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In 1994, a 23-year-old South Carolina mother, Susan Smith, reported to police that her two young sons had been kidnapped during a carjacking. Authorities immediately began searching for three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alex, while the seemingly devastated mother appeared on television pleading for the safe return of her children. Finally, after more than a week of an intensive but fruitless...

Back in 2017, on December 15 to be specific, Canadian businessman and philanthropist Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were not expected to be at home. The couple had recently put their 12,000-square-foot mansion in Toronto up for sale, and it was an open house day. As agreed, soon after 10 AM that morning, the real estate agent Elise Stern began showing potential buyers around the house. After the...

When it comes to a father-son relationship, we can all agree that a mutual hobby is an excellent way to bond. Some like to spend time together at sports events, others working on their cars. Or, like in the case of Joseph Kallinger and his son Michael—pick up their guns and go hunting. There is nothing unusual of an American father taking his son out into the woods. In addition to bonding, hunting...

Most ravers know the mantra: Peace, Love, Unity, Respect—or PLUR. It is a guide for ravers and clubbers that grew out of a desire to be a safe and inclusive community. It assures that those who feel like they are without a home can find one on the dance floor. As a result, fights or scuffles at a rave are rare, and the atmosphere itself tends to be welcoming and loving. Sounds great, right? For 28...

Between 1972 and 1973, the bodies of four young black and Puerto Rican boys were discovered in Manhattan, New York. As most of them were mutilated in the same horrible way, it soon became clear authorities were dealing with a serial killer. The person who people widely believe was so-called Charlie Chop-Off was eventually found and charged with murder. But why is the case still officially consider...

If you try to locate a town called Wineville on a map, it looks like such a place does not exist. However, if you look closer, you may spot two streets, Wineville Avenue and South Wineville Avenue, in Jurupa Valley, Riverside County. Nothing else is left of the southern California town where something so horrifying happened in the 1920s that it caused the small farming community to change the name...

In 2019, a single gunman terrorized New Zealand, taking lives of more than 50 people in the country's deadliest shooting. When a 28-year-old Australian man was then arrested less than 20 minutes after the first gunshot, he showed no emotion, no remorse. Instead, he wished he could have killed even more. But how had former personal trainer Brenton Tarrant become a mass murderer in the first place?...

In 2005, the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway shocked the nation and the world, as she seemingly vanished without a trace during a school trip to Aruba. During the years, several suspects have been named and even arrested. Yet, nobody has been convicted of killing Natalee, nor has her body ever been found. Subscribe and share 10 Minute Murder with your true crime loving friends. Conne...

In the 1970s, the serial killer couple Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole carried out a horrific murder spree across the United States. In the end, Henry claimed he had killed more than 600 people, making him one of the most prodigious killers in history. At least for a short while. Subscribe and share 10 Minute Murder with your true crime loving friends. Connect on social media to know when new epis...

At first, nobody really paid attention to the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery in early 2020 outside his South Georgia community as the coronavirus pandemic dominated headlines. It wasn't until a video of his last moments surfaced a few months later when outrage spread across the nation and sparked outcries about America's negligence of Black lives. The men responsible for Ahmaud's death had not...

On July 15, 1997, the murder of Gianni Versace rocked the fashion world. The investigation into what happened would uncover a killer who thrived on attention and luxury. It took the police less than three hours to figure out who the person responsible was as by the time of the fashion mogul's death, the shooter was already hunted for the murders of four others. But what was the connection between...

By the late 1980s, over 40 dead bodies had turned up in Rostov, Russia, all killed and mutilated in the same way. As authorities were sure that the person responsible would continue killing until caught, they were desperate to find him. According to the initial profile of the killer, they were looking for a younger man, likely in his 30's, probably a grifter. As a result, nobody was looking for so...

Farmville is a sleepy, small town of 8000 people located just in the center of Virginia. It is one of those places where you can really say, "nothing ever happens." Or at least that's how it used to be before fall 2009. That September, residents of Farmville were left horrified when the bodies of a local college professor, a church minister, and two teenage girls were found bludgeoned to death. Th...

