True Crime

Two days after a woman is found murdered, a man collapses on a police station floor, not in grief, but in fear of a life behind bars. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

A woman’s body is found in a tent at Seattle’s largest homeless camp, Steven Thanh Nguyen says it was an overdose. But detectives suspect something far darker. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

At 11:20 AM, a single gunshot echoed through Albuquerque and within minutes, ShotSpotter had pinpointed the alley. What police found there would shock the entire community. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

Before sunrise, workers at a quiet Wisconsin quarry stumbled upon a horrifying scene. Three men, shot execution style. No clear motive. Was it gang violence… or something even more personal lurking beneath the surface? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

When firefighters found Chris Dickerson’s body in the ashes of his burning home, they thought it was a tragic accident, until the coroner revealed he was already dead before the fire started… and someone had stabbed him in the neck. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

Sarah Hartsfield’s life read like a Southern Gothic nightmare—a revolving door of dead husbands, house fires, and whispered accusations. To outsiders, she was a resilient mother of four who kept rebuilding her life. But by the time her fifth husband, U.S. Army Sergeant Richard Hartsfield, collapsed mysteriously in 2016, investigators realized: "bad luck" doesn’t strike the same woman this many tim...

On October 22, 2005, Tara Grinstead—a radiant former beauty queen and beloved high school history teacher in Ocilla, Georgia—vanished without a trace. Her front door was unlocked, her car keys and phone left behind, and a burned-out candle still flickering on her counter. To her students and family, Tara’s life seemed perfect. But beneath the surface, dark rumors swirled: a secret relationship wit...

The Ferocious Story Of Emily Ferlazzo - The Dubious Story Of Jonathan Crupi - The Curious Story Of Peter Chadwick - The Shocking Story Of Savannah Paschal - The Disturbing Story Of Robert Fratta - The Shocking Story Of Skylar Nemetz - The Devastating Story Of Michael Wayne Jones Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

When Shanti Cooper, a vibrant Orlando entrepreneur and devoted single mother, met David Tronnes on a dating site in 2017, he seemed like a dream come true: charming, wealthy, and eager to start fresh. He claimed he’d inherited millions and was ready to build a life with her. But beneath the polished facade lurked a man with a history of dark obsessions—and when Shanti’s beaten body was found in th...

In the predawn darkness of Thanksgiving 2010, a quiet neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, erupted in gunfire. A man wearing a “Sheriff” T-shirt—a cruel taunt—opened fire on a group of friends gathered for the holiday, killing two and wounding four before vanishing into the night in a two-tone Chevy Venture minivan. The brutality was shocking, but the killer’s identity was a mystery. Was this a targete...

In September 2017, Laura Wallen, a beloved 31-year-old social studies teacher at Wilde Lake High School in Maryland, failed to show up for the first day of school. Colleagues grew worried—Laura had already decorated her classroom and was thrilled for the new year. But when police traced her last steps, they uncovered a sinister secret: Laura was four months pregnant… and the father was her ex-boyf...

She baked cookies, knitted sweaters, and seemed like the picture of a doting grandmother—until the night Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie" Black picked up a gun and executed her own 19-year-old grandson, Brandon Black, in cold blood. The entire attack was captured on a harrowing 911 call, with Brandon’s final screams and Maggie’s eerily calm voice begging the question: *How could a 74-year-old woman sna...

In a scene ripped from a Hollywood thriller, a convicted killer defies gravity—and justice—by scaling a prison wall like a spider, vanishing into the night. This wasn’t fiction: it was June 6, 2023, when Danelo Cavalcante, a Brazilian fugitive serving life for brutally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, escaped from Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania. His method? A "crab-walk" technique—pressing his h...

On the night of February 15, 2020, sex therapist and feminist author Amie Harwick laughed and mingled at a Hollywood party, captured on camera in what would be her final public moments. Just hours later, she was dead—beaten, strangled, and thrown from her balcony by an ex-boyfriend who’d lurked in the shadows of her life for ten terrifying years. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spr...

