Find My Killer

#50 - For nearly 80 years, the world has known her as the Black Dahlia. But before she became one of America's most infamous unsolved murder victims, she was a 22-year-old woman named Elizabeth Short. In January 1947, Elizabeth's brutally mutilated body was discovered in a vacant Los Angeles lot, launching one of the largest murder investigations in American history. The shocking crime cap...

#49 - On a freezing Saturday morning in February 2008, a man posing as a delivery driver walked into a Lane Bryant clothing store in Tinley Park, Illinois, and forever changed the lives of everyone inside. After forcing six women into the store's back room, he bound their hands with duct tape before opening fire. Five women were murdered. One survived by pretending to be dead. Nearly two decad...

#48 - On April 15, 2005, Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar told his girlfriend he was going for a drive. He never came home. A respected prosecutor with a successful career, Ray was just months away from retirement when he seemingly vanished without a trace. Days later, his red Mini Cooper was found abandoned in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His cellphone was inside. Ray was nowhere to be foun...

#47 - In the early morning hours of October 27, 2006, Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell initiated what appeared to be a routine traffic stop on a white Chevrolet van. Minutes later, fellow deputies found him mortally wounded on a rural stretch of road after a violent struggle. The driver of the van had vanished, and despite an extensive investigation, no one has ever been cha...

In March 2011, 24-year-old Disney Cruise Line crew member Rebecca Coriam vanished from the Disney Wonder while sailing between Los Angeles and Mexico. More than a decade later, her disappearance remains one of the most baffling mysteries at sea, leaving behind questions about surveillance footage, cruise ship investigations, and what really happened that morning. Support this podcast at — https://...

In 1988, 19-year-old Tara Calico left home for her daily bike ride and never returned. More than a year later, a mysterious Polaroid photograph discovered in a Florida parking lot sparked international attention and raised a chilling question: was Tara still alive? In this episode, we examine the timeline of Tara's disappearance, the infamous photograph, alleged sightings, and the theories tha...

#44 - Two young women vanish during what should have been a simple afternoon hike in Panama. Weeks later, their backpack is discovered miles away, containing their phones, cameras, and dozens of haunting photos taken in the darkness. But what really happened to them remains one of the internet’s most debated mysteries. In this episode, we’re taking a closer look at the disappearance of Kris Kremer...

#43 - On the morning of September 5th, 1982, twelve-year-old Johnny Gosch left his home in West Des Moines, Iowa, to deliver newspapers along his usual paper route. It was early and still dark outside. And at first, nothing seemed unusual. But witnesses later reported seeing Johnny speaking with a strange man near the route. Others noticed an unfamiliar car driving through the neighborhood that mo...

Inside room 2805 of one of Norway’s most luxurious hotels, a woman is found dead on the bed with a gunshot wound to the head… and a 9mm pistol still clutched in her hand. At first glance, it looks like a suicide. But investigators quickly realize almost everything about this woman is fake. The name she checked in under? False. The address she provided? Doesn’t exist. There’s no passport. No wallet...

On the night of February 9th, 2004, a 21-year-old college student crashed her car on a quiet rural road in New Hampshire. A bus driver stopped to check on her and offered to call the police. But she told him she had already called AAA and asked him not to. Although there was no record of her ever attempting to call. And when the police arrived moments later, the young woman was gone. No footprints...

On the morning of January 24th, 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse was supposed to be at work. Jennifer was known as reliable, responsible, and close with her family. So when she didn’t show up to the office that morning, and no one could reach her, the people in her life immediately knew something was wrong. Her parents drove two hours to her Orlando condo that same day. Inside, everything looked n...

In March of 2000, a 23-year-old college student named Leah Roberts packed her belongings into her Jeep and left North Carolina behind. She had no set destination. No clear plan. Just a map, a sense of adventure, and a deep fascination with the writings of Jack Kerouac. But two weeks later, Leah’s Jeep was discovered at the bottom of a remote embankment in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State....

#38 - Imagine walking into a crowded bar with your friends late at night… surrounded by hundreds of people, music blasting, drinks flowing, and security cameras everywhere. Now imagine walking back toward the entrance just minutes before closing time. And then… somehow disappearing without a trace. That’s exactly what happened to 27-year-old Brian Shaffer. On March 31st, 2006, Brian, a medical stu...

