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[Twenty Wounds Behind a Locked Door]: The Suspicious Death of Ellen Greenberg Ellen Greenberg was found with twenty stab wounds, including ten to the back of her neck, yet the case was closed as a suicide. She was in the middle of making a fruit salad for the next day when she died. The knife was found buried in her chest, but her hands were clean. In this episode, we explore the impossible physic...

A prominent attorney called 911 screaming that he touched his wife and son's bodies, yet police arrived to find him waiting in a pristine white t-shirt. The crime scene was a catastrophic explosion of biological matter, but the man claiming to be in the middle of it had clean hands. How does a father check for a pulse in a pool of blood without getting a single spot on his clothes? In this epi...

An eleven-year-old heard screams he thought were animals fighting. Moments later, a neighbor heard a woman whisper "we have to go" in the dark. The porch light had been manually unscrewed minutes before Jessica arrived. In this episode, we explore a crime scene left unsecured for twenty-four hours, a car returned to the family with groceries still rotting inside, and a female voice heard w...

The appliance screamed into the void for nearly two days, masking the silence of a double homicide in a busy apartment complex. Just twenty-four hours earlier, Nizira had called 911 to report a crime, unknowingly setting the clock on her own life. When she dialed 911 a second time, it was only to record the sound of the gunshots. In this episode, we explore a pair of gloves that don't match th...

The Dancer in the Flood: The Disappearance of Zelig Williams A breathless stranger flags down a park ranger, claiming a young man was stripping and dancing erratically on a bridge over a flooded river. At the exact same time, miles away, an automated SOS crash alert pings from the man's phone—yet surveillance footage shows him pumping gas minutes later, looking completely fine. In this episode...

Imagine being fifteen years old, on your hands and knees scrubbing your sister's blood out of the carpet because the police already closed the case. In this episode, we travel back to March 1984 in Flatonia, Texas, to investigate the suspicious death of Rowena Wilkinson Zappalack. At just 20 years old, this young mother was found dead in her apartment — naked, with a rope around her neck and t...

Most killers try to bury their secrets deep, but this case breaks all the rules of criminal behavior. In this episode, we dive into the mystery of Linda Sherman, a young mother whose case spanned from April 1985 to June 1990. Her skull was unexpectedly discovered under the decorative bushes of a busy restaurant in Bridgeton, Missouri, in broad daylight. The most disturbing part of this discovery i...