Episodios

  • The Last Shoot: The Murder of Model Linda Sobek—Ep. 47
    Mar 15 2025

    Model and actress Linda Sobek had it all: brains, beauty and the drive to make it big in Hollywood. Sadly, the future she envisioned was not to be. In the fall of 1995, she was lured to her death by someone she thought she knew. In this episode, we explore the events leading up to her horrific murder, as well as the investigation that brought a cold-blooded killer to justice.



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    17 m
  • Teresita's Final Act—Ep. 46
    Mar 8 2025

    In the winter of 1977, a woman was found brutally murdered in her apartment. With little evidence to go on and no leads to speak of, detectives were at a loss to find the killer. All that changed five months into the investigation when a respected physician and his wife came forward with a story too fantastic to be believed. This episode recounts the horrific crime and the unconventional way in which it was solved.



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    13 m
  • Time After Time: The Baffling Case of the Erdington Murders—Ep. 45
    Mar 1 2025

    On Whit Monday,1817, Mary Ashford's brutalized body was found in a park in a suburb of Birmingham, England. A hundred and fifty-eight years later, also on Whit Monday, Barbara Forrest's remains were discovered in the same park. This episode explores these mystifying unsolved murders, including the victims' eerily similar lives and deaths.



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    10 m
  • The Devil Inside: The Shocking Murder of Thirteen-Year-Old Lauren Landavazo—Ep. 44
    Feb 22 2025

    In 2016, a pair of eighth graders were ambushed by a lone gunman while walking home from school. Sadly, one of them, Lauren Landavazo, did not survive. An investigation would uncover that the shooting hadn't been random at all, but rather a targeted attack on the thirteen-year-old, whom the perpetrator had never met. This episode explores the events of that fateful day, which the shooter claimed were orchestrated by the Devil himself.



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    17 m
  • The Last Valentine: The Abduction and Murder of Terry Dolowy—Ep. 43
    Feb 15 2025

    In 1985, twenty-four-year-old Terry Ann Dolowy went missing on Valentine's Day. Four days later, her remains were found and a homicide investigation was launched. Decades would pass before science led detectives to a suspect who had been hiding in plain sight all along.



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    7 m
  • The Ties that Bind: The Shocking Incestuous Relationship that Ended in Murder/Suicide—Ep. 42
    Feb 8 2025

    In a case that is almost too disturbing to believe, a known abuser/groomer named Steven Pladl married his biological daughter, Katie, who was pregnant with his child. This episode explores the events leading up to this incestuous union, as well as the tragic outcome no one saw coming.



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    13 m
  • The Forever Place: The Ghosts of Sauerkraut Cave—Ep. 41
    Feb 1 2025

    A park in Louisville, Kentucky is home to a ghostly remnant of the past known as "Sauerkraut Cave." Once part of the Lakeland Asylum for the Insane, the site is said to retain energies of those bygone days and the nightmares they held. This episode explores the location's dark history, which was anything but pleasant.



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    9 m
  • Mother's Intuition: The Haunting Story of the 'Greenbrier Ghost'—Ep. 40
    Jan 25 2025

    When newlywed Zona Heaster Shue was found lying at the bottom of the stairs in the home she shared with her husband Edward, her death was ruled a tragic accident. Her mother Mary Jane, whose instincts told her there was more to the story, fought tirelessly to have the investigation reopened. With the aid of her daughter's restless spirit, her efforts paid off, bringing a killer to justice in a landmark case that would make legal history.



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    9 m