Real Life Real Crime

A man wanted in Texas. Multiple false identities. An arrest hundreds of miles away. And a Louisiana mother and daughter who remain missing. In Part 4 of Where Are Danielle and Alayna? , Cyndi Overton concludes the initial four-part Real Life Real Crime investigative series examining the disappearance of Danielle Escue Lea and her daughter, Alayna Lea , from East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The in...

A child withdrawn from school. Messages that don't sound familiar. Conflicting accounts of where a mother and daughter are living. And the discovery that a man known by two different names has a third identity. In Part 3 of Where Are Danielle and Alayna? , Cyndi Overton continues examining the disappearance of Danielle Escue Lea and her daughter, Alayna Lea , from East Feliciana Parish, Louisi...

A relationship that began online. A trip to Texas. A missing vehicle. And a man whose identity was not what it seemed. In Part 2 of Where Are Danielle and Alayna? , Cyndi Overton continues investigating the disappearance of 39-year-old Danielle Escue Lea and her daughter, Alayna Lea , from East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The story returns to February 2026, when Danielle reportedly traveled to Te...

A mother and daughter are missing. Their families are searching for answers. And a relationship that began online may hold important clues to what happened. In the first installment of a planned four-part Real Life Real Crime investigative series, Woody and Cyndi Overton introduce the disappearances of Danielle Escue Lea and her daughter, Alayna Lea , from East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Daniell...

Woody Overton revisits the terrifying 2002 D.C. sniper attacks , when John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo randomly shot people throughout the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. On October 24, investigators arrested the pair as they slept inside their modified Chevrolet Caprice, ending weeks of fear. Woody examines the investigation, the victims, the evidence that connected the killers to the...

Woody Overton examines a disturbing case of alleged police misconduct in Florida, where Lauderhill police officer Brian Lewis Seguros is accused of taking over the home of a deceased man whose body he discovered during a welfare check. Investigators allege that Seguros renovated the property, accessed confidential law enforcement records and used the dead man's identification to obtain buildin...

Woody Overton examines a major breakthrough in the 1995 murder of Angela Renee Buck , whose body was discovered by turtle hunters along a creek in Iowa. More than three decades later, investigators have arrested Kelly Grant , a longtime suspect now facing a first-degree murder charge. Woody explores the witness accounts, investigative history and persistence that helped bring renewed hope for just...

Woody Overton examines disturbing new developments in the Great Wolf Lodge murders in Pennsylvania, where a mother is accused of killing her husband and their three-year-old son. Investigators are examining evidence that may suggest premeditation, while the victims' family struggles with an unimaginable loss. In Philadelphia, a search connected to seven missing women takes another troubling tu...

Cyndi Overton examines the mysterious disappearance of 22-year-old Kristen Mon Holliday , a Texas mother who vanished following a vehicle crash on Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. Her abandoned BMW was discovered near the Whiskey Bay exit on Interstate 10, but Kristen was nowhere to be found. Although investigators believe she left the crash scene on foot, her family questions that accoun...

Woody Overton revisits one of New Orleans' most disturbing murder-suicides: the 2006 killing of Addie Hall by her boyfriend, Iraq War veteran Zachary Bowen. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the couple remained in the French Quarter, where their increasingly troubled relationship ended in tragedy. Woody examines the horrifying discovery inside their apartment, Bowen's confession and s...

Woody Overton revisits the terrifying crimes of the Hillside Stranglers , cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered ten young women and girls in Los Angeles during the late 1970s. Their victims were left on hillsides, and the investigation eventually unraveled after Bianchi committed two additional murders in Washington. Woody examines how the killers...

Woody Overton revisits two notorious October 16 crimes: the 1931 Trunk Murders , when Winnie Ruth Judd killed two friends and attempted to transport their remains in suitcases, and the 1991 Luby's Cafeteria massacre in Killeen, Texas, where 23 people were murdered and 27 others injured. Woody also explores the execution of Marie Antoinette, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the histo...

Woody Overton revisits one of Utah's most horrific crimes: the 1974 Hi-Fi Shop murders in Ogden. Five innocent people were taken hostage during a robbery, tortured and forced to drink drain cleaner. Three were murdered, and two survived with devastating injuries. Woody examines the crime, the convictions of Dale Selby Pierre and William Andrews, their eventual executions, and the controversial...