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On a quiet March evening in 2020, 19-year-old Sydney Powell called 911, screaming that an intruder had stabbed her mother, 43-year-old Hollywood Powell, inside their upscale Georgia home. But when police arrived, the scene felt off. The "break-in" looked staged—no forced entry, a knife oddly placed, and Sydney’s changing story. Then came the bombshell: Sydney’s own hands wielded the blade. But why...

In October 2018, Lauren McCluskey, a 21-year-old track star at the University of Utah, was being hunted by a man she’d briefly dated—37-year-old Melvin Rowland, a registered sex offender with a fake identity and a violent past. Terrified, Lauren and her mother, Jill McCluskey, made repeated pleas for help—including a desperate call to a 911 center 600 miles away in Washington state, hoping to bypa...

When Katie Kenyon, a vibrant 33-year-old mother of two, vanished in April 2022 after a camping trip with her on-again, off-again lover, Andrew Burfield, police initially dismissed him as just a "local handyman" with a shaky alibi. But as detectives peeled back the layers of his life, they uncovered a monster hiding in plain sight—a serial manipulator with a history of violence against women, whose...

On May 10, 2020, Suzanne Morphew, a beloved 49-year-old mother and wife, vanished without a trace from her idyllic Colorado home. When her daughters couldn’t reach her on Mother’s Day, panic set in. A search party scoured Chaffee County’s rugged terrain, finding only her blue mountain bike discarded down a steep ravine—but no body, no blood, and no clear answers. Become a supporter of this podcast...

On August 5, 2018, Ryan Cody Lamb’s frantic 911 call echoed through the Kalispell, Montana, police dispatch: “My partner’s dead! I just got home—I don’t know what happened!” Officers rushed to the scene, finding Lamb hyperventilating over his partner’s lifeless body. But something felt off. Why were there no signs of forced entry? Why did Lamb’s story keep shifting? And why did forensics find defe...

On May 18, 2020, Sadie Beacham arrived at her boyfriend Rosalio Reta’s apartment in Lubbock, Texas, only to find the patio door ajar—and blood splattered from the ceiling to the floor. The scene looked like something out of a horror film: bloody handprints, drag marks, and no sign of Rosalio. Was this a kidnapping? A murder? And why did Sadie’s obsessive ex-boyfriend, Zachariah Anderson, keep lurk...

On October 4, 2012, 17-year-old Jake Evans—a quiet, homeschooled Texas teen with no history of violence—called 911 and calmly confessed: “I just killed my mom and sister.” The brutality of the crime stunned investigators. Evans had shot his mother in the head execution-style and stabbed his 15-year-old sister 28 times. But what turned a seemingly mild-mannered boy into a family annihilator? Become...

On a sweltering Florida afternoon, Hoyt Birge and Peter Tournay entered what they thought was a routine drug deal—only to find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. Within minutes, Hoyt lay lifeless on the floor, and Tournay, bleeding out from a gunshot wound, played dead to survive. The assailant? A cold-blooded killer who staged the scene to look like a robbery gone wrong, but whose motiv...

In 1990, 14-year-old Regina Walters fled her troubled Texas home, seeking escape—only to vanish into the night. Six months later, her badly decomposed body was discovered in an abandoned Illinois barn, posed in a macabre tableau: wearing black high heels, her hair freshly cut. The haunting crime scene bore the signature of a predator who’d stalked America’s highways for years—a long-haul trucker w...

For nearly two decades, an elusive terrorist known only as “The Unabomber” terrorized the nation, mailing 16 bombs that killed 3 people and maimed 23 others—from university professors to airline executives. The FBI’s longest and costliest manhunt targeted a phantom: Ted Kaczynski, a reclusive math genius turned anti-technology zealot, living without electricity in a Montana shack. Become a support...