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
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
Deadly Destinations: Paradise Lost
Three tropical destinations, three true crimes: in Aruba, 35-year-old Robyn Gardner vanishes from a beach with a travel companion who later tries to collect her life insurance... and is never charged. On Thailand's Koh Tao, British backpackers Hannah Witheridge and David Miller are found murdered at dawn, and the convictions that follow are disputed worldwide. In Bali, nine young Australians are a
Thomas Jefferson's Secret Family
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
The Strangers: The Passengers You Should Ignore | Creepypastas
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
The Rajneesh Movement
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.Follow America's Most I
Ed Kemper
Ed Kemper was intelligent, articulate, and seemingly self-aware—but beneath that surface was a violent fantasy life that began taking shape early. In Part 1, Vanessa and Dr. Engels trace Kemper’s troubled youth, his first killings, and the psychological warning signs that foreshadowed something far darker.Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1769
SOLVED: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
Boys began disappearing near a remote ranch. Suspicion centered on a charismatic but volatile man. The discoveries that followed horrified the public.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 crimehou
The Night Jim Jones Ended the World: Peoples Temple
Jim Jones told his people he loved them. He built a church that preached racial equality and social justice at a time when those words carried weight. Then he moved nearly a thousand followers to a jungle compound in Guyana and called it paradise. On November 18, 1978, 918 people died at Jonestown — including 304 children — in a mass poisoning Jones called a revolutionary act. We trace the full ar
Tiffany Daniels: Last Light at Fort Pickens
On August 12, 2013, 25-year-old theater technician Tiffany Daniels left her job at Pensacola State College and never arrived at a friend's home that evening. The next morning, her car was found locked at Fort Pickens — a remote Gulf Coast location known for sweeping beaches and a historic fortification — with her purse, phone, and personal belongings still inside. Authorities initially explored wh
Introducing: Government That Doesn’t Suck
The government gets a bad rap. But the roads under your feet, the forecast on your phone, and the letter in your mailbox are all government too. Hosted by Professors Greg Jackson and Lindsey Cormack, Government That Doesn't Suck brings together the sharpest thinkers to reveal the real-world impact of American government, one episode at a time. Follow Government That Doesn’t Suck for a new episod
The Devil's Cosmonaut: Horror on a Space Station | Creepypastas
In 1976, Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov endured a catastrophic solo stint aboard the Salyut 5 space station: contaminated air, a crumbling support system, and a rescue that nearly ended in disaster. The creepypasta "The Devil's Cosmonaut" takes that real mission and asks one quiet question: what if it wasn't just the air? Built on documented failures, classified silence, and the psychological terr
Richard Ramirez
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
The D.C. Snipers: Murder Manipulation and a Lost Boy Pt. 2
In the fall of 2002, John Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo killed nearly 20 people across the mid-Atlantic and southern United States, paralyzing the nation with fear. Until a trail of careless mistakes finally led investigators to the pair sleeping in their Chevy Caprice at a Maryland rest stop. Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for more stories like these: https://pod
Introducing: The First 48 | From Crime House and A&E
For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don’t get a lead within the first 48 hours.Adapted from the hit A&E true crime series The First 48, Crime House Studios brings you the podcast that drops you inside that critical window: the interrogations, the dead ends, and the breakthroughs that crack a case wide open. Each week, we revisit a landmark investiga
The Last Transmission: Heaven's Gate
Marshall Applewhite believed — and made others believe — that Earth was about to be wiped clean, and that the only escape was to shed the human body and board a spacecraft trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. In March 1997, 39 members of Heaven's Gate were found dead in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, dressed in matching black and wearing new Nike sneakers. They had packed bags for the journey.
Amy Lynn Bradley: Lost at Sea
On the morning of March 24, 1998, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while it was docked in Curaçao. She had been dancing with her brother the night before and was last seen resting on the cabin balcony at dawn — then she was simply gone. The ship was not locked down before passengers disembarked, potentially allowing critical evidence to walk off the vessel.
