10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
10 Minute Murder is a true crime podcast that delivers brief and bingeable stories of murder and mystery. Hosted by Joe, each episode is designed to be consumed in about ten minutes, making it easy for listeners to get their true crime fix on the go. The podcast covers a variety of cases, from infamous to lesser-known, with a focus on engaging storytelling.
Episodes
Modelbehavior63: The Catfishing Murder of Kacie Woody
Modelbehavior63: The Catfishing Murder of Kacie WoodyKacie Woody picked her screen name, modelbehavior63, from a Disney movie and her big brother's football number. She was a 13-year-old sax player with a big honking laugh, and she lived at the dead end of a dirt road outside Holland, Arkansas, where calling a friend in town cost long distance. In 2002 she spent her evenings in Yahoo chat rooms. O
A Home Movie for Zachary: The Andrew Bagby Case
A Home Movie for Zachary: The Andrew Bagby CaseAndrew Bagby grew up starring in his best friend's homemade movies in California, and by 2001 he was a family medicine resident in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. One November morning, a man picking up cans in Keystone State Park found him face down on the gravel. Police zeroed in on a fellow doctor Andrew had broken up with a few days earlier, and within a co
I Choose You: The Caleb Flynn Case
I Choose You: The Caleb Flynn CaseAn Apple Watch in a Tipp City, Ohio, house counted 105 steps in the minutes before Caleb Flynn called for help. His wife, Ashley, taught Bible classes for LifeWise Academy and coached 7th grade volleyball. Caleb led worship at their church, and years earlier he made it to Hollywood Week on American Idol, where he said in a promo interview that he loved his wife mo
A Flat Tire at the Bonefish Grill: The Savannah Gold Murder
A Flat Tire at the Bonefish Grill: The Savannah Gold MurderSavannah Gold texted her mom or dad every time she got to work, and she did it in full sentences with actual punctuation. She was 21, an artist who put art school on hold to stay home while her mom went through chemo, and she waited tables at a Bonefish Grill in Jacksonville, Florida. One evening in August 2017, a text came from her phone
Hooters Girl Homicide: The Murder of Tina Foster
Hooters Girl Homicide: The Murder of Tina FosterA soldier on an Army funeral detail stops for lunch at the Hooters on Williamson Road in Roanoke, Virginia, and strikes up a conversation with one of the waitresses. Her name is Tina Foster. She wants to model, and he wants to take her picture that same night for $200. Tina leaves her parents' house in blue jeans and clogs and heads for the Hooters p
Agent 47695 The Manchester Teen Who Incited A Murder
Agent 47695: The Manchester Teen Who Incited A MurderIn June 2003, a 14-year-old boy known as John was stabbed twice in an alley behind a row of shops in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, and his 16-year-old friend Mark told detectives a hooded stranger had attacked them. The investigation that followed took police through CCTV footage and tens of thousands of lines of internet chatroom messages, an
A Revelation From God: The Real Killers of Under the Banner of Heaven
A Revelation From God: The Real Killers of Under the Banner of Heavenrenda Wright Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, were murdered in their American Fork, Utah home in July 1984, and the homicide investigation led straight to her brothers-in-law, Ron and Dan Lafferty. This is the true crime case behind Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, rooted in Mormon fundamentalism and a so-
Mamaw's House: The Sherry Cole and Jessie Allen Murders
Mamaw's House: The Sherry Cole and Jessie Allen MurdersIn April 2022, 59-year-old Sherry Cole and her 7-year-old grandson, Jessie Allen, were found dead outside their home on Old Snapps Ferry Road in Limestone, Tennessee. The homicide investigation, led by the TBI and Greene County detectives, turned quickly to the 16-year-old suspect living under the same roof, Jordan Allen. A recorded confession
The Chief's Wife: Murder in Gig Harbor
The Chief's Wife: Murder in Gig HarborIn April 2003, Tacoma Police Chief David Brame shot his estranged wife, Crystal Judson Brame, in a shopping center parking lot in Gig Harbor, Washington, while their 2 young children waited nearby. The homicide set off a state and federal investigation into how a man who failed his very first psychological evaluation ended up running the entire Tacoma Police D
Life Sentence at 14: The Carly Gregg Case
