. What began as a routine favor became one of Minnesota's most confounding
CONSPIRACY THEORY: The Mandela Effect
In 2009, at a science fiction convention in Atlanta, a paranormal researcher named Fiona Broome discovered that strangers shared her vivid memory of Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s. Mandela walked free in 1990 and died in 2013. Broome named it the Mandela Effect, and the catalogue grew: a children's book spelled wrong, a logo with a horn that never existed, a Sinbad genie movie nobody
Halloween Terrors: Masters of Horror | Osgood Perkins & Longlegs
A filmmaker haunted by his family’s past. A doll that mirrored a tragedy. And a story born from grief, faith, and fear. Heidi Wong explores the real inspirations behind Osgood Perkins’s Longlegs: from Anthony Perkins’s hidden legacy to the JonBenét Ramsey “My Twinn” doll and the dark folklore of sympathetic magic.For more, follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839
BTK: The Killer Who Refused To Go Uncredited
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
SERIAL KILLER: The Axeman of New Orleans
In 1918, a killer began slipping into New Orleans homes under cover of darkness, attacking sleeping victims with an axe and vanishing without a trace. The attacks targeted the city's Italian immigrant grocers, leaving a terrorized community wondering who would be next...and investigators scrambling to find a suspect they couldn't identify. As the body count rose, false arrests and coerced statemen
SOLVED: Lynette Dawson
In January 1982, 33-year-old Lynette Dawson vanished from Bayview, on Sydney's northern beaches, and it would take 40 years to prove she had been murdered. A nurse and the mother of two young daughters, she had spent years trying to hold together a marriage to Chris Dawson, a former rugby league player and PE teacher the community adored. Months earlier, Chris had moved a teenage student into the
True Poisoning Stories From Reddit
Poison doesn't always come from a stranger. Sometimes it's stirred into your coffee by the person who claims to love you most.Sabrina Deana-Roga and Alexis Linkletter bring each other three terrifying poisoning stories from Reddit. A brother poisons his brother's girlfriend for years, a man grows suspicious that his mother put cyanide in his ramen, and a girlfriend slips Viagra into her boyfriend'
Michaela Garecht: Taken
On the Saturday before Thanksgiving in 1988, nine-year-old Michaela "Kayla" Garecht and her best friend rode their scooters two blocks to a Hayward, California corner store for candy and soda. Minutes later, in a busy parking lot in broad daylight, a stranger grabbed Kayla, forced her into a car, and drove off. What began as an ordinary morning became one of California's most haunting disappearanc
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Is Anyone Real Anymore? The Dead Internet Theory
In 2021, an anonymous forum post floated a theory that sounded absurd: the internet effectively died around 2016, and most of what we now see online, the posts, comments, arguments, and trends, is generated by bots and AI designed to manipulate what we think, buy, and believe. People laughed, until the evidence started piling up. Bots surpassed human traffic online for the first time in 2024, more
Summer Scares: Deadly Premonitions and Final Destination
A writer who predicted the Titanic disaster. A child who dreamed of her own death. And a president haunted by a vision of his own funeral. Heidi Wong uncovers the chilling true stories from the Titanic premonition to the Aberfan disaster and Abraham Lincoln’s prophetic dream that prove Final Destination might not be fiction after all.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: h
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
Katherine Knight: Australia's Most Disturbing Killer Pt. 1
In February 2000, Katherine Knight committed one of the most disturbing murders in Australian history...but the path to that night began decades earlier in a rural New South Wales household defined by violence, neglect, and sexual abuse. As Katherine moved through a series of volatile relationships, her fear of abandonment grew into a pattern of escalating intimidation and brutality that left a tr
SOLVED: Carrie Daugherty, Pt. 1
In 2008, 24-year-old Knoxville server Carrie Daugherty was ambushed and killed outside her Tennessee home, a sudden act of violence that shattered the people who loved her. Suspicion soon turned to Micah Johnson, the ex-boyfriend of Carrie's best friend, and the search for him escalated into a dramatic standoff on Knoxville's Henley Street Bridge. In Part 1 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Cart
Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!
Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you Scams, Money, & Murder.Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull
Misty Copsey: The Missed Bus Pt. 1
On September 17, 1992, 14-year-old Misty Copsey went to the Puyallup Fair in Washington with her best friend and never came home. The two girls missed the 8:40 PM bus back to Spanaway and split up to find their own way. The last anyone saw of Misty, she was standing alone near a bus stop after dark, told there were no more buses on her route that night. Then she walked off, and vanished. Leading t
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Aviation Industry Whistleblowers
John Barnett spent 32 years at Boeing before going public with alarming claims about faulty oxygen masks, substandard parts, and a corporate culture that punished anyone who dared to speak up. In March 2024, in the middle of giving deposition testimony against the company, he was found dead in a hotel parking lot from a gunshot wound. Less than two months later, Joshua Dean, a 45-year-old quality
Summer Scares: Jordan Peele's Us and Real-World Doppelgängers
A vanished child returns as a stranger. A beauty blogger’s twin becomes her killer. A man’s life is stolen by his lookalike. Heidi Wong exposes the real doppelgänger cases that turned myth into murder, and inspired Jordan Peele’s Us, where the scariest enemy is your own reflection.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226If you’re new here, don’t fo
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.Follow Amer
Jean-Claude Romand: Lies that Led to Murder Pt. 1
For nearly two decades, Jean-Claude Romand convinced his family, friends, and colleagues that he was a respected World Health Organization researcher...while spending his days in cafes and rest stops, swindling loved ones out of their savings. And in January 1993, as the walls of his fabricated life finally closed in, Romand turned to violence rather than face exposure. This episode traces the chi
UNSOLVED: Julia Wallace 1
In January 1931, a mysterious phone call was left for insurance agent William Herbert Wallace at his chess club in Liverpool, England, summoning him to a meeting the following night at an address that, it turned out, did not exist. While Wallace wandered the city searching for the phantom street, his wife Julia was beaten to death in the front parlor of their modest home. Almost immediately, suspi
Reddit’s Most Shocking Relationship Secrets
What happens when the people closest to you are hiding something you never saw coming?Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana Roga break down three unbelievable relationship secrets straight from Reddit. A boyfriend fakes a cancer diagnosis just to get closer to the woman he's falling for. A wife has to break the news that her husband's brand new car is gone, but the truth behind the crash is far more
Joan Risch: Blood on the Kitchen Floor Pt. 1
On October 24, 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch spent an ordinary morning at home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. She took her daughter to the dentist, booked a follow-up appointment, and later walked her to a neighbor's house, promising she'd be right back. She never returned. When someone finally stepped inside her home, they found the kitchen smeared with blood, the telephone torn from the wall, and Joa
CONSPIRACY: The Mad Monk Who Controlled the Romanovs
In the final years of Imperial Russia, a mysterious peasant mystic named Grigori Rasputin rose to extraordinary influence over the royal Romanov family. Trusted by the Empress for his apparent ability to ease her son's illness, Rasputin became a figure of endless rumor, accused of everything from manipulation and debauchery to holding secret sway over the crumbling empire. His dramatic murder in 1
Summer Scares: The Real People Who Inspired AHS: Coven
The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. A sadistic aristocrat with a torture chamber. And a crazed killer with an axe. Heidi uncovers the real stories of Marie Laveau, Madame LaLaurie, and the Axeman of New Orleans: the real people that inspired American Horror Story: Coven.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow
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
Mark Winger: When the American Dream Turned Deadly Pt. 1
In 1995, Mark Winger appeared to have it all: a stable career, an adoring wife named Donnah, and a newly adopted daughter in Springfield, Illinois. But beneath the surface, Mark was carrying on a secret affair and harboring a chilling plan to rid himself of his marriage without losing everything he'd built. When an unsettling encounter with a shuttle driver gave Mark the opening he needed, he set
UNSOLVED: Sophie Toscan du Plantier 1
In December 1996, French television producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier traveled alone to her remote holiday home on the windswept Mizen Head peninsula in County Cork, Ireland, a place she loved for its isolation and beauty. Two days before Christmas, her battered body was found on the lane outside her cottage, beaten so severely that the quiet farming community around Schull could scarcely compreh
Reddit’s Darkest True Crime Confessions
What happens when Reddit users confess their darkest secrets? Alexis Linkletter joins Sabrina Deana-Roga to break down three unbelievable true crime confessions straight from Reddit. A woman discovers her boyfriend and his coworkers plotting to kill her. A father reveals his teenage son murdered his ex-girlfriend. A married man admits his choices may have led to his affair partner's death. Sabrina
Su Taraskiewicz: The Last Shift at Logan Pt. 1
On September 13, 1992, 27-year-old Su Taraskiewicz left her overnight shift at Boston's Logan Airport to grab sandwiches for her crew and never made it home. The next day, her body was found in the trunk of her own car. As a ramp supervisor and one of the few women on a mostly male crew at Northwest Airlines, Su had spent months enduring a workplace that turned against her. There were taunts, sabo
CONSPIRACY: What Is Denver Airport Hiding?
