Crime Incident
Crime Incident is a true crime podcast that examines murder investigations and the evidence behind them. Each episode reconstructs a case from official records, covering police work, forensic analysis, DNA, witness testimony, and the eventual verdict or ongoing status. The catalog spans famous trials and lesser-known disappearances, including cases solved through genetic genealogy and others still unsolved. The show maintains strict separation between confirmed evidence and disputed claims, treats victims with dignity, and shares practical information for unsolved cases.
Episodes
She Missed One Bus: The Yingying Zhang Case
She Missed One Bus: The Yingying Zhang CaseOn June 9, 2017, Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China, missed a bus transfer in Urbana, Illinois, because she was standing on the wrong side of the street. Minutes later, surveillance cameras recorded a black Saturn Astra circling the block and stopping beside her. She got in, and she was never seen again. How did the FBI narrow a blu
Three Women, One Bar Strip, 24 Years: The Claremont Serial Killings
Three Women, One Bar Strip, 24 Years: The Claremont Serial KillingsBetween January 1996 and March 1997, three young women vanished from the same few blocks of nightlife in Claremont, the safest suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Sarah Spiers, 18, called a taxi at 2 a.m. and was gone before it arrived. Jane Rimmer, 23, was last seen on security footage outside the Continental Hotel. Ciara Glennon,
He Quoted Scripture in the Taxi: The Bible John Murders
He Quoted Scripture in the Taxi: The Bible John MurdersBetween February 1968 and October 1969, Patricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald and Helen Puttock each left Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom after a night of dancing and were found within yards of their own homes. The man believed responsible was seen properly only once: for twenty minutes, in a taxi, where he quoted the Bible, condemned adulterous wiv
He Picked His Handcuffs in a Hospital Bathroom: The Monster of the Miramichi
He Picked His Handcuffs in a Hospital Bathroom: The Monster of the MiramichiOn May 3, 1989, convicted murderer Allan Legere was escorted from a New Brunswick prison to a Moncton hospital for an ear infection. He asked to use the bathroom, unlocked his handcuffs with a sharpened piece of metal he had hidden, and vanished. For 201 days he hid in the woods around the Miramichi River towns that raised
The Test Drive That Never Came Back: The Tim Bosma Case
The Test Drive That Never Came Back: The Tim Bosma CaseHe posted his truck for sale online, like millions of us do every day. Two strangers came to his door at night, on foot, and asked for a test drive. Why did the buyers arrive with a burner phone and a rehearsed story? What was an industrial incinerator called The Eliminator doing on a farm, waiting, before the ad was ever answered? And how did
The Village Knew: The Bruce McArthur Case
The Village Knew: The Bruce McArthur CaseBetween 2010 and 2017, eight men vanished from the orbit of Church and Wellesley, Toronto's Gay Village, while police insisted the cases were not connected. Residents said "something's really wrong here" as early as 2010. Why did a task force interview Bruce McArthur in 2013 and let him go? How did a landscaper hide his victims in plain sight in a client's
Released at 12:28 A.M. With Nothing: The Mitrice Richardson Case
Released at 12:28 A.M. With Nothing: The Mitrice Richardson CaseOn September 16, 2009, Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old honors graduate in psychology, was arrested in Malibu because she could not pay an $89 dinner bill. Hours later, the Malibu/Lost Hills sheriff's station released her at 12:28 in the morning, on foot, with no phone, no money, and no car, into canyon country she did not know. Her
Two Autopsies, Zero Arrests: The Boys on the Track Case
Two Autopsies, Zero Arrests: The Boys on the Track CaseIn the pre-dawn hours of August 23, 1987, a 6,000-ton freight train came around a bend near Alexander, Arkansas, and the crew saw two teenage boys lying motionless across the rails, partly covered by a tarp. The train could not stop, and the boys never moved. Why did the state medical examiner rule that 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old D
Stabbed 36 Times With His Own Knife: The Jonathan Luna Case
Stabbed 36 Times With His Own Knife: The Jonathan Luna CaseAt 11:38 p.m. on December 3, 2003, federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna drove out of the Baltimore courthouse in the middle of a trial he had promised to finish the next morning. Six hours later he was found face down in an icy creek behind a Pennsylvania well-drilling company, 90 miles from home, stabbed 36 times and left to drown. Why did hi
