I Fear You, Babe

Two new cases this week that almost don't seem real. A mother and her two teenage daughters killed in a quiet Canadian city by a 17-year-old boyfriend — and police calling it femicide on the record. A family of three in the North Carolina mountains found dead after three welfare checks, with the family's own 16-year-old daughter now charged. Plus the unanimous death penalty verdict for t...

In June 1981, a 25-year-old law student named Andrea Sardos Albertini left Trieste with three million lire in cash to buy a used car in Turin. He never came home. His body has never been found. For the next twenty-four years, Andrea's father — a cassation-court attorney named Lino — believed he could speak with his murdered son. Through a medium named Anita, who balanced a felt-tip marker on...

Back from two weeks out with the heaviest stretch of cases the show has ever covered. An arrest in the Wilmer, Alabama family murders. Two USF doctoral students from Bangladesh, both found dead. New developments in the Celeste Rivas Hernandez case. And a death penalty verdict that may come this week for the man who killed seven-year-old Athena Strand. Plus follow-ups on Anna Kepner and Kouri Richi...

A Monday show coming to you on a Friday. Dino's down with the flu, but the week didn't wait — and four cases this week demand we say their names. In Wilmer, Alabama, Lisa Gail Fields, her seventeen-year-old pregnant daughter Keziah Arionna Luker, and her twelve-year-old son Thomas "T.J." Cordelle Jr. were found dead in their home in the early hours of Monday, April 20th. Four d...

Eight names. Said out loud. In a courtroom. By the man who killed them. On Wednesday, Rex Heuermann stood in Suffolk County Court and pleaded guilty eight times — once for each woman he strangled and dumped along the Long Island coast over seventeen years. Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Melissa Barthelemy. Megan Waterman. Amber Lynn Costello. Jessica Taylor. Sandra Costilla. Valerie Mack. Karen Vergata....

Bianca Devins was seventeen years old when she was killed in Utica, New York on July 14, 2019. You probably already know how she died. What you probably don't know is who she actually was — the ukulele, the anime art, the YouTube videos she made at eleven where she hated being on camera, the way her grandfather sang "Puff the Magic Dragon" to her and she passed it down to her baby s...

In Chicago, 18-year-old Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman walked to a lakefront beach at midnight with friends to see the city skyline. She whispered that someone was behind the lighthouse. There was one shot. Every segment this week was about politics. This show is about Sheridan. In Houston, a 36-year cold case broke open — the 1990 Lovers Lane murders. Cheryl Henry was 22. Andy Atkinso...

This week's roundup covers four cases that all broke in the last seven days. In Altamonte Springs, Florida, two teenage girls — fifteen and fourteen — are sitting in jail charged as adults with attempted murder after allegedly plotting to kill a classmate in a blood ritual to resurrect the Sandy Hook shooter. New footage and unredacted court documents were released this week. In Southaven, Mi...

Skylar Neese was sixteen years old, a 4.0 student, and a girl who wanted to be a criminal defense attorney. On July 6th, 2012, she snuck out of her Star City, West Virginia apartment after midnight to get into a car with two girls she had known for years. She never came home. The case is solved — and the answers are harder to sit with than the questions ever were. This episode goes deeper than the...

The verdict is in. After less than three hours of deliberation, the jury in Park City, Utah found Kouri Richins guilty on all five counts — aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, two counts of insurance fraud, and forgery — in the fentanyl poisoning death of her husband Eric Richins in 2022. She faces life in prison without parole. Sentencing is May 13th. His sons were five, seven, and ni...

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Five cases this week. Closing arguments in the Kouri Richins murder trial are happening today in Park City, Utah — the jury that spent three weeks hearing how a Utah mother allegedly poisoned her husband with fentanyl, wrote a grief book for their kids, and tried to coach a witness from jail is now deciding her fate. In Queens, New York, a 75-year-old man was arrested this week...

