Case Files Explained

On January 24, 2023, a Duxbury mother allegedly strangled her three children before attempting to take her own life. Lindsay Clancy's upcoming trial will test the boundaries between mental illness and criminal responsibility, with her defense arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis while being prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications in just four months. This episode was generat...

On March 4, 2022, Utah mother Kouri Richins called 911 to report finding her husband Eric dead at the foot of their bed. A year later, she published a children's book about coping with grief. In March 2026, a jury convicted her of aggravated murder, revealing how digital forensics and a housekeeper's testimony exposed a calculated plot involving fentanyl-laced cocktails, forged insurance policies,...

Florida and Indiana launch major initiatives to solve thousands of unsolved murders using forensic genetic genealogy — examining the technology, the funding, and the cases being cracked as states race to clear their cold case backlogs. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

An investigation into how a 37-year-old business tycoon allegedly built a criminal empire on forced labor, human trafficking, and cryptocurrency fraud—and how international cooperation finally brought him down. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

A Michigan woman vanishes in the Bahamas after allegedly falling from a small boat—but her family isn't convinced it was an accident. On April 4, 2026, 55-year-old Lynette Hooker disappeared near Elbow Cay. Her husband Brian claims she fell from their dinghy. But with his arrest, release, and a daughter who describes their marriage as 'rocky at best,' this active case raises more questions than it...

On December 4, 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a Manhattan hotel. Five days later, Luigi Mangione was arrested carrying a ghost gun, a fake ID, and a notebook filled with writings about health insurance companies. Now, as his 2026 trial approaches, defense attorneys are fighting to suppress key evidence—including whether his statements to police can be used ag...

On November 30, 2022, a FedEx contractor delivered Barbie dolls to a home in Paradise, Texas. Within hours, 7-year-old Athena Strand was dead. This episode traces how digital evidence inside the delivery van helped investigators solve the case in 48 hours. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

How investigative genetic genealogy connected a deceased suspect to the murders of Marebeth Welsh and Jennifer Persia in South Jersey during the 1990s. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

On Halloween night 1974, 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime left a party in Utah to buy cigarettes. She never returned. Ted Bundy confessed to her murder before his 1989 execution — but without physical evidence, the case stayed open. For 51 years, her family lived without closure. In April 2026, new genotyping technology finally matched 52-year-old biological evidence to Bundy's DNA profile, definitively...

A Utah jury convicted Kouri Richins of murdering her husband Eric with fentanyl—even though prosecutors never proved exactly how she poisoned him. The digital evidence told a different story. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

When Sandra Robinson was stabbed to death at a Georgia phone store in 2010, her 17-year-old son Trey made a vow: he would find her killer. This is the story of a 16-year journey from grieving teenager to law enforcement investigator—and the arrest that finally came in 2026. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

After more than a decade of investigation, architect Rex Heuermann pleaded guilty on April 8, 2026, to strangling eight women and disposing of their bodies along Long Island's Ocean Parkway. This episode examines how investigators combined old-school surveillance with cutting-edge DNA analysis and digital forensics to identify a killer who had evaded detection since 1993. This episode was generate...

For four decades, a desolate stretch of land between Houston and Galveston collected the bodies of murdered women while investigators struggled to connect the cases. In March 2026, James Dolphs Elmore Jr. was indicted for his alleged role in two of the murders — but the man authorities believe was the primary killer, Clyde Hedrick, took his own life weeks before facing justice. This episode was ge...

Maya Millete vanished from her Chula Vista home on January 7, 2021. Her body has never been found. But prosecutors say her husband Larry left behind something even more damning than physical evidence: 1,700 pages of messages to spellcasters, documenting an escalating pattern of desperation that turned violent — and stopped the exact day she disappeared. This episode was generated with AI assistanc...

The acquittal of former Uvalde officer Adrian Gonzales on child endangerment charges, and what it reveals about criminal accountability for law enforcement response failures This episode was generated with AI assistance.

Detective Matt Hutchison of Sunnyvale, California, has solved seven cold cases using forensic genealogy — including two teenage girls killed decades apart by different men who were never caught. Karen Stitt was 15. Estella Mena was 18. Both cases went cold for over forty years. Then Hutchison took over. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

On January 11, 1974, five-year-old Jonathan Waldman found his mother Barbara face down in her bedroom. For 52 years, Nassau County detectives chased false confessions and dead ends until genetic genealogy finally identified Thomas Generazio—a sanitation worker who lived blocks away and died in 2004, never knowing he'd been caught. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

In March 2022, Eric Richins died in his bed after drinking a Moscow mule his wife made to celebrate a real estate deal. A year later, Kouri published a children's book about grief — written with her three sons. Weeks after, she was arrested for murder. This episode examines the financial forensics and witness testimony that led to her March 2026 conviction. This episode was generated with AI assis...

From a discarded pizza crust to digital 'blueprints' for murder—how investigators built the case against a suburban architect accused of killing seven women over 17 years. Rex Heuermann's expected guilty plea marks the end of one of Long Island's most haunting cold cases. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

In March 2026, FBI agents arrested 68-year-old Benjamin Wagner, a retired Detroit Police sergeant, in North Carolina on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting six girls and women between 1999 and 2003. The breakthrough came from Detroit's notorious rape kit backlog—over 11,000 untested kits discovered abandoned in a police warehouse in 2009. This episode examines how the evidence that could...

How a .380 shell casing and forensic genealogy finally linked the infamous Yogurt Shop Murders to a serial killer who died by suicide in 1999—and revealed a killing spree spanning nearly a decade across seven states. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie — the 84-year-old mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie — was taken from her home in Catalina Foothills, Arizona. Security footage captured a masked, armed intruder. Multiple ransom notes demanded cryptocurrency. DNA evidence was recovered from a glove left near the scene. Six weeks later, a massive federal investigation continues — but Nancy Guthrie's fate remains un...

Indiana State Police's forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG) team has cracked cases dating back five decades, including the 1975 abduction and assault of three young girls by the 'Slasher.' The unit combines scientists, genealogists, and detectives to transform cold case investigation in Indiana. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

On May 2, 2001, Leslie Preer was found murdered in her Chevy Chase, Maryland home. For 23 years, DNA evidence sat waiting. Then forensic genealogy led detectives to a name they recognized — her daughter's high school boyfriend. This episode was generated with AI assistance.

In 1992, a man's body was pulled from Pittsburgh's Allegheny River after a witness reported an assault. Arthur Wiley was convicted of third-degree murder within a year — but the victim remained unidentified for over three decades. This episode examines how genetic genealogy technology finally revealed his name: Allan Barry Keener, born in 1940, with ties to Ohio and Kentucky. Through Othram's prop...