The DA Who Vanished Without a Trace: The Ray Gricar Case
The DA Who Vanished Without a Trace: The Ray Gricar CaseOn April 15, 2005, Ray Gricar, the district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, took a sunny Friday off to go for a drive in his red Mini Cooper. At 11:30 a.m. he called his girlfriend from Brush Valley. No one ever heard from him again. The next day his car sat abandoned beside the Susquehanna River in Lewisburg, phone locked inside, ke
The Mother Who Found the Body Police Missed: The Welch Girls
The Mother Who Found the Body Police Missed: The Welch GirlsBefore dawn on December 30, 1999, a mobile home outside Welch, Oklahoma, burned with Danny and Kathy Freeman inside, both shot in the head before the fire was set. Ashley Freeman, who had turned 16 the day before, and her best friend Lauria Bible, also 16, vanished from the house and have never been found. Why did investigators spend the
Not Even His Boots Were Found: The DeOrr Kunz Case
Not Even His Boots Were Found: The DeOrr Kunz CaseOn July 10, 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. vanished from Timber Creek Campground near Leadore, Idaho, while four adults were only steps away. His mother reached a dispatcher at 2:28 p.m. How does a 28-pound toddler disappear from a remote campsite in a window of minutes? Why did a search of a 2.5-mile radius, with divers, dogs, helicopters, and
Thirteen Hours Parked on the Way Home: The Bryce Laspisa Case
Thirteen Hours Parked on the Way Home: The Bryce Laspisa CaseIn August 2013, Bryce Laspisa, a 19-year-old Sierra College student, set out on a 500-mile drive home to his parents in Laguna Niguel, California. The trip should have taken seven hours. It took nearly thirty, because he kept stopping. He sat parked for roughly 13 hours at a rest stop in Buttonwillow after running out of gas, passed a sh
45 Drowned Young Men and a Painted Smile: The Smiley Face Killers Theory
45 Drowned Young Men and a Painted Smile: The Smiley Face Killers TheorySince 1997, dozens of athletic, high-achieving young men have vanished after nights out in college towns across America, only to be found drowned in nearby rivers and lakes. Near some recovery sites, someone had spray-painted a smiley face. Two retired NYPD detectives say the deaths are the work of an organized network of seri
She Killed the Man Police Already Had on Tape: The Chrystul Kizer Case
She Killed the Man Police Already Had on Tape: The Chrystul Kizer CaseWhat happens when a seventeen-year-old trafficking victim kills the man exploiting her, and detectives discover they already had hundreds of videos of his crimes sitting in an evidence room? Why was Randall Volar arrested with child abuse material in his house and released the same day without bail? And can a survivor of traffic
79 Minutes in the Guest Room: The Robert Wone Case
79 Minutes in the Guest Room: The Robert Wone CaseOn August 2, 2006, attorney Robert Wone stayed overnight at a friend's rowhouse in Washington DC's Dupont Circle because he had worked late. He arrived around 10:30 pm. At 11:49 pm, one of the residents called 911 to report that an intruder had stabbed their houseguest. Paramedics found a scene that made no sense: three clean stab wounds, almost no
The Letters Kept Coming From Prison: The Circleville Letters
The Letters Kept Coming From Prison: The Circleville LettersFor nearly two decades, an anonymous writer flooded the small town of Circleville, Ohio with hundreds of letters that knew secrets no stranger should know. A husband who set out to confront the writer died against a tree with a fired gun under his body. His widow found a loaded pistol rigged inside a roadside sign on her school bus route,
She Was Walking Her Dog. Eleven Women Lay Beneath: The West Mesa Bone Collector
She Was Walking Her Dog. Eleven Women Lay Beneath: The West Mesa Bone CollectorOn February 2, 2009, a woman walking her dog on Albuquerque's West Mesa found a human femur in the sand. The excavation that followed uncovered the remains of eleven women and girls and one unborn baby, buried across 92 acres of desert. All of them had vanished from the same city in a tight window between 2003 and 2004.
He Kept Them for Days: The Oakland County Child Killer
He Kept Them for Days: The Oakland County Child KillerBetween February 1976 and March 1977, four children were abducted from the suburbs north of Detroit, held captive for days, and then left along roadsides with their bodies washed and their clothes cleaned. Why did the press call him The Babysitter? Who wrote the anonymous letter naming the killer as "Frank" and then vanished before the meeting?
