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
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
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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
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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
Julissa Thaler: The Mother Who Bought a Shotgun After Losing Custody BattleIn May 2022, Orono police discovered six-year-old Eli Hart's body in the trunk of his mother Julissa Thaler's vehicle during a routine traffic stop in Minnesota. The investigation revealed Thaler had shot Eli up to nine times with a 12-gauge shotgun just ten days after regaining full custody. Evidence included the weapon pu
Mississippi Civil Rights Murder: The Medgar Evers Case Explained
Mississippi Civil Rights Murder: The Medgar Evers Case ExplainedIn June 1963, NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers was shot in the back outside his Jackson, Mississippi home by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. The assassination triggered a 31-year investigation involving forensic evidence, FBI fingerprint analysis, two hung jury trials, and shocking interference by Mississippi's governor and
Larry Gene Bell: The Sadistic Killer Who Tortured Families by Phone
Larry Gene Bell: The Sadistic Killer Who Tortured Families by PhoneIn May 1985, seventeen-year-old Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her family's driveway in broad daylight near Lexington, South Carolina, sparking one of the most intensive FBI investigations in the region's history. The perpetrator, Larry Gene Bell, tortured Shari's family with phone calls for days before killing nine-year-old De
Four Dead in Ohio: The Kent State Shootings Investigation
Four Dead in Ohio: The Kent State Shootings InvestigationIn May 1970, National Guardsmen fired 67 rounds in thirteen seconds at Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War's expansion into Cambodia, killing Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder, and wounding nine others. The FBI investigation, civil trials, and forensic analysis of audio evidence would
Herbert Mullin: The Santa Cruz Killer Who Believed Murder Prevented Earthquakes
Herbert Mullin: The Santa Cruz Killer Who Believed Murder Prevented EarthquakesIn 1972, Herbert Mullin murdered thirteen people across Santa Cruz, California, during a six-month killing spree that terrorized the community already known as the "Murder Capital of the World." The homicide investigation revealed victims ranging from a hitchhiking college student to a Catholic priest killed inside a co
From First-Round Pick to Murder Conspiracy: The Fall of Rae Carruth
From First-Round Pick to Murder Conspiracy: The Fall of Rae CarruthIn November 1999, Charlotte real estate agent Cherica Adams was shot four times in an ambush on Rea Road orchestrated by her boyfriend, Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth, who faced mounting child support obligations and refused to accept her pregnancy. The investigation revealed a murder-for-hire conspiracy involving care
Ray Lewis and the Super Bowl Murders: The Buckhead Stabbing Case
Ray Lewis and the Super Bowl Murders: The Buckhead Stabbing CaseIn January 2000, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and two friends were charged with the murders of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar outside an Atlanta nightclub during Super Bowl weekend. The investigation revealed tactical knives purchased days before, a missing blood-soaked suit, destroyed photographs, and a code of silence tha
Route 40 Killer: Steven Brian Pennell and the Blue Van of Death
Route 40 Killer: Steven Brian Pennell and the Blue Van of DeathThere's something deeply unsettling about a killer who looks like everyone else. Steven Brian Pennell was a married electrician with two kids, the guy who'd wave to you from his driveway while mowing the lawn. Between 1987 and 1988, he turned a stretch of highway in Delaware into his own personal nightmare factory. Route 40 became a pl
The Assassination of Nipsey Hussle in South LA
The Assassination of Nipsey Hussle in South LAIn March 2019, rapper and community leader Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed outside his Marathon Clothing store at the intersection of Crenshaw and Slauson in South Los Angeles. The murder investigation revealed that Eric Holder Jr., a fellow Rollin' 60s Crips member, fired over ten shots at Hussle following a brief conversation about street rumors. T
The Girlfriend in the Cooler: The Wade Allen Case
The Girlfriend in the Cooler: The Wade Allen CaseWade Allen strangled and dismembered his girlfriend Kelly Jean Warner in May 2019 in Sturgis, Michigan. Police discovered her mutilated remains stored in two coolers inside Allen's apartment after an anonymous tip. The 39-year-old pleaded no contest to second-degree homicide, attempted dismemberment, and attempted third-degree criminal sexual conduc
Homeschooled to Death: The Mary and Elwyn Crocker Jr. Torture Case
