True Crime Guys

David Avendano Ballina, between the years of 1997 and 2007, ran a Mexican street gang known as "Las Goteras" the gang poisoned and robbed men, “accidentally” killing as many as 70 with simple but deadly eye drops. Ballina lived a life of crime that started at the ripe age of 6, when after he robbed and killed a woman he stopped to try some of her beef stew on the stove. Which forever labeled him w...

Rex Heuermann, aka the long island serial killer, has finally confessed! Chimps are now starting gang wars with each other, and a naked prowler who was terrorizing a neighborhood is finally caught! Check out Patreon and our other shows!: Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:    https://linktr.ee/Tru...

In the 80’s, Michael Wayne Ryan was a nobody, a high school dropout, who couldn’t hold down a job. But to hear him tell it, he’s one of the greatest human beings to ever walk the face of the earth. He's a Vietnam war vet (not really), where he lost two toes( that part's true). He’s also been a hitman for the CIA( nope ), and a mafia hitman as well( not a chance ), all this before the age of 40. So...

It was 1950’s San Francisco when Philip Garrido was born. He always knew he’d be special, destined for fame and fortune. As a young man he knew he was gonna be a famous rock musician. When that didn't pan out he had a plan B, you know, something more practical, like being the next messiah and being able to directly communicate with God. 0_0 This megalomaniac kidnapped Jayce Dugard and held her for...

It was Monday April 18th, 2016. Missy Beavers was up early and headed to her church in Midlothian, Texas. Where she would lead a Gladiator Bootcamp workout class. Class started at 5am, so Missy got there at 4:18 and started setting up for the class. When students started arriving around 4:45, and entered the classroom, they found Missy lying face up on the floor, not moving, surrounded by broken g...

It was August 22, 1922, in Los Angeles, and German immigrant Fred Oesterreich was in the middle of a heated argument with his wife, Walburga “Dolly” Oesterreich. Without warning, when Fred turns around he’s face to face with a man he knew a decade ago, back in Milwaukee, and he’s holding two pistols. Fred didn’t hear the man come in, and most importantly, why was he here in the first place!? Check...

A man changes his legal name to "Literally Anybody Else" just so he can make a point on election ballots. Spoiler alert, his real name is Dustin :/ .....ANYWAY, another man, coincidentally in Florida, got a felony charge for having consensual sex in a porta-potty. I mean, he WAS incarcerated at the time. Then we round it out with a good ole heartbreaking accidental homicide, seriously, w...

Michael Alig "The Party Monster" was an American club promoter who was convicted of felony manslaughter, along with his buddy "Freeze". He was one of the ringleaders of the Club Kids, a group of young New York City clubgoers who became a cultural phenomenon in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EV...

We got another double header! This time its a coupl'a cannibals ! *Incase you didn't catch the word "Cannibals" being used over and over again...this one is explicit, to say the least. :) For our appetizer, we head back to July 2008, when Vince Li gruesomely murdered a fellow Canadian bus passenger named Tim McLean. Li didn’t stop at murder, he stabbed, beheaded, and even ate parts of Mc...

This week we got a double feature! We kick things off with the death of 18-year-old, Anna Kepner. She was found wrapped in a blanket under a bed, surrounded by life jackets, on a cruise ship in November 2025, with very few clues as to what happened to her. Now, her teenage stepbrother has reportedly been arrested and charged….and for damn good reason if you ask us. Then we move on to another case...

We got two stories this week involving people posing as pilots for completely different reasons, also a guy that gets a bullet in the ass, but he did it. Then we round it out with, what we know so far, about the man in Pennsylvania found with hundreds of sets of human remains on his property.    Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube...

Todd Sees was a Pennsylvania man who mysteriously disappeared in 2002 only to be found dead and emaciated, 39 hrs later. Its a case that gained notoriety due to its strange circumstances, mainly witnesses reporting UFOs, a boot found high in a tree, and no signs of foul play. This ones a head scratcher for the ages, especially if you don't believe in aliens! lol *Intro song was HEAVILY inspired by...