Fifteen Feet From Safety: The Keddie Cabin Murders
Fifteen Feet From Safety: The Keddie Cabin MurdersOn a Sunday morning in April 1981, a fourteen year old girl walked fifteen feet from the neighbors' cabin to her own front door to get her church clothes. What she found inside Cabin 28 became one of California's most infamous unsolved cases. How did killers spend that much time in a crowded resort cabin without waking the children sleeping in the
He Never Walked Out: The Brian Shaffer Case
The Cameras Never Saw Him Leave: The Brian Shaffer CaseAt 1:15 a.m. on April 1, 2006, security cameras recorded Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student, riding the escalator into the Ugly Tuna Saloona bar in Columbus. At 1:55 a.m. a camera caught him chatting with two women outside the entrance. No camera ever recorded him leaving the building, and no trace of him has been found in
The Cameras Followed Her All Night: The Lauren Spierer Case
The Cameras Followed Her All Night: The Lauren Spierer CaseIn the early hours of June 3, 2011, surveillance cameras in Bloomington, Indiana, recorded 20-year-old Indiana University sophomore Lauren Spierer at least four times: entering Kilroy's Sports Bar at 1:46 a.m., leaving at 2:27 without her shoes or phone, stumbling from an elevator at her own building at 2:30, and walking out of an alley at
The FBI Chased the Wrong Story for 13 Years: The Brittanee Drexel Case
The FBI Chased the Wrong Story for 13 Years: The Brittanee Drexel CaseOn April 25, 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel vanished from Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, on a spring break trip her mother had forbidden. A hotel camera caught her at 9 p.m. By midnight her phone died on a rural road nearly 50 miles south. Why did it take 13 years to charge a man who was publicly named a person of interest
Two Versions of One Night: The Cyntoia Brown Case
Two Versions of One Night: The Cyntoia Brown CaseIn August 2004, sixteen-year-old Cyntoia Brown shot 43-year-old Nashville real estate agent Johnny Allen in his own bed, took his money, guns, and truck, and was tried as an adult. In 2006 a jury convicted her of first-degree murder and she received a life sentence. But what does a life sentence in Tennessee actually mean? In 2018 the state supreme
She Was the Victim. They Put Her on Trial: The Preppy Murder Case
She Was the Victim. They Put Her on Trial: The Preppy Murder CaseHow does a case with a confessed killer end with the dead girl on trial? Why did New York's biggest tabloid run the headline "How Jennifer Courted Death" three days after an eighteen year old was strangled in Central Park? And what happens when the most damning piece of evidence surfaces seven weeks too late?In this episode, we follo
The Note They Called a Joke: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
The Note They Called a Joke: The Oklahoma Girl Scout MurdersOn the night of June 12, 1977, the very first night of summer camp, three young Girl Scouts, Lori Farmer, 8, Michele Guse, 9, and Denise Milner, 10, were murdered inside their tent at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma. Two months earlier, a counselor had found a handwritten note at that same camp declaring a plan to kill three girls
She Escaped in Handcuffs: Butcher Baker Robert Hansen
She Escaped in Handcuffs: Butcher Baker Robert HansenOn June 13, 1983, a seventeen-year-old girl ran barefoot down the edge of Merrill Field in Anchorage, Alaska, her wrists still in handcuffs, fleeing a bush plane and the mild-mannered baker loading it. Cindy Paulson gave police his name, his house, and his plane, and they let him go. Why did her word count for less than the alibi of the suspect'
The Road That Kept Taking Them: The Highway of Tears
The Road That Kept Taking Them: The Highway of TearsAlong roughly 720 kilometers of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia, women and girls have been disappearing or turning up murdered since 1969. The RCMP officially recognizes 18 cases; Indigenous organizations count more than 40. Why did it take until 1998 for the pattern to even get a name? Why did the first bus s
Two Files on One Death: The Kendrick Johnson Case
Two Files on One Death: The Kendrick Johnson CaseOn January 11, 2013, students at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, found 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson dead inside an upright rolled wrestling mat. The GBI ruled his death an accident, positional asphyxia. A pathologist hired by his family ruled blunt force trauma consistent with inflicted injury, and discovered that Kendrick's internal organ
He Ran Out After One Phone Call: The Rey Rivera Case
