True Crime Society

Two people with two very different stories have vanished without a trace in Los Angeles. Heidi Planck seemed to be living the California dream – she drove a top of the line Range Rover, lived in a beautiful house and had a great co-parenting relationship with her ex-husband.  They worked together to raise their 11 year-old son.   On October 17, 2021, Heidi loaded her labradoodle named Seven into h...

 Lauren Smith-Fields was a vibrant and ambitious 23 year old woman who loved matcha tea, working out and was studying to be a physical therapist.  In December 2021, she met a man off the dating app, Bumble.  Lauren invited the man to her apartment in Bridgeport, CT, where they had some tequila and watched a movie.  During the evening, Lauren left the apartment for 10-15 minutes to meet someone out...

We hear almost daily about mothers and fathers killing their children, sometimes their entire family.  You would absolutely be familiar with Scott Peterson, Susan Smith and Chris Watts. What you hear less often is when children plot and scheme and murder their families. The term for this is either familicide if many family members are killed, or parricide if only parents are killed. Today on the t...

Ethan Crumbley was a troubled teen.  His parents were called to Oxford High School on November 30 to discuss some drawings that Ethan had made. He drew photos of guns and blood with the words ‘the thoughts won’t stop help me.’ His parents left Ethan at school following the meeting. A few hours later, Ethan went into the bathroom and emerged with a gun that his father had purchased in a Black Frida...

Harmony Montgomery and Oakley Carlson lived on opposite sides of the country. They never met each other and neither had the chance to even live their own lives. Both Harmony and Oakley vanished while in the care of their parents - the very people who were meant to nurture, care and protect them. Harmony was last known to be alive in 2019.  She would be 7 years old if she is alive today.  Harmony’s...

TW - Drug and sexual abuse. On November 12, 2021, Christy Giles (24) and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola (26) made the fateful decision to spend a night out on the town together in LA.  The pair decided to go to a warehouse party and they carried on from there to an after party in the Hollywood Hills. Neither Christy or Hilda would make it home alive. The women would be dumped unconscious...

You can probably make a list of high profile missing child cases that you’ve heard of over the years - Cleo Smith, Elizabeth Smart and even Caylee Anthony. But there are thousands of missing children that slip through the cracks of the system, every single day. In 2020 in the US, over 30,000 juveniles were reported missing.  In the first episode of the True Crime Society podcast for 2022, we discu...

The end is upon us! The end of 2021 I mean (thankfully???) Join us for this episode of the True Crime Society podcast as we give a wrap up of this crazy year in crime. In our final release for the year, we discuss updates to some of our biggest cases- - The murders of Kara Kopetsky and Jessica Runions as well as the conviction of Kylr Yust - An update on the Long Island Serial Killer - The brutal...

On February 13, 2017, Liberty German (14) and her best friend Abigail Williams (13) had an extra day off school due to a snow day.  They had a sleepover and fatefully decided to go to the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, Indiana to hang out. They were dropped to the bridge at around 1.45pm on February 13 by Libby's sister.  This is the the last time the pair were seen alive. Libby and Abby were brutal...

Summer Wells vanished from her family home in Tennessee on June 15, 2021.  No trace of her has been found since that date. Summer had allegedly been planting flowers with her mother Candus and grandmother (also named Candus) on the day she disappeared.  She got bored, and her mother's story is that she went back inside.  Summer told her brothers that she was going to her basement bedroom to play w...

Between 2009 and March 2016, authorities searching Boston area waterways recovered the bodies of at least 11 people, mostly young men, who had previously been reported missing. This happens across the world - from small towns to huge cities.  In England, 61 bodies, mostly of young men, were recovered from the canals of Greater Manchester between 2008 and 2014. Could all these deaths really just be...

Almost daily we hear of a case of a different missing man that vanishes after a night out with friends.  It happens everywhere - Boston, Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota.  Even in England.  Big cities and small towns.  The stories of these men play out in the same way.   Family and friends conduct desperate searches  and make frenzied social media posts in an attempt to find him before time runs out....

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the recent tragedy at the Astroworld Festival that was held in Houston, Texas.   Since the event, over TWO HUNDRED lawsuits have been filed against Travis, the event promoters and other parties.   For anyone who isn't familiar with Astroworld, it is/was an annual annual music festival that is run by Jacques Berman Webster II aka Travis...

