A Trial by Podcast

On a freezing January night, a house on the French-Swiss border burned to the ground, leaving behind the bodies of two small children and their mother. Miles away, their grandparents were also found dead. Only one member of the family survived. Jean-Claude Romand—a respected doctor and World Health Organization researcher—was pulled from the flames barely alive, mourned as the tragic victim of an...

⁠⁠⁠Click here to complete the listener survey! In December 2009, Susan Powell vanished from her Utah home after her husband, Josh Powell, claimed he’d taken their two young sons on a spontaneous, late-night winter camping trip. Almost immediately, his detached demeanor and shifting explanations raised red flags. As investigators looked closer, a darker picture came into focus: a controlling marria...

⁠⁠Click here to complete the listener survey! Imagine being told you have cancer—a diagnosis that instantly upends your life—and then enduring months or even years of brutal chemotherapy. Now imagine learning that your doctor forced you to undergo three to four times the standard amount of treatment, or kept you on chemotherapy long after you were in remission, all while you believed you were stil...

⁠Click here to complete the listener survey! In August 2008, 18-year-old Marie Adler called 911 in terror, reporting that a masked man had broken into her Lynnwood, Washington apartment, bound her with her own shoelaces, and raped her for hours. At first, police treated the case as a serious violent assault, but as the days passed their focus shifted from finding a suspect to scrutinizing Marie he...

Click here to complete the listener survey! Lacey Fletcher, a 36-year-old woman from Louisiana, died in January 2022 after spending years confined to a couch in her parents’ home, where she suffered extreme neglect. Authorities say she was left sitting in the same position for so long that she developed severe medical complications, including malnutrition, infected wounds, and immobility. Her pare...

Donate to the Cyarah Vince Foundation at the link below: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://cyarahvincefoundation.org/donate/⁠⁠⁠ ----- A HUGE thank you to Jill and Cara from Lorain County Safe Harbor for joining me. I truly enjoyed this discussion and learned so much from it - I hope you guys did too! Their Info: Website: https://www.genesishouseshelter.org/ Instagram: @loraincountysafeharbor Podcast (Spotify): Silence...

Donate to the Cyarah Vince Foundation at the link below: ⁠⁠⁠https://cyarahvincefoundation.org/donate/⁠⁠ --- In June of 2017, police in Bedfordshire, England responded to repeated domestic disturbance calls and found 21-year-old Alex Skeel injured and bleeding each time - only for him to insist his wounds were self-inflicted and beg officers to leave. On their third visit in just over a week, seein...

Donate to the Cyarah Vince Foundation at the link below: ⁠⁠https://cyarahvincefoundation.org/donate/⁠ --- In June of 2017, police in Bedfordshire, England responded to repeated domestic disturbance calls and found 21-year-old Alex Skeel injured and bleeding each time - only for him to insist his wounds were self-inflicted and beg officers to leave. On their third visit in just over a week, seeing...

https://www.tiananoticefoundation.org/donate/ --- Donate to the Cyarah Vince Foundation at the link below: ⁠⁠https://cyarahvincefoundation.org/donate/⁠ --- On Valentine’s Day 2009, Tiana Angelique Notice, a 25-year-old woman from Plainville, Connecticut, was tragically stabbed to death outside her apartment. For Tiana’s family, this day marked the devastating end of a prolonged nightmare of stalki...

Donate to the Cyarah Vince Foundation at the link below: ⁠https://cyarahvincefoundation.org/donate/ --- On Valentine’s Day 2009, Tiana Angelique Notice, a 25-year-old woman from Plainville, Connecticut, was tragically stabbed to death outside her apartment. For Tiana’s family, this day marked the devastating end of a prolonged nightmare of stalking and fear. Just five weeks and two days before her...

Donate to the Cyarah Vince Foundation at the link below: https://cyarahvincefoundation.org/donate/ ------- In March 2020, 23-year-old Cyarah “Cece” Vince was shot and killed inside her Lorain, Ohio apartment by her boyfriend, Austin Altomare, after months of escalating control, emotional abuse, and isolation. That night, Cyarah and Altomare had a friend—identified in court records as J.B.—over for...

On the morning of February 14, 2005, 19-year-old Rashawn Brazell left his home in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York, expecting a routine day ahead. He had plans to meet with an accountant that morning and then join his mother, Desire, for a Valentine’s Day lunch in Manhattan. Rashawn never showed up for lunch that day, and he was never seen alive again. Over the next few days, Rashawn’s l...

