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A True crime Podcast
The true crime podcast that uncovers the most notorious murders, heists, and mob sagas from the shadows of the past. Each episode transports you to crime scenes long forgotten, weaving gripping narratives of betrayal, bloodshed, and justice—or the lack thereof. From Prohibition-era gang wars to modern-day mysteries. we explore the dark motives, shocking twists, and enduring legacies that still haunt us today. Perfect for armchair detectives and history buffs alike—listen if you dare,
Episodes
A True crime PodcastThe Otaku Killer: Tsutomu Miyazaki and the Little Girl Murders
In the late 1980s, a series of child abductions in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture shocked Japan. Four young girls disappeared and were later found murdered. The…
A True crime PodcastThe Beast of Birkenshaw: Peter Manuel
On New Year’s Day 1958, a man walked into a quiet home in Uddingston, Scotland, and shot a husband, wife, and their young son as they slept. Then he stayed. He…
A True crime PodcastThe ABC Killer: Moses Sithole’s Reign of Terror
In the mid-1990s, as South Africa emerged from apartheid, a charming predator preyed on desperate women looking for work. Moses Sithole, known as the ABC…
A True crime PodcastThe Teacher and the Student: The Case of Pamela Smart
In 1990, a 22-year-old high school media coordinator in New Hampshire was accused of conspiring with a teenage student to murder her husband. The resulting…
A True crime PodcastThe Broomstick Killer: Kenneth McDuff and the Parole That Failed Texas
In August 1966, Kenneth McDuff and an accomplice abducted three teenagers on a Texas baseball field. He shot the two boys in the trunk of their car, then raped…
A True crime PodcastThe Candy Man: Dean Corll and the Houston Mass Murders
In Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s, the man handing free candy to kids outside an elementary school was making them disappear. Dean Corll, known as the…
A True crime PodcastThe Atlanta Child Murders: Wayne Williams and the Night the Splash Changed Everything
For nearly two years, children and young men disappeared from Atlanta’s streets. Most were Black boys between the ages of 7 and 17. Their bodies were found…
A True crime PodcastThe Last Woman Hanged: Ruth Ellis and the Shooting That Changed Britain
On Easter Sunday 1955, Ruth Ellis shot her lover David Blakely dead outside a London pub. Ninety-four days later she became the last woman executed in the UK…
A True crime PodcastMary Ann Cotton: The Arsenic Widow Who Buried Her Own Children
In Victorian England, a nurse and mother named Mary Ann Cotton watched husbands, stepchildren, and even her own babies die of “gastric fever”—then collected…
A True crime PodcastThe Master and the Shore: The Murder of Elaine O’Hara
“Go down to the shore and wait.” Those were the final words Elaine O’Hara ever received. On 22 August 2012, the 36-year-old childcare worker left a psychiatric…
A True crime PodcastThe Earthquake Killer: Herbert Mullin’s 13 Sacrifices
In the fall of 1972, a 25-year-old man in Santa Cruz, California began hearing voices. They told him that if he didn’t kill, a catastrophic earthquake would…
A True crime PodcastThe Missing Plate: Joel Rifkin’s Quiet Reign of Terror
In June 1993, New York State Troopers pulled over a landscaper on Long Island for a missing license plate. What they found under a tarp in his pickup truck…
A True crime PodcastThe Vampire of Sacramento: Richard Chase and the Unlocked Door
In January 1978, a six-year-old girl knocked on a neighbor’s door for a playdate and looked through the window. What she saw was the aftermath of a…
A True crime PodcastThe Perfect Crime That Wasn’t: Nathan Leopold and the Murder of Bobby Franks
In 1924, two wealthy Chicago teenagers decided they were above the law. Nathan Leopold — a nineteen-year-old prodigy, birdwatcher, and Nietzsche devotee — and…
A True crime PodcastThe Black Widow: Dena Thompson and the Poisoned Birthday Curry
On his 31st birthday in June 1994, Julian Webb sat down to his favourite meal — an extra-hot curry cooked by his wife. By the next morning he was dead, and she…
A True crime PodcastThe Perfect Cover: Jeremy Bamber and the White House Farm Murders
In the early hours of 7 August 1985, police were called to a locked farmhouse in rural Essex. Inside they found five members of the Bamber family dead —…
A True crime PodcastThe Teacher’s Wife: The 40-Year Murder of Lynette Dawson
In January 1982, 33-year-old mother of two Lynette Dawson vanished from her home on Sydney’s northern beaches after telling her mother her husband had just…
A True crime PodcastThe Italian Stallion: Angelo Buono and the Hillside Stranglers
In the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was gripped by terror. Bodies of young women and girls—some as young as 12—kept turning up naked and strangled on the city’s…
