Murder Files Unsealed

The episode recounts the tragic death of Rebecca Rauber, a well-liked second-grade teacher from Emporia, Kansas, who disappeared during a severe winter storm. In January 2026, the young educator left a local establishment without her protective clothing or phone following a minor social dispute. Despite her proximity to the area where she was last seen, she succumbed to extreme hypothermia in sub-...

The episode chronicles the life and tragic 2009 death of Oscar Grant III, a young Black man fatally shot by a BART police officer at the Fruitvale station in Oakland. It details the specific sequence of events on New Year’s Day where Officer Johannes Mehserle claimed to mistake his firearm for a Taser, an incident captured by numerous bystanders on cellphone video. This documentation transformed t...

This episode recounts the accidental drowning of James “Jimmy” Gracey, a twenty-year-old University of Alabama student who vanished during a spring break trip to Barcelona. A dedicated honors student and leader in the Theta Chi fraternity, Gracey was last seen leaving a beachfront nightclub before a multi-agency search led to the discovery of his body in the Mediterranean Sea. While local authorit...

The episode examines the viral Netflix documentary The TikTok Killer, which chronicles the disappearance of Esther Estepa and the subsequent investigation into influencer José Jurado Montilla. Known online as “Dinamita,” Montilla used his social media presence to craft a persona of a harmless hiker, masking a violent criminal history that included four previous murders. The narrative highlights ho...

This report details the tragic recovery of the Choc family’s remains following their disappearance and kidnapping from Theodore, Alabama, in early 2026. Authorities discovered the bodies of a mother and her two children in a shallow grave after a multi-agency investigation revealed signs of a violent struggle at their home. The primary suspect, an undocumented individual with a violent criminal hi...

This episode recounts the haunting 2018 disappearance of Kierra Coles, a pregnant Chicago postal worker whose case remains unsolved after more than seven years. Investigators suspect foul play based on mysterious surveillance footage showing Coles with a person of interest shortly before she vanished. Although her vehicle was recovered with her personal belongings inside, neither Coles nor her unb...

This episode details the tragic disappearance and murder of Liga Skromane, a Latvian tourist who traveled to Kerala, India, in 2018 to seek Ayurvedic treatment for depression. After vanishing from a healing center, her remains were discovered weeks later in a remote mangrove, leading to a criminal investigation that exposed systemic failures in local law enforcement. The account tracks the persist...

This episode examines the unsubstantiated claims made by serial killer Glen Rogers, who alleged he murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman at the behest of O.J. Simpson. While a 2012 documentary and Rogers’ own family members promoted this narrative, law enforcement and the victims' families have dismissed it due to a complete lack of physical evidence and a mismatch in criminal signatures....

This episode details a fatal confrontation in Bloomington, Minnesota, where a marijuana transaction arranged via social media resulted in the death of Alexif Loeza Galvan. The victim was killed after being dragged by a vehicle driven by Lamont Eugene Williams Jr., who was later convicted of unintentional murder. While the defense argued the incident was an act of self-defense, evidence such as a r...

This source recounts the tragic double homicide of Victor and Serenity Gonzalez, a father and daughter who were ambushed and killed in rural Mississippi during an attempted Facebook Marketplace transaction. While traveling to purchase a gaming console, the pair was lured to a secluded gravel road where they were fatally shot inside their vehicle. The episode highlights how online commerce platform...

This episode outlines a chilling criminal investigation involving the American singer d4vd, who has been identified as a primary target in a California grand jury probe. The case centers on the 2025 discovery of the dismembered remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a missing fourteen-year-old girl found inside a vehicle registered to the artist. According to unsealed court documents, the investigati...

The episode details the protracted legal saga of Barry Morphew, who is accused of murdering his wife, Suzanne, in the Colorado mountains. After her initial disappearance on Mother’s Day 2020, the investigation focused on Barry’s access to a specific wildlife tranquilizer found later in Suzanne’s remains. Although the original case was dismissed due to prosecutorial misconduct, the discovery of her...

The episode explores the dark history of Oregon’s Highway 20, where state worker John Arthur Ackroyd committed a series of violent crimes against women and girls over several decades. It describes how Ackroyd utilized his official position and intimate knowledge of the remote landscape to target victims with near-impunity between the late 1970s and early 1990s. The narrative highlights the systemi...

