Donald Harvey: The Ohio Angel of Death
Donald Harvey worked as a hospital orderly in Kentucky and Ohio for seventeen years, killing dozens of patients through poisoning, suffocati...
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The Casual Criminalist
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20 of 433 episodesSherri Rasmussen: The Murder the LAPD Didn't Want to Solve
In 1986, Sherri Rasmussen was brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home. Police dismissed it as a botched burglary for twenty-three years. D...
Courtroom Justice: The Lynching of Akku Yadav
For fifteen years, Akku Yadav terrorised the slum of Kasturba Nagar through extortion, murder, and sexual assault while police turned a blin...
Sonia Exelby: She Paid a Stranger $4,000 to Kill Her
Sonia Exelby was a kind, talented music tutor from England who struggled privately with severe mental health issues. Through dark online com...
The Beltway Snipers: Washington's 3 Weeks of Pure Terror
For three weeks in October 2002, snipers terrorised Washington DC, killing randomly at petrol stations and car parks. Behind the attacks wer...
Driven to Murder: Why Ellen Pakkies Killed Her Own Son
In 2007, Ellen Pakkies strangled her drug-addicted son after six years of abuse, theft, and violence. Her trial revealed a childhood of negl...
Unsolved: The Servant Girl Annihilator
In 1880s Austin, Texas, a serial killer stalked domestic servants, brutally murdering eight people with axes before vanishing into history....
Unsolved: The Yoghurt Shop Murders
In 1991, four teenage girls were brutally murdered at an Austin yogurt shop. For decades, the case was plagued by wrongful arrests, coerced...
William Bonin: The Forgotten Serial Killer
William Bonin became one of Southern California’s most notorious serial killers. Explore his disturbing crimes, accomplices, victims, failed...
'Dirty John': She Married a Psychopath and Chose Him Over Her Kids
Debra Newell was a successful interior designer who fell for charming doctor John Meehan online. Her daughters sensed something was wrong im...
The Murder of Rob and Michele Reiner
Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michele seemed to have a life defined by love, family, and activism—until their shocking murders expo...
Unsolved: How Did Natalie Wood Die?
Natalie Wood’s death remains one of Hollywood’s most enduring mysteries. Explore the conflicting accounts, unanswered questions, and investi...
The Most Incompetent Murder Investigations in FBI History
The FBI has a history of shocking investigative failures. Explore four controversial cases involving botched investigations, unreliable evid...
The Murder of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was a rising music icon whose life ended in a shocking betrayal. Explore her extraordinary journey, tragic murder,...
The Murder of Marta del Castillo: Spain's Most Frustrating Murder Mystery
Marta del Castillo vanished in Seville, sparking Spain’s most haunting murder mystery. Explore the investigation, shifting confessions, miss...
Michael Peterson: The Staircase Killer Who Went Free
Was Michael Peterson a cold-blooded killer or the victim of a flawed investigation? Explore the staircase death, shocking evidence, disputed...
Amanda Knox and the Murder of Meredith Kercher.
Meredith Kercher’s murder became one of the world’s most controversial criminal cases. Explore the investigation, Amanda Knox trial, Rudy Gu...
Flashback to The Jamison Family Disappearance
In this flashback episode, Simon dives into one of Oklahoma’s most baffling mysteries. In 2009, the Jamison family vanished during a trip to...
The Horrifying Story of Daniel LaPlante
A chilling true crime story of Daniel LaPlante, the infamous “Boy in the Walls.” Discover the terrifying home invasion, brutal murders, shoc...
Hell on Wheels: The Mackenzie Shirilla Case
A toxic romance, shocking betrayal, and a deadly crash—uncover the chilling Mackenzie Shirilla case, where disturbing digital evidence trans...