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True Crime DocumentaryOn April 28, 2019 four family members were systematically executed in their home in West Chester, Ohio. Officers arrived only minutes after neighbors reported hearing gunshots. They found no signs of a struggle from any of the victims, nor any attempt by the killer to clean-up the crime scene. What they did find was a single member of the household left alive. While his famil...

The 4th of December 2020 began as a quiet morning at the Payne family home in Columbus, Ohio. The calm of the household was interrupted when 23 year-old Casey returned home from his dentist appointment. Casey was shot to death just inside the doorway of his grandmother’s house; crashing onto the kitchen floor, the sandwiches he purchased for lunch falling to the ground next to him. The following m...

The Farris family of Alpharetta, Georgia was both very wealthy and extremely dysfunctional. When their patriarch, 58 year-old Gary Farris was found dead, his remains set aflame in the burn pile on the family’s property, the rest of the family began pointing fingers... at each other. Over the following years the family’s dirty laundry was aired for the world to see. The alleged killer was put on tr...

True Crime Documentary, the murder of Chris DickersonThe last sighting of 35 year-old Christopher Dickerson was outside of a popular bar in downtown Greeley, Colorado at around 2AM on a Saturday night in October, 2021. He was on his own. Chris interacted with the driver of a silver sedan before continuing home. The sedan, followed him. Hours later, responders were called out to a house fire on 15t...

True Crime Documentary22 year-old community college student, Jasmine Pace, had plans to spend Thanksgiving 2022 with her family. To her mother’s surprise she sent a text message last minute cancelling those plans. On Jasmine’s Facebook account there was a new post. It read: “Enjoying Thanksgiving with my baby.” Except the photo accompanying the post was not from Thanksgiving. In this photo, Jasmin...

Between the hours of 1:30AM and 4:30AM on Saturday October 21st 2023, 40 year-old Samantha Woll was stabbed to death inside of her townhouse in Detroit, Michigan. A neighbor discovered Sam lying on a walkway outside of her home later that morning where she had managed to crawl before succumbing to her injuries. The investigation would find that at least one identifiable person had been outside of...

Mica Miller was 30 years old when she died on 27 April, 2024. She had been married to John Paul Miller, a pastor at Solid Rock Church in South Carolina for seven years. When the pastor’s wife was found dead from a single gunshot to the head, all signs pointed towards a conclusion that no one wanted to accept. As the secrets of her past and marriage came to light, a growing chorus of family members...

Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home of Daniel and Kendy Howard around 11PM on February 2, 2021. Dan Howard, a marine and former state trooper was inconsolable. He had just discovered his 48 year-old wife, Kendy, dead in the bathtub. Through cries of anguish, the distraught husband claimed there had been no foul play. But when investigators began digging into the details, and pee...

True Crime DocumentaryA 22 year-old nursing student, Laken Riley, on her regular morning jog near to her university campus, disappeared after crossing paths with an unknown, suspicious, hooded figure. Thankfully, law enforcement caught some more than one lucky break in the case early, leading them directly to the killer. Though as the story unfolded and more details came to light, outrage only gre...

Canadian millionaire Richard 'Dick' Oland was found dead on the floor of his office on a warm summer morning in 2011. The 69 year-old was known to be ruthless in his business dealings. He had no doubt made many enemies. But the scene suggested that his murder had been a crime of passion. The killer was likely someone Dick had known well, and maybe even loved.

True Crime DocumentaryIn Spring 2022, reports of a kidnapping-in-progress led to a dangerous high-speed police chase ending in a deadly crash on interstate 25 near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The resulting head-on collision claimed two lives. After the abductee was safely in police custody she had a story to tell. A truly unbelievable one.

On October 30th 2011, 44 year-old Karen Swift’s car was found abandoned on the side of rural highway in Northern Dyer County, Tennessee. The mother of four was last seen at her home the night before when she put her 9 year-old daughter to bed. When the kids awoke the next morning their mother was gone. To the frustration of investigators, there was very little indication of what may have happened...

True Crime Documentary. The Murder of Aniya MackWhen officers from the Kalamazoo Police were called out to a student apartment building on a Spring night in 2018, they believed they were responding to a report like any other. A Western Michigan University student, 24 year-old Aniya Mack, had been out of touch with friends for a few days. It was unusual behaviour for Aniya. However, police found no...

True Crime DocumentaryOn the evening of September 17, 2023 police in Romeoville, Illinois made a gruesome and heart-breaking discovery inside of a family home. What followed was a rapidly unfolding investigation that uncovered a truly bizarre and disturbing murder plot and a motive that no one saw coming.

In July 2020, 18 year old Grant Solomon died in what was deemed a freak accident in the parking lot of a gym in Gallatin, Tennessee. The circumstances were as strange as they were tragic. There was only one witness to the accident: Grant’s father, Aaron Solomon, a man who had been under intense scrutiny after years of allegations of abuse and mistreatment from his ex-wife. With an investigation sw...

In March 2024, Riley Strain was on a pub crawl with friends on Broadway in Nashville. The 22 year-old left his last bar of the night at just past 9:30 PM. He seemed to vanish only minutes later. Even with cameras retracing his steps through the city, there were gaps in his movements. Witnesses coming forward that could not always be trusted and clues being uncovered that raised more questions than...