True Crime Case Histories

In 2018, a young woman from Michigan went missing after visiting a male friend with a troubled past. The woman's mother grew increasingly concerned when her daughter failed to show up for an important appointment and couldn't be reached. As the mother desperately tried to locate her daughter, the male friend provided a series of lies and misleading information. Eventually, the trut

In the late 1990s, women began disappearing at an alarming rate from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada, an area known for poverty, drug addiction, and prostitution. Many of the missing women were sex workers, and a disproportionate number were Indigenous. Despite the growing list of missing persons, authorities were slow to investigate. Suspicion eventually fell on a local

In 1994, nine-year-old Penny Davis disappeared near her rural home in Okanogan County, Washington. Six months later, her body was found in a shallow grave. The prime suspect was Jack Spillman, who had a criminal history and had dated Penny's mother. In 1995, Spillman brutally murdered Rita Huffman and her fourteen-year-old daughter Amanda in their home in Wenatchee, Washington. Evi

Lauren Giddings was a promising twenty-seven-year-old law school graduate, eagerly awaiting the start of her career as a public defender. But just weeks after graduation, as she prepared for her bar exam, Lauren vanished from her apartment right across the street from her law school in Macon, Georgia. Her friends and family grew increasingly worried as days passed with no word from

On a summer afternoon in 1996, Tim Walthall was testing out his new high-powered telescope along the banks of the Ohio River bordering Indiana and Kentucky. But instead of the usual wildlife and barges, he witnessed a horrifying crime through the lens: the abduction of a young woman sunbathing on a remote beach across the river. Tim immediately called 911, but by the time police ar

]In 2008, Larry and Carri Williams, a fundamentalist Christian couple from Washington, adopted eleven-year-old Hana Alemu and seven-year-old deaf boy Immanuel from Ethiopia. But instead of providing a loving home, the parents subjected them to unimaginable abuse and neglect while sparing their seven biological children. Guided by the controversial Christian parenting book "To Train

In 1992, thirteen-year-old Kerri Anne Buck narrowly escaped abduction by a dangerous predator. Twenty-one years later, that same man, Donald Smith, gained the trust of struggling mother Rayne Perrywinkle and her eight-year-old daughter Cherish at a Jacksonville, Florida, Walmart. Cherish was not so lucky. Join us as we recount the chilling events surrounding a tragic murder, the ma

Deep in the heart of the Lone Star State, a monster lurked, preying on the innocent and unsuspecting - Kenneth McDuff. A sadistic serial killer's reign of terror left a trail of blood and shattered lives in his wake.Born into a family steeped in violence and chaos, McDuff's twisted path seemed predetermined. Even when condemned to death for his heinous crimes, fate intervened, gran