Life Sentence at 14: The Carly Gregg CaseAshley Smylie was a 40-year-old high school math teacher in Brandon, Mississippi who was shot and killed inside her own home on March 19, 2024, and the suspect deputies arrested nearby was her 14-year-old daughter, Carly Madison Gregg. Home surveillance footage drove the homicide investigation, an insanity defense, a nationally livestreamed trial, a first-d
The Last Call: Inside the Killing of Jordan Wheeler
The Last Call: Inside the Killing of Jordan WheelerIn Clinton Township, Michigan, 33-year-old Jordan Wheeler was killed on October 19, 2023, inside her own home, and the criminal investigation that followed led to a 2025 conviction for her estranged husband, Steven Wheeler, on charges of first-degree premeditated murder. The trial built its case on 911 audio, forensic evidence, and testimony from
A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell Case
A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell CaseSusan Cox Powell disappeared from her West Valley City, Utah home on December 6, 2009, launching a homicide investigation that centered on her husband, Josh Powell, before he killed himself and their two young sons in a 2012 murder-suicide. Despite a decade of searches, forensic evidence, and a $98.5 million negligence verdict against the state of Wa
Divorce Papers on an Empty Bed: The Dan Markel Case
Divorce Papers on an Empty Bed: The Dan Markel CaseDan Markel, a 41-year-old Florida State University law professor, was shot twice in the head in the garage of his Tallahassee home on July 18, 2014, in a murder-for-hire plot built by his former in-laws. The FBI and Tallahassee police investigation that followed used wiretaps, SunPass toll records, and a cooperating hitman to win five convictions,
Gerald and Charlene: The Sex Slave Murders
Gerald and Charlene: The Sex Slave MurdersBetween 1978 and 1980, Gerald and Charlene Gallego abducted and murdered at least 10 victims across California, Nevada, and Oregon, including Sacramento teenagers Rhonda Scheffler and Kippi Vaught, in a homicide investigation detectives came to call the Sex Slave Murders. The FBI arrested the couple in November 1980, and what followed was a controversial p
Au Pair Affair Murders: The Brendan Banfield Double Murder
Au Pair Affair Murders: The Brendan Banfield Double MurderOn February 24, 2023, pediatric ICU nurse Christine Banfield, 37, and a stranger named Joseph Ryan, 39, were killed inside a home in Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, in a double homicide staged to look like a home invasion. The investigation eventually turned on Christine's husband, former IRS criminal investigator Brendan Banfield, and t
Dead Weight: The Windi Thomas and Keeno Butler Case
Dead Weight: The Windi Thomas and Keeno Butler CaseOn March 18, 2018, 44-year-old Keeno Butler was killed inside his Erie, Pennsylvania apartment in a domestic violence homicide that ended with his girlfriend, 44-year-old Windi C. Thomas, pleading guilty to third-degree murder. Detectives, the Erie County Coroner, and forensic evidence documented more than 90 traumatic injuries on the victim's bod
Three Words Carved in a Tree: The Kelly Cochran Case
Three Words Carved in a Tree: The Kelly Cochran CaseKelly and Jason grew up next door to each other, married young, and made a promise on their wedding night that most people would have laughed off by breakfast. Twelve years later, in a corner of Michigan where the nearest anything is 45 minutes away, that promise turned into a plan. This one has a woman at the center who never once stopped talkin
A 13-Year-Old Killer: The Murder of Derrick Robie
A 13-Year-Old Killer: The Murder of Derrick RobieOn August 2, 1993, 4-year-old Derrick Robie was lured into a wooded area one block from his home in Savona, New York, and murdered. The suspect was 13-year-old Eric Smith, a neighbor, and the homicide investigation that followed made Smith the youngest defendant ever tried as an adult for murder in New York State, leading to a second-degree murder c
A Videotape and a First Grade Mind: The Shelton Holloway Story
A Videotape and a First Grade Mind: The Shelton Holloway StoryIn April of 1987, 17 year old Patricia Ann Hannah disappeared after a school dance in York, Alabama, and two weeks later her body was found behind an Alabama Power office. A fellow Sumter County High School student named Shelton Jerome Holloway, a special education student with a documented intellectual disability, was arrested and even
The Cooler That Wouldn't Sink: The Anne Marie Fahey Story
The Cooler That Wouldn't Sink: The Anne Marie Fahey StoryAnne Marie Fahey, a 30-year-old appointments secretary for Delaware's governor, vanished from Wilmington in June 1996 after having dinner with prominent attorney Thomas Capano. The investigation that followed became Delaware's first murder conviction ever secured without a body, a weapon, or a confirmed cause of death.This one starts at a di
Bobby Joe Long: The Serial Killer a 17-Year-Old Girl Took Down
Bobby Joe Long: The Serial Killer a 17-Year-Old Girl Took DownBobby Joe Long murdered at least 10 women across Tampa, Florida between March and November 1984, evading investigators until a 17-year-old survivor's memory cracked the case wide open. The homicide investigation, later corroborated by FBI forensic evidence and Long's own confession, led to his conviction and a 1988 death sentence.A body
50 Dollars and a New Name: The Jeremy Bryan Jones Story
50 Dollars and a New Name: The Jeremy Bryan Jones StoryIn September 2004, 43-year-old Lisa Nichols was raped and murdered inside her Turnerville, Alabama home just days after Hurricane Ivan tore through the region, and the man responsible had been living under a stolen identity for four years thanks to a fingerprint system that failed him. Jeremy Bryan Jones walked free through three separate arre
The Grandparents Who Killed for Cattle Money
The Grandparents Who Killed for Cattle MoneyPicture the most harmless looking couple you can imagine. Now picture that couple with a farm, a livestock scam, and a body count. Ray and Faye Copeland spent fifty years married before they became, at 66 and 69, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death row in American history. This one has a quilt in it. It has a list. It has a man who talked his way o
The Fixer, the Photos, and the Death of Tom
The Fixer, the Photos, and the Death of Tom MerrimanIn December 2020, a Solana Beach, California woman named Jade Janks drugged and killed the man she'd called her father for over two decades, then spent New Year's Day disguising his body as a pile of trash in their shared driveway. Thomas Merriman was a beloved butterfly conservationist. Jade Janks was the stepdaughter who'd cooked him dinner eve
The Serial Killer Shrine: The Shaye Groves and Frankie Fitzgerald Case
The Serial Killer Shrine: The Shaye Groves and Frankie Fitzgerald CaseHer bedroom walls were covered in framed photos of serial killers. Her bookshelf was stacked with true crime and gangster biographies. And when the moment came, prosecutors say she used everything she'd absorbed from years of true crime obsession to try to talk her way out of what she'd done. This is the story of a relationship
The Captain Who Hired a Hitman The Harding Story
The Captain Who Hired a Hitman: The Harding StoryOn September 26, 2022, the body of 53-year-old Sacramento HVAC contractor Michael Harding was discovered inside a vacant home for sale on Glasgow Road in Burkesville, Kentucky, shot four times. The investigation that followed led Kentucky State Police, FBI agents, and detectives across three states to California Highway Patrol Captain Julie Harding
The House of Horrors: Billy Mansfield's Family of Predators
The House of Horrors: Billy Mansfield's Family of PredatorsIn 1980, along the Florida coast from Spring Hill to Daytona Beach, a chilling pattern emerged that Detroit investigators would later connect to serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr. Six women and teenage girls vanished or were found buried beneath a mobile home in Weeki Wachee Acres, with DNA technology in 2022 finally identifying one victim
Blood in the Rocket City: The 1998 Franklin Family Massacre
Blood in the Rocket City: The 1998 Franklin Family MassacreOn March 10, 1998, seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Brendan Franklin attacked his own family inside their home at 1305 Camelot Drive in Huntsville, Alabama, killing his parents Gerald and Cynthia Franklin and critically wounding three of his four younger siblings with a sledgehammer, hatchet, butcher knife, and a mechanic’s rat-tail file. The Hu
Fifty Dollars and a Bus Ticket: The Robert Alton Harris Story
Fifty Dollars and a Bus Ticket: The Robert Alton Harris StoryOn July 5, 1978, sixteen-year-old best friends John Mayeski and Michael Baker were abducted, murdered, and left in the brush near Miramar Lake in San Diego, California, by Robert Alton Harris and his younger brother Daniel during the planning of a bank robbery. The investigation, the trial, the criminal profile of the suspect, and the fo
The Real-Life Boogeyman: Albert Fish in 1920s New York
The Real-Life Boogeyman: Albert Fish in 1920s New YorkIn 1928 New York City, ten-year-old Grace Budd walks out of her family’s Manhattan apartment with a soft-spoken “farmer” named Frank Howard and disappears, pulling her parents, detectives, and eventually a courtroom into one of the most disturbing homicide investigations in American history. The search for Grace exposes a pattern of missing chi
