Crime Obsession

Husband Hides His Wife's Death While Planning a New Wedding On March 20, 2020, a minivan was found abandoned on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge with its passenger side heavily damaged and three windows shattered. The driver, Gwen Hasselquist, was gone, and her husband, Eric, quickly claimed she died by suicide. But the evidence left behind, including a mysterious stranger and an unexamined medical detai...

Friends Say He Was Drunk. The Autopsy Tells a Different Story. An 18-year-old's friends said he had too much to drink, but a shoe print on his face and a perforated lung told a different story. What happened to Christian Olsen in the hour no one can account for? In this episode, we analyze the mysterious death of Christian Olsen, an 18-year-old who died from traumatic physical injuries after a nig...

Two Girls Walk Down Main Street and Vanish Forever On a quiet Saturday morning in 1980, two young girls walked down the main street of their small, safe California town and were never seen again. Forty-five years later, no one has been charged, and the mystery of their disappearance remains unsolved. What happened to Teresa Flores and Martha Mezo in a community where everyone knew everyone? In thi...

Surveillance Cameras Vanish Before Police Arrive at Murder Scene A woman is found dead on a sofa, surrounded by dried blood, but before police arrive, the surveillance cameras inside the house disappear entirely. This crucial detail reframes everything that follows in a case where a grieving family is told to "calm down" by a police chief who then resigns. In this episode, we analyze the suspiciou...

Neighbors Vanish After Feuding Family Moves In Next Door On April 12, 2016, a neighbor found a dog alone and two cars missing from a silent house in rural Washington. Patrick Shun and Mo'Nique Patnot, who had concert plans the night before, were gone without a trace. What happened in the 90-minute window after they arrived home? In this episode, we delve into the disappearance of Patrick Shun and...

Sister Discovers Her Brother Has Believed a Lie for 40 Years A twenty-year-old woman was found dead in her apartment with a rope around her neck, and authorities closed the case the same day. Her three-year-old son would spend the next forty years believing his mother died in a shameful accident, but what did the official record leave out? In this episode, we analyze the case of Rowena Wilkinson Z...

Woman Found Dead Inside a Trash Chute Nobody Could Fit Through A young woman's body was found inside a trash chute in a luxury apartment building, an opening too small for an adult to fit through. No fingerprints were ever found on the chute, and her jeans were pulled down to her knees, making the official explanation of accidental death even harder to believe. How did she end up there? In this ep...

Cop Visits His Pregnant Lover Hours Before She Dies A police officer's wife just gave birth, but hours later, he visited his pregnant lover. Three days after that visit, the woman was found dead in her locked apartment, a gym bag strap around her neck. Why did local police rule it a suicide before a formal determination, and what evidence emerged that led the FBI to indict a sworn law enforcement...

The Skull Under the Shrub: Linda Sherman's Unsolved Murder Five years after a St. Louis County mother vanished, her skull was found under a shrub in Bridgeton, Missouri, not buried or hidden, but simply resting there. This discovery reclassified her disappearance as a homicide, yet the man police suspected was already out of reach. What truly happened to Linda Sherman on that ordinary Monday eveni...

Father Lets In the Man Who May Have Killed His Daughter A father arrived home to find an ununiformed police officer waiting in his driveway, only to discover his eighteen-year-old daughter dying minutes later. The officer, who had no official reason to be there, had sent her a chilling message hours earlier: "I'm headed to your house right now." What truly happened inside that house remains unansw...

Woman Writes Her Attacker's Name in Her Own Blood Bound, bleeding, and certain she was going to die, a woman used her last ounce of strength to write a name in her own blood. This desperate act not only identified her attacker but also quietly reopened a murder case that had been unsolved for sixteen years. In this episode, we analyze the harrowing attack on Linda in Rough River Lake, Kentucky, an...

The Husband, The Necklace, The Vanished Wife A woman vanished in 1997, weeks after asking her husband for a divorce, and her body has never been found. The piece of physical evidence that could have changed everything was collected by detectives, then handed back to the very man they suspected. In this episode, we analyze the disappearance of Bonnie Lee Schultz, a woman who sought financial indepe...

Husband Declares His Missing Wife Dead After Seven Years A woman disappeared from her Indianapolis home in 1997, and 26 years later, her body has not been found, no one has been charged, and a crucial room was never examined for evidence. What happened to Bonnie, and why was key evidence never collected? In this episode, we analyze the disappearance of Bonnie, a woman whose private life and the ac...

