On Valentine’s Day 1940, Toni Jo Henry murdered traveling salesman Joseph Calloway in a Louisiana rice field. Desperate to free her husband, Claude “Cowboy” Henry, from a 50-year prison sentence, she and an accomplice robbed Calloway, stripped him, and shot him for his car and clothes. Instead of saving Cowboy, she became the only woman ever executed in Louisiana’s electric chair. This is a true story of obsessive love, deadly devotion, and a marriage that ended in murder.

On the night of December 10, 2003, Kent and Tricia Whitaker dined at a Pappadeaux in Stafford, Texas, with sons Bart (24) and Kevin (19). It was meant to celebrate Bart’s supposed graduation from Sam Houston State University. None of it was true. By the time they reached their Sugar Lakes driveway, two were dead—and the person who set it all in motion was sitting in the back seat.

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.

Three Jolts to Justice: The Shocking Case of Michael G. Schiller A brutal backyard murder. A courtroom drama. And an electric chair that just wouldn’t finish the job. The Crime That Shocked Youngstown On June 19, 1903, the quiet neighborhood of Youngstown, Ohio, was shattered by a crime so savage it still echoes through true crime history. Michael G. Schiller, a local saloon keeper with a taste for whiskey and rage, arrived at the home of his estranged wife, Mary Schiller.

This is the story of Rodney James Alcala. The Dating Game Killer.