He Ran Out After One Phone Call: The Rey Rivera CaseOn May 16, 2006, Rey Rivera, a 32 year old writer and former professional water polo player, took a phone call at his Baltimore home and ran out the door saying he was late for something. Eight days later his body was found inside a locked, disused conference room of the historic Belvedere Hotel, beneath a hole in its roof. His phone and glasses
You Will Never Find Him: The Timmothy Pitzen Case
You Will Never Find Him: The Timmothy Pitzen CaseOn May 11, 2011, Amy Fry-Pitzen walked into Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinois, and signed her six-year-old son Timmothy out of kindergarten, citing a family emergency that did not exist. For three days she took him on a farewell tour of everything he loved, a zoo and two water park resorts, before checking into a Rockford motel alone. S
Every Phone in America Knows Her Name: The Amber Hagerman Case
Every Phone in America Knows Her Name: The Amber Hagerman CaseOn January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman left her grandparents' house in Arlington, Texas, on her bicycle at 3:10 p.m. Eight minutes later, a neighbor watched a man in a black pickup truck grab her off the bike in an abandoned grocery store parking lot and drive away. Four days later she was found in a creek, and investigators
The Neighbor Across the Street: The Origin of Megan's Law
The Neighbor Across the Street: The Origin of Megan's LawOn July 29, 1994, seven-year-old Megan Kanka was lured into the house directly across the street from her family's home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, by a neighbor who promised to show her a puppy. Jesse Timmendequas had two prior convictions for sexually assaulting young girls and had spent six years in the state's treatment center for
The Answer Was in the File: The Jacob Wetterling Case
The Answer Was in the File: The Jacob Wetterling CaseOn October 22, 1989, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was biking home from a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minnesota, with his brother and a friend when a masked man with a revolver took him and vanished. For 27 years his fate was unknown. But the man responsible, Danny Heinrich, was questioned by investigators within months of the abduction.
Taken From Her Own Sleepover: The Polly Klaas Case
Taken From Her Own Sleepover: The Polly Klaas CaseOn October 1, 1993, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted at knifepoint from her own bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a slumber party, while her mother slept in the next room. Hours later, sheriff's deputies stood face to face with her kidnapper on a rural road and helped him pull his car out of a ditch, never knowing who he was. Why did the
Ninety Minutes Too Late: The Adam Walsh Case
Ninety Minutes Too Late: The Adam Walsh CaseHow does a six-year-old vanish from a Sears that stood directly across the street from a police station? Why did more than ninety minutes pass before anyone called the police? And how did the confessed killer's own car, with blood on the floorboards, simply disappear from an evidence room?In this episode, we follow the Adam Walsh case from the beginning:
She Told Him Not to Call the Police: The Maura Murray Case
She Told Him Not to Call the PoliceOn February 9, 2004, 21-year-old nursing student Maura Murray crashed her Saturn on a dark curve of Route 112 in Haverhill, New Hampshire. A bus driver stopped to help; by his account, she waved him off, saying she had already called AAA, on a road with no cell service. Nineteen minutes after the first 911 call, police found a locked car and no driver. She has ne
Gone Before the Ship Docked: The Amy Bradley Disappearance
Gone Before the Ship Docked: The Amy Bradley Cruise DisappearanceHow does a twenty-three-year-old woman vanish from a cruise ship balcony in the thirty minutes between her father's two glances? Why did the crew let two thousand passengers walk off the ship while her family begged for a lockdown? And what do three unverified sightings across the Caribbean, a dock, a beach, a bathroom in Barbados, r
The Letter She Was Forced to Write: The Sylvia Likens Case
The Letter She Was Forced to Write: The Sylvia Likens CaseOn October 26, 1965, police entered a house at 3850 East New York Street in Indianapolis and found the body of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens, along with a letter, written in her own handwriting, claiming she had run away with a group of boys. The letter was dictated two days before she died. Why was a cover story drafted before the death it exp
She Spoke Her Own Name for the First Time in 18 Years: The Jaycee Dugard Case
