Real Life Real Crime

Woody Overton revisits the terrifying crimes of the Hillside Stranglers , cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered ten young women and girls in Los Angeles during the late 1970s. Their victims were left on hillsides, and the investigation eventually unraveled after Bianchi committed two additional murders in Washington. Woody examines how the killers...

Woody Overton revisits two notorious October 16 crimes: the 1931 Trunk Murders , when Winnie Ruth Judd killed two friends and attempted to transport their remains in suitcases, and the 1991 Luby's Cafeteria massacre in Killeen, Texas, where 23 people were murdered and 27 others injured. Woody also explores the execution of Marie Antoinette, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the histo...

Woody Overton revisits one of Utah's most horrific crimes: the 1974 Hi-Fi Shop murders in Ogden. Five innocent people were taken hostage during a robbery, tortured and forced to drink drain cleaner. Three were murdered, and two survived with devastating injuries. Woody examines the crime, the convictions of Dale Selby Pierre and William Andrews, their eventual executions, and the controversial...

Cyndi Overton takes listeners back to the Amityville murders , where Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed his parents and four siblings in 1974. As his murder trial began on October 14, 1975, the case would eventually become the inspiration for countless horror movies and stories of hauntings. But Cyndi explores something often overlooked: the real victims, the families left behind, and the lasting pain of wat...

Woody Overton opens with an update on #JusticeForMadison before revisiting the chilling Clear Lake murders , where Christine Paolilla and her boyfriend killed four people inside a Texas home. What began as a planned robbery ended in a quadruple homicide, and an anonymous tip eventually helped investigators uncover the truth. In Florida, Tony Wiggins receives multiple life sentences for the murders...

Woody Overton opens with the Colonial Parkway murders, a series of killings and disappearances that haunted Virginia for decades. Advances in forensic DNA testing have linked deceased fisherman Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. to multiple victims, although questions remain in some cases. Woody also revisits October 12 true-crime history, including the USS Cole bombing, the Bali nightclub bombings, Matthew She...

Woody Overton opens with an update on #JusticeForMadison, including the postponement of Thomas Morris’s arraignment to October 29. He then revisits the murder of Q.C. Chadwick, whose millionaire husband fled to Mexico while awaiting trial and remained a fugitive for years before his capture. The episode also examines the death of four-year-old Autumn Fox, whose caregiver faces a possible death-pen...

Woody Overton covers a bizarre situation in Elizabeth, Louisiana , where police chief candidate Chris Paul remains on the ballot—and is running unopposed—after being arrested on allegations that he raped two 13-year-old girls nearly 20 years ago. Paul has not been convicted and is presumed innocent. Woody also looks back at October 9 in true-crime history, including Aileen Wuornos, Jerry Sandusky...

Woody Overton begins with an update on #JusticeForMadison , as he prepares to attend Thomas Morris’s arraignment with Madison Renee Allen’s mother. Morris’s current charges stem from an unrelated case involving a Montana woman and include second-degree kidnapping, false imprisonment and illegal possession of stolen firearms. Woody also looks back at October 8 true-crime history, including the Jami...

Woody Overton covers the conviction of former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn , sentenced to life without parole for murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn , as she slept in their Ohio home. Prosecutors presented evidence of his affair, disturbing messages about wanting Ashley dead, and an attempted staging of the murder as a burglary. Woody also follows yesterday’s military death-penalty story wit...

Woody Overton opens with October 6 in true-crime history before covering a mass shooting at a Georgia block party that left two people dead and dozens injured, and the arrest of a California woman accused of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and surveilling a Taiwanese official’s family in the United States. Pasted text In Family Matters , Woody revisits the chilling case of Diane and Rachel...

Woody Overton starts with October 5 in true-crime history, from the Dalton Gang’s disastrous 1892 double-bank robbery and the 2001 anthrax attacks to the murder of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway and the notorious crimes and mythology surrounding H.H. Holmes . Pasted text Then, Family Matters brings two disturbing cases involving children: a loaded handgun found in a three-year-old’s daycare backpack...

Woody Overton opens with October 3 in true-crime history, including O.J. Simpson’s 1995 acquittal in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman—and the strange coincidence that exactly 13 years later, Simpson was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas. He also gives updates on #JusticeForMadison, #JusticeForStephanie and #JusticeForHailey , reminding Lifers to keep the...

