Red Tree Crime

Some killers believe they are smarter than everyone else. They manipulate, lie, and control — until the moment everything collapses. In this chilling episode, we follow the psychological unraveling of a woman who believed she had committed the perfect crime. Calm on the surface, calculated in every move, she thought she was untouchable. But one mistake — small, almost invisible — changed everythin...

To the community, she was a symbol of trust, faith, and moral guidance. No one imagined the darkness hiding behind her calm smile. This episode explores the shocking downfall of a Sunday school teacher whose double life remained hidden for years. When investigators uncovered the truth, the revelations stunned not only law enforcement but an entire community that once admired her. As the trial unfo...

For years, he lived between two worlds. To everyone around him, he was ordinary — invisible, forgettable. But in the shadows, he was something else entirely. In this disturbing episode, we follow the final hours of a serial killer who believed he could always walk free. He planned carefully, erased traces, and trusted his instincts. But the walls were already closing in. A single decision. A quiet...

🎭 "He seemed like the perfect partner. He was hiding bodies in the crawlspace." A detective discovered a manipulative boyfriend's evil secret after his girlfriend vanished in 2018. The boyfriend, John Smith, had murdered her and buried her under the floorboards. He continued posting photos of them together online. Police found her remains during a welfare check. Smith confessed to strangling her...

👮‍♂️ "He pulled the trigger. He killed a child. Then he realized—the boy was innocent." In 2014, a police officer in Ohio shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was playing with a toy gun. The detective investigating the case realized the officer had mistaken the toy for a real weapon. No charges were filed against the officer. The case sparked national protests. The city settled with Tamir'...

🔪 "She played the grieving widow on TV. She was the mastermind behind his murder." Jennifer Faith orchestrated her husband Jamie's 2020 killing. She manipulated her disabled veteran ex-boyfriend, Darrin Lopez, with fake abuse claims via fake emails. Lopez shot Jamie seven times outside their Dallas home. Jennifer raised $58k on GoFundMe, then sent money to Lopez. She pleaded guilty to murder-for-...

👮 "He investigated a murder. His own daughter confessed." This is the case that left a detective stunned. In this true crime episode, we investigate the 2019 killing of a man in Michigan. The lead detective's daughter walked into the station and admitted she was the killer. She claimed self-defense. The victim was her boyfriend. She had hidden the body for weeks. The detective recused himself fro...

🤫 "She knew too much. So he silenced her forever." This is the case of a man who murdered a teen to hide his horrifying secret. In this true crime episode, we examine the 2015 killing of 17-year-old Skylar Neese in West Virginia. Her best friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf, stabbed her to death. The motive? Skylar knew about a secret relationship. Eddy and Shoaf planned the murder for weeks. T...

🎂 "She was 10. Her birthday party was hours away. Her mother's boyfriend murdered her." This is the Victoria Martens case. In this disturbing true crime episode, we investigate the 2016 murder of Victoria Martens in New Mexico. The boyfriend, Fabian Gonzales, along with Victoria's mother and cousin, was charged with her brutal death. Police discovered the 10-year-old's dismembered body on her bir...

👯 "They switched places. One committed murder. The other took the blame." This is the unbelievable case of the Eriksson twins. In this true crime episode, we examine how Swedish twins Sabina and Ursula Eriksson switched identities after Ursula killed her boyfriend. Sabina confessed to the murder and served time. Years later, DNA evidence proved Sabina was innocent. Ursula had framed her sister. T...

🛶 "He faked his own death. He lived in secret. His wife helped him hide." This is the bizarre case of John Darwin, the Canoe Man. In this true crime episode, we investigate how Darwin, a British prison officer, faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. He lived in a hidden room next door while his wife claimed insurance money. She said she was a widow. The truth emerged when Darwin walked i...

🚰 "He flushed their remains down the toilet. Police found them in the drain." This is the disturbing case of Adam Strong. In this true crime episode, we examine the 2017 discovery of two women's remains in Strong's Ontario apartment. Rori Hache was 18. Kandis Fitzpatrick was 19. Strong dismembered their bodies and flushed parts into the plumbing. Neighbors complained of foul odors. Plumbers found...

💬 "She planned her murder on Discord. Her boyfriend helped. Her mother watched." This is the case of the Discord killer. In this true crime episode, we investigate the 2020 murder of 15-year-old Jada Smith in Texas. Her boyfriend, a 17-year-old, coordinated the killing on Discord, a messaging platform. He hired another teen to stab Jada in her bedroom. Her mother allegedly allowed the killer insi...

