In time crime

October 11, 1925 begins like any other day in a bustling Chicago garage—until a single arrest attempt explodes into violence and an ordinary car thief becomes the most wanted man in America. In this episode, we follow Special Agent Edwin C. Shanahan as he walks into a trap that will change federal law enforcement forever. Through breathless eyewitness accounts and the era’s paper-thin communicatio...

Trigger Warning: Sound of gunshots after intro music  More than 22,000 people gathered in Las Vegas for the final night of the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, expecting nothing more than music, dancing, and a good time. But in minutes, the night became one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history. In today's episode of In Time Crime, we travel back to October 1, 2017, to reconstruct...

October 8, 2024: a father wakes to find his teenage daughter gone and spots her in a pickup with a man already accused of abusing her. What follows is a high-stakes, heart-stopping confrontation that ends with the father firing the fatal shots and calling 911 himself. As the county prepares to weigh justice against vengeance, a single piece of evidence — a dash camera memory card — vanishes while...

June 11, 1988 — a bright afternoon outside St. Francis Chapel turns from celebration to carnage in the blink of an eye. Thomas Dalton, thirty, collapses after two gunshots as guests reel from the impossible sight: a woman in sunglasses slipping back into a silver sedan and driving away. Surveillance photos, ammunition receipts, a .32 revolver recovered in the getaway car, and a haunting journal li...

On September 27, 1996, 23-year-old Karyn Slover left work with plans for her son and a budding modeling career — and vanished. Days later her remains were found in Lake Shelbyville, bound and weighed down; investigators assembled a case from the smallest traces: rivets, a button, concrete fragments and even dog hair. In this episode we follow the detectives, the courtroom drama that sent three fam...

On September 27, 2012, an ordinary shift at Accent Signage Systems fractured in minutes: a termination meeting, a return to a car, and then a calm, deadly walk through an office where colleagues hid beneath desks and a UPS driver making a routine delivery became one more casualty. This episode reconstructs that afternoon step by step, following the shooter’s movements from the executive suite to t...

On September 13, 1990, thru‑hikers Molly LaRue and Geoff Hood stopped at Thelma Marks Shelter—and never made it home. In this episode of In Time Crime, I your host Robin Bagayoko threads together witness accounts, cold‑case breakthroughs, and the haunted beauty of the Appalachian Trail to trace how a place of refuge became the scene of unspeakable loss. From sudden violence in remote shelters to d...

He survived the morning of September 11, 2001, only to meet a different kind of violence that night. This episode follows Henryk Siwiak — a Polish father and immigrant who came to New York to provide for his family — as a wrong subway stop, a camouflage jacket and a walk through an unfamiliar neighborhood turned into tragedy. Through sparse witnesses, a blood trail, unanswered knocks at a stranger...

September 6, 2018 — an exhausted off-duty Dallas police officer walks into the wrong apartment and, believing an intruder is inside, fatally shoots her upstairs neighbor. This episode of In Time Crime unfolds the life of Botham Jean, the fateful missteps that led to his death, and the ripple effects that followed: a criminal conviction, a landmark law, a roadside memorial, and a family’s fight for...

On a cold evening outside an unnamed Wisconsin town, a father takes his youngest daughter into the woods and a quiet farmstead is torn open by a single, brutal act. Neighbors hear panicked cries; the child’s body is found at the base of a ravine and the man’s collapse follows—an act of violence bound up with isolation, religious dread, and a mind undone. We reconstruct the Farmhouse Cliff Homicide...

It began like any ordinary November afternoon at Redlands Mall — Corinna Novis, 20, getting into her car after shopping. Two strangers asked for a ride; what followed was a brutal descent into kidnapping, robbery and a shallow grave in a Fontana vineyard. Small choices turned catastrophic, and a community was left searching for answers. As investigators piece together discarded belongings, a Taco...

24‑year‑old Cynthia Osokogu traveled to Lagos for what she believed was a business opportunity; months of online messages had built a fragile trust that would lead her into a deadly trap. In this episode we follow her as a promising boutique owner and graduate who walked into danger disguised as commerce. We trace the digital breadcrumbs—Facebook chats, phone records and hotel CCTV—as investigator...

