Crime Junkie
Episodes
WHITE COLLAR: The Dalkon Shield
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With the permission from the team over at Swindled Podcast, we are covering one of their best True Crime stories. It’s a story of lies.... cover-ups...
CAPTURED: Monster in Fort Wayne
15 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On July 15, 2018 police finally made an arrest in the 30-year unsolved murder of April Marie Tinsley. In this breaking clip, Ashley calls Brit to tell...
MURDERED: Angela "Mischelle" Lawless
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In November 1992, Mischelle Lawless was found by passersbys deceased in her car with the headlights on and the vehicle still running. Police have spen...
CONSPIRACY: The Women of Juarez
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1993, women in Juarez, Mexico have been dying violent deaths. Is this the work of one killer or multiple? Also, why did the state police work so...
SERIAL KILLER: The Claremont Killer
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1996, people in Claremont had been looking over their shoulders when they go out for a night on the town. Over the span of a few years, three gi...
MISSING: Sage Smith
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On November 20, 2012, Sage Smith left her home at 5:30 for a date. She was seen alone at 6:30 talking to someone on the phone and then possibly sighte...
UPDATE: Katelin Akens
08 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this update episode, Ashley gets the chance to talk to Lisa, Katelin's mom, about Katelin's case, and like, you all asked... What about Katelin's s...
MURDERED: Sylvia Likens
04 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sylvia was a happy, beautiful 16-year-old when her parents left her and her sister in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski while they went on the road for...
SERIAL KILLER: The Green River Killer
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Through the '80s & '90s, women in the state of Washington were turning up dead. First, along the Green River, then in other clusters throughout the st...
MISSING: Misty Copsey
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In September of 1992, a young teenager named Misty Copsey went missing after visiting the local fair in Puyallup, Washington with her best friend. Alm...
CAPTURED: Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible's Killer
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In April of 2018, we were all talking about the capture of the Gold State Killer but did you know another long-time cold case was solved that same w...
MURDERED: Amber Tuccaro // Henry McCabe
14 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we tell you not one but two stories that have been underreported despite the terrifying audio capture shortly before each of their deaths. ...
MISSING: Bethany Decker
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, Bethany Decker's life was far from easy. As a young wife and mother with a husband overseas in the military, things were strained. When her h...
CAPTURED: The Golden State Killer
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On April 25th, 2018, a decades-long search for the man believed to be the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and the...
MURDERED: Kenia Monge
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
19-year-old Kenia Monge went missing in downtown Denver on April 1, 2011. When Kenia's stepdad finds an eerie text message from a stranger on her phon...
SERIAL KILLER: L.I.S.K.
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When a young escort goes missing after an outcall on Long Island in 2010, no one bothers to search for her. No one except a single detective and his d...
ADNAN: What Serial Didn't Tell You
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hundreds of millions of people tuned into Serial season one back in 2014. Sarah Koenig told us all about the story of 18-year-old high school senior H...
UPDATE: Monster in Fort Wayne, Indiana
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, we get the opportunity to talk with April Tinsley’s mom, Janet, about the investigation into her daughter’s murder and the ...
WANTED: Monster in Fort Wayne, Indiana
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty years ago this week, a little girl in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was abducted, sexually assaulted, murdered and now, forgotten by everyone. It is one...
MISSING: Kiplyn Davis
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1995, one of our listeners from Kentucky was high school pen pals with a girl named Kiplyn Davis from Spanish Fork, Utah, when one day the Spanish ...
MURDERED: The Longo Family
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a seemingly normal family man snap, murder his entire family, and assume a new identity in Mexico? Christian Longo was a husband, and fathe...
MISSING: Katelin Akens
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In December of 2015, Katelin was to board a plane from VA to AZ. She texted her mom that she made it to the airport and her phone was dying, so she wo...
SERIAL KILLER: Herb Baumeister
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the late '90s, Indianapolis was rocked when it was found out that a local businessman was murdering gay men and burying them on his estate called F...
UPDATE: Niqui McCown
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode we get the opportunity to talk with Niqui McCown’s daughter, Payton, and get all our left over questions from episode one answ...
CONSPIRACY: Bardstown, Kentucky
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A 35-year-old woman named Crystal Rogers went missing from Bardstown, KY back in 2015. Her car was found on the side of a busy parkway with a flat tir...
MURDERED: Tent Girl
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On May 17, 1968, a woman was found in the woods, murdered and wrapped in tent fabric. For over 30 years she remained unidentified in a Kentucky grave ...
WANTED: Killer on the High Bridge
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On February 13th, 2017, Abby Williams and Libby German went for a hike near the Monon High Bridge, in Delphi, Indiana. After Libby posted a Snapchat p...
MURDERED: Amy Weidner
05 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage mother stays home from school one day with her daughter because she isn't feeling well. Just a few hours after her family leaves the house s...
MISSING: Bryce Laspisa
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bryce Laspisa started acting strange on August 27, 2013. Just a couple of days into his sophomore year, friends started to become concerned about his ...
SERIAL KILLER: Shawn Grate
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Grate is currently awaiting trial in Ohio for two counts of murder but his admitted body count is much more. From 2005 - 2016 he terrorized vuln...
MURDERED: Karina Holmer
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1996, Boston saw one of the most brutal, and now notorious, murders of their city. Over 20 years later, not many people outside of Boston know the ...
WANTED: Robert Fisher
08 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Robert William Fisher is an American fugitive wanted for the murder of his wife and two children. Their home in Scottsdale, Arizona was blown up on Ap...
SERIAL KILLER: The West Mesa Serial Killer
01 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! For our first episode of 2018, we outline the still-unsolved murders of the West Mesa Serial Killer *FYI: We've marked this episode as...
MURDERED: Laci Peterson Part 2
25 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The story everyone thinks they know... but do you really? In part two, we discuss the continued focus on Scott as a suspect in the disappearance and m...
MURDERED: Laci Peterson Part 1
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The story everyone thinks they know... but do you really? In part one we cover Laci’s disappearance and the suspicion that fell on her husband Scott...
MISSING: Niqui McCown
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The story of an Indiana woman who disappears from a laundry mat only weeks before her wedding. Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to ...