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In the early morning hours of October 15, 2023, Youngstown police responded to a call about a domestic fight: two sisters, arguing. What they found when they arrived at the scene was far more serious. It was clear that what had occurred was no accident. Investigators would find out much later, that the bu ild-up to this tragic death, was also far more complicated than it initially appeared.

On the morning of January 3rd, 2024 mother-of-four Kayla Atwood dropped her two youngest children at their daycare. She never returned to collect them. The investigation into her disappearance began by tracing her last known movements and interactions; at the daycare, with neighbours, and catching a ride from a new friend. As the pieces began to fall into place, all signs pointed to just one suspe...

In the Autumn of 2023, news of a horrific murder rocked the city of Baltimore. A young and talented entrepreneur, one the of the city’s rising stars, was found brutally attacked and killed on the rooftop of her office building. Pava LaPere had many friends and no known enemies. Investigators began by speaking with those who knew her best. Then, they retraced her steps, and piece by piece they fill...

True Crime Documentary, the murder of Pastor Brodes PerryIn the Spring of 2019. Pastor Brodes Perry was gunned down in the threshold of his apartment in Collierville, Tennessee. The neighbourhood, his congregation and his wife were left dumbfounded. That a man of faith who dedicated his life’s work to the church had been targeted was both shocking and confusing. Slowly, the pieces began to fall in...

In the Autumn of 2025, a young English musician unexpectedly boarded a plane from London Heathrow to Gainesville, Florida. Two days later, she missed her flight home. The horror that befell Sonia Exelby was both shocking and tragically predictable; the strange truth finally revealed through her secret messages; plans that developed in the shadows and the darkest corners online. Connect with us:You...

Just two days before his 55th birthday, Leroy Fowler fell dangerously ill. His symptoms had been on-and-off for weeks. They did not seem to align with any condition that he could pinpoint and by mid-November 2022 they were only worsening. On the morning of November 11th, the bizarre symptoms came to a head. Leroy was incoherent and unable to stand. His long-term girlfriend, Judy, called for an amb...

True Crime Documentary, murders of Savanah Soto and Matthew GuerraOver the Christmas holiday in 2023 two families in Bexar County, Texas were experiencing a living nightmare. 18 year-old Savanah Soto, nine months pregnant with a little boy, and her boyfriend, Matthew Guerra, were missing. No one wanted to believe that the worst had happened, until they had no choice but to face the horrific truth....

The annual Daytona Beach "Bike Week" is a ten day event full of motorsports, beaches, food and drink. Main Street turns into a late-night party. Locals mingle with the many tourists to let-loose and have a good time. In 2022, however, the fun-in-the-sun of Bike Week festivities was marred in darkness. What first appeared to be a tragic and fatal accident was quickly determined to be a ma...

On a frigid night in December 2022, 34 year-old Leila Duarte DaLuz left her house in the middle of the night in the company of a man she trusted. Leila was two months pregnant and wore a newly purchased engagement ring on her finger. When she got into the vehicle at 2:30AM, she would have known they were not alone. Her fiancé was with a friend … one with a sordid history. It was the last time Leil...

17 year-old Trinity Bostic was not the sort of teenager one would expect to run away from home. But in the summer of 2024, that is exactly what she did. Her decision caught everyone, friends and family alike, by surprise. Concern turned to panic as the days wore on. Her cellphone went off the network. For a few days, Trinity seemed to have disappeared into the new life she had sought. There was on...

In the early morning hours of September 17th, 2022 14 year-old Lyric Woods quietly snuck from her house and out onto the street; her parents asleep inside, blissfully unaware of the teenager’s secret plans. The next morning, Lyric was not in her bed. She never returned home. By mid-afternoon, ATV drivers on a rural track near the County line made a horrific discovery: Two teenagers, deceased from...

It was almost midnight on an otherwise quiet night in late August, when a woman’s cries for help rang out across Malicoat Road in North Port, Florida. By the time neighbours awoke and took a look outside she was gone; compelled off the street and back into her home by her killer. Police arrived to catch the suspect in flight but it was, unfortunately, far too late for two of the street’s most popu...

