How A Hillside Strangler Nearly Went Free
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The oth...
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Dirty John
Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes: attentive, available, just back from a year in Iraq with Doctors Witho...
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Suicide by Father? The Tragic Death of Marvin Gaye
In 1984, soul legend Marvin Gaye was in the grip of a cocaine habit and living with his father, a hard-drinking Pentecostal preacher with wh...
The Unsolved Slaying of Joe Gatto
When retired art teacher Joseph Gatto was shot to death inside his Silver Lake home in 2013, the LAPD theorized that a fleeing car burglar m...
The Trials of Tokyo Rose
Iva Toguri was a Los Angeles native who became trapped in Japan during World War II. When she returned home, the U.S. government put her on...
The Forgotten Prophet of Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson built a religious empire in Los Angeles and became one of the most influential evangelists in America. When she vanis...
The Assassination of RFK
On today’s episode, we discuss one of the pivotal events of the 1960s: the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, a promising presidential cand...
O.C.’s Jailhouse Informant Scandal: Part Two
Orange County’s most prolific mass shooter admits his guilt, but a series of explosive hearings uncovers a longstanding jailhouse snitch ope...
O.C.’s Jailhouse Informant Scandal: Part One
In 2012, the judge presiding over Orange County’s worst mass-shooter case gave a seemingly simple order. He told the Sheriff’s Department to...
The Dahlia Zodiac Connection: Part Four
In the final episode of this four part series, we’ll talk to historian William J. Mann about his new book on the Dahlia case, which points t...
The Dahlia Zodiac Connection: Part Three
Were the Black Dahlia and Zodiac murders the work of the same man? A new theory argues a disturbed World War II veteran was responsible. In...
The Dahlia Zodiac Connection: Part Two
Marvin Margolis was a promising early suspect in the Black Dahlia murder, but he managed to slip through the cracks. So who was this man of...
The Dahlia Zodiac Connection: Part One
The identity of the Zodiac Killer has remained a mystery for decades, but new developments may finally point to an answer. At the center is...
Announcing: Crimes of the Times, Season 4
On this season of Crimes of the Times, Los Angeles Times journalist Christopher Goffard explores criminal cases that have left a mark on Cal...
“The Trials of Frank Carson” Update
Attorney Frank Carson spent decades defending the accused in California's Central Valley. He made powerful enemies among law enforcement. Wh...
Killer with a Badge: How the LAPD Missed a Murderer in its Ranks
In 1986, 29-year-old Sherri Rasmussen was just starting her married life when she was brutally murdered in her Van Nuys home. The LAPD calle...
Death on the Set of the Twilight Zone Movie
When a helicopter crash killed actor Vic Morrow and two children on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie , the filmmakers called it an unfore...
Satanic Panic: A Death in the Manson Tunnel
On the summer solstice in 1990, a UCLA student with an interest in the occult was stabbed to death in a railway tunnel in the San Fernando V...
Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy
When 21-year old college dropout Christopher Boyce got a job as a clerk at the TRW Defense and Space Systems complex in Redondo Beach, he wa...
I Killed John Belushi
When comic John Belushi died of a speedball overdose at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont, it wasn’t clear there had been a crime—until the Nation...
The Other Side of the Door: The Case Against Lee Baca
James Sexton endures weeks of solitary confinement in federal prison, as prosecutors finally gear up to take Lee Baca to trial. Baca’s lawye...