True Crime Society

In 2015, Australians watched a Melbourne personal trainer search for love on national television on ‘The Bachelor’. By the end of the season, he had chosen a single mother from Western Australia, and the pair appeared to have found something that reality television rarely delivers: a lasting relationship. That man was Sam Wood. The woman he chose was Snezana Markoski, now known as Snezana Wood. Th...

Timestamps: (4:18) - Christa Pike Updates (15:00) - Caleb Flynn On February 16, 2026, Ohio pastor and former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn called 911 and reported that his wife, Ashley, had been shot inside their home. Investigators would later question the account of an intruder, and their case against Caleb would increasingly focus on something far less tangible than fingerprints or a rec...

Timestamp to skip straight to the case: (7:11) A routine police encounter has opened the door to one of Philadelphia’s most disturbing investigations. Inside a home linked to filmmaker Raymond “R.C.” Horsch, investigators have uncovered more than a million photos and videos, disturbing material involving women, drugs, weapons and chemicals—and evidence that has now connected the property to seven...

Approx Timestamps: (10:20) - Patrick Clancy 60 Minutes Interview (15:00) - Christa Pike On the night of January 12, 1995, 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer walked into an isolated area near the University of Tennessee campus. She would never walk out alive. At the centre of the case was an 18-year-old woman named Christa Pike — a teenager whose childhood, relationships and increasingly disturbing behavi...

Approx Timestamps: (14:15) - Leila Cavett Update (16:30) - Lizzie Borden On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found brutally murdered inside their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Andrew, a wealthy businessman, had been hacked to death on the sitting-room sofa, while his wife Abby was discovered upstairs, having suffered multiple blows to the head.  Suspicion quickly fell on Andrew’s 3...

Skip straight to the case: (7:05) *all time stamps are approx due to ads Imagine coming across a two-year-old little boy wandering completely alone outside an apartment complex. He's wearing only a shirt and a diaper. He can't tell anyone where his mother is. Nobody seems to know where he's come from. And then, as police begin trying to identify this little boy, they discover something even more d...

Approx Timestamps: (4:20) - Mica Miller discussion (13:20) - Kids Who Kill Two very different cases, but both involving families, disturbing allegations and questions about what happened behind closed doors. Out of Arizona, Matthew Flores (27)  is the subject of an international manhunt after police discovered the decomposing bodies of his parents, Hector and Larissa Flores, buried in the backyard...

Approx timestamp for updates only (will vary due to the dynamic ads, which are different for everyone) - (01:20:00) On April 27, 2024, Mica Miller called 911 and asked the operator if her cell phone location could be traced.  When the operator confirmed that her location was known, Mica hung up and allegedly shot herself in the head. Mica was married to high-profile Pastor John-Paul Miller.  The t...

Timestamps: (4:00) - Lindsay Clancy Chat, Saratoga Springs Update (19:24) - Heather Turner In the early morning hours of May 4, 2017, Heather Turner was found dead inside her Georgia home from a gunshot wound to the head. Her husband said he heard a gunshot coming from the bathroom. Investigators found a gun, a handwritten note and evidence that initially raised questions about what had happened b...

Skip straight to the case: (12:16) It looked like the tragic death of a wealthy Texas businessman. But behind the million-dollar estate was a love triangle, a secret affair, and a murder plot so unbelievable it would divide a jury and a family for years. How far would someone go for love or for millions of dollars? In this episode, we unravel the shocking murder of Steven Beard, a case where greed...

Skip straight to the case: (13:44) In the quiet lakeshore community of Grand Haven Township, Michigan, the unthinkable unfolded behind the walls of what appeared to be an ordinary, happy family home. When firefighters responded to reports of smoke in July 2026, they discovered a scene that would leave an entire community searching for answers: eight members of the same family were dead. Investigat...

Skip to the updates: (50:00) On January 24, 2023, Patrick Clancy left his family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to run a few errands, expecting to return less than an hour later. Instead, he came home to an unimaginable tragedy. The house was eerily silent, and outside he found his wife, Lindsay Clancy, seriously injured. She told him the children were in the basement. Patrick rushed downstairs...

Skip straight to the case - (11:20) One cold night in November 2007, Kyle Fleischmann (24) walked out of a crowded bar in Charlotte, North Carolina, grabbed two slices of pizza, made a series of unanswered phone calls, and vanished without a trace. Despite surveillance footage, extensive searches, and nearly two decades of investigations, no one has been able to explain what happened after those f...

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...