Culprit

Robert and Patricia Seddon did everything right. They worked hard and raised two children.  Sadly, their daughter, Lesley, would be diagnosed with epilepsy as a child and would die when she was just 40, leaving her parents to raise their grandchild. Their son, Stephen, began getting in trouble as a teen, serving prison time twice, but the Seddons didn’t abandon their son. They bought him a house a...

Salvadoran Jesus Ismenia Marinero came to the United States in 1999 in search of a better life. She must have felt that she was on her way to finding it when one of the five children she had been forced to leave behind, Roberto Martinez-Marinero, came to join her a decade later. Over the next six years, Ismenia gave birth to two more sons, Josue and Angel, but in May 2015, the son whose reappearan...

We should all hope to have the kind of family Christina Harris had. When their beloved daughter and sister, a 36-year-old mom of a 4-year-old and a 4-month-old, died unexpectedly, they wanted answers, but the answers they hoped to gain from an autopsy came in the form of more questions. The autopsy revealed an accidental overdose. This made no sense. Christina didn’t struggle with substance use di...

For nearly two decades, Chisako Kakehi watched on as her partners passed away one by one. Although she claimed that she had been “doomed by fate” to endure these tragedies, after the death of her fourth and final husband, Isao Kakehi, in 2013, the Japanese authorities finally became suspicious enough to perform a postmortem. After the autopsy confirmed that he hadn’t died from natural causes, inve...

Murder and arson in the small Eastern Washington town of Newman Lake were rare. Neighbors looked out for each other and couldn’t have imagined that a member of their community, a single dad who was caring for two of his six children, would ever do what he was accused of, but how well do we really know our neighbors? What could drive a mild-mannered, middle-aged man to commit such a heinous act? Fi...

Garry Davis had been fired, terminated, or deregistered from five of the six aged care facilities at which he had previously worked, including from one for posting, “I hate old people,” on Facebook. Despite all this, the 26-year-old had not only gotten a job at SummitCare Wallsend, but after just three years, he had already secured a senior position on the wing from which three elderly residents w...

Though the 1960s were a time of change that saw women becoming more vocal about their rights and lack thereof, access to reproductive choice was still years away. When Judy Hyams found herself unexpectedly pregnant, she turned to a family friend whom she trusted. After all, he was a doctor. Things became murky after Judy was introduced to someone who promised they could help her. Years later, a tr...

When Australian music mogul Peter Ikin died in November 2008, his civil partner, Alexandre Despallières, was quick to claim his inheritance. Although investigators didn’t view Peter’s death as suspicious, his friends had questions about the man who had waited only days to cremate him. In the wake of a damning toxicology report, the investigation into Peter’s death was reopened, but when all was sa...

Marriage and children had never gotten in the way of Tom DiBartolo doing what he wanted, and what he wanted was to flout his position as a Spokane County deputy and have sex with his various mistresses. It had always been easy; his wife, Patty, took care of the house and the kids and he slept with whomever he wanted, knowing enough to tell the women what they wanted to hear. Recently though, thing...

Count Carl von Cosel believed he had met his soulmate when he laid eyes on Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos in 1930. From the start, though, their romance had its share of problems. First, they were both already married, but Carl could easily pretend neither of their spouses existed. Second, Elena had been diagnosed with the then-fatal prognosis of tuberculosis, but even after she died, Carl wasn’t de...

Hey, everyone. We wanted to drop in to let you know that a new episode won’t be coming out on April 12, but we’ll be back with the case of Carl Tänzler on April 26.

When sheltered Sheila Watson met wealthy, man-about-town Maxwell Garvie, she was besotted. Their courtship was fast, with marriage and children following quickly. People in town believed the Garvies had an enviable life, but, as we know all too well, looks can be deceiving.  Max was ready to embrace everything the Swinging Sixties had to offer, and he was hell-bent on dragging Sheila along with hi...

Now that Graham Young was working at John Hadland Laboratories, his victim pool had expanded. Out of the nearly 70 members of staff to catch the so-called “Bovingdon Bug,” two would never recover: Bob Egle and Fred Biggs. Even after Graham had been arrested, an event he hastened along in once again showing off his troubling toxicological expertise, he was sure he’d be acquitted, but that was befor...

