Crime Junkie

When 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places disappears after a night with friends in Hardin, Montana, her family and friends hold their breath waiting for answers. As the months pass, the story that starts to emerge is one so inconceivable, it will have you wondering: what exactly is going on in Big Horn County? To sign the Justice for Kaysera petition, visit https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-...

For years, the LGBTQ+ community in Toronto, Canada worried there was a serial killer targeting men in the city’s Church and Wellesley neighborhood. Police disagreed and downplayed their concerns -- and all the while, more men vanished into thin air. But the truth, when it was finally revealed, showed just how complicated a relationship still exists between Toronto Police and the LGBTQ+ community....

The Pan Family seemed to have it all until a shocking home invasion upended their lives in the most vicious way imaginable.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit  https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/captured-je...

In 2001, a young man vanished without a trace and more than 20 years later the only thing law enforcement is sure of is that someone in Skidmore, Missouri knows something.    If you have any information about the disappearance of Branson Perry, please contact the Community United Effort Center 24-hour tip line at 910-232-1687, the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office at 660-582-7451, or the Missouri St...

Two teenage girls in love are forced to endure an unimaginable trauma that rocks their south Texas town.    To learn more about the Indiana Youth Group please visit  www.indianayouthgroup.org .    For more information regarding the LGBTQ+ Competency Training for your business or organization please email yperez@indianayouthgroup.org .   Kristene Chapa's GoFundMe   For current Fan Club membership o...

A summer joyride turns deadly when three men are viciously gunned down in the hills of southern Tennessee.    For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit  https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/infamous-signal-mountain-mu...

A Catholic priest is found savagely beaten to death in an Odessa, TX motel room in 1981. A man confessed to the crime -- but instead of closing the case, people are still left wondering: Was justice served in the murder of Father Patrick Ryan?    In 2023, almost 40 years after the murder of Father Patrick Ryan, two Crime Junkies' efforts led to uncovering untested evidence that proved the man conv...

A Tokyo family is slaughtered in their home, leaving behind a brutal and baffling mystery.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit  https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/infamous-setagaya-family-murders/   Don’t mi...

A little girl vanishes from her bedroom in the middle of the night only to be found brutally murdered, forcing her community to recognize that the worst really IS possible. If you have any information about the murder of Rosie Tapia, please call the Salt Lake City police department at 801-799-3455.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/librar...

A woman leaves her sister’s home one April day in 1998 and never returns. But she doesn’t vanish into thin air, because over the next several years, there are sightings, phone calls, even physical signs that she might be out there somewhere.  If you have any information about Diane Augat’s disappearance, contact Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873-TIPS.   May is Mental Health Month. Please ta...

In 1989 the small town of Lakeville, Indiana was rocked by the massacre of a pastor and his family. The pastor's only surviving son was ultimately convicted of this infamous crime but there is more to this twisted story than has ever been told before. On April 29th, 2021 (the 32nd anniversary of the crime) the audiochuck original podcast CounterClock will be releasing 20 episodes on this case to b...

A beautiful young woman's brutal murder at the height of Midwestern summer shatters her community's sense of safety forever and exposes a monster hiding right there in plain sight.  Please join us in supporting justiceforsierah.org   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to...

When two women are violently murdered five years apart and half a world away, advocates look for a way to call attention to the serious and growing issue of femicide in Turkey. The campaign takes off -- but while it gains momentum, it loses its original meaning. This is the real story behind the viral #ChallengeAccepted campaign that flooded your Insta feed in the summer of 2020.   For current Fan...

When a mother of three walks out her front door and into the New York morning, she leaves a trail of heartbreak, suspicion, and unanswered questions in her wake. It takes almost 15 years for investigators to finally untangle the truth about her disappearance –and the unimaginable reason behind it all. For resources on child sexual abuse, including what to look for and how to file a report, visit w...

When Esther Hollis goes missing after a conversation with her husband, her best friend and sister try to get justice in what they believe is a no body homicide.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https:...

In 1995 a new mother is killed after being attacked by a man who'd been harassing her. Or at least, that's what everyone believed. But years later investigators learn there might be much more to the story.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. Fo...

When a woman is murdered in a small Rust Belt town, the quest to find her killer gets turned upside down.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit  https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/murdered-heather-bogle/   Don...

Two different people have one terrible thing in common: they were both brutally murdered but despite evidence left at the scene no one has been able to identify them in decades, leaving many still wondering who they are and what really happened to them.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot...

Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint in the middle of the night from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2002. She was 14 years old. For more than 9 months, she was held captive by a predator – one who kept her hidden in plain sight. To learn more about the programs and services Elizabeth mentioned please visit https://www.elizabethsmartfoundation.org/   For current Fan Club membership o...

After Mark Lundy was convicted of viciously slaying his wife and daughter, another story started to emerge, leading many people in New Zealand to wonder…was the wrong man behind bars?   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sourc...

When a woman and her young daughter are found brutally murdered in their home, the investigation leads to the person who was supposed to have loved them more than anyone else in the world.   For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of...

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball was one of our most popular episodes ever! And it's more terrifying than we even knew because after our episode many women from all over the country wrote in and said they experienced the exact same thing! With the help of Delia D'Ambra we tracked down the bartender and witness from our original story and spoke to a number of other survivors along with an agent from the...

On a cold day in March 2010, workers discovered a woman lying unconscious under the MacKay Bridge in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - barely breathing and clinging to life. It was 31-year-old Holly Bartlett. Police say she walked almost a quarter of a mile from the front door of her condo building, where she crawled through a hole in a barbed wire fence, climbed a 20ft concrete cable abutment, and f...

A child's mysterious disappearance sparks tough questions about his adoptive family and the system that placed him there. If you know anything about the disappearance of Jaliek Rainwalker, please contact the Cambridge-Greenwich police at 518-677-3044. For more information on how you can support the nonprofit Child Advocates, check out their website www.childadvocates.net   For current Fan Club mem...

A shockingly brutal crime rocks a rural New Zealand community, but the fallout has bigger consequences than anyone could ever have imagined.    For current Fan Club membership options and policies, please visit  https://crimejunkie.app/library/ .  Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit https://crimejunkiepodcas...