True Crime Archives

Listen this week as Steve and Hannah take you back in time. This is the story of old west bank robbers, the posses that tracked them down, and a little bit of humor. Learn about Cora Hubbard, the female ring leader of the 1897 McDonald County Bank robbery in Pineville, Missouri. Often compared to the more prolific outlaw Belle Starr, this is the only robbery Cora Hubbard participated in before she...

Steve and Hannah discuss how DNA connected the suspect to seven bank robberies between 1998 and 2003. 19 years later police and the FBI break the case wide open, develop a suspect, collect evidence and identify a serial bank robber. 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 feed...

Carl Gugasian almost got away with being a serial bank robber. He planned and calculated ever risk and robbed 50 banks over a period of three decades. Steve and Hannah peel back the onion and talk about how the educated prolific bank robber left a clue that led the FBI to arrest him. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate...

In 2008 Melissa Lucio was sentenced to death for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, her husband received four years for child neglect. Steve and Hannah peel back the onion and discuss the narrative that she may be innocent of murder. Listen as Steve talks about leads the police did not follow and how even he believes she deserves a new trial. There is one problem, she is scheduled to be execut...

Steve and Hannah talk briefly of the 1987 murder of Roxanne Wood. As they peel back the onion learn how Western Michigan University students help organize and develop leads so one genealogist can solve the 35 year old case in four days. 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...

Hannah talks about the 1995 murder of 61-year-old Patricia Barns of Washington State and Steve peels back the onion and together they discuss how a cigarette butt collected 27 years ago solved the case. Stay tunned and learn how crowd funding aided in DNA lab testing. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate us on Apple Podc...

Thanks for listening this week! Listen as Steve and Hannah discuss the very first time Genetic Genealogy was used for an investigative lead in the 1991 murder of Sarah Yarborough in Washington State. Detectives never gave up and arrested the suspect in 2019. Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate us on Apple Podcast, we would love to hear your feedback....

Steve and Hannah unpack the 1907 theft of the Irish Crown Jewels. Join them as they peel back the onion of suspects and theories made for the movies. Was it a conspiracy, does the Monarch know what happened to the jewels…stay tuned! 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 feed...

Join Hannah and Steve as they peel back the onion of the 2016 Wells Fargo banking fraud that had been going on since 2011. Learn how the tone at the top encouraged an environment of cross-sell and creating fake accounts for incentives that ultimately cost the company millions of dollars in remedies. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcas...

Steve and Hannah depart from murder and cover the 1974 bombing of a Birmingham England pub. Presumed to be IRA, six men arrested, forced to confess get convicted and subsequently released. After having been cold, new developments and a dogged journalist suggest new suspects that will reenergize the case. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your P...

This week Steve and Hannah peel back the onion on the 1981 murder of Harold and Tina Clouse. Less then twenty years old, they went missing under suspicious circumstances. They were identified and their case is still unsolved but what’s more, there daughter, one years old at the time, is unaccounted for. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Po...

This week marks the fifth week of a series of cases where Steve and Hannah discuss the collaboration of United Data Connect and Denver Crime Stoppers to solve five Colorado cold cases. This episode, learn how Mitch Morrissey, a former district attorney, turned genealogy CEO, partners with the non-profit Crime Stoppers and help police solve the 1993 murder of Becky Redeker. Stay tuned as Steve and...

This week marks the fourth week of a series of cases where Steve and Hannah discuss the collaboration of United Data Connect and Denver Crime Stoppers to solve five Colorado cold cases. This episode, learn how a former district attorney, turned genealogy CEO, partners with the non-profit Crime Stoppers and help police solve the 1996 murder of Tangie Simms. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subs...

This week starts the beginning of a series of cases where Steve and Hannah discuss the collaboration of United Data Connect and Denver Crime Stoppers to solve five Colorado cold cases. This episode, learn how a former district attorney, turned genealogy CEO, partners with the non-profit Crime Stoppers and help police solve the 1980 murder of Helene Pruszynski. Thanks for listening this week! Stay...

This week starts the beginning of a series of cases where Steve and Hannah discuss the collaboration of United Data Connect and Denver Crime Stoppers to solve five Colorado cold cases. This episode, learn how a former district attorney, turned genealogy CEO, partners with the non-profit Crime Stoppers and help police solve the 1981 murder of Jeanie Moore. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subsc...

This week starts the beginning of a series of cases where Steve and Hannah discuss the collaboration of United Data Connect and Denver Crime Stoppers to solve five Colorado cold cases. This episode, learn how a former district attorney, turned genealogy CEO, partners with the non-profit Crime Stoppers and help police solve the 1981 murder of Sylvia Quayle. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subs...

Join Steve and Hannah this first episode of the new year as they peel back the onion on a 1996 cold case murder of 21 year of Pricilla Lewis. Listen as we talk about how Danny Hamilton, now in his fifties, lay in wait, grabbed Pricilla, attempted to rob and rape her and drowned her in the toilet while she was working as a waitress at Four Corners restaurant in Crockett, CA. This cold case was solv...

Steve and Hannah talk about how Spokane Washington Police solved a 60-year-old cold case with Genealogy. Listen and hear the story of who murdered 9-year-old Candy Rogers as she went out to sell mints for the Camp Fire Girls. Spoiler Alert - one suspect was never cleared with DNA. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you get your Podcasts. Please rate us...

Steve and Hannah present updates on the following episodes: Princeton Jogger; Determined - A mother’s tenacity led to the real killer of her daughter! and 1980s DNA – The First Conviction.  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 Instagram @truecrimearch...

Hannah and Steve discuss the 34-year-old unsolved murder of Janet Brochou. She was 20 at the time she was murdered. Last seen after being kicked out of a bar in Waterville Maine for being under the age of 20, she was found in the Sebasticook River 20 miles away in Pittsfield. Listen and see who the suspects are and who gets indicted!! Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime A...

Steve and Hannah take a break from criminal case discussion and dissect policy and the two newly enacted laws that affect genetic genealogy as an investigative tool. Listen and learn from Steve’s perspective and expertise, how the Department of Justice looks at DNA and what Maryland and Montana now require of law enforcement before using genetic genealogy to solve cold cases. Thanks for listening...

Steve and Hannah provide a different twist on investigations using genetic genealogy. Taking a break from cold case murder, they discuss the genealogy investigation that identified a young boy that died in a car crash 60 years previously in Bibb County Alabama. Learn how a community and a podcast solved the case. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you g...

Steve and Hannah discuss the 1924 ruthless planned kidnap and murder of Bobby Franks, the cousin of one of the two Killers. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb planned a kidnapping and murder of an unknown victim for seven months for the thrill of notoriety, and their belief that they were superior to others and not subjected to laws of man. Both intellectually advanced, they made a few mistakes and w...

Welcome back Archivists! Hannah and Steve continue with the 1974 Stanford Murders of Janet Taylor and Leslie Perlov. Hannah will also provide some additional information on the Arlis Perry Stanford murder as well (see episode Satanic Cult of Diversion , 24 May 2021) which this case is loosely tied to. You guessed it, Genealogy solved this years old cold case and put a killer with an ugly past wher...

This week Steve and Hannah discuss the case of Kathy Chou, who had been murdered by her ex-boyfriend 18 August 2010 in Renton Washington. Learn how great investigative work untangled the lies and deceit of the murder’s alibi. Hannah will highlight domestic abuse and provide some resources at the end of the episode. Thanks for listening this week! Stay subscribed to True Crime Archives wherever you...