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In the summer of 1969, a fringe commune led by ex-convict Charles Manson unleashed a wave of brutality that stunned the nation and marked the violent end of the 1960s counterculture. In today's second Cults & Cons episode, Vanessa Richardson traces Manson’s path from a troubled childhood to the creation of his devoted “Family,” revealing how he manipulated vulnerable followers with drugs, apoc...

In 2009, a Colorado family claimed their six year-old son had floated away inside a homemade flying saucer. As helicopters tracked the balloon live on national television, the country braced for tragedy, until the story began to fall apart. In today's first Cults & Cons episode, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien revisit the Balloon Boy hoax, a crime that turned panic into spectacle and expos...

In the gripping conclusion of today's Justice Served series, Carter Roy follows the intense investigation that led authorities from scattered surveillance footage and a single DNA trace on a knife sheath to an unexpected suspect: criminology PhD student Bryan Kohberger. Carter breaks down how digital forensics, cell-phone data, and genetic genealogy converged to identify the killer... and how fami...

In November 2022, four University of Idaho students – Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin – returned home from a night out in their small college town, unaware that a killer was already watching. In today's emotional first episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy introduces the vibrant young lives at the heart of the tragedy and follows their final hours inside the now-in...

Check out today's second Throwback Thursday epsiode as Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels finish the deep dive into17-year-old William Heirens. When Heirens was caught breaking into an apartment, police believed they had finally captured the infamous "Lipstick Killer." Heirens confessed to the brutal murders of two women and a young girl, but his controversial confession and questionable po...

In today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engel being their deep dive into the "Lipstick Killer," who was known for the haunting message he left at one of his crime scenes, teenage serial killer William Heirens struck fear into the city of Chicago during the 1940s. Despite a troubled childhood, no one suspected Heirens of being a ruthless murderer, making his...

A brilliant intelligence analyst is found dead inside a locked sports bag in his London apartment: no signs of forced entry, no clear cause of death, and a trail of secrets left behind. Officially ruled an accident, the case quickly sparks global controversy. Was this a tragic mistake, a dangerous private life gone wrong, or an expertly executed assassination? In today's second episode of Conspira...

In the 1950s and 60s, at the height of the Cold War, the CIA launched a secret program called Operation Midnight Climax as part of its notorious MKUltra mind-control research. Operating out of safehouses in San Francisco and New York, agents used sex workers to lure unwitting men, then dosed them with LSD without their knowledge and observed the results through one-way mirrors. The goal was to stu...

In today's second Unsolved Tuesdays episode, Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole cover the case of Jennifer Kesse, who disappeared from her Orlando condo complex in January 2006, leaving behind a locked apartment and no sign of struggle. Surveillance footage showed an unknown person abandoning her car, but the suspect's face was obscured at every frame. Her disappearance remains one of Florida's mos...

When 24-year-old intern Chandra Levy disappeared in Washington, D.C., her name became front-page news...and the truth got buried beneath the scandal. Congressman Gary Condit's silence fueled the media frenzy, but it was the evidence that told the real story. In today's first Unsolved Tuesdays episode, Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore unravel the flawed investigation, the discovery that changed every...

Aileen Wuornos was dubbed America’s first female serial killer...and she wanted the world to remember her name. In today's second Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels follow her journey from captured killer to death row inmate, exploring her obsession with legacy and her volatile final days. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out the Crime Hous...

Before she became one of America’s most infamous female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos was a teenage runaway, a survivor of abuse, and a girl the system failed. In today's first Killer of the Week Episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels trace her early life: from abandonment and trauma to the desperate path that would lead her to murder. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to...

In the fourth and final episode of Campus Crimes, Vanessa Richardson examines the 2003 murder of Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who was shot and killed by his own teammate...but the crime that followed may have been even colder. Head coach Dave Bliss, facing exposure for recruiting violations, launched a calculated scheme to brand Dennehy a drug dealer after his death, recorded in his o...

In 1993, a cult outside Waco, Texas went to war with the U.S. government. Seventy-six people, including 25 children, didn’t survive. In today's second episode of Cults and Cons, Vanessa Richardson unravels the terrifying rise of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians...and how belief in a coming apocalypse turned deadly. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out the Crime House Or...

He stole trucks. He stole cattle. He stole a plane. And every time he was arrested, he seemed to walk free. Joshua Paul Calhoun, known as the Texas Superthief, turned small-town chaos into a years-long game of cat and mouse with law enforcement. In today's first episode of Cults and Cons, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien unpack one of the wildest crime sprees in Texas history. And for more case...

After suspicion fell on Shrien Dewani in the murder of his wife, Anni, the case quickly expanded into an international legal battle over whether he would be extradited to South Africa to stand trial. As prosecutors worked to build their case, the question of what truly happened on the couple’s honeymoon became even more contested. In today's second episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy examines th...

In 2010, newlyweds Anni and Shrien Dewani arrived in Cape Town for what was meant to be a luxury honeymoon, but within days, Anni was found shot to death in a hijacked taxi in a crime that quickly made international headlines. What initially appeared to be a tragic robbery soon took a darker turn as investigators uncovered signs that the attack may have been planned. On today's first episode of Ju...

On today's second Throwback Thursday, Carter Roy concludes the case of the Burger Chef murders, when four young employees were kidnapped and murdered at the Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. The investigation was at a dead end until 1984, when a convict named Donald Wayne Forrester confessed to the murders…but the case was far from closed. And for more cases just like this one, be sure...

On today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy goes back to November 1978, when four young employees were finishing a late shift at the Burger Chef fast food restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. Later that night, they disappeared… and were later found dead on the outskirts of town. The police had no idea who murdered them — or why. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out t...

In today's second episode of Conspiracies and & the Unknown, Carter Roy investigates the mysterious death of journalist Danny Casolaro, who was found dead in a West Virginia hotel room in 1991 just as he claimed to be on the verge of exposing a vast global conspiracy he called “the Octopus.” Danny believed powerful government officials, intelligence agencies, and criminal networks were secretl...

In 1997, thousands across Arizona reported seeing strange lights in the night sky. The military called them flares. But some witnesses, including pilots, doctors, and the state’s own governor, say it was something far more mysterious. In today's first episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Vanessa Richardson explores the Phoenix Lights, one of the largest UFO sightings in U.S. history. And for...

On today's second Unsolved Tuesday episode, Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole cover the disappearance of four-year-old Nyleen Marshall, who vanished during a family picnic in Montana's Helena National Forest in 1983. At first, authorities believed she had wandered into the wilderness. Later, children reported seeing a strange man speaking with her moments before she disappeared. Years afterward, a...

A mother makes a difficult choice. When Latice Sutton learned her daughter had been arrested, she believed she’d be safest spending the night in custody. But just after midnight, Mitrice Richardson was released — without a phone, without transportation, and without anyone notified. Hours later, a homeowner spotted her six miles away in the dark hills of Malibu Canyon. Then she was gone. In today's...

For years, the Golden State Killer haunted California—and then simply vanished. But he wasn't gone. He was hiding in plain sight. In today's second Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels follow the decades-long investigation that finally unmasked Joseph James DeAngelo, the DNA that cracked the case, and the shocking moment he was brought to justice. And for more case...

Burglary. Stalking. Rape. Murder. Before the world knew him as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo instilled fear across California. In today's first Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels explore his dark past, twisted relationships, and how his obsession with control escalated into cold-blooded murder. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to ch...