TruRed CRIME

"She thought the worst thing that could happen was a breakup. She was wrong." A text message. A new connection. A simple date with someone else. For this girlfriend, it was the beginning of a nightmare she never saw coming — because her boyfriend wasn't just angry. He was patient. And his revenge was planned down to the last detail. In this deeply disturbing true crime episode, we investigate the...

"A fixated obsession. A home with a shared fence. A family dynasty of darkness. Before Matthew Lanz ever pulled the trigger, his older brother had already begun a spree of terror that would end at the Pentagon. And the couple who moved next door had no idea they were moving into a nightmare." In this chilling true crime episode, we unravel the twisted saga of the Lanz brothers – Austin and Matthew...

"He wanted to be a TV star. She wanted a divorce. And a bathtub full of rose-colored water became the center of one of Florida’s strangest murder cases." When police arrived, everything was dry — the body, the tub, the lies. In this bizarre true crime episode, we investigate David Tronnes, the 55-year-old Orlando man who murdered his wife, Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, after she refused to appear on the...

"He didn't just run from the police — he tried to run from his own face." When 22-year-old British teacher Lindsay Hawker went missing in 2007, detectives traced her last steps to the apartment of Tatsuya Ichihashi. Inside, they made a gruesome discovery: her naked body, battered and bound, buried in a bathtub filled with sand and compost soil on his balcony [citation:1][citation:8]. But Ichihashi...

"He cleaned the scene. He wore gloves. He even planted misdirection for the police to find." Then he went home, slept normally, and woke up convinced he had committed the perfect crime. One problem: the gas station across the street had just installed new security cameras the week before. In this satisfying true crime episode, we investigate killers who believed they were invisible — until CCTV fo...

"She went out for drinks with friends. She made it home safely — or so everyone thought." When Sasha Samsudean didn't answer calls the next morning, her friends went to check on her. What they found inside her locked apartment changed their lives forever. The person meant to protect her was the one who took everything. In this disturbing true crime episode, we investigate the brutal murder of 27-y...

"He blinked. Swallowed. Looked at the ceiling." The detective had just mentioned the crawl space. The one the killer had spent three hours sealing. Two minutes later, the toughest guy in the room was wiping his eyes with cuffed hands — not for the victim. For himself. In this emotionally intense true crime episode, we analyze the interrogation of a killer who thought he had buried his secret so de...

"Missing school pickups? For the Chadwicks, that was impossible — until it wasn't." A neighbor's unease shattered the facade of a perfect family. What began as a welfare check on a multimillionaire's empty mansion unraveled into one of the most bizarre murder cases, a fake handyman named Juan, and a four-year international manhunt. In this gripping true crime episode, we investigate Peter Chadwick...

"He sat in the interrogation room, calm and rehearsed. 'It was my brother,' he said. 'He's always been violent. You should be looking for him.'" The detective nodded, then placed a USB drive on the table. "We did. But the cameras saw someone else — someone wearing your face." In this chilling true crime episode, we investigate the case of a killer who thought he had committed the perfect crime — a...

Home security cameras, particularly smart doorbells like Ring, have increasingly become silent witnesses to some of the most chilling crimes imaginable. These devices don't just capture package thieves—they've recorded the final moments before brutal murders, providing investigators with crucial evidence and, in some cases, allowing loved ones to witness horror in real-time from miles away. Here a...

When 34-year-old Kala Hodgkin came to the Jamestown Police Department looking for help after being forcibly raped by her ex-boyfriend Michael Burham, she did what victims are told to do[reference:0]. A warrant was issued for his arrest on April 27, 2023[reference:1]. But Burham, a self-taught survivalist with military training who knew the wilderness intimately, was about to unleash a reign of ter...

On January 17, 2008, 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her North Port, Florida home in broad daylight while her two young sons — two-year-old Noah and six-month-old Adam — were inside. Her husband, Nathan Lee, returned from work less than an hour later to find the house locked, his sons in their cribs, and Denise's purse, keys, and phone still inside. He immediately called 911. The ma...

Louise Porton, a 23-year-old part-time model and escort from Rugby, Warwickshire, murdered her two young daughters – three-year-old Lexi Draper and 17-month-old Scarlett Vaughan – in January and February 2018 because they "got in the way" of her sex life [citation:4][citation:8]. Her case remains one of the most chilling examples of parental filicide in modern British history. **The Murders** Port...