Woody Overton takes a deep dive into the extraordinary attempted execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike . After last-minute court battles, Tennessee proceeded with Pike’s execution, but two doses of lethal-injection drugs failed to kill her. According to the reports covered in the episode, Pike remained alive and was transported to a hospital. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee subsequently...

Woody Overton kicks off October with some of the crimes tied to this date in history, including the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting , the Los Angeles Times bombing, the Golden State Killer, the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas , and the sentencing of Nazi leaders following the Nuremberg Trials. Pasted text Then, passengers aboard a flight bound for Israel face a terrifying midair emergency after...

Woody Overton closes out September with a trip through true-crime history, beginning with John Billington, the Mayflower passenger executed for murder in 1630. He also revisits Jack the Ripper's infamous Double Event of September 30, 1888, and the Nuremberg war-crimes verdicts of 1946. In Family Matters, a New Jersey mother is accused of hiding her missing teenage son in a crawl space, while a...

Woody Overton opens with updates on #JusticeForHailey, #JusticeForMadison and #JusticeForStephanie, encouraging anyone with information to come forward and reminding Lifers that investigations continue even when developments cannot yet be made public. Then, a possible new lead emerges in one of America's most notorious unsolved cases: the 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders. Seven people died after t...

Cyndi Overton takes over True Crime Time For with a story she intended to cover quickly—but couldn't. On September 28, 1953, six-year-old Robert “Bobby” Greenlease Jr. was taken from his Kansas City school by a woman claiming his mother had suffered a heart attack. Bonnie Heady and Carl Hall demanded $600,000 for Bobby's return, even though they had already killed him. The FBI investigatio...

Woody Overton opens with #JusticeForMadison and #JusticeForStephanie , thanking listeners for the tips coming in following the newly announced reward and urging anyone with firsthand information to contact investigators. Pasted text On this day in 2022, 19-year-old Tamir Jones was shot and killed outside his Philadelphia home. Woody follows the case beyond the original unsolved murder and explains...

Woody Overton opens with an important #JusticeForMadison and #JusticeForStephanie update: the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office and Capital Region Crime Stoppers are offering a reward for information that could help resolve the disappearances of Madison Allen and Stephanie Hevia . The reward is temporarily increased to $10,000 , and tipsters can remain anonymous. Pasted text WBRZ independentl...

This special Real Life Real Crime episode is devoted to #JusticeForMadison and #JusticeForStephanie . Woody Overton accompanies Lynn Rollins , Madison Renee Allen’s mother, to a private meeting with Sheriff Brian Spillman and members of the multi-agency task force investigating the disappearances of Madison and Stephanie Hevia . Investigators explain just how exhaustive the search of the 15-acre M...

Cyndi Overton takes over True Crime Time For and begins with one of Cleveland's most disturbing unsolved mysteries: the Cleveland Torso Murders . Between 1935 and 1938, a series of dismembered victims were discovered around Kingsbury Run, many of whom were never identified. Cyndi follows the investigation through Eliot Ness , the controversial destruction of the Kingsbury Run encampments, the...

Woody Overton opens with the 2006 murder of 16-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart before turning to a major #JusticeForMadison update. The intensive search of the Morris Road property connected to Thomas Morris has concluded without the recovery of the remains of Madison Renee Allen or Stephanie Hevia , but investigators say the case is far from over. Woody plays the latest WBRZ report, discusses what in...

On True Crime Time For September 21, 2026 , Woody Overton opens with #JusticeForMadison , reacting to public social-media comments surrounding the ongoing search for Madison Renee Allen and Stephanie Hevia and reminding listeners that law enforcement has not publicly disclosed everything investigators know. Then it's an episode Woody jokingly realizes could be called “Family Matters.” In Russi...

In Part 2 of the Jacob Mansell case , Woody Overton takes listeners inside the West Feliciana Parish courtroom and recounts the roughly three-and-a-half-hour hearing he personally witnessed. Woody describes testimony concerning the history of the allegations, repeated interviews of the child, the child's reported recantation, and the custody dispute surrounding Mansell. He also recounts testim...