Crimes and Consequences

Trust fund baby Blake Leibel spent months researching serial killers and their methods of murder in preparation for a graphic book he was working on that detailed fictional serial killers committing the most heinous crimes. In 2016, Blake used this plot as inspiration for the barbaric scalping and exsanguination of his model girlfriend over the course of two days. Warning: this episode discuss ext...

The Spokane Serial Killer, Robert Lee Yates, Jr., went on a killing spree that spanned 14-months in the late 1990s. But cold case detectives discovered his first victims were murdered over 25 years earlier. Investigators believe during that 25-year gap, he may have murdered up to 26 people in Alabama, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Texas, and Germany. How could a married man in the service wit...

On a warm August night in Tequesta, Florida, Michelle and John Stevens were sitting in their garage drinking a beer when 19-year-old Austin Harrouff viscously attacked them in a crazed frenzy. A neighbor tried to intervene but was repeatedly stabbed and fled the scene to call 911. When first responders arrived on the scene, Austin was grunting and growling while ripping off the flesh from John's f...

WARNING: THIS EPISODE IS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC. Violence against children and a family pet is featured. On Mother’s Day 2008, Barbara Freiberg was looking forward to receiving a call from her daughter, Lisa. Lisa was a mom herself—she had a son, Zachary, 7, and 2-year-old Heather Savannah—and Mother’s Day was always a special day for Lisa and Barbara. When Lisa failed to call her mother that Sunday, B...

On Memorial Day in 2007, farmhand Shane Hill called 911 twice requesting emergency response services. He told the dispatchers that he shot at a coyote stalking his sheep and somehow his gun misfired, striking him in the shoulder. During the second call, a loud booming sound could be heard and Shane cried out that his gun had somehow misfired again. By the time EMT arrived Shane was dead. He died w...

Cindy James was enjoying her newly single life, after divorcing her husband in early 1982. However, her joy was short-lived, when only seven months after her separation, Cindy became a victim of a stalker. The stalker was relentless and she was terrorized for the next seven years. During much of that time, police did not take her reports of harassment, threats, and incidents of physical harm serio...

19-year-old Michigan State University student Martha Young disappeared on New Year's Eve in 1976. Ten months later, her clothes were found meticulously laid out in a field, as if she had vaporized inside of them. Over a year later, journalism student Marita Choquette's body was found murdered, with her hands cut off. Marita's killer took the time to make a formation around her body, leading author...

Imagine you are a member of an internet support group for problem drinkers. One day as you are perusing through the chatroom discussions, you stumble upon a disturbing post from a regular named Larry. In his post, Larry details murdering his child three years earlier and how he got away with it. What do you do? This is the shocking story of the 200 members' reactions to Larry Froistad's confession...

Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence were two young men who met in a mental institute for the criminally insane. They quickly formed a friendship, bonding over the anger and rage brewing inside them. This dangerous comradery continued even after both men were released from prison. Fueled by their dark fantasies of murder, necrophilia, and cannibalism, Jeremiah and John set out on a murderous cam...

On June 29, 2003, a 14-year-old boy was fighting for his life, laying in a pool of his own blood in an alley in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. He had been stabbed by a contracted assassin that was working on behalf of The Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6. Listen to this week’s episode to find out why the British Government would want a 14-year-old boy dead, and the events that led up to hi...

Maury Travis was a very, very disturbed man. Since he was 14-years-old he fantasized about murder. As an adult, he turned his basement into a torture chamber where he killed at least 17 women, all the while videotaping their suffering and eventual death. Listen to this episode to get a glimpse into the crazed mind of this killer. Looking for our missing episodes? They are available free on our web...

Warning: This episode is extremely gruesome. From 1984 to 1988 there was a serial killer loose in the streets of Kansas City. The victims were mostly male sex workers, street kids, and drug addicts and the killer knew, after getting away with the first murder, that the police were not quick to solve these crimes involving this often forgotten about population. Fueled by his fantasies, Robert Berde...

Marc Dutroux is a monster who created a secret prison in his basement, complete with a ventilation system, to hold his victims in. Marc, along with his wife Michele, was arrested in 1989 for the abduction and rape of five girls and young women. After serving only three years, the couple was released. Marc’s evil desires only grew and by 1995, Marc had four young victims held prisoners in his home....