The Happiest Place You Can't Leave: The Disney Machine
Walt Disney didn't just build a theme park. He built a system of total control, and convinced the world to call it magic. Employees aren't staff, they're "cast members." Uniforms are "costumes." Guests who step out of line are escorted by plainclothes security to unmarked holding rooms. Beneath the park, a nine-acre tunnel network houses a command center monitoring over 70,000 functions per second
No End House: The Haunted House with Nine Rooms
A man visits a 9-room haunted house attraction — each room stranger and more personal than the last. The dread escalates almost boringly, then completely overwhelms. No monsters, no jump scares. The horror is in how the house knows you. Slow-burn psychological dread that works as a palette cleanser in the middle of the summer creature run.For more follow Twisted Tales wherever you listen to podcas
Candy Montgomery
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
The D.C. Snipers
In the fall of 2002, a series of seemingly random shootings paralyzed the Washington, D.C. area. No one knew where the next bullet would strike—or why. In Part 1, Vanessa and Dr. Engels break down the early attacks, the public terror, and the frantic race to stop an invisible threat.Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1769285458If you’re new her
SOLVED: Kitty Genovese
A young woman was attacked outside her apartment. Early accounts suggested indifference from witnesses. The tragedy became symbolic far beyond the crime itself.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 a
The Cult That Mummified Its God: Love Has Won
Love Has Won centered on Amy Carlson, who claimed to be a divine being leading followers toward ascension. After her death, authorities discovered her mummified body decorated in lights, exposing severe psychological control within the group. The crimes illustrate how online-age cult dynamics can spiral into neglect, abuse, and fatal delusion.For part 2 of this story, follow Crimes Of wherever you
Tammy Lynn Leppert: The Starlet Who Knew Too Much
On July 6, 1983 — 43 years to the day this episode drops — 18-year-old model and aspiring actress Tammy Lynn Leppert accepted a ride from a male acquaintance in Cocoa Beach, Florida, and was never seen again. In the weeks before she vanished, Tammy had become increasingly terrified, telling those close to her she had witnessed something she wasn't supposed to see and feared for her life. She had a
The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
In the summer of 1776, as the Continental Army braced for a British invasion of New York City, a network of loyalist conspirators bribed five of George Washington's own elite bodyguards to murder him. Governor William Tryon orchestrated the scheme from a ship in New York Harbor, funneling money through the city's mayor to a gunsmith recruiter... and nearly pulling it off. For more, follow Conspira
Polybius: The Arcade Game That Read Your Mind
An arcade cabinet appears in Portland in 1981, tucked between ordinary machines and drawing a strange crowd. Players report migraines, vivid nightmares, and missing time. Then the game disappears, leaving behind only forum posts, half-remembered sightings, and one of the internet’s most persistent gaming legends. Heidi traces the Polybius myth from early message boards to modern retellings, and as
Elizabeth Smart: Her Family Had Already Met Her Kidnapper
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
The Midnight Assassin
In 1880s Austin, Texas, a shadowy killer stalked the city under cover of darkness, leaving behind brutal murders that sparked panic and rumor. In Part 1, Vanessa and Dr. Engels explore the early crimes, the social tensions of the era, and the birth of one of America’s first urban murder mysteries.Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1769285458Joi
The Wonderland Murders
A violent home invasion stunned Los Angeles. The crime scene revealed staggering brutality. Rumors swirled about who orchestrated it.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932Join Crime House+ to binge a special limited series on Murder: True Crime Stories for America’s 250th: The Crimes That Built America. These are the cases that created the FBI, ga
Death Was the Destination: The Order of the Solar Temple
The Order of the Solar Temple was an apocalyptic secret society that orchestrated mass murder-suicides across Switzerland, Canada, and France in the 1990s. Leaders convinced members that death was a “transit” to a higher spiritual realm tied to cosmic prophecy. The crimes reveal how esoteric belief systems can escalate into coordinated, ritualized violence.For part 2 of this story, follow Crimes O
Lauren Agee: Who Let Her Fall
On a summer night in July 2015, 21-year-old Lauren Agee was camping with friends on a towering rocky bluff above Center Hill Lake at Tennessee's Wakefest boating festival. By morning, she was dead at the base of the cliff ninety feet below. Authorities ruled it an accidental fall. Her family never accepted that answer. Inconsistencies in the autopsy, shifting witness accounts, and a scene that was
Who Drew the Nazca Lines?
