For more than six years, Ella Jackson’s family waited for a jury to hear what happened behind the closed doors of her Richmond, Kentucky, home. They waited through canceled court dates, pandemic shutdowns, laboratory delays, judicial recusals, newly discovered evidence, and repeated postponements. All the while, the man accused of murdering Ella—her husband, Glenn Jackson—was not sitting in a jail cell. He was living under house arrest. Then, in February 2026, just days befo

Ron Ruse Jr. was murdered in December 1987 by his ex-girlfriend Linda Ricchio, a killing born out of obsession, stalking, and refusal to accept the end of their relationship. “Ron did everything he could to escape the relationship—but Linda moved in next door and waited with a gun.” Ronald Lewis “Ron” Ruse Jr. was a 28‑year‑old auto mechanic living in Carlsbad, California, when he was ambushed and shot outside his apartment on December 14, 1987. His killer was 27‑year‑old Lin

On a bitter March night in 1778, in the small town of Brookfield, Massachusetts, Joshua Spooner left a tavern for the short walk home. He never made it. Somewhere along that snowy path, he was ambushed, beaten, and dumped headfirst into his own well. By morning, the quiet rhythms of rural life had been shattered—and the investigation would soon reveal a conspiracy so sensational that newspapers called it “the most extraordinary crime ever perpetrated in New England.”

A Love Story Tainted by Secrets On paper, Greg de Villers and Kristin Margrethe Rossum looked like a golden couple at the dawn of the new millennium. Greg, a French-born biotech worker in his mid-twenties, had found professional footing with an up‑and‑coming firm in San Diego. Kristin, also in her mid‑twenties, had graduated summa cum laude from San Diego State University and parlayed that into a coveted job as a toxicologist with the San Diego County medical examiner’s offic

On a cold December night in 2020, 21-year-old Jason Landry left his apartment in San Marcos, Texas, and started the drive home for winter break. He was a Texas State University student, headed toward Missouri City, where his family lived. It should have been an ordinary trip across familiar Texas roads. But Jason never made it home.

The Crash That Wasn’t an Accident: Remembering Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan At first, it looked like the kind of wreck that makes even veteran first responders stop cold. A black Toyota Camry had slammed into the brick wall of a manufacturing building in Strongsville, Ohio, with such force that one responding officer said the car looked as if it had been cut in half. Inside were three young people: 20-year-old Dominic Russo, 19-year-old Davion Flanagan, and 17-year-old M

They arrived hungry, tired and grateful to see the small clapboard inn on the Kansas prairie—most never left it alive. For nearly two years in the early 1870s, travelers vanished along a lonely stretch of trail in Labette County, until a blood‑soaked cellar and a garden of shallow graves exposed the homestead that history would remember as the home of the Bloody Benders. In the years after the Civil War, southeastern Kansas was a borderland in flux. The Osage had recently bee

In September 2006, the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast in Newry, Maine should have been quiet in the way old New England inns are quiet—wooden floors, mountain air, guests coming and going near Sunday River, and the ordinary end-of-summer rhythm of Labor Day weekend. Instead, over four days, it became the center of one of Maine’s most disturbing homicide cases in more than a decade. Four people were murdered: Julie Bullard, James “Jimmy” Whitehurst, Selby Bullard, and Cynthia “Cin

Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast "These were blokes who were pulling their shirt across after they'd been stabbed by her. Blokes who'd had their heads caved in with a frying pan. And it's even harder to imagine when blokes like these––hard Aussie blokes––lived in fear of their lives." — Sergeant Graham Furlonger, NSW Police ⚠️ Content Warning: This blog and its companion podcast contain detail

Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast "For those of you who do not know what hell is like, you will find out" — D.A. Stephen Kay on the Shirley Ledford tape ⚠️ Content Warning: This blog and its companion podcast contain detailed accounts of violent crime, including the murder of young women. Content is presented with journalistic intent and deep respect for all victims and their families. The Toolbox Killers are That Case. Part Two. There are monsters who stum

MONSTERS WITH A TAPE RECORDER | Toolbox Killers Part One They met in prison. They made a plan. Then they built the van. In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris — the Toolbox Killers — began hunting teenage girls along California's Pacific Coast Highway. This week: the making of two monsters, the victims they stole first, and a silver van still rolling when nobody was looking. Part Two drops next week. Subscribe now.

