Tell Me The Crime

Send us Fan Mail When Paul Christos's wife begins telling him about a complicated love triangle involving her coworkers, it sounds like ordinary office gossip. But as the story becomes increasingly strange, a seemingly harmless game takes things in a terrifying direction. In this episode of Tell Me the Crime , Feb tells John the story of Sheila Davalloo, a case involving obsession, deception,...

Send us Fan Mail A 22-year-old man finishes his shift at a factory and walks out to his truck. Someone is waiting for him. He's shot three times, and for days, nobody knows why. Eventually, detectives uncover a love triangle involving two coworkers and a young woman neither of them has ever met. But when police finally track down the woman, they discover that the entire story is built on a li...

Send us Fan Mail In 2008, an aspiring filmmaker in Edmonton was working on a horror movie about a man who is lured to a garage and killed. Not long after, a real man disappeared after being directed to that very same garage. When police began investigating, they discovered that the similarities didn’t end there. There was another man, another encounter - and a disturbing story hidden on the filmma...

Send us Fan Mail A man is waiting inside a woman’s bedroom with a hammer. He’s been sent there to kill her. But about fourteen minutes later, only one of them is still alive. And it isn’t the hitman. In this episode, John tells Febriana the case of Susan Kuhnhausen, a woman who fought back against the man hired to murder her and survived a plot that led directly back to her estranged husband. List...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine a pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with a bomb locked around his neck. He says he has been forced into a bizarre scavenger hunt: rob the bank, follow a series of handwritten instructions, and complete each step before the bomb’s timer runs out. But as investigators try to understand who had built the device and why, the story becomes much more complicated. Evidence...

Send us Fan Mail When Mark Winger finds his wife being brutally attacked inside their home, he shoots and kills her attacker. Police quickly view him as a grieving husband who tried to save his wife, and the case appears straightforward. But one small piece of evidence suggests the supposed killer may have been invited there. Years later, a secret affair and a witness with a disturbing story force...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine someone you love suddenly sells his business, leaves everything behind, and starts traveling the world.  You keep getting emails from him - from South America, India, Africa - and everything seems fine. Except you never hear his voice. You never see a new photo. And months later, you discover the truth: he was never traveling at all. He had been dead the entire time. On to...

Send us Fan Mail John tells Feb the story of Diane Whipple, an elite athlete and college lacrosse coach killed just outside her San Francisco apartment by her neighbors' dogs. What initially looked like a horrific animal attack soon exposed months of ignored warnings, a bizarre connection to an imprisoned gang member, and a question rarely asked in a courtroom: when does refusing to recognize...

Send us Fan Mail In February 1986, 29-year-old nursing director Sherri Rasmussen was found beaten and shot inside the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband, John. The LAPD decided that she had interrupted a burglary. But Sherri’s parents believed the crime was personal. Before her death, she had been confronted by a woman with a complicated history with John, someone who had slept with him...

Send us Fan Mail Just after Christmas 2011, Russ Faria came home from a game night with friends and found his wife, Betsy, dead inside their Missouri home. Police quickly decided that Russ had killed her. But four people said he had been with them that evening. Receipts, phone records, and surveillance footage supported his alibi. Meanwhile, the last person known to have seen Betsy alive had recen...

Send us Fan Mail A young woman is found dying on the side of a highway after an apparent hit-and-run. But when police try to identify her, they uncover something far stranger: multiple names, a mysterious past, and a life shaped by secrets that began when she was just a child. In this episode of Tell Me the Crime, Feb tells John the story of Suzanne Sevakis, a woman whose true identity remained hi...

Send us Fan Mail On December 7, 2009, Susan Powell vanished from her Utah home. Her purse, wallet, identification, and other belongings were still inside, but Susan, her husband Josh, and their two young sons were gone. Josh returned hours later with an extraordinary explanation: he had taken the boys camping after midnight in the freezing desert while Susan slept at home. Then one of the children...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana  about a man in Florida who spent nearly $200,000, mostly stolen from his family, on a webcam performer in Bulgaria whom he believed truly loved him. His family protected him, paid for treatment, and gave him one final chance. Then they contacted her themselves to expose his lies. Within weeks, all three were dead - and Grant Amato h...

