Last Scene - A True Crime Podcast

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Jaycee Dugard Case: 18 Years in Captivity In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard vanished while walking to her school bus stop. For 18 years, her disappearance remained one of America's most baffling missing child cases as investigators exhausted every lead. This true crime series examines th...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. A Family Erased: The Triple Homicide That Haunts Virginia When a mobile home mover and his wife are executed in their sleep, and their 9-year-old daughter vanishes without a trace, a quiet Virginia community is thrust into a nightmare. In this haunting episode, we unravel the unsolved triple homicide...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. 114 Stones: The Tristyn Bailey Murder The shocking 2021 case of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey, whose brutal murder by classmate Aiden Fucci stunned a Florida community. This account details how a Mother's Day disappearance led to the discovery of a crime defined by its unprecedented violence and dis...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Darkness in Beaverton: The Murder of Milana Li and the Capture of a Teenage Killer When 13-year-old Milana Li vanished during a walk on Mother's Day 2022, her Beaverton, Oregon community launched a desperate search. Two days later, her body was found in a shallow creek—strangled and concealed ben...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Buried Truths: The Blaze Bernstein Murder In January 2018, a promising young Ivy League student vanished during winter break in Orange County, California. What began as a frantic missing person search soon uncovered a hate-fueled murder that would expose the dark underbelly of extremism in America. T...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Hollywood Noir: The Unsolved Murder of Bonny Lee Bakley When the wife of Emmy-winning actor Robert Blake was found shot to death in his car outside a Studio City restaurant in 2001, it sparked one of Hollywood's most notorious murder cases. From Bonny Lee Bakley's troubled past as a celebrity...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Murder of Ashley Smylie In March 2024, 14-year-old Carly Gregg murdered her mother Ashley Smylie and attempted to kill her stepfather Heath in their Mississippi home. Security footage captured Carly's calculated actions before and after the shooting. Despite an insanity defense linked to a re...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Perfect Lie: The Jamie Faith Murder Case A devoted husband gunned down during a morning dog walk. A grieving widow's tearful pleas for justice. A community rallying around her. But beneath Jennifer Faith's façade of grief lay a web of manipulation involving an old flame, fake emails, and...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Scott Falater Case: A Husband's Unthinkable Crime In January 1997, Phoenix police found Scott Falater's wife Yarmila brutally murdered - stabbed 44 times and drowned in their pool. His defense: he was sleepwalking. A shocking true crime case that challenged everything we know about consci...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Disappearance of Tina McQuaig: A 25-Year Mystery When 27-year-old Tina McQuaig left her job at a Jacksonville hospital on March 15, 2000, she vanished without a trace. Four days later, her car was found abandoned in a Walmart parking lot, but it would be nearly three years before her remains were...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Little Miss Nobody: The 62-Year Search for Sharon Lee Gallegos The haunting true story of a 4-year-old girl abducted in New Mexico in 1960 whose remains were found in the Arizona desert but remained unidentified for six decades. Follow the extraordinary journey from her mysterious kidnapping to the c...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Granny Ripper: Tamara Samsonova When a dismembered body was discovered near a pond in St. Petersburg in 2015, no one suspected the killer would be a 68-year-old grandmother. Discover the chilling case of Tamara Samsonova, the "Granny Ripper," who meticulously documented her gruesome murde...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Dartmouth Murders In 2001, respected Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop were brutally murdered in their home. The killers? Two ordinary teenagers from a nearby Vermont town who wanted money to flee to Australia. This is the true story of a senseless crime that shocked New England, the i...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. H.H. Holmes: The Architect of Evil - America's First Serial Killer and His House of Horrors Step into the disturbing world of Dr. H.H. Holmes, whose charming demeanor masked a calculating killer. In 1890s Chicago, Holmes constructed his infamous "Murder Castle" – a labyrinth of hidden roo...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Acid Bath Murderer: John George Haigh In post-war London, a well-dressed gentleman with impeccable manners became one of Britain's most notorious serial killers. John George Haigh murdered six people between 1944 and 1949, dissolving their bodies in acid baths to eliminate evidence. This epis...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Night Austin Lost Its Innocence: The Yogurt Shop Murders December 6, 1991. As closing time approached at an Austin yogurt shop, four teenage girls prepared to head home. None would survive the night. The gruesome discovery that followed shocked a city to its core and launched a three-decade hunt...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Blood Ties: The Murder of Edwin Hawes In 2008, police discovered a massive bonfire on a rural Minnesota farm. Standing nearby was Elizabeth Hawes, who uttered the chilling words: "That's not my brother in there." But it was. The charred remains belonged to Edwin Hawes, killed in a brutal...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The House of Blood: Japan's Most Baffling Unsolved Murders On the final night of 2000, a killer slaughtered the Miyazawa family in Tokyo's Setagaya ward—then stayed for hours, eating ice cream and browsing the internet. Despite leaving behind DNA, fingerprints, and even his clothes, the perpe...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Tracked: How Data Solved the Perfect Murder When Connie Dabate was found dead in her basement two days before Christmas, her husband blamed a masked intruder. But the tiny fitness tracker on her wrist told a different story. This riveting true crime narrative follows investigators as they unravel a w...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Blood on Welles Lane: The Vanishing of Jennifer Dulos Five children waved goodbye to their mother on a spring morning in 2019, not knowing it would be the last time. Beyond the manicured lawns and colonial facades of New Canaan, Connecticut, a sinister plot was unfolding. What started as a missing pe...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Lost Trust: The Patricia Alatorre Story This haunting true crime narrative examines the short life and tragic death of eight-year-old Gabriel Fernandez, whose murder exposed catastrophic failures in Los Angeles County's child protection system.

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Innocence Betrayed: The Gabriel Fernandez Story This haunting true crime narrative examines the short life and tragic death of eight-year-old Gabriel Fernandez, whose murder exposed catastrophic failures in Los Angeles County's child protection system.

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. Grace Millane's Last Evening In December 2018, British backpacker Grace Millane failed to respond to birthday messages from her family while traveling in New Zealand. What began as a missing persons case would unravel into a tragic murder investigation that sparked international outrage and led t...

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Girl on Highway 5 – Mary Vincent September 1978: A 15-year-old girl accepts a ride from a seemingly kind, grandfather-like figure on a California highway. What follows becomes one of the most shocking and transformative cases in American criminal justice history.

⚠️ Content Warning ⚠️ This episode contains sensitive subject matter related to a true crime case. The Silence That Killed Junko Furuta: Japan's Most Haunting Case In 1988, a 17-year-old Japanese high school student disappeared on her way home from work. What followed was a 44-day ordeal that would expose the darkest aspects of societal indifference and juvenile crime in post-war Japan. Throug...