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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…
Episodes
Crime IncidentShe Wrote Her Own Warning: The Disappearance of Susan Powell
She Wrote Her Own Warning: The Disappearance of Susan Powell Why would a young mother hide a handwritten will in a safe-deposit box her husband couldn't open?…
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He Killed a Family, Then Stayed for Ice Cream: The Setagaya Family Murders
He Killed a Family, Then Stayed for Ice Cream On the night of December 30, 2000, someone climbed through a second-floor bathroom window in Tokyo's Setagaya…
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The Photograph Taken After She Vanished: The Tara Calico Case
The Polaroid in the Parking Lot: The Disappearance of Tara Calico How does a nineteen-year-old vanish in broad daylight, two miles from home, on a highway full…
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The Killer Was on Camera for Thirty Minutes: The Missy Bevers Case
The Killer Was on Camera for Thirty Minutes: The Missy Bevers Church Murder Case Before dawn on April 18, 2016, church security cameras in Midlothian, Texas…
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She Said She'd Be Right In: The Jodi Huisentruit Disappearance
She Said She'd Be Right In: The Jodi Huisentruit Disappearance Around four in the morning on June 27, 1995, TV anchor Jodi Huisentruit answered her producer's…
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Her Last Search Was for a Region in France: The Chandra Levy Case
Her Last Search Was for a Region in France At 12:59 p.m. on May 1, 2001, a laptop in a Dupont Circle apartment ran one final, never-explained search…
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She Was Tied Up When She Made the Call: The Jennifer Pan Case
She Was Tied Up When She Made the Call: The Jennifer Pan Case On the night of November 8, 2010, a whispered 911 call came from an upstairs bedroom in Markham…
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The Murder Weapon Came From Across the Street: The Martha Moxley Case
The Murder Weapon Came From Across the Street Around midday on Halloween 1975, the body of 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found beneath a pine tree on her own…
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The Flat Tire That Never Stranded Anyone: The Crystal Rogers Case
A Flat Tire, Keys in the Ignition, and a Mother Who Vanished: The Crystal Rogers Case On July 5, 2015, Crystal Rogers' maroon Chevrolet Impala was found…
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The Motel They Searched Four Times: The Debanhi Escobar Case
Police Searched the Motel Four Times: The Debanhi Escobar Case In the early hours of April 9, 2022, a driver photographed 18-year-old law student Debanhi…
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The Doctors Signed an Accident: The María Marta García Belsunce Case
Five Bullets, One "Accident": The María Marta García Belsunce Case On October 27, 2002, sociologist María Marta García Belsunce, co-founder of Missing Children…
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The Evidence Sat on a Shelf for 25 Months: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka
The Evidence Sat on a Shelf for 25 Months: The Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka Case In November 1990, a polite, cooperative suspect voluntarily handed Toronto…
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The Hill That Kept Them: The Frog Boys of South Korea
The Hill That Kept Them: The Frog Boys of Daegu and Korea's Coldest Unsolved Case How do three hundred thousand searchers miss five bodies buried four hundred…
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The Killer Passed the Polygraph: The Colonial Parkway Murders
The Killer Passed the Polygraph: The Colonial Parkway Murders Between 1986 and 1989, at least eight young people were murdered or vanished along the Colonial…
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He Drew His Victims Before He Killed Them: The Doodler Case
He Drew His Victims Before He Killed Them: The Doodler, San Francisco's Unsolved Serial Killer At 1:25 a.m. on January 27, 1974, a caller told San Francisco…
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Three Children, One Bus, Sixty Years: The Beaumont Children Disappearance
Three Children, One Bus, Sixty Years: The Beaumont Children Disappearance On Australia Day, January 26, 1966, Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont, nine, seven and…
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The Killer Who Never Existed: The Hillside Strangler Case
The Killer Who Never Existed: The Hillside Strangler Case of Bianchi and Buono Between October 1977 and February 1978, ten girls and young women, aged 12 to…
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The Girl Police Walked Past: The Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping
Título: Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping: The Girl Police Walked Past How does a 14-year-old vanish from her own bedroom in one of Salt Lake City's safest…
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Twenty Stab Wounds Behind a Locked Door: The Ellen Greenberg Case
Twenty Stab Wounds Behind a Locked Door: The Ellen Greenberg Case On January 26, 2011, during a blizzard, 27-year-old Philadelphia schoolteacher Ellen…
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Ten Thousand Fragments: The Fox Hollow Farm Killer Herb Baumeister
Ten Thousand Fragments: The Herb Baumeister Fox Hollow Farm Case Beginning June 24, 1996, searchers recovered roughly 10,000 human bone fragments from the…
