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Crimelines® True Crime
Crimelines walks you through true crime events, pairing captivating tales with clear storytelling. Host Charlie brings in appropriate historic and cultural context to look beyond what happened and consider why it happened. Crimelines is a registered trademark of Crimelines LLC
Episodes
- Crimelines® True Crime
The Ewell Family (from Beyond the Files)
Three members of a family were killed while the fourth had an airtight alibi. It took considerable resources and a few years to really unravel what happened…
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Fahim Saleh | Misplaced Trust
In July of 2020, a killer went to great lengths to hide his identity, but all it took for police to track him down was his ear and a tiny piece of confetti…
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Larry McNabney | The Ultimate Con
Larry McNabney was slowly disappearing from his law firm for several months leading up to the day he actually disappeared. Because his wife Elisa–and her…
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Daniel Sorenson | Two Stories, One Verdict
In this week’s case, we have two stories of what happened, and the old adage that the truth lies somewhere in the middle falls short when these two stories…
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Marjorie Nugent | Beyond "Bernie" Tiede
When a filmmaker took a real crime case and turned it into a dark comedy, the victim’s family called it a successful blame-the-victim campaign after they…
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Kimyala Henson, Shaina Kirkpatrick, Shausha Henson
When two bodies were found at a rest stop in Florida, three missing persons cases were opened. This case takes us across the United States and leaves us with…
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Christina Morris | A Choice of Charges
Christina Morris went out for a night with friends but never came home. Modern technology like cell phone pings, security camera footage, and DNA testing gave…
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David Harmon | Cold Case Solve
After a murder in a Kansas suburb went cold, people accused a local church of covering up the truth. But no cover up was good enough for a cold case team…
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Wanda Rollyson and Rebecca Cliburn | CSI-fail
After a brutal double homicide in rural Ohio in 2005, a killer who liked to watch the TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation thought he cleaned up his tracks…
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Dave Riess and Pam Hutchinson | A Woman on the Run
Before the spring of 2018, Lois Riess was an energetic 50-something year old woman living within an hour of her hometown. But then she became known across the…
Crimelines® True CrimeKeith Reed | The Trail of Evidence
In 2012, a New York school superintendent didn’t show up as expected at a conference. His brother, a former FBI agent, suspected the worst and he was right…
Crimelines® True CrimeLeda Files | A Daughter's Story
Content disclaimer: This episode contains strong language. In 2025, a man called 911 to report finding his mother dead. But with a changing story and questions…
Crimelines® True CrimeBrandi Celenza | The Evolution of a Story
When Brandi Celenza was shot in April of 2018, the police were told one story. That story was the same in 2018, 2019, and 2020. It only changed shortly before…
Crimelines® True CrimeBill and Opal Arnold | The Lives of William Leslie "Les" Arnold
From the time he murdered his parents as a teenager until his death under an assumed name, William Les Arnold’s life intersected with several other people and…
Crimelines® True CrimePart 2: John and Joan Robinson Hill
In 1969, Joan Robinson Hill died of an infection of unknown origin. Her father was sure it was murder and, due to pressure, charges were eventually filed. But…
Crimelines® True CrimePart One: John and Joan Robinson Hill | Decades of Questions
When Joan Robinson Hill died in 1969, her father was sure foul play was involved even after multiple autopsies ruled it was natural causes. The state ended up…
Crimelines® True CrimeKara Nichols | Victimization
When Kara Nichols went missing, her family released relevant details of her life even though they thought it may impede getting attention on the case. It…
Crimelines® True CrimeMonique Baugh | Aiding and Abetting
In December of 2019, Monique Baugh went to show a house to a potential buyer and didn’t come back. Hours later, a home intruder shot her boyfriend and the…
Crimelines® True CrimeHa Smith and Anita Vo |Dual Motives
