Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast
Wicked and Grim is a true crime podcast hosted by a husband and wife duo. They share stories of murders, mysteries, and sinister tales while maintaining a lighthearted tone to reduce fear. The podcast focuses on victims and aims to take power away from perpetrators.
Episodes
Murder In Broad Daylight - Jamie Faith - Part 1
On October 9, 2020, a quiet Dallas neighbourhood became the scene of a horrifying execution when 49 year old Jamie Faith was ambushed and shot seven times while walking his dog with his wife. The gunman vanished almost as quickly as he appeared, leaving behind a devastated family, a terrified community, and a murder that seemed to defy explanation. But as investigators began digging into Jamie's l
Susan Monica - Oregon Pig Farm Killer
On a secluded 20 acre farm in Wimer, Oregon, Susan Monica lived an isolated life, raising livestock and hiring local handymen to help maintain her property. When 56 year old Robert Haney disappeared in 2013, his family's desperate search led investigators to the farm, where a horrifying discovery exposed something far more sinister. As detectives questioned Monica, her increasingly disturbing conf
The Conman Who Sold the Eiffel Tower - Victor Lustig
Victor Lustig built a criminal career around elaborate confidence schemes, false identities, forged documents, and an extraordinary ability to convince his victims that the impossible was real.In 1925, posing as a French government official, he convinced scrap metal dealer André Poisson that the Eiffel Tower was being secretly dismantled and successfully sold him the rights to tear it down.Then af
The Loudun Demonic Possessions
In 1632, an Ursuline convent in Loudun, France, became the center of a terrifying series of events when nuns began reporting apparitions, violent convulsions and demons taking control of their bodies. Their exorcisms became public spectacles that drew enormous crowds, as priests desperately tried to identify what, or who was behind the supposed possessions. The women eventually pointed to Urbain G
The Murder of Elyse Pahler - Satanic Sacrifice
In the summer of 1995, 15 year old Elyse Pahler was lured from her California home by three teenage boys she knew, unaware they had spent months discussing murder, Satanism and the sacrifice of a virgin. Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt and Joseph Fiorella, members of a wannabe metal band called "Hatred", believed killing Elyse could appease the Devil, give them power and even make them better musici
The Vampire Clan Murders - Rod Ferrell -Part 2
In 1996, sixteen year old Rod Ferrell led a small group of teenagers who embraced vampire identities, drank one another’s blood and carved symbols into their bodies.But when the group travelled from Kentucky to Florida to collect fifteen year old Heather Wendorf, their planned escape to New Orleans took a devastating turn. Heather’s parents, Richard and Ruth Wendorf, were found brutally beaten to
The Vampire Clan Murders - Rod Ferrell -Part 1
In 1996, sixteen year old Rod Ferrell led a small group of teenagers who embraced vampire identities, drank one another’s blood and carved symbols into their bodies.But when the group travelled from Kentucky to Florida to collect fifteen year old Heather Wendorf, their planned escape to New Orleans took a devastating turn. Heather’s parents, Richard and Ruth Wendorf, were found brutally beaten to
The Murder of Audrey Trudeau
In February 1999, 44 year old physiotherapist Audrey Trudeau was preparing to leave Calgary and return home to Ontario when she suddenly disappeared. Her car, belongings and beloved cat were left behind, while conflicting explanations began circulating about where she had supposedly gone and why. As police investigated, attention increasingly turned toward Deborah Point, Audrey's longtime friend a
The Camden Ripper - Anthony Hardy
In December 2002, the discovery of dismembered human remains inside garbage bags in Camden, London, launched an investigation that would uncover something far more disturbing. The remains belonged to two women, but evidence soon led detectives to a nearby apartment where another woman had been found dead less than a year earlier. Inside, investigators uncovered blood evidence, photographs of the v
Helle Crafts - The Woodchipper Murder - Part 2
In November 1986, 39 year old flight attendant Helle Crafts returned to her Connecticut home during a violent snowstorm and seemingly disappeared into the night. Her husband, Richard, offered a series of conflicting explanations for where she had gone, but Helle’s friends knew she would never simply abandon her three children and began pushing police to investigate. What followed was a trail of bl
Helle Crafts - The Woodchipper Murder - Part 1
In November 1986, 39 year old flight attendant Helle Crafts returned to her Connecticut home during a violent snowstorm and seemingly disappeared into the night. Her husband, Richard, offered a series of conflicting explanations for where she had gone, but Helle’s friends knew she would never simply abandon her three children and began pushing police to investigate. What followed was a trail of bl
