True Crime

Johnny Clarke and Lisa Straub were a happy couple in their early 20s working and studying near Toledo, Ohio. One night in late January 2011, Johnny's friend Tiffany called Johnny's cellphone to check up on their plans for the evening - and what she hears on the other end of the line scares her... Concerned that someone is threatening her friends in their own home, she calls both Johnny and Lisa re...

Paul Howell was killed during a carjacking, in his parent’s driveway in Edmond, Oklahoma in July 1999. Julius Darius Jones, only 19 years old at the time, was convicted of the murder. Two decades later, Julius’ case caught the attention of some big name celebrities - from Kim Kardashian, James Corden, Baker Mayfield and Demi Lovato. The voice that these celebrities have given to the argument of Ju...

On a sunny Wednesday in September 2012, the al-Hilli family - Saad, his wife Ikbal, their two young daughters Zainab (7) and Zeena (4) and Ikbal's mother, Suhaila - left their campsite on the edge of Lake Annecy to take a forest walk in the nearby trails, surrounding the French Alps. The family was on vacation in France from their home in Surrey, England. They drove up a rough road and stopped - o...

Chandler Halderson was the perfect son. In the summer of 2021 he was about to graduate college and begin a career with SpaceX. However, things weren't exactly as they appeared. When Chandler's parents went missing in July 2021 his lies began to unravel and the truth that Chandler had been hiding came to light. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403...

In Seeds of Destruction, forensic botanists and soil scientists reveal how the natural world becomes an unlikely detective in solving crimes. A single seedpod, a trace of pollen, or even the dirt clinging to a suspect’s shoe can unlock the secrets of a crime—pinpointing where a victim died or placing a killer at the scene. From clandestine graves to abandoned vehicles, investigators harness the po...

In The Predator, a quiet Tucson, Arizona neighborhood is shattered when an eight-year-old girl is snatched in broad daylight. With chilling speed, police zero in on a notorious drifter—a parolee with a history of preying on children—but he’s already vanished into the shadows. As investigators scramble to track him down, they’re haunted by a terrifying truth: every passing moment could mean the dif...

In Bodies of Evidence, investigators face one of criminal justice’s greatest challenges: solving a murder without a body. But as killers grow more cunning in disposing of victims—dissolving remains, scattering ashes, or burying them in remote wilderness—forensic scientists are fighting back with revolutionary techniques. This gripping episode reveals how microscopic evidence—a drop of blood, a sli...

In First and Kennedy Street Crew, The FBI Files exposes the brutal reign of one of Washington D.C.’s most feared gangs, whose grip on the streets was enforced through ruthless violence. When their leader fled to Africa to evade justice, law enforcement launched an international manhunt—culminating in the explosive 1994 shootout at the D.C. Metropolitan Police Headquarters. Through gripping firstha...

In "Fatal Compulsion," an intense and gripping episode of The New Detectives, forensic psychologists and criminal investigators pull back the curtain on the most chilling enigma of modern crime—the serial killer. These predators don’t always fit the monstrous image we imagine; instead, they are masters of deception, hiding in plain sight as friendly neighbors, diligent coworkers, or even charismat...

When the bodies of women began surfacing in Vienna, Austrian police faced a killer who defied all expectations—Jack Unterweger, a celebrated ex-convict turned writer, whose dark obsession with violence never truly left him. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

The world stood still as O.J. Simpson—NFL legend, actor, and accused killer—stood trial for the brutal murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. What followed was a forensic showdown that would change criminal justice forever. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

When the police are the criminals, who can you trust? This explosive episode of The FBI Files uncovers the 1990s New Orleans Police Department scandal—a web of drug deals, murder-for-hire, and blatant corruption that turned the city’s protectors into its most dangerous predators. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

1.8 million Americans disappear every year. Most come home—but some vanish without a single clue. This forensic deep dive from The New Detectives reveals how investigators track the missing, why some cases go cold, and the heartbreaking science of matching nameless bodies to grieving families. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

They came to register Black voters. They were murdered for it. This explosive episode of The FBI Files revisits one of America’s most infamous hate crimes—the 1964 Ku Klux Klan killings of three young civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and the groundbreaking FBI investigation that exposed a conspiracy of racism, violence, and cover-ups. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://w...

They were monsters hiding in plain sight—until psychological profiling dragged their darkest secrets into the light. This gripping episode of The New Detectives reveals how FBI profilers dissected the minds of three infamous killers, exposing the terrifying patterns that linked their crimes—and changed criminal investigations forever. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/po...

He scrubbed every surface, burned the evidence, and thought he’d committed the perfect crime, but his cleanliness was his downfall. This harrowing episode of The FBI Files reveals how forensic science turned a killer’s obsession with cleanliness into the key that locked him away forever. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

A brazen killer calls police to confess… but without a body, can they prove he’s guilty? This gripping episode of The New Detectives follows two chilling cases where forensic scientists turned bones, tools, and even a payphone into witnesses against murderers who thought they’d outsmarted justice. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

He didn’t rob them. He didn’t know them. He just liked watching them die. This chilling episode of The FBI Files reveals how America’s most calculating "hunter of humans" was caught—by outsmarting his own twisted psychology. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

They answered their country’s call, but their homecomings came in caskets, their stories told only by bones and battle scars. This gripping episode of The New Detectives reveals how forensic science breathes life back into the lost soldiers of history, solving mysteries that bullets and time tried to erase. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/su...

She was taken at knifepoint during a slumber party—in her own bedroom, surrounded by friends. This is the harrowing true crime story of Polly Klaas, the 12-year-old girl whose kidnapping sparked one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history—and exposed the face of pure evil. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

Gripping a loaded shotgun, a young girl takes aim and shoots her stepfather. Then, she stabs her mother to death. After killing her parents, she takes her three little sisters and locks them in their room before fleeing the scene. What would drive a teenager to brutally murder their parents? And why would that person intentionally turn their younger siblings into orphans? Become a supporter of thi...

A five-year-old girl living with an abusive father goes missing. Her mother tries desperately to get the police and government to look for her. However, it takes two years before action is finally taken to search for the little girl. By that time, she was nowhere to be found. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

This case is dreadfully tragic. A man brutally murdered his wife by hitting her repeatedly with a baseball bat. Then, two weeks later, he suffocated his two young step-sons. But his murdering streak did not end until four weeks later when he drowned his two little girls in a bathtub. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support .

pDaniel Printz of Bostic, NC, had brutally murdered an 80-year old woman. No one who would have seen him walking down the street to another nearby parking lot would have had any idea that a serial killer was casually moving among them, satisfied with his kill and enjoying a warm, sunny day in South Carolina. No one would have suspected that he was on his way to put the woman’s body in shallow grav...

yAn attractive young woman tells her beauty school classmates that she’s going to step out for 15 minutes. Yet she never returns, leaving her entire community searching for her. First her car is found and then days later her dead, mutilated body turns up on the bank of the Columbia river. What follows next is a lengthy search for clues and suspects, informants and false trails, a confession, a con...