Evidence Locker True Crime
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Dive into the chilling depths of human nature with Evidence Locker True Crime, where every episode unveils riveting tales from around the globe. As dedicated aficionados of the macabre, we meticulously dissect real-life mysteries, transporting you to the heart of each gripping narrative. Brace yourself for a raw, unfiltered exploration of the most haunting cases imaginable. Subscribe now and embark on a spine-tingling odyssey into the world of true crime.
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270: The Devil and Joan Vollmer | Australia
Ralph and Joan Vollmer lived on a farm outside of a small Australian country town. When Joan’s mental health deteriaorated, her feverishly religious husband was convinced she was possessed by the Devil. During a botched exorcism, Joan died. But who was to blame? Books: Read collections of The...
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The Blood Countess, Elizabeth Báthory | Hungary (Revisited)
If Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story left you curious about Erzsébet Báthory, revisit the accusations and disputed accounts behind “Countess Dracula” with Evidence Locker. 16th century Transylvanian Blood Countess, Erzebet Báthory, was labelled as the most prolific female serial killer in history…
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269: The B1 Butcher | Namibia
In June 2007, the dismembered remains of 36-year-old Sanna Garoës appeared beside three roads leading out of Windhoek. Her death brought two unsolved murders from 2005 back into the headlines and gave Namibia a frightening name for a possible killer: the B1 Butcher. Then a fourth woman’s remains...
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268: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | USA
In October 1849, one of America's greatest writers was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, wearing someone else's clothes and unable to explain how he had ended up there. Four days later, Edgar Allan Poe was dead. He was just 40 years old. No death certificate survives, no autopsy was...
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267: The Lake Alleghe Murders | Italy
In the small Italian village of Alleghe, high in the Dolomite Mountains, a series of deaths haunted the community for decades. What began in 1933 with the suspicious death of a young hotel waitress was followed by another unexplained death, then the brutal 1946 double murder of village baker…
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266: The Monster With 21 Faces | Japan
In 1984, a mysterious criminal group calling itself "The Monster with 21 Faces" launched an unprecedented campaign of extortion against Japan's largest food manufacturers. Beginning with the kidnapping of a confectionery company president, the group taunted police and the media with mocking...
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265: Killer Clown, John Wayne Gacy | USA - Part 2
As investigators searched beneath John Wayne Gacy's home, they uncovered a crime scene unlike anything they had encountered before. Hidden within the crawlspace were the remains of dozens of young men and boys, exposing years of murder concealed behind the façade of an ordinary suburban life.…
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264: Killer Clown, John Wayne Gacy | USA - Part 1
In December 1978, 15-year-old Robert Piest vanished after leaving work to meet a potential employer. His disappearance led investigators to John Wayne Gacy, a respected Chicago businessman, political volunteer and community entertainer known as "Pogo the Clown." At first, Gacy appeared…
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263: The Bizarre Lead Masks Case | Brazil
In August 1966, two electronics technicians climbed a hill overlooking Rio de Janeiro and were never seen alive again. Days later, their bodies were discovered lying side by side, dressed in suits, waterproof coats and strange homemade lead eye masks. There were no signs of violence, no clear…
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262: The Easey Street Murders | Australia
In January 1977, two young women, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett, were brutally murdered inside their Melbourne home, while Suzanne's 16-month-old son was found alive nearby. The shocking crime became one of Australia's most enduring unsolved murder cases. For nearly five decades,...
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261: The Breaking Bad Murder of Eva Bourseau | France
Eva Bourseau, 23, was murdered in her Toulouse apartment on 26 July 2015 by two students, Taha Mrani Alaoui and Zakariya Banouni, over a drug debt. Her body was submerged in hydrochloric acid in a plastic trunk — a method inspired by the TV series Breaking Bad. Discovered by firefighters after…
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260: The Unsolved Murder of Robert Wone | USA
On August 2, 2006, Washington D.C. attorney Robert Eric Wone was stabbed to death inside the Dupont Circle townhouse of his college friend Joseph Price. Three housemates – Price, Victor Zaborsky, and Dylan Ward – were home at the time. Evidence suggested the crime scene had been staged, and that...