On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley vanished after a night of teenage Mischief Night pranks in her wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut neighborhood, only to be found brutally beaten beneath a tree in her own yard the next morning.  A golf club that was used to beat Moxley so brutally that the end of the club broke off - that golf club was later linked to the home of Rushton Skakel, the broth...

Story starts at 8:00 mark ***** On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley vanished after a night of teenage Mischief Night pranks in her wealthy Greenwich, Connecticut neighborhood, only to be found brutally beaten beneath a tree in her own yard the next morning.  A golf club that was used to beat Moxley so brutally that the end of the club broke off - that golf club was later linked to the h...

Story starts at 08:55 Chelsea Bruck, a 22-year-old woman from Flat Rock, Michigan, disappeared in the early hours of October 26, 2014, after attending a large Halloween party near Newport with hundreds of attendees. Separated from her friends and without her phone, she was last seen wearing a Poison Ivy costume and asking strangers for a ride home. Six months later, her skeletal remains were disco...

Armin Meiwes was a German computer technician whose 2001 crime shocked the world for its voluntary brutality. Living in the small town of Rotenburg, Meiwes posted an online ad seeking a willing participant to be killed and eaten — and astonishingly, a man named Bernd Jürgen Brandes responded. The two met, filmed their encounter, and Meiwes killed and partially consumed Brandes with his full consen...

Yes, in this one, we focus on Amanda Knox, hence the title. But that's because I was lucky enough to sit down with former FBI Profiler Julia Cowley to get her expert opinion on Amanda's behavior and the three-page written statement she made recanting her confession that pointed at Patrick Lumumba. Alongside three former colleagues, Julia hosts her own post called The Consult: Real FBI Profilers. Y...

The Affair of the Poisons (1677–1682) was a dark and scandalous episode in the court of King Louis XIV of France, where rumors of witchcraft, black masses, and poisonings gripped Parisian high society. Sparked by the arrest of fortune-teller La Voison, the investigation uncovered a vast criminal network of alchemists, midwives, and nobles accused of selling poisons and performing satanic rituals f...

In today's episode, we provide important updates on cases we covered in the past, giving you the latest on what has happened with the cases since we released our episode(s). We provide updates on: Ep. 010-011 | The Murder of Amy Mihaljevic Ep. 013 | The Brutal Attack of Alison Boitha Ep. 025 | Mia & Sebastian Campos Ep. 026-028 | JonBenét Ramsey Ep. 031 | Sade Robinson Ep. 034-037 | Dan Markel...

Rebecca Zahau was found dead on July 13, 2011, at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California. She was discovered hanging, bound and gagged, in what authorities ruled as a suicide, but many - including her family - have long believed the circumstances suggested foul play, sparking years of controversy, lawsuits, and public debate about whether she truly took her own life or was murdered. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Cli...

Rebecca Zahau was found dead on July 13, 2011, at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California. She was discovered hanging, bound and gagged, in what authorities ruled as a suicide, but many - including her family - have long believed the circumstances suggested foul play, sparking years of controversy, lawsuits, and public debate about whether she truly took her own life or was murdered. ⁠⁠⁠Clic...

In 2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in her apartment in Perugia, Italy. The crime shocked the world - but what came next was even wilder. Italian police quickly arrested Meredith’s American roommate, Amanda Knox, and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The media branded Amanda as “Foxy Knoxy,” painting her as a femme fatale - and the case spiraled into a global...

Music Video Starring Meredith In 2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in her apartment in Perugia, Italy. The crime shocked the world - but what came next was even wilder. Italian police quickly arrested Meredith’s American roommate, Amanda Knox, and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The media branded Amanda as “Foxy Knoxy,” painting her as a femme fatale - and th...

In 2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in her apartment in Perugia, Italy. The crime shocked the world - but what came next was even wilder. Italian police quickly arrested Meredith’s American roommate, Amanda Knox, and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The media branded Amanda as “Foxy Knoxy,” painting her as a femme fatale - and the case spiraled into a global...

In 2007, 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found murdered in her apartment in Perugia, Italy. The crime shocked the world - but what came next was even wilder. Italian police quickly arrested Meredith’s American roommate, Amanda Knox, and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The media branded Amanda as “Foxy Knoxy,” painting her as a femme fatale - and the case spiraled into a global...