Crime Snob Podcast

Michelle Hadley had never met or contacted Angela Diaz when a detective called asking about threatening emails Angela claimed Michelle had sent. Angela was the new wife of Michelle’s former fiancé, Ian Diaz, a deputy United States marshal. Soon, men began arriving at Ian and Angela’s home after responding to disturbing Craigslist advertisements. Although Michelle insisted someone was impersonating...

Zona Heaster was buried as a woman who died of natural causes. Her mother said she knew who killed her. And she claimed Zona had come back from the dead to tell her herself. In this Spooky Snob bonus episode, we’re heading to 1897 West Virginia for the story of the Greenbrier Ghost. After her newlywed daughter’s sudden death, Mary Jane Heaster reported four visits from Zona’s spirit, each revealin...

Andrea Shaw says vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins. Prosecutors say she did. Eight days before Dallas and Tyson Shaw were found dead together in the bed they shared, the twins received routine childhood vaccinations. The next day, both became sick and were taken to the emergency room, where their records reportedly referenced a possible post-immunization reaction. Their family says the sympto...

In 1887, a 23-year-old reporter got herself committed to a women’s insane asylum with one assignment: find out what was happening inside. Getting in was disturbingly easy. Getting out would take more than telling the truth. This week on Spooky Snob, we’re talking about Nellie Bly and the ten days she spent undercover on Blackwell’s Island. From freezing baths and abusive staff to women who were lo...

Colleen Slemmer was 19 when she moved to Knoxville to study computers and build a future. Months later, she was lured off campus and brutally murdered by classmates. Christa Pike believed Colleen wanted her boyfriend. She would later show other students a piece of Colleen’s skull. This week, we cover the murder that sent Pike to death row, the disturbing behavior that followed, and the decades of...

Welcome to Spooky Snob, our October bonus series dedicated to all things spooky! Alongside our regular Monday true crime episodes, we’re bringing you an extra episode each week exploring creepy, strange, and unsettling stories outside of true crime. First up: the Perron family and the Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired The Conjuring. Before they’d even unpacked, the girls reported seeing a stran...

Caleb Flynn once appeared on American Idol. Now he’s on trial for the murder of his wife, Ashley, after telling police an intruder broke into their Ohio home and shot her while their two daughters were inside. But investigators uncovered an affair with a woman from his church and more than 100,000 messages. Among them were repeated discussions about wanting Ashley dead. We get into the matching Ha...

A Florida attorney disappears from his law office in the middle of the workday. His phone, wallet, and keys are left behind. Blood is discovered in the bathroom. And surveillance footage captures a man leaving the building with a heavily loaded wagon. The man prosecutors identify in that footage? A plastic surgeon who had been locked in a legal battle with the missing attorney. In this bonus episo...

The Sarah Lawrence Cult: The Disturbing Story of Larry Ray When Larry Ray moved into his daughter’s dorm at Sarah Lawrence College, nobody could have imagined what would happen next. What started as a father offering advice to his daughter’s friends turned into a terrifying years-long nightmare of manipulation, humiliation, and abuse. Ray convinced these young adults that they owed him money for c...

When Florida State University law professor Dan Markel was shot in the garage of his Tallahassee home, investigators knew almost immediately that his murder wasn’t random. But the trail would eventually lead nearly 500 miles away and into the middle of one of the most bitter family conflicts imaginable. What began with a contentious divorce and custody battle unraveled into an extraordinary murder...

On today’s bonus episode, we’re bringing you up to speed on some of the wildest headlines making news. Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur was murdered, we’re breaking down the verdict against Duane “Keffe D” Davis. We’re also discussing why Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times, Luigi Mangione’s double-jeopardy argument, the scammers accused of posing as NFL players and stealing...

We thought Part 4 would be simple: the jury would return with a verdict, we’d talk about what it meant, and after nearly six weeks of trial coverage, the Lindsay Clancy case would finally be over. That is not what happened. After seven days of deliberations, three separate deadlock notes, a woman arrested for allegedly filming members of the jury, a Tuey Rodriguez instruction, an 11 to 1 split, a...