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259: The Killing of Kirsty Bentley | New Zealand
On New Year's Eve 1998, fifteen-year-old Kirsty Bentley vanished while walking her Labrador, Abby, near the Ashburton River in Canterbury, New Zealand. Seventeen days later, her body was found hidden in dense scrub at Camp Gully, Rakaia Gorge, 40 kilometres away. She had been killed by a single...
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258: The Doppelganger Case of Adolf Beck | England
In 1895, a Swedish man named Adolf Beck was stopped on a London street by a woman who accused him of swindling her out of her jewellery. Police quickly connected him to a string of similar frauds — and to a man named John Smith, convicted of identical crimes in 1877. Over a dozen victims picked...
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257: The Mysterious Disappearance of Christine Walters | USA
In November 2008, 23-year-old Christine Lindsey Walters left her hotel room in Eureka, California, in her pyjamas, to collect identity documents from a nearby copy centre. She was trying to get home to Wisconsin. She never made it. A junior studying botany and ethnobotany at the University of...
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256: The ‘My Way’ Karaoke Killings | The Philippines
Frank Sinatra's "My Way" became one of the deadliest songs in history — not on a battlefield, but in the karaoke bars of the Philippines. Between 1998 and 2018, at least a dozen people were killed in disputes linked to the song, in incidents dubbed the "My Way Killings." Victims were shot for...
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255: The Real Twin Peaks Case: Murder of Hazel Drew | USA
In the sweltering summer of 1908, 20-year-old domestic servant Hazel Drew was found floating face-down in Teal's Pond, New York. Her skull had been crushed by repeated blows. A corset string wrapped around her throat. The investigation revealed a web of secrets, political corruption, and powerful...
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254: The Gang of Amazons | Russia
On a quiet September night in 2013, a routine traffic stop on the outskirts of Aksai unraveled a mystery that had haunted southern Russia for years. A violent shootout led police to a forest campsite, and what they uncovered was more than just weapons. The suspects were not professional hitmen or...
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253: The Murder of Au-Pair, Sophie Lionnet | England
In 2017, 21-year-old French au pair Sophie Lionnet was found burned in a garden in Southfields, London. What began as a dream opportunity became a nightmare of abuse, torture, and ultimately murder at the hands of her employers. Books: Read collections of The Evidence Locker Files, available in...
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252: The Vanishing of the Krnak Family | USA
Between September 2003 and April 2006, Wisconsin prosecutors built one of the most challenging murder cases in the state's history: proving a family annihilation without bodies, a crime scene, or eyewitnesses. In July 1998, Allen Krnak, his wife Donna, their son Thomas, and the family dog…
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251: The Wanda Beach Murders | Australia
On a windy January day in 1965, two fifteen-year-old best friends walked into the sand dunes at Wanda Beach near Sydney. They never came home. What followed was one of the largest investigations in Australian history, yet the killer vanished without a trace. Sixty years later, three suspects have...
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Nordic Campsite Killings 4: The Shadow Between the Cases
Between 1959 and 1987, a series of brutal attacks in the forests and lakesides of Finland and Sweden left multiple victims dead – and investigators haunted by their similarities. From Tulilahti and Lake Bodom to Appojaure and the deck of the Viking Sally, the victims were ordinary people, asleep...
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Nordic Campsite Killings 3: The Tent Murders at Lake Appojaure - Revisited
In July 1984, beneath Sweden’s midnight sun, a remote campsite near Lake Appojaure became the scene of a brutal double murder. Dutch tourists Marinus and Janny Stegehuis were stabbed to death as they slept in their tent, an attack that shocked the nation and remains unresolved. This episode marks…
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Nordic Campsite Killings 2: Lake Bodom Murders - Revisited
In the summer of 1960, four teenagers went camping at Lake Bodom. In the pre-dawn hours, an unknown assailant attacked them inside their tent, slashing them with a knife and hitting them with a blunt object. Of the four, only 18-year-old Nils Gustafsson survived, narrowly escaping death. 45 years...
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250: Nordic Campsite Killings 1: The Tulilathi Murders
July 1959. Two young women on a cycling holiday vanished from a Finnish campsite. Eine Nyyssönen, 21, and Riitta Pakkanen, 23, were found buried in a bog three weeks later, marked by a sharpened stick. Over 60 years later, this brutal double murder remains unsolved. Books: Read collections of The...
