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This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you a preview from another one of her shows: Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, co-hosted with forensic psychologist Dr. Tristin Engels. In this episode, they're joined by Andrea Gunning of the podcast Betrayal Weekly to dig into serial killer Ed Kemper — who murdered at least six young women in the 1970s and then killed his own mother. This is Part 1. For Pa...

In 1990, 22-year-old Pamela Smart's husband was shot in the head inside their New Hampshire home. Investigators soon learned Pamela — a media coordinator at a local high school — had been sleeping with a 15-year-old student, and had talked him into killing her husband. Her trial was the first murder trial in the country ever televised gavel to gavel. She got life without parole. This past week, at...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you an episode from another one of her shows: Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes. In this episode: "The Disney Machine." Walt Disney didn't just build a theme park — he built a system of total control and convinced the world to call it magic. Vanessa unpacks the nine-acre tunnel network beneath the parks, the 56 years Disney ran its own government in Florida...

On an October night in 2022, 21-year-old Grace Jennings was killed with a sword inside a Santa Fe garage. The woman who wielded the blade — Kiara McCulley — has already pleaded guilty. But her boyfriend, Isaac Apodaca, never touched it. Prosecutors argued he didn't need to: he'd convinced 19-year-old Kiara they were part of a secret society that hunted down "bad people," and that killing Grace was...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you an episode from another Crime House show: The Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole. Each week, they cover a different missing persons case, tracing the final moments before the disappearance. In this episode: the 2013 case of 25-year-old Tiffany Daniels — who clocked out of work in Pensacola, crossed the bridge to Santa Rosa Island, and w...

In July 2023, 28-year-old professional dancer O'Shae Sibley was voguing to Beyoncé's "Renaissance" with his friends at a Brooklyn gas station when a 17-year-old approached them, hurled anti-Black and homophobic slurs, and stabbed O'Shae in the chest. He was dead before the night was over. This past week, three years later, a Brooklyn judge sentenced Dmitriy Popov to 20 years in prison for what a j...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you a preview from another Crime House show: America's Most Infamous Crimes, hosted by Katie Ring. Each week, Katie dives into a three-part story on some of the most notorious crimes in American history. In this episode, she traces the childhood of Richard Ramirez — the infamous "Night Stalker" — and how one of America's most feared serial killers came to be. Th...

On New Year's Eve 1981, 18-year-old Patty Gifford went out to celebrate in Fort Lauderdale. She met a man at a bar named Dennis Sochor. Hours later, she was dead — and her body has never been found. This past Tuesday, more than 44 years later, the state of Florida executed 74-year-old Sochor at Florida State Prison. He became the oldest person the state has ever put to death, in what was Florida's...

Three days after Christmas 1987, 20-year-old Missy Taylor Ellison was beaten to death in her Jacksonville home while her 13-month-old daughter slept a room away. The killer left the baby unharmed on the living room couch and vanished. For 38 years, no one was charged. Then, last week, a 70-year-old man walked into a Florida credit union and called the sheriff's office to say he had information abo...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you a preview from another Crime House show: Murder: True Crime Stories, hosted by Carter Roy. In this episode, Carter traces the years-long affair behind the 1922 murder of Episcopal priest Edward Hall and choir singer Eleanor Mills — found posed beneath a crabapple tree with their love letters scattered around them. This is Part 1. For Part 2, follow Murder: T...

For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don’t get a lead within the first 48 hours. Adapted from the hit A&E true crime series The First 48, Crime House Studios brings you the podcast that drops you inside that critical window: the interrogations, the dead ends, and the breakthroughs that crack a case wide open. Each week, we revisit a landmark investig...

On Christmas Eve 2002, 27-year-old Laci Peterson — eight months pregnant with her son Conner — vanished from her home in Modesto, California. Four months later, her and her baby's bodies washed ashore in San Francisco Bay. Her husband Scott Peterson was convicted of their murders in 2004. Tonight, a new A&E documentary premieres claiming there is evidence — some never seen by the public — that...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you an episode from another one of her shows: Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, where she unpacks stories of murderous cults, criminal cover-ups, mass manipulation, and twisted conspiracies. In this episode: the mysterious death of Marilyn Monroe — the inconsistencies, the conflicting reports, and Monroe's ties to some of the most powerful men in America....

Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old American mother from Armonk, New York, had built a new life in Killarney, Ireland with her young daughter. On July 7th, a family member found her dead in her home. A post-mortem confirmed she had been suffocated after an assault. The man the Gardaí most want to speak with was already gone — on a bus to Dublin, then a flight to the Middle East — before her body was even...

Mariana Yepez built Ricos Tacos Naomi from a single food truck into nearly a dozen taco stands across Los Angeles. Now she's in jail, accused of orchestrating the murder of one of her own employees — 47-year-old mother Soledad Lopez, whose burned body was found in the trunk of her own car at a South LA tow yard last September. Prosecutors say the killing traces back to a disputed $11,500 settlemen...

On a Friday afternoon in March 2023, 17-year-old Xavier Chavarin — a straight-A honors student months from graduating — was stabbed to death while waiting for his mom to pick him up from school in Los Angeles. His attacker was a stranger. Hours later, that same man stabbed a father of three about a mile away. Last week, more than three years after the attacks, David Anthony Zapata was sentenced to...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you a preview from another Crime House show: Murder: True Crime Stories, hosted by Carter Roy. In this episode, Carter introduces the real Kitty Genovese — a 28-year-old Queens bar manager who dreamed of opening an Italian restaurant and quietly loved a woman named Mary Ann — and the brutal 1964 attack outside her apartment that became one of the most infamous c...

In February, 23-year-old Sofía Devries traveled to Patagonia with her boyfriend to earn her scuba diving certification. On a dive to a sunken ship in near-zero visibility, she panicked, pulled out her regulator, and drowned. Five months later, an Argentine court formally charged her instructor with negligent homicide — arguing that the conditions never should have matched two divers who had earned...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you a preview from another one of her shows: Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, co-hosted with forensic psychologist Dr. Tristin Engels. In this episode, they turn to Austin, Texas in 1884 — where an unknown killer began targeting Black female domestic servants in a case that remains unsolved to this day. This is Part 1. For Part 2, follow Serial Killers &amp...

Last October, Chicago couple Zafar Mawani and Guillermo Ortiz moved to Mexico City to care for Zafar's mother as she struggled with Alzheimer's. On a Wednesday in May, they set out to buy a chairlift for her home. Their phones went dark that evening — at the exact same moment. Weeks later, they were found in a mass grave outside Mexico City. Seven people are now in custody, including a former poli...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you an episode from another one of her shows: Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes, where she unpacks stories of murderous cults, criminal cover-ups, mass manipulation, and twisted conspiracies. In this episode: the 1770 Boston Massacre, when British soldiers opened fire on a crowd of colonists — and how figures like Paul Revere turned a chaotic street confron...

Federal prosecutors say former college basketball star Kerr Kriisa spent four years running a $2.2 million wire fraud scheme — inventing personas, faking emergencies, and even impersonating his own mother in emails claiming she had cancer. The FBI arrested Kriisa in Lexington last Friday, and his indictment was unsealed Monday, charging him with five counts of wire fraud against two victims who pr...

This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you an episode from another Crime House show: The Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole. Each week, they cover a different missing persons case, tracing the final moments before the disappearance. In this episode: the 1983 case of Tammy Lynn Leppert — an aspiring actress who called goodbye to her mother, got into a car with a friend, and was n...

Two of the world's most famous daredevils — Netflix's "Skywalkers" Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus — snuck into the Empire State Building last Tuesday, hid overnight, and climbed the antenna 1,454 feet above Manhattan. At the top, Beerkus got down on one knee. Now the couple is facing eight criminal counts in Manhattan — including two felonies. Vanessa walks you through how they pulled it off, the...

Zoe Reidy Watts was 25 — a poet, ceramic artist, and Bay Area presence who had once made work about gender-based violence. In February 2024, after a date night, she was killed inside her boyfriend's Oakland apartment. Surveillance footage caught her escaping to the sidewalk — and her boyfriend, Victor Frieson, dragging her back inside. This past week, more than two years later, a jury found Frieso...