Crime Junkie

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Sherese Walker Bingham Part 1

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A woman takes her dogs for their nightly walk and is shot and killed with her own gun in a downtown Indianapolis state park. Is it a tragic accident o...

MURDERED: Candace Rough Surface

06 Dec 2021

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When young mother goes missing from the reservation border town of Mobridge, South Dakota, investigators struggle to find any leads in the case. A cha...

MISSING: Kierra Coles and Keeshae Jacobs

29 Nov 2021

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Two women. Two cities. Two years apart. Both of them – vanished without a trace. Both are mysteries that need to be solved.If you have information o...

MURDERED: Janet Abaroa

22 Nov 2021

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After 25-year-old Janet Abaroa is discovered brutally murdered in her North Carolina home, her family suspects her husband’s involvement. But a lack...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Ellen Greenberg

15 Nov 2021

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Petition to have attorney general re-open Ellen’s caseJustice for Ellen Facebook page Ellen Rae Greenberg had everything going for her when she was...

MURDERED: Enrique Roman-Martinez

08 Nov 2021

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A young soldier vanishes during a camping trip. His partial remains wash up on the beach 10 days later.  If you have any information on this case, c...

CAPTURED: Allan Showery

01 Nov 2021

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This year’s Halloween’s special is the story of a woman whose tragic murder almost went unsolved… until a tip came in from the last person polic...

MISSING: Young Men From Their Cars

25 Oct 2021

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Daniel Robinson:To sign the petition to elevate Daniels’ case click HERE and to sign up to help search click HEREIf you have information regarding D...

MURDERED: Meredith Kercher

18 Oct 2021

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A 21yo British woman is less than a month into a foreign exchange in Perugia, Italy when she is brutally murdered in her apartment. Everyone’s world...

MURDERED: Billy Stafford

11 Oct 2021

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A violent marriage ends in a bloody murder. Police solve the case -- but it’s the victim who ends up on trial in a case that thrust the issue of dom...

MURDERED: The Hendricks Family

04 Oct 2021

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For years, David Hendricks was the walking embodiment of the true crime trope "The Husband Did It." After his family was brutally murdered in their Il...

CAPTURED: Denver Hammer Killer

27 Sep 2021

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In the 1980s the Denver area was terrorized by a hammer-wielding mad man. But as fast as the attacks started, they suddenly stopped. Leaving the area ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Joyce Chiang

20 Sep 2021

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One woman’s promising career in Washington, D.C. is cut short when she mysteriously vanishes one night on her way home from work. For current Fan C...

MISSING: Gabby Petito

19 Sep 2021

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Gabby Petito is missing after a cross-country trip with her fiancée. He returned home alone with her van and since has refused to speak with her fami...

MURDERED: Debra Jackson (Orange Socks Doe)

13 Sep 2021

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For decades after she was mysteriously murdered and left on the side of a busy interstate, she was known only as Orange Socks Doe. But after years of ...

MISSING: Ryan Shtuka

30 Aug 2021

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When a young man vanishes in a small resort town, the question is: does someone know something, or does no one know anything?If you have any informati...

CAPTURED: Rocky Mountain Killer

23 Aug 2021

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Two notorious murder cases stay ice cold for decades, until a mysterious clue helps bring a killer to justice. For current Fan Club membership option...

MISSING: Mary Badaracco

16 Aug 2021

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When a 38-year-old woman leaves her home - and a violent marriage - without saying goodbye, her two adult daughters suspect her husband. By the time p...

MURDERED: Lisa Au

09 Aug 2021

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A young woman’s shocking murder forces residents to question the very people who are supposed to keep them safe.If you have any information about th...

SERIAL KILLER: The Cleveland Strangler

02 Aug 2021

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Police in Cleveland enter a home in Mount Pleasant to arrest a man on sexual assault charges. But they don’t find their suspect. And what they do fi...

MISSING: Alicia Navarro

26 Jul 2021

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A teenage girl finds community online, but her family believes she also found something much more sinister.If you have any information about the disap...

DESAPARECIDA: Alicia Navarro

26 Jul 2021

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Una joven encuentra una comunidad en línea, pero su familia cree que ella se encontró con algo más siniestro.Si usted tiene información sobre la d...

INFAMOUS: Tommy Zeigler

19 Jul 2021

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Tommy Zeigler was sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, her parents, and a customer at his Winter Garden, Florida furniture store in 1976. H...

SEASON OF JUSTICE!!!

15 Jul 2021

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Audiochuck’s founder and CEO, Ashley Flowers, has founded a new non-profit called Season of Justice. Season of Justice (SOJ) is dedicated to providi...

