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Skip straight to the case: (13:45) On a quiet 2025 March morning in Saratoga Springs, Utah, a teenage girl walked into a horrific scene.  Her mother, Jessica Lyman (44)  and her brother Eli Painter (8) had been shot and were found in Jessica’s bedroom. As investigators peeled back the layers of the case, unsettling clues emerged—surveillance footage of a masked figure, cryptic handwritten notes, a...

Skip straight to the case: (8:20) Tommy Lynn Sells was a drifter whose crimes stretched across multiple U.S. states.  Known as the “Coast-to-Coast Killer,” Sells claimed responsibility for dozens of murders, though he was only convicted in two cases. His transient lifestyle, violent childhood, and habit of targeting vulnerable victims made him one of the most elusive and disturbing killers of his...

Timestamps: (8:02) - Rex Heuermann Update (13:49) - Rachel Nickell In the summer of 1992, young mother Rachel Nickell (23) took her son Alex (2) to a London park to enjoy the sunshine.   Rachel was brutally attacked and left to die.  Alex was the only witness and was found clinging to her body.  This crime shocked Britain and sparked one of the most controversial investigations in modern criminal...

Timestamps: (8:55) - Maternal Instinct Discussion (13:55) - Cancer Scammers With the rise of crowdfunding, there has also been a rise in fraudulent fundraising schemes being carried out. In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss three separate cases where women have faked cancer diagnoses in order to raise money for personal use: American woman Vanessa O’Rourke told friends and...

Skip straight to the case: (7:27) Taylor Parker was convicted in Texas for the 2020 murder of Reagan Hancock, a 21-year-old pregnant woman. Prosecutors said Taylor had spent months faking a pregnancy to keep her boyfriend from leaving her, creating fake medical records, staging baby-related events, and presenting herself as expecting a child. In October 2020, she went to Reagan’s home, killed her,...

Skip straight to the case: (6:00) In the fall of 1998, a tight-knit Florida neighborhood came together with a single mission: find missing eight-year-old Madelyn Clifton. Flyers covered telephone poles, search parties combed the streets, and worried neighbors opened their homes to help. A chilling truth was hiding in plain sight. The person who knew exactly what had happened to Maddie wasn't a str...

Timestamps: (9:02) - Mackenzie / The crash (29:20) - Matthew Hertgen Update (34:13) - Sam Nelson * Note - Timestamps may slightly vary due to dynamic ads The AI tool ChatGPT is used by over 800 million people per week.  In a recent poll, a majority of 13- to 17-year-olds said they use AI chatbots, with 28% saying they use them daily. Sam Nelson (19) started using ChatGPT when he was in high school...

Ohio teen Mackenzie Shirilla had been dating Dominic Russo for years and their relationship was described as tumultuous.  A friend overheard an argument between the two in July 2022 where Mackenzie threatened to crash the car she was driving, with both of them in it. A few weeks later, Mackenzie did exactly that.  Early one morning, after a night of partying, she crashed her vehicle into a wall at...

Skip straight to the case: (13:40) In 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California vanished after a basketball game.  Their abandoned vehicle was found deep in the snowy mountains, miles away from their intended route. Why the men went there and what happened next remains one of America’s strangest unsolved mysteries. Read our blog for this case Be sure to join us on Patreon for weekly exclusiv...

Skip straight to the case --> (5:24) On a rainy morning in October 2023, a police officer in a small Arkansas town approached a parked SUV to check on a family inside. In the passenger seat, a tired mother in a red T-shirt smiled politely as she folded baby clothes. Her toddler climbed between the seats. A baby cried in the back. Her boyfriend was in the driver's seat. She told the officer they...

If you'd like to skip straight to the case: (5:15) In February 2026, Tawnia McGeehan (34) and her daughter Addi Smith (11) traveled from their home in Utah to Las Vegas to attend a cheer competition. When they did not show up for the competition as scheduled, Addi’s father Brad called 911 and requested a welfare check. Authorities would eventually enter their room at the Rio Hotel and find the bod...

Skip straight to the case discussion: (7:50) In this episode of the True Crime Society we discuss the 2023 murder of Texas father Austin Kanuch. This episode was originally released in January 2026 as a Patreon exclusive and we have chosen to release it as a main episode following a request by a friend of Austin’s.   Austin was a father-of-three.  On Thursday September 21, 2023, Austin and his wif...