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Twenty-Nine Minutes in a Snowstorm: The Sandra Birchmore Case
Twenty-Nine Minutes in a Snowstorm: The Sandra Birchmore Case On February 1, 2021, as a nor'easter buried Canton, Massachusetts, a masked man entered Sandra…
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She Packed Her Own Bag: The Asha Degree Disappearance
She Packed Her Own Bag: The Asha Degree Disappearance In the predawn hours of February 14, 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree left her family's home in Shelby…
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The Answer Under Her Fingernails: The Yogurt Shop Murders
The Yogurt Shop Murders: How Four Girls' Killer Robert Brashers Hid for 34 Years Four teenage girls were bound, shot, and left in a burning yogurt shop, so why…
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Vanished at Ten Thousand Feet: The D.B. Cooper Mystery
Vanished at Ten Thousand Feet: The D.B. Cooper Hijacking That America Never Solved On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a polite man in a business suit boarded a…
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The Corridor of Vanished Backpackers: Charles Sobhraj, "The Serpent"
The Corridor of Vanished Backpackers: Inside the Crimes of Charles Sobhraj, "The Serpent" In 1975, young travelers on Asia's hippie trail began turning up…
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The Girl the Newspapers Invented: The Black Dahlia Murder
The Girl the Newspapers Invented: The Black Dahlia Murder of Elizabeth Short On a January morning in 1947, a young mother pushing a stroller through a…
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The Hotel That Never Opened: H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle
The Hotel That Never Opened: The True Story of H.H. Holmes and the Murder Castle How does a man kill his closest associates for years in the middle of…
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They Turned Her Away for Fourpence: Jack the Ripper's Victims
They Turned Her Away for Fourpence: The True Story of Jack the Ripper's Victims In the autumn of 1888, five women were murdered within a half mile of London…
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The Last Four Minutes: Elisa Lam and the Cecil Hotel Mystery
The Last Four Minutes: The Elisa Lam Cecil Hotel Elevator Mystery A twenty-one-year-old student steps into a hotel elevator just after midnight, and the doors…
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The Killer Who Buried His Plans Years in Advance: The Israel Keyes Case
The Buried Buckets: Inside the Israel Keyes Kill Kits and the FBI Case That Never Closed How does a man commit murders across the United States for a decade…
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The Ticket in the Broken Glass: The Son of Sam Case
The Ticket in the Broken Glass: How a Parking Fine Caught the Son of Sam For thirteen months, a gunman with a .44 revolver turned New York City into a place…
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The River Kept Count: Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer
The River Kept Count: the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway, and the women Seattle looked past How does a man murder forty-nine women while detectives question…
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He Celebrated His Anniversary the Night Before: The Aileen Wuornos Case
Title: He Celebrated His Anniversary the Night Before: the Aileen Wuornos case Seven men vanished along Florida's highways in thirteen months, a repair shop…
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The Confession No Court Can Touch: The Natalee Holloway Case
Vanished in Paradise: The Natalee Holloway Disappearance and Joran van der Sloot How does an eighteen-year-old honors graduate vanish from a Caribbean island…
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Everyone Remembers Her Roommate, Not Her: The Amanda Knox Case
The Forgotten Name in the Famous File: the Amanda Knox case and the murder of Meredith Kercher She chose Perugia because she believed it was safer than Rome…
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Forty-Six Minutes on Tape: The West Memphis Three
Forty-Six Minutes on Tape: The West Memphis Three and the Satanic Panic That Convicted Them Three eight-year-old best friends rode their bikes into the woods…
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The Documentary Made Her a Footnote: The Steven Avery Case
The Photographer and the Salvage Yard: the Steven Avery and Teresa Halbach case from Making a Murderer A hundred million people watched the documentary about…
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The Last Photo Was of the Ceiling: The Jodi Arias Trial
The Last Photo Was of the Ceiling: The Jodi Arias Murder Trial Travis Alexander was ten days from his birthday and six days from a flight to Cancún when he was…
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The House That Was the Law: The Alex Murdaugh Murders
The House That Was the Law: The Alex Murdaugh South Carolina Family Murders For a hundred years, one family's name was carved over the courthouse door in the…
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The Warning on the Fax Cover Sheet: Adnan Syed and the Case Behind Serial
The Warning on the Fax Cover Sheet: Hae Min Lee, Adnan Syed, and the Case Behind Serial She was an honor roll student who managed the wrestling team, worked a…
