True Crime Consumes Me

Send us Fan Mail In 1983, Karla Faye Tucker brutally murdered two people with a pickaxe during a drug-fueled robbery in Houston, Texas. Years later, after claiming a religious transformation on death row, her case became one of the most controversial executions in modern American history. Some believed she was truly redeemed. Others believed mercy should never outweigh brutality. This week on True...

Send us Fan Mail   33-year-old Elijah “Tank” Mitchell has been missing since February 19, 2026 from Ridgefield, Washington. He was last seen leaving a local Starbucks on foot… and hasn’t been seen since. Elijah is known to walk to places like Starbucks, Taco Bell, and Domino’s, making his usual routes especially important. He is described as kind, gentle, and not a danger to anyone. His family say...

Send us Fan Mail In 1982, seven people in Chicago took Tylenol… and never woke up. No warning. No connection between them. Just one terrifying truth… someone had turned a trusted product into a weapon. To this day, the killer has never been caught. This Friday on True Crime Consumes Me, we’re diving into the Chicago Tylenol Murders… the case that changed how everything you buy is sealed and truste...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Missing Monday, we’re sharing the story of Ella Saylor , a 15-year-old who disappeared from her home in Muncie during the night of February 3, 2024. Ella was last seen around 11 p.m. wearing a gray “Washington D.C.” hoodie and black pajama pants with puzzle pieces. When her family woke up the next morning, the front door was unsecured and Ella was gone. She has not...

Send us Fan Mail In 2016, a quiet neighborhood in Jupiter, Florida became the scene of one of the most disturbing and baffling crimes in recent memory. Nineteen-year-old Austin Harrouff , a college student with no violent past, walked into a random garage one night and attacked a married couple in a way investigators would later describe as almost impossible to comprehend. By the time deputies arr...

Send us Fan Mail In the early morning hours of June 3, 2011, 20-year-old Indiana University student Lauren Spierer walked away from a friend’s apartment in Bloomington, Indiana. She was only a few blocks from home. She was barefoot. And she was never seen again. More than a decade later, Lauren is still missing, and investigators believe someone knows what happened that night. If you have any info...

Send us Fan Mail Rachel Elizabeth Barber was fifteen years old when she disappeared after leaving dance class in Melbourne on March 1, 1999. She told friends she had a secret job that would earn her some quick money. She never made it home. What began as a missing person case soon revealed a chilling truth. The person responsible was not a stranger, but someone Rachel and her family already knew a...

Send us Fan Mail Fifteen-year-old Sebastian Wayne Drake Rogers disappeared from his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee on February 26, 2024. Despite an extensive search involving local, state, and federal agencies, there have been no confirmed sightings. The investigation remains open. In this Missing Monday episode, we walk through the confirmed timeline, the large-scale search efforts, and the re...

Send us Fan Mail Four girls disappeared quietly behind the walls of a Washington, D.C. home, and no one realized how serious things had become until it was already too late. In today’s episode, we examine the heartbreaking case of Banita Jacks and her daughters, Brittany, Tatianna, N’Kiah, and Aja — a tragedy shaped by isolation, untreated mental health struggles, and a system that missed chances...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Missing Monday, we share the story of 17-year-old Kianna Galvin, who disappeared from South Elgin, Illinois in May 2016 after leaving home for what should have been a short outing. Kianna had plans, dreams, and a future she was actively building with her family. Nearly ten years later, her loved ones are still waiting for answers. Someone knows what happened to Kianna...

Send us Fan Mail Seventeen-year-old Kelly Anne Bates had her whole future ahead of her. Friends remember her as energetic, social, and determined to build a life of her own. But behind closed doors, Kelly had become trapped in a relationship defined by control, isolation, and escalating violence. In April 1996, police in Manchester, England uncovered a scene so disturbing that experienced investig...

Send us Fan Mail In May 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swanson called his parents after his car slid into a ditch on a rural Minnesota road. He wasn’t hurt, and the situation seemed simple. His parents got in the car to pick him up while staying on the phone with him as he walked toward what he thought were nearby town lights. For 47 minutes, they talked while trying to find each other in the dark. The...

