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True Crime with Kimbyr

Every true crime case involves real people and real lives that are cut short, and True Crime with Kimbyr seeks to honor the victims of these unfathomable crimes by bringing facts to the forefront and sharing their stories with dignity and grace. An acclaimed storyteller on both her namesake and DARKLIVITY channels on YouTube, Kimbyrleigha brings empathy and sensitivity to the world of true crime, conducting in-depth investigations and approaching each case with the care they deserve.

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  1. Halloween Morning Horror: The Truth About Kristen Trickle's Death

    Congrats to this year's Halloween Series Naming Contest winner. Watch the intro to see who it is!! On Halloween morning in 2019, 26-year-old Kristen Trickle was supposed to get up and go to work. Her alarm was set, and Halloween candy was waiting in the kitchen for trick-or-treaters. Instead, her...

  2. Christa Pike WHO?! What Colleen Slemmer REALLY Suffered at the Hands of the "Lil Devil"

    For more than thirty years, headlines have focused on Christa Pike. Her childhood, her appeals, her execution. But this story was never supposed to be about her! That's what she always wanted - ALL the attention, and she's STILL getting it. Colleen Slemmer is the real victim here. In January…

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  3. 18-Year-Old Karoline Heintz Found Dead in Her Jeep - Hidden AirTag Led Police To Her Body

    This video is for informational and commentary purposes based on public reporting and police statements. All suspects are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.18-year-old college freshman Karoline Heintz was found dead in the back of her own Jeep in Pennsylvania just days into her first…

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  4. 80’s Halloween KFC Killing | 21-Year-Old Manager Found Dead - Death Through The Decades | Robin Hoynes

    80’s Spotify Playlist: https://spotify.link/yjmsrGPe8Db🕯️ THIS IS A NEW SERIES! It's the debut of my Death Through The Decades series. This episode features a Halloween murder at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the 1980s. The videos in this series go in depth about what life was like in...

  5. She Was Walking Alone on Halloween Then Her Texts Stopped | Taylor Van Diest

    My Halloween Series has begun! The names of these series are chosen by the community every year & I reveal a special intro for each one. This one I the Festival of Fears! Our second case is The Taylor Van Diest case out of Canada. On Halloween night in 2011, 18-year-old Taylor Van Diest left her...

  6. A Psychic, a Warning, and a Halloween That Changed Everything | Stephanie Parze

    My Halloween Series has begun! The name of these series are chosen by the community every year & I reveal a special intro for each one. Our first case is one that really affected me. What happened to Stephanie, and what her poor family went through, still makes me tear up when I think about it...

  7. Killer Bound 4 Girls in Back Room - Then Tried to Burn It All Away | Yogurt Shop Murders

    PART THREE - The final Installment of my three-part series. PART ONE: ⁠HERE⁠ PART TWO: ⁠HERE⁠ On a Friday night in December 1991, four teenage girls planned a sleepover. Two of them were working the closing shift at a shop in a strip mall in north Austin, Texas. The other two, 15 and 13, had…

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  8. Killer Left Her Dead in the Bathtub - Message on the Mirror Made No Sense | Jenny Zitricki

    PART TWO of a THREE-PART Series - WATCH PART ONE: HERE DNA 🧬 database: https://www.gedmatch.com/ On a Friday morning in April of 1990, a woman in Greenville, South Carolina didn't show up for work. Nobody had heard from her in almost thirty-six hours. When maintenance finally opened her…

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  9. Killer Was In and Out in 30 Minutes - Left Behind Disturbing Scene | Scherer Family

    THIS IS PART ONE OF A THREE-PART SERIES - Watch part two: HERE Hello everyone, I'm going to be in London for the next two weeks at CrimeCon UK, so I prepared a three-part series for you to watch while I am away. THIS is the first installment. On Saturday, March 28, 1998, a mother and daughter...

  10. A Fire, an Abandoned Car, and a Map to Nowhere | The Megan Sharpton Case

    Today's True Crime story involves Megan Sharpton, a 24-year-old nursing student who was about to graduate. She was planning on coming to her mother's house for dinner one night AFTER she went to an in-person interview for a new job she was considered for. She left but never came back. Clues left...

  11. Teen Runs Out of Gas and Never Makes it Home | Casey Crowder

    In the early morning hours of August 27, 2006, 17-year-old Casey Crowder, a bright, happy high school senior, was driving home along a quiet stretch of Highway 65 near the small town of Dumas. And then her car ran out of gas. Stranded and alone on a dark rural highway just before dawn, Casey did...