The Blue Moon Murders
A mother and her two adult sons were found brutally murdered inside their Florida home, their throats cut, their heads beaten with a hammer and their bodies concealed beneath piles of clothing and blankets.One had also been shot through the head, while part of the mother’s pinky had been severed and was nowhere to be found, leaving investigators struggling to understand the extraordinary violence
The Murder of Jason Sweeney
Sixteen year old Jason Sweeney was building a future for himself when his girlfriend led him deep into the woods along Philadelphia’s Delaware River. However, what he didn't know was that three teenage boys he knew were waiting for him, including his childhood best friend, armed and prepared to kill him for the $500 paycheque in his pocket.The attack that followed was so savage that nearly every b
The Hex Hollow Murder - Nelson Rehmeyer
In 1928, farmer and folk healer Nelson Rehmeyer lived alone in a secluded Pennsylvania hollow where old traditions of powwow, spells and supernatural protection remained deeply rooted in the community. When John Blymire became convinced that years of illness, tragedy and terrible luck were the result of a hex, an elderly practitioner pointed him toward an unlikely culprit: Nelson himself. Determin
The Freeway Phantom
Six girls vanished from the streets of Washington, D.C., disappearing while walking to work, running errands, or simply trying to make it home. Their bodies began appearing beside highways, many showing signs of sexual assault and strangulation, while a growing trail of strange evidence suggested the same predator was hunting across the city. Then one victim was discovered with a handwritten messa
The Khamar-Daban Incident
In August 1993, seven hikers ventured into Siberia’s remote Khamar-Daban mountains, but only one of them would make it out alive.According to the survivor, her companions began collapsing one after another, suffering violent convulsions, breathing problems and horrifying physical symptoms as chaos swept through the group. Their bodies remained exposed on the mountainside for nearly three weeks bef
Lori Poland - Surviving Abduction
Three year old Lori Poland vanished from her Colorado neighbourhood in August 1983, leaving behind only a pair of pants, terrified witnesses, and the description of an orange car disappearing down the street. For three agonizing days, police hunted for the man who had taken her while Lori remained trapped miles away at the bottom of a remote outhouse pit, injured, hungry, and completely unable to
The Impossible Murder on a Train - Laetitia Toureaux
On May 16, 1937, Laetitia Toureaux boarded an empty first class carriage on the Paris Métro and, less than ninety seconds later, was found with a knife buried deep in her neck. No one had seen her killer enter or escape that train car. The attacker seemed to simply vanished in an impossible murder scenario. But wondering why she was killed, police dug into Laetitia's life, and they discovered that
Alex Skeel - Domestic Abuse Survivor
At sixteen years old, Alex Skeel believed he had found his first love in Jordan Worth. She was an intelligent and ambitious young woman who seemed to offer him the a life and family. But behind closed doors, that relationship descended into years of control and escalating violence as Alex became increasingly isolated from his family, deprived of food and subjected to attacks with bottles, hammers,
The Ice Cream Killer - Estibaliz Carranza
Estibaliz Carranza was known as the friendly owner of a neighborhood ice cream shop in Vienna, Austria. She had built a successful business, dreamed of becoming a mother, and gave those around her little reason to believe anything was wrong. But behind the ordinary routines of everyday life, her relationships were quietly falling apart, and the people closest to her would soon begin disappearing w
William Fyfe - The Handyman Killer
For almost twenty years, women across the Montreal region in Canada were found murdered inside the safety of their own homes, their deaths scattered across decades and investigated as isolated tragedies. Ultimately, the breakthrough finally came in 1999, when a single bloody fingerprint and decades old forensic evidence uncovered a killer who had quietly hidden in plain sight as a trusted handyman
The Murder of Linda Pagano
Seventeen year old Linda Pagano vanished from Akron, Ohio, in 1974 after returning home from a rock concert and arguing with her stepfather, leaving behind a mystery that would haunt her family for more than four decades. With no confirmed sightings and few answers from the original investigation, Linda’s disappearance seemed destined to remain buried in the past. Then a college student stumbled a
Maury Travis - The Videotape Killer