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249: The Mysterious Murder of Julia Wallace
On a winter evening in 1931, a soft-spoken insurance agent was lured from his Liverpool home by a strange telephone message. The address he searched for didn’t exist. By the time he returned, his wife had been brutally murdered. Who was the caller? Was the alibi a masterstroke of deception? Or…
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The North Pole Slaying Plot - Foiled | Alaska (Revisited)
Every December, thousands of letters addressed to Santa are sent to North Pole, Alaska. Boxes full of letters are then sent to North Pole Middle School, where they are included in the 6th Grade curriculum: North Pole’s 11 and 12-year-olds are nominated as Santa’s little helpers and reply to all…
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248: The Orderud Murders | Norway
In May 1999, three members of the Orderud family were found shot to death in their home in rural Norway. The victims — Kristian and Marie Orderud and their daughter Anne — had been killed in the dead of night in what appeared to be a cold and calculated execution. Despite four people being...
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247: The Vampire of Bucharest | Romania
Between 1970 and 1971, a series of brutal murders terrified the streets of Bucharest. The victims were mostly women — attacked at night, bitten, and mutilated. Their killer became known as The Vampire of Bucharest. His crimes were frenzied and disturbing, leaving investigators to wonder whether...
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246: Fugitive Mom, Dorothy Lee Barnett | USA/Australia
In 1994, a custody dispute in South Carolina ended with a mother vanishing with her infant daughter. Dorothy Lee Barnett, accused of violating a court order, disappeared without a trace — along with 11-month-old Savannah. For nearly two decades, the pair lived under new identities across the…
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245: The Butcher of Mons: Belgium’s Unsolved Suitcase Murders | Belgium
Between 1996 and 1997, the dismembered remains of at least five women were found stuffed in garbage bags and dumped inside suitcases around the Belgian city of Mons. The killer, who came to be known as Le Dépeceur de Mons — The Butcher of Mons — has never been identified. The murders shocked the...
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The Black Magic Murders (Adolfo Constanzo) | Mexico - Revisited
In celebration of Halloween, this week’s episode is a re-release of one of our first episodes - still chilling... Adolfo Constanzo, also known as El Padrino (or the Godfather), was the leader of a cult that believed that Black Magic would shield their drug cartel from being busted. Adolfo...
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244: The Halloween Candy Killer, Ronald O'Brien | USA
On Halloween night in 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O’Brien came home from trick-or-treating in Deer Park, Texas, excited to sample his candy haul. Among the treats was a Pixy Stix — one that would become infamous in American true crime history. Within hours, Timothy was dead, poisoned by cyanide....
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243: Diary of a Death Factory (Vlakplaas) | South Africa
For nearly two decades, a nondescript farm outside Pretoria was the epicenter of South Africa’s most covert and brutal campaign of state-sponsored terror. Known as Vlakplaas, it served as headquarters for a police death squad targeting anti-Apartheid activists. Under the leadership of Colonel…
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242: The Murder of Anna Anton | Nebraska
Anna Anton thought she'd found safety in small-town Nebraska, living below a police officer who had sworn to protect and serve. Instead, she became the victim of the very person she trusted most. In this episode, we uncover the shocking betrayal that shattered the peace of Lyons, Nebraska, and...
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241: The Cursed Viking Sally | Baltic Sea
In the 1980s, the MS Viking Sally ferry became synonymous with tragedy and terror on the Baltic Sea. What began as a luxurious passenger vessel soon earned a sinister reputation when two brutal murders occurred on board just one year apart—in 1986 and 1987. The ship that was meant to provide safe...
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240: The Vanishing Triangle | Ireland
Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle is an area around Dublin from where multiple women have mysteriously vanished in the 1990s. Most of the cases have the same characteristics and remain unsolved. Were they taken by a serial killer? Irish Police created Operation Trace in 1998 to actively solve the...
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239: The Raincoat Killer, Yoo Young-chul | South Korea
Between September 2003 and July 2004, Seoul was terrorized by one of the most brutal serial killers in Korean history. Yoo Young-chul, known as the "Raincoat Killer," murdered at least 20 people in a shocking spree that exposed deep social inequalities and reignited debates about capital...
