America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring

Candy Montgomery's lawyer stood up in front of the jury and admitted his client had killed Betty Gore with an axe. Then he spent eight days convincing them to let her walk free. The defense that followed was so audacious that reporters in the gallery actually laughed out loud. Some of the jurors didn't think it was funny. In the final episode on Candy Montgomery, we cover the trial, the verdict th...

Candy Montgomery didn't stumble into an affair. She planned it methodically: rules, boundaries, no feelings, and chose her friend Betty Gore’s husband as the man she'd sleep with. For ten months, nobody suspected a thing. On June 13th, 1980, Candy stopped by Betty’s to pick up a swimsuit, and by that night, Betty had been struck with an axe 41 times. The question we’re left with is: what happened...

On the morning of June 13th, 1980, Candy Montgomery stopped by her friend Betty Gore's house to pick up a swimsuit. When she left, she said Betty was perfectly fine. That night, three neighbors found Betty's body in her utility room, struck with an axe 41 times while her baby cried alone upstairs. The bloody footprint on the floor was too small to belong to a man. And the last person to see Betty...

Brian Mitchell spent years singing hymns in court, disrupting hearings, and faking insanity to avoid standing trial for what he did to Elizabeth Smart. It took nearly a decade to get him in front of a jury. When Elizabeth finally took the stand, she described nine months of daily assault, a cable padlocked around her ankle, and threats against her family that kept her silent even when rescue was w...

Ed Smart defied police orders and released his daughter's kidnapper's sketch to the public himself. Within four days, someone recognized the man in it. Brian David Mitchell had been hiding in plain sight the whole time, eating at restaurants, preaching on street corners, and sleeping one block from a police station. Elizabeth was right there with him, and nobody said a word. This episode contains...

In June 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bedroom at knifepoint while her nine-year-old sister hid under the covers and watched. Her kidnapper knew exactly which door of the house wasn't wired to the alarm. For months, investigators zeroed in on the wrong man. And a sketch that could have broken the case wide open sat untouched in a filing cabinet. This episode contains de...

Karen Read's first trial ended in a mistrial, and her second ended with a verdict that stunned America. In the final part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring breaks down the retrial, the acquittal, and the shocking fallout still unfolding today, including the disgraced cop Michael Proctor’s link to another infamous murder. This episode contains descriptions of death and references to alleged police m...

An alleged 2:27 AM Google search for "hos long to die in cold." A lead investigator texting "hopefully she kills herself" about the defendant. Destroyed phones, missing surveillance footage, and a coordinated group chat in the days after John O'Keefe's death. The deeper Karen's defense dug, the more questions surfaced about everyone inside 34 Fairview Road. This episode contains descriptions of de...

Karen Read's boyfriend John O'Keefe was found dead in the snow outside a house in Canton, Massachusetts on January 29th, 2022. Within 72 hours, she was charged with his murder. Was she framed? Or did she kill him? Let’s go back to the beginning of one of the most polarizing true crime cases in recent American history, and the country still can't agree on the truth. This episode contains descriptio...

In 2016, the FBI suspended its investigation into D.B. Cooper after forty-five years with no confirmed identity. Then, in 2020, the adult children of a prime suspect found a parachute rig in their mother's shed, and the case came back to life. In the third and final episode on D.B. Cooper, Katie Ring covers the new evidence that reinvigorated the investigation, the DNA question still waiting to be...

Nine years after D.B. Cooper vanished, an eight-year-old boy digging a fire pit on the Columbia River pulled three rotting bundles of ransom money out of the sand. It was the first physical evidence in nearly a decade, and it raised more questions than it answered. In part two of three, Katie Ring follows the FBI's hunt: the copycat who may have been Cooper himself, the secret hidden in his tie fo...

On the day before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man named D.B. Cooper walked up to an airport counter, paid cash for a one-way ticket, and boarded a commercial flight. By the time the plane landed, he had collected $200,000 in ransom, strapped it to his body, and jumped out the back of a jet. No one has seen him since. In the first of three episodes on D.B. Cooper, Katie Ring takes you back to November 24...