WANTED: The Keddie Cabin Killer

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A family’s brutal murder rocks a tiny California town and leaves behind too many unanswered questions.If you have any information about the murders ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Kaysera Stops Pretty Places

05 Jul 2021

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When 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places disappears after a night with friends in Hardin, Montana, her family and friends hold their breath waitin...

SERIAL KILLER: Bruce McArthur

28 Jun 2021

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For years, the LGBTQ+ community in Toronto, Canada worried there was a serial killer targeting men in the city’s Church and Wellesley neighborhood. ...

CAPTURED: Jennifer Pan

21 Jun 2021

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The Pan Family seemed to have it all until a shocking home invasion upended their lives in the most vicious way imaginable. For current Fan Club memb...

MISSING: Branson Perry

14 Jun 2021

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In 2001, a young man vanished without a trace and more than 20 years later the only thing law enforcement is sure of is that someone in Skidmore, Miss...

MURDERED: Mollie Olgin

07 Jun 2021

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Two teenage girls in love are forced to endure an unimaginable trauma that rocks their south Texas town.  To learn more about the Indiana Youth Grou...

INFAMOUS: The Signal Mountain Murders

31 May 2021

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A summer joyride turns deadly when three men are viciously gunned down in the hills of southern Tennessee.  For current Fan Club membership options ...

MURDERED: Father Patrick Ryan

24 May 2021

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A Catholic priest is found savagely beaten to death in an Odessa, TX motel room in 1981. A man confessed to the crime -- but instead of closing the ca...

INFAMOUS: The Setagaya Family Murders

17 May 2021

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A Tokyo family is slaughtered in their home, leaving behind a brutal and baffling mystery. For current Fan Club membership options and policies, plea...

MURDERED: Rosie Tapia

10 May 2021

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A little girl vanishes from her bedroom in the middle of the night only to be found brutally murdered, forcing her community to recognize that the wor...

MISSING: Diane Louise Augat

03 May 2021

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A woman leaves her sister’s home one April day in 1998 and never returns. But she doesn’t vanish into thin air, because over the next several year...

INFAMOUS: Prom Night Murders

26 Apr 2021

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In 1989 the small town of Lakeville, Indiana was rocked by the massacre of a pastor and his family. The pastor's only surviving son was ultimately con...

MURDERED: Sierah Joughin

19 Apr 2021

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A beautiful young woman's brutal murder at the height of Midwestern summer shatters her community's sense of safety forever and exposes a monster hidi...

INFAMOUS: #ChallengeAccepted

12 Apr 2021

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When two women are violently murdered five years apart and half a world away, advocates look for a way to call attention to the serious and growing is...

MURDERED: Peggy Reome

05 Apr 2021

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When a mother of three walks out her front door and into the New York morning, she leaves a trail of heartbreak, suspicion, and unanswered questions i...

MISSING: Esther Hollis

01 Apr 2021

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When Esther Hollis goes missing after a conversation with her husband, her best friend and sister try to get justice in what they believe is a no body...

MURDERED: Donnah Winger

29 Mar 2021

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In 1995 a new mother is killed after being attacked by a man who'd been harassing her. Or at least, that's what everyone believed. But years later inv...

MURDERED: Heather Bogle

22 Mar 2021

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When a woman is murdered in a small Rust Belt town, the quest to find her killer gets turned upside down. For current Fan Club membership options and...

UNIDENTIFIED: St. Louis Doe // Beth Doe

15 Mar 2021

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Two different people have one terrible thing in common: they were both brutally murdered but despite evidence left at the scene no one has been able t...

SURVIVED: Elizabeth Smart

08 Mar 2021

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Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint in the middle of the night from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002. She was 14 years old. For mor...

MURDERED: The Lundys Part 2

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After Mark Lundy was convicted of viciously slaying his wife and daughter, another story started to emerge, leading many people in New Zealand to won...

MURDERED: The Lundys Part 1

22 Feb 2021

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When a woman and her young daughter are found brutally murdered in their home, the investigation leads to the person who was supposed to have loved th...

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball 2.0

15 Feb 2021

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BWBRSA: Operation Fireball was one of our most popular episodes ever! And it's more terrifying than we even knew because after our episode many women ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Holly Bartlett

08 Feb 2021

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On a cold day in March 2010, workers discovered a woman lying unconscious under the MacKay Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - barely breathing a...

MISSING: Jaliek Rainwalker

01 Feb 2021

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A child's mysterious disappearance sparks tough questions about his adoptive family and the system that placed him there.If you know anything about th...

MURDERED: Harvey and Jeannette Crewe

25 Jan 2021

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A shockingly brutal crime rocks a rural New Zealand community, but the fallout has bigger consequences than anyone could ever have imagined.  For cu...

UPDATE: Sumter County Does - IDENTIFIED!!!