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238: The Keddie Cabin Murders | California
On the night of April 11, 1981, the quiet mountain resort town of Keddie, California, became the scene of one of the most brutal and mysterious murders in American history. Four members of the Sharp family—Sue, Johnny, Dana, and twelve-year-old Tina—were victims of a horrific attack that left…
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237: The Disappearance of Claudia Kirschhoch | Jamaica
In February 2000, professional travel writer Claudia Kirschhoch arrived at Sandals Beaches Resort in Jamaica to resolve a simple visa issue. She was organized, experienced, and living her dream life exploring the world through her writing. But what began as a routine travel complication quickly...
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236: The Lainz Angels of Death | Austria
In the spring of 1989, Vienna's Lainz Hospital seemed like any other medical facility caring for the elderly and infirm. The sprawling complex, with its long corridors and sterile rooms, housed hundreds of patients requiring constant care. But behind its institutional facade, something sinister…
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235: The Senseless Killing of Telenovela Star, Daniella Perez | Brazil
In late December 1992, Brazil was shaken by the tragic and untimely death of 22-year-old actress and dancer Daniella Perez. Known for her role as Yasmin Bianchi in the popular telenovela "De Corpo e Alma," Daniella was brutally murdered by her co-star, Guilherme de Pádua, and his wife, Paula...
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Interview: Branden Morgan (The Devil Within)
In this episode, Noel & Sonya discuss the fascinating and often disturbing world of true crime podcasting. Guest, seasoned podcaster Branden Morgan, details the structure of his podcast, including deep dives into specific cases and weekly episodes that keep listeners engaged. The conversation…
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234: The Hammersmith Ghost Murder | England
In January 1804, the quiet village of Hammersmith descended into fear over reports of a ghost haunting the streets—believed to be the restless spirit of a suicide victim. This wave of panic took a tragic turn when excise officer Francis Smith, convinced he had encountered the ghost, fatally shot...
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233: The Unexplained Disappearance of Emma Fillipoff | Canada
Emma Fillipoff vanished on a chilly November night in Victoria, BC, leaving behind cryptic clues and a trail of unanswered questions. Was it foul play, a mental health crisis, or a deliberate disappearance? Join us as we explore Emma’s life, her struggles, and the haunting mystery of what…
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232: The World’s End Murders | Scotland
In 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott vanished after a night out in Edinburgh. Decades later, DNA evidence would finally crack the case. This is the story of one of Scotland’s most haunting and hard-fought investigations. Follow us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X & TikTok For more...
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231: The Gorky Maniac | Russia
In the closed Soviet city of Gorky, fear gripped the population as a brutal serial killer stalked its streets. In the fall of 1980, a spree of gruesome murders sent shockwaves through the community, challenging the State's narrative of order and security. With no clear pattern, men and women from...
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230: The Gainesville Ripper, Daniel Harold Rolling | USA
In the summer of 1990, Gainesville, Florida, became the hunting ground of a sadistic killer. Within just four days, five college students were brutally murdered, their bodies posed in horrifying rituals. The manhunt that followed uncovered chilling secrets about Danny Rolling, the man behind…
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229: The Stalking Murder of Alice Ruggles | England
Alice Ruggles was vibrant, kind, and full of life. But her ex-boyfriend’s obsession spiraled into stalking and, ultimately, murder. In this episode, we uncover the chilling details of Alice’s tragic case, examine the red flags, and explore the systemic failures that left her vulnerable. Learn how...
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228: The Questionable Death of Crystal McCrory Jones | USA
When 43-year-old Crystal McCrory Jones was found dead in her Louisiana home on February 9th, 2023, her death was quickly ruled a suicide. However, inconsistencies in the investigation, behavioral red flags from her husband, and crucial details overlooked by the police raise doubts about the true...
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Dive into the chilling depths of human nature with Evidence Locker True Crime, where every episode unveils riveting tales from around the globe. As dedicated aficionados of the macabre, we meticulously dissect real-life mysteries, transporting you to the heart of each gripping narrative. Brace yourself for a raw, unfiltered exploration of the most haunting cases imaginable. Subscribe now and embark on a spine-tingling odyssey into the world of true crime.
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