Women were turning up strangled and discarded across Missouri and Illinois, their bodies left along roadsides, in weeds, and in isolated stretches surrounding St. Louis.The killer moved through the city’s most vulnerable communities, leaving investigators with a growing collection of unsolved murders, an unknown DNA profile, and no name to attach to any of it. But behind the doors of an ordinary s
The Babes in the Woods
On a cold January afternoon in 1953, a man wandering through Vancouver's Stanley Park stumbled upon a discovery that would become one of Canada's oldest and most haunting unsolved murder cases. Hidden beneath a discarded fur coat were the skeletal remains of two young children whose identities had seemingly vanished without a trace, leaving investigators to wonder not only who killed them, but why
Monica Jack - Cold Case Solved 40 Years Later
In 1978, twelve year old Monica Rose Jack disappeared while riding her bicycle home through British Columbia's Nicola Valley, leaving behind only a handful of witnesses and a family desperate for answers. For more than forty years, investigators chased dead ends, uncovered buried evidence, and pursued a predator who always seemed to stay one step ahead of justice. As breakthroughs in forensic scie
The Devil's Disciple - Patrick Mackay
They called him "The Devil's Disciple." Throughout the 1970s, Patrick Mackay drifted between hostels, churches, and borrowed homes while secretly carrying out a series of brutal attacks that would eventually make him one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. As detectives investigated what first appeared to be the murder of a single Catholic priest, they uncovered a trail of violence stretch
Steven Kubacki – Vanished Without a Trace - Solved
In February 1978, 23 year old College student Steven Kubacki left for a cross country skiing trip near the frozen shores of Lake Michigan and never returned. Searchers found his skis, poles, and backpack neatly arranged near the shoreline, along with a trail of footprints that appeared to lead onto the frozen lake before abruptly ending. Fourteen months later however, Steven suddenly reappeared mo
The Murder of Ellie Gould
Seventeen year old Ellie Gould had just ended a three month relationship with her boyfriend when, the following morning, someone arrived at her family home while she was alone. Hours later, her father walked into the kitchen and discovered a horrifying scene, while the person responsible had already begun destroying evidence, creating false explanations, and attempting to hide what had happened. W
The Kansas City Butcher - Robert Berdella - Part 2
The man the world would come to know as the Kansas City Butcher didn't simply kill his victims, he studied them. Hidden inside an ordinary home in Kansas City's Hyde Park neighborhood, Robert Berdella spent years imprisoning vulnerable young men, meticulously recording their torture with handwritten notes and hundreds of Polaroid photographs before dismembering their bodies in an attempt to erase
The Kansas City Butcher - Robert Berdella - Part 1
The man the world would come to know as the Kansas City Butcher didn't simply kill his victims, he studied them. Hidden inside an ordinary home in Kansas City's Hyde Park neighborhood, Robert Berdella spent years imprisoning vulnerable young men, meticulously recording their torture with handwritten notes and hundreds of Polaroid photographs before dismembering their bodies in an attempt to erase
The Great Emu War
In 1932, the Australian government made a decision so unbelievable it still sounds like satire today, it deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to wage war against an estimated 20,000 emus that were invading their land. What began as a desperate attempt to save struggling farmers during the Great Depression quickly spiraled into one of the most bizarre and embarrassing military operations in mo
Disappearance of Frederick Valentich - UFO Encounter
On October 21, 1978, twenty year old pilot Frederick Valentich departed Melbourne on what should have been a routine flight to King Island. Just minutes after passing Cape Otway, he radioed air traffic control to report a strange object flying around his aircraft before uttering the chilling words, "It's not an aircraft," moments before radio contact was lost forever. Despite an extensive four-day
The Wonderland Murders
Forty eight hours after stealing more than a million dollars in drugs, cash, jewelry, and firearms from a powerful Los Angeles drug kingpin, members of the Wonderland Gang were attacked inside their own home. And by the time police arrived, four people had been beaten to death,one had been left permanently disabled, and the trail of evidence led through the criminal underworld of Hollywood, straig
The Black Swan Murder Trial
A 54 year old retired Navy intelligence officer meets a 24 year old ballerina at a political fundraiser. Then thirteen days later, they got married.What follows is a story filled with allegations of abuse, claims of poisoning, a failed ballet company, years of bitter custody litigation, psychological evaluations, restraining orders, and a marriage that seemed to be unraveling from the very beginni