Graham Young had always been a strange child whose fascination with poisons saw him employing his extensive expertise to procure lethal quantities of various toxic substances with which to experiment. When he missed out on observing their full effects on his schoolmate, Graham decided to use the chemistry set his father had given him to target his entire family. After causing one death and numerou...

Imagine committing a crime and then being so angry at having been convicted that you spend more than 20 years after your release trying to get your conviction overturned. This is Walter Leroy Moody Jr. in a nutshell. When false narratives and unfounded appeals didn’t produce the result he had hoped for, he channeled his anger into murder by sending bombs to innocent people. If he couldn’t have his...

By the time investigators connected 50-year-old Richard Rogers to the murders of four middle-aged gay and bisexual men whose remains were discovered in garbage bags between 1991 and 1993, it had been nearly three decades since Richard had first been acquitted of murder after claiming self-defense. Richard had come a long way from hiding corpses in tents. He’d realized dismemberment was a much bett...

Using the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. as his murderous roadmap, Gary Ray Bowles left innocent men dead from Florida to Maine in 1994, killing six men before being apprehended at a Florida employment office. Gary thought of himself as a hustler, someone who exploited the benevolence of others, then turned on them in the cruelest way possible bymurdering them, violently stuffing something in their...

Having made a murderous New Year's resolution, Colin Ireland studied serial killers before putting his own plan into action. Then, in the spring of 1993, he tortured and killed five gay men: Peter Walker, Christopher Dunn, Perry Bradley III, Andrew Collier, and Emanuel Spiteri. Posing as a BDSM practitioner at the Coleherne Arms pub in West London, Colin preyed on a vulnerable community who wa...

Because it’s that time of year again, in this episode, we’re covering two cases that happened on Christmas Eve: On December 24, 2014, Dustin Lee Klopp and Stephanie Kilhefner Klopp’s two children would be made orphans, just not all at once. Having driven them to his parents’ house for the usual festivities the following day, Dustin called the police to confess to his wife’s murder and turned himse...

Being gay in conventional Indianapolis in the ‘90s wasn’t easy. When members of the small gay community started disappearing and police chose to look the other way, one brave man would put himself in harm’s way to uncover the truth. It would take years, but when the horrifying truth of what transpired at Fox Hollow Farm came to light, no one could ignore that Herb Baumeister, the respectable, weal...

21-year-old Joel Larson was walking through a popular gay cruising spot in Minneapolis, Minnesota around 11:30 in the evening on July 31, 1991, when he was killed by a bullet to the back. Only ten days later, 19-year-old Cord Draszt and 48-year-old former Minnesota State Senator John Chenoweth were shot at another gay hangout spot. After a six-page letter from the fictitious AIDS Commission claime...

Alice Grant lived at Aidan House, a care home in Gateshead in Northeastern England. Due to her dementia and past strokes, she was dependent on the nursing staff for all her needs and could become frustrated with her predicament. Enter Alison Firth, a nurse with 16 years’ experience and a less than stellar job history. Alison didn’t like Alice; she required a lot of care and, frankly, Alison couldn...

For almost twenty years, Vickie Dawn Jackson had been caring for the residents in the two-stoplight town of Nocona, Texas. But on December 11, 2000, 34-year-old Nurse Vickie filled a syringe with mivacurium chloride and picked the first of the many patients she would go on to kill. In a little over two months, Vickie administered fatal injections to at least 10 patients. Her classic small-town mot...

Megan Jean Haines moved to Australia from her native South Africa searching for a better life, but instead of working hard to achieve that life, her bad attitude, unwillingness to do the required work, and contempt for her patients resulted in numerous misconduct charges and a license suspension. After her license was reinstated, her conduct didn’t change. When she was told that several patients h...

In our Halloween Special, we’re covering two chilling cases: The community of Pasadena, Texas was shocked when news of 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan’s death broke late on the evening of October 31, 1974. Rumors ran rampant that a madman was poisoning children. What evil lurked behind closed doors? Shock turned to disbelief when the person arrested wasn’t a stranger, but someone close to Timothy.  Whe...