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Crime Incident
Crime Incident is a true crime podcast about murder investigations and the evidence they actually rest on.
Each Crime Incident episode rebuilds one case from the record: the police investigation as it really unfolded, the forensic evidence and the DNA that held up, the witness testimony that quietly fell apart, and what a jury finally decided. Some cases end in a verdict. Others end in an appeal, an exoneration, or a case file that has stayed open for forty years.
The catalog runs from famous…
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Crime IncidentThirty Years Without a Name: The Tent Girl Case
Thirty Years Without a Name: The Tent Girl Case In May 1968, a man collecting glass insulators beside U.S. Route 25 in Scott County, Kentucky, kicked open a…
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The Showing Was a Trap: The Lindsay Buziak Case
The Showing Was a Trap: The Lindsay Buziak Case On February 2, 2008, Lindsay Buziak, a 24 year old real estate agent, arrived at a million dollar home in…
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Her Car Drove Away Without Her: The Dorothy Jane Scott Case
Her Car Drove Away Without Her: The Dorothy Jane Scott Case On May 28, 1980, Dorothy Jane Scott, a 32-year-old single mother, drove a coworker with a black…
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Her Children Vanished. Police Studied Her Makeup: The Alice Crimmins Case
Her Children Vanished. Police Studied Her Makeup: The Alice Crimmins Case On July 14, 1965, Alice Crimmins opened her children's bedroom door in Kew Gardens…
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She Never Owned a Typewriter: The Lonely Hearts Killers
She Never Owned a Typewriter: The Lonely Hearts Killers In postwar America, lonely hearts clubs sold lists of widows to anyone with a stamp, and Raymond…
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Catch Me Before I Kill More: The Lipstick Killer Case
Catch Me Before I Kill More: The Lipstick Killer Case A message scrawled in red lipstick on a dead woman's wall. A six-year-old girl taken from her bed. And a…
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The Banging Inside the Container: The Todd Kohlhepp Case
The Banging Inside the Container: The Todd Kohlhepp Case On November 3, 2016, deputies searching a fenced 96 acre property near Woodruff, South Carolina, heard…
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He Told Tourists He Was a New York Times Reporter: The Christian Longo Case
He Told Tourists He Was a New York Times Reporter: The Christian Longo Case In nine days of December 2001, divers on the Oregon coast recovered four bodies…
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He Wrote the Threats Himself: The Chris Coleman Case
He Wrote the Threats Himself: The Chris Coleman Case On May 5, 2009, the chief of security for Joyce Meyer Ministries called his next-door neighbor, a police…
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The Killer's Name Was on the Collar: The David Camm Case
The Killer's Name Was on the Collar: The David Camm Case On September 28, 2000, former Indiana state trooper David Camm came home from a church basketball game…
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The DNA That Waited Nine Years: The Faith Hedgepeth Case
The DNA That Waited Nine Years: The Faith Hedgepeth Case On September 7, 2012, Faith Hedgepeth, a 19-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill student and member of the…
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She Missed One Bus: The Yingying Zhang Case
She Missed One Bus: The Yingying Zhang Case On June 9, 2017, Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China, missed a bus transfer in Urbana…
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Three Women, One Bar Strip, 24 Years: The Claremont Serial Killings
Three Women, One Bar Strip, 24 Years: The Claremont Serial Killings Between January 1996 and March 1997, three young women vanished from the same few blocks of…
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He Quoted Scripture in the Taxi: The Bible John Murders
He Quoted Scripture in the Taxi: The Bible John Murders Between February 1968 and October 1969, Patricia Docker, Jemima MacDonald and Helen Puttock each left…
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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 Miramichi On May 3, 1989, convicted murderer Allan Legere was escorted from a New Brunswick…
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The Test Drive That Never Came Back: The Tim Bosma Case
The Test Drive That Never Came Back: The Tim Bosma Case He posted his truck for sale online, like millions of us do every day. Two strangers came to his door…
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The Village Knew: The Bruce McArthur Case
The Village Knew: The Bruce McArthur Case Between 2010 and 2017, eight men vanished from the orbit of Church and Wellesley, Toronto's Gay Village, while police…
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Released at 12:28 A.M. With Nothing: The Mitrice Richardson Case
Released at 12:28 A.M. With Nothing: The Mitrice Richardson Case On September 16, 2009, Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old honors graduate in psychology, was…
