True Crime Recaps

It was a warm summer afternoon when the unthinkable happened. 26 children and their driver were forced off their school bus at gunpoint and buried alive for 16 hours before they managed to escape. The Chowchilla bus kidnapping in 1976 is the biggest, most brazen, mass abduction in American history. Who would do such a horrific thing? And why did they choose these particular victims? The answers to...

A 13-year old suffocates his baby half-sister and stepbrother to free them from Satan and hell. His punishment? A century behind bars.  Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube or Snapchat! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. New episodes weekly! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Trenton Chase once said an unlocked door was like an invitation for him to come inside. This is exactly the kind of chilling thing you might expect to hear from a madman known as the Vampire of Sacramento.  Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube or Snapchat! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. New episodes weekly! Learn more about your ad c...

In the sleepy little town of Villisca, Iowa, a house full of eight people – six of them children – were bludgeoned to death with an axe. To this day, their killer has never been caught. But that’s not to say no one knows his name. Some people think the Villisca Axe Murders are the work of the most dangerous serial killer in history. Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps on Fa...

The body of a popular 13-year-old girl is found with her throat slashed in a bathroom stall at school. Students are in and out of the bathroom all day, but none of them admit to seeing anything strange. Then the school handyman is arrested. But did he do it? Years later, never before seen evidence points to another suspect. One with a bizarre story and an even stranger motive.  Read journalist Rut...

How can a family still hope for something after all this time? Competing theories are all Asha Degree's family has about what happened to their 9-year-old daughter on Valentine’s Day all those years ago. In today's recap, we'll tell how the young Asha Degree disappeared in 2000 and what are the theories around the infamous missing child case. Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Re...

When Jonelle Matthews remains are discovered by construction workers 35 years after she disappeared, a cold case is finally solved  and you wont believe who did it! Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube or Snapchat! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. New episodes weekly! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Christa Pike sets out to get revenge on a girl who, she thinks, has a thing for her boyfriend, she unleashes a terror unlike anything seen before. This is the story of the youngest woman on death row! Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube or Snapchat! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. New episodes weekly! Learn more about your ad choices. V...

The brutal murder of Danette Elg shocks a small Idaho town. It seems the killer took a page from Jack the Ripper's legend and left her butchered in her bedroom. And he could hardly wait for her body to be found.  Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube or Snapchat! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. New episodes weekly! Learn more about your ad cho...

On Tuesday, May 13th, 2008, Brandon Swanson was coming home from a party, when he got his car stuck in a ditch. His parents rushed to go and pick him up, but they would never see him again. Brandon Swanson disappeared forever and has yet to be found, over a decade later. Questions surrounding Brandon Swanson’s death have baffled investigators since his disappearance. Did Brandon Swanson disappear...

On August 17, 1980, the Chamberlain family was camping near the famous Ayers Rock in Australia's Outback. The family consisted of father Michael, Mother Lindy, and their three children, 9-week-old Azaria, and her brothers: 6-year-old Aidan and 4-year-old Reagan. The Chamberlains and a few other families gathered to enjoy a bonfire and a cookout, but moments later baby Azaria was gone! Her mother L...

When Kevin Bacon (not that Kevin Bacon) met up with his date, he had no idea the man's face would be the last human he would ever see. What happened to Kevin after the door shut behind them is truly a story you will never forget. Let's just say...if you thought Jeffrey Dahmer was the worst cannibal you've ever heard of, this recap might make you rethink that.  Get all the crime in half the time! W...

When Amy and Ronald Shanabarger welcomed beautiful baby Tyler into this world it should have been the happiest time of their lives. Little did Amy know that Tyler’s birth was just another piece of the puzzle in Ronald's elaborate revenge plot against her. Ronald Shanabarger resented his wife, but breaking up with her would be too easy, so he hatched a four-step plan to enact his revenge.  The exte...

