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Introduction to the Green River Killer: Gary Ridgway’s Dark Legacy
The First Victim: Wendy Lee Coffield and the Beginning of a Nightmare
Picture this: It’s 1982, and the serene waters of Seattle’s Green River are about to become …
The Chilling Beginnings of Amy Archer-Gilligan
In the suffocating heat of a Connecticut summer in 1916, a determined woman sat across a desk from a man she hoped could deliver justice. Nellie Pierce clutched a worn envelope, her brother’s nam…
A Not-So-Classic Family Beginning
Florida, 1958. George Waterfield Russell Sr. and his wife, Joyce, had their first child, George Russell Jr., and, on paper, it probably looked like a classic, happy family was in the making. But reality had other p…
Joanna Yeates: A Promising Life in Clifton, Bristol
Joanna Clare Yeates had a lot going for her. Born in 1985 in Hampshire, England, she was the kind of person who seemed to make all the right choices—good schools, good degree, and finally, a…
The Dark Cloud Over L.A.’s Sunset Strip
Between 1980 and 1983, Los Angeles was in the grip of something dark, something that hung in the air along the Sunset Strip like a fog no one wanted to see. Women were disappearing—vanishing off s…
Confessions from a Convicted Killer
Most killers don’t confess. Even when faced with damning evidence, they sit tight, maintain their innocence, and cling to whatever sliver of denial they can muster. But then, there’s Samuel Little. …
A Routine Morning Turns to Horror: The Crash on July 31, 2022
On a quiet morning in Cleveland, Ohio, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla was behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry, accompanied by her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and their friend, Davion Flanag…
The Beginning of a Monster: Bundy’s Childhood and Early Influences
Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, in Burlington, Vermont, at a facility for unwed mothers. Originally named Theodore Robert Cowell, Bundy’s childhood began with d…
Inside the Helter Skelter: The Twisted Journey of Charles Manson and His Cult of Chaos
Act One: The Early Years of Chaos
A Boy Named "No Name": The Troubled Childhood of Charles Manson
November 12, 1934. A cold, dull day in Cincinnati, Ohio. In…
Who Was Molly Bish? A Snapshot of Her Life
It was in the summer of 2000 that would change young Molly Anne Bish’s life forever. While other sixteen-year-olds across Massachusetts were home from school for the summer season, Molly was on her w…
A Close Encounter with True Crime History
Today, I would like to do something a little different and talk about a case a little closer to home for me personally. For those of you just joining us or new to the podcast, we usually cover true crime st…
The Early Years: From Henry McCarty to "Kid Antrim"
The wild, wild west, a place where outlaws could become members of law enforcement overnight, or vice versa for that matter, and a place where many would carve out a level of fame and fortune that…
Lori’s Early Life and Tumultuous Marriages
In 1973, Lori Cox was born to Mormon parents in San Bernardino County, California. She got married for the first time at 19 years old but swiftly divorced her new husband, marrying another man three …
“Lizzie Borden took an ax,And gave her mother forty whacks.When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one.”
Immortalized for the savage and sickeningly cold killing of her parents, Lizzie Borden has gone down in history as…
“I verily believe in my heart that Giles Corey is a dreadful wizard, for since he had been in prison, he or his appearance has come and most grievously tormented me.”
Giles Corey: The Unlikely Defendant
Before Giles Corey found himself…
How It All Started: The Strange Case of Betty and Abigail“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” reads the Bible and there was one infamous village in particular that was dead-set on living by that doctrine.It was in Salem, 1692, that n…
“I know you know what’s going on and why we’re here,” an officer spoke to the person who’d just opened the door he’d knocked on. “We’re investigating a murder.”The woman he was talking to…
The Liske Family Murders: A Halloween Tragedy in Martin, Ohio
“This was the most disturbing murder scene I’d seen over the course of my career,” a state prosecutor would later describe the case he had just been a part of. “I…
A Childhood of Trauma: The Making of Danny Rolling
Daniel Rolling had a childhood unlike most. His father, James Harold Rolling, was a Korean War veteran turned Shreveport police officer. In 1953, he married Daniel’s mother, Claudia, when she…
The Chilling Discovery in Carly's Room
Let me take you back to a cold day in March 2024. Picture a mother—Ashley Smylie, a high school math teacher—getting news no parent wants to hear: something disturbing is happening in her o…
Early Life and Troubled Upbringing
If looks can kill, then what can a cold and very public dismissal do? That was the question a husband facing his wife in the British courts would find out in the mid-1990s.The man himself was Frederick Walter Step…
A Darker Side of the Roaring 20s
When it comes to the Roaring 20’s America, we usually think of big parties, champagne glasses, and new cars. Rarely do we think about healthcare or even that someone could be struggling with something like obe…
“I told him to stop back when he got out if he needed anything… He stopped back.”
That heart-wrenching line came from a husband who never imagined that a small act of kindness to a stranger would end in de…
A Fresh Start Turns to Horror in Cabin 28
In the early '80s, Sue Sharp was ready to embrace a fresh start, leaving behind a turbulent marriage and relocating to the serene woods of California with her five kids. But little did she know, the…