Since it opened in 1995, Denver International Airport has been the subject of some of the most enduring conspiracy theories in America. Built years behind schedule and wildly over budget, the airport is famous for its unsettling apocalyptic murals, a towering demonic horse statue with glowing red eyes, cryptic dedication plaques, and a sprawling network of underground tunnels. To believers, these
Summer Scares: The True Story of Midsommar
A Swedish legend of dancing with the devil. A medieval plague that made people dance to death. And a modern town haunted by a phantom attacker. Heidi Wong uncovers how real cases of hysteria, ritual, and belief inspired Midsommar and prove that madness spreads faster than any curse.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226If you’re new here, don’t f
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.Follow America's Mos
Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder Pt. 1
In 2012, Omaha mechanic Dave Kroupa met Liz Golyar on a dating app...a connection that would spiral into years of relentless stalking, arson, and murder. And when Dave began seeing Cari Farver, she vanished overnight, and a torrent of threatening messages began arriving in her name. As the harassment escalated from digital terror to a house fire, investigators slowly realized the truth was far dar
SOLVED: An Oscar-Worthy Murder Pt. 1
Dan Wozniak was a charming, talented actor in Southern California with big dreams and a wedding on the horizon, but his finances were falling apart and his taste for the spotlight far outpaced what his life could actually afford. Rather than face the truth, he began to lie, manipulate, and scheme, building a fantasy of the life he wanted on a foundation of deception. In the spring of 2010, that sp
Reddit’s Creepiest Crime Stories
Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana Roga break down four unsettling Reddit stories of creeps hiding in plain sight. A woman finds her sister's husband has written a novel confessing his obsession with her. A cousin's "innocent" DMs turn into a scam that nearly costs her her family. A wife discovers her husband's friend group has a disturbing party tradition — and that he's known about it all along
Crystal Rogers: The Flat Tire on the Bluegrass Parkway
On July 3, 2015, 35-year-old Crystal Rogers was supposed to have a date night with her boyfriend. The following morning, she was missing. Two days later, her car turned up abandoned on Kentucky's Bluegrass Parkway. There was a flat tire, keys in the ignition and her purse was still inside. But there was no Crystal. What followed was a decade of investigation, an FBI takeover, grand jury battles, a
How the CIA Invented Modern Art
During the Cold War, the CIA quietly turned modern art into a weapon. Convinced that America needed to prove its cultural superiority over the Soviet Union, the agency secretly promoted abstract expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning as symbols of American freedom. Through a front group called the Congress for Cultural Freedom and a network of fake foundati
Summer Scares: Horror's Most Terrifying Camping Trips
A lakeside camping trip ends in blood. A quiet cabin becomes a house of horrors. And the killers were never caught. Heidi Wong tells the real stories that inspired Friday the 13th and The Strangers: the true tales of isolation, fear, and murder that haunt horror’s most famous cabins.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226If you’re new here, don’t
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
SERIAL KILLER: "The Backpacker Murderer" Ivan Milat Pt. 1
Ivan Milat grew up in a volatile Sydney household surrounded by weapons, abuse, and fourteen siblings. By his teens, he was already hurting animals, and allegedly...people. After a series of robberies, a sexual assault, and a faked suicide, Milat walked free from every charge and used steady road work to move unseen through Australia's most isolated stretches of highway. This episode traces how ye
UNSOLVED: The Hinterkaifeck Murders 1
