Sword and Scale

Episode 226

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It took nearly a year to solve the murder of Alexis Robinault. After her nude body was found a few miles from home on the side of the road her status ...

Episode 225

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout the year of 2017, the police in Strongsville, Ohio were called to the home of The Pleskovic family several times. For months, this kind-hea...

Episode 224

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley yearned to grow up, move out, and live by her own rules. She was so sure she was mature enough to be on her own she began sneaking around and d...

Episode 223

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

First looks can lead you astray. That was the case for young Ryan Waller when he was mistaken as the killer of his girlfriend rather than another vict...

Episode 222

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Indiana University was rocked when 22-year-old Hannah Wilson was found murdered. The bubbly, popular senior had mysteriously gone missing from her bed...

Episode 221

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In July of 2015, the bloody and lifeless body of 47-year-old Robert Noce Jr. was found stuffed inside a 55-gallon barrel. His hands were bound behind ...

Episode 220

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When the body of 27-year-old Mennonite woman Sasha Krause was discovered near Sunset Crater National Monument in Arizona, detectives were picking up w...

Episode 219

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A mother’s unconditional love is put to the test when Steven Kelsey returns from basic training to spend the holidays with his family. What starts a...

Episode 218

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Wisconsinites Bart and Krista Halderson were reported missing over the Fourth of July weekend in 2021, the case unfolded more quickly than detect...

Episode 217

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Templet lived his whole life in a cage. One morning he decided to take his life into his own hands and set himself free. The only setback was ...

Episode 216

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On March 6th, 2015, the body of 85-year-old Anthony Tomaselli was discovered two weeks after the death of his long-time partner. According to his adul...

Episode 215

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What would you do if you worked your whole life to achieve the American dream and then you perceived that someone was on the cusp of taking it all awa...

Episode 214

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The town of Groton, Mass had never witnessed such a tragedy. A tragedy that would test the love and loyalty of one family. The bond between family can...

Episode 213

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thanksgiving of 2012 started off very poorly for the Redwine Family. When one member of their clan, 13-year-old Dylan Redwine vanished on November 18t...

Episode 212

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It wasn’t an easy life for Ashley Biggs, a young woman from Ohio. Raised by her single mother and her grandmother, she suffered abuse in school for ...

Episode 211

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the city known for making overalls, tension was mounting between two Marine veterans over the repair of a vehicle. Both were hi...

Episode 210

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2010, Indiana sentenced the third minor in the state's history to life in prison without parole. This is the story of a small town boy without a cr...

Episode 209

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When Patricia Velazquez left her 12-year-old daughter Yhoanna home alone for a few hours on August 10th, 2017, she expected to return home to a living...

Episode 208

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Who killed Carla Walker? In February of 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was abducted after attending a Valentine's Day dance with her boyfriend. Three ...

Episode 207

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Weeks go by in the search for missing jogger Mollie Tibbetts. An interagency taskforce has searched to no avail. Finally, a break in the case leads au...

Episode 206

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford was an especially shy and polite young girl that lived with her grandparents and her single dad in Homosassa, Florid...

Episode 205

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On January 8th, 2007, the home of Liz Collier-Sweet was set ablaze by an unknown firebug. Little did the investigators know, finding the arsonist woul...

Episode 204

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When 19-year-old Colorado resident Lea Porter went missing from Westminster on June 3rd, 2014, her family and friends went on a mission to solve the c...

Episode 203

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An early morning car accident would send the Boise PD reeling for answers. With two dead on the scene they still had to explain an unrelated homicide....

Episode 202

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In late October of 2017, two deer hunters discovered a naked and rotting human corpse in the Bruneau Desert near Grand View, Idaho. An autopsy later c...

Episode 201

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What do you get when you cross a sheltered and immature young adult with the trials and tribulations of navigating adult relationships? You get Andrew...

Episode 200

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Raised in Pittsburgh, home of the Steelers, Andrea Curry Demus should have had a great life in a city rated “most livable;” but Andrea didn’t ha...

Episode 199

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Deep in the hills of Ohio, where people keep to themselves - hunting, fishing, and partying around the fire pit, sometimes the predator becomes the pr...

Episode 198

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In October of 2014, 53-year-old Chris Regan was reported missing in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The investigation that followed spanned many year...

Episode 197

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We all want what’s best for our kids, but sometimes we need to let our children make their own mistakes. After a lifetime of being told what to do, ...

Episode 196

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

29-year-old Daryne Gailey lost his freedom when his 65-year old mother, Sylvia Majewska, was granted guardianship and conservatorship over him. With t...

Episode 195

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

19-year-old Lizzi Marriott was especially kind-hearted, always beaming with positivity, and dreamed of becoming a marine biologist. She was working ha...

Episode 194

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Loving parents Jason and Julie live on the California coast with their three young children and have the dream life, or so it seems. Jason is a respec...

Episode 193

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Each family has its own unique strengths and weaknesses, but what happens when the family dynamic begins to enter into the realm of depravity? In earl...

Episode 192

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In February of 2017, 28-year-old Kayla Crocker was found bound, bloody, and unresponsive in the nursery of her Florida home. After she was rushed to a...

Episode 191

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When personal assistant Jennifer Fulford mysteriously disappeared from her wealthy employer’s house, everyone was puzzled by the strange trail of st...

Episode 190

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What happened to Lee Paulino? He disappeared days before Thanksgiving and the police just considered him a runaway in spite of his family's pleas that...

Episode 189

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Residents of the Marpole neighborhood in Vancouver, British Columbia suddenly found themselves double-checking their deadbolts when an unidentified ki...

Episode 188

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On New Year's Day 2008, 24-year-old Meredith Emerson went missing after setting out on a hike up Blood Mountain in Union County, Georgia. Search teams...

Episode 187

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

21-year-old Alisha Bromfield had it all. She had a supportive friend group, a family who loved her, a nearly completed bachelor’s degree, and a baby...

Episode 186

02 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In October of 2005, empty nesters Dennis and Norma Woodruff were found shot and stabbed to death in their Texas home. With a lack of physical evidence...

Episode 185

18 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back to bring you the conclusion of the mysterious staged death of Natasha Waalen. In order to get the full story, we encourage you to go back...

Episode 184

11 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When 29-year-old Natasha Waalen was found dead next to her dirt bike, police assumed it had been a terrible accident. They were wrong. Natasha had bee...

Episode 183

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On Sunday June 28th, 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers returned home early from a family vacation only to find she was not alone in the house. In the aftermath...

Episode 182

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In December of 2000, 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams went missing while duck hunting on Lake Seminole in Jackson County, Florida. The ...

Episode 181

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Zachary Penna was having a horrible day. He left work early to pick up his car but the auto shop said it wasn’t ready which ruined his evening plans...

Episode 180

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An unreal crime scene with a dead fortune teller, her dead daughter, and an otherworldly tone has police in Westminster, CA grasping at straws trying ...

Episode 179

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Markeith Loyd was not there for his first two children, but Sade Dixon gave him another chance at being a father. With God’s guidance, Markeith beli...

Episode 178

24 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Holly Colino’s descent into madness took a long time. A series of unfortunate life events painted her paranoid delusions in a shade of green envy. E...

Episode 177

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spawned from a long line of vicious criminals, Nikko Jenkins struck terror into Nebraskans when he callously slayed four innocent citizens in his murd...

Episode 176

20 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re all looking forward to retirement, when we can finally cash out all of our hard-earned savings and live off of it until we die. That’s the h...

Episode 175

05 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Clark Fredericks was born with a hole in his heart. 46 years later, he was arrested for repeatedly stabbing and killing a retired police lieutenant in...

Episode 174

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Trouble in the Amato household began brewing in the summer of 2018, when Grant Amato, the youngest son, developed an addiction to one particular webca...

Episode 173

08 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We move people who commit crimes far away from our society so they don’t harm anyone else… but many of those criminals will eventually serve their...

Episode 172

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Child abuse can take many forms and most of the time isn’t obvious. In rare cases it is near impossible to detect. In the special case of Olivia Gan...

Episode 171

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We all know by now that there are good cops, and there are very bad cops. On December 29th, 2009, Kevin Gregson and Eric Czapnik showed the world exac...

Episode 170

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The world had a conniption when news headlines announced “Kevin Bacon-Murdered!” just before the new year. As more details came out, it was clear ...

Episode 169

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We take a break from the standard Sword and Scale format to chat about the current state of law enforcement with ex-police officer and judge Charles A...

Episode 168

16 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We often think of true-crime from the perspective of law enforcement trying valiantly to pursue the perpetrator and make them face the justice system....

Episode 167

02 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The lives of Kevin and Marina Krim were forever changed on October 25th, 2012. All of New York City was suddenly rethinking their caregivers. “Is th...

Episode 166

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

July of 2016 was a bad month in Bend, Oregon. Isabel Ponce Lara woke up one morning to her husband, Edwin Lara, acting very strangely. The events that...

Episode 165

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom of speech and religion are two foundational parts of what this nation has to offer. They’re important to us and when we feel they’re being...

Episode 164

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Orange County California has seen its fair share of bizarre crimes. When Sam Herr, a decorated combat veteran is nowhere to be found and his best frie...

Episode 163

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

8-year-old Isabella Cipriano woke up in the middle of the night in April of 2012 to find that her father, mother, and brother were being attacked in t...

Episode 162

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Lawrence appeared to be a caring and dutiful father, taking his 21-month-old daughter Maddox with him as he delivered pastries throughout Syracus...

Episode 161

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

On May 6th, 2013, Sharlene Bosma watched as her husband Tim pulled away from their house on a test drive with two strange men, never to return again. ...

Episode 160

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Never before have so many of us been forcibly cooped up in our houses for this length of time. COVID-19 has shaken up our routines and our state of mi...

