Red Tree Crime

"For a decade, the family waited. No answers. No closure. Just the unbearable weight of not knowing who killed their daughter." Then, ten years later, a man walked into a police station, sat down, and confessed to everything. This is the story of a cold case that refused to stay cold. In this gripping true crime episode from Grief, we investigate the case of a 10-year-old murder that was finally s...

"She told him she was pregnant. She wrote in her journal that he didn't want the baby. Then she disappeared—and her body was found battered beyond recognition in Utah's Jordan River. The only problem? She wasn't pregnant." In this gripping true crime episode, we unravel the tragic 2012 murder of 15-year-old Annie Kasprzak, a Utah teen whose white lie about pregnancy may have sealed her fate [citat...

"She ignored the warnings. She believed his prison letters. She convinced herself he was wrongly convicted." Then she married him—and months later, she was dead. In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the case of Louise Ellis, a 20-year-old mother of two who fell in love with Darren Fouracre, an inmate serving 20 years for killing his first wife . Against family warnings, Ellis befrie...

"They slashed her throat sixteen times, stabbed her over fifty times in the abdomen, and left her disemboweled on a dark road. They walked away saying, 'No one can survive that.' She survived—and then she crawled to the road holding her own head upright with one hand and her intestines with the other." In this harrowing true crime episode, we investigate the 1994 attack on 27-year-old Alison Botha...

"He told her his name was Brandon. He was a 20-year-old musician from Texas who played guitar and understood her soul. For 18 months, she fell in love with him online. The night she finally went to meet him, she never came home—because Brandon Kane never existed."  In February 2007, 15-year-old Australian teenager Carly Ryan from Stirling, South Australia, became the first person in the country to...

"Three people walked into a Brooklyn apartment on July 13, 2018. Only one walked out." The day after her 32nd birthday, aspiring influencer Lauren Hugelmaier told police a masked intruder broke into her apartment, sprayed her in the face with mace, and fatally stabbed her 33-year-old husband, Michael, and childhood friend, 26-year-old Dennis Ceglia . But the evidence told a different story. Hours...

"She was supposed to be a protector. Instead, she became a monster." In 2017, 2-year-old Brooklyn March was placed in the care of Angela Diaz while the toddler's parents were in Georgia [citation:10]. Four months later, police responded to Diaz's Lancaster County, Pennsylvania home and found Brooklyn unresponsive. She never woke up [citation:10]. An examination revealed horrors no child should end...

"He reviewed padlocks on Amazon with a chilling joke: 'Solid locks... have 5 on a shipping container... won't stop them... but sure will slow them down.'" Investigators didn't know that review was a confession—written while a woman was chained inside that very container on his property. In this disturbing true crime episode, we investigate Todd Kohlhepp, a South Carolina real estate agent who hid...

"He didn't just murder women. He fed them to his pigs—and served their flesh to unsuspecting neighbors." In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate Robert "Willie" Pickton, Canada's most prolific serial killer. A wealthy pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Pickton lured vulnerable women—mostly sex workers and drug users from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside—to his sprawling far...

"He didn't confess. He didn't break. He walked out of the courtroom a free man—but New Zealand will never agree on whether justice was served." In June 2009, after a three-month retrial and less than six hours of deliberation, the jury returned verdicts of not guilty on all five counts of murder. David Bain—the only surviving member of the family—walked free. But the controversy didn't end there....

"He called it love. The world called it the most grotesque obsession in Florida history." For seven years, a German-born radiologist named Carl Tanzler lived with the corpse of a young tuberculosis patient he believed was his soulmate, preserving her remains in his bed. Tanzler, who styled himself Count Carl von Cosel, first met Elena "Helen" Milagro de Hoyos in 1930 when the 21-year-old Cuban-Ame...

"Two women and a teenage girl were found shot to death and hidden in a shed on a rural Idaho property. The man they both loved—and one of them was married to—had vanished into the wilderness. Eight years later, police believe he's dead. But they've never found the body." In June 2017, a welfare check at a home on KCID Road in Caldwell, Idaho, uncovered three decomposing bodies in a shed[citation:1...

"On the night of March 4, 2008, 18-year-old Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk left her boyfriend's dorm to study at the library. She never made it. Within an hour, she was found naked on a rural highway—shot once in the back. Her car was discovered burning in a campus parking lot. The killer had vanished into the night." In this gripping true crime episode, we unravel the tragic and horrifyin...

