Crimes of Passion

Behind the picture-perfect marriage of a longtime Massachusetts police detective Brian Fanion and his devoted wife, secrets were beginning to surface, and just months before retirement, another woman entered the picture. Then Amy Fanion was found dead from a gunshot wound, shot with her husband's service gun, yet her husband insisted she had taken her own life… but a series of unsettling discoveri...

A Florida law professor is gunned down in his own driveway in broad daylight. No witnesses, no immediate suspects, and no answers. For years, the case goes cold, but the deeper they dig into Dan Markel's life, the more they realize this wasn't random. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Sierra Gillespie, presented by Law&Crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megap...

A private investigator was reported missing by her partner after she never came home from running errands. Taylor Wright, a former police officer turned PI, was embroiled in a heated legal battle with her ex-husband over custody and finances. Wright lent her money to a friend to hold while she was handling things in court. Weeks after Wright’s disappearance, investigators found her body on a farm...

First responders rushed to a Massachusetts home when a panicked woman called 911. Christine Ricci said her husband, Michael, lunged at her while she was holding a knife during a heated dispute, lodging the weapon in his heart. As investigators pieced together the evidence, Christine's self-defense story wasn't quite adding up. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Sierra Gil...

Natalie Ramstrom was found dead inside her boyfriend’s home, with her body hidden beneath garbage bags after she had been shot in the head. What followed was a yearslong mystery as Efrain Medina fled to Mexico, spent a year hiding, and then faced three trials that all ended without a verdict. In the end, Medina admitted to manslaughter and a weapons charge, but the judge still struggled to accept...

A roommate wakes to screaming and finds his best friend bleeding on the floor of their Florida apartment. Tyler Nulisch, 30, dies at the hospital hours later from a single gunshot wound. His girlfriend, Brittany Nicole Holbrook, tells detectives she was defending herself, but the details of her account keep changing. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Sierra Gillespie, pr...

A culinary school was thrown into chaos when a chef was found shot to death in the kitchen where he taught. Daniel Brophy's students discovered his body just before class. His wife, Nancy Brophy, played the grieving widow, but years earlier she wrote a novel titled “How to Murder Your Husband.” Investigators soon learned Brophy’s work of fiction may have turned into reality. Get the full story on...

A South Carolina man made a devastating discovery when he found his fiancée dead in the living room of her Greer home. Bradley Post said Christina Parcell was surrounded by rose petals, with a strange chemical odor lingering in the house. Parcell, a vet tech at a local animal hospital, had been locked in tension with her ex-husband over their shared child — but investigators uncovered a far darker...

Indiana first responders rushed to the home of Alison and Kevin Davis after a chilling 911 call. Alison said she heard a loud noise while sleeping and found her husband at the bottom of their staircase in a pool of blood. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Sierra Gillespie, presented by Law&Crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First responders rushed to a raging house fire in Illinois and discovered a much more sinister crime scene once they were inside. Law enforcement found Melissa Lamesch, a full-term pregnant woman, dead in her home. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Sierra Gillespie, presented by Law&Crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kali Randall was building a life with her family and expecting her second child, a daughter, when a horrific tragedy tore through her home — her own husband. Find out what happened to Kali Randall and her children on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Law&Crime’s Sierra Gillespie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A 40-year-old woman answered her front door one night and faced a clown. The costumed woman, seemingly friendly, let go of her balloons and opened fire, killing Marlene Warren on her doorstep. Marlene's son told police a clown killed his mom and sped off. The murder went cold for 27 years until advancements in DNA uncovered the killer. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with S...

A chaotic 911 call shattered the air as a woman frantically told police she shot her boyfriend. Officers rush to Audrey Cole’s Ohio home and find Matthew Mott dead from a single gunshot wound. Audrey was charged with murder, but the evidence told another story. Find out what happened in Audrey Cole’s home that night on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Sierra Gillespie. Learn more about your...