On July 20, 2012, a quiet doctoral student walked into a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, Colorado, and transformed into one of America's most notorious mass murderers. James Holmes, then 24 years old, had dyed his hair bright red and told police he was "the Joker" — Batman's anarchic arch-nemesis [citation:1][citation:3]. By the time the attack ended, 12 people were dead a...

On June 29, 2017, 23-year-old Molly McLaren, a University of Kent student, was stabbed to death in her car in the Dockside Outlet shopping centre car park in Chatham, Kent, England [citation:1][citation:3]. Her killer was her ex-boyfriend, Joshua Stimpson, a 26-year-old warehouse worker. He inflicted at least 75 knife wounds on her in a "frenzied attack" that shocked the United Kingdom [citation:1...

On Thanksgiving Day, November 22, 2018, 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth — a flight instructor and mother of a 1-year-old daughter — was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her fiancé, Patrick Frazee, inside her Woodland Park, Colorado home [citation:2][citation:6]. Her body was never found. The case that unfolded became one of Colorado's most horrific murder trials, marked by a cover-up involving a...

On 16 March 2005, 22-year-old Inge Lotz — a brilliant Mathematical Statistics master's student at Stellenbosch University in South Africa — was brutally murdered in her apartment at the Klein Welgevonden estate [citation:1][citation:9]. She had been stabbed repeatedly in the chest and beaten so severely over the head that the attack involved both a knife and blunt-force trauma [citation:9][citatio...

The Pladl family murders represent one of the most disturbing criminal cases in recent American history — a story of adoption, reunion, incest, and ultimately murder spanning three states. When 18-year-old Katie Pladl reconnected with her biological parents after nearly two decades, a horrific chain of events was set in motion that would end with four deaths, including an infant. **The Adoption an...

On December 7, 2019, five-year-old Harmony Montgomery was fatally beaten by her father, Adam Montgomery, while the family lived out of a car in Manchester, New Hampshire. Her body has never been found. For two years, her disappearance went completely unnoticed by authorities. Harmony spent her early years bouncing between foster homes and her mother Crystal Sorey's care. Despite Adam Montgomery's...

In the early morning hours of May 28, 2022, neighbors on Kiteridge Drive in Lithia, Florida, awoke to a sound they would never forget: a thump, followed by a woman's gasping or crying [citation:3]. When Jonathan and Ruth Figgins stepped outside, they discovered 43-year-old elementary school teacher Kay Baker lying in their yard, her throat cut so deeply that a 3-inch paring knife remained plunged...

Laura Wallen was a 31-year-old social studies teacher at Wilde Lake High School in Howard County, Maryland, and was named the school's "Teacher of the Year" in 2016. In the fall of 2017, she was four months pregnant and excited about both the upcoming school year and the prospect of building a family with her boyfriend of seven years, Tyler Tessier [citation:1][citation:6][citation:9]. However, be...

A 15-year-old girl sneaks out to meet a new Facebook friend for marijuana. The man waiting in the bushes is not a friend. He is wearing a ski mask and holding duct tape. His plan was never to buy drugs. It was to kidnap her, hide her, and then "rescue" her to become a hero. On Mother's Day 2013, Nichole Cable walked to the end of her driveway in Glenburn, Maine, to meet a man she believed was name...

A wife vanishes. Her husband reports her missing. He holds a press conference. He begs for her return. He says he loves her. A hidden camera in his own home tells a different story. In this case, the husband had been planning the murder for months. He researched how to commit murder online. He purchased a weapon from a friend. He texted his accomplice details of his plan. He deleted the messages,...

A 29-year-old lawyer told her friends she was going to be single. Hours later, her husband threw her lifeless body from a fourth-floor balcony. What the security cameras captured between those moments is the stuff of nightmares. On July 22, 2018, Tatiane Spitzner was brutally murdered by her husband, Luis Felipe Manvailer, a university biology lecturer and martial arts specialist, in Guarapuava, B...

A beautiful Hollywood therapist with a thriving practice, a self-help book, and a famous ex-fiancé. An obsessed ex-boyfriend who waited in the shadows for nearly a decade. On Valentine's night 2020, he broke into her home and ended her life in an attack so violent that her roommate said it was "worse than any horror movie" [citation:1]. For years, Amie Harwick tried to escape Gareth Pursehouse. Sh...