Cosmic Crimes

Richard "The Torso Killer" Cottingham lived a seemingly conventional life in New Jersey, working as a computer operator, marrying, and raising children. Behind that public identity, investigators linked him to a series of murders spanning New York and New Jersey from the late 1960s through 1980. He was convicted of multiple murders and remains imprisoned on multiple life sentences; in later years,...

In our very first true-crime-only episode we cover Elaine Parent, one of the most wanted fugitives in the United States after she was suspected of killing Beverly McGowan in 1990 and assuming her identity. Known as "The Chameleon," Parent allegedly moved through several states using false names, stolen identities, and convincing disguises as investigators worked to trace her movements. Her case en...

Pamela Smart became the center of one of America's first nationally televised murder trials after she was convicted in 1991 of being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering in the 1990 killing of her husband, Gregg Smart. Prosecutors said Smart had an affair with her teenage lover, Billy Flynn, and persuaded him to carry out the murder. She is servi...

David "D4VD" Burke rose from online music success into a fast-growing career defined by intimate songwriting and a rapidly expanding fanbase. But in 2026, prosecutors charged Burke in connection with the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose remains were discovered in an impounded Tesla registered to him in September 2025. He faces charges including first-degree murder, continuous se...

Sean "Diddy" Combs built a music and business empire around charisma, ambition, and control, then faced a public reckoning as criminal charges and civil allegations brought intense scrutiny to the systems around him. In 2025, a federal jury acquitted Combs of racketeering and sex-trafficking counts but convicted him on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution; he was later sentenced...

Before she became the Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory was born into power, privilege, and a legacy that made her impossible to ignore. Her story has lived for centuries between myth and monster, with some seeing one of history's most feared women and others seeing a wealthy widow caught in a brutal struggle over land, status, and control. Her chart is just as intense. A Leo stellium gives her th...

On the night of May 11, 2022, Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson was staying with friends in Austin and preparing for a major gravel race when she was shot and killed, leaving her family and community stunned by the violence of it. What began as a promising trip for competition turned into a murder case fueled by jealousy, with Kaitlin Armstrong eventually emerging as the woman accused of tracking Mo down ov...

Late on Halloween night in 2001, sports editor Kent Heitholt left the Columbia Daily Tribune and walked into the parking lot behind the newspaper, minutes later, he was beaten, strangled, and left beside his car, with a brutal scene and plenty of forensic evidence that somehow didn't lead to the right person. Two years later, the focus shifted to teens Ryan Ferguson and Charles Erickson, even thou...

Sante Kimes built a life on charm, manipulation, and crime, moving from insurance and fraud schemes into a string of cons, thefts, and eventually high‑profile cases that turned her into a tabloid villain. Across decades, she pulled family members into her scams, reinvented herself to fit whatever role she needed, and left behind a trail of victims, legal battles, and a public record that raises ha...

Taylor Parker carefully built the image of a devoted partner and expectant mother while hiding a web of lies that stretched across her relationships and daily life. She fabricated a pregnancy, manipulated those closest to her, and crossed a line into devastating violence to steal the future she wanted instead of facing the reality she had created, leaving a trail of grief, outrage, and hard questi...

On November 30, 1989, the body of Richard Mallory was found off a Florida highway, and within a year investigators tied that scene to a series of roadside killings committed by Aileen Wuornos. She admitted to shooting seven men between 1989 and 1990 while working as a hitchhiking sex worker, describing the encounters as self‑defense against violent clients, against a background of abandonment, chi...

Over years of donating through clinics and privately, Jonathan Jacob Meijer is alleged to have fathered hundreds of children across different countries, leaving parents to discover they are part of a much larger donor sibling group than they expected. What was supposed to be a carefully limited genetic contribution, turned into something expanding and hard to map. Fears were raised about accidenta...