21 Jan 2021

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As of 2pm ET on January 21, 2021 The Sumter County Sheriff's office has identified the Sumter County Does as 25-year-old Pamela Buckley of Colorado S...

CAPTURED: Bay Area Predator

18 Jan 2021

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When Michaela Garecht was abducted in 1988, no one was prepared for the heartbreaking investigation to drag on for over 30 years. But just when the ca...

MISSING: Jeramy Burt

11 Jan 2021

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Late one night in 2007, Jeramy Burt left his home to meet up with a friend but never made it. His disappearance opened up a mystery made even more com...

INFAMOUS: Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

04 Jan 2021

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A normal Saturday morning at the bowling alley takes a shocking and brutal twist that shakes a New Mexico town all the way to its very foundations. I...

MURDERED: Gina Hall

21 Dec 2020

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A young college student never comes home after a night of dancing. All the evidence suggests she's been murdered, but if her body is never found, can ...

AUDIO EXTRA: Bizarre Crime History

18 Dec 2020

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Crime Junkie OFFICIALLY turns 3 today, and we decided to give ourselves and YOU a little birthday gift...we’re still the same pod, but with a NEW LO...

STALKED: Dorothy Jane Scott // Cynthia Jane Anderson

14 Dec 2020

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Even though they're strangers who've never met, two women suffer through similar patterns of fear and intimidation, praying for help that doesn't come...

MURDERED: Girly Chew Hossencofft

07 Dec 2020

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When a young mother fails to show up at her scheduled shift at the bank, her friends and colleagues are immediately suspicious. The investigation into...

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball

04 Dec 2020

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We're dropping in your feed on an unusual day of the week to tell you an unusual Crime Junkie story. Thanks to the podcast Something Was Wrong, Ashley...

INFAMOUS: Manhole Murders

30 Nov 2020

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The investigation into one man reported missing from South Bend, Indiana, uncovers four dead bodies and many uncomfortable truths, and shines a light ...

MURDERED: Madeleine McCann

23 Nov 2020

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Madeleine McCann was just three years old in 2007 when she disappeared from her family’s room during a resort vacation in Portugal. The whole world ...

MISSING: Leigh Occhi

16 Nov 2020

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In 1992, a teenage girl disappears from her home during Hurricane Andrew, leaving behind only a few gruesome clues and kicking off a search for answer...

CONSPIRACY: Fort Hood

09 Nov 2020

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When a 20-year-old soldier goes missing from one of the largest military bases in the country, her tight-knit family is determined to find her and bri...

MURDERED: Tamika Huston

02 Nov 2020

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When Tamika Huston goes missing and leaves everything behind, her family is sure from the very start that something terrible has happened, because she...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Michelle O’Connell

26 Oct 2020

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When a young mom is killed by her boyfriend's service weapon, local law enforcement treat her death as a terrible tragedy and rule it a suicide. But h...

INFAMOUS: The “Lonely Hearts” Killers

19 Oct 2020

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In the late 1940's, women who thought they'd found true love were being conned out of their life savings by a man and his sister who would go to brut...

MURDERED: Faith Hedgepeth

12 Oct 2020

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When 19-year-old college student Faith Hedgepeth is horrifically slain in her apartment after a night out clubbing, the local police are shockingly ...

MURDERED: Shaquita Bennett // Tara Costigan

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we're bringing you the stories of two women whose lives were stolen by their abusive ex-partners.We ...

MISSING: Tara Calico

28 Sep 2020

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A bright young college student vanishes while out on a bike ride, leaving behind a mystery that's endured for over 30 years.For current Fan Club membe...

SERIAL KILLER: The Butcher Baker of Alaska

21 Sep 2020

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Robert Hansen owned and operated a successful bakery in Anchorage, Alaska in the 1970s and 80s, selling donuts and danishes to everyone in town. He wa...

MISSING: DeOrr Kunz Jr.

14 Sep 2020

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An idyllic family camping trip in the Idaho forests turns into a nightmare when 2-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. vanishes without a trace.For current Fan Clu...

MURDERED: Stacey Stanton

07 Sep 2020

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After three decades of rumors, secrets and one man’s conviction...the question remains, who really killed Stacey Stanton?Be sure to tune into Counte...

MURDERED: Pamela Milam // Vickie Lynn Harrell

31 Aug 2020

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In 1972, two young women with their whole lives ahead of them vanish from public places, leaving behind only a tiny handful of clues.For current Fan C...

MISSING: Bradley Sisters

24 Aug 2020

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When a pair of young sisters vanished from their home in Chicago, they left behind a mystery that has haunted their family for almost two decades.For ...

SERIAL KILLER: Ed Kemper

17 Aug 2020

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When female college students started turning up dead in Santa Cruz in 1972, local police had no leads and no reason to suspect their friend Ed might...

