Pure Malice

The Lake Waco Murders case reaches its most explosive chapter yet. In Episode 4 of Pure Malice: The Lake Waco Murders, we follow the unraveling of one of Texas's most controversial murder prosecutions. After teaching himself the law from death row, Muneer Deeb accomplishes what few inmates ever have—successfully overturning his own conviction and winning a new trial. Meanwhile, David Spence&#3...

David Spence never stopped saying he was innocent. Even after the headlines and his conviction. Even after the system had already decided who he was and what he had done, David continued to proclaim that he had no part in the murders of Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, or Kenneth Franks. But he wasn’t the only one fighting. In Part 3 of The Lake Waco Murders: A Local Nightmare , we shift into one of...

The Lake Waco Murders investigation takes a darker turn in Part 2. After the bodies of Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, and Kenneth Franks were discovered near Lake Waco in July 1982, the autopsy findings began raising even more questions. The evidence pointed to a violent, personal, and deeply disturbing crime scene, but this case was far from simple. In this episode, we pick up with the autopsy fi...

The Lake Waco Murders: A Local Nightmare begins with three teenagers, one summer night, and a case that would haunt Waco, Texas for decades. In July 1982, Jill Montgomery, Raylene Rice, and Kenneth Franks went out for what should have been a normal night near Lake Waco. But when they never made it home, a search began that would lead investigators to one of the most disturbing crime scenes in Cent...

Elmer McCurdy wanted to be remembered as an outlaw, but his afterlife became far stranger than anything he did while he was alive. In the early 1900s, McCurdy tried to make a name for himself as a train robber and outlaw. But his criminal career was chaotic, unsuccessful, and short-lived. After a botched robbery and a fatal shootout, his story should have ended with his death. Instead, it became o...

Princess Diana became one of the most beloved women in the world, but behind the royal image was a story far more complicated than the fairy tale people were sold. When Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in 1981, the world watched what looked like the beginning of a perfect royal love story. A young woman who had once lived a quiet life was suddenly thrown into the center of the British Royal Fa...

The Rae Carruth case did not end with the shooting of Cherica Adams. In Part 2 of Pure Malice: Athletes Gone Dark , we continue the story of former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth and the crime that shocked the sports world. After Cherica Adams was shot while pregnant with Carruth’s child, the case moved from a violent attack to a desperate fight for survival, a criminal investigation,...

Pure Malice: Athletes Gone Dark begins with the case of Rae Carruth, a rising NFL star whose story became one of the most disturbing crimes in sports history. In 1997, Rae Carruth was drafted by the Carolina Panthers as a talented wide receiver with a future most athletes only dream about. On the surface, he had the spotlight, the career, the money, and the promise of something bigger. But behind...

In the early 1800s, long before horror films, viral legends, or ghost-hunting equipment, a wealthy farming family in Tennessee found themselves at the center of one of the most chilling and enduring paranormal stories in American history. What began as strange sounds in the night quickly escalated into something far more sinister. Voices with personalities. Invisible hands. Violent attacks. And a...

The Billionaire Murders case only gets more complicated in Part 2. After the bodies of Barry and Honey Sherman were discovered inside their Toronto mansion, the early theory of murder-suicide began to collapse under the weight of new findings, family pressure, private investigation, and growing public scrutiny. In Part 2 of Pure Malice , we continue the still-unsolved case of Canadian pharmaceutic...

The Billionaire Murders case begins with one of Canada’s wealthiest couples, a Toronto mansion, and a crime scene that raised questions from the very beginning. In December 2017, pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife, philanthropist Honey Sherman , were found dead inside their Toronto home under bizarre and deeply unsettling circumstances. At first, the case was labeled a possible...

🎙️ Listener discretion is advised. This episode marks a first for Pure Malice and it’s anything but merry. Welcome to Mini Malice , our brand-new special edition episodes where we dive into shorter true crime cases that still leave a lasting chill. Same dark curiosity, same sharp storytelling, just served in smaller, more sinister bites. For our premiere Mini Malice , we’re leaning fully into the...