Three active cases: the Kouri Richins murder trial in Park City, Utah enters day thirteen — and two bombshells drop in court, including a six-page letter prosecutors say is Kouri coaching a witness, and the revelation that her grief children's book was written by a ghost writer. In Massachusetts, a federal judge denies a motion to dismiss the Matthew Farwell case — the former detective accuse...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how people died, we talk about how they lived. This week’s roundup tracks verified movement only. No gore, no rumor, no comment section detective work. We start in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the ice rink shooting during a high school hockey game has now claimed a third victim, and we break down what is confirmed about the victims, the shooter, and...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how Abigail Williams and Liberty German died, we talk about how they lived. On February 13, 2017, two eighth grade best friends went for a walk on the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana. It was a warm snow make up day. School was out. The kind of afternoon where nothing feels dangerous. Abby Williams was 13. Libby German was 14. They took phot...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how people died, we talk about how they lived. In our first weekly crime update, Dino walks through the major cases moving right now — what investigators actually know, what’s still unclear, and where things stand as families and communities wait for answers. This week: a deadly shooting in Arizona, a domestic homicide case in Pennsylvania after a wom...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how Spencer and Monique died, we talk about how they lived. In this episode, Dino walks through the Columbus, Ohio case of Spencer and Monique Tepe as a family story first, not a headline. We start with who Spencer was as a steady, show up kind of person, and who Monique was as the connective tissue who held the center, then widen out to the patterns...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how JonBenét Ramsey died, we talk about how she lived. We stay inside the morning of December 26, 1996. The house. The staircase. The ransom note. The 911 call. The waiting. The decisions made in shock. The systems that weren’t built for clarity. The moment the story changes forever. This episode does not chase a theory. It does not rush to a suspect....

This is I Fear You, Babe . Before we talk about how Michelle O’Connell died, we talk about how she lived. Michelle O’Connell was twenty four years old when she was found dead from a gunshot wound in her boyfriend’s home in Florida. Authorities ruled her death a suicide. The case was closed quickly. Years later, a group of mothers driving their children to school began asking questions no one else...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how Martha Moxley died, we talk about how she lived. Martha Moxley was fifteen years old when she was murdered on Mischief Night in 1975 in the Belle Haven section of Greenwich, Connecticut. Her body was found the next day in the yard of a wealthy neighborhood, beaten and stabbed with a golf club taken from a nearby home. What followed was not a lack...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how Rekia Boyd died, we talk about how she lived. Rekia Boyd was twenty two years old. She was a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a Black woman standing with her friends in her own city on an ordinary night. In March of 2012, Rekia was shot and killed by an off duty Chicago police officer. She was unarmed. The officer was never convicted. Her case en...

This is I Fear You, Babe. Before we talk about how Kaysera Stops Pretty Places died, we talk about how she lived. Kaysera Stops Pretty Places was eighteen years old. She was Crow and Northern Cheyenne. She was a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a young woman moving through a place that looked safe enough to stop asking questions. In August of 2019, Kaysera disappeared in Hardin, Montana. Days lat...

This is I Fear You, Babe . Before we talk about how Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind died, we talk about how she lived. Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was 22 years old, a member of the Spirit Lake Tribe, and eight months pregnant with her daughter, Haisley Jo. She was a daughter, a partner, and a young woman preparing to become a mother. In this episode, I walk through who Savanna was, the days leading up...

This is I Fear You, Babe . Before we talk about how Chad Entzel died, we talk about how he lived. Chad Entzel was 42 years old, a regular at his bowling league, a working guy with routines and people who expected him to show up. He was not a plot twist in someone else’s story. This episode walks through the house fire in North Dakota, how investigators realized it wasn’t an accident, and the court...

This is I Fear You, Babe . Before we talk about how Tara Grinstead died, we talk about how she lived. Tara Grinstead was a high school history teacher, a mentor, and a trusted part of her small Georgia community. She wasn’t passing through. She wasn’t disconnected. She was embedded. This episode walks through Tara’s life, the night she disappeared, the twelve years her family lived without answers...

This is I Fear You, Babe — Bonus Episode . In December 2021, Lauren Smith-Fields , a 23-year-old Black woman from Bridgeport, Connecticut, was found dead in her apartment after a man she had met the night before called 911. Within hours, police publicly suggested there was no foul play. No full investigation. No preserved crime scene. No immediate answers for her family. This bonus episode examine...