Crimes and Consequences

In the mid-1990s Chicago was terrorized by a sadistic serial killer who seemed to strike at random. This serial killer, however, carefully stalked his victims and made sure he knew their routines before he tortured, raped and eventually killed them. Listen to this week's episode to hear about serial killer Paul Runge who confessed to six murders and hear where he is today. Join us on Facebook and...

On September 19th, 2009, a cloud of unimaginable violence and darkness shrouded the city of Naples. It was a crime described as the worst of the worst - Mesac Damas had murdered his wife Guerline, and their five children. After the killings, he fled to Haiti, where he was eventually captured. He confessed to the murders but blamed his mother-in-law for "voodooing his ass" and casting a bad spirit...

When a woman is murdered, the usual suspect is her boyfriend or husband, right? But what happens when police believe there has been a domestic dispute with the victim dead and her boyfriend still alive with serious injuries on his face? Do the police have tunnel vision and try to fit a square peg into a round hole, or do they continue to investigate all possible suspects? One such instance of seve...

On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a volatile relationship with Christian Brando, the troubled son of movie star Marlon Brando. Not since the O.J. Simpson case...

18-year-old Kevin Jazrael Davis had been fantasizing about raping and murdering his mother, Kimberly Hill, since his pre-teens. In 2014, he acted out his fantasies by killing his mother with a hammer. He later confessed to authorities in detail about the crime and what led up to the brutal assault. Listen to this episode to explore the mind of a soulless psychopath who has no regrets about losing...

Being someone interested in true crime, you always think you can spot a creeper from a mile away, correct? Maybe he’s driving a creeper van, or gives off some other hint that he’s a weirdo—but what if he looks like an everyday, middle-class American guy? And he’s a deacon at your church, with a wife and a family? Maybe you’re still on guard, you know, considering BTK was a similar type—but most pe...

A serial killer roamed the sleepy town of Kicevo in Macedonia for over five years. During that time he lured four unsuspecting women, all cleaning ladies from the same neighborhood, to his den of torture. He held them captive, sometimes for months, before strangling them and dumping their bodies in areas where he knew they would be found quickly. This is the terrorizing tale of the Kicevo Monster....

The province of British Columbia in Canada was gripped by a string of disappearances and deaths of its young people in the early 1980s. At first, the police thought maybe the missing children were runaways, and didn’t spend too much of their time on the cases. However, when a 9-year-old boy disappeared and then his body was later found, the police realized that 9-year-olds don’t usually run away f...

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...