Crime at Bedtime

On January 25th, 2019, police arrived at a home in Chuluota, Florida, for a wellness check. Cody Amato, a thirty-one-year-old nurse anaesthetist, hadn't shown up for work—something he'd never done in five years. Inside, they found a scene of horror: Chad Amato, Margaret Amato, and Cody Amato. All three shot execution-style in their own home. One family member was missing: twenty-nine-year-old Gran...

In the summer of 1982, bodies began appearing along Washington's Green River. Young women—many of them sex workers, many of them runaways—were being strangled and dumped in remote wooded areas around Seattle. By 1984, the death toll had reached over forty. The Green River Task Force assembled. The FBI sent profilers. Even imprisoned serial killer Ted Bundy was consulted for insights. But year afte...

On October 25th, 1994, Susan Smith reported that a Black man had carjacked her vehicle at gunpoint with her two young sons still inside. Three-year-old Michael and fourteen-month-old Alexander were gone, taken by a stranger into the South Carolina night. For nine days, the nation watched as Susan and her husband David made tearful pleas on television for their children's safe return. "America's ch...

When Colorado mom Kristil Krug started receiving threatening messages from an ex-boyfriend she hadn't seen in twenty years, she did everything right. She documented the harassment, reported it to police, installed security cameras, and even hired a private investigator. For two months, the stalker sent increasingly violent threats, claiming to watch her every move and sending photos of her husband...

In December 2021, Tom Phillips vanished into the dense New Zealand wilderness with his three children—Jayda, Maverick, and Ember—triggering a nearly four-year manhunt that gripped the nation. Using his expert survival skills and knowledge of the rugged Waikato region, Phillips evaded police, elite military trackers, and an $80,000 reward while allegedly committing armed robberies to survive. The s...

In October 2023, police knocked on Holly Willoughby’s door with a warning: a stranger online had drawn up a detailed plan to kidnap, rape and murder her. In this episode, we break down who Gavin Plumb is, how his obsession escalated in secret chats like “Abduct Lovers”, what investigators found in his flat, and how an undercover officer helped stop the plot before it began. Become a Patreon or App...

Four hostages. One armed robber. Six days inside a Stockholm bank vault. What unfolded in Sweden in 1973 wasn’t just a crime. It was a psychological phenomenon the world had never seen before. As police surrounded the bank and negotiations dragged on, the hostages began to fear law enforcement more than the man holding them captive. They refused to testify against him. They defended his actions. T...

In May 2013, Hamilton father Tim Bosma advertised his pickup truck for sale and agreed to let two men take it for a test drive. He never came home. What began as a routine sale quickly turned into one of Canada’s most disturbing modern murder cases. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime , we walk through the final night Tim was seen alive, the frantic search that followed, and the investigation that...

Marcus Schrenker was a successful Indiana financial adviser with a luxury lifestyle, a private plane and a growing list of angry investors. In January 2009, as lawsuits and investigations closed in, Schrenker climbed into the cockpit of his Piper and made a chilling choice: he radioed a distress call, set the plane on a crash course towards Florida, and bailed out with a parachute, apparently hopi...

They were decorated NYPD detectives, patrolling the streets of Brooklyn at the height of New York’s organised crime era. But behind the badge, Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were secretly working for the mob – passing on intel, setting up hits and helping the Lucchese crime family stay one step ahead. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime , we walk through how two New York City cops allegedly...

In July 2001, British backpackers Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees were driving through the dark heart of the Australian outback when a vehicle flashed its lights behind them on the Stuart Highway. Minutes later, Peter was gone – and Joanne was running for her life. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime , we walk slowly through the night of the attack, the frantic search in the Northern Territory dese...

In this Crime at Bedtime episode, we dive into the chilling story of Harvey Carignan , the American serial killer better known as “The Want-Ad Killer.” Using newspaper advertisements and chance encounters, Carignan targeted vulnerable young women across several US states, leaving a trail of brutal assaults and murders in his wake. We follow his life from a troubled early history and a death senten...

New Year’s Eve, 1997. Hundreds of partygoers pack into Furneaux Lodge in New Zealand’s remote Marlborough Sounds. By morning, two young friends – Ben Smart and Olivia Hope – have vanished after stepping from a water taxi onto a stranger’s yacht. They are never seen again. In this Crime at Bedtime episode, we walk carefully through one of New Zealand’s most controversial murder cases: the disappear...

