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In March of 2015, Denise Huskins was kidnapped, drugged, sexually assaulted, and held for 48 hours. When she was released, police called it a hoax and demanded that she apologize for wasting resources. The media dubbed it the "Gone Girl" case and death threats started flooding in. Except it wasn't a hoax at all. It was a Harvard-educated serial rapist named Matthew Muller who'd been terrorizing Ca...

January 25, 2023, arranged in a line in a frozen Pennsylvania backyard laid a father, mother, and daughter who had executed a planned suicide pact nine months in the making. Over the years the Daub family withdrew from the world until they vanished entirely.  National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988 Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 NAMI Helpline (National Alliance on Mental Illness): 1-800-9...

For 27 years, she was just Jane Doe, a nameless woman found decomposed in an Iowa ditch in 1978. In 2006, a fingerprint match finally gave her a name: Wilma June Nissen, a 23-year-old mother. Wilma's daughter Krissi spent nearly 30 years believing her mother had abandoned her, only to learn the devastating truth that she'd been murdered just after Krissi's first birthday. Now, Krissi is fighting t...

In this final episode, we learn where the killers are today (spoiler: they're all still in prison and likely always will be), the two laws passed in Channon and Chris's names that protect future victims, the families' ongoing fight to ensure they're never forgotten, a little about the families and some personal struggles they’ve faced, the racial controversy that surrounded the case, and more. Res...

By January 2007, all five suspects were in custody. Prosecutors had charged them with 46 counts including murder, rape, kidnapping, and robbery. Between 2008-2010, four separate trials resulted in convictions. It seemed like justice had finally been served and the families could breathe. Then a scandal involving the judge, who presided over the trials, would rock their worlds. Because of his demon...

Between January 6-9, 2007, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were held captive, tortured, raped, and murdered by five perpetrators at a house on Chipman Street in Knoxville, Tennessee. The details are documented through court testimony, medical examiner reports, and forensic evidence are among the most horrific ever presented in an American courtroom. Prosecutors, judges, and jurors struggl...

On January 6, 2007, Channon Christian (21) and Christopher Newsom (23) went on a date. They were young, in love, and planning to attend a friend's birthday party. They never arrived. What happened to Channon and Chris over the next 36 hours is known as one of the most brutal crime sprees in Tennessee history. But before we discuss the horror, we need to know who they were, the real people behind t...

In May of 2002, a St. Louis reporter received a letter with a map marked with an X and a chilling message: "To prove I'm real, here's directions to number seventeen." The map leads police to a body. And one digital mistake exposed a killer's darkest secrets. Between 2000 and 2002, at least twelve women vanished from the streets of St. Louis, their deaths barely noticed by a society that had alread...

In January of 2011, 27-year-old first-grade teacher Ellen Greenberg came home early from work and was found dead hours later on her kitchen floor by her fiance. She had twenty stab wounds covering her body, ten of them to the back of her neck and head, and a ten-inch knife buried deep into her heart. The Medical Examiner called it suicide. Ellen's parents have spent fourteen years and over $800,00...

Ghost Bites  is a weekly podcast from Mike and J.T. of Brew Crime, for quick, 5–10 minute dives into the haunted, spooky, and paranormal. Get your weekly dose of all things creepy, served with a side of laughs. It’s the perfect podcast for anyone looking for a fun and frightening experience that won’t take up their whole day. This week on  Ghost Bites , Mike and J.T. crack open the creepy tale of...

In January of 2011, 27-year-old first-grade teacher Ellen Greenberg came home early from work and was found dead hours later on her kitchen floor by her fiance. She had twenty stab wounds covering her body, ten of them to the back of her neck and head, and a ten-inch knife buried deep into her heart. The Medical Examiner called it suicide. Ellen's parents have spent fourteen years and over $800,00...

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Hey, hey! Sometimes we all need a little break from super heavy topics, so I started a new podcast and it's all about nostalgia! From 1980-2020, let's hang and talk about all the politics, scandals, drama, magazines, crimes, tech, blogs, toys, gadgets, fashion, and more! Season one of The Pop Culture Diary begins on September 26th. All the links so far to the podcast are here: https://linktr.ee/th...

