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When it comes to serial killers, few have been as prolific as Amelia Dyer, today's Killer of the Week. In today's first episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels take you to19th century England, where Amelia ran a group home for infants called a baby farm. But instead of helping these children, she murdered them. Eventually, her scheme was revealed. But could the police stop Amelia before...

In January 1997, Scott Falater appeared to be a devoted husband, father, and successful engineer living a quiet suburban life in Arizona...until his wife, Yarmila Falater, was found brutally stabbed and drowned in their backyard pool. Scott was discovered nearby with blood on his clothes, yet he claimed he had no memory of the attack, insisting he was sleepwalking during the murder. In today's sec...

In today's first episode of Conspiracies and the Unknown Vanessa Richardson investigates Operation Gladio, a secret Cold War program that saw the U.S. and its allies establish covert “stay-behind” armies across Western Europe to resist a potential Soviet invasion. But when that invasion never came, questions began to surface about what these shadow forces were actually used for. From political ass...

In today's second Unsolved episode, Carter Roy examines the disappearance of Joseph Force Crater, the New York Supreme Court justice who walked out of a Manhattan restaurant in 1930 and was never seen again. What began as a routine summer evening quickly spiraled into one of the most baffling missing persons cases in American history. As newspapers seized on the story, the vanishing judge became f...

In 2004, 21 year-old Maura Murray vanished after crashing her car on a rural New Hampshire road and was never seen again. Her disappearance became one of the internet’s first viral true-crime mysteries, spawning endless theories, false leads, and new suspects more than twenty years later. In today's first Unsolved episode, Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Morgan follow the clues, from Maura’s life at West...

Rodney Alcala thought he was smarter than the police, the jury, and even the justice system. In today's second Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels follow the unraveling of "The Dating Game" Killer, from a failed attempt at self-defense to the discovery of a chilling trophy stash that linked him to more murders than anyone could have imagined. And for more cases ju...

Long before he appeared on "The Dating Game," Rodney Alcala was a violent predator. In today's first Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels examine the early life and psychological unraveling of one of America’s most manipulative serial killers, revealing how Alcala's love of photography became a tool for stalking, control, and murder. And for more cases just like th...

A History Channel original podcast brought to you by Rewind Studios, History's Greatest Mysteries examines the top theories surrounding the world's most enigmatic unsolved mysteries. If you love Crime House 24/7, then you’re gonna love History’s Greatest Mysteries. Each episode unpacks these puzzles with contributions from top historians, authors, scientists, and researchers. From unsolved crimes...

Episode two of Spooky Season covers a case from April 1943, when four boys trespassing in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, discovered a woman's skeleton stuffed inside a hollow wych elm...her identity unknown, her killer never caught. The cloth forced into her mouth confirmed murder, but 3,000 missing-persons reports and a nationwide dental search led nowhere. In the silence, theories multiplied: a wi...

In 1997, 39 Heaven’s Gate cult members died by mass suicide, believing a UFO would grant them salvation. In today's second episode of Cults & Cons, Vanessa Richardson peels back the layers of how a cosmic prophecy and Marshall Applewhite’s delusion ended in the deadliest cult suicide in U.S. history. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out the Crime House Original, Conspira...

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast her as a larger-than-life personality with an enormous entourage, designer everything, and a lifestyle that demanded constant explanation. What Jen Shah didn't explain, until federal agents showed up at a cast event, was that her business empire was built on a telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted thousands of vulnerable people across the country, many of...

By 2015, Gypsy Rose Blanchard was desperate to escape her mother’s control. With the help of her boyfriend Nicholas Godejohn, she hatched a plan that ended in murder. In part two of today's Justice Served series, Carter Roy examines the killing of Dee Dee Blanchard, the shocking trial that followed, and how Munchausen by proxy abuse turned a victim into one of the most infamous figures in true cri...