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Fifty-Five Minutes in the Dark: The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
Fifty-Five Minutes in the Dark: The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann A three-year-old girl goes to sleep in a ground-floor holiday apartment on Portugal's…
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The Church President's Secret: The BTK Killer Dennis Rader
The Church President's Secret: the true story of BTK killer Dennis Rader How does a serial killer murder ten people in one city and stay free for thirty-one…
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The Meter Reader Called Three Times: The Casey Anthony Trial
The Meter Reader Called Three Times: The Casey Anthony Trial and the Death of Caylee Anthony A two-year-old girl vanishes on a June afternoon in Orlando, and…
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He Went Fishing on Christmas Eve: The Laci Peterson Case
He Went Fishing on Christmas Eve: The Laci Peterson Murder Case On December 24, 2002, Laci Peterson, 27 years old and eight months pregnant, vanished from her…
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He Was a Cop the Whole Time: The Golden State Killer
He Was a Cop the Whole Time: The Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo How does the Golden State Killer terrorize California for over a decade while wearing a…
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Two Verdicts, One Question America Never Settled: The O.J. Simpson Trial
Two Verdicts, One Question America Never Settled: The O.J. Simpson Trial How can one jury acquit a man of two murders and another jury find him legally…
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The Deal That Let Him Keep Going: The Jeffrey Epstein Case
The Deal That Let Him Keep Going: The Jeffrey Epstein Case How does a man facing a 60-count federal indictment for crimes against children end up commuting to…
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The Ransom Note Was Written Inside the House: The JonBenet Ramsey Case
The Ransom Note Was Written Inside the House: The Unsolved JonBenet Ramsey Case How does a ransom note demanding 118,000 dollars get written on a notepad from…
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The Bodycam Filmed the Warning Nobody Heard: The Gabby Petito Case
The Bodycam Filmed the Warning Nobody Heard: The Gabby Petito Case At 4:37 p.m. on August 12, 2021, Gabby Petito photographed her own bloodied face in a van…
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Her Mother Made Her Sick for Twenty-Three Years: The Gypsy Rose Blanchard Case
Her Mother Made Her Sick for Twenty-Three Years: The Gypsy Rose Blanchard Case The wheelchair was never necessary. The feeding tube was a lie. The pink house…
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The Porch Camera Saw Him Load the Truck: The Chris Watts Case
The Porch Camera Saw Him Load the Truck: The Chris Watts Family Murders At 5:27 a.m., a neighbor's security camera recorded a pickup truck backing into a…
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They Called Him Charming After He Escaped Twice: The Real Ted Bundy
He Escaped Twice and They Still Called Him Charming: The Real Ted Bundy Record His own girlfriend reported him to police, four separate tips carried his name…
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He Signed His Letters With a Crosshair and Was Never Caught: The Zodiac Killer
He Signed His Letters With a Crosshair and Was Never Caught: The Zodiac Killer Mystery Minutes after shooting two people, he called the police himself to claim…
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The Police Handed Him His Victim Back: The Jeffrey Dahmer Case
The Police Handed Him His Victim Back: The Jeffrey Dahmer Case and the System That Failed A fourteen-year-old boy escaped Apartment 213, drugged, bleeding…
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She Wrote a Children's Book About the Grief She Caused: The Kouri Richins Case
She Wrote a Children's Book About the Grief She Caused: The Kouri Richins Murder Case A Utah stone mason drinks a cocktail his wife hands him in bed and is…
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The Jury Said Not Guilty and the Fight Got Bigger: The Karen Read Case
The Jury Said Not Guilty and the Fight Got Bigger: The Karen Read and John O'Keefe Case A Boston police officer is found dying in the snow on a fellow…
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An Entire City Locked Its Windows in a Heat Wave: The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez
An Entire City Locked Its Windows in a Heat Wave: Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker Why did a fingerprint from the very first murder scene sit useless in a…
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Thirty-Three Boys Were Buried Under the House Next Door: John Wayne Gacy
Thirty-Three Boys Were Buried Under the House Next Door: The John Wayne Gacy Murders How does a man murder thirty-three boys and young men over six years while…
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A Thirteen-Year-Old Filmed Her Own Killer: The Delphi Murders
A Thirteen-Year-Old Filmed Her Own Killer: The Delphi Murders of Abby and Libby How does a fourteen-year-old girl have the presence of mind to record the man…
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They Killed Their Parents and America Still Can't Decide Why: The Menendez Brothers
They Killed Their Parents and America Still Can't Decide Why: The Menendez Brothers Case How do two sons shotgun their parents in the family den, call 911…