True Crime Archives

Steven and Hannah discuss the 1981 murder of a 31-year-old mother of two who was strangled by a coat hanger and left for dead. The Suspect came in through the bedroom window and exited through the bedroom window but police secured his DNA that would ultimately solve the crime more than four decades later. Listen and learn how Linda Slaten was brutally murdered by her son’s football coach and how g...

Steve and Hannah talk about the 1984 murder of then 23-year-old Gale Herrera, mother of three by some one she referred to as “Charlie” on a 911 call. Listen as Steve gets frustrated by Charlie’s alibi, his wife, and How Hannah talks as good detective work that led them back to the wife and who eventually confesses to covering for him ten years later when he assaulted her. Thanks for listening this...

Steve and Hannah unpack the 1970 gruesome crime scene that ultimately led to the conviction of Sacramento’s oldest cold case, the brutal stabbing and murder of 28-year-old Nancy Bennallack. After her father and finance were cleared, the case went cold until 2019 when detectives submitted blood for DNA processing which led to the suspect.    Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True C...

Listen as Steve and Hannah talk about how a daughter suspected her father for the killing of William Lavaco and Judith Straub in 1977 when she was just a child in 2nd grade. Learn how Edward Wayne Edwards confesses and is considered a suspect in other high-profile murders as well as being the Zodiac Killer. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get you...

Listen as Steve and Hannah discuss another cold case solved by dogged police prowess. 1980 Watertown Wisconsin high-school sweetheart went missing and ultimately were found murdered. Steve and Hannah talk about the case and how detectives arrested a suspect based on a tip from the killers daughter.     Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Pod...

In 2022, Council Bluff Iowa Police Department solved a 40-year old murder! Was it the husband who had spent 15 years in jail for a murder when he was 17, or was it someone else? Do not peak, and stay tuned to hear Steven and Hannah discuss the part two details of this two-part series. Lots of crime scene discussion and theory about how this murder was perpetrated.  Thanks for listening this week!...

In 2022, Council Bluff Iowa Police Department solved a 40-year old murder! Was it the husband who had spent 15 years in jail for a murder when he was 17, or was it someone else? Do not peak, and stay tuned to hear Steven and Hannah discuss details in this two-part series. Lots of crime scene discussion and theory about how this murder was perpetrated. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribe...

This week Steve and Hannah outline a more recent investigation where an Air Force Airman killed 27 year old Sasha Krause after he drove 7 hours, lay in wait, and killed her because of his hatred of the Mennonite Community. Learn how dogged investigative work and the combing through thousands of cell phone records discovered the suspect and allowed investigators to hone in and build a case that led...

This week Steve and Hannah talk about the 32-year-old cold case solved by the dogged pursue of identifying whose partial palm print was on the scooter of a missing 9-year-old girl. Michaela Garecht was kidnapped while out at the local corner store with her friend. Her body was never recovered but police and prosecutors feel strong that after identifying the owner of the palm print, he murdered her...

Steven and Hannah visit the 1992 brutal murder of Navy Petty Officer Allen Schindler by the hand of two shipmates who despised his homosexuality. A quick investigation and arrest, aided by activists and his mother eventually led to the repeal of the military’s disastrous “don’t ask don’t tell policy.” Learn as Hannah and Steve peel back the onion as to how this investigation unveiled. Thanks for l...

Join Steve and Hannah for their first case of the new year as they delve into Steve’s home turf. Listen as they discuss how the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, along with Texas Department of Public Safety, identify and convict a Gulf War veteran for the brutal kidnapping, rape and murder of 19-year-old Tracy Joy McBride, an aspiring Army Private. This 1995 murder was a team effort with...

Listen this week as Steve and Hannah discuss how shoddy and sloppy police, pathology and defense work wasted time and convicted the ex-husband of Penny Williams. He was released this September because of exculpatory evidence that now identified a new DNA profile, essentially, a new suspect. Steve gets frustrated with the investigation which he soon learns ends in exoneration. Thanks for listening...