Part Two of this harrowing true-crime saga begins on the day a single scream shattered eleven years of silence: Amanda’s desperate cry reaches neighbors, a storm door is kicked open, and a child and three vanished women step back into the light. Follow the breathless race from a stunned neighborhood to a landmark rescue, the shocking discoveries inside 2207 Seymour Avenue, and the legal storm that...

She vanished on the way to a custody hearing and would not be seen again for more than a decade. This episode pulls you into the tangled streets of Cleveland, where three women—Michelle, Amanda and Gina—disappeared into a single house and a single man's secret life. Through careful scene-setting, eyewitness detail and survivor testimony, we trace the years of isolation, the small acts of resistanc...

A trusted hospital orderly turns a place of healing into a chamber of secrets. In this episode of In Time Crime, I  guide you back to August 18, 1987, when the quiet trail of suspicious deaths cracked open — revealing Donald Harvey, a man who confessed to dozens of killings and claimed he was easing suffering. But interviews, autopsies and a relentless journalist paint a darker picture of anger, c...

On April 12, 1975, a young woman named Juanita Mott disappeared into a story that would not be told for decades. In this episode we pull at the threads of a life cut short — the small hopes, the moves for work and independence, the trust given to a stranger — and follow how a name faded from view until a horrible unraveling exposed the truth. Through the slow discovery of buried secrets at Glouces...

It's a storm-lashed November morning when troopers discover a submerged car and a story that reads like a nightmare: a factory-worker's fan obsession spiraled into control, rage, and a lethal act that leaves a pregnant partner hidden in the trunk and a trail of unsent letters and frantic audio recordings. In this premiere episode, host Robin Bagayoko guides you through the forensic details and the...

March 29, 1971: a courtroom held a figure the nation loved to hate — Charles Manson — staring wide-eyed with an X carved into his brow as a jury condemned him for a wave of 1969 murders. The trial felt less like law and more like theater, fueled by grotesque crime scenes and the chilling devotion of the so‑called Manson Family. But this episode turns on a legal twist: a year after the sentence, a...

May 1990: a quiet New Hampshire home becomes a crime scene, a teacher’s secret affair with a teenage student unravels, and four boys are drawn into a plan that reads like a dark movie. In this episode we trace the staged robbery, the whispered promises, and the moment a man’s life was taken—then discover how small choices escalated into something irreversible. Facing cameras, confessions, and a co...

In this gripping episode of In Time Crime, we peel back the layers of a decades-long betrayal: the story of Larry Nassar, a once-respected team doctor whose promises of care masked horrific abuse. From early whispers of misconduct to the flood of courageous voices that finally toppled the institution protecting him, we follow survivors as they reclaim their stories and force a reckoning. Through c...

On September 21, 2007, a frantic 911 call pulled Denver police into an apartment where a blood-stained paper towel told a darker truth than a mother’s story. Three-year-old Nevaeh Janay Gallegos—barely forming words and full of small, ordinary joys—was gone, and the man left with her that day would become the center of a nightmare. As investigators followed a trail of secrets, failed protections,...

On a September afternoon in 1993, a man arrived with flowers and a grudge—and by nightfall an entire family lay dead. In this episode of In Time Crime, Robin Bagayoko reconstructs the calculated cruelty of Richard Kenneth Djerf: the staged visit, the hostage-taking, the unspeakable violence, and the chilling choices forced on his victims. Through survivor accounts, investigation breakthroughs, and...

On a hot summer night in 1977, New York lived in a state of quiet terror — a stranger with a .44 revolver, a trail of taunting letters, and a city that no longer felt safe after dark. This episode unfolds like a thriller: fragmented clues, eyewitnesses in the shadows, and a killer who claimed a demon spoke through his neighbor's dog. We trace the brutal arc from the first shot in the Bronx to the...

Join Robin Bagayoko, your dedicated host of In Time Crime, for an important update this Sunday afternoon. While there's no new case today, Robin shares exciting news about tomorrow's upcoming episode. The anticipation is building! This delay has only fueled Robin's commitment to bringing you the most engaging and well-researched cases. Tune in tomorrow, August 11th, as Robin ensures you won't want...

Step back to 2013, when a seemingly ordinary family gathering turned into a nightmare for the Anderson family. In this gripping episode, we follow the tragic events that unfolded when a trusted friend became the architect of a horrifying crime. Discover the sinister turn of events that led to the murder of Christina Anderson, her young son Ethan, and their family dog, all orchestrated by someone t...