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Joseph Naso spent more than fifty years living a quiet life as a photographer, drifting from California to Nevada and blending into every neighborhood he entered. But behind the camera, he was documenting something far darker. Hidden in his home were thousands of photographs of women, mannequins posed like victims, and a handwritten “top 10” list that pointed investigators toward cold cases stretc...

For more than forty years, Franklin Delano Floyd hid behind fake identities, forged documents, and stolen children. His crimes began in the 1970s when he kidnapped five-year-old Suzanne Sevakis from her mother and raised her under a series of false names. As the years passed, Suzanne was forced into new identities, new locations, and a life built entirely on Floyd’s control. By the time she died i...

Eighteen-year-old Anna Kepner boarded the Carnival Horizon with her father, stepmother, and two stepbrothers for a Caribbean family vacation. It was supposed to be a week of sunshine and easy memories. But on the final morning of the trip, a housekeeper entered the teens’ cabin and made a horrifying discovery. Anna was found dead under the bed, wrapped in a blanket and covered with life jackets. I...

David Sconce was not just a mortician. He was the self-proclaimed "Cremation King of California," running what looked like a booming funeral business. In reality, he operated a cremation cartel built on greed, intimidation, and shocking abuse of the dead. Investigators uncovered mass cremations, stolen prosthetics, and allegations that Sconce’s crew pulled gold teeth, sold body parts, and traffick...

In the middle of the night, ten-year-old Robin Doan woke to the sound of gunfire. Within minutes, her mother, stepfather, and the family dog were dead. Robin survived only by playing dead and hiding under her blankets while the killer walked through her home. That killer was Levi King, a man already on a violent spree that began in Missouri before ending in a Texas farmhouse. From Pineville to Pam...

Rhonda Belle Martin looked like a loving wife, a devoted mother, and a kind small-town waitress. But behind that gentle exterior was a deadly secret. Over nearly two decades, she poisoned the people closest to her. Husbands. Children. Even her own mother. Each death was slow, deliberate, and wrapped in the disguise of grief. When investigators finally connected the pattern, the truth shocked Alaba...

In 1971, ten-year-old Carmen Colon was seen running half-dressed down Interstate 490 in Rochester, New York, desperately waving for help as cars drove past. Two days later, she was found murdered. Her death marked the beginning of one of America’s most chilling unsolved cases, later known as the Alphabet Murders. Over the next two years, two more girls disappeared and were found dead: 11-year-old...

Actor Daniel Wozniak had no money, a wedding he could not afford, and a plan that would shock California. Instead of working to fix his problems, he chose murder. His first victim was 26-year-old Army veteran Sam Herr, a friend who trusted him and had more than $60,000 in savings. Wozniak lured Sam to a theater, shot him twice, and began staging a twisted cover-up. To make Sam look like a killer o...

On an October afternoon in 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch vanished from her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Her kitchen was smeared with blood. The phone cord was ripped. An open phone book was turned to emergency numbers. But there was no body, no struggle, and no witnesses. Her two small children were left unharmed. Investigators chased every lead. A strange car parked in the driveway. Sightings o...

Aileen Wuornos is remembered as one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. A sex worker who murdered seven men along Florida highways, she became the subject of headlines, documentaries, and the film Monster. But behind the sensational coverage was a life marked by trauma, instability, and survival at any cost. Before the murders, Aileen experienced abandonment, sexual abuse, hom...

In under seven minutes, a team of thieves walked into one of the most secure museums in the world and stole nearly $100 million in diamonds and royal jewelry from the Louvre in Paris. Wearing construction uniforms and using a stolen truck and crane, they took France’s crown jewels, including a diamond necklace once gifted by Napoleon. But the flawless heist was not as perfect as it seemed. A jewel...

Jeffrey Manchester, known as “The Roofman,” wasn’t your typical criminal. A former Army Reservist, he used military precision to rob nearly forty fast-food restaurants across nine states, always polite and disciplined. But his boldest move came after his arrest. Serving a forty-five-year sentence, Manchester escaped prison by hiding under a delivery truck. For months, he vanished. Then police unco...

It was Halloween night, 1973, when 9-year-old Lisa Ann French left her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, dressed as a little hobo and carrying a paper sack. She was only three houses away when she disappeared. Three days later, her body was found in a rural field. The killer wasn’t a stranger. It was her neighbor, Gerald Turner, the man everyone thought they could trust. The crime horrified the nati...