When the first season of Tiger King hit the nation and the whole world in early 2020, it soon became the Internet's biggest true-crime TV obsession. The show had everything: big cats, mullets, guns, amputees, gay throuple, real-life cult-like leaders, hitmen, disappearance and "that bitch Carole Baskin." While there were lots going on, Joe Exotic going to prison and all, it seemed that everybody's...

Last time we talked about the brutal murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez. The couple was shot to death in their fancy Beverly Hills home in August 1989. Their two sons, Erik and Lyle, were left "shocked" by the sudden loss of their parents. But police had a feeling that the brothers knew more about the murders than they initially indicated. Stuck around for the closing, and hear the detail that is...

The night of August 20, 1989, was going to be the last in the lives of Jose and Kitty Menendez. They just did not know it yet. Subscribe and share 10 Minute Murder with your true crime loving friends. Connect on social media to know when new episodes are released and to see visuals that go along with the episodes. https://linktr.ee/10minutemurder Facebook: https://facebook.com/10MMpodcast Instagra...

Three decades ago, a whole family of five was wiped off the face of the earth in the name of religion. Cult leader Jeffrey Lundgren claimed the divine drove him to murder, but in the end, God, who he claimed to speak with, did not spare him. Subscribe and share 10 Minute Murder with your true crime loving friends. Connect on social media to know when new episodes are released and to see visuals th...

In 1995, a murderer crisscrossed the US for six weeks, seducing redheaded women he met in bars before brutally murdering them. Also known as the "Casanova Killer," cops tracked his every step before they were finally able to catch him after a classic high-speed chase on a highway. But what authorities did not yet know was that the killer, a man named Glen Rogers, had much more to tell them than th...

In 2010, a video called "1 boy - 2 kittens" was posted on Youtube and Facebook. The viral clip showed a man playing with two kittens before putting them in a very tight vacuum seal bag and vacuuming out the air, suffocating the helpless kitties. Outraged, almost 4,000 individuals formed a Facebook group to build evidence and find the identity of the mystery man on the video. Soon, the name Luka Ma...

At the turn of the decade in the 1980s, Hugh Hefner thought he had hit the jackpot and discovered the greatest thing that Playboy had ever had: 20-year-old model Dorothy Stratten. The young rising star's beauty had been drawing comparisons to Marilyn Monroe, and she had just been named the 1980 Playboy Playmate of the year. But just when Dorothy had made her breakthrough, her story came to a sudde...

When a lifeless body is discovered with a total of 20 stab wounds, a knife still rammed four inches into the chest, most of us would think: that is a homicide, let's go and find the killer. But, as absurd as it sounds, that was not the case with 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg, who was found dead in a luxury sixth-floor apartment in Philadelphia in 2011. Despite her numerous injuries and scene finding...

The school day in Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, on January 11, 2013, had started like any other day. Classes were going on as usual, but there was somebody missing, nobody had just noticed yet. At least no one else than Jacquelyn "Jackie" Johnson, a distressed mother who had come to the school to look for her 17-year-old son, Kendrick. Subscribe and share 10 Minute Murder with your tru...

Family annihilators is a term used to describe men who murder their entire families. Often behind such an act is some kind of incident, like a job loss or other money issues. While there are often signs indicating an individual may be on the edge of doing something terrible, for example, those who engage in lots of acts of domestic violence, there are others who do not show any kind of predictive...

When 33-year-old Chris Watts' whole family suddenly disappeared without a trace on August 13, 2018, the seemingly devastated husband and father of two little girls gave a TV interview from his porch in Frederick, Colo., begging them to come home. However, as the investigation continued, friends and family quickly realized that Chris Watts was not the man he made himself out to be. In part 2, you'l...

When 33-year-old Chris Watts' whole family suddenly disappeared without a trace on August 13, 2018, the seemingly devastated husband and father of two little girls gave a TV interview from his porch in Frederick, Colo., begging them to come home. However, as the investigation continued, friends and family quickly realized that Chris Watts was not the man he made himself out to be. To understand ho...