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Reid Carter concludes the Azaria Chamberlain story on Australia Day. Lindy gives birth to daughter Kahlia in prison - the baby taken from her within hours. February 1986: A climber falls to his death at Uluru. Search party finds Azaria's matinee jacket near dingo lairs - the jacket police said didn't exist. Lindy released immediately. Royal Commission dismantles every piece of forensic evidence. M...

Reid Carter launches an Australia Day Weekend Special examining the case that became a global phenomenon. August 17, 1980: Lindy Chamberlain's nine-week-old daughter Azaria vanishes from a tent at Uluru. Lindy says she saw a dingo leaving with the baby. First inquest rules dingo attack. Then forensic "experts" claim to find fetal blood in the family car. A British pathologist sees handprints and c...

Reid Carter marks the 49th anniversary of Gary Gilmore's execution - the firing squad death that ended America's decade-long moratorium on capital punishment. January 17, 1977: Five riflemen, four live rounds, and a convicted killer who demanded the state kill him. Gilmore murdered two young Mormon fathers - Max Jensen, 24, and Bennie Bushnell, 25 - in back-to-back Utah robberies. Both complied. B...

 Reid Carter concludes the Hillside Stranglers saga on the 47th anniversary of the murders that finally exposed Kenneth Bianchi. January 11th, 1979: Bianchi lured Western Washington University students Karen Mandic and Diane Wilder to a house he was guarding, raped and strangled them both. Arrested within days. Faked multiple personality disorder claiming "Steve" committed the murders - psychiatri...

Reid Carter exposes the four-month killing spree that terrorized Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978. Cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono posed as undercover police officers, flashing fake badges and luring ten women and girls - ages 12 to 28 - into their car. Victims were taken to Buono's upholstery shop where they were raped, tortured, and strangled before their naked bodies...

Reid Carter concludes the 12 Crimes of Christmas with the police sergeant who murdered his third wife and likely killed his fourth. March 2004: Kathleen Savio found dead in dry bathtub - ruled accidental despite bruises and gash to head. October 2007: Fourth wife Stacy, 23, vanishes. Stepbrother helped Peterson carry warm blue barrel from bedroom - tried to kill himself afterward believing Stacy w...

Reid Carter concludes the Michael Peterson saga with the stunning reversal that freed a convicted murderer. Blood spatter expert Duane Deaver: exposed as a fraud who lied about credentials and falsified evidence in multiple cases. December 2011: Conviction vacated after eight years in prison. The owl theory: microscopic feathers and talon-shaped wounds suggest Kathleen was attacked outside before...

Reid Carter begins a two-part examination of novelist Michael Peterson and two eerily similar deaths sixteen years apart. November 1985, Germany: Elizabeth Ratliff found dead at bottom of stairs - Peterson was last to see her alive, adopted her two orphaned daughters. December 2001, North Carolina: Wife Kathleen Peterson found dead at bottom of stairs in pool of blood - seven lacerations to her he...

Reid Carter rings in the New Year with the NFL star who threw it all away. Aaron Hernandez: University of Florida star, New England Patriots tight end, $40 million contract signed six weeks after allegedly killing two men over a spilled drink. June 2013: Odin Lloyd found shot five times one mile from Hernandez's mansion. Lloyd's final texts to his sister: "Did you see who I am with?" "NFL." "Just...

Reid Carter covers the Valentine's Day murder that shocked the world. February 14, 2013: Olympic hero Oscar Pistorius fired four hollow-point bullets through his bathroom door, killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. She was 29, a model and law graduate who advocated against domestic violence. He claimed intruder. She was found with her phone in the bathroom - why would an intruder bring a phone? Neig...

Reid Carter covers the trial that became America's obsession. January 2013: Jodi Arias faced first-degree murder charges for butchering Travis Alexander. She testified for 18 days - unprecedented in legal history. Claimed she was abused, that Travis was a secret deviant who deserved what he got. Prosecutor Juan Martinez demolished her story. May 8, 2013: Guilty of first-degree murder. Two juries d...

Reid Carter exposes the obsessive girlfriend who stabbed her ex-boyfriend 27 times, slit his throat ear to ear, and shot him in the head. Travis Alexander warned friends: "Don't be surprised if you find me dead one day." He called Jodi Arias a "sociopath." She slashed his tires, hacked his Facebook, snuck into his house through the doggie door. June 4, 2008: She drove 1,000 miles with gas cans to...

