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 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.

*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

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

Former Las Vegas showgirl Marjorie Orbin and Phoenix jeweler Jay Orbin looked like a desert power couple—until Jay vanished in October 2004. In this episode, we trace their story from meeting and marriage to the birth of their son Noah, the mounting marital strain and alleged affairs, and the day Robert Ame found a Rubbermaid tub in the Arizona desert containing a torso.

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Lizzie Borden: The Axe Murder That Still Haunts Fall River On the morning of August 4, 1892, the quiet town of Fall River, Massachusetts, became the backdrop for one of the most infamous unsolved murders in American history. Andrew and Abby Borden were found brutally hacked to death in their own home, their skulls shattered by multiple blows from a hatchet. Suspicion quickly fell on Andrew’s youngest daughter, Lizzie Borden—a respectable, church-going woman whose name would b

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The Thanksgiving Tragedy: How Christopher Gattis Shattered his Family. Thanksgiving is a time for family, gratitude, and celebration, but in Chester, Virginia, on November 23, 2017, it turned into a nightmare. Christopher Gattis, a 58-year-old youth pastor, committed an unthinkable act: he murdered his wife, stepdaughter, and her boyfriend, turning a holiday of joy into a story of heartbreak. To the outside world, Chris Gattis seemed like a respectable man. He worked as a you

A Halloween Nightmare: The Chilling Story of the Liske Family Murders The Liske family seemed, on the surface, like any other. William Liske Sr. lived with his wife, Susan Liske, and her two sons, Derek and Devon, in a comfortable home nestled in the rural stretches of Oak Harbor, Ohio. But underneath this facade lay a brewing tension, especially between BJ and his step-mother. BJ’s relationship with his family was strained, complicated by years of mental health struggles, pr

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