On a Saturday morning in Ocala, Florida a Sheriff’s Deputy performing a welfare check made a horrific discovery. Tim Smith was found brutally murdered in what appeared to be a kinky rendezvous gone-wrong. Fingerprints and DNA at the scene pointed towards individuals with a criminal past. But not everything in the apartment, or in Tim’s life, was adding up. Questions began to arise about whether Ti...

On a sunny Friday afternoon in Pensacola, Florida gunshots rang out inside of a Home Depot. Confused shoppers looked-on as the shooter ran from the store. Brooklyn Sims was found dead in aisle 52. In the chaos of the aftermath, one woman, Sheila Agee, emerged with a close link to the victim. Her son, a man that matched the killer's description, was the father of Brooklyn's child. And that...

23 year-old Kayla Hodgson worked as a “Bottle Girl.” Late at night in the clubs while the music was blasting and the drinks were flowing she received a lot of attention. Though Kayla may have been popular with the men at club, that was not always the case with other women. In the early morning hours of July 13th, 2022 - after months of stewing - one woman’s jealousy towards Kayla finally boiled ov...

In early June, 2022, Harper Woods PD received an emergency call from a woman who was being held hostage. When officers arrived, they found a street in chaos. Another victim, knife still in her back, had escaped the brutal attack yet was unable to tell them which house she had run from… Smoke billowed from a house across the street. Further chaos ensued. When the flames were finally extinguished an...

The discovery police made inside an apartment in Englewood Colorado in the Spring of 2023 was said to be the most gruesome they had encountered in decades. The disturbing scene was the starting point of an investigation that would uncover a horrific attack, a gruesome attempt at a cover-up and an extremely unsettling motive. Connect with us:YouTube Membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzhY...

There were a handful people who knew about a suitcase that had been abandoned on a desolate farm in rural Wisconsin. They spoke about it, at first, only amongst themselves. They agreed that it must be child’s body that was stuffed inside. Months passed before the remains were recovered. Though it would take years for the story behind them to come to light…Connect with us:YouTube Membership: https:...

In early February 2025, Sheriff's deputies in Galveston County, Texas were called to family home in Bacliff. The house had been barricaded and its residents, a grandmother and her grand-daughter hadn’t been heard from in days. There was no response from inside. A friend of the family, in desperation, began breaking windows to get inside. Once he had done so, the man made a horrific discovery. What...

On a summer morning in 2023, Johnathan Willette was found by his mother, decapitated, in his bedroom. The father of three had been hard-working, reliable and friendly. But behind his easy-going demeanour and smiling selfies was a man with a family in chaos. John had been betrayed by his adult son and mother of his daughters. In the aftermath of his gruesome death, their secrets would come to light...

In September 2022 the remains of 44 year-old Stephanie Pavlons were discovered by construction workers in a wooded area next to a busy medical centre, in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Her remains had gone undetected for weeks. By the time the discovery was made, it was impossible to determine how Stephanie had died. Investigators could only speculate as to how she had even gotten there; hidden in plain sig...

Christopher Johnson was home alone in his 2-bedroom apartment for 6.5 hours on the evening of August 21st, 1998 before he discovered his fiancé, Andrea, brutally murdered inside their bedroom closet. It was a story that for many was hard to fathom. There should have been red flags all over their home: signs that something had happened, voicemails from friends, missing items. But Chris Johnson miss...

In March 2019, 32 year-old Leon Harrison Jr. was reported missing to police in Georgetown, South Carolina. The mother of his children told police that Leon called the house at bedtime every night but had not done so in days. Rumours began circulating; every conflict in the young father's life examined. Then, after his body was discovered floating down the Black River, questions arose over just...

The last message that Zion Foster sent before she disappeared said that she was on her way home. The teenager told her mother and boyfriend that she was going out that night with her favourite cousin, Jaylin Brazier; something that she did at least twice a month. But when her mother sought him out for help finding her the next day, the cousin delivered some surprising news: That he had not seen or...

In the Autumn of 2019 a homeless woman in Anchorage, Alaska stole a stranger’s cellphone for a bit of cash. When she saw what was saved on the device it gave her the shock of her life. She had stumbled across videos and images of a brutal and sadistic murder. This discovery sparked an investigation that would unravel the secrets of a double life, reveal the truth behind an illicit affair, uncover...