The Beauty School Killer: What Really Happened in Wenatchee
The Beauty School Killer: What Really Happened in WenatcheeIn February 2010, 17-year-old Mackenzie Cowell disappeared from the Academy of Hair Design in Wenatchee, Washington, and four days later her body was found on the banks of the Columbia River. The homicide investigation that followed became the largest multi-agency case the region had seen in years, eventually drawing in the FBI and zeroing
Two Dead Fathers and a Demon: The 2008 Texas Exorcism Murder
Two Dead Fathers and a Demon: The 2008 Texas Exorcism MurderThe 2008 murder of 13-month-old Amora Bain Carson in Tatum, Texas remains one of the most disturbing capital cases in modern American history. Her mother, Jesseca Bain Carson, and the mother's boyfriend, Blaine Keith Milam, were both convicted of capital murder after a sheriff's investigation, forensic evidence including 24 human bite mar
Killed by a Fake Cop: The Kaylee Sawyer Story
Killed by a Fake Cop: The Kaylee Sawyer StoryThe 2016 murder of Kaylee Sawyer in Bend, Oregon shocked a town that thought it was untouchable. Edwin Enoc Lara, a Central Oregon Community College campus safety officer who had failed his police psychological evaluation, abducted and killed the 23-year-old student in his marked patrol vehicle, sparking a multi-state manhunt, a federal kidnapping case,
The Digital Leash: Serial Murder Under Government Supervision
The Digital Leash: Serial Murder Under Government SupervisionIn Orange County, California, between October 2013 and March 2014, registered sex offenders Steven Dean Gordon and Franc Cano abducted, raped, and murdered at least five women while actively wearing state and federally mandated GPS ankle monitors. The investigation, led by Anaheim homicide detective Julissa Trapp, eventually cracked the
The Bleach Killer: The Kimberly Saenz Murders
The Bleach Killer: The Kimberly Saenz MurdersIn April 2008, licensed vocational nurse Kimberly Clark Saenz committed one of the most disturbing healthcare serial killings in American history at a DaVita dialysis clinic in Lufkin, Texas. The homicide investigation connected Saenz to five patient deaths and four aggravated assaults after eyewitnesses watched her draw concentrated household bleach in
Nobody Would Miss Them: The Craigslist Murders of Richard Beasley
Nobody Would Miss Them: The Craigslist Murders of Richard BeasleyIn 2011, Richard Beasley of Akron, Ohio was convicted in the homicide investigation surrounding the murders of Ralph Geiger, 56, David Pauley, 51, and Timothy Kern, 47 — three men lured to a remote Noble County location through a fraudulent Craigslist job posting, then shot and buried in shallow graves. A fourth victim, Scott Davis,
FBI Most Wanted to Motivational Speaker to Murderer: Edward Wayne Edwards
FBI Most Wanted to Motivational Speaker to Murderer: Edward Wayne EdwardsEdward Wayne Edwards, born Charles Wayne Murray, was an armed robber who landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in 1961 before reinventing himself as a celebrated motivational speaker on prison reform, appearing on national television game shows and lecturing at police academies across the country. Investigators e
The Alexandria Assassin: The Strange Descent of Charles Severance
The Alexandria Assassin: The Strange Descent of Charles SeveranceIn December 2003, Nancy Dunning, wife of Alexandria, Virginia Sheriff James Dunning, was shot and killed after answering a knock at her front door, launching a cold case homicide investigation that would remain unsolved for over a decade. Ballistics, eyewitness testimony, and forensic evidence eventually linked the murder to Charles
Fuzzy Slipper on the Gas Pedal: The Mackenzie Shirilla Murder Case
Fuzzy Slipper on the Gas Pedal: The Mackenzie Shirilla Murder CaseOn July 31, 2022, in Strongsville, Ohio, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla drove a 2018 Toyota Camry into a brick wall at nearly 100 miles per hour, killing her 20-year-old boyfriend Dominic Russo and their 19-year-old friend Davion Flanagan. Black box telemetry, GPS data pulled from a teen location-sharing app, and thousands of recove
The Grief Book: How Kouri Richins Hid a Murder Behind a Children's Story
The Grief Book: How Kouri Richins Hid a Murder Behind a Children's StoryIn March 2022, Eric Richins of Kamas, Utah died of acute fentanyl intoxication, with five times the lethal dose detected in his system. His wife, Kouri Richins, was convicted of first-degree aggravated murder in March 2026 following a trial built on forensic accounting, toxicology reports, witness testimony, and a handwritten