Cyndi Overton takes listeners back to the Amityville murders , where Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed his parents and four siblings in 1974. As his murder trial began on October 14, 1975, the case would eventually become the inspiration for countless horror movies and stories of hauntings. But Cyndi explores something often overlooked: the real victims, the families left behind, and the lasting pain of wat...

Woody Overton opens with an update on #JusticeForMadison before revisiting the chilling Clear Lake murders , where Christine Paolilla and her boyfriend killed four people inside a Texas home. What began as a planned robbery ended in a quadruple homicide, and an anonymous tip eventually helped investigators uncover the truth. In Florida, Tony Wiggins receives multiple life sentences for the murders...

Woody Overton opens with the Colonial Parkway murders, a series of killings and disappearances that haunted Virginia for decades. Advances in forensic DNA testing have linked deceased fisherman Alan Wade Wilmer Sr. to multiple victims, although questions remain in some cases. Woody also revisits October 12 true-crime history, including the USS Cole bombing, the Bali nightclub bombings, Matthew She...

Woody Overton opens with an update on #JusticeForMadison, including the postponement of Thomas Morris’s arraignment to October 29. He then revisits the murder of Q.C. Chadwick, whose millionaire husband fled to Mexico while awaiting trial and remained a fugitive for years before his capture. The episode also examines the death of four-year-old Autumn Fox, whose caregiver faces a possible death-pen...

Woody Overton covers a bizarre situation in Elizabeth, Louisiana , where police chief candidate Chris Paul remains on the ballot—and is running unopposed—after being arrested on allegations that he raped two 13-year-old girls nearly 20 years ago. Paul has not been convicted and is presumed innocent. Woody also looks back at October 9 in true-crime history, including Aileen Wuornos, Jerry Sandusky...

Woody Overton begins with an update on #JusticeForMadison , as he prepares to attend Thomas Morris’s arraignment with Madison Renee Allen’s mother. Morris’s current charges stem from an unrelated case involving a Montana woman and include second-degree kidnapping, false imprisonment and illegal possession of stolen firearms. Woody also looks back at October 8 true-crime history, including the Jami...

Woody Overton covers the conviction of former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn , sentenced to life without parole for murdering his wife, Ashley Flynn , as she slept in their Ohio home. Prosecutors presented evidence of his affair, disturbing messages about wanting Ashley dead, and an attempted staging of the murder as a burglary. Woody also follows yesterday’s military death-penalty story wit...

Woody Overton opens with October 6 in true-crime history before covering a mass shooting at a Georgia block party that left two people dead and dozens injured, and the arrest of a California woman accused of acting as an unregistered Chinese agent and surveilling a Taiwanese official’s family in the United States. Pasted text In Family Matters , Woody revisits the chilling case of Diane and Rachel...

Woody Overton starts with October 5 in true-crime history, from the Dalton Gang’s disastrous 1892 double-bank robbery and the 2001 anthrax attacks to the murder of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway and the notorious crimes and mythology surrounding H.H. Holmes . Pasted text Then, Family Matters brings two disturbing cases involving children: a loaded handgun found in a three-year-old’s daycare backpack...

Woody Overton opens with October 3 in true-crime history, including O.J. Simpson’s 1995 acquittal in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman—and the strange coincidence that exactly 13 years later, Simpson was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas. He also gives updates on #JusticeForMadison, #JusticeForStephanie and #JusticeForHailey , reminding Lifers to keep the...

Woody Overton takes a deep dive into the extraordinary attempted execution of Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike . After last-minute court battles, Tennessee proceeded with Pike’s execution, but two doses of lethal-injection drugs failed to kill her. According to the reports covered in the episode, Pike remained alive and was transported to a hospital. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee subsequently...

Woody Overton kicks off October with some of the crimes tied to this date in history, including the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting , the Los Angeles Times bombing, the Golden State Killer, the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas , and the sentencing of Nazi leaders following the Nuremberg Trials. Pasted text Then, passengers aboard a flight bound for Israel face a terrifying midair emergency after...