True Crime

On a quiet March evening in 2020, 19-year-old Sydney Powell called 911, screaming that an intruder had stabbed her mother, 43-year-old Hollywood Powell, inside their upscale Georgia home. But when police arrived, the scene felt off. The "break-in" looked staged—no forced entry, a knife oddly placed, and Sydney’s changing story. Then came the bombshell: Sydney’s own hands wielded the blade. But why...

In October 2018, Lauren McCluskey, a 21-year-old track star at the University of Utah, was being hunted by a man she’d briefly dated—37-year-old Melvin Rowland, a registered sex offender with a fake identity and a violent past. Terrified, Lauren and her mother, Jill McCluskey, made repeated pleas for help—including a desperate call to a 911 center 600 miles away in Washington state, hoping to bypa...

When Katie Kenyon, a vibrant 33-year-old mother of two, vanished in April 2022 after a camping trip with her on-again, off-again lover, Andrew Burfield, police initially dismissed him as just a "local handyman" with a shaky alibi. But as detectives peeled back the layers of his life, they uncovered a monster hiding in plain sight—a serial manipulator with a history of violence against women, whose...

On May 10, 2020, Suzanne Morphew, a beloved 49-year-old mother and wife, vanished without a trace from her idyllic Colorado home. When her daughters couldn’t reach her on Mother’s Day, panic set in. A search party scoured Chaffee County’s rugged terrain, finding only her blue mountain bike discarded down a steep ravine—but no body, no blood, and no clear answers. Become a supporter of this podcast...

On August 5, 2018, Ryan Cody Lamb’s frantic 911 call echoed through the Kalispell, Montana, police dispatch: “My partner’s dead! I just got home—I don’t know what happened!” Officers rushed to the scene, finding Lamb hyperventilating over his partner’s lifeless body. But something felt off. Why were there no signs of forced entry? Why did Lamb’s story keep shifting? And why did forensics find defe...

On May 18, 2020, Sadie Beacham arrived at her boyfriend Rosalio Reta’s apartment in Lubbock, Texas, only to find the patio door ajar—and blood splattered from the ceiling to the floor. The scene looked like something out of a horror film: bloody handprints, drag marks, and no sign of Rosalio. Was this a kidnapping? A murder? And why did Sadie’s obsessive ex-boyfriend, Zachariah Anderson, keep lurk...

On October 4, 2012, 17-year-old Jake Evans—a quiet, homeschooled Texas teen with no history of violence—called 911 and calmly confessed: “I just killed my mom and sister.” The brutality of the crime stunned investigators. Evans had shot his mother in the head execution-style and stabbed his 15-year-old sister 28 times. But what turned a seemingly mild-mannered boy into a family annihilator? Become...

On a sweltering Florida afternoon, Hoyt Birge and Peter Tournay entered what they thought was a routine drug deal—only to find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. Within minutes, Hoyt lay lifeless on the floor, and Tournay, bleeding out from a gunshot wound, played dead to survive. The assailant? A cold-blooded killer who staged the scene to look like a robbery gone wrong, but whose motiv...

In 1990, 14-year-old Regina Walters fled her troubled Texas home, seeking escape—only to vanish into the night. Six months later, her badly decomposed body was discovered in an abandoned Illinois barn, posed in a macabre tableau: wearing black high heels, her hair freshly cut. The haunting crime scene bore the signature of a predator who’d stalked America’s highways for years—a long-haul trucker w...

For nearly two decades, an elusive terrorist known only as “The Unabomber” terrorized the nation, mailing 16 bombs that killed 3 people and maimed 23 others—from university professors to airline executives. The FBI’s longest and costliest manhunt targeted a phantom: Ted Kaczynski, a reclusive math genius turned anti-technology zealot, living without electricity in a Montana shack. Become a support...

For years, John Gotti ruled the Gambino crime family with a diamond-crusted fist—flaunting his power in $2,000 suits, mocking prosecutors, and earning the nickname “The Teflon Don” after three high-profile acquittals. But in December 1985, Gotti’s ambition turned deadly when he orchestrated the brazen assassination of his boss, Paul Castellano, outside Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan. With...

In December 1989, the festive lights of the Fairfax County, Virginia, apartment complex glowed with holiday cheer—until five-year-old Melissa Brannen disappeared during a cheerful Christmas party. One moment she was laughing with friends; the next, she’d vanished into the winter night. The only clue? A witness who saw a shadowy figure carrying a bundle near the playground. Become a supporter of th...

