Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the disappearance of Jilly Todaro is examined after she vanished from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, following a domestic violence incident involving her boyfriend, Brian Giles. Investigators found that her phone went inactive, her EBT card was no longer used, and suspicious evidence was discovered inside the couple’s apartment. The case also became conn...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the investigation surrounding 417 West Chew Avenue and Raymond Horsch is examined. Authorities are reviewing hundreds of thousands of digital files, photographs, and videos while trying to identify women connected to the home. The case includes missing women, evidence investigators believe may show deaths, and claims made by Raymond throughout his...

In Part 2 of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the investigation into Ayla Reynolds continues as authorities examine extensive blood evidence found inside the home. The evidence leads investigators to believe Ayla is no longer alive, while searches continue and the case remains unresolved. Years later, Ayla is declared legally dead, and her family files a wrongful-death civil suit against people conn...

In Part 1 of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds is examined. After her parents’ custody situation changes, Ayla is placed in her father Justin’s care despite concerns from her family. She suffers several injuries while in his custody before disappearing from his home in December 2011. The investigation raises questions about the people inside the house,...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the disappearance and death of 30-year-old Eric Haider is examined. What begins as a missing-person case after Eric fails to return from a job site raises questions about the crew’s account of what happened. Eric had been sent into a trench before it was backfilled, and his phone continued to ping from the site. Three years later, his remains were...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the disappearance of 25-year-old Chance Englebert is examined. What starts with an argument involving family members quickly becomes a missing-person case filled with unanswered questions. Chance was seen walking through Gering, Nebraska, before his phone later pinged near a truck stop. Extensive searches involving multiple agencies, dogs, drones,...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, Part 2 follows the investigation, trials, and lasting impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder. Evidence connects Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson to the attack, including Matthew’s belongings, blood inside their truck, and their own statements. After Matthew dies from his injuries, Henderson accepts two life sentences while McKinney goes to trial an...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, Part 1 follows the life of Matthew Shepard and the events leading to his 1998 attack in Laramie, Wyoming. After years of travel, personal struggles, and recovering from earlier trauma, Matthew goes alone to the Fireside Lounge on October 6. The following evening, a cyclist discovers him badly injured and tied to a fence outside town. As Matthew fig...

In Part 2 of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the Brandon Embry investigation continues as his mother, Sarah, examines the people and evidence surrounding his final days. What starts with conflicting accounts from Cassandra and Olivia quickly expands to missing phone data, a vanished spare key, questions about police handling, blood and other evidence found in Brandon’s truck and apartment, and reco...

In Part 1 of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 2019 death of 33-year-old Brandon Embry in Asheboro, North Carolina is examined. What starts with Brandon returning from a work trip and suddenly becoming ill quickly turns into a disturbing scene when he is found critically injured inside his locked apartment after days of missed calls. Hospital testing finds no illicit drugs, and medical staff say...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 2017 murder of 19-year-old David Josiah Lawson is examined. What starts with an off-campus party in Arcata, California quickly becomes a chaotic fight over a missing phone and DJ being fatally stabbed. The investigation focuses on conflicting witness accounts, an early arrest that did not lead to prosecution, a grand jury decision, and major pr...

In this episode, the disappearance of Julie Mott’s body becomes the focus after her family says goodbye at a San Antonio funeral home. What starts with Julie’s death from complications of cystic fibrosis and her wish to be cremated quickly becomes an unexplained disappearance from an empty casket. The investigation examines funeral-home security, employees and outside workers with access, Julie’s...

In Part 2, the investigation into Sherrice Iverson’s murder turns to the confessions, evidence, and legal fallout surrounding Jeremy Strohmeyer and David Cash. The episode examines what Cash said he witnessed, why he was not charged, Strohmeyer’s plea and life sentences, public outrage, and later attempts to appeal. It also follows the debate over a legal duty to report violence against children a...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, Part 1 follows the 1997 murder of seven-year-old Sherrice Iverson during a late-night casino trip in Primm, Nevada. What starts with Sherrice repeatedly being found alone while her father gambles quickly becomes a frantic search after she disappears from the arcade. Surveillance footage captures two teenage boys near the restroom shortly before she...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 2014 murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond remain one of Georgia’s most puzzling unsolved crimes. What starts with the elderly couple missing a Kentucky Derby watch party quickly becomes Russell found dead in their garage and Shirley discovered days later in Lake Oconee. With no forced entry, no clear motive, missing evidence, and few usable c...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 2006 death of 34-year-old Shawn O’Brien raises questions that remain unanswered. What starts with Shawn being found unconscious in a pool of blood in his basement apartment quickly becomes conflicting accounts, earlier threats, delayed police action, and evidence of serious head injuries. An autopsy finds a skull fracture and blunt-force trauma...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 1999 murders of three employees at a Tucson Pizza Hut become a case with a clear answer but no clear motive. What starts with a restaurant found silent after closing quickly becomes a confession from 19-year-old Prasert Pong, evidence linking him and 17-year-old Christopher Hurst to the scene, and two young suspects blaming each other. The stor...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 2011 disappearance and murder of 17-year-old Blake Chappell remains unsolved. What starts with homecoming, a late-night visit to his girlfriend, and a walk back to a friend's house quickly becomes an unexplained police stop with no official record, earlier violence involving an ex-girlfriend's stepfather, and weeks without answers. Two months l...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danielle Hallan, Part 2 examines Raymond Horsch’s disturbing work and the growing number of women connected to the house. What starts with violent films, staged death imagery, writings about dissolving bodies, and Amy McHale’s disappearance quickly becomes sewer excavation and a search for evidence of chemical disposal. Investigators then begin reviewing 600,000 i...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, Part 1 follows how a random encounter in Philadelphia leads police to 417 West Chew Avenue. What starts with a woman using missing person Blair Tonzelli’s identity, drugs, loaded guns, fake federal badges, and Eugene Horsch’s arrest quickly becomes Blair’s disappearance and her ties to Eugene’s father, Raymond. A weeks-long search of the boarded-up...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 2019 murder of a beloved Kansas restaurant owner remains unsolved years later. What starts with an unusual morning phone call, conversations about funeral plans, and a normal day at his restaurant quickly becomes a fatal shooting outside the business after closing. Police initially considered robbery, but his deposit bag, watch, and jewelry wer...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the disappearance of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar on her way to school becomes a murder investigation without a body. What starts with a missed bus, a phone found in a field, and her bag containing the clothes she wore that morning quickly becomes DNA evidence linking a local man, surveillance placing him in the area, evidence recovered from his Volksw...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the 1932 kidnapping of 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr. becomes one of the most famous criminal cases in American history. What starts with a child missing from his nursery, a handmade ladder, and a $50,000 ransom note quickly becomes 13 ransom messages, meetings with the mysterious “Cemetery John,” a failed payment exchange, the discovery of Cha...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, the murder of 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind begins with an eight-month pregnant woman leaving her apartment to help a neighbor with a sewing project. What starts as a sudden disappearance becomes repeated police searches, a newborn found inside the neighbors’ apartment, conflicting stories from Brooke Crews and William Hoehn, and the disc...

In this episode of Crime Bit with Danelle Hallan, Part 2 looks at the investigation after Sean Daugherty’s death was ruled self-inflicted. What starts with the family questioning the scene, the clothing, the house, the timing, and the lack of early media coverage quickly becomes neighbor interviews, surveillance questions, forensic testing, official statements from the sheriff’s office, conflictin...