Evidence Locker True Crime

In November 2014, Sony Pictures fell victim to a massive cyber-attack. This attack was in retaliation to the release of the film The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco – a comedy about a plot to assassinate the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.   In February 2016, the central bank of Bangladesh suffered a similar attack. The meticulously planned cyber-heist spanned multiple countries,...

From the most haunted buildings to ghostly landscapes and breathtaking UFO encounters... Join host Angus King as he relays spine-chilling stories of paranormal occurrences in Aotearoa, New Zealand, as reported by witnesses. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeart | Castbox

In 1990, emergency services in Helsinki were contacted by a young man who asked the police to re-investigate a death from ten years before. The caller claimed that although his mother’s death was ruled an accident, he believed his father had killed her. The case was re-opened and investigators unearthed so much more than just one murder… Ismo Junni was a violent serial killer who kept a tooth from...

Between 1917 and 1922, the residents of a small French town were terrorised by an anonymous letter writer who exposed secrets and made allegations. Each letter was signed: ‘The Eye of the Tiger’. The rumour mill was churning at a diabolical rate – careers ended, marriages became strained and eventually, two people lost their lives. Investigators took five years to unmask the author, a local secret...

On the morning of 16 May 2008, the body of 13-year-old Aarushi Talwar was found in her bed. She had suffered an injury to the head and her killer had slit her throat. At first, the family and police assumed that the murderer was the live-in domestic servant, seeing as he was nowhere to be found. But then they found his body on a rooftop terrace – he had been killed in exactly the same way as Aarus...

When 18-year-old Nick Howard did not come home one night, his family immediately knew something was wrong. They reported him missing and soon police found his car at the bottom of the Sacramento River. Three weeks later his body emerged. When investigators discovered a life insurance policy to the value of $850,000, they set their sights on the beneficiary: Ralph Marcus, a school friend of Nick’s...

Join Katie Puckrik [ Puck-creek ] as she investigates the veiled, kooky, and often sinister corners of the digital world. As the war in Ukraine rages on, season three, The Hacking , interrogates a brutal war happening on a different realm entirely: the internet. Russian cybergangs are stealing data from western nations every day and demanding unfathomable ransoms for their return. Katie wants to k...

When a single mother was found murdered inside her home in Bournemouth, England, police had no idea who the killer could be. Their investigation took them to Italy, where they found one of their suspects, was also a suspect in one of Italy’s biggest unsolved cases.  For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook For a full list of resources and credits visit Evidence Locker Website For all...

In the decade after the First World War, the men of a small Hungarian town died by the dozen, all suffering a similar fate. Eventually, the series of murders was exposed to have been due to arsenic poisoning. Multiple women were arrested for killing their husbands and charged with no less than 140 cases of murder. In the words of a local priest, during a police interview: "These villages, gentleme...

Sharon Kinne was a woman who knew what she wanted—whether it was men, money or freedom. What was questionable was her methods of obtaining those things, Sharon would do anything from faking a pregnancy to killing someone. Sharon's risky lifestyle did eventually catch up with her, but even a prison sentence was not enough to stop the woman who was nicknamed La Pistolera. For pictures and more infor...

In November 1970, the charred body of a woman was discovered in a remote location in Isdal, near Bergen, Norway. Many strange clues emerged: all the labels had been removed from her clothing, a notebook with coded notes, disguises, and fake identities. Who was the Isdal woman, and how did she end up dead in Ice Valley? For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook For a full list of resou...

In May 1968, local well-digger, Wilbur Riddle discovered the body tied up in a canvas, 30 miles north of Georgetown. She could not be identified and a Kentucky Post & Times Star reporter gave her the name ‘Tent Girl’. She became part of local history, and would remain unidentified for another 30 years… For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook For a full list of resources and cred...

On the morning of 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, lyricist and guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers checked out of a London hotel and disappeared. A toll-booth receipt found in Richey's apartment in Cardiff, Wales suggests that he went home before he vanished. His car was found at a service station en route between Wales and London 17 days later, but there was  no sign of Richey. He left...

