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Case Files Explained — 59 episodes

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The Audio They Couldn’t Hear: Richard Allen’s Delphi Appeal

2

The Light Rail Delay: Iryna Zarutska, Competency, and the Case That Stopped in Court

3

The Tent at Kuykendall Stadium: Karmelo Anthony, Austin Metcalf, and the Line Between Self-Defense and Murder

4

Named but Not Charged: Why the Madeleine McCann Suspect Walked Free

5

The Wildlife Sedative: Suzanne Morphew, BAM, and the Trial Still to Come

6

The Death Cap Lunch: Erin Patterson’s Appeals and the Evidence the Jury Heard

7

Apartment 603: Ellen Greenberg and the Fight Over Manner of Death

8

Who Killed Roxanne Sharp?: The Podcast Tipline That Reopened a 1982 Louisiana Case

9

The Baby in the High Chair: 34 Years to Find a Mother's Killer

10

The Prophetess and the Missing: Inside the Murder Investigation of His Way Spirit Led Assemblies

11

The Lake Lewisville Murder: How a Witness, a .38 Revolver, and a Changed Beneficiary Form Solved a 24-Year Cold Case

12

The Backpacker Inquiry: Australia Reopens 50 Cases Potentially Linked to Ivan Milat

13

The ATV Path Execution: Issiah Ross, a Self-Defense Claim, and the Jury That Couldn't Agree on a 14-Year-Old's Murder

14

The Clancy Case: Postpartum Psychosis, 13 Medications, and the Insanity Defense

15

The Moscow Mule Murder: How Digital Evidence Unraveled Kouri Richins' Perfect Crime

16

The DNA Revolution: How States Are Deploying Genetic Genealogy to Clear Cold Case Backlogs

17

The Prince of Scams: Inside the Takedown of Cambodia's Billion-Dollar Fraud Empire

18

Overboard: The Suspicious Disappearance of Lynette Hooker

19

The Manifesto in the Backpack: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder That Divided America

20

The Barbie Delivery: A FedEx Driver, a 7-Year-Old, and a Christmas Package

21

Two Murders, One Killer, Zero Justice: The Francis Schooley Cold Case Breakthrough

22

51 Years of Silence: How DNA Finally Confirmed Ted Bundy Killed Laura Ann Aime

23

The Fentanyl Widow: Inside the Kouri Richins Trial and the Digital Trail That Convicted Her

24

A Son's Promise: How Trey Robinson Became a Cop to Solve His Mother's Murder

25

The Gilgo Beach Confession: Rex Heuermann Admits to Eight Murders

26

The Texas Killing Fields: 41 Years of Silence Broken

27

The Spell That Didn't Work: Larry Millete and the Disappearance of Maya Millete

28

The Uvalde Verdict: When Following Orders Isn't a Defense

29

The Badass Detective: One Cop's Crusade to Speak for the Dead

30

The Waldman Case: A Son's Discovery and 52 Years of Silence

31

The Moscow Mule Murder: How Kouri Richins Poisoned Her Husband and Wrote a Children's Book About Grief

32

The Gilgo Beach Reckoning: Rex Heuermann's Expected Guilty Plea

33

The Badge and the Backlog: How 11,000 Abandoned Rape Kits Exposed a Detroit Police Sergeant's Double Life

34

The Trail of Robert Brashers: Connecting a Serial Killer's Victims Across Seven States

35

The Search for Nancy Guthrie: Inside the FBI's Ongoing Investigation

36

Indiana's Genetic Genealogy Unit: Cold Cases Are Falling One by One

37

The Daughter's Ex-Boyfriend: How a Discarded Water Bottle Cracked a 23-Year Cold Case

38

34 Years in the River: How Othram Identified Allan Keener and Closed Allegheny County's Oldest Cold Case

39

Spell Casters and Silence: The Maya Millete Murder Trial

40

52 Years Missing: A Brother's Recognition Ends Dallas's Longest Cold Case

41

The Duxbury Tragedy: Lindsay Clancy, Postpartum Psychosis, and the Question of Criminal Responsibility

42

The Skelton Brothers: Murder Charges 15 Years After Three Boys Vanished

43

Forty-One Years: The Exoneration of Edward Wright and the Hidden Break-In

44

The 'Badass Detective': How One Investigator Solved Seven Cold Cases in His Spare Time

45

The Au Pair Affair: Inside the Banfield Double Murder Conspiracy

46

The Chameleon Killer Unmasked: How DNA Finally Identified All Four Bear Brook Victims

47

Eighteen Alibi Witnesses Weren't Enough: Scott Minton and the Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction

48

The Moscow Cocktail: Kouri Richins and the Valentine's Day Poisoning

49

The Karen Read Verdict: When Reasonable Doubt Meets a Divided Town

50

The Yogurt Shop Four: 34 Years, Four Wrongful Arrests, and a Serial Killer's Trail

51

The Catfish Murder: How Brendan Banfield Used a Fetish Website to Frame a Stranger for His Wife's Murder

52

Murder at the U: The 18-Year Hunt for Bryan Pata's Killer

53

The Phoenix Killer: Eight Murders in Three Weeks

54

The Valentine's Day Sandwich: The Kouri Richins Fentanyl Murder Trial

55

38 Years in the Wrong Cell: How DNA Cleared Peter Sullivan of a Murder He Didn't Commit

56

Murder for Hire in Jacksonville: The Jared Bridegan Case

57

The Gilgo Beach Trial: Can Cutting-Edge DNA Science Convict a Suspected Serial Killer?

58

The Bear Brook Barrels: Four Decades to Name the Dead

59

27 Years on Death Row for a Crime That Never Happened: The Jimmie Duncan Case