Burlap and Blueprints: Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach Murders
Burlap and Blueprints: Rex Heuermann and the Gilgo Beach MurdersIn April 2026, Rex Andrew Heuermann pleaded guilty to the murders of at least eight women in one of the most devastating serial homicide cases in Long Island history, after a decades-long investigation by the Suffolk County Police Department and the Gilgo Beach Homicide Task Force broke the case through forensic DNA evidence, surveill
Always Laughing: How Demorris Hunter Hid a Serial Killer Behind a Friendly Face
Always Laughing: How Demorris Hunter Hid a Serial Killer Behind a Friendly FaceIn 2002, California parolee Demorris Andy Hunter shot and killed forty-one-year-old Ivora Denise Huntley in Oakland after she intervened in a domestic assault, then fled to Orlando, Florida, where he strangled and concealed the body of thirty-eight-year-old Theresa Ann Green before stealing the identity of a Washington
The Peacemaker: Jesse Alvarez and the Murder of Mario Fierro
The Peacemaker: Jesse Alvarez and the Murder of Mario FierroOn February 1, 2021, Mario Fierro, a 37-year-old social studies teacher and football coach at Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego, California, was shot and killed outside his home by Jesse Milton Alvarez, the ex-boyfriend of Fierro's fiancée, fellow teacher Amy Gembara. Alvarez had been systematically stalking Gembara for over a y
Black Swan Murder: The Trial of Ashley Benefield
Black Swan Murder: The Trial of Ashley BenefieldIn Lakewood Ranch, Florida, on September 27, 2020, retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer Douglas Benefield was fatally shot by his wife, Ashley Benefield, a former professional ballerina and Trump campaign staffer. The Manatee County homicide investigation led to a July 2024 murder trial in which Ashley mounted a battered spouse syndrome defense, re
Carroll Edward Cole: The Man Who Asked to Be Stopped
Carroll Edward Cole: The Man Who Asked to Be StoppedCarroll Edward Cole was convicted of murdering at least thirteen women across California, Nevada, Wyoming, and Texas between 1971 and 1980, making him one of the most prolific and underdocumented serial killers of the twentieth century. Despite repeated contact with law enforcement, psychiatric evaluation at multiple state hospitals, and document
Six Months of Warnings: What Rochester Missed Before the Brom Massacre
Six Months of Warnings: What Rochester Missed Before the Brom MassacreIn February 1988, sixteen-year-old David Brom murdered his parents, Bernard and Paulette, and two of his younger siblings, Diane and Richard, with an axe at their home in Rochester, Minnesota, in what became the most notorious mass killing in Minnesota state history. The investigation by the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, the
Britain's Most Disturbing Love Story: The Moors Murders
Britain's Most Disturbing Love Story: The Moors MurdersIan Brady and Myra Hindley abducted and murdered five children between July 1963 and October 1965 in and around Manchester, England, burying their victims on Saddleworth Moor in what became the most devastating criminal investigation in British history. The case, known as the Moors Murders, led to their conviction in 1966, fundamentally altere
True Crime Blueprint - JonBenét: The Family, the Secrets, and the Case That Broke America
This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go here:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139
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The Rise and Fall of Pretty Boy Floyd: Corn Liquor and Submachine Guns
The Rise and Fall of Pretty Boy Floyd: Corn Liquor and Submachine GunsIn October 1934, FBI agents shot and killed Charles Arthur Floyd, known nationwide as "Pretty Boy" Floyd, in an Ohio cornfield, closing the book on one of the most controversial manhunts in American criminal history. Floyd, a Sequoyah County, Oklahoma bank robber elevated to Public Enemy Number One by J. Edgar Hoover's newly for
The Phantom of Heilbronn: The Most Dangerous Woman Nobody Could Find
The Phantom of Heilbronn: The Most Dangerous Woman Nobody Could FindFor over a decade, European law enforcement hunted a woman they called the Phantom of Heilbronn, a suspected serial killer whose DNA appeared at more than forty crime scenes across Germany, Austria, and France. Her profile connected murders, burglaries, drug offenses, and eventually the killing of a police officer in broad dayligh
True Crime Blueprint - The Boy They Called Pee Wee: A Serial Killer's Origin Story
