Clueless Crime

On July 4, 2026, 18-year-old Nolan Wells travelled by boat with friends to Horn Island, Mississippi, to celebrate the Fourth of July. By the end of the night, Nolan was missing, later his body was discovered on the island. What happened during those final hours has remained the subject of intense debate. Nolan’s friends say he chose to stay behind on the island, while his family has questioned tha...

When 17-year-old Mackenzie Cowell failed to come home for dinner one night in February 2010, her family immediately knew something was wrong. Her abandoned car was found miles from home, and four days later, Mackenzie’s body was discovered along the banks of the Columbia River. What followed was a bizarre investigation involving changing stories, questionable leads and a suspect who had been much...

On 11 April 2003, 18-year-old  Rose Howell  set out for what should have been an ordinary trip home from Bellingen on the NSW Mid North Coast. After spending the day designing birthday invitations, hand-delivering them to friends, and talking excitedly about joining a local band, Rose accepted two lifts while hitchhiking. She was dropped just five kilometres from home… and was never seen again. In...

Sasha Samsudean was a 27-year-old graduate student with a bright future ahead of her when she was found murdered inside her Orlando apartment in 2015. What first appeared to be a tragic mystery soon unravelled into a chilling case of obsession, abuse of trust, and the very person hired to keep residents safe. Skip ahead to episode: 06.10 ⁠buymeacoffee.com/cluelesscrime⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

On 3 October 2012, 17-year-old Jake Evans made one of the most chilling 911 calls in true crime history: “I just killed my mom and my sister.” Police arrived at the Evans family home in Aledo, Texas, to find his mother, Jami, and 15-year-old sister, Mallory, fatally shot, while Jake waited outside to surrender. The question was never who committed the crime—it was why. Skip ahead to episode: 11.35...

⁠ In 1986, newlywed nurse Sheri Rasmussen was found brutally murdered inside the Los Angeles townhouse she shared with her husband. Detectives quickly labelled it a botched burglary gone wrong—but Sheri's family never believed the evidence told that story. For more than two decades, they fought to keep her case alive as the truth remained buried in plain sight. In this episode of Clueless Crime, w...

A healthy 31-year-old pregnant mother drinks a cup of tea in her own kitchen. By the end of the day, Rosslyn McQueen and her unborn baby are dead. What first appeared to be a sudden medical tragedy quickly became one of Victoria's most chilling murder investigations when toxicology revealed Rosslyn had been deliberately poisoned with strychnine inside her own home. In this episode, we unravel...

⁠ On a quiet morning in November 2010, 36-year-old Russell "Rusty" Sneiderman was dropping his young son off at preschool in Dunwoody, Georgia, when he was ambushed and shot multiple times in broad daylight. As detectives searched for a motive, the investigation uncovered a shocking web of obsession, deception and betrayal that no one saw coming. Skip ahead to episode: 08.25 buymeacoffee...

In February 1986, 26-year-old nurse Anita Cobby was making her way home from work in Sydney's west when her life was brutally cut short. After getting off the train at Blacktown Station, Anita began the short walk to her parents' home, but she never made it. She was abducted by five men, taken to an isolated paddock at Prospect, and subjected to a prolonged and horrific attack before being...

In September 1988, 20-year-old Janine Balding was making her way home from work in Sydney when an ordinary evening took a horrifying turn. Abducted from Sutherland railway station by a group of young offenders, Janine was subjected to a brutal attack before being murdered and left near a dam at Minchinbury. The shocking nature of the crime — and the young ages of several of those responsible — wou...

On a warm February evening in 1971, 20-year-old Keren Ellen Rowland disappeared after becoming separated from her sister's car while driving through Canberra. Five-and-a-half months pregnant and excited about becoming a mother, Keren's abandoned Mini was later found on Parkes Way. Eleven weeks later, her body was discovered concealed in Fairbairn Pine Plantation. More than 50 years on, her...

In 1978, 22-year-old American backpacker  Barbara Brown  set off to explore Australia—but she never made it home. Last seen hitchhiking through New South Wales, Barbara's disappearance would become one of Australia's most haunting unsolved mysteries. With few clues, conflicting witness accounts, and decades of unanswered questions, her case has left investigators and loved ones searching for the t...