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Two Autopsies, Zero Arrests: The Boys on the Track Case
Two Autopsies, Zero Arrests: The Boys on the Track Case In the pre-dawn hours of August 23, 1987, a 6,000-ton freight train came around a bend near Alexander…
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Stabbed 36 Times With His Own Knife: The Jonathan Luna Case
Stabbed 36 Times With His Own Knife: The Jonathan Luna Case At 11:38 p.m. on December 3, 2003, federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna drove out of the Baltimore…
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The DA Who Vanished Without a Trace: The Ray Gricar Case
The DA Who Vanished Without a Trace: The Ray Gricar Case On April 15, 2005, Ray Gricar, the district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, took a sunny…
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The Mother Who Found the Body Police Missed: The Welch Girls
The Mother Who Found the Body Police Missed: The Welch Girls Before dawn on December 30, 1999, a mobile home outside Welch, Oklahoma, burned with Danny and…
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Not Even His Boots Were Found: The DeOrr Kunz Case
Not Even His Boots Were Found: The DeOrr Kunz Case On July 10, 2015, two-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. vanished from Timber Creek Campground near Leadore, Idaho…
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Thirteen Hours Parked on the Way Home: The Bryce Laspisa Case
Thirteen Hours Parked on the Way Home: The Bryce Laspisa Case In August 2013, Bryce Laspisa, a 19-year-old Sierra College student, set out on a 500-mile drive…
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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 Theory Since 1997, dozens of athletic, high-achieving young men have vanished after nights…
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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 Case What happens when a seventeen-year-old trafficking victim kills the man exploiting her…
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79 Minutes in the Guest Room: The Robert Wone Case
79 Minutes in the Guest Room: The Robert Wone Case On August 2, 2006, attorney Robert Wone stayed overnight at a friend's rowhouse in Washington DC's Dupont…
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The Letters Kept Coming From Prison: The Circleville Letters
The Letters Kept Coming From Prison: The Circleville Letters For nearly two decades, an anonymous writer flooded the small town of Circleville, Ohio with…
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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 Collector On February 2, 2009, a woman walking her dog on Albuquerque's West Mesa found a…
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He Kept Them for Days: The Oakland County Child Killer
He Kept Them for Days: The Oakland County Child Killer Between February 1976 and March 1977, four children were abducted from the suburbs north of Detroit…
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Fifteen Feet From Safety: The Keddie Cabin Murders
Fifteen Feet From Safety: The Keddie Cabin Murders On a Sunday morning in April 1981, a fourteen year old girl walked fifteen feet from the neighbors' cabin to…
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He Never Walked Out: The Brian Shaffer Case
The Cameras Never Saw Him Leave: The Brian Shaffer Case At 1:15 a.m. on April 1, 2006, security cameras recorded Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old Ohio State…
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The Cameras Followed Her All Night: The Lauren Spierer Case
The Cameras Followed Her All Night: The Lauren Spierer Case In the early hours of June 3, 2011, surveillance cameras in Bloomington, Indiana, recorded…
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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 Case On April 25, 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel vanished from Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle…
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Two Versions of One Night: The Cyntoia Brown Case
Two Versions of One Night: The Cyntoia Brown Case In August 2004, sixteen-year-old Cyntoia Brown shot 43-year-old Nashville real estate agent Johnny Allen in…
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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 Case How does a case with a confessed killer end with the dead girl on trial? Why did New York's…
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The Note They Called a Joke: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders
The Note They Called a Joke: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders On the night of June 12, 1977, the very first night of summer camp, three young Girl Scouts, Lori…
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She Escaped in Handcuffs: Butcher Baker Robert Hansen
She Escaped in Handcuffs: Butcher Baker Robert Hansen On June 13, 1983, a seventeen-year-old girl ran barefoot down the edge of Merrill Field in Anchorage…
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The Road That Kept Taking Them: The Highway of Tears
The Road That Kept Taking Them: The Highway of Tears Along roughly 720 kilometers of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia…