The Manhattan Alien Abduction is one of the strangest and most controversial UFO cases ever reported. Alien abduction stories are usually tied to quiet roads, isolated homes, and empty stretches of sky. But this case takes us into the middle of New York City, where traffic, skyscrapers, and millions of people somehow became the backdrop for an alleged encounter that still sparks debate decades lat...

The Slenderman stabbing case did not end with the attack on Peyton Leutner. Slenderman was supposed to stay online: a faceless shadow living in creepypasta threads, internet horror forums, and digital folklore. But in 2014, that fiction became horrifyingly real when 12-year-old Peyton Leutner was stabbed in Wisconsin by two girls she believed were her friends, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. In Pa...

The Slenderman stabbing is one of the most chilling true crime cases born from internet folklore. Slenderman was supposed to stay online: a faceless figure in the woods, a shadow in a suit, a digital campfire story passed around through creepypasta forums and internet horror communities. But in 2014, that fiction crossed into real life when 12-year-old Peyton Leutner was brutally stabbed in Wiscon...

The Last Call Killer case reaches a turning point in Part 2. After years of unanswered questions, brutal discoveries, and fear surrounding New York City’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene, the investigation into Richard Rogers Jr. finally begins to move toward the breakthrough detectives had been waiting for. In this episode of Pure Malice , we continue the case of Richard Rogers Jr., the man known as The L...

The Last Call Killer case is one of the most disturbing true crime stories tied to New York City’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene. In Part 1, we begin the case of Richard Rogers Jr., the man who would later become known as The Last Call Killer . On the surface, Rogers appeared ordinary. But behind that quiet exterior, investigators would eventually uncover a brutal pattern connected to men who disappeared...

This Halloween, Pure Malice Into the Paranormal steps into the unknown with a very special guest. In this special Halloween episode, Pure Malice welcomes special guest Greg Ludwig , better known as Ghost Inspector Greg , for a chilling dive into the world of real paranormal investigation, haunted locations, and the unexplained. Greg shares some of his most eerie ghost stories and unsettling encoun...

The Greenbrier Ghost is one of the strangest true crime and paranormal cases in American history. In 1897, a young woman named Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, under circumstances that didn’t sit right with her family. At first, her death seemed like a tragic loss. But then Zona’s mother, Mary Jane Heaster, claimed her daughter came to her from beyond the grave...

Were here with part two of The Vanishing Triangle. It's one of Ireland’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. In the 1990s, a series of women disappeared from an area in eastern Ireland that would later become known as the Vanishing Triangle . They left behind families, communities, unanswered questions, and a mystery that still casts a long shadow decades later. In this episode of Pure Malice ,...

The Vanishing Triangle is one of Ireland’s most haunting unsolved mysteries. In the 1990's, a series of women disappeared from an area in eastern Ireland that would later become known as the Vanishing Triangle . They left behind families, communities, unanswered questions, and a mystery that still casts a long shadow decades later. In this episode of Pure Malice , we walk through the timeline...

Hey listeners... We've got a baffling case for you this week. The Mysterious Death of Tamla Horsford is a true crime case you NEED to hear! When Tamla Horsford attended an adult slumber party in Forsyth County, Georgia, she expected a night of fun, football, and friends. Instead, the 40-year-old mother of five was found dead the next morning in the backyard of the home — face down, battered, a...

Part 2 of The Texas Killing Fields is here! Along a desolate stretch of I-45 between Houston and Galveston lies a haunting landscape known as the Texas Killing Fields—a place where dozens of young women vanished, and many never came home. In this episode of Pure Malice , we peel back the layers of this chilling case. From the discovery of the first bodies in the 1970s to the more recent breakthrou...

Along a desolate stretch of I-45 between Houston and Galveston lies a haunting landscape known as the Texas Killing Fields—a place where dozens of young women vanished, and many never came home. In this episode of Pure Malice , we peel back the layers of this chilling case. From the discovery of the first bodies in the 1970s to the more recent breakthroughs, we examine the victims, the suspects, a...

Part 2 of The Eastern State Penitentiary is here! In this chilling episode, we unlock the iron gates of one of America’s most infamous and haunted prisons — Eastern State Penitentiary. Once a revolutionary model for reform, this massive Gothic fortress in Philadelphia quickly became a house of horror, where isolation broke more than just spirits. From the eerie whispers echoing through abandoned c...