She Spoke Her Own Name for the First Time in 18 Years: The Jaycee Dugard CaseOn June 10, 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was taken from a hillside in Meyers, California, on her way to the school bus stop, by a convicted kidnapper and rapist who was on parole, wearing a GPS ankle monitor, and receiving regular home visits from the state. For 18 years, 4 months and 16 days she was hidden in a concea
38 Witnesses Watched Her Die, Except They Didn't: The Kitty Genovese Case
38 Witnesses Watched Her Die, Except They Didn'tIn the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, was stalked and stabbed to death outside her Kew Gardens, Queens apartment. Two weeks later, a front-page story claimed 38 neighbors watched and did nothing, a number that was wrong in the headline, wrong in the text, and false at its core. So who actually shouted the ki
They Left a Working Car and Walked Into the Snow: The Yuba County Five
They Left a Working Car and Walked Into the Snow: The Yuba County FiveOn the night of February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba City and Marysville, California, watched a college basketball game in Chico, bought pies and sodas at a corner market, and started the short drive home. Four days later, their turquoise Mercury Montego was found 70 miles in the wrong direction, at 4,400 feet on a snowboun
The Confession Nobody Believed: Ed Kemper, the Co-Ed Killer
He Had to Call Three Times: Ed Kemper and the Santa Cruz Co-Ed MurdersIn April 1973, a six-foot-nine man stood in a phone booth in Pueblo, Colorado, and confessed eight murders to Santa Cruz police officers who knew him personally, and he had to call three times before they believed him. Why did the killer they had hunted for a year turn out to be the friendly giant who drank with detectives at th
The Report She Never Filed: The Vanessa Guillén Case
She Was Killed at Work on a Secure Army Base: The Vanessa Guillén Fort Hood CaseOn April 22, 2020, Specialist Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old soldier from Houston, walked to a fellow soldier's arms room at Fort Hood, Texas, and was never seen alive again. Her keys, ID, and wallet were left behind in the armory. Why did it take 70 days, a family's protests at the gates, and a construction worker by
They Shelved the Charge, He Kept Killing: The Robert Pickton Case
The Charge They Shelved: The Vancouver Missing Women CaseBetween 1995 and 2002, some 65 women vanished from a few blocks of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and the DNA of 33 of them was later found on one Port Coquitlam pig farm. Why did the Crown shelve an attempted murder charge against the farm's owner in 1998, when a survivor's account was backed by a handcuff on her wrist and the key in his po
The Alarm Was Off, and No One Had Broken In: The Barry and Honey Sherman Case
The Alarm Was Off, and No One Had Broken In: The Barry and Honey Sherman MurdersOn December 15, 2017, a real estate agent showing a Toronto mansion found its owners, pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman, 75, and his wife Honey, 70, dead beside their indoor pool, seated side by side with belts around their necks. Why did police spend six weeks entertaining a murder-suicide theory that the physi
They Stopped the Right Car and Let It Go: The D.C. Sniper Attacks
They Stopped the Right Car and Let It Go: The D.C. Sniper AttacksFor 23 days in October 2002, the Washington, D.C. region lived under a rifle. Thirteen people were shot at gas stations, parking lots, and a middle school, ten died, while schools locked down, stations hung tarps over their pumps, and drivers crouched behind car doors. Why did thousands of officers spend three weeks hunting a white v
He Was Smiling on Primetime the Whole Time: Dating Game Killer Rodney Alcala
He Won the Date on Live TV: The Rodney Alcala "Dating Game Killer" CaseIn September 1978, ABC's The Dating Game introduced bachelor number one as a "successful photographer." He was a twice-paroled registered sex offender who had already murdered women on both coasts, and he won the date. Why did the bachelorette refuse to go out with him? How did a rerun of that same episode help detectives catch
The Jury Saw a Few Seconds of Tape: The Darlie Routier Case
The Silly String Video That Sent a Mother to Death Row: The Darlie Routier CaseAt 2:31 a.m. on June 6, 1996, Darlie Routier called 911 from her Rowlett, Texas home to say a man had stabbed her and her two little boys. Devon, 6, was dead; Damon, 5, died of his wounds; her own throat was cut within two millimeters of the carotid artery. Twelve days later, she was the one charged with capital murder.