This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go here:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139
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The Teflon Don: How John Gotti Ran New York and Lost Everything
The Teflon Don: How John Gotti Ran New York and Lost EverythingIn 1985, John Gotti orchestrated the assassination of Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano outside Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan, setting off one of the most aggressive FBI investigations in organized crime history. The RICO prosecution that followed resulted in Gotti's 1992 conviction on five counts of murder, racketeer
The Smiling Confession: How Alyssa Bradburn Planned Her Father's Death
The Smiling Confession: How Alyssa Bradburn Planned Her Father's DeathIn June 2024, 68-year-old Timothy Bradburn flew home from Hawaii to fix a leaking roof at his Spokane, Washington house. He walked through the front door holding his suitcase and his keys, and he never set them down.His daughter Alyssa had been planning this for three weeks. She practiced at a gun range. She wrote a journal deta
True Crime Blueprint - Robin Hood Hills: The West Memphis Three Story
This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go here:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139
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Ice Cream and a Shallow Grave: The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping
Ice Cream and a Shallow Grave: The Bobby Greenlease KidnappingIn September 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease was abducted from his Kansas City Catholic school and murdered within hours, setting off the largest ransom demand in American history. The FBI investigation into the murder of Robert Greenlease Jr. by Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady led to a swift federal conviction, a double exe
The Pine Barrens Body: Who Killed Cody MacPherson?
The Pine Barrens Body: Who Killed Cody MacPherson?In September 2017, 20-year-old Cody MacPherson disappeared from Pemberton Township, New Jersey, launching a six-month investigation that eventually drew in New Jersey State Police homicide detectives, Ocean County prosecutors, and a forensic team working largely skeletal remains discovered near the Colliers Mills Wildlife Management Area. Alan McGi
Who Killed the Rhoden Family? The Wagner Family's Pike County Massacre Explained
Who Killed the Rhoden Family? The Wagner Family's Pike County Massacre ExplainedIn April 2016, eight members of the Rhoden and Gilley families were found shot execution-style across four separate locations in Pike County, Ohio, in what became one of the most extensive homicide investigations in American history. After two years of surveillance, wiretaps, ballistics analysis, and a homemade silence
The Chelsea Perkins Case: A Veteran, a Double Life, and an Execution in the Woods
The Chelsea Perkins Case: A Veteran, a Double Life, and an Execution in the WoodsIn March 2021, the body of Matthew Dunmire, 31, was found in a remote ravine inside Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Valley View, Ohio. The federal homicide investigation led agents to Chelsea Perkins, a 35-year-old United States Coast Guard veteran who had driven 300 miles from Alexandria, Virginia, to commit the cri
Alaska Serial Killer Robert Hansen: The Baker Who Hunted His Victims Like Game
Alaska Serial Killer Robert Hansen: The Baker Who Hunted His Victims Like GameIn 1983, Anchorage, Alaska investigators connected respected local businessman Robert Christian Hansen to the murders of at least seventeen women, building their criminal profile case through FBI behavioral analysis, forensic evidence recovered from a hidden attic cache, and the survivor testimony of seventeen-year-old C
Bodies in Barrels: The True Story of the Snowtown Murders
Bodies in Barrels: The True Story of the Snowtown Murders In May 1999, South Australian police breached the vault of a disused bank building in the remote town of Snowtown and found eight barrels of human remains, uncovering what would become the most prolific serial murder case in Australian history. The Snowtown murders, also known as the Bodies in Barrels case, resulted in the convictions of Jo
The High Priest of New Castle: Frank Costal and the Kadunce Ritual Murders
The High Priest of New Castle: Frank Costal and the Kadunce Ritual MurdersOn July 11, 1978, Kathy Kadunce, age 25, and her four-year-old daughter Dawn were found stabbed to death inside their New Castle, Pennsylvania home in what investigators would eventually classify as a ritualistic homicide connected to a Satanic cult operating in Lawrence County. The cold case investigation sat dormant for th