Timestamp to skip the intro chat: (7:55) In April 2011, realtor Ashley Okland (27) was hosting an open house in West Des Moines, Iowa, when she was shot twice and killed. For more than a decade the case remained a cold mystery: there were no clear motives, no signs of robbery or struggle, and investigators followed nearly a thousand leads without identifying a suspect.  In March 2026, nearly 15 ye...

Timestamps: (5:24) - William Neil McCasland Update (11:30) - Nichol Olsen Three gunshots. A locked home in an affluent Texas neighborhood. A mother… and her two daughters… all found dead upstairs. Police say it was a murder-suicide. But the people who knew her best say that’s impossible. So what really happened inside that house? Nichol Olsen (37) and her two daughters Alexa Montez (16) and London...

Skip the intro: (15:30) How well do you know your friends? Skylar Neese (16) went missing from her West Virginia home in July 2012. She was last seen on CCTV, sneaking out of her bedroom window and getting into a grey sedan.  Investigators eventually focused on Skylar’s two close friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. Through tips, confessions, and evidence collected from digital communications, i...

Timestamp to skip to the case: (6:33) Maj. Gen. William ‘Neil’ McCasland (68) had a very documented career within the US government. He headed up space weapons programs and served as head of research at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. That facility is rumored to house extraterrestrial debris from a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. On February 27, 2026, Neil was seen by his wife and a tra...

Timestamps: (8:00) - Jared Shadeed Update (12:15) - Claudia Lawrence On the morning of March 19, 2009, a chef in York, England left her home for work before dawn. She never arrived. Her phone stayed on for hours after she vanished before it was deliberately turned off.  Now 17 years later, no one has been charged.  Read our blog for Claudia - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2026/03/15/what-happen...

Skip to the start of the case: (6:00) For most of 2025, Arkansas woman Charity Beallis had been going through a contentious divorce and custody battle with her estranged husband, Dr Randall Beallis.  They had been fighting over custody of their 6-year old twins.  On December 2, 2025, a judge decided that Charity and Randall should have joint custody of the children.  Charity was ordered to hand th...

Skip straight to the case: (11:37) Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society Podcast. In this episode, we discuss two separate cases where missing people have been found ALIVE years after their disappearance, in crazy circumstances. In December 2001, North Carolina woman Michele Hundley Smith told her three children that she was going Christmas shopping.  She never returned.  Over...

Timestamp to skip the intro chat: (13:36) Folie à deux is a French term that means ‘madness of two’. It can also refer to a shared psychosis or a shared delusional disorder. In 2008, identical twins Ursula and Sabina Eriksson were acting erratically.  They had traveled to England from Sabina’s home in Ireland.  The sisters were asked to leave a bus that they had been traveling on as they were acti...

Timestamp to skip the intro discussion: (7:04) On January 31, 2026, Arizona woman Nancy Guthrie (84) went to dinner with some family members.  They reportedly dropped her back to her home in Tucson at around 9.50pm.  At 1.47am on February 1, Nancy’s doorbell camera was disconnected.  At 2.28am, Nancy’s pacemaker stopped connecting to her phone and Apple watch. Nancy’s family were alerted in the mo...

Timestamp to skip the intro: (7:45) On January 31, 2026, Arizona woman Nancy Guthrie (84) went to dinner with some family members.  They reportedly dropped her back to her home in Tucson at around 9.50pm.  At 1.47am on February 1, Nancy’s doorbell camera was disconnected.  At 2.28am, Nancy’s pacemaker stopped connecting to her phone and Apple watch. Nancy’s family were alerted in the morning on Fe...

Timestamp to skip the intro: (11:07) In late January 2025, Canadian man Liam Toman traveled with two friends to the ski resort of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. The trio planned to spend time on the slopes and hitting up restaurants and bars in their downtime. On February 1, 2025, Liam and one of his friends went to a club called Le P’tit Caribou.   They got separated in the busyness of the venue. Liam’s...

Timestamp to skip the intro: (8:28) In some countries, parricide - the killing of a parent by a child - accounts for up to 5% of all homicides. In January 2026, Clayton Dietz (11) allegedly killed his father Douglas after his Nintendo Switch was taken away from him. In December 2025, Nevada man Adrian Bailey called 911 and confessed to killing both of his parents with a child-sized baseball bat. C...

Timestamps (9:21) Tepe Case Update (17:31)  Stein-Erik Soelberg As of mid 2025, approximately 10% of the global adult population were using ChatGPT weekly.   Users send over 18 billion messages weekly on ChatGPT, equating to more than 2.5 billion messages per day. While it can be a useful tool, it can also be very harmful. Stein would ‘converse’ regularly with his chatbot named ‘Bobby’ about his m...