True Crime News: The Podcast

A surprising case out of Alabama, where a city councilman led police to the body of his wife, who he had reported missing. Now he's facing multiple charges, including manslaughter and abuse of a corpse. Plus, a man in Florida allegedly killed a sleeping couple and then enlisted his stepdaughter's boyfriend to help dump the bodies in a swamp. All three individuals are facing multiple felony charges...

Lori Barnes Isenberg claimed her husband, Larry Isenberg, died after falling off their boat. Now, however, she has been charged with first-degree murder in his death. Autopsy results show Larry died from excessive amounts of Benadryl, and Lori is accused of giving it to him. Plus, the case of 11-year-old Colorado boy Gannon Stauch, who was reported missing by his stepmother Letecia on January 27....

Missing 15-month-old Tennessee girl Evelyn Boswell was last seen in December, but an Amber Alert was not issued until last week. Evelyn's mom has been arrested for filing false reports. Evelyn's grandma and her grandma's boyfriend were also arrested, all held in the same jail. In Florida, a drunken game of hide-and-seek allegedly led to the death of Jorge Torres Jr., locked in a suitcase and recor...

Former Colorado Springs mayoral candidate Juliette Parker and her 16-year-old daughter were arrested in Tacoma, Washington after allegedly drugging a new mom in a plot to kidnap her infant. Prosecutors say Parker schemed for months posing as a photographer who offered free newborn and maternity shoots through a Facebook group. Plus, an update in the South Carolina case of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik....

A woman claiming to be the biological mother of a girl whose skeletal remains were found in her adoptive parents' house calls in. She is pleading to get the girl's remains to lay her to rest. The adoptive parents have been arrested and face child abuse charges. Three other kids have been removed from the home. Plus, a Utah man pleads guilty to killing his wife on a cruise ship while their kids lis...

The skeletal remains of a child who went missing in 2017 were found in the attic of her family's home. The girl's parents have been arrested and are facing charges of child abuse, and their three other children have been removed from the home. Plus, a newborn in Florida is missing - police believe his father abducted him after killing the boy's mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. A day late...

NYPD Cop Michael Valva and his fiancée Angela Pollina are charged with murder in the hypothermia death of his 8-year-old autistic son, who was forced to sleep in an unheated garage in Long Island as a punishment. Plus, a Miami federal judge sentenced Joseph Isaiah Woodson Jr. to 50 years in prison for orchestrating a Snapchat "sextortion" ring that targeted children. With guest Dr. Judy Ho. See om...

Stephanie Parze disappeared after visiting family in October in New Jersey. The next day, her mother found her house empty with all the lights on, her phone in the living room and her car in the driveway. Her ex-boyfriend, a person of interest, was dead three weeks later. In our second case, a South Carolina woman pleads guilty to poisoning her husband with eyedrops, years after shooting him in be...

A Connecticut businessman suspected of fraud is arrested in the Orlando community of Celebration, Florida, accused of killing his wife and three kids, and the family dog. A Florida girl takes matters into her own hands and installs a security camera to record her father allegedly abusing her and her dogs. With guest Ana Garcia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A convoluted case out of Idaho has authorities searching for a fugitive married couple and a pair of missing children amid questions about a series of suspicious deaths. And the case of a slain new mom found in a trunk, a faked pregnancy and a kidnapped baby found safe in Texas. With guest Mike Cavalluzzi. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We discuss “Scarelore” this week, as some urban myths and inaccuracies have been gaining traction and spreading on social media, including warnings against windowless white vans, zip-ties on windshield wipers, and other recent viral cautions online.  With guest Loni Coombs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Florida man accused of murdering his wife is also in trouble for legal shenanigans after allegedly hiding money and failing to hire a lawyer once his public defender was dismissed. An illegal cross-country road race has the winner rethinking his public statements on the caper. And preliminary hearings reveal new details in the child-abduction/murder case of 3-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney...

A woman's live-in boyfriend shoots her kids dead after an argument about smoking in the house, the same house where their father committed suicide years earlier. A South Carolina man is sentenced to prison for killing his mother's boyfriend, dismembering him and hiding the body parts underneath her house. And a Chicago woman is charged with shooting a 14-year-old girl after the girl allegedly robb...

We sit down with writer-producer-director Adam Kassen and Williamstown Police Chief Shawn Graham to talk about West Virginia's Deatra "Sunny" Gun-Halley murder-for-hire case, the subject of the new Oxygen episode "Not Your Average Grandma," airing... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's bonus podcast, we sit down with author Andrew Marantz to talk about the current state of online discourse, real-world effects of social media manipulation, and his new book “Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After Thursday morning's attack at Saugus High School in Southern California, we discuss campus security, school safety issues, institutional response, law enforcement, and the media. Guest: Retired police lieutenant and campus security expert Eric Rosoff. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, a married couple is accused of tying up a woman in their Oklahoma home, shooting her up with meth, and recording her on video while she died. Search warrants for two Amazon Echo speakers are served in a murder trial in Florida. Plus, an... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, an 18-year-old Washington woman accused of conspiring to kill an ex-boyfriend blames the plot on a hacked Facebook account. A Boston College dropout is accused of coercing her boyfriend into taking his own life. And a Texas woman is accused... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Amaryllis Fox, a former CIA Clandestine Service Operator, discusses her new book See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We cover American cases with international elements this week. Wisconsin woman working as a prosecutor is shot dead on a Pacific island. Four flight attendants are accused of smuggling cash into Miami on a flight from Chile. A man accused of killing a... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest Scott Michaels, who runs Dearly Departed Tours and Artifact Museum in Los Angeles, discusses items from his collection, including Michael "Hollywood Ripper" Gargiulo's Hollywood apartment rental application, and the death certificate of Anton... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s podcast, a railroad agent takes out a stun-gun-wielding man who drove his truck into a Nebraska Chick-fil-A. Three women are accused of staging a “fight club" in an assisted living facility in North Carolina. And an Uber driver is... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FBI confirms Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer, seeks help identifying victims. Teens target online predators, girl is kidnapped in real-life confrontation with suspect. Texas man allegedly robs bank to pay for ring, venue for... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ex-cop gets 10 years for murdering upstairs neighbor in his apartment. Texas man shoots at suspected burglar, goes back to bed, later charged with murder. A 15-year-old boy is killed protecting his little sister during a home invasion in Florida. A... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An 11-year-old South Carolina boy drives his brother’s car 200 miles to live with a man he met on Snapchat. A school resource officer is fired after arresting two 6-year-old schoolchildren in Orlando. A family finds their dream home is contaminated... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.