Crimes and Consequences

In the early 80s, a serial killer was murdering women in the twin cities of Minnesota with an ice pick. After each attack, he would call 911 weeping and begging for the police to put an end to his terror. It was only after one of his victims escaped that Paul Michael Stephani was finally apprehended. Fifteen years later, when Paul learned he had terminal cancer, he made a full confession of all hi...

Popstar Cyndi Lauper once sang, “Money Changes Everything” and nothing could be more true. People fight about money every day, and it pits family members against one another. Husbands against wives, siblings against one another, parents vs. children…it goes on and on. One such family that was affected by money was the Mack family in Reno, Nevada. When Charla met Darren Mack and they fell madly in...

In 2019, Keyona Griffin called 911 and whispered for them to please hurry because she was about to die. In the call, she told the dispatcher that her aunt had already been murdered and she was going to be next. But the urgency in her voice somehow got lost in translation, and the police left after knocking on her door and getting no answer. Keyona's death and the murder of her aunt set in motion a...

On January 14, 2003, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a possible body found in a ravine off the Ortega Highway in California. When the homicide investigators showed up, they found the remains of a woman missing her head and hands, wearing only a pair of underwear. Listen to this week’s episode to find out who this woman was and how her life ended in such a sad and violent...

In 1997, two women were mutilated and murdered on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital in Grangegorman, Ireland. Only months later, a young couple named Catherine and Carl Doyle were slaughtered in their countryside home in front of their four young children. All four of the victims were murdered at the hands of a young father named Mark Nash, who would eventually become known as one of Ireland's...

During World War II, atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime were horrific. As the Nazis occupied France, the French Resistance movement helped the war effort by spying for the Allies and helping to smuggle Jews from France. Unfortunately, Hitler and the Nazis were not the only evil people preying on the vulnerable during the war. One such man was a Frenchman named Dr. Marcel Petiot. Dr...

In the 90s, Fresno, California was inundated with gang violence. One gang, known as the Parkside Fresno Bulldogs held a "drive-by shooting party" in a cluster of trailers in a rural area near vineyards. Four teen girls were invited to the party and plied with PCP, cocaine, booze and weed - after a night of hell, only two made it out alive. ____________> Enjoy ad-free and early releases of our publ...

When Ryan McConniel married Brittany Lee in October 2007, he brought his daughters from his first marriage with him. Ryan believed that Brittany would make a wonderful stepmother to his girls, and he trusted her to care for them while he worked full-time. Toward the end of 2009, Lauren began exhibiting disturbing behaviors, ones that Brittany blamed on the abuse Lauren supposedly suffered at the h...

Lois Pearson was a very simple woman who lived alone in her Weatherford, Texas home. She spent most of her time tending to her garden and reading the bible. But in 2011, her whole life changed when her former neighbor, Jeffrey Maxwell, abducted her from her driveway. He had spent weeks plotting the kidnapping, even handcrafting torture devices and mechanisms to use on her. As police looked deeper...

In the late 1970s, in Quebec, Canada, a group of young people were looking to find meaning and purpose in their lives. They found that meaning and purpose after meeting a charismatic man named Roch Theriault. Roch was a devoted follower of the Seventh Day Adventist religion, and soon this group of young people decided to cut ties with all of their friends and family, and follow Rock into the wilde...

In 2003, Brian Waters and another man were sadistically tortured for hours in the cowshed of the Burnt House Farm in England. Brian's adult children were forced to watch as a group of men thought up inhumane ways to brutalize their father. One of them, Christopher Guest More, Jr., was a former television researcher who had worked undercover for the BBC only months earlier. Eventually, police arres...

On Christmas Eve 1985, in Chester, Nebraska the body of a child was found abandoned in a field, wearing only blue sleeper pajamas. The community of Chester was overwhelmed with concern for the child, and he was nicknamed “Little Boy Blue”. It took a couple of years, and only after a story was published in “Reader’s Digest” in 1987, that Little Boy Blue’s true identity became known. He belonged to...

Single father John DeBlase was given an ultimatum by his pregnant girlfriend Heather Keaton. She demanded full authority to discipline his 5-year-old daughter Natalie and 3-year-old son Chase as she saw fit, or she would leave him. Heather hated his children and for months John stood by and allowed them to endure torturous punishments for the most minor offenses. The last time anyone saw Natalie a...

