Bad Acts: A True Crime Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In Nov 2020,  21-year-old Nangonhs-Ba Massey had just moved into a new apartment with her 2-year-old son. While Massey hosted a party for a friend, 20-year-old Kaden Gilbert stabbed Massey and a male friend on video. Massey and her friend are both indigenous and the crime takes place on native land, so the case ended up in Federal court. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod...

Send us Fan Mail From 2012 through 2017, a series of murders occurred in the neighborhood around E. 93rd Street in Cleveland, Ohio.  Although one murder has been solved, the community believes a serial killer is stalking the streets. Cleveland is no stranger to serial killers, so is it possible there's one more? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod PodMoth: https://podmoth.network/ htt...

Send us Fan Mail In August 2014, Tim Ray Jones, Jr. picked his five children up from elementary school and daycare for the last time. That night, something awful happened in the Jones household as Jones cruelly ended the lives of Merah, 8, Elias, 7, Nahtahn, 6, Gabriel, 2, and Elaine, 1. After the murders, Jones evaded police for 9 days, and eventually gave terrible reasons to explain his crimes. ...

Send us Fan Mail On the day after Thanksgiving 2020, Instagram influencer/businesswoman Alexis Sharkey stopped responding to texts and posting on social media. Her friends reported her missing on Saturday afternoon. Unbeknownst to them, a city worker had already found her nude body laying in some brush. Her mysterious death drew global attention, but the story's resolution is sadly all too co...

Send us Fan Mail In late October 2014, Kelly Turner returned to her hometown of Austin, TX, to introduce her new boyfriend Joseph Karr to her family and friends. Everyone thought the new couple seemed happy together -- at first. On Halloween night, Kelly and Joseph went out with a few of her friends for a night on the town. Later that night, Kelly's friends awoke to the sounds of a terrible c...

Send us Fan Mail On Halloween 2009, 30-year-old Ben Gardner and 28-year-old Allana Devine went dancing at a club to celebrate Halloween and Allana's birthday. Ben dressed up as a vampire, while Allana dressed as a pirate. On their way home, 3 men stole Allana's hat and wig. When she asked for it back, they attacked the couple instead.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod PodMoth:...

Send us Fan Mail On Halloween 2012, 24-year-old Michaela Wooldridge was on the streets, still awaiting a bed at a shelter in Santa Rosa, California. At a nearby party, 20-year-old Jessy Zetino was at a Halloween party taking a synthetic LSD. Their two worlds would collide in a brutal stabbing that would scar the community.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod PodMoth: https://podmoth.netwo...

Send us Fan Mail On October 31, 1981, a neighbor found the bloody bodies of 20-year-old Elizabeth Platzman and 39-year-old Ron Sisman in Sisman's New York City apartment. The couple both suffered a severe beating and died from shots to the head.  Before leaving, the killer ransacked the apartment and even tore up the furniture. What happened at 207 West 22d Street? Patreon: https://www.patreo...

Send us Fan Mail On December 1, 1997,  14-year-old Michael Carneal brought  guns to school and shot 8 of his classmates, killing Nicole Hadley, Jessica James, and Kayce Steger. But why? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod PodMoth: https://podmoth.network/ Episode Source List: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ky-supreme-court/1150930.html https://casetext.com/case/carneal-v-crews-3 https://www.h...

Send us Fan Mail In August 1999, 14-year-old Ashley Jones snuck her 16-year-old boyfriend Geramie Hart into her grandparents' Birmingham, Alabama home. The teens planned to murder everyone in the home so they could run away together. They brutally murdered Ashley's grandfather Deroy Nalls and her aunt Millie Nalls. Then, they attempted to murder her grandmother Mary Nalls and little sist...

Send us Fan Mail Sheena Das Bora disappeared on April 24, 2012. For three years, no one knew what happened. Most people didn't even know the truth about who she was. Then, in 2015, a scandal splashed across Indian newspapers. https://www.patreon.com/badactspod https://www.buymeacoffee.com/badactspod Sources:  https://tinyurl.com/48w9uatt https://tinyurl.com/pckfjk2a https://tinyurl.com/pbf6ap...

Send us Fan Mail Sheena Das Bora disappeared on April 24, 2012. For three years, no one knew what happened. Most people didn't even know the truth about who she was. Then, in 2015, a scandal splashed across Indian newspapers. https://www.patreon.com/badactspod https://www.buymeacoffee.com/badactspod Sources:  https://tinyurl.com/48w9uatt https://tinyurl.com/pckfjk2a https://tinyurl.com/pbf6ap...

