Episodes

Who Killed the Rhoden Family? The Wagner Family's Pike County Massacre Explained In 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 Chelsea Perkins Case: A Veteran, a Double Life, and an Execution in the Woods In 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...

Alaska Serial Killer Robert Hansen: The Baker Who Hunted His Victims Like Game In 1983, Anchorage, Alaska investigators connected respected local businessman Robert Christian Hansen to the murders of at least seventeen women, building their criminal...

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 ...

The High Priest of New Castle: Frank Costal and the Kadunce Ritual Murders On 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...

Missing in Cleveland: The True Story of the Seymour Avenue Abductions In 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...

The Zombie Hunter Murders: Phoenix's Most Haunting Cold Case Finally Solved In 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...

Operation Misty: The Undercover Sting That Caught a Serial Killer In 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....

The Wrong Mother: How Julie Rea Was Convicted of Killing Her Own Son In 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...

Sheila and Clay Fletcher: The Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die On 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...

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The Shadow of the Adirondacks: Robert Garrow and the Lawyers Who Kept His Deadly Secrets In 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...

Jeffrey Mundt and Joseph Banis: The Fourth Street House of Horrors In 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...

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 her...

Justin Mohn: How Right-Wing Radicalization Led to Father's Beheading On 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...

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Julissa Thaler: The Mother Who Bought a Shotgun After Losing Custody Battle In 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...

Mississippi Civil Rights Murder: The Medgar Evers Case Explained In 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...

Larry Gene Bell: The Sadistic Killer Who Tortured Families by Phone In 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...

Four Dead in Ohio: The Kent State Shootings Investigation In 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...

Herbert Mullin: The Santa Cruz Killer Who Believed Murder Prevented Earthquakes In 1972, Herbert Mullin murdered thirteen people across Santa Cruz, California, during a six-month killing spree that terrorized the community already known as the...

From First-Round Pick to Murder Conspiracy: The Fall of Rae Carruth In 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,...

Ray Lewis and the Super Bowl Murders: The Buckhead Stabbing Case In 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...

Route 40 Killer: Steven Brian Pennell and the Blue Van of Death There'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...