True Crime Society

 Trigger warning for this episode – sexual assault.   Madison Brooks (19) loved spending time with her family and friends.  Her family have said she loved adventures and travel.   In the early hours of January 15, 2023 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Madison accepted a ride home from a bar with four males.  She seemed to be intoxicated according to CCTV and witness reports.  The story that these ‘men’...

On January 2, 2023, Dr Dharmesh Patel was driving his Tesla in Northern California.  In the vehicle were his wife Neha, and their two young children.   Exactly what happened is largely unknown, but Dharmesh allegedly steered the vehicle off the road and over a 300 foot cliff.  Miraculously, the entire family survived the incident.  As they were being rescued, Neha told paramedics that Dharmesh had...

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the cases of four men who recently went missing:   - Bryce Borca (23) vanished in Eagan, Minnesota on October 30, 2022 after a night out on a party bus with friends.  Despite a large scale search, involving hundreds of people, Bryce remains missing. - In December 2022, Dr Bolek Payan dropped his beloved dogs off to their regular dog sit...

Massachusetts woman Ana Walshe attempted to contact her mother overseas in the early morning hours of January 1, 2023.  Her mother was sleeping and missed the call.  She now regrets that, because Ana vanished shortly after and is assumed to have been murdered by her husband Brian Walshe. Brian’s (alleged) audacity is actually unbelievable.  He didn’t even report his wife missing, her employer call...

On May 9, 2021, Tristyn Bailey (13) made the fateful decision to sneak out of her home in the early morning hours.  She went to hang out with a classmate, Aiden Fucci (14). Tristyn and Aiden were last seen on CCTV at 1.45am – they were walking towards a pond.  At around 3.27am, only one person is seen leaving the area. Tristyn’s body was found at 6.06pm on May 9.  She had been brutally stabbed 114...

The probable cause affidavit has been released in the Moscow murder case. Join us for this early release episode of the True Crime Society Podcast as we discuss the affidavit and new developments. The affidavit revealed info including: - A timeline of Bryan Kohberger’s movements leading up to the murders.   We now know he likely parked his white Elantra at the crime scene at 4.04am and was seen sp...

Tamla Horsford (40) went to the house of her friend Jeanne Meyers for a sleepover in November 2018.  She took her onesie PJs and a bottle of tequila.   Tamla, along with a group of women and a few of their partners, watched football and played Cards Against Humanity. As the night went on into the early morning hours, some attendees decided to go home while others went to bed.  Tamla was allegedly...

On November 30, 2022, 7 year-old Athena Strand got off the school bus and headed into her home in Paradise, TX.   She allegedly got into a fight with her stepmother and she went outside to cool off.  After Athena’s parents hadn’t heard a peep from her for about an hour, they started searching for her and called police.  People theorized that maybe Athena had run away, but trace of her was found fo...

Between 2015 and 2016, the mortality rates for infants at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Britain were unusually high.  There were so many deaths and unexplained medical incidents occurring that the hospital actually stopped accepting premature infants to care for.   There seemed to be a common denominator in the hospital when these deaths– many of the babies had been around British nurse Lucy...

On November 13, 2022, four University students in Moscow, Idaho returned to their off-campus home after a big night out.  By around 3am, Kaylee GonCalves (21) and Madison Mogen (21) were asleep in the same room on the 3rd floor of the home.  Xana Kernodle (20) and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin (20) were asleep on the floor below.   What happened next is still unknown.  But at 11.58am on that day, a 9...

Alyssa Alhadeff (14) Scott Beigel (35) Martin Duque (14) Nicholas Dworet (17) Aaron Feis (37) Jaime Guttenberg (14) Chris Hixon (49) Luke Hoyer (15) Cara Loughran (14) Gina Montalto (14) Joaquin Oliver (17) Alaina Petty (14) Meadow Pollack (18) Helena Ramsay (17) Alex Schachter (14) Carmen Schentrup (16) Peter Wang (15) These are the names of the 17 victims murdered in six minutes on Valentine’s D...

On Valentine’s Day 2018, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were excited.  Some of them had purchased flowers and cards for their partners and friends.  The day was filled with love and promise. At 2.19pm, former student Nikolas Cruz entered the school building and would change the lives of hundreds of families for ever.  In six minutes, Nikolas murdered 17 students and staff in cold...