This story gets wild! When Jared Fogle shot to stardom after being featured in over 300 Subway commercials as the poster boy for obesity awareness, nobody knew that he had a dark secret. Once a 425-pound student, now a sought-after TV success, Jared Fogle had a twisted desire for underage girls and boys.  With the FBI being on his case, and a secret mission to get the evidence to take him down, Ja...

Ellen Greenberg, a first-grade teacher, left work early after the school that she worked at had canceled class for the rest of the day. When Ellen’s fiance, 28-year-old TV producer Sam Goldberg, came back to their apartment after a workout, he discovered the body of 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg, brutally stabbed to death in her apartment. Investigators initially ruled Ellen’s death as a suicide, bu...

The suspicious case of Paulette Gebara Farah is one that marks her death as one of the most baffling mysteries of our time.  On the evening of March 21, 2010, Paulette Gebara Farah returned home from a weekend trip to the lake with her father and her sister. After being tucked into bed one night, 4-year-old Paulette Gebara Farah mysteriously vanished into thin air.  After 9 days of searching, the...

On April 1st, 2014, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, two students in their early twenties, set out on a hike in the jungle near Boquete, Panama.  Two months later, their mutilated remains were discovered miles off the beaten path.  Theories range from government cover-ups, foul play, drug cartels, and a deviant tour guide, labeling Kris and Lisanne's case as: The Case of the Dutch Girls. The case o...

The bizarre and twisted case of Daniel LaPlante is one that will keep you up at night. If you’ve ever had a weird feeling that someone else was living in your house… you could just be right. In the late 80s, Daniel LaPlante was convicted of the brutal murder of a nursery school teacher and her two young children. How did Daniel commit his twisted crimes? By hiding in the walls and houses of his vi...

We all know Jeffrey Dahmer as the infamous Milwaukee Cannibal, but what do you know about the man who took out one of America’s most depraved killers? If you were one of the millions who watched ‘Monster: the Jeffrey Dahmer Story’ on Netflix, then you might remember the scene showing Christopher Scarver confronting Dahmer with newspaper articles about his crimes. Before Jeffrey Dahmer could escape...

On October 24, 1953, in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 15-year-old Evelyn Hartley, left her home to babysit the daughter of a local college professor and his wife. When she didn't check in at her usual time, her parents knew something was wrong. They never saw their daughter again, and to this day her fate remains a mystery…Stay tuned for today’s True Crime Recaps where we bring you all the crime in...

The chilling cold case of Dorothy Jane Scott is a case that will keep you up at night! Dorothy Jane Scott was a 32 years old mother to a 4-year-old son, Shanti, who lived in Stanton, California. She lived a quiet, ordinary life, except for one thing…For months, Dorothy had been getting bizarre phone calls from a taunting, familiar male voice she couldn’t quite place. She didn’t know him. She never...

Developing case! Courtney Tailor (Clenney) was a successful X-rated OnlyFans model, while her boyfriend, Christian Obumseli, traded crypto. On April 3rd, 2022, Christian died in the hospital due to a stab wound in his upper right torso after the couple got into a heated argument. As of September 2022, Courtney Clenny (Tailor) is sitting in a Miami jail, charged with 2nd-degree murder, however, she...

Why did the princess write in her letters that reliable sources were plotting her demise? Did the Royal Family really have something to do with it? And why were there no CCTV cameras operating in the tunnel that night? Decades after the tragic car crash of Princess Diana on August 31, 1998, the mystery surrounding what happened that night still remains under speculation. Was it really an accident,...

When you think of identical twins, you probably imagine two people who are inseparable, two sides of the same coin. But what happens when one twin decides she's had enough of living in her sister's shadow? In this recap, you'll find out how badly Jeena Han wanted to become her sister Sunny. She wanted it so badly she would kill for it.  Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps o...

Just two days before her death, a camera captured a thin, hollow-looking Sophie Lionnet sitting in front of a fireplace. For weeks, the au pair was starved and tortured by her London employers, Sabrina Kouider and Ouisseem "Sam" Medouni. In her last photo, she looks like a frail old woman, but Sophie was only 21 years old. Not long after it was taken, Sabrina and Sam beat her to death, then tried...