True Crime Mania

Midsi Sanchez was on her way to her 8th birthday party when she was kidnapped by Curtis Dean Anderson, who killed 13 other girls, in August 2000. Anderson asked little Midsi for help reaching into his car, so he grabbed her and held her captive for two days, sexually assaulting her... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is not a single crime, but 28 murders: Twenty-eight people, men, women and children shot in a series of hold-ups and robberies in Belgium. These people were killed by a gang that was never identified: the Brabant Mad Killers. Who were these killers? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Blair Witch Project is about three film students who set out to investigate the legend of a witch who has haunted the Black Hills forest for centuries. Everything leads us to believe that the film is a decoy and that the events took place exactly as they did on the big screen! But beyond the urban legend, what is really going on? Where does the fiction end and the real story begin, the one rar...

Franklin Delano Floyd is an American murderer, rapist and death row inmate. He was convicted of murder and child abduction. Incidentally, his wife was kidnapped by Floyd at a young age... It's a chilling crime story. So if you have an uncomfortable fascination with criminal minds, this story is for you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

His name was John Joubert and he was a master of deception. Joubert rose to the highest rank in the BSA, before becoming assistant chief scout. No one knew how dangerous he was until the bodies of three young boys were discovered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 25 January 1998, American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan mysteriously disappeared while on a scuba diving trip off the coast of Australia. A month later, two wetsuits and a disturbing message appeared off a Queensland beach: Forgotten at sea? Eaten by sharks? What really happened to the Lonergans? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On July 18, 1984, Denise Morelle, a famous Quebec actress, was found raped and brutally murdered in a flat. For her family, her stage friends and her fans, the death of "Dame Plume" caused deep consternation. For who could have been so angry at this simple, respectful woman as to subject her to such abuse and kill her with such barbarity? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information...

On 28 May 1934, on a small farm in Canada, Elzire Dionne beat the odds to give birth to five identical girls. They are the first recorded quintuplets in the world to survive infancy. The girls became wards of the state, housed in a nursery that eventually turned into Quintland, a tourist attraction for visitors from around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 6 April 2017 in Durrenbach, a small town near Strasbourg, a horrifying tragedy shook the surrounding tranquillity. Beatrice Bowe, a 60-year-old pensioner, was found in her house, stabbed with thirty-six stabs and her face torn off. Who could blame the woman that everyone so affectionately called "Granny Football"? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Murders, suicides, settling of scores, revenge, creaking doors, black water running from the taps, corpses hidden under the floor...but what is the curse that pursues the Cecil Hotel, a place that has everything to impress! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chloe Ayling is a young English model. At just twenty years old, she has several magazine covers to her credit. However, everything changed on 10 July 2017, when she was invited to take part in a photo shoot in a Milanese studio. Drugged, handcuffed, thrown into the trunk of a car, the nightmare begins for Chloe when she learns that auctions are underway for her sale on the dark web to a powerful...

Billy Milligan is a suspect like no other. He is under arrest for the kidnapping and repeated rape of three young girls he kidnapped. On closer inspection, the twenty-three year old accused may look like any other young man of his age. However, after thorough psychological examinations, it turns out that Billy Milligan is not the person they thought he was. For in reality, there is not just one Bi...

Between 1983 and 1996, the department of Isère experienced one of its darkest periods when children between the ages of five and fifteen began to disappear mysteriously. Some were found murdered while others were never found. Who is behind the disappearance of the children? A serial killer, a dangerous sexual predator? Are they one, two or more individuals? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

On 9 February 1949, on a cold windy day, a corpse floating in a wicker trunk was discovered in the Puits d'Enfer chasm in Les Sables-d'Olonne. Only one element makes it possible to identify the victim, the initials "R.T." sewn into his suit. Two culprits are in the police's sights: Andree Farre, a housekeeper, and her lover Roland Plannet, a young idler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

It is Monday, March 20, 1995, and many commuters on the underground lines in the outskirts of Tokyo are waiting for their train to go to work. Suddenly, disaster strikes! An unbearable smell invades the carriages, the passengers feel increasingly ill and struggle to breathe. That day, five underground lines were hit by a deadly sarin gas attack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Michel Peiry, or "The Sadist of Romont", is a Swiss serial killer whose crimes were committed between 1981 and 1987. All that is known about him is that he handpicks his victims: teenage boys hitchhiking home at night, whom he picks up in his vehicle before gagging, raping and burning them alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1960s, mysterious child abductions and murders were making headlines. Between July 1963 and October 1965, five children and teenagers were horribly raped and mutilated and their remains buried on Saddleworth Moor. The long investigation led by the Manchester Police Department will gradually shed light on two immoral and demonic personalities: Myra Hindley is a charming blonde, and her...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the American pilot Charles Lindbergh became famous for his famous 33-hour flight from New York to Paris in his Spirit of Saint Louis monoplane. But at the height of his professional career, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrrow were faced with an unprecedented tragedy: on 1 March 1932, Chaz, their twenty-month-old baby, disappeared under mysterious circu...

On 20 April 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, two teenagers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, opened fire on their fellow students at Columbine High School. The two boys, armed with a veritable arsenal of weapons, fired for fifty minutes non-stop at students and teachers..., before the killing spree ended with the suicide of the two friends! The questions then arise: why did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold...

Leonarda Cianciulli was born in 1893 and died in 1970. She is widely considered to be the Correggio's soapmaid. In case you don't know her, let me tell you that she killed three women in Reggio Emilia. These incidents occurred from 1939 to 1940, and the worst part is that she turned their corpses into cakes and soap. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elizabeth wettlaufer is an ex-nurse...a serial killer in a white coat. No one would have suspected that this pleasant, plump lady in her fifties from Ontario would commit crimes of such cruelty and with such methodical coolness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 1987 and 1990, a series of rapes by an elusive assailant shook the peace of mind of the residents of the Canadian city of Toronto. "The Scarborough Rapist, as he was dubbed in the media, always drugged and sedated them before sexually assaulting them. The rapist always worked in tandem with his wife and accomplice who acted as a flirt. This couple is Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka! No one...

Annaliese Michel, a twenty-three year old German woman, spent long periods of time in various clinics in the late sixties. And Anneliese never knew what she was really suffering from! Convinced that their daughter is possessed, her parents call in two exorcising priests to get rid of the possible entity that seems to have haunted her. But things don't go as planned: her condition deteriorates rapi...

In the early 1980s, Singapore experienced its darkest and most difficult times. It was in this context that the terrible crimes of the Toa Payoh district took place, in which two young children were kidnapped, tortured and then murdered in sordid and horrible conditions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between October 1994 and March 1997, 74 people died: burnt in fires and placed in circles in cottages. Order of the Solar Temple remains, to this day, one of the biggest sectarian aberrations of the end of the 20th century. Who is really behind the glossy façade of the two emblematic gurus, Jo Di Mambro and Luc Jouret? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.