This source detailing the "SD Card Murders" describes the horrific crimes of Brian Steven Smith, a serial killer in Alaska who filmed the torture and murder of Kathleen Jo Henry. The investigation began when a woman experiencing homelessness discovered a discarded SD card containing graphic video evidence of the killing and alerted the authorities. Through Smith's subsequent confession, police als...

The episode explores Lost Women of Alaska, a docu-series executive produced by Octavia Spencer that examines the systemic crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP). It specifically highlights the horrific 2018 and 2019 murders of Veronica Abouchuk and Kathleen Jo Henry by a serial predator to illustrate a broader epidemic of violence. The sources provide alarming statistics showing...

These sources document the tragic 2024 murder of Bethany Ann Israel and her unborn son, Levy, at the hands of her brother, Jack Joseph Ball. The text details how a family dinner in Minnesota escalated into a premeditated act of dismemberment fueled by the perpetrator’s delusional belief that his sister’s pregnancy had stripped her of her innocence. While Ball recently entered a guilty plea for two...

The episode chronicles the macabre life and criminal conviction of Brookey Lee West, who was found guilty of murdering her mother, Christine Smith. The case gained notoriety in 2001 when investigators discovered Smith’s decomposed remains sealed inside a trash can within a Las Vegas storage unit. Surrounded by occult literature and books on Satanism, the crime scene reflected a dark family history...

The episode chronicles the chilling 2020 murder of Jamie Faith, an IT manager from Dallas who was gunned down during a morning walk with his wife, Jennifer. Although initially presented as a random robbery, investigators eventually uncovered a complex conspiracy orchestrated by Jennifer, who had manipulated her high school boyfriend, Darrin Lopez, into committing the crime. By fabricating fake evi...

These sources detail the mysterious disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of television journalist Savannah Guthrie, from her Arizona home in early 2026. Although she was initially thought to have wandered off, investigators quickly reclassified the case as a criminal abduction due to her severe physical infirmities and signs of a struggle. Law enforcement, including the FBI and l...

The episode details the criminal investigation into Susan Michelle Perry, a North Carolina woman accused of murdering her husband and staging it as a suicide. While the 2025 death of Robert "Joe" Perry was initially reported by his wife as a self-inflicted gunshot wound, local authorities uncovered incriminating digital evidence that contradicted her story. Forensic analysis of Susan’s Google sear...

This report examines the February 2026 jailbreak of two murder suspects, Rickey Martin and Kentravious Holmes, from the Sumter County Jail in Georgia. The pair successfully bypassed security by manipulating a maintenance door to reach the roof, triggering a high-stakes, four-day multi-agency manhunt across the region. Law enforcement eventually apprehended the fugitives without incident at a resid...

This episode recounts the tragic kidnapping and murder of Anesha Murnane, a vulnerable resident of an Alaskan assisted living facility who disappeared in 2019. The narrative identifies her killer as Kirby Calderwood, a former caregiver who exploited his position of trust to lure her into a premeditated trap. Through a years-long investigation involving a secret confession and forensic DNA evidence...

A wrongful death lawsuit against DoorDash highlights a tragic collision that claimed the life of Elsa McGrain, a promising pre-med student killed in a rural hit-and-run. The accused driver, William Ray Klingler, allegedly operated the delivery platform despite a criminal history involving multiple substance-related driving offenses and a suspended license. The legal action asserts that the tech co...

The episode recounts the tragic unsolved homicide of eighteen-year-old Anita Knutson, who was discovered stabbed to death in her Minot, North Dakota, apartment in 2007. Despite the discovery of a murder weapon and a staged crime scene, the investigation stalled for over a decade due to limited forensic evidence and local environmental crises. A significant breakthrough occurred in 2022 when cold c...

This documentation provides a comprehensive overview of the ongoing investigation into the presumed abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of journalist Savannah Guthrie. Following her disappearance from her Arizona home in early 2026, authorities discovered signs of forced entry and biological evidence suggesting a violent struggle. The episode outlines a detailed timeline of events, noting that...