True Crime Mania

On October 1, 1913, the small commune of Le Landreau in the Loire-Atlantique region was rocked by a crime of rare brutality. Six members of a wealthy farming family, the Mabits, were found massacred on their farm. A carnage beyond comprehension. Faced with the stupor and extreme violence of the act, the gendarmes remained doubtful. It didn't take them long to discover who was really behind the cri...

In 1999 in New Mexico, the police receive a strange testimony from a woman who tells of her narrow escape from her kidnapper. But what appears to be the umpteenth sinister kidnapping case is about to reveal a much more sordid, disturbing, nightmarish affair. This is the terrible and frightening case of “The Toy Box”, considered to be one of the most horrific sex crime cases America has ever seen....

When Fred West meets young Rosemary Letts in the late 1960s, their shared dream is to marry and start a family. Yet behind their perfectly ordinary, socially integrated exterior, the couple are about to lead a sordid double life of sexual deviance, kidnapping, torture and crime. The police would spend almost two decades before finally unearthing their criminal past. This is the story of Fred and R...

Between 1998 and 2001, in northern Chile, a disturbing wave of disappearances began to spread panic. The missing were all schoolgirls, quiet and unremarkable, aged between 12 and 17. It would take three long years for a name to emerge from the shadows: Julio Alberto Pérez Silva, a shared taxi driver. A man with no history at least on the surface. The story of this predator with an ordinary face, w...

Just before dawn, a fire broke out 🔥 in the middle of a road in the small commune of Quarouble. A car in flames, abandoned in the middle of nowhere... The firefighters arrive in a hurry to bring the blaze under control. And then they discovered the horror! In the trunk, they made the macabre discovery of a completely charred body, almost unrecognizable... a real stiff. Who was this person? What w...

Lübeck, Germany, March 6, 1981. Silence reigns in the courtroom. The benches are full. A man takes the stand, handcuffed. A few feet away, 30-year-old Marianne Bachmeier stares at him. In her bag: a small pistol. In a split second, she stands up, takes aim and fires. From that moment on, Marianne Bachmeier became a national figure, splitting the country in two, between those who supported her and...

Sasebo, southwest Japan... At 12:20 p.m., in an empty classroom, a drama unfolds behind closed doors. A 12-year-old girl lies on the floor, her throat cut, bathed in a pool of blood. She doesn't know it yet, but the killer is still on the scene. And it's an 11-year-old girl! It's one of the most baffling crimes in contemporary Japan. A case that has shaken an entire country and sparked a national...

In 1988, in Sacramento, California, authorities received a report of the disappearance of a homeless man, Alvaro Montoya. The police discovered that the missing man was staying in a foster home run by an adorable granny: Dorothea Puente. The investigation that follows, however, will lift the veil on one of the most terrifying criminal cases in the United States. One thing's for sure: appearances a...

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Instead of caring for his patients, nurse and serial killer Charles Edmund Cullen chose to kill many of the people he cared for. He is a convicted serial murder angel, stalker and poisoner of the dead type and the most prolific serial killer in New Jersey history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the summer of 1968, the city of Newcastle is tormented by a terrible event: two little boys, Martin Brown and Brian Howe, are found strangled to death in a vacant lot a few weeks apart. When the identity of the murderer, or rather the murderess, is finally revealed, a wave of shock sweeps through the nation. The killer's name is Mary Bell, she is just eleven years old and has the face of an ang...

The Puccio family is a seemingly normal family that is completely outside the norm...This is the story of the Puccio clan, whose members kidnapped wealthy Argentines for ransom and hid them in their home before killing them...This was in 1985 when Argentina was beginning to master its newly restored democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama, Japan. Yet, as they follow her story, the investigators will be neither surprised nor frightened. Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama...

The Chundawat family is a multi-generational Indian family of eleven who live together in a two-storey house in Delhi. But on July 1, 2018, the family was killed when they were all found dead, hanging next to each other from the ceiling of their living room. When the police discover strange notes in a drawer, it marks the beginning of one of the most complex, strange and frightening investigations...

In 1971, Maria Cámara Gómez saw a black spot on her kitchen floor. It looked like a face. Despite all her efforts, not only does the stain not go away, but shadows suddenly appear on the floor and others on the walls. From that day on, there is no respite for the Pereira family. This is the beginning of the disturbing case of "La Casa de las caras", the house of faces, which will upset the peace o...

Between 1976 and 1977, terror grips New York City when a series of unexplained murders takes place in Queens and the Bronx. Their target: couples and isolated young women. The murderer who takes pleasure in sending anonymous letters to claim responsibility for his crimes. A single signature, as ambiguous as it is meaningless, marks this bloody epic, that of the Son of Sam, alias David Berkowitz. H...

On 25 January 1959, a group of ten students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute set off on an expedition to northern Siberia. On the night of 1 February, while the group was camping on a mountainside, things suddenly went wrong. The bodies were found a month later in a disastrous state. What really happened on that fateful night? This is the most enigmatic Russian crime case of the last sixty year...

Drawn unwillingly into an unhealthy lesbian love triangle, the young Shanda Sharer is unaware of the sordid, Machiavellian plan that is being hatched behind her back, a plan that will be carried out with rare cruelty. In a climate of murderous jealousy and rivalry between teenage girls, the outcome will be fatal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shasta Groene McClain was kidnapped by paedophile serial killer Joseph Duncan III who murdered mother, stepfather and brother and abducted Shasta at the age of 8, and her brother Dylan, 9 in 2005...Shasta has become a famous victim, defined by tragedy and riddled with guilt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dennis Nilsen is a Scottish serial killer who encouraged his victims to follow him willingly. He murdered at least twelve young men and boys between...At home, he would get them drunk until they passed out and then strangle them, usually with a necktie. Once the victim was killed, he would bathe their body, shave off all the chest hair and usually dress them in socks and underwear. Hosted on Acast...

Between 1979 and 1983, the city experienced one of its darkest episodes: several disturbing disappearances of children were reported, most of them little boys under the age of ten. Despite the search by the police, the predator or predators remain elusive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Catherine Cesnik was a Catholic nun. On 3 January 1970, her body was found in a rubbish dump following a blow to the skull. Prior to her murder, Cesnik had been trying to help students at her school who had allegedly been abused by the priest. Did her death have anything to do with the sexual abuse?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1984, Fritzl Josef, a sick monster, lured his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, into his cellar where he drugged and raped her repeatedly for 24 years. From these incestuous unions seven children were born who only saw the sunlight for the first time in 2008. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First, Audrey Marie Hilley murdered her husband Frank Hilley and almost got away with it until she tried to kill her daughter. Then she jumped bail and avoided capture for years, but was finally arrested when she faked her own death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming from a poor background and suffering from blindness, Baba Vanga began to have visions at a very early age, which were considered disturbing by those around her. But the predictions of the "Nostradamus of the Balkans" will become more and more disturbing. Who was Baba Vanga really? A mystic? A superstitious peasant woman manipulated by the Politburo or simply a woman born with a unique gift...