In Today's first episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy begins a deep dive into Gypsy Rose Blanchard, whose mother Dee Dee convinced everyone that Gypsy Rose was terminally ill. Doctors believed her. Neighbors supported her. Charities built her a new home. But medical records told a different story. What they revealed would unravel one of the most infamous cases of Munchausen by proxy in true crime...

After the authorities realized that H.H. Holmes had killed Benjamin Pitezel, they discovered that he was much more than a simple fraudster...he was a serial killer. And in today's second Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy asks: was "the Devil in the White City" as depraved as he seemed? And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out the Crime House Original, Murder: True Crime sto...

In today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy takes you back to 1889, when Benjamin Pitezel befriended a man named H.H. Holmes in Chicago. The two of them became partners in crime, and cooked up a plan to defraud a life insurance company by faking Benjamin's death. But Benjamin had no idea that his friend Holmes had other ideas. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out...

Between 1764 and 1767, a mysterious creature terrorized the French countryside, killing nearly 100 people and leaving bodies torn apart. Witnesses swore it looked like a wolf…or something far more unnatural. In today's second episode of Conspiracies and the Unknown, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien uncover the terrifying true story of The Beast of Gévaudan: the man-eating monster that stalked a...

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in broad daylight. The government said it was the work of one man: Lee Harvey Oswald. But decades later, newly-released files still don’t tell the full story. In today's first episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Vanessa Richardson investigates the JFK assassination and the tangled web of theories involving the CIA, the mafia, and a second...

Think you know everything about the JonBenét Ramsey case? In today's second Unsolved episode, Carter Roy explores the sealed grand jury indictment, the false confession that made global headlines, and the forensic discoveries that cleared the Ramsey family, but left the mystery unsolved. These are the pivotal turns that shaped this infamous murder investigation. And for more cases just like this o...

Everyone knows JonBenét Ramsey’s name. Few know how the investigation into her murder was mishandled from the very start. In today's first Unsolved Tuesday episode, Carter Roy breaks down the pivotal early errors that changed the course of one of America’s most infamous cold cases, from contaminated evidence to critical clues left in plain sight. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to c...

With a new conviction just handed down, ‘Doomsday Mom’ Lori Vallow Daybell is back in the headlines. In today's conclusion to the Killer of the Week, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels follow her twisted relationship with Chad Daybell, the murders that shocked the world, and the latest breaking news updates on her case. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out the Crime H...

She called herself a devout mother, but a jury just ruled that Lori Vallow Daybell is a convicted killer. In today's first Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels uncover how she was drawn into a fringe doomsday cult...and how her obsession with prophecy and power became a deadly mission. And for more cases just like this one, be sure to check out the Crime House Orig...

Welcome to the first episode of Crime House's latest four-part limited series: Spooky Season. In the winter of 1803, the village of Hammersmith was convinced a ghost was stalking its darkened lanes... and armed men took to the streets to stop it. On January 3rd, 1804, excise officer Francis Smith shot and killed Thomas Millwood, an innocent plasterer whose white work clothes made him look exactly...

In the summer of 1969, a fringe commune led by ex-convict Charles Manson unleashed a wave of brutality that stunned the nation and marked the violent end of the 1960s counterculture. In today's second Cults & Cons episode, Vanessa Richardson traces Manson’s path from a troubled childhood to the creation of his devoted “Family,” revealing how he manipulated vulnerable followers with drugs, apoc...

In 2009, a Colorado family claimed their six year-old son had floated away inside a homemade flying saucer. As helicopters tracked the balloon live on national television, the country braced for tragedy, until the story began to fall apart. In today's first Cults & Cons episode, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien revisit the Balloon Boy hoax, a crime that turned panic into spectacle and expos...

In the gripping conclusion of today's Justice Served series, Carter Roy follows the intense investigation that led authorities from scattered surveillance footage and a single DNA trace on a knife sheath to an unexpected suspect: criminology PhD student Bryan Kohberger. Carter breaks down how digital forensics, cell-phone data, and genetic genealogy converged to identify the killer... and how fami...