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On a June evening in Florida, a mother knocked on a neighbor's door to talk about kids playing in a field. Behind that locked door, a woman grabbed a gun. What happened next would expose how two years of harassment, racist threats, and 911 calls cou…
A successful businessman. A beloved community volunteer. A children's entertainer who dressed as a clown for charity events. And beneath his house, the bodies of 33 young men and boys. This is the story of how John Wayne Gacy fooled an entire commun…
Between 1989 and 1990, seven men picked up a hitchhiker along Florida's highways. None of them made it home. Aileen Wuornos said she killed them in self-defense. The state said she was a monster. But what if the truth is somewhere in between? What i…
In September 1972, a dog came home carrying a human arm. What police found next launched 50 years of ghost stories, conspiracy theories, and absolutely zero answers. But in 2024, everything changed. This is the real story of what happened to Jeannet…
Three witnesses. Thirty feet. Three minutes. That's all it took for Branson Perry to vanish from his own backyard in a town that's world-famous for knowing how to keep a secret. And when I say famous, I mean globally infamous. This isn't a case wher…
A first-grade teacher. 20 stab wounds. 10 of them in the back of her neck. The medical examiner called it homicide, then changed it to suicide. Now, 14 years later, the city just discovered 20 more bruises and 3 more stab wounds that were never docu…
December 9th, 2001. A 911 call at 2:40 in the morning. Michael Peterson says his wife fell down the stairs. But it's not what he said. It's how he said it. And when prosecutors started digging into his past, they found another body. Another staircas…
There's a guy in Wichita who will measure your grass with a tape measure and write you a citation if it's too long. He's also the president of his church council. He installs home security systems. He leads a Cub Scout troop. And for 31 year…
A bucket hat. Surveillance footage. And DNA evidence that traditional forensics couldn't crack. When a jealous husband stood trial for murder, the jury couldn't decide. But then prosecutors used technology that's rewriting the rules of criminal just…
What happens when the family that controls the law decides they're above it? When a name so powerful it can make evidence disappear, witnesses go quiet, and millions vanish without a trace? You're about to find out. Because in South Carolina's Lowco…
She was called the Bitch of Buchenwald, the Witch, the Beast. Her name became synonymous with Nazi evil, her face plastered across newspapers worldwide. But here's what makes Ilse Koch's story so unsettling: the crime that made her famous mi…
"I shot my family." Those four words changed everything for Jeffrey Hutchinson, a decorated Gulf War veteran whose mind had become another casualty of war. But what happened next would expose every crack in our justice system.
The Unheard Veteran…
In November 1957, a woman in Plainfield, Wisconsin told reporters she'd been dating Ed Gein for 20 years. She said he proposed. She said they talked about murder. Two weeks later, she said almost none of it was true. So what was real? And what does …
December 1991. Four teenage girls. An Austin yogurt shop. By the time firefighters put out the flames, three bodies were burned beyond recognition. The evidence was destroyed. Two innocent men went to prison. And the real killer was dead before anyo…
What if I told you that the person who created America's fear of poisoned Halloween candy was actually trying to commit the perfect murder? In 1974, a father in Texas handed his eight-year-old son a Pixy Stix. Within an hour, that child was dead. T…
At 5:57 AM on February 13th, 2016, a young man called 911 from a Walmart parking lot. He was covered in blood, claimed he didn't know where he came from, and had no shoes. Twenty minutes later, police would find his grandparents dead in their beds, …
Adnan Syed Part 1: Cell Phone Evidence and the Conviction That Started It All
What happens when an ex-boyfriend becomes the obvious suspect, a friend agrees to testify for a plea deal, and cell phone technology from 1999 passes for reliable…
Ten-year-old Candace Newmaker went to Colorado for therapy that was supposed to help her bond with her adoptive mother. Instead, she was wrapped in flannel, pinned down by four adults, and told to fight her way out while they pressed their f…
In 2010, a probation check in Nevada uncovered something prosecutors would later call a "roadmap to murder." A handwritten list. Ten women. Ten locations. And one man who had been hiding in plain sight for decades.
The Photographer Who Coll…
He photographed his victims. He kept trophies. And for 14 years, he completely stopped killing, earning him one of the most unsettling nicknames in true crime history. The Grim Sleeper operated in South Central LA for over two decades, and when poli…
When a firefighter who saves lives becomes the one taking them, when a father who promises protection becomes the greatest threat his children will ever face, you get Robert Fisher. A man so terrified of losing his family that he chose to destroy th…
In 2010, a video appeared online showing a man suffocating two kittens with a vacuum-sealed bag. Thousands of people across the internet banded together to track down the killer, convinced he would escalate to human victims. They were absolutely rig…
On May 18th, 1927, the children of Bath Consolidated School were settling into their morning lessons when the world exploded around them. Thirty-eight kids would never make it home. The man responsible? Their own school board treasurer, who had been…
In 1952, nurses at a Schenectady orphanage discovered a six-month-old baby in such horrific condition that most believed he was beyond saving. One nurse refused to give up on him. Her love and dedication should have been enough to heal the trauma. B…