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

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.

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

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

He walked onto a plane with a name that wasn’t his, ordered a bourbon and 7-Up, handed over a note saying he had a bomb, took $200,000 in cash, four parachutes, and then—somewhere over the Pacific Northwest on a cold November night in 1971—stepped out the back of a Boeing 727 and vanished. No confirmed body. No confirmed parachute. No confirmed identity. The world knows him as D.B. Cooper —though he called himself Dan Cooper —and his hijacking of Northwest Orient Flight 305

Skinwalker in the desert under a blood moon. The murder of Sarah Saganitso and the Skinwalker Defense The Skinwalker Defense: The Murder of Sarah Saganitso and the Trial that Shocked Flagstaff Victim & Setting On the morning of June 17, 1987 , searchers found the body of Sarah L. Saganitso , a 40-year-old Navajo mother and longtime housekeeper at Flagstaff Medical Center , in a wooded, rocky area just behind the hospital. The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office lists her as “fou

The Lindbergh Kidnapping: What We Know, What We Still Debate. On the night of March 1, 1932, America’s most famous family suffered its...

The Unsolved Murder of Katie Janness and Her Dog Bowie: A True Crime Tragedy On a warm summer evening, July 28, 2021, Atlanta’s vibrant Midtown neighborhood was shaken by an act of unspeakable violence. Katie Janness, a beloved bartender, musician, and loyal friend, and Bowie, her cherished pitbull, were brutally murdered inside Piedmont Park. Four years later, the case remains unsolved, haunting the community, Katie’s loved ones, and followers of unsolved crimes across the n

Beverly Jarosz: Obsession, Terror and a Murder People Refuse t The Murder of Beverly Jarosz: A 1964 Nightmare That Still Haunts Garfield...

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

The Rise of Mary Rogers: Manhattan’s Enchanting Cigar Girl In the bustling heart of 1840s Manhattan, where cobblestone streets echoed...

A Real Code Red Before Jack Nicholson shouted, “You can’t handle the truth!” on screens across America, there was David Cox—a real U.S. Marine stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in the mid-1980s. Cox, along with nine other Marines, was ordered to discipline Private First Class William Alvarado, a fellow Marine who had broken the chain of command by writing directly to a U.S. Senator. The response? A so-called "Code Red"—a non-judicial punishment meant to enforce Marine discipl

On June 30, 1999, the body of Ricky McCormick was found in a Missouri cornfield west of St. Louis. At first, it looked like another suspicious but explainable death. But what investigators discovered in his pants pocket turned the case into one of the FBI’s most baffling cold cases. Two pages.Covered in jumbled, handwritten code. No one—not even the FBI—has been able to crack it. Who Was Ricky McCormick? Ricky was 41 years old, living on disability, and known to frequent mote

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

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

The Mysterious Disappearance and Death of Tom Brown: A Texas Mystery That Won’t Rest On the night of November 23, 2016, in the small town of Canadian, Texas, 18-year-old Thomas Brown vanished without a trace. What should have been a quiet Thanksgiving Eve quickly spiraled into one of the most confounding mysteries in Texas true crime history. The case has spawned years of speculation, accusations, and investigations—yet to this day, one undeniable fact remains: someone is lyi

The Deadly Affair: The Laura Safford Miller Case In the winter of 1950, a dramatic and tragic tale of love, betrayal, and death unfolded...

The Unsolved Mystery of Jeanette DePalma: Why Her Death Should Be Reopened In 1972, the lifeless body of 16-year-old Jeanette DePalma was...