*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

The Wimbledon kidnapping of Muriel McKay remains one of the most haunting unsolved crimes in British history, combining a high‑profile victim, a shocking case of mistaken identity, and a decades‑long search for her missing body. As true‑crime interest continues to grow, this case stands at the intersection of kidnapping, ransom, organized planning, and the emotional toll of an unresolved murder. Kidnapping in Wimbledon: Mistaken for Rupert Murdoch’s Wife On 29 December 1969,

A Body in the Ashes: Discovery in Lampblack Swamp The morning of December 26, 1907, dawned cold and gray over Harrison, New Jersey. Along the Passaic River, a local man cut across a stretch of wasteland—a grim patch of ash heaps, cinders, and marsh where industrial refuse met stagnant water. It was the kind of place where the city dumped what it didn’t want to see. There, in a shallow pool of filthy water, he saw her. The woman was completely naked, lying face-up in the blac

*This episode of Hitched 2 Homicide contains descriptions of sexual violence, including rape, and graphic violence involving cannibalism. It may be disturbing or triggering for some listeners. Viewer and listener discretion is strongly advised. She was beautiful, young, and charismatic. He was older, wealthy, and besotted. Five days after they married, he was dead—dismembered in a Costa Mesa apartment over Thanksgiving weekend 1991. Some of his remains were in the freezer. So