S6 Ep18: The Girl Scout Murders on Cookie Trail Road
Dozens of Girl Scouts arrived at Camp Scott in the Oklahoma woods in June of 1977 expecting songs, crafts and campfires. By morning, three o...
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Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earned the distinction. In each e...
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20 of 276 episodesS6: ENCORE: The Forgotten Serial Killer of the Victorian Era
In Victorian England, a serial killer preyed on sex workers and other vulnerable women, targeting the people society was least likely to mou...
S6: TRUTH DEFERRED S1E1: Love Lost & Justice Unraveling
In 1884 Cincinnati, a string of brutal murders and a verdict that outraged the public set off a chain of events that would end in one of the...
S6: ENCORE: The Manhattan Well Murder
When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn't immediately worry. Bu...
S6: THE CATALYST: The Traveler
Amber's on vacation, so she's yanking an episode of The Catalyst from behind the paywall over at Grab Bag Collab. Dive deep into the upbring...
S6: The Murder of Faith Hedgepeth: Future COTC?
In September 2012, a 19-year-old UNC-Chapel Hill student was found beaten to death in her off-campus apartment. She was a biology major, a m...
S6 Ep17: Meaher's Illegal Gamble: The Last Slave Ship
In 1859, a wealthy Alabama landowner made a bet that he could do the unthinkable. The next spring, he did just that — trafficking human bein...
S6 Ep16: Murder in Coweta County
One April morning in 1948, a tenant farmer named Wilson Turner walked out of a rural Georgia jail and into an ambush. The man waiting for hi...
S6 Ep15: Twilight Zone Part 2: 'We Decided to Break the Law'
After three people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, it took four years to get five defendants into a courtroom and another 10 mo...
S6 Ep14: Twilight Zone Part 1: Vic Morrow's Last Role
In the early morning hours of July 23, 1982, cameras were rolling at a California filming location when a helicopter crashed into a river, k...
S6 Ep13: Wesley Elkins: The 11-Year-Old Killer
On a hot July morning in 1889, two adults were found murdered in their beds on a small Iowa farm, shot and bludgeoned to death while they sl...
S6: Murdaugh Country: Future Crimes of the Centuries?
You've heard the name. You've read the headlines. But the Alex Murdaugh story is bigger than one man's spectacular fall — bigger, even, than...
S6 Ep12: Above Suspicion: The FBI Informant Who Disappeared
A young mother from a tiny Kentucky hollow vanished without a trace in 1989, leaving behind her clothes, her makeup and her two children. Sh...
The Case Files History Left Unsolved | Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat
Dr. Harini Bhat is a clinical pharmacist and storyteller obsessed with the moments in history that still can't be fully explained. Every wee...
S6 Ep11: The Butcher of Rostov
In 1978, a nine-year-old girl in a red coat went looking for a kind man she'd met at a train station. She never came home. Over the next 12...
S6 Ep10: The Fire That Condemned Cameron Todd Willingham
In 1991, investigators of a house fire in Corsicana, Texas, concluded the fatal blaze was arson, pointing to burn patterns they said proved...
S6: Future Crimes of the Centuries? The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
On the night of January 31st, 2026, 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was dropped off at her home in the Catalina Foothills outside Tucson, Arizona....
S6 Ep9: The Torso in the Marsh
In 1949, a headless, legless torso surfaced in the Essex marshes, setting off one of Britain’s most sensational postwar murder investigation...
S6 Ep8: The Covenant Conspiracy
In 1945, a reverend, a realtor, a science teacher, and a white woman in a low-cut dress conspired to help a St. Louis couple buy a house. Th...
S6 Ep7: Reckless Disregard: The Carrollton Bus Crash
In May 1988, a church bus returning to Kentucky was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver. Within seconds, it became an inferno. As families...