True Crime 24 Hours

In December 1968, two teenagers were shot and killed on Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California, in the first confirmed attack attributed to the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified assailant who went on to murder at least four more people across the San Francisco Bay Area and taunt investigators with coded letters and ciphers for decades. The Zodiac named himself in print, claimed a victim count that w...

In 1985, Richard Ramirez terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco, attacking strangers in their homes at night and leaving investigators struggling to connect crimes scattered across multiple jurisdictions. Convicted of 13 murders in 1989, Ramirez died on death row in 2013, but questions about additional attacks examined in other states were never formally resolved, and not all scenes received ful...

Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Wichita, Kansas, taunting police for years under the name BTK before going silent for over a decade. The case remained unsolved for thirty-one years until a floppy disk Rader sent to a local television station in February 2005 carried metadata linking him directly to Christ Lutheran Church, where he served as congregation president. Invest...

In December 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest disappeared after stepping outside a Des Plaines, Illinois pharmacy to speak with a contractor named John Wayne Gacy. What investigators found beneath the floor of Gacy's home in Norwood Park Township led to the conviction of one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, with 33 confirmed victims. Decades later, one victim still has no...

In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested at his Milwaukee apartment after seventeen men and boys were killed there over more than a decade, their remains hidden inside ordinary furniture and appliances. The case raised unresolved questions about whether repeated prior police contacts, including the return of a drugged fourteen-year-old boy to Dahmer's door, could have prevented specific later killings...

Beginning in 1974 and continuing across at least seven states, Ted Bundy abducted and murdered dozens of young women while moving freely through campuses and communities, exploiting his intelligence and social charm to evade suspicion for years. Convicted and executed in 1989, Bundy claimed more than 30 victims, but investigators have never confirmed a final count, and some remains linked to his m...

Madeline Soto turned thirteen on a Thursday in February 2024, and had her birthday party that Sunday at her grandmother's house. Every morning she texted her closest friend, who woke up to the messages waiting. On Monday nothing came. That afternoon her mother stood outside Hunter's Creek Middle School and Maddie never walked out. The man who said he had dropped her off had stopped at a dumpster i...

Months before her due date, Dina went looking for someone who could care for a newborn and a recovering mother as one job. She found a referral on RedNote, called the number, and a woman told her she had used this nanny herself. Baby H was born five days before the period prosecutors would later put in a charging document. Her parents had told the nanny that their baby monitor was not saving recor...

At sixteen, Manohara Odelia Pinot traveled to Malaysia to meet a prince's parents. During the visit she was told she would be marrying their son that month. She laughed - she thought it was a joke. The invitations, she was told, had already gone out. She went through with the ceremony on one promise: that afterward she could go home to Jakarta. Nine months later, in a restaurant in Singapore, she...

For years, Desirrê Freitas paid a spiritual adviser she had found on Instagram to talk through her relationship and her life. In April 2022 the adviser said she was in crisis and needed her. Desirrê flew from Germany to a house outside Austin to help. Within weeks her passport was in a safe and a bill was waiting: the flight, the room, the furniture, and the witchcraft she had been told was protec...

His parents had one rule about the bedroom door: it stayed open. Early in 2018, a thirteen-year-old boy in Goodyear, Arizona quietly stopped leaving it that way, and his stepmother put an app on his phone that watched for certain words. One of them was baby. The account sending those messages belonged to his sixth grade teacher, Brittany Zamora. What his parents did not know that night was that ot...

In July 2023, a twelve-year-old boy sleeping on concrete outside a house in Ivins, Utah, arranged small stones beside him into a message for his mother: Jail. I will call when I get there. His mother was Ruby Franke, who had spent years showing nearly two and a half million subscribers how she raised her six children. That attempt failed, and the women made the next one harder. Weeks later he went...

In 2003, a television host asked Barbie Hsu and her younger sister Dee to imagine themselves at fifty. Dee joked that she would rather be rich and lazy. Barbie said two or three children, and then their children too. She was still in her twenties, and her sister was sitting beside her answering the same questions. Twenty-two years later that interview came back into circulation, and Dee was the on...

Victoria Martens did gymnastics on her grandparents' lawn, and purple was her favorite color - the one everyone wore to her memorial. On the afternoon of August 23, 2016, the adult who was supposed to meet the ten-year-old at her school bus stop never came, and Victoria made her own way home to an apartment in Albuquerque. Within two years, the state would publicly take apart almost everything it...

In 2014, Christy Harris froze more than fifty bags of breast milk for her four-month-old daughter and wrote the date on every one. That September she was found dead in her bed, and the autopsy called it an accidental heroin overdose. Her family had never known her to use heroin — and Christy had already told a co-worker that if she ever turned up dead, they should look at her husband. Seven years...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensi...