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The Blood of Satan: The 1974 Michael Taylor Exorcism In the fall of 1974, a church group in Yorkshire prayed over a man all night long and came out of it believing they had driven dozens of demons out of him. By sunrise, those same people were working the phones, scared for his wife. Michael Taylor was an out-of-work butcher in Ossett, a wool town losing its mills and its pits. Christine Taylor wa...

28 Days on Ocean Avenue: The Real Amityville Murders A big Colonial-style house sat on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, with a statue of the Virgin Mary out front and a little sign on the lawn that said High Hopes. The DeFeo family had lived there since 1965. On a Wednesday night in November of 1974, the oldest son walked into his usual bar and asked his friends to come back to the house with...

Make Something of Yourself: The Murder of Randy Voigt Bartow, Florida is an old phosphate town in the middle of the state, and Randy Voigt was born and raised there. He and his wife Susan bought a house there in 2006, and their son Joseph grew up inside it. The family called him JoJo. As a grown man, JoJo got arrested for firing 15 shots into the ground at that house, and a Tampa TV station dug up...

Just Felt Mean That Day: Christa Pike and the Knoxville Job Corps Murder Colleen Slemmer could take a computer apart and put it back together, and she owned a shirt that said Computer Geek to prove it. She left Orange Park, Florida, on Halloween in 1994 for a federal job training program in Knoxville, Tennessee, so she could make computers her career. At the Knoxville Job Corps center, an 18-year-...

Pink Ribbons on Every Lawn: The Unsolved Death of Lilly Bova Pink ribbons started showing up all over Glenview, Illinois, and every one of them was for a 16-year-old sophomore named Lilly Bova. Lilly was learning to drive and making plans to spend the whole summer at the pool with her best friend. On the last Saturday of spring break, her family says she let a boy she knew into the apartment while...

The Monster of Atwater Village: The Timothy McGhee Case A T-shirt police seized from Timothy McGhee in the Arizona desert said, "Fugitive. Can't see me." Back home in Atwater Village, a working-class neighborhood on the LA River, he'd been a heavy kid who came home from school with a bloody nose, and later he was a leader in the Toonerville gang. Police tied him to as many as a dozen killings, and...

Modelbehavior63: The Catfishing Murder of Kacie Woody Kacie Woody picked her screen name, modelbehavior63, from a Disney movie and her big brother's football number. She was a 13-year-old sax player with a big honking laugh, and she lived at the dead end of a dirt road outside Holland, Arkansas, where calling a friend in town cost long distance. In 2002 she spent her evenings in Yahoo chat rooms....

A Home Movie for Zachary: The Andrew Bagby Case Andrew Bagby grew up starring in his best friend's homemade movies in California, and by 2001 he was a family medicine resident in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. One November morning, a man picking up cans in Keystone State Park found him face down on the gravel. Police zeroed in on a fellow doctor Andrew had broken up with a few days earlier, and within a c...

I Choose You: The Caleb Flynn Case An Apple Watch in a Tipp City, Ohio, house counted 105 steps in the minutes before Caleb Flynn called for help. His wife, Ashley, taught Bible classes for LifeWise Academy and coached 7th grade volleyball. Caleb led worship at their church, and years earlier he made it to Hollywood Week on American Idol, where he said in a promo interview that he loved his wife m...

A Flat Tire at the Bonefish Grill: The Savannah Gold Murder Savannah Gold texted her mom or dad every time she got to work, and she did it in full sentences with actual punctuation. She was 21, an artist who put art school on hold to stay home while her mom went through chemo, and she waited tables at a Bonefish Grill in Jacksonville, Florida. One evening in August 2017, a text came from her phone...

Hooters Girl Homicide: The Murder of Tina Foster A soldier on an Army funeral detail stops for lunch at the Hooters on Williamson Road in Roanoke, Virginia, and strikes up a conversation with one of the waitresses. Her name is Tina Foster. She wants to model, and he wants to take her picture that same night for $200. Tina leaves her parents' house in blue jeans and clogs and heads for the Hooters...

Agent 47695: The Manchester Teen Who Incited A Murder In June 2003, a 14-year-old boy known as John was stabbed twice in an alley behind a row of shops in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, and his 16-year-old friend Mark told detectives a hooded stranger had attacked them. The investigation that followed took police through CCTV footage and tens of thousands of lines of internet chatroom messages, a...

A Revelation From God: The Real Killers of Under the Banner of Heaven renda Wright Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, were murdered in their American Fork, Utah home in July 1984, and the homicide investigation led straight to her brothers-in-law, Ron and Dan Lafferty. This is the true crime case behind Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, rooted in Mormon fundamentalism and a so...