In 1922, six members of the same family were found murdered on their isolated farmstead in the Bavarian countryside, killed one by one with a pickaxe. In the days before their deaths, the family had noticed strange and frightening signs: footprints in the snow, footsteps in the attic, and the unshakable feeling that someone was watching them. But they never made it out alive, and their killer was
The Reddit Thread That Became a Horror Story
What begins as a Reddit post about infidelity becomes something far more disturbing. A husband discovers his wife has been secretly communicating with their neighbor, and when he finally decides to leave, the story takes a horrifying turn.Alexis Linkletter walks Sabrina Deana-Roga through the original thread, the warning signs hidden in plain sight, and the devastating news that followed. It's a r
Brianna Maitland: The Car at the Farmhouse
On March 19, 2004, 17-year-old Brianna Maitland finished her shift at the Black Lantern Inn in Vermont and drove into the night. An hour later, her car was seen backed into an abandoned farmhouse on a rural stretch of Route 118. When police got there, they found her belongings still inside. But there was no crash, no struggle, and no Brianna. Two decades later, investigators have never publicly na
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Brazil's UFO Cover-Up: The Varginha Incident feat. Laurah Norton from One Strange Thing
In January 1996, the small Brazilian city of Varginha became the center of one of the most famous UFO stories in South American history. Multiple witnesses, including three young women, reported seeing a strange creature with a large head and red eyes lurking in the streets, while others claimed the military had captured one or more living beings and recovered a crashed craft. As soldiers reported
Summer Scares: Real Stories of the Conjuring Universe
Step beyond the screen and into the real-life terror behind The Conjuring Universe. Heidi explores the Perron family’s decade-long haunting in a Rhode Island farmhouse and the sinister origins of Annabelle the Doll. From ghostly apparitions to demonic encounters, these true horror stories prove that reality can be far scarier than fiction.If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, &a
NXIVM
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
The Monster of Florence
For this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined by Alexis Linkletter, co-hose of Crime House's newest show Crimes of Reddit. In 1968, a young couple was shot dead in the Italian countryside while their six-year-old son slept in the back seat: a crime that quietly launched one of Italy's most haunting serial killing sprees. For over a decade, a gunman stalked couples parked in remote areas outs
SOLVED: Jeff German
Robert Telles was a rising political star in Las Vegas—until journalist Jeff German exposed the truth. In Part 1, we uncover Telles’s history of manipulation, sexual misconduct, and the paranoia that turned one reporter into a threat he couldn't ignore.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, &
Reddit's Most Disturbing Relationship Crimes
What happens when jealousy, manipulation and betrayal cross the line into criminal behavior?Sabrina Deana-Roga brings Alexis Linkletter three shocking true crime relationship stories from Reddit. A husband discovers the disturbing truth behind his wife’s secret harassment campaign, a woman learns that her boyfriend has been conducting horrifying experiments on her, and a man receives a friend requ
Kevin Collins: The Last Walk Home
On February 10, 1984, 10-year-old Kevin Collins left basketball practice at St. Agnes School in San Francisco and began the short, familiar walk home through the Sunset District. Multiple witnesses recalled seeing him speaking with an unknown man near a schoolyard. He never made it home. Despite one of the largest searches in San Francisco history — roadblocks, helicopters, hundreds of volunteers
Where Is the Ark: The Covenant's Hiding Place
According to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was a gold-covered chest built to hold the Ten Commandments, an object of such immense divine power that it could level cities and strike down anyone who touched it. Then, sometime after the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem, it vanished from history. For thousands of years, the question of what happened to it has fueled legends and obsess