In 2005, a mother and daughter were found dead in an apparent home invasion robbery. As the police started tracking down leads, the killer got bold but as the…
Crimelines® True CrimeThomas and Jennifer Ayers | Adequate Provocation
When Thomas and Jennifer Ayers were found dead, the suspect was known from the start. But the investigation questioned motives and in the end, it was up to a…
Crimelines® True CrimeThat Beast Was Not Me | An interview with Dr. Jeffrey Smalldon
An interview with Dr. Jeffery Smalldon, author of “That Beast Was Not Me: One Forensic Psychologist, Five Decades of Conversations with Killers” THAT BEAST WAS…
Crimelines® True CrimeLucille Butterworth | A Missed Confession
Lucille Butterworth went missing in Tasmania in 1969, and Australians were shocked to learn decades later that someone confessed to her murder just 7 years…
Crimelines® True CrimeMatthew Crocker, Emmanuel Birts, David Blockett | The Profile of an Infant Abduction
Infant abductions are unlike other kidnappings and the profile of the perpetrator differs greatly, with the vast majority being women whose motivation is to…
Crimelines® True CrimeDavohnte Morgan | Mt Shasta Mystery
Davohnte Morgan was getting his life back after a traumatic injury but when he walked away from an argument with his girlfriend in 2020, he was never heard…
Crimelines® True CrimeRen and Setina Weddles | Missing Twins
In December of 2017, the Stockton police got a tip that a baby had been killed in May of 2016 and it had never been reported. The investigation showed that the…
Crimelines® True CrimeBianca Lebron | Missing in Connecticut
Ten year old Bianca Lebron said she was going to the mall with her uncle. She got into a van and drove off, never to be seen again. There have been suspects…
Crimelines® True CrimeLogan Schiendelman | Missing in Washington
Logan Schiendelman was having some growing pains as he entered adulthood like a lot of young people do. Nothing seemed insurmountable but when he disappeared…
Crimelines® True CrimeAdam Herrman | Delayed Report
When a child goes missing, entire communities turn out to search for them. But the people of Towanda, Kansas weren’t given that opportunity because Adam…
Crimelines® True CrimeTrue Crime Conversations: Josh (True Crime Bullsh**), Amanda (Wine & Crime), and Charlie (Crimelines)
For the month of December, True Crime creators are getting together for conversations about podcasting, true crime, and the nexus between the two. We’ll…
Crimelines® True CrimeFrancheska and Misheila Martinez | Missing Sisters
Francheska and Misheila Martinez were twin sisters living in Paterson New Jersey in the spring of 2000. But that summer both of them disappeared–separately–and…
Crimelines® True CrimeSummer Wells | Four Years On
In June of 2021, a little girl went missing from her family’s rural property in Tennessee. The case got the national attention most missing persons advocates…
Crimelines® True CrimeApril Dawn Andrews | Missing from Arkansas
April Andrews left her home to walk down to a church clothing giveaway but never returned. After being assumed a runaway for years, the sheriff’s department…
Crimelines® True CrimeFreda, Sheri, and Michael Johnson | The Secrets of Henry Harbison
An entire family disappeared from Independence, Missouri but it wasn’t reported for 5 months. And then the police determined they were actually on the run and…
Crimelines® True CrimePatricia Viola | CODIS
After Patricia Viola disappeared, her husband lobbied to require New Jersey police to enter DNA samples from families of missing persons in CODIS because he…
Crimelines® True CrimeWilma Nissen | Jane Doe No More
When 23 year old Wilma Nissen stopped communicating with her various foster families, they hoped she found a better life somewhere. But the truth was she was a…
Crimelines® True CrimeByron Wright | Ignored
Around Christmas time 2013, investigators in the Arlington, Washington area got notified that a recently arrested car thief wanted to talk to them. He told…
Crimelines® True CrimeAnjelica AJ Hadsell | Crafted Clues
After 18 year old Anjelica Hadsell was reported missing, clues started showing up around town. But were they leading to police closer to the an answer or were…
Crimelines® True CrimeListen Now: Against The Odds
Humans are resilient. In our toughest moments, we will fight, we will struggle, and we will triumph...often against the odds. In this immersive series from…
Crimelines® True CrimeCody Bowles and Clent Chavers (FIXED)
When Cody Bowles supposedly left town to join a motorcycle gang, it actually sounded like something he would do. But when he stopped contacting his family and…
