Prime Crime: Solved Murders
Episodes
Irene Garza Pt. 2
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After the death of Irene Garza in a small Texas town, a massive cover-up ensued, headed by one of the most powerful institutions in the world. Learn m...
Irene Garza Pt. 1
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the evening of April 16, 1960, Irene Garza went to church in the peaceful town of McAllen, Texas but never came home. Less than a week later, her b...
Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin Pt. 2
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Captain Schaack was dismissed for withholding that his partner, Dan Coughlin, was connected to the murder of Patrick Cronin. New detectives on the cas...
Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin Pt. 1
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In May of 1889, in the Lake View area of Chicago, well-known and respected doctor Patrick Henry Cronin disappeared. Police Captain Michael Schaack inv...
The Palmyra Island Murders Pt. 2
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When human remains washed up on Palmyra Island, authorities confirmed they belonged to Muff Graham who had disappeared along with her husband seven ye...
The Palmyra Island Murders Pt. 1
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a couple goes missing from a tiny, uninhabited ring of islands in the Pacific, their yacht is discovered in Hawaii with the last people who ever...
Charles Sherman Ross
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On September 25th, 1937, 72-year-old businessman Charles Sherman Ross was kidnapped. His wife wanted to pay the ransom, so the FBI took down the seria...
Officer Ian Campbell Pt. 2
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After LAPD officer Ian Campbell was shot at close range, officer Karl Hettinger ran into the onion field to try to escape. He heard more shots go off,...
Officer Ian Campbell Pt. 1
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March of 1963, two LAPD officers were kidnapped at gunpoint by two men. They were forced to drive two hours north of Los Angeles to an onion field....
“Grosse Pointe Murder” Jane Bashara
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2012, the body of 56-year-old Jane Bashara was found in the back of her SUV. Almost immediately, police start zeroing in on her husband –...
“Murder on the Mignonette” Richard Parker
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When an aging yacht is shipwrecked in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the crew will do anything to survive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
The Houston Mass Murders Pt. 2
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Dean Corll’s crimes finally came to light in 1973, grief and outrage flooded the community. The trials of his two teenage accomplices would pai...
The Houston Mass Murders Pt. 1
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When teen boys start disappearing in Houston in the 1970s, they’re mostly written off as runaways by local police. Their true fate is only revealed ...
Rita Morel
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When a plane crashed in Canada in 1949, investigators uncovered a conspiracy that had 29-year-old Rita Morel at its center. The full plot became clear...
Dagmar Petrzywalski Pt. 2
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In late 1946, police zeroed in on the primary suspect in Dagmar Petrzywalski's murder. He said his name was Sidney Sinclair — but officers soon real...
Dagmar Petrzywalski Pt. 1
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1940s England, an unlucky passerby found a woman's body on the side of a busy roadway. With a knitted bag as their primary clue, local police teame...
“Halloween Panic” Timothy O'Bryan
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every Halloween, an urban legend makes the rounds about a child dying after eating poisoned candy. The reality is that it rarely happens. But in 1974,...
Nell Cropsey Pt. 2
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
About a month after her disappearance, two fishermen found Nell Cropsey's body in a nearby river. With Jim Wilcox the last to see her alive, he was al...
Nell Cropsey Pt. 1
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Within two hours of 19-year-old Nell Cropsey’s disappearance on November 20th, 1901, the town of Elizabeth City began the search for her. Her 25-yea...
The Acid Bath Murders Pt. 2
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The only chance John George Haigh stood to avoid hanging for the murder of Olive Durand-Deacon was to plead insanity. While he claimed to drink the bl...
The Acid Bath Murders Pt. 1
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
69-year-old Olive Durand-Deacon disappeared from a London hotel in 1949. The investigation led police to one of the most infamous serial killers in Br...
Jean-Baptiste Nozière Pt. 2
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By August of 1933, everyone in Paris knew 18-year-old Violette Nozière was a murderer. But the real question wasn't if she killed her father — it w...
Jean-Baptiste Nozière Pt. 1
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who would want to poison an engine driver in Paris? The 1933 murder of Jean-Baptiste Nozière set police on the trail of a surprising killer, with a d...
Saville Kent Pt. 2
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1860, two Scotland Yard detectives raced to find evidence that would confirm a hunch… But Saville Kent’s killer was shrewd and calculating, and...
Saville Kent Pt. 1
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the middle of the night, 3-year-old Francis "Saville" Kent disappeared from the room he slept in with his baby sister. His body was found hours lat...
Party Fouls: The Corpsewood Manor Murders
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1977, a couple built a Satanically-inspired mansion in rural Georgia. They called their abode Corpsewood Manor. Five years later, a gruesome double...
Party Fouls: Murder on Cielo Drive
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1969, eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant actress Sharon Tate was on top of the world, living the Hollywood dream. That is, until it turned int...
Party Fouls: House Party Horror
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, 17-year-old Tyler Hadley threw a wild house party in Port St. Lucie, Florida. What his guests didn’t know was that on the other side of a l...