Penpal: The Stalker Who Watched from the Beginning | Creepypastas
When Dathan was five, his kindergarten class released helium balloons with letters inside as a sweet lesson about connecting with strangers. But someone found his balloon... and never stopped watching him. For nearly a decade, this person photographed Dathan from the shadows, infiltrated his neighborhood, and ultimately targeted his best friend.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to
Maura Murray
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
SERIAL KILLER: The Monster of Florence with Alexis Linkletter from Crimes of Reddit
For this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined by Alexis Linkletter, co-hose of Crime House's newest show Crimes of Reddit. In 1968, a young couple was shot dead in the Italian countryside while their six-year-old son slept in the back seat: a crime that quietly launched one of Italy's most haunting serial killing sprees. For over a decade, a gunman stalked couples parked in remote areas outs
UNSOLVED: The Colonial Parkway Murders
Young couples disappeared or were found murdered along a scenic stretch of highway. The crimes unfolded across multiple locations. Fear grew as authorities struggled to connect the dots.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, & Murder to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free, subscri
Reddit’s Most Shocking Stalker Stories
Sabrina Deana-Roga brings Alexis Linkletter three of Reddit's most disturbing stalker stories, and with zero knowledge of what's coming, Alexis reacts in real time.One man is stalked by his ex at his own wedding. Another discovers someone has been secretly breaking into their apartment and moving things around. And a third shares their story of being stalked and catfished...with an ending nobody s
Andrew Gosden: The One-Way Ticket
On September 14, 2007, 14-year-old Andrew Gosden left his Doncaster home as if heading to school, doubled back once his family left, changed clothes, withdrew £200 in cash, and bought a one-way train ticket to London. CCTV cameras caught him arriving alone at King's Cross Station. After he walked out of that station, he was never seen again. Andrew was described as academically brilliant, deeply p
The Pizza Connection
For nearly a decade, the Sicilian Mafia ran the largest heroin pipeline in the world, hiding it inside something as ordinary as the neighborhood pizza parlor. Morphine was bought in Turkey, refined into heroin in Sicily, smuggled into the United States, and sold through family-owned pizzerias across the American Northeast, while the profits were laundered through banks in New York, the Bahamas, an
Ted the Caver: The First Internet Horror Story
Before creepypasta had a name, Ted the Caver existed. A real website from 2001 with real photographs: a man and his friends exploring an increasingly tight cave system, finding carved symbols, a smell, and rhythmic sounds from deeper inside. Framed as a “where did all of this come from” history of internet horror episode — tracing the line from Ted’s cave to Slenderman to every story Twisted Tales
The JFK Assassination
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
Joji Obara
Vanessa and Dr. Engels get into the case of Japanese serial rapist Joji Obara, who for thirty years, drugged and assaulted hundreds of women across Japan, documenting his crimes in chilling detail. Hiding behind false names and a surgically altered face, he evaded justice while his attacks escalated.Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1769285458
SOLVED: The Model Student Murderer
Jennifer Pan seemed like the perfect daughter—straight A’s, trophies, and a future in medicine. But behind closed doors, the pressure was suffocating. In 2010, she decided there was only one way out: murder. This is the twisted story of how a model student turned into a killer.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932 If you’re new here, don’t forget
Real People. Real Crimes | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT, a new Crime House podcast!
Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love Scams, Money, & Murder, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana-Roga.Every Tuesday, one host brings a set of true-crime stories while the other reacts in real time with no prep, no spoilers asking the questions on everyone’s mind. They pull at every
Madeleine McCann: The World's Most Watched Case with Andrea Dunlop
In this episode, we're joined by Andrea Dunlop, host of Nobody Should Believe Me, to examine the haunting case of Madeleine McCann. On the evening of May 3, 2007, three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant. What followed became the most publicized missing child investigation in modern histor
The Princes in the Tower
In 1483, two boys, the 12-year-old King of England and his 9-year-old brother, were placed in the Tower of London by their uncle, who had sworn to protect them. In 1483, two boys, the 12-year-old King of England and his 9-year-old brother, were placed in the Tower of London by their uncle, who had sworn to protect them. Instead, he declared them illegitimate and crowned himself King Richard III. T
Candle Cove: The TV Show That Wasn’t There
Adults on a forum reminisce about a childhood puppet show called Candle Cove — a skeletal pirate called the Skin-Taker, a cape made of children’s skin, an episode that was just screaming. The final post reframes every message above it. One of the most elegant twist endings in internet horror.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1839058226If you’re new her
Ed Gein
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
SERIAL KILLER: Israel Keyes
Israel Keyes spent years methodically preparing for murder: burying weapon caches across the country, committing crimes far from home, and maintaining a quiet family life to avoid suspicion. Born into a white nationalist sect and mentored by domestic terrorists, Keyes developed a chilling capacity for violence alongside an equally chilling ability to conceal it. This episode traces his upbringing,
UNSOLVED: The Galapagos Affair
A remote paradise became the setting for rivalry and tension. Settlers seeking freedom found conflict instead. Then two people vanished without explanation.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, & Murder to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at cr
John Wayne Gacy: The Real Killer Clown
Sabrina and Corinne uncover the double life of John Wayne Gacy: neighbor, community volunteer, party clown, and sadistic killer. Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys, leaving a legacy so terrifying it bled into pop culture through Stephen King’s Pennywise.For more, follow Crimes Of wherever you listen to podcasts: https://pod.link/1838511303If you’re new here, don’t
Theresa Ann Bier: Vanished in Yosemite
In July 1987, 16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier was camping in Yosemite National Park — but not with family. She had been traveling with an older man she recently met, a relationship that alarmed those who knew her. Shortly after arriving at the campground, Theresa disappeared. The man claimed she had wandered off, but investigators found holes in his account early on. With nobody recovered despite exh
The Vanishing Fortune: Lost Confederate Gold
On April 2, 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond with the entire Confederate treasury, a fortune in gold ingots, silver bricks, and coins guarded by teenage Navy midshipmen on a train heading south into a collapsing nation. Five weeks later, when Union soldiers finally captured Davis, almost all of it was gone. The War Department told the public the missing treasure was worth
The Strangers: The Passengers You Should Ignore
Andrew Erics is a twenty-five-year-old factory worker in New York City who passes his daily commute by people-watching... until he notices riders who are too still, too blank, and going absolutely nowhere. What begins as quiet curiosity slowly consumes his job, his sanity, and finally his freedom, pulling him into an impossible underground world he may never escape. And the deeper he follows, the
Billionaire Boys Club
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 Villisca Axe Murders: Eight Victims, No Answers
In June 1912, eight people were bludgeoned with an axe in a Villisca, Iowa home while they slept. The killer left behind a staged scene filled with bizarre clues but no clear identity, plunging a tight-knit community into fear and suspicion. Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1769285458If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, &a
UNSOLVED: The Sam Sheppard Case
A doctor claimed an intruder killed his wife. Headlines cast judgment long before a verdict. The case became a battle between publicity and justice.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Scams, Money, & Murder to never miss a case! To hear episodes ad-free, subscribe to Crime House+. Join at crimehouse
The Heiress Who Never Was: Anna Delvey
Between 2013 and 2017, Anna Sorokin — a Russian-born, German-raised young woman with a sharp eye for luxury and a sharper tongue for anyone who doubted her — convinced New York's elite that she was Anna Delvey, heiress to a vast European fortune. She stayed in five-star hotels, flew on private jets, defrauded banks out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and nearly secured a $22 million loan to f
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In 1802, a journalist reported that President Thomas Jefferson was keeping an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings as a concubine and had fathered her children. Jefferson said nothing. His family denied it. America's most prominent historians dismissed the story for nearly two hundred years.But Hemings' own descendants told a different story, one passed down through generations of oral history that
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