On June 4, 2008, Jodi Arias killed Travis Alexander in his Mesa, Arizona home in a crime that involved dozens of stab wounds, a gunshot, and a fatal throat cut. The relationship leading up to that day was turbulent, with breakups, reconciliations, and a mix of jealousy, idealization, and monitoring that turned their connection into something increasingly unstable and charged. Her Cancer Sun points...

On the night of June 8–9, 2019, Jeffrey Ian Paschel assaulted his fiancée in an attack that left visible injuries and led to the charges that would finally bring his history into court. That incident pushed a longer pattern of alleged domestic violence, intimidation, and manipulation into the open, as other partners and past reports surfaced to show this was not an isolated event but part of an on...

On June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh reported that his wife Maggie and son Paul had been shot at the family's Moselle property in South Carolina, pulling a powerful Lowcountry legal dynasty under scrutiny. His life up to then had followed the family script, third‑generation attorney, local influence, and a public role built on access and reputation, while financial crimes, opioid addiction, and lies wer...

Terry Rasmussen moved through families and states under a series of borrowed names, leaving missing women and children in his wake long before anyone knew the man behind the aliases. From the late 1970s into the early 2000s, he lived as Bob Evans in New Hampshire, Curtis Kimball and Gordon Jensen in California, and Larry Vanner in the Bay Area, working blue‑collar jobs and embedding himself in hou...

Luka Magnotta engineered his image long before his crime made global headlines. He moved through modeling attempts, adult work, and online personas, constantly reshaping how he appeared and who he seemed to be. The attention he struggled to secure in mainstream spaces resurfaced in darker ways, through animal cruelty videos and escalating behavior documented and shared online. By the time of the m...

Warren Jeffs built his power through absolute authority, religious control, and the isolation of the community he ruled. As the FLDS prophet, he positioned himself as a divine gatekeeper, shaping obedience through doctrine, fear, and strict control over marriage, family, and access to the outside world. His rise and conviction came from a system built to keep followers dependent on him and to make...

On October 27, 2019, Wade Wilson was arrested in connection with a string of violent attacks in Florida, including the murders of Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz, cases that pushed his name into local and then national headlines. His history shows a buildup of volatility and impulsive behavior long before those killings, with prior run‑ins, anger, and escalation tracking through his twenties. By th...

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family bathtub, a crime that stunned the public and forced a closer look at untreated mental illness, postpartum psychosis, and the pressures inside her home. Her story traces a path from a high‑achieving, rule‑following child and nurse, to a deeply religious wife and mother whose world narrowed into caretaking, isolation, and escalat...

On November 9, 2010, Isakin Drabbad killed his girlfriend in Skara, Sweden, after a childhood marked by instability and time spent in institutional care. He grew up moving through fractured environments, with little sense of steadiness, and that background followed him into adulthood as isolation, drug use, and escalating violence took over. The details of his life point to someone shaped early by...

Jeffrey Epstein built his power through quiet introductions that opened doors to extraordinary influence. A conversation on a flight led to a partnership with billionaire Leslie Wexner, anchoring him in the upper tiers of American business. From there, his reach expanded into political and global networks, intersecting with figures like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and Ehud Barak. Be...

Ghislaine Maxwell's story begins with dynastic power and a father whose empire defined her sense of worth. Raised in privilege and pressure, she learned early that proximity to influence could function like armor. After her father's death and the collapse of his fortune, she repositioned herself inside Jeffrey Epstein's inner circle, using social fluency and pedigree to bridge the gap between high...

In the rarefied world of wealth, influence, and private islands, Jeffrey Epstein built an empire on secrecy, manipulation, and access. For years, he moved through elite social circles with an air of authority and confidence, cultivating powerful connections while hiding a predatory double life that targeted vulnerable girls and young women. The shocking allegations, arrests, and eventual fallout e...

In the quiet town of Alba, Texas, a brutal crime in 2008 exposed the darkness that can grow behind youthful innocence. Sixteen year old Erin Caffey appeared to be the embodiment of small town promise, bright, charismatic, and deeply rooted in her church community. Beneath that image, resentment and obsession built over time until they erupted into an unthinkable act, the orchestration of her own f...