  12. High School Student Found Dead Inside Cemetery in Rural Ohio | Jessica Keen

    📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE This case is heartbreaking. Whenever a young person has their life cut short, it's not easy to talk about. Jessica was a sophomore in high school; she was JUST starting her life. She was a gifted singer, played several...

  13. Deadly First Date: She Got In His Car & Never Came Back | Eleni Topaloudi

    📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE First-date disasters are one thing, and they are all too common, but deadly first dates should not be a reality; unfortunately, in this case, it was. Dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and even Facebook Dating are…

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  14. The Moscow Idaho Case You've Never Heard Of | Rachael Anderson

    📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE Before the Idaho Four, there was another big case out of Moscow, Idaho. The Rachael Anderson case is one of the most haunting mysteries to come out of Moscow, Idaho ...years before that small college town would become…

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  15. PART 2: Six Days, Six Victims, One Connection | The Scottsdale Killing Spree

    Watch Part One: HERE - 📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠ Over the course of just a few days in 2018, six people were killed across the Phoenix area, and at first, the victims seemed to have nothing to do with one another. A nationally respected forensic...

  16. PART 1: Six Days, Six Victims, One Connection | The Scottsdale Killing Spree

    Watch Part Two: HERE - 📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE Over the course of just a few days in 2018, six people were killed across the Phoenix area, and at first, the victims seemed to have nothing to do with one another. A nationally respected forensic...

  17. Spring Break Vacation Turned Nightmare | The Case of Christine Lazzaro

    📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠HERE The Christine Lazzaro case is one of the most haunting cold cases to come out of Daytona Beach, Florida in the early 90's. In the spring of 1993, 20-year-old Christine Lazzaro traveled from upstate New York to sunny Florida...

  18. Her Brand New Home Held a Deadly Secret | The Sue Weaver Case

    📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠HERE⁠ The Sue Weaver case is one of the most unsettling true crime stories to come out of Orlando, Florida, in the early 2000's, and IT CAN happen to almost anyone. Cathy Sue Weaver had finally built the life she'd always wanted.…

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  19. A Short Walk Home Alone Turned Deadly | The Jill Meagher Case

    In this Evil Mind's Deep Dive, I walk you through the night of September 21, 2012, when Jill Meagher left a bar in Melbourne's Brunswick and began the short walk home. She was one block from her apartment. She never made it inside. Her case became one of Australia's most heartbreaking and closely...

  20. Part 2: College Nightmare: Were Sorority Girls Targeted? The Case of Shannon McNamara

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE - The Shannon McNamara case is one of the most haunting and ultimately most inspiring true crime stories to come out of Eastern Illinois University. In June 2001, 21-year-old Shannon McNamara, a bright athlete, physical education major, and beloved Alpha Phi sorority sister,...

  21. Part 1: College Nightmare: Were Sorority Girls Targeted? The Case of Shannon McNamara

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE - The Shannon McNamara case is one of the most haunting and ultimately most inspiring true crime stories to come out of Eastern Illinois University. In June 2001, 21-year-old Shannon McNamara, a bright athlete, physical education major, and beloved Alpha Phi sorority sister,...

  22. Fatal Car Crash: Accident or Murder? Secret Recording Holds Clues | Brittney Brashers

    The Brittney Brashers case is one of the most haunting true crime stories to come out of Colorado in 2009. That year, in November, 22-year-old Brittney Brashers, a young Air Force veteran who had served in Iraq, died in what first appeared to be a terrible car crash on the drive home from Denver....

  23. Part 2: She Dreamed of Solving Crimes - Then She Became One | The Case of Brittney Gregory

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE - The Brittney Gregory case is one of the most heartbreaking true crime stories to come out of New Jersey. In July 2004, 16-year-old Brittney Gregory, a straight-A honor student at Brick Township Memorial High School who dreamed of becoming a forensic scientist, vanished…

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  24. Part 1: She Dreamed of Solving Crimes - Then She Became One | The Case of Brittney Gregory

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE - The Brittney Gregory case is one of the most heartbreaking true crime stories to come out of New Jersey. In July 2004, 16-year-old Brittney Gregory, a straight-A honor student at Brick Township Memorial High School who dreamed of becoming a forensic scientist, vanished…

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  25. She Was Gone in Seven Minutes | The Hannah Cornelius Case

    MORE True Crime Here: ⁠Darklivity Podcast⁠ The Hannah Cornelius case is one of the most heartbreaking true crime stories to come out of South Africa. In May 2017, 21-year-old Hannah Cornelius, a bright, beloved Stellenbosch University student, was abducted from her own car after dropping off a...