Lindsay Clancy: The Final Week Before the Verdict After five weeks of testimony, 85 witnesses, dueling psychiatric experts, explosive cross examinations, a mistrial request, and two completely different closing arguments, the Lindsay Clancy case is finally in the hands of the jury. In our final trial update before the verdict, we're breaking down everything that happened during the last week...

In Part 3 of our Lindsay Clancy trial coverage, the prosecution rests its case and the defense finally begins to answer the question at the center of this trial: what was happening in Lindsay’s mind on the night she killed her three children? We break down the first full week of the defense case, including emotional testimony from Lindsay’s mother and family members about the drastic changes they...

The Lindsay Clancy trial entered a new phase this week as the focus shifted almost entirely to her psychiatric treatment, the people who were caring for her in the months before the deaths of her children, and the digital evidence investigators recovered from her devices. The jury heard from psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Tufts, psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, therapist Latiesha Dukes...

In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy’s husband left their Duxbury, Massachusetts home to pick up dinner and medication. When he returned, he found a scene that would become the center of one of the most complicated and heavily debated criminal cases in recent years. Lindsay, a labor and delivery nurse and mother of three, was accused of killing her three young children before attempting to take her own...

A New Jersey family’s dream home quickly became the center of a nationwide mystery after anonymous letters began arriving before they could even move in. What followed was years of fear, unsettling threats, and one of America’s most infamous unsolved mysteries.

In March 1997, Nusinaida Ramos was found brutally beaten to death inside her Yonkers apartment. There were no signs of forced entry or robbery, leaving investigators to believe she knew her killer. For more than two decades, the case remained unsolved until a dramatic arrest in 2023 thrust it back into the spotlight, only for new twists to raise fresh questions.

Dr. Herman Tarnower was one of America’s most famous physicians and the bestselling author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet but on March 10, 1980, he was found fatally shot in his home in Purchase, New York, sending shockwaves across the country. The investigation quickly focused on Jean Harris, the longtime headmistress of an elite girls’ school and Tarnower’s longtime companion. What follo...

What began as one family’s desperate search for their daughter would unravel into the horrifying truth behind one of America’s most shocking serial predators. In this episode of Crime Snob, we examine the disappearance of Grace Budd and the investigation that ultimately exposed Albert Fish, a sadistic child killer whose depravity, including acts of cannibalism, cemented his place as one of the mos...

In the mid-1970s, an unknown attacker terrorized women across Westchester County, firing steel-tipped darts through the windows of their homes under the cover of darkness. Despite dozens of attacks, the so-called “Westchester Dartman” was never identified. In this episode of Crime Snob, we uncover one of Westchester’s strangest & most bizarre unsolved mysteries.

After months of fear, New York City was desperate for answers as the Son of Sam continued to terrorize the streets. Cryptic letters taunted investigators, thousands of tips poured in, and one of the largest manhunts in the city’s history unfolded. Then, a simple parking ticket led detectives to the man behind the .44 caliber murders. In Part 2, we break down the investigation that gripped an entir...

In the summer of 1976, New York City was gripped by fear as a mysterious gunman began targeting young women in a series of seemingly random attacks. As the body count rose and panic spread across the city, investigators struggled to identify the killer who would become known as the Son of Sam. In Part 1, we explore David Berkowitz’s troubled past, the early shootings, and the terrifying beginning...

On a quiet Halloween night in one of America’s wealthiest neighborhoods, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was brutally murdered just steps from her own front door. For years, the case remained shrouded in rumors, privilege, and unanswered questions. Investigators faced dead ends, public scrutiny, and a suspect whose powerful family connections fueled endless controversy. It would take decades before anyo...

For years, Steven Cunningham evaded responsibility for a brutal murder while an innocent teenager sat behind bars. After the murder of Angela Correa, Jeffrey Deskovic was wrongfully convicted and spent 16 years in prison. It wasn't until DNA testing years later that Cunningham was identified as the true killer, but by then he had already claimed the life of Patricia Morrison as well. In this...