Joachim Kroll - The Ruhr Cannibal - Part 2
For more than twenty years, Joachim Kroll operated undetected across western Germany, murdering women and children while investigators struggled to connect the crimes. During that time, multiple innocent people were accused, several took their own lives under the weight of suspicion, and dozens of detectives unknowingly searched for the wrong man.In this episode, we examine the full story of Joach
Joachim Kroll - The Ruhr Cannibal - Part 1
For more than twenty years, Joachim Kroll operated undetected across western Germany, murdering women and children while investigators struggled to connect the crimes. During that time, multiple innocent people were accused, several took their own lives under the weight of suspicion, and dozens of detectives unknowingly searched for the wrong man.In this episode, we examine the full story of Joach
The Killdozer - Marvin Heemeyer
For nearly two hours on June 4, 2004, police officers, state troopers, and emergency responders watched helplessly as an armored bulldozer tore through the small mountain town of Granby, Colorado. Inside the machine was 52 year old Marvin Heemeyer, a welder and muffler shop owner who had spent years feuding with local officials, business owners, and members of the community before transforming a 4
The Murder of Arlis Perry - Cold Case Solved
In October 1974, nineteen year old Arlis Perry walked into Stanford Memorial Church and never came home. What investigators discovered the following morning would become one of California's most infamous unsolved murders, spawning decades of theories, false leads, and speculation while the killer remained hidden in plain sight. For forty four years the case sat cold, until a breakthrough in DNA te
The Sasebo Slashing - Nevada-tan
In June 2004, a routine school day in Sasebo, Japan, ended in tragedy when 12 year old Satomi Mitarai was lured from her classroom and murdered by her classmate with a box cutter. As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a friendship that had quietly fallen apart and evidence suggesting the attack had been building beneath the surface for days. What began as a shocking murder inside an elementa
Kathleen Marshall - The Cat Queen Murder
In March 1998, a respected Brisbane veterinarian was found brutally murdered inside the veterinary clinic beneath her home, launching an investigation that would expose bitter feuds within an animal welfare organization, a mysterious appointment involving a missing Siamese cat, and a trail of forensic evidence unlike anything Australian courts had seen before. As detectives worked to identify Kath
The Craigslist Killer - Philip Markoff
In April 2009, a young woman named Julissa Brisman was found bleeding in the doorway of a luxury Boston hotel room after a violent struggle with a client she met through Craigslist. Just four days earlier, another woman had been tied up and robbed inside a nearby hotel by a man matching the exact same description. As investigators raced to stop what appeared to be an escalating pattern of violence
Corpsewood Manor - Part 2
Hidden deep in the mountains of Chattooga County, Georgia, there once stood a bizarre handmade castle known as Corpsewood Manor, it was a candlelit home filled with occult artwork, gargoyles, rumors of Satanism, and stories that spread through the surrounding towns for years. The men living there had abandoned modern society to build an isolated life deep in the woods, but by December of 1982, the
Corpsewood Manor - Part 1
Hidden deep in the mountains of Chattooga County, Georgia, there once stood a bizarre handmade castle known as Corpsewood Manor, it was a candlelit home filled with occult artwork, gargoyles, rumors of Satanism, and stories that spread through the surrounding towns for years. The men living there had abandoned modern society to build an isolated life deep in the woods, but by December of 1982, the
The Dardeen Family Massacre
In November of 1987, a young family living in a trailer outside Ina, Illinois was preparing to move away from the growing violence spreading through their community. Keith and Elaine Dardeen were raising their three year old son Peter and expecting another baby within weeks when something unimaginable happened inside their home. Police discovered Elaine, Peter, and the newborn infant beaten to dea
Burn Alive - Robbie Middleton
In June 1998, eight year old Robbie Middleton was attacked in the woods behind his Texas neighborhood,. He was then doused in gasoline, and set on fire in what investigators would later describe as one of the most horrifying attacks they had ever seen. Burned over nearly 99 percent of his body, Robbie somehow survived and spent the next thirteen years enduring more than 150 surgeries while the per
Athena Strand - Captured Before Christmas
