Cousins on Crime

Chris Smith was eager to finally get together, IRL, with Leslie, a woman he'd recently met online. She seemed like the perfect match for him - she was intelligent, loved to work out, and devoted her life to helping others escape dangerous situations. But their first date would be their last when a maniac broke into Chris's home with murderous intent.  Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: Cousi...

April 3, 1985 rocked the upper-middle class community of Boonsboro, Virginia when a couple was found brutally butchered in their home. Investigators were at a standstill until a rental car agreement broke the case wide open. What followed, is a twisted tale of two fugitives living under false identities, committing check fraud, and ultimately turning on each other. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcas...

When Cassidy Stay answered a knock at the front door of her family home in Spring, Texas, her world turned stopped. The FedEx delivery man standing before her wasn't there to deliver a package, he was there for revenge. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrime Check out our merch store! http...

Christmas was approaching in Fallbrook, California in 2012, when a young Army Reservist vanished. Weeks went by without answers from police, or the family-hired private investigator, before an unbelievable realization that Alvin's body had been hidden in plain sight. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.co...

The bright-eyed and strong-willed Phoebe Handsjuk, was determined to finally end the volatile relationship she had with her boyfriend...that is until she was found dead in the utility room of her apartment complex. Phoebe's boyfriend moved on and would find himself mourning the loss of another girlfriend, years later. Was it all just a coincidence or was there one obvious common denominator betwee...

Linda Sobek was a former NFL cheerleader who'd turned her focus to modeling and acting in the fall of 1995. But her light would be snuffed out when a last-minute photoshoot turned deadly. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrime Check out our merch store! https://cousinsoncrime-shop.fourthwa...

Stalking cases are some of the most frightful stories we tell here. The danger lurking outside your door, your workplace, or being followed would surely send you into a panic, but do the laws protect us when we need it most? Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrime Check out our merch store!...

A snow storm had rolled into the small town of Boone, North Carolina in February of 1972 with cruel intentions. The Durham's, Bryce and Virginia, and their son Bobby Joe, had just arrived home, safe and sound, having traversed the hazardous road conditions only to find that they were walking into the last moments of their lives. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com The...

A snow storm had rolled into the small town of Boone, North Carolina in February of 1972 with cruel intentions. The Durham's, Bryce and Virginia, and their son Bobby Joe, had just arrived home, safe and sound, having traversed the hazardous road conditions only to find that they were walking into the last moments of their lives. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com The...

Ricardo Hibi was the type of guy that everyone relied upon in his tight-knit community of Manitoba, Canada. With an upcoming wedding and newly certified group home for troubled youth, everything was falling into place. But a storm was rolling in; an unexpected tragedy that no one could come back from. Sources: Final Moments: Death at the Front Door https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/kane-moar...

Wayne Nance was a serial killer who terrorized the community of Missoula, Montana in the 1970's and 80's. Some outlets refer to him as the Missoula Mauler, but no title could ever describe the heinous acts perpetrated by this monster. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrime Check out our me...

Wayne Nance was a serial killer who terrorized the community of Missoula, Montana in the 1970's and 80's. Some outlets refer to him as the Missoula Mauler, but no title could ever describe the heinous acts perpetrated by this monster. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrime Check out our me...

Alyssa Burkett thought she'd found love in Andrew Beard, but once their daughter was born, it became clear that their relationship would not last. Each of them moved on to someone new, continuing to fight every step of the way to gain sole custody of their little girl. The feud grew so toxic that eventually neither one of them would get the child, because one would end up dead and one would end up...

Nearly a year after the Sims family triple homicide, Tallahassee, Florida was struck with another heinous set of crimes. Two teenage girls were found brutally beaten, stabbed, and shot in a wooded area near Blue Sink. Unlike the murders of the Sims family, police had a viable suspect for the double homicide near the remote swimming hole. The question that haunted the community was impossible to ig...

Back in the 1960's, Tallahassee, Florida was a small town where residents didn't lock their doors. But the community's sense of safety was shattered when a teenage girl came home late one night to find her parents and little sister had been brutally murdered in their home. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patr...

Loving father and husband, Keith Gentry, had built a beautiful family with his college sweetheart, Darlene, in Robinson, Texas. On the morning of November 9, 2005, Darlene woke to her worst nightmare when she found the back door open and her husband in bed covered in blood. Police quickly gravitated to the most obvious suspect, but they had no idea that she, herself, would lead them to the evidenc...

It was late in the afternoon on a Friday when 16-year-old Jholie Moussa and her identical twin sister, Zhane, decompressed in their room after a tiring day at school. Gearing up for the long, holiday weekend, Zhane felt relief but Jholie seemed to be preoccupied with texting someone before she abruptly walked out the front door. Zhane couldn't have known that would be the last time she saw her sis...

Teenagers Angela Pastorino and her boyfriend, Alfredo Hernandez, were inseparable—bound not only by young love, but by a shared desire to help anyone who needed a hand. On August 16, 2022, they set out to help assist a friend’s mom with home-improvement projects as she prepared to sell her house. It was a simple act of kindness they’d done countless times before. But this time, Angela and Alfredo...

Police tending to a simple car accident in Hells Kitchen, were flagged down by a homeless man who had just found the body of a young woman in a New York City tunnel. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrime Check out our merch store! https://cousinsoncrime-shop.fourthwall.com/? Sources: http...

In 1994, Robin Lawrence seemed to have it all — a loving husband, a young daughter, and a quiet home in Springfield, Virginia. But when her husband left on a business trip, that picture-perfect life shattered overnight. What followed was a chilling crime that would haunt investigators for decades before the truth finally came to light. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail....

In the Fall of 2022, police responded to a small home in Santa Fe, New Mexico due to a reported stabbing. With little information to go on, investigators fell further and further into confusion when the suspects fained ignorance and ran circles around the truth. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Cou...

In 2017, the peaceful atmosphere in the Clovis Carver Library was shattered when a 16-year-old kid opened fire on unsuspecting families. Several were wounded in the mass shooting, but two, very beloved women, lost their life. Despite the perpetrator expressing his urge to kill and self harm, his threats went unreported and he continued to have open access to his father's guns. How did it all go so...

Mexican-American singer, Selena Quintanilla, was as established artist in the Latin community; hailed as the Queen of Tejano. At just 18-years-old, she was signed as a solo artist with dreams of English albums, fashion boutiques, and life on a farm with the man she loved. Sadly, some of her dreams would never be realized because one of her closest confidants had betrayed her in the most unimaginab...

Veronica Kasprzak went upstairs to check on her 15-year-old daughter, Annie, only to find an empty room and a runaway note on the bed. The very next day, a gruesome discovery would lead police down a twisty path that would eventually lead them right back to the beginning. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! https://www.patre...

Using DNA technology, one of the most infamous cases, the Yogurt Shop murders, has recently been solved! The suspect in the quadruple homicide from 1991 was also linked to crimes in Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Missouri; though it's believed he's responsible for so much more. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcast Email: CousinsonCrime@gmail.com Theme Music by AleXZavesa Join our Patreon! ht...