A True crime PodcastHe Flashed a Badge and Said “You’re Under Arrest.” Then He Killed 12 Women | Kenneth Bianchi
Two girls walking home from school. A man steps out with a badge. “Police. You’re under arrest.” They believed him. Their bodies were found posed on a Los…
A True crime PodcastThe Man in the Glass Cell: Robert Maudsley
There is a cell under Wakefield Prison that was built for one man. Bulletproof glass. A cardboard chair. Food passed through a hatch. The prisoner inside has…
A True crime PodcastPlease Stop: The Murder of Kelsey Berreth
Thanksgiving Day, 2018. Kelsey Berreth, a 29-year-old flight instructor, is seen for the last time pushing a grocery cart in Woodland Park, Colorado, her…
A True crime PodcastThe Lady of Silence: Juana Barraza and the Old Lady Killer
On the morning of January 25, 2006, a woman leaves a house in the Moctezuma neighborhood of Mexico City in a hurry. Inside, Ana María de los Reyes Alfaro is…
A True crime PodcastThe Man Who Helped Them Look: Ian Huntley and the Soham Murders
On 4 August 2002, ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left a family barbecue in Soham to buy sweets. A security camera caught them in matching red…
A True crime PodcastHell’s Belle: The Widow Who Buried Her Suitors
She called herself a lonely widow with a farm outside La Porte, Indiana. The ads asked for a reliable man, preferably Norwegian, willing to come alone and…
A True crime PodcastNumber 10: The Man Who Papered Over the Bodies
In March 1953, a tenant at 10 Rillington Place tapped a kitchen wall and found three bodies hidden behind fresh wallpaper. The man who had lived there for…
A True crime PodcastShe Injected the Babies. Then Texas Almost Let Her Out.
In 1982, parents in Texas handed their children to a nurse named Genene Jones. Some of those children stopped breathing in her care. One was Chelsea McClellan…
A True crime PodcastShe Opened the Door. He Never Left.
At 2:32 on a Tuesday in Bushey, Carol Hunt let her daughter’s ex-boyfriend in. He said he was returning Louise’s things. Within minutes Carol was dead. He…
A True crime PodcastHe Sold the Church a Fake Miracle. Then He Built a Bomb.
A package outside a Salt Lake City office killed Steven Christensen before he could stand back up. Two hours later, a second bomb killed Kathy Sheets in her…
A True crime PodcastHe Paid a Man £200 to Take His DNA Test. It Caught Him Anyway.
In 1987, a baker in Leicestershire paid a colleague to give blood in his name. Two hundred pounds. A clean result. The police never got his sample. They…
A True crime PodcastThe Snapshot Killer: Christopher Wilder’s 47 Days
In the spring of 1984, Christopher Wilder drove from Florida toward the Canadian border, posing as a photographer and promising young women a picture that…
A True crime PodcastShe Killed Veterans to Make Him Run
On a quiet veterans’ ward in Massachusetts, the code alarm became routine. The nurse who answered it was Kristen Gilbert. Prosecutors said she injected…
A True crime PodcastHe Smiled on Bullseye. Weeks Later, Two People Were Dead.
In June 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon left their tent on the Pembrokeshire coast for one last walk. They never came back. Their killer had been on national…
A True crime PodcastThe World’s End: Angus Sinclair and the Girls Who Left the Pub
October 15th, 1977. Two seventeen-year-olds leave a pub on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile called the World’s End. By morning Christine Eadie and Helen Scott are dead…
A True crime PodcastThe Man the River Gave Back: Arthur Shawcross
On January 3, 1990, a police helicopter over the Genesee River spots a body in the ice — and a man on the bridge above it, watching. His name is Arthur…
A True crime PodcastThe Handyman at the Lodge: Cary Stayner and the Yosemite Murders
February 1999. A mother, her teenage daughter, and her daughter’s friend check into a lodge at the edge of Yosemite. The man who hands them the key works the…
A True crime PodcastHe Helped the FBI Search for the Women He Killed
In February 1999, Carole Sund, her daughter Juli, and Silvina Pelosso checked into a motel at the edge of Yosemite and never checked out. For months the FBI…
A True crime PodcastFour Days in Gainesville: The Crimes of Danny Rolling
August 1990. A new semester has just started at the University of Florida. In four days, five students are dead: Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt…
A True crime PodcastThe Chart Said Natural Causes. The Autopsy Did Not.
In 1987 a medical examiner in Cincinnati opened a body that was supposed to be routine. The patient had died in a hospital. The paperwork said natural causes…
A True crime PodcastHe Told the Detective to Turn Left. There Were Two Bodies.
On 24 March 2011, Swindon taxi driver Christopher Halliwell sat in the back of an unmarked police car and told Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher to take…
A True crime PodcastHe Lied on the 911 Call. His Son’s Phone Proved It.