Seven year old Athena Strand disappeared from outside her family’s home in Paradise, Texas on November 30, 2022, only minutes after a FedEx driver delivered a package containing her Christmas present. Within hours, investigators uncovered a disturbing trail involving truck recordings, GPS data, conflicting statements, and evidence that suggested Athena had been abducted alive. The investigation qu
The London Chambermaid Slayer - Gerald Thomas Archer
Between January 1969 and January 1971, three women were murdered inside their own homes across Southwestern Ontario Canada, with their cases unfolding with no clear connection at the time. Each scene pointed to the same kind of controlled, violent attack.However without shared systems or forensic tools, investigators were left working each case in isolation as leads quickly dried up. It would ulti
The Bain Family Massacre
On June 20, 1994, emergency services in Dunedin New Zealand received a call from 22 year old David Bain reporting that his entire family had been shot dead inside their home. Within days, he went from the sole survivor to being charged with five counts of murder, setting off a case built on conflicting timelines, contested forensic evidence, and two completely different explanations of what happen
The Satanic Ritual Murder of Mark Kilroy
In March 1989, 21 year old pre-med student Mark Kilroy disappeared during a spring break trip to Matamoros, Mexico after being separated from his friends for just a few minutes.But what initially operated as a standard missing person case quickly escalated into an international investigation involving U.S. and Mexican authorities. As the search intensified, it led to the discovery of a place calle
Dorothea Puente - The Death House Landlady
She looked like a harmless little old lady. She was a soft spoken landlady in Sacramento who took in elderly, disabled, and mentally ill tenants who had nowhere else to go. But inside her home, she controlled their money, intercepted their mail, and in many cases, they quietly disappeared while their Social Security checks continued to be cashed. Then when a missing person report led police to dig
The Strange Death of Mike Mansholt - A Body Without Organs
In July 2016, 17 year old Mike Mansholt arrived in Malta for a solo trip after deciding to extend his stay beyond an initial visit with his girlfriend. Over the following days, he explored the island independently, keeping in contact with his family as he moved from place to place. Then on the morning of July 18, he left his hotel, rented a mountain bike, and sent a final message home describing t
Killer Twins - The Spahalski Brothers - Part 2
In 1971, 16 year old Stephen Spahalski killed a man in Elmira, New York and was sent to prison, in a case that seemed shocking but contained. But nearly two decades later, in Rochester, a different story was quietly unfolding. Between 1990 and 2005, four people would be murdered in separate incidents, each one investigated on its own, each one going unsolved, and none of them connected at the time
Killer Twins - The Spahalski Brothers - Part 1
In 1971, 16 year old Stephen Spahalski killed a man in Elmira, New York and was sent to prison, in a case that seemed shocking but contained. But nearly two decades later, in Rochester, a different story was quietly unfolding. Between 1990 and 2005, four people would be murdered in separate incidents, each one investigated on its own, each one going unsolved, and none of them connected at the time
The Gorilla Killer - Earle Nelson - Part 2
Starting in 1926, women renting out rooms began turning up dead in cities across the United States and into Canada. In each case, the circumstances were nearly identical, the victim had let someone into her home, and the encounter ended in violence. At the time, there was no system in place to connect cases across jurisdictions, so each investigation stayed local. Police followed leads within thei
The Gorilla Killer - Earle Nelson - Part 1
Starting in 1926, women renting out rooms began turning up dead in cities across the United States and into Canada. In each case, the circumstances were nearly identical, the victim had let someone into her home, and the encounter ended in violence. At the time, there was no system in place to connect cases across jurisdictions, so each investigation stayed local. Police followed leads within thei
Kouri Richins - Grief Author Found Guilty of Murder
About a year after her husband’s sudden death, a Utah woman published a children’s book about grief, hoping to help her three sons cope with the sudden loss of their father. But behind that story was a very different reality, one investigators had already begun uncovering. Her husband, Eric Richins, had been found dead in their bed in March 2022, and an autopsy later revealed he had five times the
Divorced then Murdered - Jennifer Dulos