Homeschooled to Death: The Mary and Elwyn Crocker Jr. Torture CaseMary Crocker murder case in Guyton, Georgia, where a 14-year-old girl was found buried in her backyard on December 20, 2018, alongside her brother Elwyn Crocker Jr. The homicide investigation revealed systematic torture, starvation, and child abuse by their father Elwyn Crocker Sr., stepmother Candice Crocker, and three other adults
The Teahouse Killing: Sada Abe's Twisted Love Story
The Teahouse Killing: Sada Abe's Twisted Love StoryIn May 1936, Tokyo geisha Sada Abe murdered her lover Kichizo Ishida through strangulation, then severed his genitals in what became Japan's most notorious crime of the Showa era. The homicide investigation revealed a twisted love affair between a former sex worker and a married restaurant owner that ended in mutilation, carving bloody inscription
Left to Die: The Chante Mallard Case and the Man in Her Windshield
Left to Die: The Chante Mallard Case and the Man in Her WindshieldGregory Biggs, a 37-year-old homeless man and former bricklayer, was struck by a car on Highway 287 in Fort Worth, Texas in the early morning hours of October 26, 2001. The driver, Chante Mallard, a 25-year-old certified nursing assistant, drove home with Biggs lodged in her windshield and left him to die in her garage. The homicide
The Soho House Murder: How Sylvie Cachay's Breakup Turned Deadly
The Soho House Murder: How Sylvie Cachay's Breakup Turned DeadlySylvie Cachay was a 33-year-old Peruvian-American fashion designer found dead in a bathtub at New York City's Soho House on December 9, 2010. The homicide investigation revealed Nicholas Brooks, her 24-year-old boyfriend, strangled and drowned the swimwear designer in what prosecutors called a staged crime scene. The murder trial in 2
The Joker Killer: James Holmes and the Aurora Theater Massacre
The Joker Killer: James Holmes and the Aurora Theater MassacreJames Eagan Holmes murdered twelve people and injured seventy others during the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises at a Colorado movie theater on July 20, 2012. The Aurora theater shooting investigation revealed a University of Colorado neuroscience PhD candidate who meticulously planned a mass shooting while simultaneously rigg
The Flint Serial Slasher: Elias Abuelazam
The Flint Serial Slasher: Elias AbuelazamIn August 2010, Elias Abuelazam was arrested at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport while attempting to flee to Israel after a brutal stabbing spree that terrorized Flint, Michigan. The serial killer murdered at least five men and attacked nine others across Michigan, Virginia, and Ohio between May and August 2010, targeting primarily African American men
Natural Selection: How Religious Extremism Killed Mary Anne Welch
Natural Selection: How Religious Extremism Killed Mary Anne WelchOn August 2, 2018, ten-month-old Mary Anne Welch died of starvation in Solon Township, Michigan. Her parents, Seth Welch and Tatiana Fusari, were convicted of felony murder and first-degree child abuse after investigators discovered the infant weighed only eight pounds at death. The homicide investigation revealed a disturbing patter
Birmingham's Forgotten Serial Killer: Jack Harrison Trawick
Birmingham's Forgotten Serial Killer: Jack Harrison TrawickJack Harrison Trawick murdered Stephanie Gach in Birmingham, Alabama in 1992 after abducting the 21-year-old college student from her apartment complex parking lot. The homicide investigation revealed Trawick had killed at least three women, including 17-year-old Betty Jo Richards in 1972 and 26-year-old Aileen Pruitt earlier in 1992. Fore
The Birthday Cake Killers: Inside the 1973 Victor Massacre
The Birthday Cake Killers: Inside the 1973 Victor MassacreIn November 1973, Douglas Gretzler and Willie Steelman murdered nine people in Victor, California, including the Parkin family and their neighbors. The homicide investigation revealed a brutal massacre where victims Walter Parkin, Joanne Parkin, their children Lisa and Robert, Richard and Wanda Earl, their children Debbie and Ricky, and Mar
Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson Case Explained
Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson Case ExplainedThey called her the Female Charles Manson. In October 2000, two people were shot to death in an Indianapolis drug house. Sarah Jo Pender bought the shotgun that morning at Walmart. Her boyfriend Richard Hull pulled the trigger. She got 110 years, he got 75. Now the prosecutor who convicted her says he was wrong. But here's the thing about Sa
The Cereal Killer: Frozen Breast Milk Solved a Michigan Murder
The Cereal Killer: Frozen Breast Milk Solved a Michigan MurderChristina Harris died in her Davison, Michigan home in September 2014 from a heroin overdose. The 36-year-old mother's death was ruled accidental. Her husband Jason Harris collected $120,000 in life insurance, bought a plane ticket to visit another woman nine days later, and moved a new girlfriend into their home two weeks after Christi
Bible John: The Ballroom Killer