Alex Murdaugh called 911 just after 10 p.m. on June 7, 2021, and said he had just found his wife and son shot dead beside the dog kennels at Moselle. He told…
A True crime PodcastThe Locked Door: Oscar Pistorius and the Death of Reeva Steenkamp
Valentine’s Day, 2013. Pretoria. Four shots through a locked bathroom door. On the other side is Reeva Steenkamp, twenty-nine, a model and a law graduate. The…
A True crime PodcastShe Screamed Through the Motel Wall. He Had a Handcuff Key.
New Jersey knew him as a computer operator. Married. Three kids in Lodi. A man who said the night shifts were work. In Times Square hotel rooms, he was the…
A True crime PodcastShe Ran Barefoot From His Plane. The Map Had 24 Graves.
Anchorage knew him as Bob the baker. Quiet. Married. A record-holding bowhunter who sold doughnuts to cops. In the bush along the Knik River, he was something…
A True crime PodcastThe Party That Wasn’t: Albert Fish and the Disappearance of Grace Budd
June 3rd, 1928. A gray-haired man tells a Manhattan mother he has come to take her daughter to a children’s party. Grace Budd is ten. She puts on a white…
A True crime PodcastThe Bushy-Haired Stranger: Diane Downs
On a warm night in May 1983, Diane Downs pulled up to a Springfield, Oregon hospital with three shot children in her car and a story about a stranger on a dark…
A True crime PodcastPeter Tobin: The Handyman Under the Church Floor
In September 2006, Polish student Angelika Kluk vanished from a Glasgow church. Days later, police lifted the floorboards and found her body. The handyman was…
A True crime PodcastThe Colonel Who Flew the Queen — Then Became Canada’s Worst Secret
February 7, 2010. Canada’s top air-base commander sits across from a detective. No shouting. Just a photo of a tire track. By morning, the country learns the…
A True crime PodcastThe Audience in the Room: Luka Magnotta and the Murder of Jun Lin
May 2012. A video appears on the open internet. People who hunt cruelty online hope it is a hoax. It is not. Jun Lin was a Chinese student in Montreal. Luka…
A True crime PodcastHelter Skelter: Charles Manson and the Nights on Cielo Drive
August 1969. A house in the Los Angeles hills. A pregnant actress. The word pig on the door. The man the cameras want is not in the living room — and the…
A True crime PodcastThe Last Hundred Yards: Levi Bellfield and the Walk Home
A thirteen-year-old girl leaves school in Surrey and never reaches the door. For years her parents live inside a missing-person case while a man who knows the…
A True crime PodcastThe Cabin and the Manifesto: Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber
A ten-by-twelve shack in Montana. No running water. A former Berkeley mathematician who decided other people’s bodies were postage for an argument about…
A True crime PodcastThe Deal with the Devil: Karla Homolka and the Girls in the House
A bride in white. A twelve-year sentence. A country that still cannot agree what to call her. Karla Homolka told Canada she was a battered young wife trapped…
A True crime PodcastThe Couple in the Wedding Photo: Paul Bernardo and the Niagara Murders
A smiling wedding portrait. A Scarborough street at night. Two schoolgirls who never made it home. For years Canada hunted a rapist in Toronto’s east end while…
A True crime PodcastThe Face in the Photograph: Myra Hindley and the Moors Murders
A blonde beehive. A police mugshot. For sixty years Britain has argued about the woman in the frame — and too often forgotten the children first. Between 1963…
A True crime PodcastThe Moor: Ian Brady and the Children Who Never Came Home
On Saddleworth Moor the weather changes without warning. In the 1960s, five children left home in Greater Manchester and did not come back. One of them is…
A True crime PodcastThe Castle on 63rd Street: H.H. Holmes and the World’s Fair
In 1893, Chicago built the White City. Three miles south, H.H. Holmes built a hotel with corridors that led nowhere, rooms that locked from the outside, and a…
A True crime PodcastThe Kindly Killer: Dennis Nilsen and the Blocked Drain
February 1983, Muswell Hill. A plumber opens a manhole to clear a blocked drain and finds human remains. The tenant upstairs is Dennis Andrew Nilsen — a quiet…
A True crime PodcastNine Days of a Lie: Susan Smith and the Lake in Union
On October 25, 1994, Susan Smith told America a Black man had carjacked her Mazda in Union, South Carolina, and driven off with her sons still in the back…
A True crime PodcastThe Patio Joke Was True: Rose West and Britain’s House of Horrors
In February 1994, police dug up a Gloucester back garden looking for a missing 16-year-old. They found her under the patio. Then they found another body. Then…
A True crime PodcastThey Dug for One Body. They Found a Third Thigh Bone.
February 1994. Gloucester police go into an ordinary house on Cromwell Street looking for a missing 16-year-old. In the garden they find something that should…