Cecilia Rodriguez, 27, endured years of documented abuse at the hands of her boyfriend Juan Antonio Salinas III in Amarillo, Texas. On February 3, 2024, Salinas called 911 claiming she shot herself, but detectives weren't convinced. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Law&Crime’s Sierra Gillespie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kelly-Jien Warner-Miller (known as "K.J."), 42, vanished in spring 2019 after moving in with her boyfriend Wade Allen in Sturgis, Michigan. After a tip led police to Allen's apartment, officers made a horrifying discovery. Get the full story on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Law&Crime’s Sierra Gillespie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emily Schwarz, 22, and her husband Joseph Ferlazzo, 41, traveled to Bolton, Vermont in October 2021 to celebrate their one-year anniversary, but Emily never came home. Joseph shot her twice in the head using a red throw pillow to muffle the gunshots, dismembered her body, and spent days lying to family before a friend called 911. A Vermont jury convicted him of first-degree murder, sentencing him...

Lorenzen Wright, beloved former NBA star and Memphis hometown hero, was shot to death in the early morning hours of July 19, 2010, his body discovered nine days later in a wooded area of southeast Memphis. Find out what happened next on this episode of Crimes of Passion with Sierra Gillespie, presented by Law&Crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nineteen-Year-Old Lea Porter visited a former high school friend, Christopher Waide, at his Westminster, Colorado apartment in June 2014 and was never seen again. When her family grew suspicious, her brother Maxx lured Waide to a park gazebo under the guise of a tarot card reading to find Lea, secretly recording their conversation. Waide initially denied knowing anything but then admitted to stran...

Following the end of their six-month relationship in April 2023, 18-year-old Spencer Pearson began a relentless campaign of stalking and harassment against his ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Madison Schemitz. On June 3, 2023, Pearson tracked Schemitz to Mr. Chubby’s Wings in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where he waited in the parking lot to launch a premeditated ambush — an attack Schemitz would surviv...

A father’s reckless plea for reconciliation masked a sinister plot that turned his own children into unwitting accomplices. Behind a window left open in the dead of night, Trevor Summers transformed a suburban home into a prison, launching a harrowing 55-hour odyssey of obsession and terror. While his 14-year-old daughter was forced to drive her siblings into the darkness, a mother fought to survi...

Neighbors noticed the Zotto house had fallen strangely quiet, though the family car remained parked in the driveway. Amber Zotto's mom hadn't heard from her in days either, which prompted a welfare check. While a chilling note sat on the counter, a frantic search eventually led investigators to the garage, where a heavy plastic bin held a secret that changed everything. Find out what happened next...

A California man was found in a pile of clothes in his own driveway just two weeks after being discharged from the hospital. While Tom Merriman was in the hospital, his stepdaughter Jade Janks went to his house to clean and made a shocking discovery. Merriman apparently had a screensaver on his computer of a photo — a photo Janks believed was her. Find out what happened next on this episode of Cri...

Ali Abulaban was a popular TikToker whose charismatic digital persona masked a disturbing history of domestic control and surveillance. After his estranged wife Ana sought to start a new life, the internal tension between his viral fame and private possessiveness reached a tragic breaking point. The reality of the situation came to light when Ali utilized a hidden listening device to track Ana’s w...

A Minnesota mom vanished without a trace just moments after leaving her two children at a Winona daycare. That same morning, her sister grew alarmed when their normally active text thread went silent in the middle of a conversation. By the following day, police had launched a full search for the 26-year-old mother. What they uncovered would turn a missing-persons case into a chilling mystery. Law&...

A 65-second gap on a recorded 911 line is all it took to change two lives forever. It began with a frantic plea from Heidi Firkus, reporting a home intruder, before the line erupted in gunfire. When the phone was picked up again, it was her husband, Nick Firkus, claiming they had both been shot. While Heidi didn't survive the encounter, Nick walked away with a wound and a description of a mystery...