True Crime Never Sleeps

This week we give an update on the unsolved Delphi Murders. New details have come to light in the unsolved Delphi, Indiana, double murder investigation with the publication of a police interview with a man who, according to transcripts, admitted to communicating with 14-year-old victim Libby Germany. Libby and her best friend Abby Williams, 13, were on a local Delphi hiking trail when they were ki...

The Zodiac Killer murdered at least five people during the late 1960s and early 1970s but authorities believe he may have killed as many as 30 people. Except for the murder of a lone taxi driver, all his documented attacks targeted couples. The first cipher Zodiac sent to newspapers was quickly solved (also by amateur cryptologists) but the “340 Cipher” eluded the efforts of the world’s best mathe...

This week on True Crime Never Sleeps, we continue our season focusing on spies with a look at Jonathan Pollard. is a former intelligence analyst for the United States government. In 1987, as part of a plea agreement, Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for and providing top-secret classified information to Israel. He was sentenced to life in prison for violations of the Espionage Act, making him the...

Amongst all the odd things in the world, children shedding the blood of others is near the top. It is even more inconceivable and horrifying when their own parents are the victims. Jasmine Richardson, a 12-year-old from Medicine Hat, Alberta, followed the same destructive path in 2006 when she killed her whole family with her boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke. It was a tragic night at the Richardson house...

One of Canada's most notorious serial killers is Bruce McArthur. Currently in prison and serving a life sentence for murdering eight men, McArthur terrorized Toronto's gay community by targeting and killing gay men who frequented the Gay Village neighborhood of the city. Most of his victims were of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent, and they had not yet come out; their sexuality was n...

Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames, born May 26th, 1941 is a former CIA officer turned KGB double agent, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Today we are diving into the life and crimes of one of the CIA's greatest spies.  Join our Giveaway and wi...

This is yet another murder case, unique in its utter barbarity. The couple in Knoxville never saw it coming- neither did their family and the entire town. It sent shocks into the American city, and many still recount it as the worst crime in their city. Join our Giveaway and win a pair of Raycon Earbuds: https://kingsumo.com/g/8cilme/win-a-pair-of-raycon-earbuds SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.co...

A missing persons poster has hung in the lobby of the Rincon Police Department in Georgia for the past 20 years. On it is the smiling face of a 43-year-old mother-of-two who vanished into thin air one night in 2002, never to be heard from again. Now, investigators who were haunted by their inability to solve the case or find any trace of Allyson Romedy are hopeful they might finally be making head...

Dubbed “the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history” by the FBI, Samuel Little confessed to murdering 93 women over a span of almost four decades, and he has been successfully “matched to 50 cases,” according to the Bureau. As shocking as his murders are, what's even more astounding is how Little stayed a free man so long.   This week on Shit Out of Luck, we dive into the long awaiting cap...

Today we begin an all new season of True Crime Never Sleeps, this season is all about spies and traitors. This week we begin with one of the most infamous spies in American history, Robert Hanssen. Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is an American former FBI triple agent who spied for Soviet and the Putin Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1979 to 2021. His espio...

Over 15 years, a string of unsolved homicides had left a pile of such cases on the desks of Kansas City detectives. One of the victims was Sheila Ingold, a sex worker whose murder led to the questioning of one suspect shortly after her body was found in 1987. His name was Lorenzo Gilyard. Though he wasn't charged due to a lack of sufficient evidence, police were able to get a blood sample from...

The Luby's shooting was a mass shooting that took place on October 16th, 1991, at a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas. The perpetrator, George Hennard, drove his pickup truck through the front window of the restaurant. He shot and killed 23 people, and wounded 27 others. He had a brief shootout with police, refused their orders to surrender, and fatally shot himself. Join our Giveaway and...

Ellen Greenburg was a 27-year-old elementary school teacher at Juniata Park Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a well-educated young woman who had graduated from Penn State before going to Temple University to earn her teaching credential. It was a career she had loved and a job she enjoyed going to every day. A young woman was found dead in her apartment, but was it murder or suicide?...

Robert Berdella was an American serial killer, known as The Kansas City Butcher and The Collector, who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least six men between 1984 and 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri after having forced his victims to endure periods of up to six weeks of captivity. Berdella pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the firs...

On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas. Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base. Hasan was shot and as a result paralyzed from the waist down. SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt...

The advancement of our society has led to cutting-edge treatments in the medicinal field. Psilocybin mushrooms, known for their hallucinogenic properties, are starting to be used to treat depression and also help people quit smoking and drinking. When used recreationally people experience a psychedelic euphoria but if too many are ingested it may turn into a bad trip. Rarely does that result in vi...

34 years ago, a 19-year-old girl named Tara Calico left her Berlin home and took a bike ride along Highway 47 in Valencia County; she was never heard from again and after years of searching, was declared a victim of homicide.  SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code TCNS for 20% off your first box DON'T FOR...

Between October 1977 and February 1978, Los Angeles, California, and the surrounding region was terrorized by a serial killer — who preyed on young girls and women. Because most of the victims were strangled, and their bodies were found in the Hollywood hills, the killer was dubbed the Hillside Strangler.  SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Kille...

On October 1st, 2017, Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old man from Mesquite, Nevada, opened fire upon the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. He fired more than 1,000 bullets, killing 60 people and wounding 411. This week we continue our series looking at some of America's worst mass shootings and acts of terror, by diving into the Las Vegas massacr...

We are finally back with an all-new episode of Murder Monday, diving into the shocking murder of Christina Spicuzza. Her final devastating moments were caught on camera. Footage from the dashcam she had mounted in her car shows investigators all they need to know. The Uber driver and mother of 4 was shot and killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after she had picked up a passenger: a man by the name...

The Russian serial killer Vasili Komaroff — the so-called "Wolf of Moscow" — admitted to killing 33 men after his arrest in 1921, according to The True Crime Database. One of the earliest-known modern serial killers in Russia, Komaroff was born in Vitebsk to a poor family in 1871. He grew up, joined the army, and got married. To outsiders, he seemed like an ordinary man leading an ordinary...

This week on an all new episode of the True Crime Never Sleeps podcast, we dive into the Orlando Pulse Night Club terrorist attack. One of the deadliest attacks in American history since the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001.  SPONSORS: PodDecks: www.poddecks.com - PromoCode Larry21 for 10% off your order Hunt A Killer: www.huntakiller.com - Promo Code TCNS for 20% off your first box DON'T FORGET TO...

When you hear the word vampire, there are many different things that could come to mind. You might possibly picture the tall, pale man in the cloak with blood dripping from his fangs. Or maybe the Edward Cullen type of guy from "Twilight" is more your style. What you probably wouldn't consider is a quiet kid who grew into a military man and police informant, before he turned into a ser...

On the morning of April 19, 1995, an ex-Army soldier and security guard named Timothy McVeigh parked a rented Ryder truck in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. He was about to commit mass murder. Inside the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals. McVeigh got out, locked the door,...

Convicted serial killer Jerry Brudos, who is commonly referred to as "The Lust Killer" or "The Shoe Fetish Killer," confessed to killing four women between 1968 and 1969. Brudos is not known for the number of women he killed. Instead, he became notorious for the way he treated the corpses after his victims were dead. This is the story of how Jerry Brudos was finally captured. SPONS...