On May 24, 2019, 50 year old Jennifer Dulos dropped her five children off at school in New Canaan, Connecticut, and returned home, then seemingly vanished within a two hour window. Inside her garage, investigators would later find significant blood evidence, while her abandoned vehicle turned up nearby in Waveny Park. What came next was a complex investigation involving surveillance footage, recov
Murder on a Submarine - Kim Wall
Kim Wall set out to interview a man who had built his own submarine. It was an unusual story, but not an unusual assignment for her as a professional journalist.Hours later, she was gone, and the man she had been with was the only one to resurface. His explanation began to change as evidence came in, each version falling apart under scrutiny. What followed was an investigation that exposed a contr
The Murder of Tori Stafford
In April 2009, 8 year old Tori Stafford disappeared just blocks from her home in Woodstock, Ontario after leaving school. Surveillance footage showed her calmly walking away with an unknown woman, suggesting she didn’t feel threatened. What started as a missing persons case quickly escalated into one of the largest investigations in the province, as police worked to figure out who she went with an
The Strange Murder of Brian Egg
65 year old Brian Egg was a creature of habit, a man whose daily routine rarely changed, that is until it suddenly stopped altogether.In a neighborhood where his presence had become part of the everyday rhythm, his absence didn’t go unnoticed for long, but it wasn’t immediately understood either. As the days stretched into weeks, small details began to surface and quietly stack up, each one sugges
Suzanne Capper - Tortured to Death
In December 1992, a 16 year old girl from Moston, Manchester was falsely accused by a group she trusted and lured into a house where she was held captive for nearly a week. During that time, she was beaten, burned with cigarettes, injected with drugs, deprived of food, and subjected to sustained physical and psychological torture.As the days passed, the abuse only escalated, and it became clear sh
Jaylen Devon Fleer - A Wolf in Uniform
In 2020, a report submitted to San Diego County Crime Stoppers prompted police to begin looking into allegations involving inappropriate online communication with a minor. Detectives soon discovered the suspect was not a stranger hiding behind an anonymous profile. Instead, the investigation pointed toward a correctional deputy working for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. As investigator
The Murder of Dear Marianne Vaatstra
In the early hours of May 1, 1999, sixteen year old Marianne Vaatstra disappeared while cycling home through the quiet countryside of Friesland in the Netherlands. Later that morning, her body was discovered in a field near the village of Veenklooster, the victim of a brutal rape and murder. The crime shocked the nation and quickly became one of the most controversial investigations in Dutch histo
Dead Man's Flats
Dead Man’s Flats is one of the strangest place names in the Canadian Rockies, and most people passing through have no idea where it came from. But the name isn’t just local legend, it traces back to a real and disturbing crime. In the spring of 1904, a man named François Marret murdered his own brother inside their small cabin along the Bow River, striking him with an axe while he slept before dum
Mark Barton - The Killer Day Trader
In the summer of 1999, a quiet financial office in Atlanta became the final stop in a three day killing spree for one man. Before the gunfire erupted at his work place, this man had already murdered his wife and children inside their suburban apartment. By the time police closed in, twelve people in total were dead and more than a dozen were wounded.However, investigators also uncovering disturbin
A Mothers Revenge - Marianne Bachmeier
In March 1981, a quiet courtroom in Lübeck, West Germany, erupted in gunfire when a mother shot the man accused of killing and assualting her seven year old daughter. The shocking act instantly transformed a tragic child murder case into one of the most controversial true crime stories in modern German history. But to truly understand how that moment happened, you have to go back to the years of g
The Smurl Family Haunting
The Smurl family never expected their home to become the center of a national paranormal mystery. Over the course of more than a decade, they claimed their quiet duplex in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, became the stage for unexplained noises, violent incidents, and a growing sense that something unseen was watching them. As their story spread, it drew in priests, skeptics, and the famous demonologi
The Cleveland Strangler - Anthony Sowell
In the fall of 2009, police in Cleveland entered a house expecting to arrest a man accused of sexual assault. Instead, they stepped into one of the most shocking crime scenes in the city’s history. Hidden inside the home, and buried in the yard, were the remains of eleven women. They were the victims of a killer who had blended into the neighborhood for years. What followed was a devastating inves