Sometimes truth is far scarier than fiction. In this episode, we uncover the real killers whose crimes inspired some of the most terrifying horror films ever made, proving that true fear often begins long before the opening credits. In Gainesville, Florida, Danny Rolling, the “Gainesville Ripper,” murdered five college students in 1990, leaving behind a trail of brutality and fear. His crimes beca...

Tonight, we step inside the minds of killers who crossed the final line—turning murder into a meal. These aren’t movie plots or campfire stories. They are real crimes that shocked the world. Kevin Bacon, a 25-year-old hairstylist from Michigan, trusted someone he met on a dating app and vanished on Christmas Day 2019. What police found in the basement of Mark Latunski’s home was horrifying. In Cal...

Before he became the “Night Stalker,” Richard Ramirez was already showing signs of the evil that would define his name. While working at a Holiday Inn, he used a master key to sneak into guests’ rooms and was caught attempting to assault a woman before her husband intervened. That early crime was ignored, but it revealed what was coming. In 1984, Ramirez began his first known murder, killing 79-ye...

On December 6, 1991, four teenage girls—Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, Eliza Thomas, and Amy Ayers—were closing up a North Austin yogurt shop when a horrific crime unfolded. Just before midnight, firefighters arrived to find smoke pouring from the store. Inside, they discovered a nightmare: three of the girls were bound, gagged, stripped, and shot execution-style. The case quickly became one of Texa...

In 2014, Russell and Shirley Dermond seemed to have the perfect retirement life in a quiet Georgia lake community. But when neighbors stopped by one morning, they found Russell decapitated in his garage. Shirley was gone. Ten days later, her body surfaced in Lake Oconee, weighed down with concrete blocks. There was no forced entry, no robbery, and no clear motive. Russell’s wallet and Shirley’s je...

It was supposed to be his masterpiece. A sanctuary where art and love could thrive. But on a summer afternoon in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, became the scene of one of the most shocking massacres in American history. The cook, Julian Carlton, turned on everyone in the house. Armed with an axe and a can of gasoline, he killed seven people, including Wright’s lover, Mamah...

Sherri Dally was a wife, a mother, and a devoted friend. On a Monday morning, she stopped at a Target in Ventura, California, to run errands. But in the parking lot, someone was waiting with handcuffs and a plan. She thought she was being arrested. In reality, it was an abduction. Behind the plot was her husband’s mistress, Diana Haun, and together with Sherri’s husband, Michael Dally, they conspi...

Rebecca Schaeffer was just 21 years old and on the brink of Hollywood stardom when a deadly obsession found its way to her doorstep. Her killer, 19-year-old Robert John Bardo, had stalked her for years. He wrote letters, showed up at studios, and finally hired a private investigator to track her down. That investigator obtained Rebecca’s unlisted address from the California DMV for just $250. On J...

In Argentina, 19-year-old model Johana Casas was shot dead just days before her 20th birthday. Witnesses said her ex-boyfriend, Victor Cingolani, was the shooter. He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison. But behind bars, Victor planned a wedding. His bride? Johana’s identical twin sister, Edith. Their mother begged her to stop, even took her to court, but Edith passed a psych evaluati...

In July 1995, 15-year-old Elyse Pahler left home in Arroyo Grande, California, thinking she was meeting friends for a late-night hangout. Instead, she walked into a planned murder. Three teenage boys obsessed with heavy metal and satanic sacrifice believed that killing a virgin would make their band famous. Joseph Fiorella, Jacob Delashmutt, and Royce Casey lured Elyse to a secluded clearing, wher...

Molly Watson thought she was marrying the love of her life. Days before her wedding, she was found shot in the head on a rural Missouri road. Her fiancé, James Addie, had been living a double life. Molly thought he was a widower. In reality, his fourth wife was still alive, and he had been hiding the truth from everyone. What began as a love story turned into a web of lies, betrayal, and murder. A...

In 2021, Gary and Wendy Spore were ambushed inside their Lake Tahoe home. Investigators say the shooter was their own son-in-law, former MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini. What began as a family feud ended in a calculated double shooting that shocked the quiet community. In 2025, Serafini was found guilty of murder. Follow True Crime Recaps for more real stories that uncover the dark side of greed and r...