Send us Fan Mail In December 2017, Rahim Grant was living his best life raising his young daughter and building his rap career. Unfortunately, his life was cut short when the mother of his child, Ciera Harp, attacked him in a jealous rage. Grant caught his entire murder on video.  Their relationship started with Harp sexually assaulting Grant, and it would finally end with her claiming self-defens...

Send us Fan Mail In 1976, a serial killer terrorized San Mateo County, California from January through April. After 5 young women and teens turned up dead, the murders suddenly stopped. For 45 years, police had no suspects. Then, a DNA match in Reno, Nevada, revealed a serial killer and exonerated an innocent woman. But that's not the only secret DNA would unlock in this case.  Patreon: https...

Send us Fan Mail When Mengmei "Michelle" Leng left China to study at university in Australia, she thought she'd be in the safe care of her aunt. Unfortunately, her young uncle Derek Barrett had a dark secret -- he was obsessed with his new niece. After years of secretly filming Michelle, Barrett decided to make his sinister fantasies reality. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badacts...

Send us Fan Mail On December 28, 2017, Christmas decorations were still up in the home Robin Denson and 36-year-old Kaladaa Crowell created for their blended family. However, one of the family members wasn't feeling so joyful. Denson's 26-year-old son Marlin Joseph had a problem with Crowell's 11-year-old daughter Kyra. That day, he planned to do something about it.  Patreon: https:...

Send us Fan Mail In October 2012, the Krim family seemed to have everything: a beautiful home, a loving family, and 3 lovely children. Although Marina Krim stayed home to raise her babies, she also hired a part-time nanny to help her give her kids the best life possible. Yoselyn Ortega quickly became a member of the family, but everything wasn't as it seemed. Rage bubbled underneath Ortega&ap...

Send us Fan Mail On July 18,  2015, Heather Saul arranged to meet 45-year-old Neal Falls at her home for an escort date. Immediately after he arrived, Falls attacked Saul. After a vicious fight, Saul managed to kill her attacker and run for help. When police arrived, they realized Falls could be much more than just a violent client. Authorities allege Falls was really a serial killer who'd br...

Send us Fan Mail 25-year-old Ashley Mead was living her best life in Boulder, Colorado, raising her baby Winter Daisy. She was finally moving on from a long-term on-again-off-again relationship with Winter's father Adam Densmore. Unfortunately, her new life was cut short just before Valentine's Day in February 2017. While investigating Ashley's disappearance, police uncovered a BDSM...

Send us Fan Mail Travel blogger Carla Stefaniak left her Florida home for a whirlwind trip to Costa Rica to celebrate her 35th birthday in November 2018.  When she didn't get off her return flight, her family and friends descended into worry. Unfortunately, Costa Rican authorities didn't share their concern for Carla. When Carla's body was eventually found almost a week after her di...

Send us Fan Mail In October 29, 2006, the grisly discovery of a burning body sets off a murder mystery in Kilgore, TX. For years, Lavender Doe went unidentified, her murder unsolved. Then, Felisha Pearson's violent murder reveals a killer at large in East Texas -- Joseph Burnette. However, police still didn't know Lavender's real name. That is, until the DNA Doe Project got involved...

Send us Fan Mail In March 2011, Emmett Corrigan seemed to have everything. A beautiful wife named Ashlee, five kids, and a successful career as a lawyer. But he also had a secret -- his mistress Kandi Hall. Unfortunately, Kandi's marriage was rife with cheating on both sides, but her husband Rob Hall wasn't about to let her go. Four hearts are on the line, and one of them is about to sto...

Send us Fan Mail In January 2019, police arrived at a home in Winter Park, Florida to find Danielle Redlick covered in blood. Her husband Michael lay dead in their living room. Danielle told authorities Michael stabbed himself to death, but the couple's history of domestic violence and the medical examiner's report suggested otherwise. With friends and family telling tales of Danielle ab...

Send us Fan Mail In April 2017, 36-year-old Alena Kennedy disappeared in South Carolina. No one noticed until a month later when she didn't attend a family event. After a feverish search, the family member of another missing person found a charred body encased in cement in a trash can. What happened to Alena? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspod Episode Source List: https://www.thestat...

Send us Fan Mail On June 10, 2015, police uncovered the butchered bodies of mother and daughter, Yuliya Masney and Valeria Lechtchenko. Later that same day, Yuliya's 19-year-old daughter Anastasia Lechtchenko gave a wild confession to the murders, accusing her mother and 12-year-old sister of hexes and brujeria. But that was the first of several confessions and retractions, and Anastasia&apos...