Send us Fan Mail Peter Porco was attacked in his bed with an axe. Despite catastrophic injuries, he got up, went downstairs, completed parts of his morning routine, and collapsed near the front door. His wife, Joan, was found alive upstairs. In this episode, John tells Febriana the case of Christopher Porco, the 21-year-old accused of murdering his father and attempting to kill his mother. Police...

Send us Fan Mail Nineteen-year-old Ashley Wadsworth travelled from British Columbia to England to spend time with Jack Sepple, a man she had built a relationship with online. At first, it looked like a romantic adventure: sightseeing, smiling photos, and the excitement of finally being together in person. But behind the pictures, the relationship became controlling and dangerous. Ashley decided sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana about Rachel Barber who was 15 years old and training full-time at a performing arts school in Melbourne when she told her boyfriend she had a job after class. An old female friend was going to pay her a lot of money. Rachel didn’t say the woman’s name. Then she never came home. In this episode, we cover the murder of Rachel Barber and...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is one of the strangest and most unsettling cases we've covered so far: a woman who wrote a children's grief book after her husband's death, then was later convicted of murdering him. Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother and real estate investor whose husband, Eric Richins, died from a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022. At...

Send us Fan Mail In 1983, Diane Downs drove to an Oregon hospital with her three children shot in the car. She said a stranger had attacked them on a rural road. But her story quickly started to fall apart. This week, we cover the Diane Downs case: the strange hospital arrival, her relationship with Robert “Nick” Knickerbocker, the children she may have seen as obstacles, and the daughter who surv...

Send us Fan Mail A mother is killed inside her own home. A father is shot and left for dead. Their daughter is upstairs, tied up, calling 911. At first, it looks like a home invasion. But then the father wakes up, and the story starts falling apart. In this episode of Tell Me The Crime , we cover the Jennifer Pan case: the fake grades, fake university, fake work, hidden relationship, staged home i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the disturbing case of Jean-Claude Romand, the French man who spent nearly eighteen years pretending to be a doctor and researcher connected to the World Health Organization. His wife believed him. His children believed him. His parents, friends, and even people who trusted him with money believed him. But there was no real medical...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Tell Me The Crime , we examine the devastating case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001. There was never any question that Andrea committed the act. The question was whether she was legally sane when she did it. This case forces a difficult conversation about postpartum psychosis, religious delusions, criminal responsibility,...

Send us Fan Mail Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy’s case is one of the most disturbing we’ve covered. It is about a teenage girl convincing her boyfriend to kill himself. But not just that. According to what Michelle later told a friend, when Conrad got scared and tried to back out, she told him to get back in. This episode looks at the texts, the pressure, the promise, and the messages Michelle sen...

Send us Fan Mail A family of four was murdered inside their Tokyo home. Then the killer stayed. He left behind blood. Clothes. A knife. Fingerprints. DNA. Clues everywhere. But more than twenty years later… no name. No arrest. No answer. This is the Setagaya Family Murder. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail A neighbor asks for help. A veteran says yes. And within hours, two people are dead. In this episode, we cover the murders of Sam Herr and Julie Kibuishi, a case involving trust, money, staged evidence, and a plan that briefly made one victim look like the killer. Daniel Wozniak was days away from his wedding when Sam disappeared and Julie was found dead in Sam’s apartment. What l...

Send us Fan Mail Her name was Laci Peterson. She was eight months pregnant with a baby boy named Conner. By the end of the day, her dog would be found wandering alone. Her house would be empty. And her husband would have a story that would raise more questions than answers. Within days, the case would become a national obsession. Because what looked like an ordinary holiday morning… would unravel...