Mamaw's House: The Sherry Cole and Jessie Allen Murders In April 2022, 59-year-old Sherry Cole and her 7-year-old grandson, Jessie Allen, were found dead outside their home on Old Snapps Ferry Road in Limestone, Tennessee. The homicide investigation, led by the TBI and Greene County detectives, turned quickly to the 16-year-old suspect living under the same roof, Jordan Allen. A recorded confessio...

The Chief's Wife: Murder in Gig Harbor In April 2003, Tacoma Police Chief David Brame shot his estranged wife, Crystal Judson Brame, in a shopping center parking lot in Gig Harbor, Washington, while their 2 young children waited nearby. The homicide set off a state and federal investigation into how a man who failed his very first psychological evaluation ended up running the entire Tacoma Police...

Life Sentence at 14: The Carly Gregg Case Ashley Smylie was a 40-year-old high school math teacher in Brandon, Mississippi who was shot and killed inside her own home on March 19, 2024, and the suspect deputies arrested nearby was her 14-year-old daughter, Carly Madison Gregg. Home surveillance footage drove the homicide investigation, an insanity defense, a nationally livestreamed trial, a first-...

The Last Call: Inside the Killing of Jordan Wheeler In Clinton Township, Michigan, 33-year-old Jordan Wheeler was killed on October 19, 2023, inside her own home, and the criminal investigation that followed led to a 2025 conviction for her estranged husband, Steven Wheeler, on charges of first-degree premeditated murder. The trial built its case on 911 audio, forensic evidence, and testimony from...

A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell Case Susan Cox Powell disappeared from her West Valley City, Utah home on December 6, 2009, launching a homicide investigation that centered on her husband, Josh Powell, before he killed himself and their two young sons in a 2012 murder-suicide. Despite a decade of searches, forensic evidence, and a $98.5 million negligence verdict against the state of W...

Divorce Papers on an Empty Bed: The Dan Markel Case Dan Markel, a 41-year-old Florida State University law professor, was shot twice in the head in the garage of his Tallahassee home on July 18, 2014, in a murder-for-hire plot built by his former in-laws. The FBI and Tallahassee police investigation that followed used wiretaps, SunPass toll records, and a cooperating hitman to win five convictions...

Gerald and Charlene: The Sex Slave Murders Between 1978 and 1980, Gerald and Charlene Gallego abducted and murdered at least 10 victims across California, Nevada, and Oregon, including Sacramento teenagers Rhonda Scheffler and Kippi Vaught, in a homicide investigation detectives came to call the Sex Slave Murders. The FBI arrested the couple in November 1980, and what followed was a controversial...

Au Pair Affair Murders: The Brendan Banfield Double Murder On February 24, 2023, pediatric ICU nurse Christine Banfield, 37, and a stranger named Joseph Ryan, 39, were killed inside a home in Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, in a double homicide staged to look like a home invasion. The investigation eventually turned on Christine's husband, former IRS criminal investigator Brendan Banfield, and...

Dead Weight: The Windi Thomas and Keeno Butler Case On March 18, 2018, 44-year-old Keeno Butler was killed inside his Erie, Pennsylvania apartment in a domestic violence homicide that ended with his girlfriend, 44-year-old Windi C. Thomas, pleading guilty to third-degree murder. Detectives, the Erie County Coroner, and forensic evidence documented more than 90 traumatic injuries on the victim's bo...

Three Words Carved in a Tree: The Kelly Cochran Case Kelly and Jason grew up next door to each other, married young, and made a promise on their wedding night that most people would have laughed off by breakfast. Twelve years later, in a corner of Michigan where the nearest anything is 45 minutes away, that promise turned into a plan. This one has a woman at the center who never once stopped talki...

A 13-Year-Old Killer: The Murder of Derrick Robie On August 2, 1993, 4-year-old Derrick Robie was lured into a wooded area one block from his home in Savona, New York, and murdered. The suspect was 13-year-old Eric Smith, a neighbor, and the homicide investigation that followed made Smith the youngest defendant ever tried as an adult for murder in New York State, leading to a second-degree murder...

A Videotape and a First Grade Mind: The Shelton Holloway Story In April of 1987, 17 year old Patricia Ann Hannah disappeared after a school dance in York, Alabama, and two weeks later her body was found behind an Alabama Power office. A fellow Sumter County High School student named Shelton Jerome Holloway, a special education student with a documented intellectual disability, was arrested and eve...