Published by Hitched 2 Homicide | True Crime Podcast "The jury got this wrong. It's completely the opposite of what it should be. My client should have received at most an eight-year sentence, and Mr. Mundt should be sitting in prison right now on a potential life sentence." — Darren Wolff, defense attorney for Joey Banis Previously, in Old Louisville... If you haven't read Part One yet, go back and start there — because the story you're about to read only hits as hard as it

This is the story of James "Jamie" Carroll — hairdresser, drag queen, meth dealer, and a man whose magnetic personality made everyone in the room feel like the most important person alive. It is also the story of Jeffrey "Jase" Mundt and Joseph "Joey" Banis — two men bound together by drugs, obsession, and secrets so dark that even the city's beloved Victorian shadows couldn't keep them buried forever.

In March 1895, a young Irishwoman named Bridget Cleary was burned to death by her husband Michael — not in a fit of rage, but as the final act of a nine-day ritual he believed would drive out the fairy changeling he was convinced had replaced his wife. Nine people were in that cottage. None of them stopped him. This is the story of Ireland's last fairy trial—and the remarkable, independent woman history nearly forgot.

The trial of Kouri Richins lasted three weeks, had forty-two witnesses, and only three hours of deliberation before she was found guilty of murdering her husband, Eric Richins using a drink laced with enough fentanyl to kill him five times over.

The Case That Shocked the Nation What happens when a grieving widow publishes a children's book about loss — and turns out to be the reason her children lost their father? Welcome to one of the most chilling and audacious true crime cases in recent American history: the story of Kouri Richins , a Utah mother of three who was convicted on March 16, 2026, of murdering her husband Eric Richins with a lethal dose of fentanyl — and then had the nerve to write a book about grief.

The man with the locked garage, the frozen trophies, and the obsession that turned a quiet Salem street into a killing ground. Hey, Hitched 2 Homicide family. Welcome back. Pour your drink. Lock your doors. Because today's case is one I've been wanting to cover for a long time — and trust me, it did not disappoint on the disturbing scale. We're going to Oregon. We're going to a locked garage in Salem. And we're meeting Jerry Brudos. Before we get into it — and we are going to

In the early 1900s, when medicine still couldn’t cure much and desperate people chased miracles, one woman found a terrifying business model: convince sick patients that food was poison, call their agony “healing,” and charge them for the privilege—until their bodies gave out. Her name was Linda Hazzard—and she wasn’t really a doctor in the way her patients assumed.

*This case deals with domestic violence. Viewer and listener discretion is advised. If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 (SAFE), or text START to 88788. You can also chat at hotline.org Last updated: Feb. 17, 2026 | Important note: Suzanne’s body has not been publicly confirmed as recovered. Brad Simpson has pleaded not guilty in court proceedings reported by multiple outlets, and he is presumed innocent unless an

A mother disappears—and a fire answers nothing There are cases that feel like a locked room mystery: all the terror is inside, but the key is missing. In early July 2007, 33-year-old Joey Lynn Offutt vanished from the 90 block of Fugate Drive in Sykesville. Days later, neighbors reported a loud explosion and her home was engulfed in flames. When firefighters put the blaze out, they discovered the body of Joey’s six-week-old baby boy in a bathtub. Joey was not there. Investi

Sleeping pills, wine coolers and a typed suicide note from Kari Baker's nightstand *Content warning: domestic violence, sexual coercion, death investigation, and murder. If you or someone you know needs support, the U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). In April 2006, a 31-year-old elementary school teacher and mother of two— Kari Baker —was found dead in the bedroom of her Hewitt, Texas home, just outside Waco. Her husband, Matt Baker , a Baptist

The mask: “church lady,” daycare operator, trusted neighbor In Cordele, Georgia, Janie Lou Gibbs blended into the safest kind of small-town scenery: a mother, a churchgoing woman, and a caregiver who ran a daycare. People trusted her—because everything about her life looked ordinary, even admirable. That’s what makes this case so chilling for true crime listeners: the danger didn’t arrive from outside the home. It lived at the center of it. Between 1966 and 1967 , multiple

Evelyn Nesbit’s name became tabloid fuel after her husband, Harry K. Thaw, shot architect Stanford White on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden. This is the true story behind the scandal that helped invent America’s celebrity murder trial.

Sameena Imam was a 34‑year‑old regional marketing manager for Costco who lived in Cardiff and worked across several UK warehouses, including Coventry, Bristol, Southampton, and Cardiff. She had been in a two‑year affair with Coventry Costco manager Roger Cooper, who was living with a long‑term partner while also involved with a second colleague, leaving Sameena effectively one of three simultaneous relationships. Roger’s younger brother David Cooper, an ex‑soldier living in L