Episodes
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Dig me a Grave
Dig Me a Grave, is the definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal,well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the South—written by Dick Harpootlian…
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Carl Koppelman: Web Sleuth!
With the ubiquitousness of social media, websites dedicated to solving crimes have become more common place. Run by amateur detectives versed in online DNA traces, missing person sightings and other techniques, these unpaid investigators, also known as web sleuths, have solved countess cases...
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Face to Face with Whitey Bulger
The FBI's high-stakes capture of fugitive Boston mobboss James "Whitey" Bulger at his hideout in Santa Monica,California slammed shut a 16-year-long international odyssey to find one of the FBI's most wanted men. But it was not the end of the story! FBI Special Agent Richard Teahan, who commanded...
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A pitbull with lipstick
“A pitbull with lipstick.” That’s how Cathy Terkanian has been described due to her relentless quest to uncover the truth about her daughter, Aundria Bowman, who disappeared in 1989 after being placed for adoption years earlier. With the help of web sleuth Carl Koppelman and dedicated detectives...
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HE FOUGHT THE MOB: The Murder of Bobby Fuller
Bobby Fuller was one of America's hottest rock stars when he died under mysterious circumstances. Beaten and bloodied, his body had been soaked in gasoline and left in his car in the heart of Hollywood. The Bobby Fuller Four had just entered the Top 10 with "I Fought The Law" when it all came to…
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BLACK WIDOW: The Kouri Richens Case
I’m sure you’ve all heard the adage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Or perhaps, “The third time’s the charm.” Well, Kouri Richens did, as she tried 3 times to poison her husband with narcotics before succeeding in 2022. Ms. Richens has just been convicted of murder and attempted...
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The Karen Read Phenomenon
Arguably the most talked about trial since the O.J.Simpson Murder Trial is the Karen Read Murder Case of Massachusetts. Her saga dominated the local and national media for over two years, covered by Court TV, 20/20, Dateline and 48 Hours, just to name a few. There were documentaries galore and…
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KILLER TWINS
Robert Bruce Spahalski and Stephen Spahalski were identical twins. Same hair, same eyes, same thirst for blood. Stephen was the first brother to kill - by viciously bashing in storeowner Ronald Ripley's head with a hammer when he was 17 years old! Unlike Stephen, Robert didn't stop with just one...
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A Perfect Storm of Injustice
Imagine you come home from a pick-up basketball game at your church’s gym, to find your wife and two small children slaughtered in your garage. But wait! It gets worse! Now imagine after a few short days of inept, possibly corrupt, investigation and, despite the fact you have 11 witnesses…
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Child Last Seen
HER CASE HAD BEEN CLOSED—BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania,15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through a basement window. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she’d come home...
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The Good Nurse
After his December 2003 arrest, nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "The Angel of Death" by the media. But he was no mercy killer nor a simple monster. But he was perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history, implicated in the deaths of as many as 400 patients. Cullen's…
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KILLER CLOWN
If you believe serial killers are not entitled to defense lawyers, STOP HERE! This episode is not for you. On the other hand, if you are curious what it is like to defend one of America's most notorious serial killers during his final deathrow appeals-Welcome. "Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy"…
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To Catch A Killer!
A serial killer turns crime victim when his own daughter is the one viciously murdered. He asks law enforcement for help, but the case goes cold. Then he turns to Sheryl McCollum and the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute. There’s never been a case like this in history. Sheryl and her…
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RED FLAG WARNING!
If your spouse joked on a nationally televised game show that his biggest mistake at your wedding was saying, ‘I do!’ would you consider that a RED FLAG? Becky Bliefnick did. She tried to tell her family, her friends, even the police that she was getting increasingly frightened of her husband…
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Over the Edge: The Andrea Yates Story
“I just killed my children.” On June 6th, 2001 those words were uttered to a 911 operator in suburban Houston by Andrea Yates. She had just drowned her 5 children, ages 6 months to 7 years, in her bathtub. No one who knew Andrea could picture the devoted mother capable of such an unbelievable…
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Confessions of a Bundyphile
Join me and my guest, E.J. Hammon, self-proclaimed Bundyphile!
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A MURDER ON CAMPUS
Two brothers, one a professor the other a cop, and North Carolina's most notorious cold case!
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KILLER LIES
History is loaded with the stories of imposters, fraudsters and outright liars. Princess Caraboo, an Englishwoman who pretended to be a Princess from a fictional island. Frank Abagnale, Jr.- who in his career, impersonated a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, just to name a few. Victor Lustig, who…
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Murder at Midnight
For two years, silence shrouded the vanishing of a woman from the small Southern town of Malvern, Arkansas. Now, the mysterious disappearance and the suppression of the truth are cracked open by the FBI Agent, Jerry Spurgers, who worked this case of drug conspiracy, witness intimidation, and…
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The G-Man and the Psychic
In the summer of 1998, FBI agent Bob Hilland reluctantly picked up the phone to call the famous psychic John Edward. Bob didn’t expect much from the call, but he was working on an unsolvable cold case and had nowhere else to turn. What Bob never imagined was that the call would lead to a…
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Recipe for Murder!
On July 29th, 2023, in Leongatha, a smalltown in rural Victoria, Australia, family and friends of local woman Erin Patterson sit down for Saturday lunch. On the menu, Beef Wellington. The next day, four of the guests are hospitalized. Doctors suspect death- cap mushroom poisoning. Within a week,...
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Who Killed Sandra Birchmore?
On February 4, 2021, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton, Massachusetts apartment. Her death was initially ruled as a suicide by asphyxia. Federal authorities later determined that her death was a homicide, with local police officer, Michael Farwell, alleged to have killed...