On August 2, 1982, the Johnson Family—dad Bob, mom Jackie, and daughters Janet and Karen, set off for a two-week summer vacation at the Wells Gray Park located in Clearwater, British Columbia, Canada along with Jackie’s parents, Edith and George. What was supposed to be a wonderful two weeks, spent exploring the great outdoors, fishing, swimming, and nightly campfires roasting marshmallows – turne...

On a sweltering August night in Alabama in 1999, neighbors of the Liz and Deroy Nalls heard the desperate cries of the couple's 10-year-old granddaughter Mary. They discovered the child bleeding profusely as she stumbled down the dark road towards their home. The Nalls' house was ablaze and Grandma Liz sat critically injured on a lawn chair underneath a tree in her front yard. As firefighters foug...

Wylie, Texas was a quiet place to live in 1978. Away from the hustle and bustle of Dallas, Wylie seemed to be a tight-knit community that was centered around the neighborhood church. Pat and Candy Montgomery were active in the church, as were the Gores, Allan and Betty. Even though Candy spent a lot of time at church and was involved in the activities there, she was bored with her life as a housew...

On October 1, 1985, Michele “Missy” Avila went out one afternoon after school to go party with some friends at a nearby park. When she left her home, she told her mom she would be home by 6pm. Missy never came home. Her friend that had picked her up said that Missy had left the park with three young men in a blue Camaro that her friend didn’t know. Her body was found three days later in a stream i...

In 2018, Ronnie O'Neal mercilessly assaulted his family, in a prolonged and brutal attack using a gun, knife, ax, and fire. Three 911 phone calls captured the terror of what would later be described by a judge as "the worst case I have ever seen." At trial, Ronnie served as his own lawyer which allowed him to cross-examine the only survivor, his 9-year-old son. Listen to this episode to hear the 9...

Molly Miller and Colt Haynes went out to a house party at Colts on the night of July 7, 2013. The night took a turn for the worst when Molly and Colt agreed to get into a car with a mutual acquaintance, Conn Nipp who took them on a high-speed trip through two counties in Oklahoma. The car ride ended in the middle of the woods and for the next eight hours, Molly and Colt repeatedly called their fri...

In 2011, two young sisters from Anaheim, California woke up on Christmas morning excited to open the presents. In the living room by the tree, their mother, Za' Zelle Preston, sat propped on the couch with her sunglasses on. Their step-father, William Wallace, told the girls, "Mommy got drunk and ruined Christmas" as he videotaped them opening their gifts. Listen to this episode to learn the truth...

23-year-old Michael Van Eck left his home on a Saturday night in 2011 to meet a woman he had been messaging on a dating app. His body was found the next morning in a graveyard missing its head, arm, and foot. Who murdered Michael? Was he catfished? A victim of "muti" murders? Or could the pretty, petite young girl he met for a date be responsible for his morbid death? Listen to this week's episode...

On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, Sharon Cave received a phone call from her daughter, Jennifer Cave’s, new employer. Jennifer had just started a job at a law firm in Austin, Texas, the day prior—a job she was really excited to start. When the employer said Jennifer didn’t show up for work, and Sharon couldn’t get a hold of Jennifer on the telephone, she knew her daughter had to be in some trouble. S...

Riley Fox was only 3 years old when she was abducted from her home in the middle of the night while her father, Kevin, was sleeping in the next room. Her brutalized body was found approximately 12 hours later floating in a creek. After tremendous pressure from the police, Kevin confessed to accidentally killing Riley and staging the crime to look like a stranger abduction. However, five years late...

When 21-year-old Misty McGugin failed to pick up her son as scheduled on February 2, 1998, her family knew something was very wrong. They reported her missing two days later when they found her abandoned car at a nearby bar. Misty had been working as an escort with Abigail’s Escort Service in Baldwin County, Alabama, and had gotten a call to go to Woody’s Motel on January 31st and was never seen a...

Warning: This episode is very disturbing. In 2011, Carina Saunders, an intelligent and gifted 19-year-old, was found dismembered and decapitated behind a grocery store near Oklahoma City. Was her death a pre-planned snuff video made to serve as a warning to other young victims of a sex-trafficking ring? Listen to this episode to hear the tragic details of the shocking murder of Carina Saunders. __...