Hidden Crime Files

Behind a grocery store in Bethany, Oklahoma, a foul odor led to a duffel bag—and inside was the dismembered remains of 19-year-old Carina Saunders. Her head, hands, and feet had been sawn off, and someone had tried to cut a tattoo from her back to prevent identification. The horror was just beginning. In this episode, we investigate the 2011 murder of Carina Saunders, a young woman whose death bec...

"She didn't just pull the trigger. She recorded the entire shooting on her phone—then used the footage to audition for a horror movie where her character commits an eerily similar murder." In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the case of Aisling "Tucker" Moore-Reed, a 30-year-old actress and blogger who shot her uncle Shane Moore dead on July 26, 2016, at her grandmother's home in J...

"She smiled at the jury. She waved at her former student in the gallery. Then she sat down and told detectives she was 'just trying to help.'" In this gripping true crime episode, we examine the chilling interrogation of a third-grade teacher who believed her reputation, her charm, and her years of dedicated service would shield her from suspicion. But when detectives presented the evidence—digita...

"He didn't find a clue. He didn't stumble upon a body. He did something even more unexpected—he spent years building a family tree so detailed that when police gave him a killer's DNA, he handed them a name within months." In this fascinating true crime episode, we investigate the case of Eric Schubert—a 10-year-old who began tracing his own family tree as a hobby, memorizing license plates and so...

"He was only 14. And when he picked up the knife, it wasn't his idea." The mother didn't just approve—she orchestrated everything. What makes a woman turn one child into a weapon against another? In this disturbing true crime episode, we investigate cases where mothers manipulated one child to murder another—and the interrogation transcripts that reveal how such evil hides behind a smile. Cyndi Pr...

"He posted a TikTok dancing twelve hours after the murder. He smiled. He laughed. He had no idea that a doorbell camera had recorded every single second — including the gunshot and his panicked voice saying 'why did you make me do this?'" In this gripping true crime episode, we investigate cases where killers filmed themselves living normally after murder — unaware that surveillance cameras had al...

"He rented the van. He bought the handcuffs. He hired the men. Then he smiled at the detectives and said 'I'm the victim here.'" But the camera he forgot about recorded everything — including his own voice saying: "She'll have to die." In this chilling true crime interrogation episode, we examine the case of Louisiana millionaire Lawrence Michael Handley, who plotted to kidnap and kill his estrang...

"He wiped down every surface. He wore gloves. He even changed his clothes." But he forgot to check under the bed — where a 7-year-old was hiding, clutching a stuffed animal, trying not to breathe. The killer walked free for two years. Then the little girl finally told her mother what she saw. In this harrowing true crime episode, we investigate the case of a murderer who believed he had committed...

"He didn't know the webcam was still recording. He thought he had committed the perfect crime — no witnesses, no evidence, no one to tell." But the laptop on the desk had been streaming the entire time. And when police pulled the footage, they didn't need a confession. They just pressed play. In this gripping true crime episode, we analyze cases where hidden cameras, Ring doorbells, dashcams, and...

"She told everyone her son ran away. She filed a missing person report. She even held a press conference begging for his safe return." But when officers finally searched the one place no one thought to look—her own garage—they found a child's remains stuffed in a trash can. The person who claimed to love him most had hidden him like garbage. In this disturbing true crime episode, we investigate th...

"He had perfect school attendance. Neighbors saw nothing wrong. He even submitted homework the day after the murders." Then a routine traffic stop in Kansas unraveled everything — and the teenage "perfect son" became the prime suspect in a double homicide that had gone undiscovered for nearly two weeks. In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the case of 17-year-old Nikita Casap, a see...

"She hugged her mother goodbye. She said 'I love you.' Then she drove home to her children — including the one she had already decided to kill." What she didn't know? Her own mother had already picked up the phone. In this devastating true crime episode, we investigate the case of a mother who murdered her own child — and was turned in by the woman who gave her life. Using interrogation transcript...

"He was the man two chairs away. She was looking for a real connection." Within hours, a 24-year-old college student with a passion for nutrition would be dismembered, burned, and dumped in a children's pool. In this chilling true crime interrogation breakdown, we examine the case of Charles Dean Bryant, a 30-year-old fitness trainer and former Marine who met Jackie Vandagriff at a Denton bar on S...