Join Stephanie and Olivia this week as they cover the highly-requested, insane story of the abduction and safe (!) recovery of 4 y/o Cleo Smith in Western Australia. Cleo went on a camping trip with her Mum Ellie, Dad Jake and baby sister Isla on October 15.  The area where the family was camping was very beautiful but remote.  Cleo woke up at 1.30am on October 16 and asked her mum for a drink of...

Daniel Robinson disappeared from the desert in Buckeye, Arizona in June 2021.  He remains missing to this day.  In the weeks leading up to his disappearance, Daniel had been acting unusually.  He visited his sister and didn't utter a word during the whole visit.  He spoke to his friends about wanting to rest and about miracles.  He met a woman named Katelyn (he was her instacart shopper) and becam...

Join us for the next episode of the True Crime Society podcast where we talk about the disappearance and death of Jelani Day. TW - We discuss graphic autopsy results in this episode.  Jelani Day was a 25 y/o man who went missing in August this year from Bloomington, IL.  He was last seen on CCTV on August 24.   His car was found abandoned in an unusual spot on August 26 - the keys were missing and...

THE TRUE CRIME SOCIETY PODCAST IS BACK, FEATURING PART TWO OF THE MURDAUGH SAGA We start this episode off by yelling at you because we said Alex Murdaugh's name wrong last episode. We have had some feedback that people want to hear the main content only – if this is you, please fast forward as per below to your desired start point. As of next week’s episode, we are going to make some changes to fo...

We start this episode discussing some of the non-update Gabby Petito & Brian Laundrie updates (specifically, Gabby's family's Dr. Phil appearance and how Brian is probably NOT living in a bunker in his yard) and the disappointing news regarding Alexis Sharkey's alleged killer. If you don't care about any of that and only want to hear about Murdaugh She Wrote (lol), fast forward approx 18 minut...

In this episode we start off with a brief Brian Laundrie/ Gabby Petito update before talking about the recent murders of 19-year-old Miya Marcano and baby Neveah Allen. Miya was murdered by a maintenance worker at her apartment complex and Neveah was murdered by her mother and stepfather who tried to fake an abduction. Then, we talk about the murder that changed reality tv casting forever. Ryan Je...

On September 11th, 22-year-old Gabby Petito was reported missing by her family after not hearing from her since the end of August. Gabby was on a cross country road trip and vlogging living out of a van with her fiance, Brian Laundrie. It wasn't strange for her to be out of service for small stretches of time, but the silence had gone too long. After she was reported missing, investigators discove...

First, we go over the latest updates in regard to the murder of Gannon Stouch. New details were revealed during his step mother's preliminary hearing. Then we talk about NXIVM, an MLM turned full-blown cult that blackmailed their members into having sex with founder Keith Raniere. Some women were even BRANDED with his initials. In 2018, Keith and his associate, Smallville actress Allison Mack, wer...

In this episode we first talk about more updates from Barry Morphew's trial and the recent searches for Crystal Rogers, who went missing in 2015.  After hearing the horrific story of Matthew Coleman, who murdered his two children with a fishing spear gun after crossing the border into Mexico last month - we decided to do an episode on Deadly Dads. Join us as we jump into the mix of Australian and...

In this episode we go over some updates in the case against Barry Morphew, the husband of Suzanne Morphew who has been missing from Colorado for over a year.  Then we talk about the mind-boggling unsolved murder of Judy Smith. Judy went missing from Philadelphia where she tagged along on her husband's worktrip. While he spoke at a conference, she went sightseeing around town but never turned up ag...

In this episode we cracked open the box of 'old cases' and pulled out a few John Does. First, we talk about the 4-6 year old Doe known as the "Boy in the Box." In 1957 this unidentified murder victim's battered body was found inside a bassinet box in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was determined the boy died of blunt force trauma. Investigators were puzzled because it appe...

Today we are going to talk about two different cases of spousal murder that will leave you feeling very differently.  The first is the murder of Pastor David Evans who's wife of 30 years, Kristie Evans, convinced their mutual lover to kill David. What was initially reported as a 'love triangle gone wrong' turned out to be something much darker. Kristie suffered years of abuse at the hands of her h...