Deadly Ever After

Miriam Illes was a beloved wife, mother and Sunday School teacher living in the small hamlet of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. She had moved there to support her husband Richard, a local successful heart surgeon but the couple had recently divorced. Then one evening, in 1999, tragedy struck and ruined life for the Illes family. It would take police across the country on a multi-year journey to solve...

On April 9th 2001, an explosion rocked the community of Scottsdale, Arizona. A house at the end of a cul-de-sac had blown up in the very early morning hours. Police and firefighters arrived at the scene to find three bodies… but a fourth would never be discovered. Join Elizabeth and Harry as they discuss an unbelievable tale of control, murder and manhunts on season two episode three of Deadly Eve...

On the second episode of season two of Deadly Ever After , Elizabeth and Harry cover the unimaginable horrors that befell the Neulanders. Fred and Carol Neulander were a happily married couple who had found great success in the town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Carol was an extremely successful businesswoman who ran a chain of kosher bakeries for the local Jewish community, while Fred founded a bel...

By all accounts, Charlie Brandt was a loving family man, married to his wife Terri for nearly thirty years. But a murderous tragedy brought on by a tropical storm unearthed a decades long secret and shocked everyone in the Brandt family’s life. Join Elizabeth and Harry as they embark on this dark and twisted tale in season two episode one of Deadly Ever After ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

The final episode of Deadly Ever After season one follows a notorious case out of Australia, featuring the first woman in the country’s history issued a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Katherine Knight grew up in a world of emotional volatility and physical violence. It’s no wonder that she recreated an equally-unstable environment for herself, her husband and her children. As her...

This week’s episode was covered extensively on every major news outlet when it first made headlines in 2008. Jodi Arias’ life changed drastically on the day she met 29 year old motivational speaker and successful salesman Travis Alexander. Jodi and Travis enjoyed an immediate, magnetic connection that quickly morphed into a passionate, tumultuous relationship. Drama would ensnare them both for the...

The penultimate episode of the season covers a case that is almost too strange to be real. The dismembered body parts of family man Bill McGuire are found floating in Chesapeake Bay, three hundred miles from his home in New Jersey. The police question his wife, fertility nurse Melanie McGuire who spins a tale of domestic abuse, gambling addiction and alcoholism. Detectives are forced to reconcile...

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DEPICTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND INCEST. Episode eleven features the little-known case of family annihilator and spree killer Ronald Gene Simmons. This story unfolds very slowly over the many decades that Ronald Gene Simmons tormented his poor wife Becky and their seven children. Excessive alcoholism and mental instability soon drove Gene to the point of no...

WARNING: This episode contains depictions of extreme animal cruelty. Episode nine of Deadly Ever After is the most recent case of the entire season. On May 11th, 2021, a man named Babis Anagnostopoulo called the police from his home in the small city of Glyka Nera, Greece. He told them a violent gang had just invaded his home, robbed him and terrorized his family, including his infant daughter. Wh...

This week’s case is new for the hosts of Deadly Ever After ! Stacey Castor’s domestic troubles were well-known to neighbors and authorities in the small town of Weedsport in upstate New York. In 1999, she garnered sympathy after being widowed by her husband Michael Wallace. In the aftermath of his suicide, she was left to raise two young children on her own. When Stacey remarried in 2003 to a man...

Our seventh episode features one of the most famous spousal murders of all time. Scott Peterson’s wife Laci disappeared just before Christmas 2002. He and Laci’s family worked tirelessly to search for her in the immediate aftermath of her disappearance. However, the closer police looked into Scott & Laci’s life together, the less convinced they became of Scott’s innocence. In one of the most h...

The six episode of Deadly Ever After covers an old, forgotten case from a small city in Ontario, Canada. Evelyn Dick was a child of privilege; beautiful, wealthy and charming. As a young woman, she was at the center of scandal after minor scandal in her hometown of Hamilton until finally, she found herself besieged by tragic facts and irrefutable evidence that even she couldn’t talk her way out of...

The fourth episode of Deadly Ever After is a case that was everywhere during the early 2000s. During the early hours of January 13th, 2002 Christian Longo was arrested in Tulum, Mexico. The FBI had a series of questions for Christian. Why was he traveling internationally by himself? Where were his children? Where was his wife? Why had he been impersonating the New York Times reporter Michael Finke...

Episode three covers a story that perfectly illustrates how fact is almost always scarier than fiction. In the 1960s, John List, his wife Helen, his mother Alma and his three children were living a picture-perfect life in a sprawling mansion in suburban New Jersey. Unbeknownst to everyone, dark secrets bubbled just under the surface of this Norman Rockwell fantasy. Soon, five people would be murde...

Our second episode tackles the most popular case of the last ten years, the story of Chris and Shanann Watts. Shanann Watts and her two daughters mysteriously disappeared one August morning after failing to appear at a doctor’s appointment. Police were notified and immediately searched the family’s home and found no trace of any of the Watts women. Shanann’s husband Chris rushed home from work and...

Welcome to the very beginning of Deadly Ever After ! In our inaugural episode, we cover the infamous story that has enthralled and bewitched true crime fans worldwide for the last twenty years. It’s the story of Michael & Kathleen Peterson, better known as The Staircase. On a warm summer’s night, Michael Peterson found his wife Kathleen, unconscious and bleeding profusely, at the bottom of a s...

Another taste of what to expect on the first season of Deadly Ever After! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet the hosts of Deadly Ever After in the season one trailer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.