  26. She Vanished in 8 Minutes - Right Outside Her Home | Jayde Panayiotou

    Jayde was a 29-year-old teacher who vanished from outside her own home one rainy morning in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. In April 2015, Jayde walked out to her gate to wait for her carpool and disappeared in a matter of minutes. What began as a missing-persons search — and looked, at first, like…

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  27. The Only Witness Was Her 7 Year Old Daughter | The Kelley Clayton Case

    35-year-old Kelley Clayton, a devoted mom of two, was found dead in her family home after her husband, former pro hockey player Thomas Clayton, returned from his weekly poker night. It appeared to be a home invasion by a masked intruder, but it became something far more disturbing when...

  28. The Teacher Who Vanished Before Her Wedding | Stephanie Scott

    Six days before her wedding, a loving teacher, Stephanie Scott, went to school for what should have been an ordinary day of planning. She never came home. At first, they thought she could have cold feet about the wedding, but soon everyone who loved her KNEW something was horribly wrong.…

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  29. The Photograph That Solved the Presti Family Murders

    🧡 I GOT MY SPOTIFY BACK!! Important message - which is also included in this video. I have NOT had access to this account for the past couple of years. I had no control over the posting schedule, the videos chosen, the days, or anything! Not even the titles or thumbnails or how the videos would...

  30. Part 2: The Heartbreaking MacIvor Family Murders

    Click HERE for PART ONE - The investigation deepens as detectives uncover new clues, conflicting accounts, and unsettling details that challenge everything believed about that stormy August night. In True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha continues exploring the tragic case of Missy and Mike…

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  31. Part 1: The Heartbreaking MacIvor Family Murders

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE A happy newlywed couple, a growing family, and one stormy night that changed everything forever. In True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha carefully unpacks the heartbreaking 1991 case of Missy and Mike MacIvor, whose dream life in the Florida Keys took a devastating turn....

  32. Part 2: She Was Just Minutes From Home - What Happened to Alyssa Otremba?

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE The investigation reaches its most devastating chapter. In True Crime with Kimbyr, Part 2 follows the breakthroughs that uncovered what really happened to 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba, revealing the evidence, motive, and chilling psychology behind the crime. As detectives piece...

  33. Part 1: She Was Just Minutes From Home - What Happened to Alyssa Otremba?

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE - A simple text saying her phone was about to die was the last message 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba ever sent. Just moments from home, she vanished, leaving a Nevada community searching for answers. In True Crime with Kimbyr, we examine the heartbreaking investigation, the...

  34. Part 2: The Dark Secrets of a Small Town - Two Girls GONE | Brooke Baker & Erika Norman

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE The search for answers continues as Brooke Baker’s investigation takes a darker turn. After uncovering disturbing allegations and facing warnings to stop, the ambitious young journalist refuses to back down. In Part 2 of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha dives deeper into...

  35. Part 1: The Dark Secrets of a Small Town - Two Girls GONE | Brooke Baker & Erika Norman

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE A fearless young journalist chasing the truth found herself uncovering secrets that powerful people wanted buried. Brooke Baker had dreams of leaving her small town behind and becoming an investigative reporter — but her search for answers on a college campus would put her in...

  36. Part 2: What Happened In Apt. 9?! | Mindy Morgenstern

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE The investigation into Mindy Morgenstern’s tragic final moments continues. In Part 2 of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha dives deeper into the evidence, the questions left behind, and the shocking details surrounding what happened inside Apartment 9. As a promising...

  37. Part 1: What Happened In Apt. 9?! | Mindy Morgenstern

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE Mindy Morgenstern was days away from the future she dreamed of — graduating college and beginning a career helping others. But one spring afternoon, her life was tragically cut short inside her own apartment. In this chilling episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha...

  38. Part 2: She Got Into The Wrong 'Uber' | Samantha Josephson

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE The search for answers begins as investigators piece together the chilling details surrounding Samantha Josephson’s disappearance. In Part 2 of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha dives deeper into the evidence, the investigation, and the shocking discoveries that revealed...