She Wrote Her Own Warning: The Disappearance of Susan Powell
She Wrote Her Own Warning: The Disappearance of Susan PowellWhy would a young mother hide a handwritten will in a safe-deposit box her husband couldn't open? What did a four-year-old mean when he told detectives his mommy stayed "where the crystals are"? And how did the only person of interest in her disappearance end up alone behind a locked door with her two little boys?In this episode, we follo
He Killed a Family, Then Stayed for Ice Cream: The Setagaya Family Murders
He Killed a Family, Then Stayed for Ice CreamOn the night of December 30, 2000, someone climbed through a second-floor bathroom window in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward and murdered all four members of the Miyazawa family, Mikio, 44, Yasuko, 41, Niina, 8, and Rei, 6. Then he did the unthinkable: he stayed for hours. He ate their ice cream and melon, drank their barley tea, used their computer, treated his
The Photograph Taken After She Vanished: The Tara Calico Case
The Polaroid in the Parking Lot: The Disappearance of Tara CalicoHow does a nineteen-year-old vanish in broad daylight, two miles from home, on a highway full of witnesses? Why did a Polaroid of a bound and gagged young woman surface nine months later, two thousand miles away, on film that did not exist when she disappeared? And how can investigators say they know who killed her while the names st
The Killer Was on Camera for Thirty Minutes: The Missy Bevers Case
The Killer Was on Camera for Thirty Minutes: The Missy Bevers Church Murder CaseBefore dawn on April 18, 2016, church security cameras in Midlothian, Texas recorded a figure in full police SWAT gear breaking into rooms with a pry bar, waiting. Minutes later, fitness instructor Missy Bevers walked in alone to set up her 5 a.m. boot camp class. She was found dead shortly after five, killed by punctu
She Said She'd Be Right In: The Jodi Huisentruit Disappearance
She Said She'd Be Right In: The Jodi Huisentruit DisappearanceAround four in the morning on June 27, 1995, TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit answered her producer's wake-up call and said she was on her way to the studio. She was abducted minutes later, twelve steps from her own door, and neighbors who heard the screams never called for help. Why did a stalking report she filed nine months earlier go unre
Her Last Search Was for a Region in France: The Chandra Levy Case
Her Last Search Was for a Region in FranceAt 12:59 p.m. on May 1, 2001, a laptop in a Dupont Circle apartment ran one final, never-explained search, Alsace-Lorraine, France. Minutes or hours later, 24-year-old federal intern Chandra Levy walked out with only her house keys and vanished. Why did the search party stop a hundred yards short of where she lay? How did a jailhouse tip naming the right p
She Was Tied Up When She Made the Call: The Jennifer Pan Case
She Was Tied Up When She Made the Call: The Jennifer Pan CaseOn the night of November 8, 2010, a whispered 911 call came from an upstairs bedroom in Markham, Ontario: armed intruders, a daughter tied to a banister with a shoelace, a father screaming outside. In the basement, Bich Ha Pan, 53, was dead, shot three times in the head. Her husband, Huei Hann Pan, survived being shot in the face. Fourte
The Murder Weapon Came From Across the Street: The Martha Moxley Case
The Murder Weapon Came From Across the StreetAround midday on Halloween 1975, the body of 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found beneath a pine tree on her own family's lawn in Belle Haven, the gated enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, beaten with a golf club swung so hard it shattered. The club was traced to a set owned by the family directly across the street: the Skakels, relatives by marriage of t
The Flat Tire That Never Stranded Anyone: The Crystal Rogers Case
A Flat Tire, Keys in the Ignition, and a Mother Who Vanished: The Crystal Rogers CaseOn July 5, 2015, Crystal Rogers' maroon Chevrolet Impala was found abandoned on the Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown, Kentucky, flat tire, keys in the ignition, purse and phone inside. The 35-year-old mother of five, a woman never known to go anywhere without her children, was gone. Why did her boyfriend, Brooks H
The Motel They Searched Four Times: The Debanhi Escobar Case
Police Searched the Motel Four Times: The Debanhi Escobar CaseIn the early hours of April 9, 2022, a driver photographed 18-year-old law student Debanhi Escobar standing alone on the highway outside Monterrey, Mexico, a picture he said he took to prove she was alive. Thirteen days later, her body was found in a water cistern at the Motel Nueva Castilla, a property police had already searched at le
The Doctors Signed an Accident: The María Marta García Belsunce Case
Five Bullets, One "Accident": The María Marta García Belsunce CaseOn October 27, 2002, sociologist María Marta García Belsunce, co-founder of Missing Children Argentina, was found dead in her bathtub inside the Carmel Country Club, an exclusive gated community outside Buenos Aires. No police were called, a death certificate citing non-traumatic cardiac arrest was arranged that same night, and the
The Evidence Sat on a Shelf for 25 Months: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