UNIDENTIFIED: Flathead County Doe

12 Aug 2020

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The Flathead County Sheriff's office and the DNA Doe Project are so close to identifying a man who’s been a doe for almost 17 years, but they need y...

MURDERED: Martha Moxley

10 Aug 2020

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When 15-year-old Martha Moxley was brutally murdered in 1975, no one could have imagined that the search for her killer might lead right to the doorst...

INFAMOUS: Bathtub Killer

03 Aug 2020

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In 1996 there was one apartment complex in Texas that was home to two brutal killings, just months apart. It would take police years and several more ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Phoebe Handsjuk

27 Jul 2020

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When a young woman falls 12 floors down a garbage chute to her death only questions remain. Was it suicide? Was it an accident? Or could something mor...

MISSING: Rico Harris

20 Jul 2020

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In 2014 Rico Harris left Los Angeles to drive north for a new life in Seattle, only to vanish somewhere along the way. For current Fan Club membershi...

CONSPIRACY: The Smiley Face Killer

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For over 20 years young college-aged men have been going missing, only to turn up dead in local waterways. Police think these cases are tragic acciden...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Rey Rivera

29 Jun 2020

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In 2006 Rey Rivera was found dead at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore. Did he die by suicide, or was something more sinister at play?Following the r...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tamla Horsford // Joseph Smedley

22 Jun 2020

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In the last few years two people died under very mysterious circumstances. Though their cases aren't connected they were each quickly ruled an acciden...

WANTED: Monsters of Ohio Part 2

15 Jun 2020

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After Asenath Dukat, 11 more young girls in Ohio were kidnapped and murdered. Many under eerily similar circumstances. Is this the work of one or two ...

WANTED: Monsters of Ohio Part 1

08 Jun 2020

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In the 1980s something strange was going on in Ohio. Almost a dozen young girls were kidnapped and murdered, many of the killers still unknown to this...

MURDERED: Matthew, Daniel, & Islan

01 Jun 2020

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This very special episode for Pride Month tells the stories of three people joined together not just by the desire to live peaceful happy lives as the...

MISSING: Margaret Ellen Fox

25 May 2020

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In 2017 the FBI released a chilling recorded phone call that may be the only clue as to what happened to Margaret Ellen Fox back in 1974.  For curre...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Yuba County Five

18 May 2020

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In February 1978, five young men headed from their home in Yuba County, California to catch a college basketball game – and never came home. For cu...

MISSING: Danielle Imbo & Richard Petrone

11 May 2020

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In February 2005 Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone had been broken up for a number of weeks. But on February 19th the two met up spontaneously for a c...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Mitrice Richardson

04 May 2020

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Mitrice Richardson disappeared after being released from an LA County Sheriff's station, leaving behind questions about mental health, police bias, an...

MURDERED: Diana Alvarez

27 Apr 2020

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In 2016 a young girl went missing from her home in the middle of the night. It would take four excruciatingly long years before her family would get s...

INFAMOUS: The Dexter Killer

20 Apr 2020

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In October 2008, Johnny Altinger headed out to meet up for the first time with Jen, a woman he’d met on a popular online dating site. They had plans...

MURDERED: Najah // Angie

13 Apr 2020

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Two Indianapolis women have been murdered. Though the cases aren't connected they both have eerie parallels and both remain unsolved. Are you the pe...

INFAMOUS: Lipstick Killer

06 Apr 2020

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A young Chicago girl's brutal murder in 1946 led police to a dangerous criminal with more blood on his hands than anyone could have imagined. However,...

MURDERED: Barry and Honey Sherman

30 Mar 2020

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In December 2017, a realtor touring the mansion of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman made a gruesome discovery: the bodies of 75-year-old Barry ...

CAPTURED: The Monster of Miramichi

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 1989, Allan Legere was serving a life sentence for the murder of an elderly shopkeeper in a rural part of New Brunswick, Canada. Until he escaped. ...

MURDERED: Missy Bevers

09 Mar 2020

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When Texas fitness instructor Missy Bevers was murdered in 2016, police and the public seized on an unusual clue that could lead them to her killer....

CAPTURED: A Secret Stalker

03 Mar 2020

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In 1992 Lisa Ziegert felt like someone was watching her at a gift shop where she worked. People would tell her no one was there; it was just in her h...

MURDERED: Jessica Heeringa

24 Feb 2020

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Jessica Heeringa was a young mom in her mid-20’s who was trying to provide for her family. She was smart, loving, a hard worker… and then, in ...

MISSING: Relisha Rudd // Unique Harris

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week we bring you two mysterious disappearances. Why did it take 18 days for people to notice 8-year-old Relisha Rudd was missing? And how did 24...