True Crime News: The Podcast

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: New details in South Carolina's Murdaugh family double-murder mystery, as the man who discovered his wife and son shot to death on their property in June announces he's going to rehab after resigning from his family law firm, on the same weekend he's reportedly shot in the head changing a tire on the side of the road. And a Florida teenager charged with t...

On our first episode of True Crime Daily Sidebar, host Joshua Ritter is diving into the #FreeBritney movement and unraveling the tangled conservatorship that the singer is in the middle of fighting. How did the conservatorship start? Why has her father had control over his adult daughter’s life for the past 13 years?  Joining Joshua is psychiatrist and former director of the County of Los Angeles...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A former "Ole Miss" student takes a plea deal to avoid the death penalty in the murder case of Alexandria "Ally" Kostial, a student found shot to death at a lake near the University of Mississippi campus in 2019. And a married couple is found murdered at their campsite in the Utah desert days after telling friends and family about a "creepy guy" who was c...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast, underground-comics artist Glenn Head discusses his graphic novel "Chartwell Manor," which explores themes of survival and justice in the harrowing tale of a young student sent to a New Jersey boarding school led by a serial child abuser. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A tragic case in Southern California, where a surfing instructor is accused of taking his two very young children south of the border and brutally murdering both of them. And an Atlanta woman walking her dog late at night is attacked in a city park. The woman's life partner finds her and the dog stabbed to death, and officials warn the public not to go to...

This week on True Crime Daily the Podcast: a Minnesota man is accused of decapitating his girlfriend and leaving her body on the street. Plus, a Louisiana millionaire has plead guilty to planning the botched kidnapping of his estranged wife, which resulted in the deaths of the two hired kidnappers. Former homicide detective and current private investigator, Luis Bolaños joins host Ana Garcia. See...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A Florida woman is accused of keeping a special-needs girl trapped in a metal cage in the bedroom of her filthy household after the girl escaped to a neighbor's yard. Plus, a Milwaukee man is sentenced to 205 years in prison for killing five family members in 2020. Criminal defense attorney Mike Cavalluzzi joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listene...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murdering 18-year-old Amish woman Linda Stoltzfoos. And an aspiring rapper is charged with 15 criminal counts in a triple-murder on a Georgia golf course. Attorney and activist Gerald A. Griggs joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A Baltimore police officer allegedly murders his 15-year-old stepson and hides his body in an attic crawlspace. And a Wisconsin man is charged with homicide after his father’s dismembered remains were found on a rural property, while his mother is still missing. Criminal justice professor Dr. Nicky Jackson joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listene...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Pamela Hupp, serving life in Missouri prison for killing a man in her home, is now charged with the murder of Betsy Faria, a woman whose husband served time before he was exonerated of her brutal death. And police in South Carolina share details as they close the case of Faye Swetlik, a first-grader who went missing after school in February last year and...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A California mother admits to strangling her special-needs son, who was identified a week after his body was found by a hiker in the Nevada desert. And a former Houston Police sergeant is sentenced to prison for murdering his librarian wife in a fit of jealousy. Criminal defense attorney Joshua Ritter joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Forensic neuropsychologist Dr. Judy Ho joins host Ana Garcia for our "My Favorite Case" series to discuss the trial of Jodi Arias, convicted in the gruesome murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in 2008. Arias drove from California to Arizona, had sex with Alexander, took photos of him, then stabbed him 27 times and shot him in the head and cut his...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A mother and son from a prominent South Carolina family were shot and killed on their property while the son was awaiting trial in connection to a 2019 boat crash that left a 19-year-old woman dead. And an update to the Sarah Lawrence College sex cult case in New York, where a student's father allegedly preyed on her friends and may have prompted some vic...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A Wisconsin woman allegedly poisoned a friend with eyedrops, then staged the scene to look like a suicide, all motivated by money, authorities say. And a Virginia Tech football player allegedly murdered a man who "catfished" him on Tinder. Former federal prosecutor and current trial lawyer Stephen Lee joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Charlee Funes, a 13-year-old girl who was attacked during gym class in Illinois, joins us. And a California man is sentenced to prison for killing his wife, then propping her dead body on the couch on Christmas morning while her kids opened their presents. Private investigator Luis Bolaños joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A 14-year-old boy is charged as an adult for murder after allegedly stabbing a 13-year-old girl 114 times in Florida. Plus, Lori Vallow, accused of killing her two children and burying their remains, has been ruled mentally unfit for trial. Criminal defense attorney Phillip Hamilton joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informatio...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A surveillance camera captures a man trying to kidnap an 11-year-old Florida girl, who fought back and marked the suspect with "blue slime."  Plus, further details emerge in the abduction of 4-year-old Cash Gernon, whose body was found on a Dallas street. Clinical and forensic neuropsychologist Dr. Judy Ho joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listene...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: An Alabama father who pleaded for the return of his 5-week-old son on television was arrested hours after the child was found buried in the woods. And the man accused of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts goes on trial this week. Owen Michael and Ana Garcia discuss the cases. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Authorities find the mummified body of a suspected cult leader in a Colorado residence, decorated with lights and makeup and set up in a shrine. And a California man was shot to death while camping in a state park with his two young daughters in 2018. The New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear discusses her coverage of a string of shootings in the Malibu hills a...

Retired police lieutenant and campus safety expert Eric Rosoff joins host Ana Garcia to discuss the strange case of a person releasing homemade hot-air balloons over the Burbank airport flight path. The FBI was tasked with figuring out who was behind this potentially dangerous crime. After the FBI’s progress stalled, Rosoff and his partner’s investigation led to something they did not expect: a dr...

Shocking surveillance video stunned Los Angeles and quickly went viral: A respected firefighter caught on camera attacking his female neighbor in a fight over neighborhood cats in 2013. It took two trials for a jury to reach a verdict. In our new “My Favorite Case” series this week, attorney  Joshua Ritter  joins host  Ana Garcia  to discuss the Los Angeles case of Ian Eulian and Rebecca Stafford....

This week on True Crime Daily the Podcast: An ex-NYPD officer has pleaded guilty to an obstruction charge stemming from a murder-for-hire plot to kill her estranged husband and her boyfriend’s 14-year-old daughter. Plus, a North Carolina teacher was killed trying to rob a Mexican drug cartel member. Criminal defense attorney Robert K. Corbett III joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Former NFL player Phillip Adams is accused of shooting six people, including his doctor, then turning the gun on himself in South Carolina. And an Oklahoma City criminal defense attorney who fell in love with a client is charged with helping him kill his ex-girlfriend and her parents. Attorney and activist Gerald A. Griggs joins host Ana Garcia. See omnys...

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A North Carolina paramedic awaiting trial for allegedly murdering his wife with eyedrops is charged with setting an airborne helicopter on fire. Plus, police say a Florida man murdered his girlfriend, then placed the gun in her hand. Criminal defense attorney Lance A. Clarke joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: Prosecutors say an Ohio mother allegedly "hog-tied" her children before running over her 6-year-old son. And a New Jersey murder suspect who is a person of interest in the deaths of four people in New Mexico, including his ex-wife, told police he's killed 16 people in total. Criminal defense attorney Mike Cavalluzzi joins host Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.c...