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November 6, 2025 • 17 mins
Betrayed By Blood: The Daughter Who Orchestrated Her Family's Slaughter
Terry Caffey woke up to gunfire in his bedroom. His wife was shot beside him. His sons were screaming down the hall. Shot five times himself, Terry crawled through flames and across four football fields to reach help, driven by one desperate need: to identify who did this. When police told him his 16-year-old daughter Erin was safe, he felt relief. Then they tol...
Terry Caffey woke up to gunfire in his bedroom. His wife was shot beside him. His sons were screaming down the hall. Shot five times himself, Terry crawled through flames and across four football fields to reach help, driven by one desperate need: to identify who did this. When police told him his 16-year-old daughter Erin was safe, he felt relief. Then they tol...
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November 4, 2025 • 15 mins
The Shoe Fetish Slayer: Inside Jerry Brudos' House of Horrors
When a 19-year-old encyclopedia saleswoman knocked on the wrong door in Portland, Oregon in January 1968, she walked into the nightmare that would define one of America's most disturbing serial killers. Jerry Brudos looked like everyone's quiet neighbor, a hardworking electrician with a wife and kids. But behind the locked door of his garage workshop, he was living out f...
When a 19-year-old encyclopedia saleswoman knocked on the wrong door in Portland, Oregon in January 1968, she walked into the nightmare that would define one of America's most disturbing serial killers. Jerry Brudos looked like everyone's quiet neighbor, a hardworking electrician with a wife and kids. But behind the locked door of his garage workshop, he was living out f...
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October 31, 2025 • 13 mins
Mark Branch: The Grocery Clerk Who Thought He Was Jason Voorhees
When 18-year-old Sharon Gregory was found dead in her Greenfield, Massachusetts home in October 1988, her twin sister knew exactly who did it. Mark Branch had been obsessed with horror movies his entire life, particularly Friday the 13th, and he'd told people he wanted to know what it felt like to kill. Sharon had been doing a psychological evaluation of him for her co...
When 18-year-old Sharon Gregory was found dead in her Greenfield, Massachusetts home in October 1988, her twin sister knew exactly who did it. Mark Branch had been obsessed with horror movies his entire life, particularly Friday the 13th, and he'd told people he wanted to know what it felt like to kill. Sharon had been doing a psychological evaluation of him for her co...
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October 30, 2025 • 13 mins
The Halifax Slasher and the Deadly Power of Collective Fear
In November 1938, the town of Halifax, England, became paralyzed by fear. People stopped going to work. Businesses closed. Vigilante mobs formed in the streets. And a man took his own life because his coworkers thought he was a monster. The reason? A phantom attacker with a razor blade who probably never existed at all. This is the story of the Halifax Slasher, a case where...
In November 1938, the town of Halifax, England, became paralyzed by fear. People stopped going to work. Businesses closed. Vigilante mobs formed in the streets. And a man took his own life because his coworkers thought he was a monster. The reason? A phantom attacker with a razor blade who probably never existed at all. This is the story of the Halifax Slasher, a case where...
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October 29, 2025 • 14 mins
Inside the Murder Castle: The True Story of H.H. Holmes and His Killing Factory
Herman Mudgett didn't become America's most notorious serial killer by accident. He built a three-story hotel in Chicago specifically designed to kill people, and he did it right before the 1893 World's Fair brought millions of visitors to the city. But here's what most people get wrong about the H.H. Holmes story: the Murder Castle wasn't always meant f...
Herman Mudgett didn't become America's most notorious serial killer by accident. He built a three-story hotel in Chicago specifically designed to kill people, and he did it right before the 1893 World's Fair brought millions of visitors to the city. But here's what most people get wrong about the H.H. Holmes story: the Murder Castle wasn't always meant f...
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October 28, 2025 • 15 mins
From Unsolved Mysteries to Hollywood: The Jeepers Creepers Murder Case
When a couple's quiet Sunday drive turned into a terrifying chase on a Michigan backroad in 1990, they had no idea they'd just witnessed the aftermath of murder. This is the story of Marilynn DePue, a high school guidance counselor who tried to escape an abusive marriage, and how her death became the unlikely inspiration for a horror movie that millions of people...
When a couple's quiet Sunday drive turned into a terrifying chase on a Michigan backroad in 1990, they had no idea they'd just witnessed the aftermath of murder. This is the story of Marilynn DePue, a high school guidance counselor who tried to escape an abusive marriage, and how her death became the unlikely inspiration for a horror movie that millions of people...
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October 23, 2025 • 13 mins
The First Female Serial Killer: Why Aileen Wuornos's Case Still Matters
When Aileen Wuornos was executed in 2002, the state of Florida called her a cold-blooded serial killer. But her story is way more complicated than that. We're talking about a woman who survived childhood sexual abuse, was kicked out at 15 and forced into sex work to survive, and ended up killing seven men along Florida's highways. She said it was self-defense. T...