A Feral Child - Genie Wiley
In October 1970, a thirteen year old girl stumbled into a Los Angeles welfare office, weighing just 59 pounds she had spent nearly her entire life strapped to a chair in a darkened bedroom, cut off from language, sunlight, and normal human contact. She could barely walk, could not speak grammatically, and had lived almost entirely without language. Soon the scientific community would descend on he
The Bear Brook Murders
In the woods of a small New Hampshire town, four bodies were hidden in two metal barrels and left to decay in silence. For decades, no one knew who they were, where they came from, or who had killed them. The only certainty was that they had been beaten to death and abandoned far from home. What followed was a relentless investigation that would not only expose a serial killer who lived under stol
The Chinese Corpse Pit - Jia Wenge
For years, residents of Nehe, a quiet city in Heilongjiang Province of China, watched people vanish without explanation. Travelers arrived by train, stepped into the streets, and were never seen again. Police had few leads and even fewer answers, while rumors spread through the community. It wasn’t until a routine arrest in 1991 that investigators finally uncovered the gruesome truth hidden beneat
The Monster of Crowsnest Pass - Derek Saretzky
In September 2015, three people in the small communities of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, were caught up in a series of violent events that would leave the entire region shaken. What began with the murder of a senior living alone quickly escalated into the killing of a young father and the sudden disappearance of his two year old daughter under a province wide Amber Alert. As police raced against time
Sheila Davalloo - Master Manipulator - Part 2
From the outside, it looked like a perfect life: a brilliant scientist, a successful marriage, and a prestigious career in pharmaceuticals. But behind the scenes, secret affairs, obsessive surveillance, and carefully crafted lies were quietly taking over. A hidden love triangle inside one workplace would spiral into stalking, betrayal, and brutal violence.What started as love, turned into murder,
Sheila Davalloo - Master Manipulator - Part 1
From the outside, it looked like a perfect life: a brilliant scientist, a successful marriage, and a prestigious career in pharmaceuticals. But behind the scenes, secret affairs, obsessive surveillance, and carefully crafted lies were quietly taking over. A hidden love triangle inside one workplace would spiral into stalking, betrayal, and brutal violence.What started as love, turned into murder,
Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
In 1928, nine year old Walter Collins vanished on his way to the movies in Los Angeles, setting off a desperate search that would grip the nation. As police scrambled to close the case and protect their reputation, they forced a false reunion and pressured his grieving mother to accept a child who was not hers. When she refused, she was silenced, institutionalized, and left to fight the system alo
72 Minutes of Hell - Erinn Orcutt - Survival Story
In April 2010, twenty five year old Erinn Orcutt was abducted at gunpoint from the Ontario Mills Mall parking lot in California as she left her waitressing job. For seventy two minutes, she was held captive inside her own SUV, beaten, sexually assaulted, photographed, and threatened with death. She escaped only after noticing her attacker’s gun had fallen to the floor and sprinting to a nearby liq
Susan Smith - Filicide
In October 1994, a young mother in Union, South Carolina, told police that a stranger had carjacked her vehicle and driven away with her two small children still strapped in their car seats. For nine days, the case dominated national news as law enforcement searched roads, lakes, and backcountry while the public watched her tearful pleas for the boys’ return. As the investigation unfolded, however
Sharon Marshall - The Name That Wasn’t Hers - Part 2
Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at t
Sharon Marshall - The Name That Wasn’t Hers - Part 1
Sharon Marshall died in April of 1990 after spending five days in intensive care, her body found broken on the side of an Oklahoma highway, groceries scattered around her as police labeled it a hit and run. To doctors, her injuries raised quiet doubts and to friends, her husband’s behavior set off alarms Wihtout context however, the case stalled almost as quickly as it began. What no one knew at t
Jack Reeves - Serial Killer
In October 1994, a woman named Emelita Reeves disappeared from her home in Arlington, Texas, leaving behind her young son and a husband who said she had simply walked away. At first, there was no sign of a crime, just a familiar explanation, delivered calmly, by a retired Army master sergeant. But as detectives began to trace Jack Reeves’ past, they realized Emelita was not the first woman in his
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