Sometimes the most disturbing cases begin with a simple night out. A young woman goes dancing with friends. She laughs, drinks, maybe stays out a little too late. And then… she disappears. But what happened next in this case would shock an entire city. In June of 1996, a man searching through a dumpster in Boston made a horrifying discovery: inside a trash bag was the upper half of a woman’s body....

#36 - In the early morning hours of June 7th, 1992, something happened inside a quiet home in Springfield, Missouri. When friends arrived at the house later that day, they expected to find two recent high school graduates getting ready for a day at the water park. Instead, they found something deeply unsettling. The three women who had been inside the house the night before were gone. Their cars w...

#35 - Imagine getting a phone call from someone looking to buy a million-dollar home. For most real estate agents, that would be the opportunity of a lifetime. A huge commission. A career-making sale. But something about this call felt… off. The woman on the phone spoke with an unusual accent. She wouldn’t say exactly how she got the agent’s personal number. And when the agent asked questions, the...

#34 - On the night of February 19th, 2005, 34-year-old Danielle Imbo and 35-year-old Richard Petrone Jr. spent the evening with friends at a bar on South Street in Philadelphia. Just before midnight, they left together, planning to drive back to Danielle’s home in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. But they never made it. Danielle and Richard vanished that night without a trace. And somehow, the pickup tru...

In November 2011, 33-year-old Florida mother Michelle Parker appeared on The People’s Court alongside her ex-fiancé to settle a personal dispute. The episode aired nationwide on the afternoon of November 17th. Just hours later, Michelle vanished. Her car was found abandoned the next day. Her cellphone was later recovered from a nearby lake. But Michelle herself has never been found. In this episod...

On March 20, 1994, 21-year-old Amy Gellert pulled into her family’s garage after her parents returned home from a Sunday evening church service. Inside the house, a masked intruder had already attacked her mother and father. When Amy arrived, she was confronted and fatally stabbed before she could escape. The attacker vanished into the neighborhood. Despite multiple persons of interest over the ye...

On the morning of September 11, 2016, Michael and April Holton were found shot inside their home in Eclectic, Alabama—just eleven minutes after a sheriff’s deputy had visited the house. Michael, a beloved former mayor and firefighter, was dead at the scene. April died the next morning. Their eldest son, 17-year-old Madison, was the only other person inside the home. Was this a murder-suicide fuele...

In 1989, ten-year-old Amy Mihaljevic vanished after leaving school to meet a man she believed was a friend of her mother’s. Months later, her body was found miles away — and her killer has never been caught. Decades later, new DNA testing may finally bring investigators closer to the truth. Listen to this episode of Find My Killer wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

On Valentine’s Day, 2000, nine-year-old Asha Degree quietly left her home in the middle of a storm and was seen walking along Highway 18 before vanishing into the woods. In this episode, we retrace Asha’s final confirmed movements, the immediate search, the strange items found in a roadside shed, and the discovery of her backpack—buried 26 miles away and wrapped in trash bags. We also break down r...

Twenty-three-year-old Amber Berbiglia spent a normal Friday running errands around Myrtle Beach—paying a bill, getting gas, a quick haircut—before she was due at work. She never arrived. Hours later, Amber was found beneath the Robert Edge Parkway overpass; her car was still running, her phone within reach. The autopsy revealed she’d been beaten and strangled. No robbery. No sexual assault. No cle...

In December 1978, best friends Kerry Graham (15) and Francine Trimble (14) vanished from Forestville, California. The girls were last seen heading to the Coddingtown Mall to shop for Christmas—but they never came home. Seven months later, skeletal remains were discovered off Highway 20 in Mendocino County. Bound with duct tape and buried in a shallow grave, the victims were never identified. For n...

In May 2004, 21-year-old Juilliard drama student Sarah Fox laced up her sneakers for an evening jog in Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park. Six days later, her body was discovered in a secluded section of the park—strangled and surrounded by a haunting arrangement of flower petals. Who killed Sarah Fox? Was it a stranger lurking in the woods, someone from her past, or a self-proclaimed psychic who seemed...