Episode 159

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The quiet seclusion of rural Maine gives many people a feeling of solace but sometimes the isolation can fracture a person’s psyche. The rural town ...

Episode 158

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Citizens of Bakersfield California were in for a crazy day on December 10, 2016. The public events of this day would result in a police chase, and two...

Episode 157

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Who do we blame when an innocent 8-year-old boy is brutally murdered in a stranger’s kitchen? In this particular case, fingers are pointed in every ...

Episode 156

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The United States has experienced a slew of mass murders in recent years, but the two mass shootings that occurred within 14 hours of each other in Au...

Episode 155

15 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back with the riveting conclusion to the tale of Ezra McCandless and her claims of repeated sexual victimization. To understand the many facet...

Episode 154

02 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ezra McCandless wove a web of complicated relationships for herself, getting involved romantically with many of the men in her coffee-shop clique in a...

Episode 153

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A neighbor dispute turns deadly after a brain damaged war vet with PTSD finally snaps on Labor Day 2012. Did Billy Woodward plan his military style as...

Episode 152

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is the exciting conclusion of the Sheila Davalloo Story. If you haven’t listened to part one go back one episode and start there.The leads in A...

Episode 151

23 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This is the riveting first part of a two-part story that will leave you wondering “how well do I know my significant other.”Sheila Davalloo is edu...

Episode 150

10 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Around 1 A.M. on October 15th, 2018, Barron County Sheriff’s Department receives a 911 call. What sounds to be a struggle and screaming on the other...

Episode 149

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In April 2018, Boca Raton Police Department were alerted of a missing person. James Scandirito II was calling to report that his father, 74-year-old J...

Episode 148

13 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’re taking a deep dive into the world of YouTube rant channels in the early 2000s. Tony48219 loved to sit in his computer chair and shout at the c...

Episode 147

28 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sexual child abuse is so widespread that the numbers are astounding. We seem to forget that the threat is omnipresent and can come in the form of anot...

Episode 146

08 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Domestic violence happens every day. It happens so often that as a society we’re numb to it. When Brandon Clark stabbed Bianca Devins in the throat ...

Episode 145

01 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The afternoon of January 13th, 2010, a Conyers Georgia police officer encounters an exasperated 16-year-old Tasmiyah Whitehead approaching his squad c...

Episode 144

18 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When ‘Megan Wants A Millionaire’ is suspended from airing after only three episodes, a former Reality TV ‘star’ rises to infamy after a brutal...

Episode 143

04 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Most of the time, accidents are simply just that. Accidents. Sometimes though, collisions are made with precise decision making, with little to no car...

Episode 142

21 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On July 17th, 2016, former United State Marine Gavin Long went into Baton Rouge, Louisiana to wage an all out war on the police. Many thought it was i...

Episode 141

14 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When 23 year old Bonnie Haim goes missing in January of 1993, abandoning her husband and 3 year old son, all fingers point toward her husband, Michael...

Episode 140

04 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

During the early morning hours of May 5th, 2012, Mark Duenas was awoken by what sounded like a catfight outside of his family home. He got up from his...

Episode 139

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Urdiales, a serial killer with military training, attacks and tortures women across three states for ten years. Only one woman lives to the tel...

Episode 138

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The process of vetting those we allow into our lives is a precarious one. When young, prospective college student Brandy Rosine met Jade Olmstead onli...

Episode 137

12 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On October 10th, 2008, 38-year-old Johnny Altinger made his way to South Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He had set up a date with a mysterious woman on th...

Episode 136

21 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Serious psychological issues can develop, fester, and become toxic in the cover of darkness when not addressed and treated properly. None of us are im...

Episode 135

07 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

16-year-old Emma Walker broke up with her boyfriend, 18-year-old Riley Gaul because she realized it wasn’t a healthy relationship and was tired of h...

Episode 134

23 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sticks and stones will break my bones... a child's nursery rhyme which contains a universal truth that is all but lost in today's day and age of safe ...

Episode 133

09 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Three vicious murders in rural Northeastern Maine stun the small city of Amity’s 238 residents. A missing truck, three innocent victims killed with ...

Episode 132

25 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On July 17th, 2016, Cara Beckerle went up to the bedroom of her 19-year-old daughter, Aleah, to check on her. When she opened the door, the bed was em...

Episode 131

11 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Watts is arrested and charged with murder on August 15th, 2018 in the disappearance of his pregnant wife Shanann and their two children, daughte...

Episode 130

26 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On August 13th, 2018, expectant mother Shanann Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste were reported missing from their home in Frederick, Colorado....

Episode 129

16 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

All you need, is love. The lyrics etched on the consciousness of an entire generation. But what happens when all you need, is lost? 36-year old former...

Episode 128

09 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

9-year old Omaree Varela’s lifeless, bruised, and tattered body was recovered at the base of toy bouncy horse just two days after Christmas in 2013....

Episode 127

25 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In 2008, Adam Baker and his daughter, Zahra, moved to the United States from Queensland, Australia with the hopes of having the perfect new life. Adam...