🇮🇳 "Two bodies. One house. Fourteen suspects. Zero answers." The Noida double murders remain India's most infamous unsolved case. In this true crime episode, we examine the 2008 killings of 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar and her family's servant, Hemraj Banjade. Their bodies were found inside the Talwar home. Aarushi's parents were convicted of murder in 2013 but acquitted in 2017. The CBI called it a...

💻 "She was killed by a hitman her husband hired on the dark web." This is the chilling case of Amy Allwine. In this true crime episode, we investigate the 2016 murder of Amy Allwine in Minnesota. Her husband, Stephen Allwine, a software engineer, used a dark web marketplace to pay 40 Bitcoin (over $200,000) for a hitman. He believed he could outsmart investigators. But blockchain analysis traced...

🏠 "He was a billionaire. She was his estranged wife. Her lover was the killer." The murder of Ted Ammon shocked New York's elite. In this true crime episode, we examine the 1999 death of financier Ted Ammon, found bludgeoned in his mansion. His wife, Generosa, and her lover, Daniel Pelosi, were prime suspects. Generosa inherited $100 million and married Pelosi days after Ted's funeral. She died o...

🎉 "She invited all his friends. She cooked his favorite meal. Then she murdered him." This is the shocking case of Andrea Cincotta. In this true crime episode, we unravel the 1992 murder of Joe Cinquemani. Cincotta held a "goodbye party" for Joe, telling guests he was moving to Florida. Hours later, she stabbed him 17 times. She claimed self-defense, but her story changed. Witnesses testified she...

💔 "Four lovers. Two bodies. One murder-suicide that wasn't." For 20 years, police believed it was a double suicide. New evidence proved otherwise. In this true crime episode, we investigate the 1991 deaths of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan in Northern Ireland. Their partners, Hazel Stewart and Colin Howell, claimed the couple died in a suicide pact. But Stewart confessed in 2009. Howell, a den...

👧 "Two girls went for a bike ride. They never came home." In 2025, a cold case from 1990s Australia finally cracked. This is the Bega schoolgirl murders. In this true crime episode, we examine the abduction and murder of 16-year-old Bronson and 14-year-old Smart. Their bodies were found days later. For decades, no one was charged. Then DNA technology advanced. Investigators linked a known offende...

🎄 "He wore a red suit. A white beard. And a bulletproof vest." On Christmas Eve, a man dressed as Santa Claus robbed a bank in Casper, Wyoming. Witnesses laughed until he pulled a gun. In this true crime episode, we unravel the bizarre 2025 heist. The fake Santa demanded cash from tellers, stuffed bags with money, and fled into a waiting sleigh—a getaway car decorated with reindeer antlers. Polic...

"She smiled for school photos. She baked cookies for the PTA. She tucked her children into bed every night — with pillows stained by the secrets she buried in the backyard." In this disturbing true crime episode of Grief, we investigate cases where detectives uncovered monstrous secrets hidden by seemingly ordinary mothers. From the outside, these women were the picture of maternal devotion. But b...

🎧 "I'm going to kill her. I'm not scared to do anything like that." Those chilling words were spoken by Sarah Kolb to her classmates just days before she and her best friend Cory Gregory murdered 16-year-old Adrianne Reynolds in a Moline, Illinois Taco Bell parking lot. The date was January 21, 2005 — and the brutality that followed would shock the nation. Adrianne had moved from Texas to live wi...

🎧 "He placed an ad. Not for furniture. Not for a job. For victims." Between 2007 and 2009, Philip Markoff, a 23-year-old Boston University medical student with a loving fiancée and a future in medicine, became one of America's most unlikely serial predators. Using Craigslist's "erotic services" section, he lured at least four women to upscale hotels, where he robbed them at gunpoint — and murdere...

🎧 "They called him the Dating Game Killer. In September 1978, he appeared as "Bachelor Number One" on a popular primetime show, introduced to millions as a "successful photographer" who enjoyed skydiving and motorcycling [citation:2]. The bachelorette, Cheryl Bradshaw, picked him to win." But she never went on the date. Her instincts screamed "weird vibes" [citation:1]. She couldn't have known th...

🎧 "A landscape architect. A quiet Friday night. A neighbor who lived one door away." On the evening of December 17, 2010, 25-year-old Joanna Yeates walked home through the snow after drinks with colleagues, bought a pizza, and vanished into thin air [citation:4]. Eight days later, on Christmas morning, dog walkers found her body fully clothed in the snow on Longwood Lane in Failand, three miles f...