"They're all dead." That's what 22-year-old David Bain told the 111 operator on June 20, 1994. What he'd just found at his family's Dunedin home would become New Zealand's most infamous murder mystery—one that still divides the nation 30 years later. Inside 65 Every Street lay five bodies: Robin Bain (58), Margaret Bain (50), and their children Arawa (19), Laniet (18), and Stephen (14). All shot w...

"A devout Baptist who refused to believe in divorce. A best friend who sold him a million-dollar life insurance policy. And a cold December morning on a lake known for alligators. For 17 years, the official story was drowning—until a kidnapping, a confession, and a body buried five miles from his childhood home exposed one of Florida's most twisted murder plots." In this gripping true crime episod...

"£1,200 for a room where you can touch both walls while lying on the bed. £2,000 for a studio with a view of a brick wall. And that's before you learn that 'bills included' might mean mold, mice, and a landlord who lives downstairs." In this stress-releasing sleep story, we follow Alex as she moves from Sydney to London for a dream job offer—only to discover that London's rental market is a nightm...

"I was cleaning his room. I found a plastic bag. It was heavy. Covered in maggots." Those were the words of Terri Cohee as she described the moment she discovered a severed human head in her 19-year-old son's closet [citation:3]. She called his father first, then dialed 911. When police arrived, Brian Cohee calmly walked outside and confessed: "I murdered him with a knife. I always wanted to know...

"The family thought their house was haunted. They heard tapping in the walls at night. Objects moved. Ketchup messages appeared on mirrors. They even called a priest." But the monster wasn't a ghost. It was a 16-year-old boy who had been living inside their walls for months — watching, waiting, and escalating toward murder. In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the case of Daniel LaP...

"The realtor saw them first. Two bodies, seated upright by the pool, leather belts looped around their necks. The initial police theory? Murder-suicide. The truth? Far darker—and eight years later, still unsolved." On December 15, 2017, Canadian billionaire Apotex founder Barry Sherman, 75, and his wife Honey, 70, were found dead in their Toronto mansion [citation:1]. They had been murdered two ni...

"He was a divorced father of three, happily engaged, and on his way to work at the remote Arizona copper mine. In the early morning darkness of February 10, 2020, 35-year-old Matthew Misener drove into the 'Horseshoe Curve' on US Route 191 between Clifton and Morenci. He never came out." A passerby found his black Chevrolet Tahoe riddled with 14 bullets on the driver's side. Matthew had been shot...

"When Joleen Cummings didn't pick up her children on Mother's Day 2018, her family knew something was wrong. They couldn't have imagined the truth: she had already been murdered, dismembered, and thrown in a dumpster—by the new co-worker she had just begun to suspect wasn't who she claimed to be." In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the 2018 murder of Joleen Cummings, a 34-year-old...

"When Joleen Cummings didn't pick up her children on Mother's Day 2018, her family knew something was wrong. They couldn't have imagined the truth: she had already been murdered, dismembered, and thrown in a dumpster—by the new co-worker she had just begun to suspect wasn't who she claimed to be." In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the 2018 murder of Joleen Cummings, a 34-year-old...

"She smiled. She cried. She changed her story three times in two hours." Deborah thought she could outsmart the detectives—using charm, tears, and carefully crafted lies to deflect suspicion. But when they played the audio from her own phone, her face went white. The manipulation stopped. And reality set in. In this gripping true crime interrogation episode, we examine the case of a female suspect...

"She left her children with a babysitter. She told friends she was meeting someone. Then she walked into a hotel room—and made the worst decision of her life." In this shocking true crime episode, we investigate the murder of 33-year-old Samantha Runnion, who was found naked from the waist down and stabbed three times in the face, neck, and chest in a field near her home in Bloomingdale, Georgia ....

"Newlyweds. Just 22 and 28. Shot to death in their home—and the killer went to their funeral." For 25 years, the murders of Gail and Rick Brink haunted Ottawa County, Michigan. On November 21, 1987, the young couple returned home from a wedding. Rick was shot twice in the head inside his Chevy Blazer. Gail was shot three times in the head while lying in their waterbed [citation:4]. No forced entry...