Send us Fan Mail Valentine’s Day is supposed to be about love, family, and reconnecting with the people closest to us. But on February 14, 2025, inside a quiet Indiana neighborhood, a romantic evening meant to repair a struggling marriage ended in tragedy. Deborah Meyer, a nurse and mother of three, was killed inside her own home while her children were still there. What began as an argument escal...

Send us Fan Mail In December 2016, 33 year old Joanna Wright was abducted in broad daylight near her home in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood. Witnesses saw her fight to escape before she was forced into a vehicle and driven away. She has never been seen again. In this Missing Monday episode, we revisit Joanna’s case and the community losses that surrounded her disappearance, and we ask the q...

Send us Fan Mail In July 2024, 36-year-old Sonya Massey called 911 from her own home, asking for help. What followed instead was a confrontation that ended with her being shot and killed by a responding deputy in her kitchen — a moment captured on body camera footage that would spark outrage, grief, and renewed national conversation about policing, mental health, and accountability. In this episod...

Send us Fan Mail Five-year-old Summer Wells disappeared from her home in Hawkins County, Tennessee, on June 15, 2021. Despite a massive 13-day search, a nationwide Amber Alert, and years of investigation, she has never been found. This week on Missing Monday, we revisit Summer’s case, examine the timeline gaps, and explore the theories that continue to surround her disappearance — because her stor...

Send us Fan Mail In March of 1989, Mark Kilroy , a 21-year-old pre-med student, vanished during a spring break trip near the Texas–Mexico border. What followed was an investigation that uncovered a violent narco-cult, ritual killings, and one of the most disturbing crime scenes ever discovered in the region. This episode walks through Mark’s life, the night he disappeared, the discovery at the San...

Send us Fan Mail This Missing Monday focuses on two missing South Carolina teenagers whose cases remain open and unresolved. Greyson Hasselbacher , 15, was last seen on September 20, 2025, in Timmonsville, South Carolina. With no confirmed timeline, destination, or explanation for his disappearance, investigators continue to seek answers. We also acknowledge Nehemiah Scott , another teen reported...

Send us Fan Mail A hospital is supposed to be the place where panic ends.  In this case, it was where it began. In this episode of True Crime Consumes Me, we travel to Germany and inside intensive care units where an unthinkable pattern went unnoticed for years. Patients who were stable suddenly went into cardiac arrest. Resuscitations became routine. Deaths were explained away as complications. B...

Send us Fan Mail In April 2019, 22-year-old Nicholas Jeffrey Hietpas vanished in Wisconsin. His disappearance left behind more questions than answers — and years later, those questions remain. In this Missing Monday episode of True Crime Consumes Me , we say Nicholas’s name, share what’s known, and keep the focus where it belongs: on the person who’s still missing. Because being missing isn’t the...

Send us Fan Mail On a quiet Monday morning in 1979, routine shattered outside an elementary school in San Diego. Two adults were killed, eight children were wounded, and a community was changed forever. In this episode of True Crime Consumes Me , we take a deep, careful look at the case of Brenda Ann Spencer, focusing not just on the violence, but on the years that led up to it. Missed warning sig...

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Send us Fan Mail Six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished from their rural home in Pictou County, Nova Scotia — and nothing about their disappearance has ever made sense. In this Missing Monday episode, we focus on who Lilly and Jack were as children, what their family has shared about them, and what is known — and not known — about the investigation. We walk through...

Send us Fan Mail In the mid-1980s, a quiet stretch of Florida’s Panhandle became the hunting ground of Frank Athen Walls , whose crimes took five lives and left Okaloosa County living in fear for decades. This episode traces his escalation, the investigation, the trials, and the long wait for justice that finally ended nearly forty years later. Trigger Warning: Graphic and disturbing content.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Missing Monday , we focus on the disappearance of Derek Pettigrew , a 22-year-old from Fort Collins, Colorado who vanished in July 2025. Days after he was last seen, Derek’s vehicle was found abandoned in a remote area of Jackson County near the Wyoming border — but Derek himself was nowhere to be found. Despite extensive search-and-rescue efforts, there have be...