On a frigid February afternoon in 1993, a massive explosion ripped through the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center, shaking Manhattan to its core. The blast—equivalent to 1,200 pounds of TNT—tore a five-story crater through concrete and steel, killing six, injuring over 1,000, and filling the towers with choking black smoke. For the first time, America realized: this wasn’t an acc...

In the spring of 1984, Christopher Wilder, a charming Australian-born racecar driver and amateur photographer, crisscrossed America with a deadly secret. Posing as a fashion scout, he prowled shopping malls, targeting young women—many of them aspiring models—with promises of photo shoots and magazine spreads. But his camera was a prop; his real tools were ropes, knives, and a sadist’s imagination....

Claude Dallas was the last of a dying breed—a self-styled mountain man who lived off the grid, poaching game in the rugged Owyhee Desert of Idaho. But in 1981, his frontier fantasy turned deadly when two Idaho game wardens, Bill Pogue and Conley Elms, confronted him about illegal hunting. In a burst of violence, Dallas gunned both men down, execution-style, then vanished into the wild. Become a su...

In the sweltering summer of 1984, Tampa, Florida, was gripped by fear as a ruthless predator stalked the streets, raping and murdering at least ten women. The killer left no witnesses, no patterns—just a trail of broken lives. Then, one victim survived. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

For over 30 years, the FBI waged a silent war against New York’s most powerful Mafia dynasty—the Genovese crime family—and its cunning boss, Vincent “The Chin” Gigante. While other mobsters flaunted their power, Gigante played an unprecedented con: he faked insanity to evade the law. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

On June 21, 1964—Freedom Summer—three young civil rights workers (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner) vanished near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their crime? Registering Black voters. Six weeks later, their bodies were unearthed from an earthen dam, shot execution-style by Klansmen who believed they could bury the truth with the victims. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://w...

In 1974, the idyllic Pacific dream of millionaire adventurers Mac and Muff Graham vanished without a trace. Their yacht, Sea Wind, was last seen anchored near a remote atoll—until it mysteriously sailed back to Hawaii months later, piloted by another couple: Buck Walker, a fugitive with a criminal past, and his girlfriend Stephanie Stearns. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker....

In the frozen shadows of Anchorage, Alaska, a house once filled with laughter became a tomb for Nancy Newman and her two young children. The unthinkable culprit? Kirby Anthoney, a man bound to them by blood and trust. When police arrived at the grisly scene, they faced a nightmare: a family obliterated, with only the killer’s lies standing between justice and oblivion. Become a supporter of this p...

In the rolling backroads of Southern Ohio, 1989, the crack of a high-powered rifle echoed without warning—shattering the peace of a quiet countryside. An unsuspecting outdoorsman fell dead, shot through the chest by an unseen killer. It was the first shot in a five-year reign of terror by Thomas Dillon, a seemingly ordinary mechanic who prowled Ohio’s rural highways, stalking human prey from the s...

In 1982, a California Highway Patrol officer—trusted to protect and serve—pulled over a young woman for speeding. But what began as a routine stop became a nightmare. The officer, armed with a decade of law enforcement experience, sexually assaulted and murdered her, then used his insider knowledge to meticulously cover his tracks. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podca...

On a quiet October evening in 1993, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was giggling with friends at a slumber party in her Petaluma, California home—until a stranger burst in, tied up the other girls, and snatched Polly into the night. The abduction sparked one of the most intense manhunts in FBI history, with agents scouring every clue left behind in her bedroom. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://...

On Thanksgiving Day 2016, the tight-knit community of Canadian, Texas, was shattered when 18-year-old Thomas Brown—a bright, well-liked high school senior—vanished without a trace. His SUV, a Dodge Durango, was found abandoned on a desolate road, doors unlocked, keys missing, and no sign of a struggle. What began as a missing person’s case soon spiraled into a labyrinth of dead ends, conflicting t...

In the predawn hours of April 22, 2018, a gunman clad only in a green jacket and armed with an AR-15 stormed a bustling Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee. In just four relentless minutes, he murdered four innocent people—Taurean Sanderlin, 29; Joe Perez, 20; Akilah Dasilva, 23; and DeEbony Groves, 21—before a naked hero, James Shaw Jr., wrestled the rifle away, saving countless lives. Become a su...