In Peru's scorching Nazca Valley, ancient inhabitants carved enormous animal figures into the desert floor over a thousand years ago — figures so large they can only be understood from the air. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, Vanessa traces the decades-long quest to decode these mysterious formations, from the mathematician who dedicated her life to the desert to the bes
Ted the Caver: The Horror Underground | Creepypastas
In early 2001, a recreational caver named Ted documented his obsessive attempt to break through a sealed passage deep inside a cave... and what he found on the other side became one of the internet's earliest and most disturbing horror stories. Presented as a real personal account with photographs and journal entries, Ted the Caver predated modern creepypastas and convinced countless readers it wa
Karen Read: Did She Kill Her Boyfriend…Or Was She Framed?
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 descriptions of death, and references to domestic conflict. Please listen with care.Follow America's Most Infamous Crimes to hear the rest of the story: https://pod.link/1882861002Join Crime House+ to binge a special limited
Cleveland Torso Murders
In the mid-1930s, Cleveland, Ohio was gripped by a series of brutal killings that would become one of the most disturbing mysteries in American criminal history. Victims were discovered dismembered, their heads and limbs removed, leaving investigators struggling to identify the dead or track the killer responsible. As the bodies began appearing along the city’s rail yards and riverbanks, fear spre
SOLVED: Gianni Versace
A fashion icon was gunned down outside his home. The murder stunned the creative world. Behind the glamour was a calculated predator.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932Join Crime House+ to binge a special limited series on Murder: True Crime Stories for America’s 250th: The Crimes That Built America. These are the cases that created the FBI, ga
The Salad Bar That Started a War: The Rajneesh Movement
Led by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), the movement built a utopian commune in Oregon that devolved into bioterrorism, immigration fraud, and assassination plots. In 1984, members carried out the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history by poisoning salad bars to sway a local election. The case shows how charismatic leadership and insular power structures can turn spiritual movements into criminal
Tom Brown: A Teenage Secret
On the night before Thanksgiving 2016, eighteen-year-old Tom Brown left his home in Canadian, Texas to go cruising with friends. But he never came home. When his red Dodge Durango turned up the next morning at a sewage treatment plant on the edge of town, there was a bullet casing on the floor and a drop of his blood on the door handle, but no sign of Tom. What followed was two years of strange di
China's Bigfoot featuring Maci and Nadoly from GHOSTEAS
For over two thousand years, the Yeren — China's legendary wildman — has haunted the mountains and folklore of rural China, inspiring fear, government bans, and even a state-funded scientific expedition. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, Vanessa traces the creature's origins from ancient poetry to modern eyewitness accounts, and follows the researcher who spent fifty years
Ben Drowned
In September 2010, a college student bought a used copy of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask at a garage sale, and discovered a save file named BEN belonging to a boy who had drowned years before. What started as glitchy gameplay quickly became something far more sinister: a presence that manipulated the game, invaded his computer, and refused to be deleted. Ben Drowned is the creepypasta that re
D.B. Cooper: The Man Who Hijacked A Plane, Took $200,000 and Vanished
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
SERIAL KILLER: "The Candy Man" Dean Corll
In early 1970s Houston, Texas, businessman Dean Corll used free candy, a party-ready apartment, and a carefully cultivated reputation as a community pillar to lure teenage boys to their deaths. But behind his friendly facade, Corll was systematically grooming victims... and recruiting young accomplices to help him carry out increasingly brutal crimes. This episode traces his childhood, his escalat
SOLVED: Sal Mineo
An actor known for his vulnerability was attacked near his home. The crime shocked Hollywood. His death marked the end of a complex life.Follow Murder: True Crime Stories for Part 2 of this episode: https://pod.link/1745145932Join Crime House+ to binge a special limited series on Murder: True Crime Stories for America’s 250th: The Crimes That Built America. These are the cases that created the FBI