The Laundry Room Men: Nikki Macau Vanished. A young woman loads laundry into a coin machine at a neighborhood wash house, completely ordinary, completely alone. She will never be seen again - and the man who last spoke to her has never been charged. What happened to Nikki Macau? In this episode, we analyze the disappearance of Nikki Macau from a Richmond, Indiana coin laundry in 2001. We examine t...

Firefighter Watches His Family Die After Suspicious House Fire A Chicago firefighter was on duty when his own home address came across the radio, only to arrive and perform CPR on his wife as his children lay unconscious inside. Despite the official ruling of non-criminal deaths, two unexplained details at the scene raise unsettling questions about the fire's true origin. In this episode, we analy...

Neighbor Was Awake When Rachel Was Shot and Heard Nothing A man returns home from bowling in Gilbert, Arizona, and hears nothing from his neighbor's apartment. Yet, sometime in those same early morning hours, nineteen-year-old Rachel Hansen is shot in her bed. How could a vigilant neighbor hear absolutely nothing during a fatal shooting next door? In this episode, we analyze the perplexing details...

Detective's Wife Records a Warning. Then She's Dead. In 1988, a homicide detective was shot dead on his porch, just months after his wife recorded a secret tape naming him and warning against believing her death was suicide. She died before the tape mattered, and then he was gone too. What did she know, and why did her husband's version of events not align with the evidence? In this episode, we un...

Father Smells Smoke While Killer Shoots His Daughters At 3 AM, a father wakes to the smell of smoke, dismissing it as aerosol cans exploding. He was wrong. Those sounds were shotgun blasts, and someone had already fired at his daughters. In this episode, we analyze the chilling events of November 15, 1986, in Willow Creek, California, a town known as "Murder Mountain." What did investigators find...

Harvard Student Vanishes and the Confession Proves She Was Never There A 25-year-old Harvard graduate student stepped off a plane at Logan Airport with $70 for a taxi and was never seen again. The man convicted in a connected case allegedly confessed that he threw her body into the ocean — yet her wallet turned up in a marsh, on dry land, six miles in the wrong direction. How can a confession be t...

Police Find a Note in Her Purse and Never Ask About It A woman is found stabbed to death in a field, her purse still on her shoulder, containing a handwritten note to a man named Matt. Despite this crucial evidence, police never questioned him about it, leaving a 37-year-old murder unsolved. What secrets did that note hold? In this episode, we analyze the perplexing case of Peggy Hetrick, a woman...

Wife Is Poisoned After Anonymous Letter Points to Her Own Son An anonymous letter arrived at a sheriff's office claiming to know who poisoned Mary Yoder and where the proof was hidden. When investigators found the evidence exactly as described, they didn't feel relief; they felt suspicion. Why would a killer leave such a precise "treasure map"? In this episode, we analyze the mysterious death of M...

Wife Collapses at Work and Husband Cremates Her Before Autopsy Results A chiropractor collapses at her office, healthy one moment and gravely ill the next. Within 48 hours, she is dead from a substance she had no medical reason to touch, and her husband cremates her body before toxicology results are complete. What lethal secret was hidden in her ordinary afternoon routine? In this episode, we ana...

His Business Partner Hands Police a Bloody Gun Through the Door A five-year-old girl hands her mother a phone, her father on the screen, and something is terribly wrong. What follows is a chilling account of a man's premonition and the shocking events that unfolded at his workplace. In this episode, we delve into the story of Nick Cordova, a beloved husband and father who co-owned an HVAC company...

The Toy Chest Lie: A Detective's Son Lost A six-year-old boy was found unresponsive in a toy chest, his death ruled an accident. But when investigators took a closer look at the chest itself, the official explanation began to unravel. What really happened in the hours leading up to his death? In this episode, we analyze the tragic death of Joseph King III, a six-year-old boy whose passing was init...

A 10-Year-Old Boy Finds a Body Wrapped in Newspaper On a summer afternoon in 1969, a ten-year-old boy fishing in Wisconsin stumbled upon a package that would unveil one of the state's most disturbing unsolved murders. The contents revealed a young woman, dead for less than two days, dismembered with surgical precision. Who was she, and what led to her brutal end? In this episode, we delve into the...