Party Fouls: The Club Kid Killers
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s, the Club Kids ruled the New York City party scene. They represented fun, freedom, and self-expression — until a grisly murder rocked t...
“Ransomed for Pennies” Marion Parker Pt. 2
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With Marion’s killer in custody, a trial was set for January 1928. 19-year-old William Hickman immediately began laying the ground for his defense. ...
“Ransomed for Pennies” Marion Parker Pt. 1
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ten days before Christmas 1927, a smooth-talking man walked into a school in Los Angeles and convinced the office to let him take 12-year-old Marion P...
"Felony at the Firing Range" Theora Hix Pt. 2
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. James Snook was a respected veterinarian, family man, and former Olympian. But by the time his trial was over, he was a condemned murderer. Reveal...
"Felony at the Firing Range" Theora Hix Pt. 1
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1929, the body of 24-year-old Theora Hix was found on a shooting range in Columbus, Ohio. The investigation into her murder surfaced ...
The Wickham Axe Murders Pt. 2
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There was no doubt who committed the brutal assaults, or why. As another victim succumbed to his wounds, a search party hunted for Nicholas Behan — ...
The Wickham Axe Murders Pt. 1
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the spring of 1854, a failed courtship exploded into violence at a farm in Long Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...
JoAnn Dewey Pt. 2
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Using little more than witness reports and a beer bottle, officers tracked down the kidnappers haunting Vancouver, Washington. In 1953, authorities fi...
JoAnn Dewey Pt. 1
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1950, countless locals watched two men force JoAnn Dewey into a dark sedan — but nobody tried to intervene. Police in Vancouver, Washington used ...
Bridget Cleary Pt. 2
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1895, Bridget Cleary vanished from her home after weeks of a protracted illness. Many in the area suspected she had been abducted by fairies, but i...
Bridget Cleary Pt. 1
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1800s Ireland, County Tipperary was steeped in superstitions and folk traditions. Many who lived there believed in the existence of fairies. Those ...
Graeme Thorne Pt. 2
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After his abduction on July 7th, 1960, Graeme Thorne's body was discovered in a vacant lot in Sydney, Australia. The entire country longed to see his ...
Graeme Thorne Pt. 1
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On July 7th, 1960, eight-year-old Graeme Thorne vanished from the convenience store he often visited before walking to school. His disappearance would...
Francis Rattenbury Pt. 2
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The atmosphere was tense as the trial against Alma Rattenbury and her 18-year-old lover began. After five days of testimony, the jury returned their v...
Francis Rattenbury Pt. 1
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Late one evening in March 1935, Alma Rattenbury found her husband barely alive in the drawing room of their Bournemouth, England home. As Francis Ratt...
Patricia Walsh & Mary Anne Wysocki Pt. 2
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By February 1969, Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki had been missing for weeks, and things were looking grim. What began as a search for two missin...
Patricia Walsh & Mary Anne Wysocki Pt. 1
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On January 23, 1969, two college students went on a weekend trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts. They never returned. Learn more about your ad choices...
Lord William Russell Pt. 2
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 1840 trial for the calculated murder of Lord William Russell had one defendant and multiple witnesses — but everyone seemed suspect: the housem...
Lord William Russell Pt. 1
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1840, a well-known English aristocrat was found dead in his London home after what appeared to be a botched robbery. Learn more about your ad c...
Wilson Turner Pt. 2
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After the slaying of Wilson Turner, the all-powerful bootlegger who killed him seemed untouchable. But dramatic turns in the investigation would chang...
Wilson Turner Pt. 1
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On April 20, 1948, residents of rural Coweta County, Georgia, saw a man named Wilson Turner get chased down and beaten in the middle of a campground p...
Bobby Franks Pt. 2
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just over a week after Bobby Franks’ body was found, his teenaged killers confessed, revealing a motive too callous to believe. Learn more about y...
Bobby Franks Pt. 1
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1920s, some of Chicago’s wealthiest families became horribly intertwined after the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Learn more about...
Oceana Snead Pt. 2
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The death of young Oceana Snead was dubbed a “bathtub tragedy” — but as investigators tracked her mysterious, veiled caretakers, they uncovered ...
Oceana Snead Pt. 1
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1909, 24-year-old Oceana Snead died of an apparent suicide — but the case was far less clear-cut than the woman’s aunt, Virginia Wardlaw, would...
Jane Britton Pt. 2
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After Jane Britton's death in 1969, police suspected that one of her instructors may have been responsible for her gruesome murder. But the ensuing in...
Jane Britton Pt. 1
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1969, anthropology student Jane Britton was brutally murdered in her own apartment. The case gained national attention when evidence at the...
Martha "Mamah" Borthwick Cheney Pt. 2
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It didn’t take long to find the perpetrator of the Taliesin massacre: 30-year-old Julian Carlton. But though they had the “who,” police still ne...
Martha "Mamah" Borthwick Cheney Pt. 1
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright built a mansion in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The sprawling estate was a haven for him and his mistress, “Mamah” Cheney....