Missing in Cleveland: The True Story of the Seymour Avenue Abductions
Missing in Cleveland: The True Story of the Seymour Avenue AbductionsIn 2002, Michelle Knight became the first victim in a kidnapping investigation that would span eleven years in Cleveland, Ohio, as Ariel Castro abducted three women and held them captive at 2207 Seymour Avenue in one of the most significant missing persons failures in American criminal history. Detectives failed to connect the di
The Zombie Hunter Murders: Phoenix's Most Haunting Cold Case Finally Solved
The Zombie Hunter Murders: Phoenix's Most Haunting Cold Case Finally SolvedIn November 1992, Angela Brosso, age 21, was murdered and decapitated on a Phoenix, Arizona canal path on the eve of her 22nd birthday. Ten months later, 17-year-old Melanie Bernas was found in the same canal system, staged in clothing that didn't belong to her. For 22 years, the Phoenix Canal Murders stood as one of Arizon
Operation Misty: The Undercover Sting That Caught a Serial Killer
Operation Misty: The Undercover Sting That Caught a Serial KillerIn October 1997, the body of Samantha Class, a 29-year-old mother of three, was discovered partially submerged in the muddy foreshore of the River Humber near North Ferriby, England. DNA evidence pointed directly at suspect Gary Arthur Allen, but in a 2000 trial at Sheffield Crown Court, Allen walked free. Twenty-one years later, in
The Wrong Mother: How Julie Rea Was Convicted of Killing Her Own Son
The Wrong Mother: How Julie Rea Was Convicted of Killing Her Own SonIn October 1997, ten-year-old Joel Kirkpatrick was stabbed to death in his bed in Lawrenceville, Illinois, in a homicide investigation that would expose the catastrophic consequences of tunnel vision policing, junk forensic science, and the weight a single courtroom assumption can carry. His mother, Julie Rea, a PhD student in edu
Sheila and Clay Fletcher: The Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die
Sheila and Clay Fletcher: The Parents Who Let Their Daughter DieOn January 3, 2022, first responders entered a home in Slaughter, Louisiana, and discovered 36-year-old Lacey Fletcher deceased, the victim of years of catastrophic neglect committed by her parents, Sheila and Clay Fletcher. The investigation resulted in second-degree murder charges, a surprising plea deal, and a sentencing that ignit
True Crime Blueprint - Building a Murder Business: HH Holmes and the Industrialization of Death
This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go here:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139
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The Shadow of the Adirondacks: Robert Garrow and the Lawyers Who Kept His Deadly Secrets
The Shadow of the Adirondacks: Robert Garrow and the Lawyers Who Kept His Deadly SecretsIn the summer of 1973, serial killer Robert Garrow launched an 18-day murder spree through New York's Adirondack wilderness, triggering the largest manhunt in state history and leaving investigators with a map marked with 26 red dots and far too few answers. The homicide investigation surrounding victims Alicia
Jeffrey Mundt and Joseph Banis: The Fourth Street House of Horrors
Jeffrey Mundt and Joseph Banis: The Fourth Street House of HorrorsIn December 2009, Jamie Carroll, a 37-year-old master hair stylist from Louisville, Kentucky, disappeared after a night of drugs and sex at a Victorian mansion on Fourth Street in Old Louisville. His body wouldn't be discovered for six months, sealed in a 50-gallon container and buried five feet beneath the basement floor. The inves
True Crime Blueprint - From Football Hero To Fugitive: OJ Simpson
This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases. To follow and subscribe, go here:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139
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Justin Mohn: How Right-Wing Radicalization Led to Father's Beheading
Justin Mohn: How Right-Wing Radicalization Led to Father's BeheadingOn January 30, 2024, 68-year-old Michael Mohn, a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was shot and beheaded in his Levittown, Pennsylvania home by his 33-year-old son Justin Mohn. The murder investigation revealed forensic evidence including a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol purchased 24 hours before the killing, a notebook
Blueprint for a Monster - Edmund Kempers Genius Level IQ and Ten Murders
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Julissa Thaler: The Mother Who Bought a Shotgun After Losing Custody Battle
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