This week Steve and Hannah talk about the 1994 murder of 3-year-old Michael and his 14-month-old brother Alexander at the hands of their mother Susan Smith. Learn how she convinced a community and her ex-husband to rally behind her bogus car-jacking knowing she had just drove her car into the lake intently killing them both. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wh...

Still under the radar of Steve’s threshold of not covering pop culture and Hollywood cases, he sits and listen as Hannah peels back the onion on the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson. Listen as they talk about how Phil Spector, the now not-so-famous rock and roll hall of fame inductee, killed Clarkson one night while he was high on drugs and alcohol. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscri...

Steve and Hannah have one of their classic discussions that started this podcast and peel back the onion on how after 30 years investigators were able to find DNA on evidence that led them to the killer in 2015, three years out form the Golden State Killer success. Still awaiting trial, it appears as if Angela and Melanie will have their justice, DNA saves the day! Thanks for listening this week!...

In 1992, four days before Christmas, and on her way out the door to her dream job of teaching children, Christy Mirack was murdered by “DJ Freeze” who now spends the rest of his life behind bars. Listen as Steve and Hannah discuss how it took 25 years, the exact life Christy lived, for investigators to track down the murderer. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives...

Back at it, Steven and Hannah open their long break with the brutal 1990 murder of 17-year-old Michelle Koski in Seattle Washington. Listen as they talk about the 2005 newly created cold case team of Snohomish County Sherriff’s Office and how they used Genetic Genealogy to identify the deceased murder to put the case to rest and provide the family with Justice, despite any opportunity to prosecute...

Steve and Hannah peel back the genetic genealogy onion of a third cousin just trying to map her family tree. Her determination to understand her relatives aided police in solving the 1987 murder of two Canadians 20-year-old Jay Cook and 18 year old Tanya Van Cuylenburg in Snohomish County Washington. Listen and hear how Ged Match and Cee Cee More solve a 35-year cold case. Thanks for listening thi...

Steve and Hannah present this TCA short about the 1980 cold case murder of Barbara Mae Tucker in Gresham Oregon. A case with witnesses that simply chose not to get involved, the murder of a 19-year-old College student went cold. Finally, after 41 years through DNA and genetic genealogy, police arrest 58-year-old Robert Plympton. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archive...

This episode is the essence of Steve and Hannah’s discussions that preceded the idea to create this podcast. Listen as they unpack the case and banter about the facts and circumstances of the wrongfully convicted David Camm of murdering his wife and two children in Indiana in 2000. Steve peels back the onion on how shoddy forensics and investigators zeroed in on the former Indiana State trooper an...

This week, Steve and Hannah talk about the 1986 murder of Lisa Holstead near Racine Wisconsin. Listen how Genealogy identified a 65-year-old suspect more than 3o years after her murder, and how police collected a discharged cigarette from the suspect to verify his DNA and subsequently arrest him. His trial is pending. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever...

On the heels of the Hulu documentary Keeper of the Ashes, the Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders , listen as Steve and Hanna revisit True Crime Archives February 2021 two-part episode Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders – Unsolved? with more detail. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate us on Apple Podcast, we would love to hear your fe...

This week Steve and Hannah peel back the onion on the 1974 cold case murder of Carla Walker of Fort Worth Texas after her and her boyfriend attended the Valentine’s Day dance. Listen how DNA, and a podcast aided in the solving of this case in 2020 and how the suspect changed plea to guilty mid-trial, justice served! Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever yo...

Listen as Hannah details the murder 1982 murder of Annette Schnee, 21 and Bobbi Joe Oberholtzer, 29, in Breckenridge Colorado. Dogged Genealogy tracks down the now 70 year old killer of both girls in one night. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate us on Apple Podcast, we would love to hear your feedback. Follow us on Ins...

Steve and Hannah discuss the 1974 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella in Hazelton PA. Learn how a motivated college student unraveled the genealogy and help identify James Paul Forte, Marise’s killer, more than 50 years later. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate us on Apple Podcast, we would love to hear your feedbac...