Robert Piest Pt. 2
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As police zeroed in on a local contractor named John Wayne Gacy, they began to suspect they weren’t investigating the disappearance of one missing t...
Robert Piest Pt. 1
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After ending his shift at Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest asked his mother to wait while he spoke to a man abo...
Captain Joseph White
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The brutal murder of one of the wealthiest ship owners in the world shocked the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1830. Learn more about your ad choic...
David Blakely Pt. 2
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After Ruth Ellis murdered her lover in April 1955, people throughout London thought she was guaranteed the death penalty. But as investigators began l...
David Blakely Pt. 1
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1955, wealthy racecar driver David Blakely was gunned down outside a bar in London. Passersby were shocked to see a petite, picturesque woman stand...
Mary Hogan Pt. 2
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Following a lead, police zeroed in on the home of one local man. It was eventually dubbed a “House of Horrors” after news of its contents spread, ...
Mary Hogan Pt. 1
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1954, a 55-year-old tavern owner in central Wisconsin went missing, leaving behind a disturbing crime scene. Police caught a break in her case when...
Carol Thompson Pt. 2
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Carol Thompson’s murderer confessed to his crime, he implicated another person in the ordeal — and a shocking murder-for-hire plot began to u...
Carol Thompson Pt. 1
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1963, a Minnesota housewife named Carol Thompson was attacked in her home, later dying from her wounds. Months later, two men were indicted f...
Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey Pt. 2
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marguerite Alibert was found holding the gun she used to kill her husband, but her trial was far from an open-and-shut case. The courtroom proved as d...
Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey Pt. 1
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1922, Egyptian millionaire Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey became smitten with French socialite Marguerite Alibert. She was charming, and accustomed to keeping...
Lesley Whittle Pt. 2
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Months after the 17-year-old went missing, an investigation into the underground sewage tunnels in Bathpool Park turned up a torrent of clues—and Le...
Lesley Whittle Pt. 1
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a young heiress went missing in 1975, her family found a ransom note demanding £50,000. The police coordinated a plan to secure her safe return...
Helen Potts Pt. 2
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
By March of 1891, the coroner’s office failed to find evidence of foul play, and investigators moved on from Helen Potts’ case. Even so, reporter ...
Helen Potts Pt. 1
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It became one of the most sensationalized cases of the late 19th century: The young wife of a playboy medical student died not long after a botched ab...
Benjamin Pitezel Pt. 2
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the chaotic search for Benjamin Pitezel's murderer, investigators enlisted authorities from multiple states, and even crossed the border into Canad...
Benjamin Pitezel Pt. 1
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1894, conman Benjamin Pitezel met a mysterious, violent end in Philadelphia. For years, he'd been committing petty crimes across America,...
The List Family Pt. 2
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The search for John List spanned two decades and all 50 states. But it took a supermarket tabloid and a TV crime show to finally break the case—and ...
The List Family Pt. 1
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1971, a middle-aged accountant woke up, put on a tie, and shot his entire family to death in their home. Then he disappeared, leaving behind two gl...
Jerry Dean & Deborah Thornton Pt. 2
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1983, police closed in on the murderers of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton, thanks to a well-placed informant. Their capture led one killer to have...
Jerry Dean & Deborah Thornton Pt. 1
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
They were two strangers, crossing paths at a pool party in Houston, Texas in the summer of 1983. Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton spent the night toget...
William Guldensuppe Pt. 2
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1897, the discovery of a severed torso led to an explosion of investigative activity in the media. The identification of the body and the arrest of...
William Guldensuppe Pt. 1
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On June 26, 1897, four boys discovered a package wrapped in red oilcloth floating in New York City’s East River. It contained the upper torso of an ...
Agnes LeRoi & Hedvig Samuelson Pt. 2
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In October of 1931, two bloody trunks arrived at the Los Angeles train station containing the bodies of Anne LeRoi and Hedvig “Sammy” Samuelson. W...
Agnes LeRoi & Hedvig Samuelson Pt. 1
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1931, the friendship between three women living in Phoenix, Arizona was torn apart when they all fell for the same man: 44-year-old “Happy” Jac...
Sal Mineo Pt. 2
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After Sal Mineo was murdered in February of 1976, the LAPD did their best to track down every lead they could find. They searched for over a year in v...
Sal Mineo Pt. 1
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On February 12th, 1976, actor Sal Mineo, best known for his role in Rebel Without a Cause, was stabbed outside his apartment building in Los Angeles. ...
The Clutter Family Pt. 2
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the massacre of the Clutter Family on November 15th, 1959, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation began an intensive probe into the crime. Their sea...
The Clutter Family Pt. 1
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On November 15th, 1959, the small town of Holcomb, Kansas experienced one of the most gruesome crimes imaginable. Four members of the Clutter Family h...
Welcome to Solved Murders: True Crime Mysteries!
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Every murder case has clues: an errant fingerprint, a spatter of blood, a forgotten bullet casing. But these investigations can go awry. Clues disappe...