Red Collar

Nov 14 2024 64 ep. 29 mins 550
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A weekly series about con artists who kill, money and murder hosted by Catherine Townsend.

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The Headless Body in the Church Attic

Nov 14 2024 28 mins  
After a church fire, police try to unravel a brutal murder, a mysterious dissappearance, and the relationship between church handyman James Matheny and pastor John David Terry.

I Killed Mum and Dad: Virginia McCullough

Nov 03 2024 27 mins  
On a quiet street east of London, Virginia McCullough defrauded her parents, poisoned her dad, then attacked her mother with a hammer and knife before burying their bodies and living with them at home for the next four years. We follow the trial of fraud, fantasy, and brutal murder.

The Mormon Surfer Assassin: Jason Brown

Oct 24 2024 38 mins  
Jason Derek Brown, the Mormon surfer con artist who made the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List after murdering armored car driver Keith Palomares in cold blood, is still on the run. Where is he today, and can we find him?

The Body in the Trash Chute

Oct 17 2024 34 mins  
Was Lara Prychodko's horrifying fall to her death down the 27th floor garbage chute of her luxury New York City apartment building an accident, a suicide...or was she strangled by a hitman?

The "Likeable Con Artist" and The Torture Kit

Oct 10 2024 32 mins  
After financial advisor Lynda Spence was kidnapped, tortured and murdered, Glasgow police unraveled a web of fraud and deceit.

Supercop Psychopath: John Addis

Oct 03 2024 46 mins  
After a mother and her children are discovered dead in Mexico, authorities went on a manhunt for John Addis - a police officer turned personal training con artist, serial abuser, kidnapper....and killer.

Father, Sexual Predator, Killer: David Brown

Apr 13 2023 41 mins  
David Brown convinced his 14-year-old daughter Cinnamon Brown to kill her stepmother, Linda Brown. Then he seduced Linda's younger teenage sister and sent his daughter Cinnamon to prison while he collected million-dollar life insurance policies. This is a case study of David Brown, a six time husband, truly sociopathic criminal mastermind, remorseless sex predator and red collar cr

Death at the Dentist's Office

Apr 06 2023 32 mins  
Colorado dentist James Craig allegedly murdered his wife, Angela, by slipping arsenic and cyanide into her pre-workout smoothies. Police say Dr. Craig was sexting his mistress, shopping for poison on Amazon...and hiding a lot of other dark secrets.

The Stranger Beside Her: Nick Firkus

Mar 16 2023 37 mins  
After Heidi Firkus was shot in the back killed during an early morning home invasion, the town of St. Paul, Minnesota was terrified that there could be a crazed killer on the loose. But her husband, Nick Firkus, was hiding secrets about financial fraud, and a foreclosure, in a case that took 13 years to get justice.

The Cipriani Five: Suicide or Murder?

Mar 09 2023 40 mins  
Property tycoon Scot Young had a £700 million fortune, partied with supermodels...and plunged from his fourth-floor flat onto iron spikes. Did a messy divorce and bad business decisions cause him to take his own life, or was he murdered by the Russian mafia? Follow the money trail that leads around the world and links to a mysterious UK suicide cluster, political assassinations, a