When a 911 call came in about a 12-year-old girl who had been in an accident, first responders expected a routine emergency. What they found instead raised questions that no one seemed ready to answer. We're going to follow the events that began on May 4, 2024, and trace how a child’s suffering was hidden. As investigators started putting the puzzle pieces together, a dark truth appeared. This is...

In the late '90s in Hong Kong, Fan Man-yee was doing everything she could to move forward. She was caring for her young son, battling addiction, and trying to build a better life for her son and herself after a very painful past. But when a man who once paid for her time decided she owed him more, everything she was working to protect started to fall apart. What followed was a living hell that wou...

In this episode, we'll be talking about Cassie Ventura and trauma. Cassie is someone the world first met beside one of the most powerful names in music and business. From the outside, everything looked glamorous, even like something to aspire to. But what unfolded behind closed doors was something much darker. As Cassie bravely took the stand years later, now a mother and no longer silent, she rev...

In part three of Amy Fitzpatrick’s story, we return to the case of a 15-year-old girl who vanished without a single trace, and her family and friends who are still fighting for answers nearly two decades later. What really happened the night Amy disappeared? Why was her phone found in her bedroom if her best friend and her best friend's mom saw it in her hand when she left their home? Could the pe...

In part two, the search for Amy Fitzpatrick takes more twists and turns as the years go by. A cell phone where it shouldn't have been, two break-ins, a ransom demand, and in the midst of it all, another life is taken from the Fitzpatrick family. If you have any information about Amy Fitzpatrick's case, please email cold case investigator, Jarad Adams: coldcaseinvestigations@proton.me    Connect wi...

Fifteen-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick said goodbye to her best friend and started the short walk home, but she never made it. No witnesses. No clues. No trace. In part one of two, we will go through the final hours before Amy vanished, the cracks in the investigation, and the grief that would (eventually) rip her family apart. Was she running away, or was someone waiting for her in the dark? One truth...

When 22-year-old Lindsay Ann Hawker moved to Japan in late 2006 to teach English, she never imagined the danger that would follow her. A man claimed to be her student, chased her home, and then he went undetected for two years after the crime. Everyone was looking for his face, but there's a wild reason they wouldn't have even known if they were right beside him. Let’s get into the horrifying case...

In this episode, we continue to follow a family's fight for answers in the death of their loved one, Crystal McCrory Jones. From challenging inconsistent documents to traveling to Washington, D.C., Crystal's little sister, Jana, keeps finding even more evidence that something about her case doesn’t add up. But just when it starts to feel like every door is closing, a surprising new development bri...

The search for answers continues, and there is never a lack of inconsistencies, like errors in official documents, misleading statements from those in power, and more evidence that raises even more questions. Crystal’s sister, Jana, and her brother, Dane, go head-on against a system seemingly damned and determined to silence the truth. How many mistakes can be overlooked or pushed aside as nothing...

Crystal McCrory Jones' family just wanted answers…and dignity. But in the weeks after her death, they were met with hostility, public accusations, and a system that seemed more interested in shutting them down than hearing them out. In part three, Crystal’s sister is denied access to her ashes, accused of stealing funeral funds, and dismissed by the very sheriff who had promised transparency. Why...

If you're ever curious about what crime took place on today's date in true crime history, kick back and grab a cup of coffee while you listen to Morning Cup of Murder. Your host, Korina Biemesderfer, will take you through a dark history lesson, with tales of murder, abduction, serial killers, cults, and more every day in this short-form true crime podcast. Morning Cup of Murder: https://morningcup...

In part two of Crystal McCrory Jones’ story, her siblings, Jana and Dane, and her sister-in-law Julie meet with the sheriff for a conversation that raises even more questions than it answers. As they lay out inconsistencies and evidence that doesn’t sit right, the sheriff listens but also dismisses, deflects, and downplays. He openly calls Crystal’s husband a chronic liar, yet seems unwilling to c...