  39. Part 1: She Got Into The Wrong 'Uber' | Samantha Josephson

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE A promising future, a night out with friends, and a final moment caught on camera — what happened to Samantha Josephson? In this heartbreaking episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha explores the tragic case of the University of South Carolina senior whose life was…

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  40. Part 2: Amber Belken’s Final Shift: Her Car Was Outside, But She Was Already Gone

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE The search for answers continues as the investigation into Amber Belken’s disappearance takes a darker turn. In Part 2 of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha dives deeper into the timeline, the unanswered questions, and the shocking details surrounding Amber’s final moments....

  41. Part 1: Amber Belken’s Final Shift: Her Car Was Outside, But She Was Already Gone

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE Amber Belken was known as a dedicated store manager who followed the same routine every morning — until one day her car arrived, but she never opened the doors. As hours passed, unanswered questions turned into a heartbreaking discovery. In this episode of True Crime with...

  42. Part 2: Who Killed Makeva Jenkins After Her Inspiring Final Post?

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE The search for answers continues in part 2 of this heartbreaking case. In True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha dives deeper into the shocking murder of Makeva Jenkins, the successful mother whose life was taken inside her own home. As investigators piece together the…

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  43. Part 1: Who Killed Makeva Jenkins After Her Inspiring Final Post?

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE A successful mother’s dream life turned into a nightmare when she was murdered just hours after sharing her incredible journey. In this episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha investigates the tragic case of Makeva Jenkins — a woman who overcame homelessness, built a...

  44. Part 2: A Walk To The Park Turned Deadly | The Case of Antinette "Toni" Keller

    WATCH PART ONE: HERE The search for 18-year-old Antinette “Toni” Keller led investigators deep into the woods of Prairie Park, where a devastating discovery would leave the DeKalb community searching for answers. In Part 2 of TRUE CRIME WITH KIMBYR, True Crime with Kimbyr explores the...

  45. Part 1: A Walk To The Park Turned Deadly | The Case of Antinette "Toni" Keller

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE On October 14, 2010, NIU freshman Antinette “Toni” Keller left for Prairie Park in DeKalb, Illinois to shoot photos for an art project—and never returned. What began in broad daylight quickly turned into one of the most haunting missing persons cases in Northern Illinois...

  46. What Happened in Apartment 23? Rebecca Payne’s Mysterious Final Hours

    A quiet apartment, unanswered questions, and a mystery that continues to haunt investigators. In this episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, we examine the baffling case of Rebecca Payne and the disturbing events connected to Apartment 23. What really happened behind those doors, and were there clues...

  47. Part 4: She Made It To Broadway & Left in a Body Bag - The Killer's Fingerprint Left in Her Blood

    THE FINAL Chapter: As the case unfolds, Kimbyr dives deeper into Catherine Woods’ final days, exploring new witnesses, phone records, and the people closest to her. Kimbyrleigha examines the complicated relationships surrounding Catherine’s life, the media’s portrayal of her story, and the...

  48. Part 3: She Made It To Broadway & Left in a Body Bag - The Killer's Fingerprint Left in Her Blood

    WATCH PART FOUR: HERE A talented young dancer with dreams of Broadway is found brutally murdered in her Manhattan apartment—but the truth is buried beneath conflicting stories, hidden relationships, and unanswered questions. In this gripping episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, Kimbyrleigha…

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  49. Part 2: She Made It To Broadway & Left in a Body Bag - The Killer's Fingerprint Left in Her Blood

    WATCH PART THREE: HERE As detectives begin piecing together Catherine's final hours, troubling details emerge from the apartment she shared with her former boyfriend and roommate, David. With no signs of forced entry, a violent struggle confined to a single room, and a timeline that grows more...

  50. Part 1: She Made It To Broadway & Left in a Body Bag - The Killer's Fingerprint Left in Her Blood

    WATCH PART TWO: HERE She left Ohio to chase her Broadway dreams, built a life in New York City, and inspired everyone she met with her talent, kindness, and determination. But on a quiet night after Thanksgiving in 2005, 21-year-old Catherine Woods was found brutally murdered in her Manhattan...

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Every true crime case involves real people and real lives that are cut short, and True Crime with Kimbyr seeks to honor the victims of these unfathomable crimes by bringing facts to the forefront and sharing their stories with dignity and grace. An acclaimed storyteller on both her namesake and DARKLIVITY channels on YouTube, Kimbyrleigha brings empathy and sensitivity to the world of true crime, conducting in-depth investigations and approaching each case with the care they deserve.

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