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Two Files on One Death: The Kendrick Johnson Case
Two Files on One Death: The Kendrick Johnson Case On January 11, 2013, students at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, found 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson…
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He Ran Out After One Phone Call: The Rey Rivera Case
He Ran Out After One Phone Call: The Rey Rivera Case On May 16, 2006, Rey Rivera, a 32 year old writer and former professional water polo player, took a phone…
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You Will Never Find Him: The Timmothy Pitzen Case
You Will Never Find Him: The Timmothy Pitzen Case On May 11, 2011, Amy Fry-Pitzen walked into Greenman Elementary School in Aurora, Illinois, and signed her…
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Every Phone in America Knows Her Name: The Amber Hagerman Case
Every Phone in America Knows Her Name: The Amber Hagerman Case On January 13, 1996, nine-year-old Amber Hagerman left her grandparents' house in Arlington…
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The Neighbor Across the Street: The Origin of Megan's Law
The Neighbor Across the Street: The Origin of Megan's Law On July 29, 1994, seven-year-old Megan Kanka was lured into the house directly across the street from…
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The Answer Was in the File: The Jacob Wetterling Case
The Answer Was in the File: The Jacob Wetterling Case On October 22, 1989, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was biking home from a convenience store in St…
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Taken From Her Own Sleepover: The Polly Klaas Case
Taken From Her Own Sleepover: The Polly Klaas Case On October 1, 1993, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted at knifepoint from her own bedroom in Petaluma…
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Ninety Minutes Too Late: The Adam Walsh Case
Ninety Minutes Too Late: The Adam Walsh Case How does a six-year-old vanish from a Sears that stood directly across the street from a police station? Why did…
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She Told Him Not to Call the Police: The Maura Murray Case
She Told Him Not to Call the Police On February 9, 2004, 21-year-old nursing student Maura Murray crashed her Saturn on a dark curve of Route 112 in Haverhill…
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Gone Before the Ship Docked: The Amy Bradley Disappearance
Gone Before the Ship Docked: The Amy Bradley Cruise Disappearance How does a twenty-three-year-old woman vanish from a cruise ship balcony in the thirty…
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The Letter She Was Forced to Write: The Sylvia Likens Case
The Letter She Was Forced to Write: The Sylvia Likens Case On October 26, 1965, police entered a house at 3850 East New York Street in Indianapolis and found…
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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 Case On June 10, 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was taken from a hillside in Meyers…
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38 Witnesses Watched Her Die, Except They Didn't: The Kitty Genovese Case
38 Witnesses Watched Her Die, Except They Didn't In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, was stalked and stabbed to…
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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 Five On the night of February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba City and Marysville…
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The Confession Nobody Believed: Ed Kemper, the Co-Ed Killer
He Had to Call Three Times: Ed Kemper and the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Murders In April 1973, a six-foot-nine man stood in a phone booth in Pueblo, Colorado, and…
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The Report She Never Filed: The Vanessa Guillén Case
She Was Killed at Work on a Secure Army Base: The Vanessa Guillén Fort Hood Case On April 22, 2020, Specialist Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old soldier from…
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They Shelved the Charge, He Kept Killing: The Robert Pickton Case
The Charge They Shelved: The Vancouver Missing Women Case Between 1995 and 2002, some 65 women vanished from a few blocks of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and…
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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 Murders On December 15, 2017, a real estate agent showing a Toronto mansion found its…
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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 Attacks For 23 days in October 2002, the Washington, D.C. region lived under a rifle. Thirteen people…
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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" Case In September 1978, ABC's The Dating Game introduced bachelor number one as a…
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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 Case At 2:31 a.m. on June 6, 1996, Darlie Routier called 911 from her Rowlett, Texas…