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The Edge of Innocence
Florence Bennet is found dead in a bathtub of scalding water. Her husband, Casper, claims that he found her like that, but his burned hands tell a different story. Or so the police and almost the entire population of Lorain believe. And as the Bennetts’ marriage with its secrets of alcohol…
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THROUGH THE LENS OF A MONSTER
On death row for 42 years at San Quentin, artist and inmate William Noguera formed an unlikely bond with the notorious serial killer Joseph Naso. Over years of disturbing conversations—and at great personal risk—Noguera gained his trust. What he revealed was far worse than anyone imagined. Behind...
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Who Massacred the McStay Family?
On February 15, 2010, Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their two young sons were reported missing from their new home in San Diego County. They left eggs and fruit rotting on the counter. Their Dodge truck sat in the driveway. Their dogs were abandoned outside without food. But investigators...
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SON OF SAM: The Lost Tapes
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the Son of Sam Case in the form of documentaries, the latest by NETFLIX. Many are subtitled, “The Lost Tapes,” a reference to recordings of multiple interviews with David Berkowitz in Attica prison, shortly after he was incarcerated. Luckily for us…
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Hell in the Heartland
On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police corruption abounded in the...
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THE LARAMIE PROJECT--The Matthew Shepard Story
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, WY, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol of intolerance, but for the people of Laramie the event…
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No Human Involved
When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as “N.H.I.” — “No Human Involved.” Dehumanized and invisible to the public eye, they are rarely seen as victims. In the United States, Black women are killed at a higher rate than any other...
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Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?
On Christmas night in 1996, the brutal murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey shocked the nation. Found dead in her family's Boulder, Colorado home, JonBenét's body was discovered in the basement, with a broken skull, strangled by a garrote and sexually assaulted. A ransom note left in the home...
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The Fairbanks Four
Imagine, spending 18 years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit! October 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond recognition. Two days later, he dies in the hospital. His name is John Gilbert...
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Karen Read Murder Trial (Deja vu, all over again!)
When last we saw our heroine, Karen Read, she was free after her trial last year in Dedham, MA for the murder of her then boyfriend, Police Officer John O’Keefe. The trial ended in a hung jury. But like all soap operas, we ain’t done yet! Her retrial has just begun and it promises to be as…
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A Devil Went Down To Georgia
The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in cold blood in…
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Mother-in-law from Hell!
The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy. Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet…
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The ROPE
In 1910 in the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective’s first murder case, and now, the...
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The Sinners All Bow
On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, more questions emerged. Was Sarah’s death a suicide...or...
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A Homicidal Love Story
Would you kill for love? After Alice, a desperate young mother in a gritty Wyoming boomtown, kills her husband in 1974 and dumps his body where it will never be found, she slips away and starts a new life with a new love. But when her new love's ex-wife and twokids start demanding more of him,...
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Death By Dentist
At just 41 years of age, Florida State law professor Dan Markel was among the most well-known and accomplished criminal law scholars in the country. He was also a newly divorced dad, his toddlers Ben and Lincoln the center of his universe. On the morning of July 18, 2014, Dan dropped his boys…
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Homicide at Rough Point (Part One)
In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire. Minutes later, she...
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Homicide at Rough Point (Part Two)
In Part One of our two part series on 5 time Emmy winning investigative reporter Peter Lance’s Book, HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, we left off as Mr. Lance was detailing how, back in the fall of 1966, the Newport, Rhode Island police covered up the murder of art curator and designer Eduardo Tirella,...
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THE POISON TREE
Seven years before Lyle and Erik Menendez gunned down their parents in Beverly Hills, after years of abuse, suffered by he and his sister, Richard Jahnke ambushed their father in the garage of their home on Cowpoke Lane in Cheyenne, Wyoming and shot him dead. THE POISON TREE is a riveting account...
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Lyle and Erik
Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who murdered their parents in 1989 in Beverly Hills and would be all but forgotten as they languished in prison under a sentence of life without the possibility of parole save for recent developments in their case. Today there is the good chance the brothers...
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The Man in the White Van
Based on true events. In 1975 Florida, a series of violent disappearances go unnoticed, and young Annie (Madison Wolfe) is targeted by an ominous white van that stalks her every move. As the menace escalates, her parents dismiss her fears, and Annie is soon plunged into a terrifying nightmare…
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NCIS: Cold Case Files
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the NCIS television dynasty. Some of you may have the impression that the entire agency is made up entirely of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and a handful of agents and wacky support staff. Au contraire. NCIS has many divisions staffed by hundreds of agents. One of…
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KAREN READ: Cop killer or victim?
Provocative title? In the early morning hours of January 29, 2022, Boston Police Department Officer John O'Keefe was found dead outside the home of fellow Boston Police Officer, Brian Albert, in Canton, Massachusetts. O'Keefe had been dropped off the night before by his girlfriend, Karen Read, to...
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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much
Was “What's My Line?” TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large? These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA...
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The Devil Behind the Badge
Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them could have imagined. When Melissa was found dead, the other...
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Who Killed Seth Rich?
Who Killed Seth Rich? If you guessed Hilary Clinton, you’d be wrong, but not alone. It’s been said that we all love a good conspiracy story. In the midst, of the political convulsions that surrounded the 2016 Presidential Election, a young man by the name of Seth Rich was gunned down and killed…
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Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story
Can two brilliant minds outsmart the law? In 1924 Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy University of Chicago students, sought to commit the perfect crime simply for the thrill of it. They meticulously planned the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, a distant relative of…
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Teach Me To Kill: The Pamela Smart Story
Teach me to kill. That’s exactly what Media Instructor, Pamela Smart, did for 3 of her teenage students in 1990, in Derry, New Hampshire. Smart seduced and slept with Billy Flynn, the trigger man, and encouraged his friends to participate in the plot that she created, to kill her husband, Greg....
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