⁠⁠ In April 1989, a wrong-way car crash on a remote stretch of Montana highway would become one of the state's most haunting unsolved disappearances. Patricia Meehan, a 37-year-old ranch hand from Bozeman, was nearly 400 miles from home when her car collided with another vehicle near Circle, Montana. She stepped out of the wreckage, stared silently at the driver she'd hit, then climbed a f...

In October 2011, 24-year-old Louisa Ioannidis was found dead in Darebin Creek in Reservoir, Melbourne. Her death was ruled non-suspicious, and in 2014 a coroner found it "consistent with drowning" — despite her volatile relationship with her partner and no confirmation the creek was ever deep enough to explain it. For over a decade her family refused to accept the finding, and new eviden...

On October 9, 2020, in New Boston, Texas, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was brutally murdered by Taylor Rene Parker, her wedding photographer. Simmons-Hancock was 36 weeks pregnant at the time, and Parker bludgeoned and killed her before cutting her unborn child from her womb in an attempt to pass the baby off as her own. Simmons-Hancock's three-year-old daughter was present in the home b...

In February 2013, Bannockburn mother Lorrin Whitehead vanished without a trace. In less than 24 hours, she went from a routine supermarket trip to completely missing—and over a decade later, her case remains unsolved. Intro Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXDmcyfoREo Skip ahead to episode: 7.10 ⁠buymeacoffee.com/cluelesscrime⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

On a sunny July morning in 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell took her two-year-old son Alex and their dog for a walk through Wimbledon Common. She never came home. What followed was one of Britain's most devastating true crime cases — not just because of the brutal nature of Rachel's murder, but because of the catastrophic police failures that came after. An innocent man publicly destroyed....

On the morning of March 4, 2022, Kouri Richins called 911 to report she had found her husband Eric unresponsive in their bed at their home near Park City, Utah. He was 39 years old, a father of three, and ran a thriving stonemasonry business. Toxicology results would later reveal he had roughly five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. What followed was a grieving widow who published a c...

In August 2003, 26-year-old Harmony Bryant was found barely alive in bushland near Bonny Hills on the NSW Mid North Coast — her body covered in burns, her bones broken, and her car ablaze 200 metres from the road. She spent a month in hospital before passing away on September 19, never able to tell anyone what had happened to her that night. Police initially dismissed her death as a tragic road ac...

On a cold November night in 1996, 16-year-old Alana Cecil left her home in Melton, Victoria, excited to attend the annual Djerriwarrh Bonfire Festival. By sunrise, she was dead — her body discovered in the driveway of a vacant property just streets away from where locals gathered to celebrate. Authorities ruled Alana’s death a heroin overdose, but nearly three decades later, her family still belie...

On a quiet evening in 1994, 16-year-old Gordana Kotevski vanished without a trace from the streets of Newcastle, Australia. What started as a seemingly normal walk home from a shopping trip turned into one of the country's most mysterious cases, leaving family, friends, and the community desperate for answers. Witnesses reported hearing a scream and seeing Gordana forced into a car, but despit...

In this episode, we delve into the chilling and heartbreaking case of Leanne Holland, a 12-year-old girl whose brutal murder in 1991 shocked the small town of Goodna, Queensland, and left the entire nation reeling. Leanne disappeared after leaving home one afternoon, and three days later, her battered body was discovered in the bush. The investigation led to the arrest and conviction of her sister...

In July 2015, mother of five Crystal Rogers disappeared from the quiet town of Bardstown after spending the evening at her boyfriend’s family farm. Her car was later found abandoned on the Bluegrass Parkway with her keys, phone, and purse still inside — but Crystal was nowhere to be found. What initially looked like a missing-person case quickly turned into one of Kentucky’s most unsettling myster...

On the surface, the Falater family lived a quiet, ordinary life in suburban Phoenix. But in January 1997, that normality was shattered when Yarmila Falater was brutally murdered in her own backyard. Her husband, Scott Falater, didn’t deny the attack… but claimed he had no memory of it. His defence? He was sleepwalking. In this episode, we break down the shocking details of Yarmila’s death, the eve...

A young woman found brutally murdered. A crime scene that raised more questions than answers. And a case that still lingers decades later. In this episode, we examine the murder of Penny Hill in New South Wales — a case that shocked the local community when her body was discovered, turning what should have been an ordinary day into the beginning of a chilling investigation. Penny was found dead un...