Two days after his family disappeared, Chris Watts sat down with investigators and agreed to take a polygraph. He said he had nothing to hide. The results told a very different story. In the third and final episode on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring takes us through the interrogation that broke Chris Watts, the confession that led investigators to Shanann, Bella, CeCe, and their unborn son Ni...

When Shanann Watts missed her prenatal appointment on the morning of August 13th, 2018, her closest friend knew immediately that something was wrong. In part two of three on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring takes us through the investigation that unfolded in the hours after Shanann, Bella, and CeCe were reported missing. From the unsettling details inside the house, to the surveillance footage...

From the outside, the Watts family had everything: a beautiful home in Colorado, two young daughters, and a social media presence full of smiling family photos. Behind those posts, their marriage was quietly falling apart. In the first of three episodes on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring traces who Shanann Watts really was, how she and Chris built their life together, and the huge secret Chri...

The jury took 40 minutes to convict Dick Hickock and Perry Smith of the Clutter family murders. On the gallows five years later, Perry Smith's last words were an apology. In the third and final episode on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring walks through what actually happened inside the farmhouse that night, based on the killers' own confessions. Then the trial, the executions, and the complic...

The Clutter family was murdered for approximately $50 in cash and a radio. The safe full of money that the killers drove 400 miles to find never existed. In part two of three episodes on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring introduces the two men responsible: Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the lie that brought them to River Valley Farm, and the investigation that quietly closed in while they beli...

On the night of November 14th, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were bound and shot dead in their farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas. Nothing of value had been stolen. The doors, as always, had been unlocked. In the first of three episodes on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring traces who the Clutters really were, and the morning when friends and neighbors arrived for church and found them go...

On the day Caylee Anthony was last seen alive, someone searched "fool-proof suffocation" on the Anthony family computer. It was Casey's preferred browser. The jury never heard a single word about it. In the third and final episode on the death of Caylee Anthony, Katie Ring breaks down the verdict that stunned 40 million Americans, the bombshell computer evidence discovered after the trial, and the...

Three pieces of duct tape were found on two-year-old Caylee Anthony's face. One of them had the outline of a heart-shaped sticker on it. Matching stickers were found in Casey Anthony's bedroom. In part two of three episodes on the death of Caylee Anthony, Katie Ring walks through the forensic evidence that turned a missing child case into a murder trial, and the defense's explosive counter-theory...

In the summer of 2008, two-year-old Caylee Anthony vanished, and her mother Casey didn't report her missing for thirty-one days. In that time, she got a tattoo, went to nightclubs, and stayed at her boyfriend's apartment. When Casey's car turned up at a tow yard, a former police officer recognized the smell coming from the trunk. He was Caylee's grandfather. He said nothing. In the first of three...

She confessed to seven murders to protect the woman she loved. She went to trial represented by a real estate attorney in a capital case. And the day before her execution, she told a filmmaker that God was taking her to heaven on a spaceship. In the third and final episode on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring closes the book on one of the most complicated cases in American criminal history, tracing the c...

By the spring of 1990, Aileen Wuornos had killed once and gotten away with it. So she kept going. In part two of three episodes on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring traces the six men killed after Richard Mallory: who they were, what happened to them, and how investigators across multiple Florida counties began to realize they were dealing with something entirely new. All while Aileen's girlfriend Tyria...

Before Aileen Wuornos became one of America's most feared female serial killers, she was a 13-year-old girl who was assaulted and impregnated by a stranger, gave birth completely alone, and came home to a family that blamed her. In the first of three episodes on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring traces the story of a woman the world expected to be a victim, and how a lifetime of abandonment, abuse, and b...

More than forty years after seven people died after taking poisoned Tylenol in the Chicago area, the suspects investigators chased would consume decades of their careers. In the third and final episode on the Tylenol murders, Katie Ring digs into the two men at the center of the investigation: one who taunted the FBI with letters to the President while evading capture, and one whose story took a s...