On 8 November 2010, emergency services were called to a quiet family home in Markham, Ontario . Nineteen minutes after the first 911 call, police walked into what looked like a violent home invasion: parents shot, valuables scattered, their daughter Jennifer Pan tied upstairs. But as detectives dug deeper, the story began to unravel. In this Crime at Bedtime episode, we slowly and calmly unpack th...

This year I teamed up with arguably the world’s biggest true crime podcast, Casefile, to bring you the story of an incarcerated man I met some time ago who was suing Sean “Diddy” Combs for 100 million dollars. Across this seven-episode series we go on a wild ride through allegations of assault, corruption, and murder for hire which, Derek claimed, all led to his wrongful conviction. Strap yourselv...

This is the real story behind The Santa Claus Bank Robbery — one of the strangest and deadliest crimes in U.S. history. On December 23, 1927, Marshall Ratliff walked into the First National Bank of Cisco dressed as Santa and opened fire. Within minutes, the bank was surrounded by armed civilians. What followed was chaos: a running gun battle through the streets, a hostage dragged into a getaway ca...

He called himself a pilot. A businessman. A man of wealth and connections. But every airport lounge, every luxury hotel, and every first-class boarding gate he stepped through was part of a lie. Before the world knew him as “Simon Leviev,” Shimon Hayut was building an international web of deception — forging flight credentials, slipping through Europe’s airports, and conning his way into the lives...

In the quiet town of Aberdeen, New South Wales , John Price was a well-liked father and hardworking abattoir operator. Katherine Knight was the woman he’d tried to leave more than once, terrified of how violent she could become. What unfolded in February 2000 remains one of the most disturbing crimes in Australian history. In this Crime at Bedtime episode, Jack walks you through the chilling case...

At just 11 years old , Jaycee Lee Dugard vanished while walking to her school bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. Her abduction, carried out in seconds, sparked one of the largest missing-child investigations in California history. For years, detectives chased thousands of leads — but Jaycee had simply vanished. In this Crime at Bedtime episode, Jack unpacks the harrowing case of Jaycee Lee Dugard , who...

A cryptic list of 67 strange phrases. Dozens of young men found murdered along highways across California. And for years, no one realised the killings were connected. In this Crime at Bedtime episode, Jack takes you deep into the chilling case of Randy Kraft — the Scorecard Killer , one of America’s most methodical and least understood serial murderers. Kraft kept a handwritten list, a “scorecard,...

In the late 2000s, a teenager from a small island in Washington State became one of the most unlikely fugitives in modern American history. He stole planes without formal training, outran police across several states, and left taunting clues behind — including bare footprints at crime scenes. Known to the world as The Barefoot Bandit , Colton Harris-Moore turned burglary into a national manhunt, a...

He was a man of many names, Bob Evans, Curtis Kimball, Larry Vanner and behind every identity, a trail of missing women and murdered children. From a quiet trailer in New Hampshire to a basement in California, Terry Rasmussen moved through America for decades, changing faces, stories, and lives. When investigators finally uncovered the barrels in Bear Brook State Park, they began to see the monstr...

When a missing Texas teenager miraculously reappeared in Spain three years after vanishing, his family thought their prayers had been answered. But the boy who came home wasn’t Nicholas Barclay. He was Frédéric Bourdin — a 23-year-old French conman who had stolen a child’s identity, a family’s hope, and the world’s belief in miracles. This chilling story unravels one of the strangest deceptions in...

In February 2003, a gang of Italian thieves pulled off what would be called the Heist of the Century, slipping into Antwerp’s Diamond District, bypassing six layers of security, and walking out with more than $100 million in gems, gold, and cash. No alarms. No witnesses. No fingerprints. But behind the perfection lay a single fatal mistake that brought the mastermind, Leonardo Notarbartolo, undone...

In 1929 Kentucky, a six-year-old boy picked up his father’s shotgun—and changed American legal history. When little Carl Newton Mahan shot and killed eight-year-old Cecil Darnell after a fight over scrap metal, he became the youngest person ever tried for murder in the United States. Reporters packed the Knott County Courthouse as the barefoot child sat at the defence table, playing with a toy car...