When the mistress of a small-town pastor confessed to shooting and killing his wife, and shooting his neighbour, nearly killing him too, it seemed like an open-and-shut case. However, as investigators delved through layer of deceit within the church community, they uncovered an unbelievable scandal of sex, abuse and ruthless manipulation.  Sponsors: BetterHelp – Get 10% off your first month of onl...

When his friend’s girlfriend rebuffed his advances, a jealous teenager turned his infatuation into a deadly obsession. 18-year-old Jason Downie broke into the home of Chantelle Rowe and when her parents caught him, he commenced a merciless attack. Downie admitted stabbing Chantelle more than 33 times, her father Andrew at least 29 times and her mother Rose more than 50 times. Police would never ha...

In the fall of 1982, seven people in Chicago died, all of cyanide poisoning from taking cyanide-tainted Extra-Strength Tylenol. The individual or individuals responsible for this were unknown. When two local residents in Seattle, Washington, died four years later after consuming cyanide-laced Extra-Strength Excedrin, people were left wondering if there was a copycat killer on the loose, how many v...

Pedro Rodrigues Filho, also known as Pedrinho Matador (or Little Pedro the Killer/Killer Petey), took the law into his own hands by killing drug dealers, murderers and rapists. He served 45 years for 71 murders but claimed to have killed closer to 100 people. This vigilante killer even murdered his own father and allegedly ate his heart. Were his crimes justified, or was he simply a ruthless, bloo...

What was supposed to be a dream South African holiday soon turned into a nightmare when newlyweds Anni and her billionaire husband Shrien Dewani, along with their taxi driver, were hijacked on their way home from a restaurant. Anni was later found deceased with a gunshot wound to the neck. Was this simply a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or was something more sinister at play?...

A self-proclaimed Satanist had been boasting about animal sacrifice, murders and claiming he had buried the bodies of his victims in his backyard for several years. Yet nobody took him seriously. For a long time, Pazuzu Algarad had been able to continue his disturbing practices within his filthy home, before authorities finally realised, he had been telling the truth all along… Sponsor: BetterHelp...

Karol Kot created a suffocating atmosphere of fear in Kraków in the 1960s. No one suspected a young, clean-shaven boy fresh out of high school to be the prowling beast. Before his 21st birthday, Kot was guilty of two murders, ten attempted murders and four instances of arson. After stabbing his victims, he licked the blood off the knife’s blade, earning him the moniker of The Vampire of Kraków. Ps...

On October 11, 2014, the naked body of 27-year-old Jennifer Laude was discovered in a hotel room in Olongapo. She had been beaten, strangled, and drowned in the toilet. Eyewitness statements and hotel surveillance footage led police to the last person who was with her: a young US Marine.  Sponsor: BetterHelp – Get 10% off your first month of online therapy at http://betterhelp.com/evidence For pic...

On an October night in 1931, a baggage handler on the Golden State Limited from Phoenix to Los Angeles noticed a bad smell protruding from two black trunks, with blood seeping from the bottom. At first, he assumed that someone was transporting deer meat interstate, but he was mistaken… The black travel trunks contained something far more sinister. And the elegant female passenger in the brown dres...

Francisca Silva was found dead in her vacation home in Alcaçovas. In October 2007, a Parisian by the name of Dominique Colinet disappeared. His son informed the police that he was hired to kill Francisca by her husband David before he came up missing.  For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook For a full list of resources and credits visit Evidence Locker Website For all sponsor disco...

On the 16th of February 1994, father and son, Eugene and Gene Thomas were shot and killed inside their office in Wellington CBD. John Barlow, a business associate, was eventually convicted after standing trial for the murders three times. Many people still wonder if justice has been served. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook For a full list of resources and credits visit Eviden...

Lutz Reinstrom lived with his wife and children in a townhouse in suburban Hamburg. What neither his family nor their neighbours knew, was that Reinstrom had converted the basement into a bunker where he kept, tortured and killed his victims before disposing of their bodies in acid-filled barrels. This seemingly wholesome family man became better known by his nickname: The Acid Killer.  Sponsor: B...