The Evidence Sat on a Shelf for 25 Months: The Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka CaseIn November 1990, a polite, cooperative suspect voluntarily handed Toronto police his own saliva, blood, and hair. The samples sat untested at a forensic lab for more than two years, and in that window, Paul Bernardo raped four more young women and killed two teenage girls. Why did tips naming him go nowhere for yea
The Hill That Kept Them: The Frog Boys of South Korea
The Hill That Kept Them: The Frog Boys of Daegu and Korea's Coldest Unsolved CaseHow do three hundred thousand searchers miss five bodies buried four hundred meters from home? Why did police call it hypothermia when the skulls told a different story? And who walked down that mountain in 1991 knowing exactly where five children lay, and stayed silent for thirty-five years?In this episode, we follow
The Killer Passed the Polygraph: The Colonial Parkway Murders
The Killer Passed the Polygraph: The Colonial Parkway MurdersBetween 1986 and 1989, at least eight young people were murdered or vanished along the Colonial Parkway, the 23-mile federal road connecting Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia. Couples in parked cars. Valuables untouched. Cars left behind like messages. Why did investigators suspect a police impostor? How did a distinctive lo
He Drew His Victims Before He Killed Them: The Doodler Case
He Drew His Victims Before He Killed Them: The Doodler, San Francisco's Unsolved Serial KillerAt 1:25 a.m. on January 27, 1974, a caller told San Francisco police there might be a dead man on Ocean Beach. He was the first of at least five, probably six, gay men murdered between 1974 and 1975 by a killer who sketched his targets in Castro bars before luring them to the foggy edges of the city. Poli
Three Children, One Bus, Sixty Years: The Beaumont Children Disappearance
Three Children, One Bus, Sixty Years: The Beaumont Children DisappearanceOn Australia Day, January 26, 1966, Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont, nine, seven and four, took a five-minute bus ride to Glenelg Beach near Adelaide and were never seen again. Who was the tall, sun-tanned man witnesses saw playing with them at Colley Reserve? Where did the one-pound note they spent at the bakery come from, wh
The Killer Who Never Existed: The Hillside Strangler Case
The Killer Who Never Existed: The Hillside Strangler Case of Bianchi and BuonoBetween October 1977 and February 1978, ten girls and young women, aged 12 to 28, were abducted in Los Angeles, strangled, and left on the hillsides above Glendale and Eagle Rock. The press named the killer the Hillside Strangler, one man. Police knew almost from the start that it was two: cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Ang
The Girl Police Walked Past: The Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping
Título: Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping: The Girl Police Walked PastHow does a 14-year-old vanish from her own bedroom in one of Salt Lake City's safest neighborhoods, and stay hidden for nine months just miles from home? Why did the answer to the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping sit inside police files for four months while the wrong man died in custody? And what happens when a detective stands feet away fr
Twenty Stab Wounds Behind a Locked Door: The Ellen Greenberg Case
Twenty Stab Wounds Behind a Locked Door: The Ellen Greenberg CaseOn January 26, 2011, during a blizzard, 27-year-old Philadelphia schoolteacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her locked Manayunk apartment with a knife in her chest and twenty stab wounds, ten of them to the back of her neck. The medical examiner first ruled her death a homicide. Weeks later, after a closed-door meeting with poli
Ten Thousand Fragments: The Fox Hollow Farm Killer Herb Baumeister
Ten Thousand Fragments: The Herb Baumeister Fox Hollow Farm CaseBeginning June 24, 1996, searchers recovered roughly 10,000 human bone fragments from the wooded grounds of Fox Hollow Farm, an 18-acre estate in Westfield, Indiana. The man who owned it, thrift store founder and family man Herb Baumeister, fled to Canada and killed himself before he could ever be arrested, charged, or tried. Thirty y
Twenty-Nine Minutes in a Snowstorm: The Sandra Birchmore Case
Twenty-Nine Minutes in a Snowstorm: The Sandra Birchmore CaseOn February 1, 2021, as a nor'easter buried Canton, Massachusetts, a masked man entered Sandra Birchmore's apartment building at 9:14 p.m. and left twenty-nine minutes later. Her phone had locked at 9:13 and never unlocked again. Three days later, the 23-year-old teacher's aide, ten weeks pregnant and planning a Valentine's Day announcem
She Packed Her Own Bag: The Asha Degree Disappearance
She Packed Her Own Bag: The Asha Degree DisappearanceIn the predawn hours of February 14, 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree left her family's home in Shelby, North Carolina, and walked alone down Highway 18 through a raging storm, carrying a bookbag she had packed in advance. Truck drivers saw her. One turned around to help, and watched her run into the woods. She has never been seen again. Why woul
The Answer Under Her Fingernails: The Yogurt Shop Murders
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