Reid Carter concludes the Robert Durst saga with the murder that should have ended everything - and the confession that finally did. September 2001: Durst killed his 71-year-old neighbor Morris Black, dismembered his body with surgical precision, and dumped the pieces in Galveston Bay. Acquitted after claiming self-defense. 2015: HBO's The Jinx caught Durst on a hot mic whispering "killed them all...

Reid Carter exposes how real estate heir Robert Durst evaded justice for four decades while bodies piled up around him. January 31, 1982: His wife Kathie disappeared three months before graduating medical school - she told friends "if anything happens to me, don't let Bob get away with it." Durst claimed he dropped her at a train station. Never seen again. Police never searched their cottage. Some...

Reid Carter concludes the JonBenét Ramsey special on the 29th anniversary of her body being found. 2006: Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer, never cleared by police. 2006: John Mark Karr falsely confessed - DNA proved he lied. 2008: New DA issued unprecedented exoneration letter based on DNA evidence. 2024-2025: Netflix documentary reignited interest, Colorado Bureau of Investigation testing prev...

Reid Carter continues the JonBenét Ramsey Christmas special on the 29th anniversary of her murder. Boulder police immediately suspected the parents - the ransom note used Patsy's notepad and pen, demanded John's exact bonus amount, and experts couldn't eliminate Patsy's handwriting. Media coverage destroyed the family's reputation before any charges were filed. But Detective Lou Smit believed an i...

 December 25, 1996: Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey was killed in her Boulder, Colorado home while her family slept. December 26: Patsy Ramsey found a bizarre three-page ransom note demanding exactly $118,000 - her husband's Christmas bonus. Police arrived at 5:55 AM but didn't search the basement. Seven hours later, John Ramsey found his daughter's body in the wine cellar - strangled wi...

Reid Carter concludes the John Lennon assassination special. Mark David Chapman's defense planned an insanity defense—paranoid schizophrenia, delusions, the little people in his walls. But on June 22, 1981, Chapman told Judge Dennis Edwards that God ordered him to plead guilty. His attorney objected. Chapman didn't care. Sentenced to 20-years-to-life. August 2025: His fourteenth parole denial. The...

Reid Carter examines the 45th anniversary of John Lennon's assassination. December 8, 1980: Mark David Chapman waited outside the Dakota building all day, got Lennon's autograph at 5pm, then shot him four times in the back at 10:50pm. The 25-year-old security guard from Hawaii traveled to New York twice—first in October, losing his nerve, then returning December 6th with hollow-point bullets. Hour...

Reid Carter concludes the Ted Bundy series with his January 24, 1989 execution at Florida State Prison. Bundy spent final night chain-smoking, refusing last meal, meeting with his mother for last time. 7:00 AM: Strapped into Old Sparky—Florida's electric chair. Last words: "Jim and Fred, I'd like you to give my love to my family and friends." 7:16 AM: 2,000 volts sent through his body for one minu...

Reid Carter examines Ted Bundy's nine years on death row where he weaponized victim information for execution delays. 1980: Married Carole Ann Boone who smuggled his sperm from prison—daughter Rosa born October 1982. 1984: Bundy started confessing to detectives, revealing burial sites and murder details only the killer would know. Admitted to 30 murders but investigators believe actual count excee...

Reid Carter covers Ted Bundy's 1979 trial for murdering two Florida State University sorority sisters. June 25, 1979: Bundy acted as his own attorney—cross-examining witnesses, making objections, addressing the jury directly. Prosecution presented Nita Neary who saw Bundy leaving Chi Omega sorority house at 3 AM. Forensic odontologist Richard Souviron testified bite marks on Lisa Levy's buttock ma...

Reid Carter examines Ted Bundy's transformation from law student to serial killer who murdered at least 30 young women across seven states. January 1974: Linda Ann Healy vanished from her Seattle basement bedroom—blood-soaked pillowcase left behind. Bundy targeted college women who resembled his ex-girlfriend with long dark hair parted in middle. July 1974: Janice Ott and Denise Naslund abducted f...

Reid Carter concludes the Aileen Wuornos special with the betrayal that sealed her fate. January 1991: Police offered Tyria Moore full immunity to testify against Aileen—she took it immediately. Recorded eleven phone calls manipulating Aileen to confess. January 1992: Trial for Richard Mallory's murder. Jury never heard he was convicted rapist. Guilty verdict in two hours. Six death sentences tota...

Reid Carter exposes how Aileen Wuornos became America's first female serial killer targeting adult male strangers. Born February 1956 to teenage mother who abandoned her at four. Raped starting at seven. Pregnant at fourteen. Homeless at fifteen. November 1989: killed first victim Richard Mallory—claimed self-defense after he raped her. Then kept killing. Seven middle-aged men dead in thirteen mon...