Bible John: The Ballroom KillerPatricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald, and Helen Puttock were murdered between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland after meeting their killer at the Barrowland Ballroom. The unsolved homicide investigation spawned one of Europe's most notorious cold cases when a witness described the suspect quoting scripture and condemning adultery, giving birth to the nickname Bible Joh
Seven Deadly Sins: The Valhermoso Springs Massacre
Seven Deadly Sins: The Valhermoso Springs MassacreThe 2020 Valhermoso Springs murders left seven people dead in Morgan County, Alabama, when Frederic Rogers and John Michael Legg opened fire during a drug dispute that escalated into a mass homicide. The investigation revealed burned bodies, over 1,000 crime scene photographs, and a confession that detailed the premeditated execution-style killings
Death Cap Mushroom Poisoning: The Australian Family Lunch Murders
Death Cap Mushroom Poisoning: The Australian Family Lunch MurdersErin Patterson murdered her former in-laws Gail Patterson, Don Patterson, and Heather Wilkinson using death cap mushrooms in Leongatha, Victoria, Australia on July 29, 2023. The homicide investigation revealed Patterson served poisoned Beef Wellington at a family lunch, resulting in three deaths and one attempted murder of survivor I
From Best Friend to Murder: The Missy Avila Story
From Best Friend to Murder: The Missy Avila StoryIn October 1985, 17-year-old Michele "Missy" Avila was found murdered in Big Tujunga Creek in the Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, her body submerged under a 100-pound log. The homicide investigation revealed a brutal case of premeditated murder involving two of Missy's childhood friends, Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, who were later convi
Mississippi's Most Controversial Murder Trial: The Jessica Chambers Case
Mississippi's Most Controversial Murder Trial: The Jessica Chambers CaseOn December 6, 2014, Jessica Chambers, a 19-year-old from Courtland, Mississippi, was found burned over 93% of her body in a murder investigation that would grip the nation. The homicide case against suspect Quinton Tellis resulted in two hung juries, as forensic evidence, cell phone data, and witness testimony collided with t
The Babysitter Who Knew Too Much: Kimberly Cargill Capital Murder
The Babysitter Who Knew Too Much: Kimberly Cargill Capital MurderKimberly Cargill murdered Cherry Walker in Whitehouse, Texas on June 18, 2010 to prevent the mentally challenged babysitter from testifying at a child custody hearing. The Smith County investigation revealed Walker died from asphyxiation, her partially burned body discovered on Oscar Burkett Road. Cargill was convicted of capital mur
The Fake Pregnancy That Led to Murder: Taylor Parker's Deadly Deception
The Fake Pregnancy That Led to Murder: Taylor Parker's Deadly DeceptionTaylor Parker murdered Reagan Simmons-Hancock in New Boston, Texas on October 9, 2020, brutally attacking the 21-year-old pregnant woman and cutting her unborn baby from her womb. The homicide investigation revealed Parker had spent ten months faking her own pregnancy through elaborate deception, including staged ultrasounds an
Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse James
Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse JamesWilliam T. Anderson, known as "Bloody Bill," was a Confederate guerrilla fighter who terrorized Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War, becoming one of the most brutal figures in American history. The Centralia Massacre of September 1864 saw Anderson and his men execute 22 unarmed Union soldiers and kill 123 more in the subsequ
Burned and Flushed: The Dennis Nilsen Serial Killer Case
Burned and Flushed: The Dennis Nilsen Serial Killer CaseDennis Nilsen murdered at least twelve young men between 1978 and 1983 in North London, making him one of Britain's most prolific serial killers. The investigation into the Muswell Hill Murderer only began after plumber Michael Cattran discovered human remains blocking a drain at Cranley Gardens in February 1983. Nilsen's victims were primari
Bible Belt Strangler: The 40-Year Hunt for a Killer Who Targeted Redheads
Bible Belt Strangler: The 40-Year Hunt for a Killer Who Targeted RedheadsSo there's this case that's been sitting in the shadows for over 40 years. Between 1978 and 1992, women with red hair started turning up dead along interstates across the South. Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi. All strangled or beaten. All dumped like they were nothing. The FBI task force called them the Redhead Mu
Thanksgiving Day 2012: How Byron Smith Executed Two Teen Burglars
Thanksgiving Day 2012: How Byron Smith Executed Two Teen BurglarsByron David Smith, a 64-year-old retired security engineer, shot and killed teenagers Nicholas Brady and Haile Kifer during a home invasion in Little Falls, Minnesota on Thanksgiving Day 2012. The double homicide investigation revealed audio recordings Smith made of the entire incident, leading to his arrest, trial, and conviction fo
The Barron Wisconsin Murders and Jayme Closs’s Escape
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