"He lived in their basement. He ate dinner with them every Sunday. He called his mother every night." Then they found the locked closet — and their son became someone they never knew. In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the case of parents who uncovered their adult son's double life — a secret so horrifying that they were forced to choose between blood and justice. Using interrogat...

"She was 19. She was his daughter. And for two years, he told everyone she ran away with a boyfriend." Then a new homeowner dug a garden — and found what was left of her buried under the rose bushes. In this deeply disturbing true crime episode, we investigate the case of a father who murdered his own daughter, then lived a normal life while her body decomposed just feet from his back door. We ana...

A young man returns home from a friend's house to find his mother's boyfriend pacing outside. The boyfriend says he just found her unresponsive. The son pushes past him, runs inside, and sees his mother on the floor. He collapses. He screams. He tries to revive her. It is too late. He does not know that the man who called 911 is the man who killed her. In July 2019, Amanda Crum was found dead in h...

A retired police officer who spent a decade evading capture by leaving his badge at home and his DNA at the scene. A killer who stopped when he got bored. For 40 years, he thought he was safe. Then his cousin uploaded a family tree to the internet. In 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, was arrested at 72 years old after evading capture for four decades [citation:9]. He had terro...

An 11-year-old boy hears his mother scream. He runs to his bedroom. He locks the door. He hears gunshots. He hears a man's voice. He hears his mother go silent. He hides in his closet. He covers his mouth with his hands. He does not make a sound. Hours later, police find him still in the closet. His mother is dead. He is alive because he knew not to trust silence. The boy was Tyler, the son of 36-...

A seven-year-old boy wakes up on a Saturday morning and walks into his mother's bedroom. He sees her lying on the bed. He thinks she is sleeping. He tries to wake her. He cannot. He runs across the street to a neighbor's house, still in his pajamas, and says the words no child should ever have to say: "My dad shot my mom." On December 4, 2004, Jennifer Corbin was found dead in her Buford, Georgia...

A newborn is dead. His parents claim he stopped breathing in his sleep. The autopsy says suffocation. The truth only comes out after hours of lies—the baby was left alone, strapped into a car seat, placed inside a bathtub, crying so loudly that his mother could still hear him over the lullaby music she played to drown him out. In August 2025, 3‑week‑old Jaxson Watts was found unresponsive in a pla...

A slice of cheesecake from a friendly client turned an August evening into a three-day coma. The woman who brought the dessert looked just like her victim—same dark hair, same complexion, same Russian accent. She was not a client. She was a fugitive wanted by Interpol for murder, and she had come to steal a life. On August 28, 2016, Viktoria Nasyrova visited the Forest Hills home of 35-year-old ey...

A woman told her mother she was going to the grocery store. She returned three hours later covered in scratches and bruises. A masked man attacked her in the parking lot, she claimed. He stole nothing, said nothing, just beat her and ran away. Her mother believed her. The police did not. In July 2024, a Texas woman was arrested after police discovered she had staged her own assault to frame her mo...

A 17-year-old girl stabs her sleeping father in the neck. She calls her boyfriend. She sends smiling selfies. She drives around town listening to music. She thinks she has gotten away with it. She forgot about the security camera in the living room. In May 2024, 17-year-old Sierra K. was convicted of stabbing her father Robert Koons to death in their Pennsylvania home . The crime was captured on t...

A 69-year-old grandmother settles into her favorite armchair to watch television. The next morning, a gardener finds her body. She has been bludgeoned with 22 blows. The television is still on. Her purse is on the floor. Nothing is stolen. No forced entry. The killer walked in and walked out—and has walked free for over two decades. The case of Marea Yann is one of Australia's most disturbing cold...

A brilliant student found bludgeoned and stabbed in her Stellenbosch flat. Her boyfriend's fingerprints on a DVD, his hammer matching the wound dimensions, a bloody footprint linking him to the scene. The case seemed open and shut. Until the evidence began to unravel. On March 16, 2005, 22-year-old Inge Lotz was brutally murdered in her off-campus flat in Stellenbosch, South Africa [citation:1]. P...