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.

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

Alexis Sharkey’s death was one of those cases that instantly lit up every corner of the internet—because it collided at the intersection of influencer culture, a beautiful young victim, and the ugly, familiar pattern of intimate partner homicide. And for months it looked like it might stall, the way cases sometimes do when the truth is inconvenient. But Houston detectives kept working it, built the timeline, established motive and opportunity, and in the end they did what the

The Killer Clown Murder: Unmasking the 1990 Marlene Warren Case and Sheila Keen Warren's Shocking Release   Few true crime stories blend the macabre whimsy of a circus performer with the cold brutality of murder quite like the Marlene Warren killer clown case. On a sunny afternoon in Wellington, Florida, a mother of two answered her door to what she thought was a cheerful surprise—only to be gunned down by a figure straight out of a nightmare. For 27 years, this Florida cold

Blonde woman in Arizona desert in a pink bikini and handcuffs Glitter to Gavel: The Arrests, the Delays, and the Verdict The Knock at...

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.

Overview From 1972 to 1985 in Schenectady, New York, nine of Marybeth and Joe Tinning’s children died—one after another. In 1987,...

On a cold January night in 2001, Amityville, New York, became the backdrop for a crime so shocking it read like the script of a mob movie. A devoted friend and beloved gym owner, Alex “Al” Algeri, was gunned down in what police quickly realized was a case of mistaken identity. The true target was Al’s business partner, Paul Riedel. At the heart of the conspiracy: Paul’s wife, Lee Ann, and her lover, Ralph “Rocco” Salierno.

In the grim shadow of San Francisco’s Summer of Love, where flower children once danced in the streets, another, much darker movement...

The Hinterkaifeck Murders On a quiet Bavarian farmstead in 1922, six people were slaughtered in the dead of night. More than a century...

Murder in Bel-Air: The Scorned Lover and the Houseboy. If there’s one thing Hollywood should know by now, don't mix business w/ pleasure

Teresa Lewis: Greed, Murder-for-Hire, and the Death Penalty Controversy True Crime | Virginia Murder Case | Death Penalty Debate On the...

Christmas Carnage. The story of Ronald Gene Simmons, Sr. The holiday season of 1987 in Russellville, Arkansas, should have been a time of...

The Thanksgiving Tragedy: How Christopher Gattis Shattered his Family. Thanksgiving is a time for family, gratitude, and celebration, but...

The Chilling Halloween Night Murder of Peter Fabiano Halloween night is supposed to be a time for tricks, treats, and innocent fun. But...

The Savage Crimes of Ricky Lee Green: A Texas Serial Killer's Reign of Terror  In the mid-1980s, Texas was home to a series of brutal and...

Lizzie Halliday: The Worst Woman on Earth In the late 1800s, the tranquil landscapes of the Catskills in New York became the backdrop for...

The Shocking Case of Helle Crafts: The Wood Chipper Murder In the annals of true crime, some cases are so chilling they haunt the public...

The Fatal Nightcap: The Mysterious Death of Mary Marrs Cawein On the night of July 4, 1965, the Idle Hour Country Club in Lexington,...