Crimelines® True CrimeJulie-Anne Leahy and Vicki Arnold Pt 2: More Evidence and No Justice
Last week we talked about the 1991 deaths of Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy, initially ruled a murder suicide. This week, we are going to go through Vicki…
Crimelines® True CrimeJulie-Anne Leahy and Vicki Arnold | Three Inquests and More Questions (Part 1)
Two women were found dead in 1991 and the police soon concluded it was a murder suicide. The families did not accept that answer and it took multiple…
Crimelines® True CrimeFather Edward Hinds | Passion Provocation
A parish priest was found dead and a confession quickly came. But what the killer said happened and what the state pieced together were not the same thing and…
Crimelines® True CrimeKenyatta Bush | Injustice
When an Omaha teenager disappeared outside of her school, the police looked at people she knew as their likely suspects. But when a surprise confession came…
Crimelines® True CrimeMartre Coles | Inconvenient Motive
As we know, a motive is not necessary to prove a crime in court. But when the state struggles to come up with one, does it impact the jury’s ability to come to…
Crimelines® True CrimeCandace Hiltz | Tunnel Vision
When a young mother was found dead in her home in 2006, her family suspected a police coverup but the police were narrowed in on a person of interest…
Crimelines® True CrimeKayla Kelley | Modern Methods
Kayla Kelley thought she found the love of her life on a dating app. But red flags started popping up and right as she uncovered his secrets, she disappeared…
Crimelines® True CrimeStephen Douglas | A Coronial Inquest
Stephen Douglas was a passionate advocate and nurse working in mental health services. After he was killed by one of his clients, the Coroners Court of New…
Crimelines® True CrimeJohn Chakalos and Linda Carman | The Last To See Them
In 2013, a young man was the last person to visit his grandfather before his grandfather was murdered in bed. In 2016, that same young man was the last person…
Crimelines® True CrimeBobby Sexton | Disorganized Crime
When Bobby and Tricia Sexton decided to reconcile in early 1998, many thought it was the start of the family finding peace again. But according to the…
Crimelines® True CrimeWanda Lopez | Carlos v Carlos
Multiple eyewitnesses identified the murderer of Wanda Lopez and his alibi story didn’t quite check out. Twenty years later, a team from Columbia University…
Crimelines® True CrimeCarey and Charles Smith | Accomplice? Testimony
When two men were killed in their home, there was no forensic evidence… just a lot of suspicion. But after a key witness made a deal with the state, the case…
Crimelines® True CrimeRelisha Rudd | Missing from DC
In 2014, a social worker attempted to make contact with a doctor in a homeless shelter where a little girl named Relisha Rudd lived with her family. The doctor…
Crimelines® True CrimeDr. Deborah Iverson | Media Frenzy
After the murder of a doctor in Michigan, her husband offered a reward for information leading to the perpetrators. And then he increased the reward. And then…
Crimelines® True CrimeJulian and CJ Lewis | The Head of the Serpent?
In 2002, a home invasion left two people dead but the plot quickly unraveled. The only question–one that would last beyond the deaths of two of the…
Crimelines® True CrimeListen Now: The Rise & Fall of Diddy: The Federal Trial
Episode 1: The United States vs. Sean Combs Opening statements rock the courtroom as federal prosecutors accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of running a decades-long…
Crimelines® True CrimeSylvia Browne | America's Favorite Psychic
Sylvia Browne made a name for herself in the true crime world on talk shows, giving psychic readings to the families of the missing and the murdered. But an…
Crimelines® True CrimeDanyese LaClair | Holdback Information
When a woman’s body was found in a field, the police found a potential piece of evidence in the grass. But they decided to hold that information back, leading…
Crimelines® True CrimeEmmett Corrigan | Crossroads
When a confrontation between a husband and the man his wife was having an affair with erupted in violence, two families were left to grapple with what led to…
Crimelines® True CrimeBecky Bliefnick | Images in the Dark
Becky Bliefnick was ready to have her divorce settled so she could move on. She and her estranged husband fought almost every issue but none more than whether…
Crimelines® True CrimeKarina Holmer | The Boston Au Pair Murder
Karina Holmer knew within two months that being an au pair was not the job for her. She began to make plans to go home to Sweden, but she was killed after a…