The Crimes that Built America | Murder: True Crime Stories
Crime House’s Murder: True Crime Stories presents a special series for America’s 250th Birthday: The Crimes That Built America. Listen every Monday until July 6th on Murder: True Crime Stories. Join Crime House+ to get all 4 episodes right now ad-free. To subscribe, go to crimehouseplus.com or if you are listening on Apple Podcasts, tap “Try Free” at the top of this show’s page.250 years ago, a br
Kris Kremers & Lisanne Froon: What the Camera Saw
In April 2014, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, two Dutch women in their early twenties, went for a daytime hike on a trail near Boquete, Panama. They never came back. Weeks later, their backpack was found on a jungle riverbank with their phones, camera, and cash still inside. What was on that camera changed everything: photographs taken in total darkness over several days, including what appears t
Lemuria the Lost Continent
In the mid-1800s, a British naturalist named Philip Sclater proposed the existence of a vast sunken continent — Lemuria — to explain a gap in the fossil record. What began as a genuine scientific hypothesis was seized upon by occultists, racists, and spiritual movements, mutating over 150 years into a living religion practiced at the foot of a California volcano. In this episode of Conspiracy Theo
Dear David: The Ghost in the Replies
What began as a series of tweets about sleep paralysis turned into one of the internet’s most famous live-haunting stories. A man named Adam begins posting about a dead child with a misshapen head who appears first in dreams, then in photographs, then seemingly inside his apartment. Heidi walks through the Dear David thread as it unfolded in real time, and explores why serialized horror told throu
Chris Watts
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
Joe Ball
In 1930s Elmendorf, Texas, tavern owner Joe Ball built a reputation for wild alligator feedings and a revolving door of female employees who kept disappearing without explanation. Reportedly a descendant of notorious slaveholders, Ball graduated from bootlegger to killer, and when the women in his life became inconvenient, they simply vanished. Follow Serial Killers & Murderous Minds for Part
SOLVED: Meredith Kercher
A student studying abroad was found murdered in her apartment. The case became international news overnight. Her life was frequently eclipsed by spectacle.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 cri
The End of the Summer of Love: The Manson Family
In the summer of 1969, Los Angeles was living in the long glow of the counterculture — until two nights of murders shattered it beyond repair. Charles Manson never held the knife himself, but he held something more powerful: the total psychological devotion of young men and women who would kill on his word. We examine how Manson built his family, what he promised them, the ideology of race war he
Ben McDaniel: Into the Deep
In August 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel suited up for a dive into Vortex Spring, a celebrated cave diving site in Florida, and descended into a narrow underwater passage. He never returned. One of the employees claimed to have watched Ben enter a restricted section of the cave, a passage that required advanced certification that Ben didn't have. Despite exhaustive underwater searches, his body wa
The Bridgewater Triangle
In southeastern Massachusetts, a stretch of land known as the Bridgewater Triangle has been a magnet for paranormal activity for centuries: cryptid sightings, UFO encounters, ghostly apparitions, and evidence of occult rituals. Many trace the darkness back to King Philip's War of 1675-76, one of the deadliest conflicts per capita in American history, which left the land scarred by massacre, displa
Anansi’s Goatman: When the Terror Blends In
In the summer of 2012, a teenager's camping trip on remote Alabama woodland turns into something no one can explain. What begins with strange smells and figures standing motionless in the dark escalates when the group realizes there's an extra person in their group... without anyone noticing. The horror isn't a monster in the woods. It's a creature already inside the room.For more follow Twisted T
The Clutter Family
On the night of November 14th, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were bound and shot dead in their farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas. Nothing of value had been stolen. The doors, as always, had been unlocked.In the first of three episodes on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring traces who the Clutters really were, and the morning when friends and neighbors arrived for church and found them gon
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