Sometimes a crime so heinous occurs, it is hard to wrap your mind around how any human can be so evil, especially towards the most vulnerable.   In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast we discuss the murders of Ashley Bush and Savanna Greywind for their unborn babies. TW – child murder, pregnancy loss. In October 2022, Ashley Bush was struggling with her latest pregnancy.  She had three...

In the US each year, there are more than 300 cases of a child killing their parent or parents.  This means it happens around six times per week! In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast we discuss five horrific cases: Karly Cantrell was a member of True Crime Society on Facebook.  Her oldest son Levi was having some issues recently and she asked him to move out due to his ‘poor behavior’....

Cosmo DiNardo seemed to have every opportunity in life.  He came from a wealthy family, was athletic and well liked and had aspirations to become an orthodontist. “Cosmo DiNardo is the kind of kid who would always say hello, and he would grab your groceries out of your hand and walk you to your car,” a neighbor said about him. Cosmo suffered several concussions while playing football, and he also...

It’s Halloween time at True Crime Society! You have probably already binged ‘The Watcher’ on Netflix : Ominous letters. Strange neighbors. Sinister threats. A family moves into their suburban dream home, only to discover they’ve inherited a nightmare. The show is based on the true story of the Broaddus family.  In 2014, Maria and Derek Broaddus paid $1.3m for their dream family home on 657 Bouleva...

On September 10, 2022, Debbie Collier’s daughter received a Venmo payment with an alarming message.  “They are not going to let me go love you there is a key to the house in the blue flower pot by the door”.  The payment was for $2,385.    Debbie was never seen alive again.  Shortly after the payment was made,  Debbie was found naked and burned in a wooded area, around 60 miles away from her home....

Ellen Rae Greenberg seemed to have it all.  She was beautiful, successful, ambitious and engaged to the man of her dreams.   In January 2011, her partner Sam left their apartment and went to the gym in their complex.  When he came back under an hour later, the apartment door was allegedly bolted from the inside and he could not get in.  He frantically tried to contact Ellen and he ended up breakin...

Often when a teenager goes missing, it’s assumed that they ran away.  According to a 2002 study, between 1.6 and 2.8 million teens run away each year. In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast we discuss two different cases where it was assumed that teens had left of their own accord, only to find out that wasn’t the case. Alexandra Anaya (13) disappeared from her Indiana home in the early...

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime, 47,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by their intimate partners or other family members in 2020. This means that, on average, a woman or girl is killed by someone in her own family every 11 minutes. In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the cases of three women who were likely murdered by their partners. I...

Lynette Dawson was last seen alive in Sydney, Australia in 1982.  She and her husband Chris Dawson had been having marriage trouble at the time.  Chris was a high-school teacher who seemed to have a penchant for preying on teenage girls.  He moved a student of his, named Joanne Curtis, into his home with Lyn under the guise of Joanne being a babysitter.  Chris was 34 at the time and Joanne was 16....

On Friday, September 2, 2022, Eliza Fletcher left her home for an early morning jog at around 4am.  She was an avid runner who had qualified for the Boston Marathon previously.  She often jogged at this time to fit in her daily exercise as she was a busy mother-of-two and a Junior Kindergarten teacher. A man named Cleotha Henderson was prowling the streets of Memphis, TN at this time.  He spotted...

On July 30, 2022, Allahnia ‘Fruity’ Lenoir and a friend arranged to meet up with two men at an apartment complex in Atlanta.  Allahnia and the friend can be seen on CCTV entering the building.  Later on, the friend and the two men emerge and are captured on video. Allahnia is never seen leaving the complex.   After she vanished, the two men, Diante Reynolds and Steven Oboite cleaned the apartment...

Kiely Rodni (16) has been recovered after being missing in Truckee, California for over two weeks.  Kiely was found deceased in her vehicle, in 14 feet of water, very close to where she was last seen alive.  How did police spend thousands of hours searching for her to no avail?   Adventures with Purpose searched the area and found Kiely within minutes.     In this episode of the True Crime Society...

16 year-old Kiely Rodni was captured on CCTV on the night of August 5, 2022 in Truckee, California.  She seemed happy and care-free and was on her way to party with her friends.  Kiely had graduated high school early and a group of her friends were headed to a campground to celebrate. There are reports that older men attended the party and supplied drugs and alcohol to minors.  Kiely told her moth...