MurderCast

October 11th, 2016. Zambia, South Africa. Dr. Larry Rudolf and his wife Bianca began packing up their belongings for their return flight to the United States later that day. The couple had just finished a hunting trip where Bianca had hoped to kill a leopard. Unfortunately Bianca did not get to shoot her leopard. No trophy to behead and mount on the wall as a momento. But there would be a killing...

A Murdercast exclusive! On September 21, 1950, Marjorie O'Rourke left for a trip to the grocery store but did not return, abandoning her three children and husband. For decades her son Robert tried finding her to reconnect with his mother, even hiring private investigators, but to no avail. After a chance meeting with a genealogist, Robert's son, who is carrying on the search for his grandmother,...

Just before 9 PM on Feb 21, 1977, firefighters are dispatched to 2740 N. Pinegrove, in Chicago, Illinois. A woman's body, a hospital worker named Teresita Basa, is found stabbed and burned inside her apartment. The case goes cold. But six months later, a doctor claims that the spirit of the murdered woman possessed his wife on several occasions, seeking justice and naming her killer. Did the ghost...

Bay Village, Ohio. An affluent beach-front area on the shores of Lake Erie, located on the West Side of Cleveland. It is in this insulated neighborhood where Amy Mihaljevic was kidnapped and murdered after being lured to meet a stranger who called her family's home, apparently knowing all of their personal details. Will DNA technology catch up with this killer to offer justice for Amy?

Charles Morgan June, 1977. Somewhere in a remote area of Tucson, AZ. A brand new Mercury Cougar slowly drives down State Route 86. It is almost pitch dark and the driver turns on the dome light to check the hand-written directions. He tunes the CB radio to channel 19, waiting for communication. Pulling off the highway in the San Juan Springs area, he stops the car. This is the place. In the trunk...

Colonel Philip Shue April 16, 2003. Bernie, TX. A maroon car speeding along interstate 10 suddenly begins to drive erratically, spinning out of control, finally coming to a stop after hitting a tree. The victim, 54 year-old Airforce Colonel & Psychiatrist Philip Michael Shue is dead. He had left two-and-a-half hours earlier for work, but never arrived. His death and the subsequent investigation wo...

Kenny Veach In the wee hours of Nov. 10, 2014, a lone hiker arrives on the Nevada side of the Mojave desert, a vast expanse encompassing almost fifty thousand miles of desolate, arid landscape. To the north-west, lies Death Valley, Nellis Air Force Base, and the top-secret Area 51, where covert government experiments are carried out and rumors of alien-technology research abound. Locking his car,...

Angie Hammond In 1990, nineteen-year-old Angela Marie Hammond was making her way through life in Clinton, Missouri. But this seemingly idyllic rural town would become the setting for one of the most horrific crimes the city had ever seen.

Adrienne Salinas Father’s Day, June 15th, 2013. Nineteen-year-old college student Adrienne Salinas vanishes only blocks from her apartment in Tempe, AZ. A few months later, a shocking discovery is made. Was Adrienne the victim of the Canal Killer? Or was someone closer to her involved in her disappearance?

Victoria Cilliers Wiltshire, England. Easter Sunday, 2015. A holiday observed by Christians, celebrating the resurrection of Christ, three days after his death on the cross. Victoria Cilliers, a 42-year-old army Physio-therapist and mother of two, waits for the signal to jump. Victoria is given the thumbs up. She can’t help but smile, feeling the excitement of the adrenaline rush to come. Victoria...

Fayetteville, NC Summer, 2002. Fayetteville, North Carolina. As one of the country’s earliest settlements, Fayetteville with a  population of just over 200 thousand, has received the All-American City Award three times. The state lies on the eastern coast of the United States, overlooking the vast Atlantic Ocean. Humidity levels are high, and can bring spontaneous thunderstorms and rain showers to...

Martina Posch Vöcklabruck, Austria. November 12th, 1986. Seventeen-year-old Martina Posch, hurries out the door of her mother’s house to catch the 6:42 AM bus to her job as an office worker at a construction company. Her footsteps disappear into the early morning sounds. Somewhere between her home and the bus stop, only 300 feet away, Martina vanishes. The petite brunette would never be seen alive...

Dan Markel Summer, 2014. On a humid July morning in Tallahassee, University of Florida law professor Dan Markel pulls into the garage of his home after dropping his two children off at school. As he chats with a friend on his cell phone, he notices a car pull in behind him. After some muffled sounds, two gunshots are heard, then the line goes dead...and so does Dan Markel. Who would want to kill t...

Danny Casolaro In the early 90s, freelance journalist Danny Casolaro began an investigation for a story he called: The Octopus. His investigation led him to uncover corruption and criminal activity at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Did the tentacles of The Octopus pull him under the murky waters of a conspiracy? You are listening to MurderCast.

Brenda Schaefer A picture is worth a thousand words. But there are no words to describe the fate that befell Brenda Sue Schaefer from Louisville, Kentucky. You are listening to MurderCast.

Monika Rizzo On June 4th, 1997 Police in San Antonio Texas received an anonymous call stating that human remains could be found in the back yard of a home on the 4400 block of Forrest Green. DNA testing revealed that the remains were of four different people. Was there a serial killer on the loose in San Antonio? You are listening to MurderCast.