The Riker's Island Art Heist happened on March 1st 2003, when four prison guards had the brilliant idea to steal an original Salvadore Dali painting, although not his best work, but still, an original Dali, and replace it with an elementary copy. The story of how the painting got there in the first place is almost as good as the heist itself! Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena &...

The Luby's shooting, also known as the Luby's massacre, was a mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991 at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. The perpetrator, 35-year-old George Pierre Hennard, killed 23 people and wounded 27 others. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:    https://link...

Did you know the government keeps track of people who go to the ER to have things removed from their rectums? Oh, well surely you've heard about the lawyer and her dog who are trying to make pets eligible for tax credits via suing the IRS? Don't even get me started on the New York elementary school thats putting kids in solitary confinement! Oh and there was fire in Colorado.....at a weed dispensa...

“The Jenny Jones Show” was one of many daytime talk show hosts in the 90's that had viewers tuning in daily to see people spill their secrets, crazy lives of rowdy teenagers, parenthood tests, makeovers, and pretty much any drama in between. The Jenny Jones Show Murder occurred in 1995, three days after an episode about “secret admirers” where Scott Amedure professed his crush on Jonathan Schmitz....

The 2021 murder of Gabby Petito took the world by storm with lots of theories, and followers that claimed they knew Brian Laundrie was to blame. In the end, things were just as gruesome as we all thought. Gabby was on a cross country trip in her van with her fiancé Brian Laundrie when things took a deadly turn. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained...

This has got to be one of our funniest Headlines to date, we had too much fun making this one! We kick it off with a woman who was hit in the face by a bird at Sea World! Then a man who swallowed a $35,000 egg pendant necklace, yikes , but he's still having a better day then the guy who was found dead in the back seat of his own car, which had been towed TWICE, before anyone noticed. Then we round...

Today we’re talking about the 2018 kidnapping of Jayme Closs, which involves a horrifying double murder that’ll keep you up at night, as well as a young man who was on a mission to find and kidnap a young girl, and when he saw Jayme, he knew she was the one. He shows up at her house with a shotgun and does the unthinkable, unexplainable ; honestly. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena...

Kelsey Turner was a 25-year-old single mother when she met renowned child psychologist Dr. Thomas Burchard. It wasn’t long before he began giving her money for rent and insurance, at least until Turner started to take advantage of him. When Dr. Burchard told her he was cutting her off, she lost her cool and incited her roommates to help her take revenge. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/...

A man walks into a bank with what appears to be a bomb around his neck, and a cane that is actually a gun. That man was Brian Wells, he demanded 250,000 dollars. Then he walks out the front door, but not before snatching a lollipop off the counter. Once outside he is quickly apprehended, but when police realize the bomb is real and Brian's not in control of it, the situation spirals into something...

This week we got some updates on the Louvre Heist, mainly the suspects in custody...do yourself a favor and google those guys. Also a credible Bigfoot sighting in Pennsylvania, with at least 3 people's testimonies, so pretty much a sure thing. Then we talk a German nurse who killed his patients so he wouldn't have to care for them anymore, and a man who missed the bus, so he stole a bus.    Check...

In June of 1959, in the quiet town of Stettler, Alberta. Raymond and Daisy Cook along with their five young children were found brutally murdered. Their bodies stuffed into a grease pit beneath their own garage.  But the shocking part was who police believed committed the crime. Despite no hard evidence, police arrested Raymond Cook's eldest son from a previous marriage, Robert Cook. He was charge...

Ali Abulaban, aka JinnKid, and self proclaimed sex god and sexy motherf*cker , was a social media influencer and TikTok personality known for comedic skits and impressions. In October 2021, he murdered his wife, Ana Abulaban, and her friend, Rayburn Barron, when he found them together in their San Diego apartment. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplai...

Anthony "Tony" Carleo, the man who ( almost ) pulled off one of Las Vegas’s greatest casino heists. After Tony successfully robbed the Suncoast Casino, he got a little over ambitious and decided next, he was gonna hit the Bellagio, and the crazy part is, he damn near got away with it! Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys...