Crime Family: A True Crime Podcast

In our three-part season finale miniseries, we explore cases of travellers who go missing while abroad. In the third and final part, we go back to the summer of 1989, when 20-year-old Charles Horvath-Allan embarked on what was meant to be a life-changing trip across Canada. Drawn to the freedom of the road, he eventually made his way to Kelowna, British Columbia where he settled into the city’s ba...

In our three-part season finale miniseries, we explore cases of travellers who go missing while abroad.  In April 2014, Dutch tourists Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon set out on a hike just outside Boquete, Panama—a scenic, well-traveled trail that should have taken only a few hours. They were never seen again. What followed was a desperate search that ended in a series of chilling discoveries: a b...

In our three-part season finale miniseries, we explore cases of travellers who go missing while abroad.  Part one focuses on the disappearance of Marion Barter - one of Australia’s most puzzling missing persons cases. In 1997, the 51-year-old teacher set off on a year-long overseas trip, staying in contact with family as she traveled. Just 5 weeks into her trip, she made a final call to her daught...

In November 1980, Granger Taylor vanished from Vancouver Island after leaving behind a chilling note claiming he was departing on a 42-month journey aboard an alien spacecraft. A brilliant mechanic known for rebuilding planes and heavy machinery, Granger’s sudden disappearance — and the strange message he left behind — quickly turned into one of Canada’s most baffling mysteries. When his blown-out...

On Friday, May 27, 2011, Madison Scott went camping at Hogsback Lake with a group of friends for a birthday celebration. On Saturday night, a larger party occurred with people coming and going into the early hours. By Sunday morning, everyone had left the area and Maddy was missing. Her truck remained at the site, her tent had been flattened, and her belongings including her sleeping bag and purse...

In the early hours of February 2, 2025, 22-year-old Liam Toman went missing during a ski weekend at Mont Tremblant. Shortly after 3 a.m., he left a nearby bar and began the brief walk back to his hotel. CCTV footage shows him moving through the resort village, appearing to head toward his hotel. Yet despite multiple cameras along the route, there is no record of him ever entering the building.  On...

Listener discretion advised: This episode discusses violence and sexual assault that may be disturbing to some listeners. In March 2011, a gruesome discovery inside a Lululemon store in Bethesda, Maryland shocked the community. Thirty-year-old employee Jayna Murray was found brutally murdered, while her coworker was discovered bound in the back room, claiming to have been attacked by masked intrud...

In 2004, 14-year-old Max DeVries disappeared while on a family vacation in Aruba. What started as a relaxing trip took a tragic turn when Max went jet skiing with a man he had recently met at their resort—and never returned. Hours later, the man came back alone, injured and with a story that raised troubling questions. Authorities ruled that Max was likely lost at sea, but inconsistencies in polic...

This week, we examine the murders of Brianna Jankauskas and Grace Millane — two women in opposite parts of the world who went on dates with men they met online and never made it home. Tragically, what began as routine first dates quickly turned into criminal investigations and a pursuit of justice for their families.  We also discuss "Operation Fireball", a terrifying look into a possibl...

In February 2008, 24-year-old real estate agent Lindsay Buziak walked into a luxury home showing in Victoria, British Columbia… and never walked out. What was supposed to be a routine meeting with prospective buyers turned into one of Canada’s most chilling unsolved murders. The couple who requested the showing used fake names, burner phones, and a carefully crafted story to lure Lindsay to the va...

* This episode contains audio clips from real 911 calls and brief mentions of sexual assault that may be disturbing. Listener discretion is strongly advised* This week, as we mark the fifth anniversary of our very first episode, we examine five deeply distressing 911 calls — harrowing moments captured on tape, and in one case, a moment that led to rescue.  We begin with the haunting disappearance...

In July 2014, 28-year-old Lars Mittank vanished in one of the strangest missing persons cases ever recorded. While traveling in Bulgaria, Lars stayed behind as his friends returned to Germany—then abruptly fled Varna Airport, leaving behind his luggage, phone, and passport. Security footage captured his final known moments before he disappeared without a trace. In this episode, we explore the time...

The Kiara Agnew case is one of the most tragic Canadian true crime stories, involving a Canadian woman killed in Mexico while traveling with her boyfriend. In this episode, we examine what happened to Kiara Agnew at a luxury Mexican resort, where she was killed just hours after arriving, leaving her family in Canada searching for answers. Using details primarily from a recent W5 episode, "If...

In September 2020, 24-year-old Chelsea Poorman went missing from Vancouver, Canada. Last seen in the early morning hours on Granville Street, Chelsea disappeared without a trace. Her family reported her missing two days later, launching a search that would stretch on for nearly nineteen months. In April 2022, contractors made a shocking discovery: Chelsea’s skeletal remains were found in the backy...

When the Tromp family abruptly flees their quiet rural home in Australia on August 29, 2016, it sets off one of the most disturbing and perplexing cases the country has ever known. Less than 24 hours later, police receive a chilling late-night call: a young woman has been found barely conscious in the back of a stranger’s truck. She’s nearly catatonic, unable to say who she is or how she got there...

In Part Two of our deep dive into Israel Keyes, we examine the abduction and murders of Bill and Lorraine Currier, using their case to better understand the mindset and methods of one of the most calculated serial killers in modern U.S. history. Their murders in Vermont would later become a key piece in unraveling how Keyes selected victims at random, planned his crimes well in advance, and moved...

In part one of a two-part deep dive, we discuss Israel Keyes—a methodical, calculating killer who traveled the US leaving little evidence of his crimes and believing he could remain invisible. For years, Keyes planned everything in advance, choosing victims at random and covering his tracks with chilling precision. That illusion shattered in 2012 with the abduction and murder of 18-year-old Samant...

For nearly seven years, Cindy James lived in a waking nightmare. Anonymous phone calls. Letters filled with threats. Break-ins that left no clear suspect. And attacks that seemed to escalate in both violence and cruelty. To friends, family, and police, Cindy appeared to be the target of a relentless and unseen stalker. But when Cindy went missing in 1989, the question shifted dramatically. Was Cin...

In January 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse vanished from her Orlando condo without a trace. Her apartment showed signs of a normal morning routine — but she never made it to work. Later, her car was found abandoned at a nearby complex, with surveillance footage capturing an unidentified person dropping it off. The case quickly grew into one of Florida’s most haunting mysteries, marked by limited...

In June 2009, a quiet, gray-haired man checked into a Sligo, Ireland hotel under the name Peter Bergmann—a name that would later prove false.  Over the next three days, he wandered the town systematically disposing of personal belongings while evading CCTV, and keeping his movements eerily deliberate. When his body washed up dead on a local beach, investigators found no wallet, no phone, no identi...

On Christmas Eve 1945, a devastating house fire tore through the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. By morning, five of the Sodder children were presumed dead. But as the fires were put out, one haunting question remained: where were the bodies? In this episode, we unravel the baffling disappearance of the Sodder Children-  from missing remains and incomplete fire investigations to...

This week, we’re re-visting one of the most notorious wrongful-conviction cases in modern true crime: the story of Adnan Syed. In this episode, we unravel the whirlwind of developments since his conviction was vacated in 2022 — from the evidence (or lack thereof) that set him free after 23 years behind bars, to the legal rollercoaster that followed. After HBO dropped a brand-new fifth chapter of T...

In June 1992, Suzanne Streeter, her friend Stacy McCall, and Suzanne’s mother, Sherill Levitt, vanished without a trace in the early morning hours. Their home showed almost no signs of disturbance—yet a few unsettling details inside left investigators and the community searching for answers. In part two of our coverage, we explore the leading theories in this perplexing case, including the involve...

In part one of this two-part episode, we dive into the baffling disappearance of the Springfield Three. In June 1992, Suzanne Streeter, her friend Stacy McCall, and Suzanne’s mother, Sherill Levitt, mysteriously vanished in the early morning hours—leaving behind a home that showed almost no signs of a struggle. Still, several odd details inside the house left investigators and the community puzzle...

CRIME FAMILY is back!  In our first episode of season seven, we explore the shocking and deeply disputed 2011 death of 27-year-old Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg, who was found in her locked apartment with 20 stab wounds — yet her death was ultimately ruled a suicide. We walk through the chilling scene, the conflicting autopsy results, and the forensic evidence that has baffled experts and f...