In March 1991, 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez won a kite-flying contest. Due to this award, Junny’s photo appeared in a local newspaper called Florida Today. Junny and his family had no idea that this public recognition would ultimately lead to an elaborate scheme to kidnap and kill him. Listen to this week’s episode to find out more. Looking for our missing episodes? They are available free on o...

In 1996, Rachel Timmerman filed rape charges against a monster named Marvin Gabrion. As the trial approached, witnesses came up missing. Then Rachel disappeared along with her baby after going out on a date. She had no idea that the date was part of an elaborate murder plot by a serial killer. Three letters, written in Rachel's own handwriting, were mailed to her father and the prosecutor shortly...

On Saturday, May 16, 1987, 14-year-old Alecia and 12-year old Monica were on their way to shoot an anti-drug video in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. They were teen models who were hired through Showcase Models by a photographer. The video shoot was supposed to only last for one day, however, Alecia and Monica had a terrifying weekend they would never forget. The man who had hired them for the video said his...

In 2017, 25-year-old Jenna Van Gelderen disappeared while house-sitting at her parent's home. Her car was found two weeks later abandoned on the side of the road in Atlanta, Georgia. During that year, Jenna started hanging around a new group of friends, some with sketchy pasts. Many of them have given false information to authorities or simply refused to talk. What are they hiding? Looking for our...

In 1983, four American Jehovah's Witnesses inadvertently knocked on the door of drug lord Ernesto Fonseca. Paranoid they were undercover DEA agents, he had his henchmen (one being El Chapo) kidnap, torture, rape, murder, and dismember them. Then, a month later, two American tourists walked into a seafood restaurant for dinner, unaware that it had been reserved for a cartel party. The tourists were...

The “Secret Witness” hotline was established in Shasta County, CA to take anonymous tips about crimes that occurred in the county. On the evening of June 19, 1985, a tip came in concerning a missing person, Averill Weeden. Averill disappeared on May 23, 1985, and the caller said he knew where Averill’s body was and wanted to know how much money he could get in exchange for this information. Listen...

The media in Columbus, Georgia gave the name "The Stocking Strangler" to a serial killer in the area that preyed on elderly white women in 1978. In April of that year, a local newspaper and the police began receiving letters from an alleged vigilante group calling themselves "The Forces of Evil." This group warned that if the Stocking Strangler didn't stop killing caucasian "grannies" the Forces o...

In the 1970s there was someone lurking, stalking, and attacking women in the Metro Detroit area. The viciousness and brutality increased with each attack until women were ending up dead in truly grotesque ways. The attacks in Michigan ended in 1981 because the killer, later determined to be Coral Watts, decided the heat was getting too hot and moved to Texas to continue his killing spree. By the t...

A week before Christmas in 1983, Kathy Smith went shopping for gifts for her three children.  Later that evening, when she returned home in Philadelphia, she noticed the lights weren't working throughout most of the house.  She called her mother, who lived next door, and she came over with a flashlight.  Together, they went to the basement to see if a fuse was blown.  That's when their nightmare b...

Mark Kilroy and his friends decided to go on Spring Break 1989 to South Padre Island in Texas. In the midst of their partying, Mark and his friends decided to cross the American/Mexican border one night to check out the nightlife in Matamoros, Mexico. Little did they know but Matamoros was holding a secret—people were disappearing at an alarming rate. On the night of March 14, 1989, Mark’s friends...

Brittany Killgore was a beautiful 22-year-old woman married to Marine Cory Killgore.   Originally from Pennsylvania, she moved to Fallbrook, California, near the Camp Pendleton base.  While there, Cory got sent to Afghanistan and their marriage fell apart.  In 2012, she filed for divorce and started packing to move back east.  Before she left, she really wanted to go on a dinner cruise called the...

In the early morning hours of March 1, 2008, a call came into the local sheriff’s department that there had been a shooting at the Caffey family home in Alba, Texas. The deputy that responded to the call found the Caffey home ablaze when he got there. Where were the family members—dad Terry, mom, Penny, and their three children Erin, Matthew, and Tyler? Who set the fire? Listen to this week’s epis...