When Aileen Wuornos was executed in 2002, the state of Florida called her a cold-blooded serial killer. But her story is way more complicated than that. We're talking about a woman who survived childhood sexual abuse, was kicked out at 15 and forced into sex work to survive, and ended up killing seven men along Florida's highways. She said it was self-defense. T...
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October 21, 2025 • 14 mins
The Jeannette DePalma Case: When Satanic Panic Destroyed a Murder Investigation
What really happened to 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma in 1972? For over 50 years, wild stories about devil worship and ritual sacrifice have overshadowed the truth about a teenage girl who never made it to her friend's house. We're talking about a case where a religious community's fear, sloppy police work, and media sensationalism buried the real invest...
What really happened to 16-year-old Jeannette DePalma in 1972? For over 50 years, wild stories about devil worship and ritual sacrifice have overshadowed the truth about a teenage girl who never made it to her friend's house. We're talking about a case where a religious community's fear, sloppy police work, and media sensationalism buried the real invest...
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October 16, 2025 • 13 mins
The Disappearance of Branson Perry: Three Witnesses, Zero Answers
When 20-year-old Branson Perry walked 30 feet from his house to a shed on an April afternoon in 2001, three people were watching. He never made it back. This case has every element that makes your brain scream "how is this still unsolved?" A town with a history of keeping deadly secrets. A drug house that burned to the ground days after Branson vanished. Jumper cables...
When 20-year-old Branson Perry walked 30 feet from his house to a shed on an April afternoon in 2001, three people were watching. He never made it back. This case has every element that makes your brain scream "how is this still unsolved?" A town with a history of keeping deadly secrets. A drug house that burned to the ground days after Branson vanished. Jumper cables...
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October 15, 2025 • 12 mins
The Ellen Greenberg Case: When Forensic Science Says Murder but the City Says Suicide
When a young teacher was found dead with 20 stab wounds, ten of them in the back of her neck, Philadelphia officials called it suicide. Her family has spent 14 years trying to prove that's physically impossible. Now, after a court-ordered review just discovered 20 more bruises and three additional stab wounds that were never documented, the city st...
When a young teacher was found dead with 20 stab wounds, ten of them in the back of her neck, Philadelphia officials called it suicide. Her family has spent 14 years trying to prove that's physically impossible. Now, after a court-ordered review just discovered 20 more bruises and three additional stab wounds that were never documented, the city st...
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October 14, 2025 • 11 mins
The Staircase Murders Part 2: When the Star Witness Turns Out to Be a Fraud
Michael Peterson sat in prison for eight years after being convicted of murdering his wife. The case seemed closed. But then someone started looking into the blood spatter expert who put him there. What they found was a pattern of lies, fabricated evidence, and perjury that spanned dozens of cases. This is Part 2 of the Michael Peterson story, where the conv...
Michael Peterson sat in prison for eight years after being convicted of murdering his wife. The case seemed closed. But then someone started looking into the blood spatter expert who put him there. What they found was a pattern of lies, fabricated evidence, and perjury that spanned dozens of cases. This is Part 2 of the Michael Peterson story, where the conv...
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October 14, 2025 • 13 mins
The Staircase Murders Part 1: Two Dead Women, Two Staircases, One Suspect
Michael Peterson called 911 at 2:40 a.m. saying his wife fell down the stairs. But the words he chose in that call would haunt him for years. Seven deep cuts to her scalp. No skull fracture. No brain injury. Blood everywhere. And then prosecutors dug up another body from 17 years earlier. Another staircase. Another dead woman. Same man. This is Part 1 of the s...
Michael Peterson called 911 at 2:40 a.m. saying his wife fell down the stairs. But the words he chose in that call would haunt him for years. Seven deep cuts to her scalp. No skull fracture. No brain injury. Blood everywhere. And then prosecutors dug up another body from 17 years earlier. Another staircase. Another dead woman. Same man. This is Part 1 of the s...
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October 11, 2025 • 14 mins
BTK Dennis Rader: When Your Neighbor Is Literally a Serial Killer
What happens when the guy measuring your lawn for code violations is also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history? Dennis Rader spent 31 years hiding in plain sight as a church leader, security alarm installer, and suburban dad while methodically stalking and murdering at least 10 people in Wichita, Kansas. He called himself BTK. He wrote letters t...
What happens when the guy measuring your lawn for code violations is also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history? Dennis Rader spent 31 years hiding in plain sight as a church leader, security alarm installer, and suburban dad while methodically stalking and murdering at least 10 people in Wichita, Kansas. He called himself BTK. He wrote letters t...
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October 9, 2025 • 14 mins
The Truth About Ilse Koch and the Human Skin Lampshade Legend
She was called the Bitch of Buchenwald, the Witch, the Beast. Her name became synonymous with Nazi evil, her face plastered across newspapers worldwide. But here's what makes Ilse Koch's story so unsettling: the crime that made her famous might not have been hers at all. We're talking about human skin lampshades, systematic cruelty, and a legal mess that sparked internati...
She was called the Bitch of Buchenwald, the Witch, the Beast. Her name became synonymous with Nazi evil, her face plastered across newspapers worldwide. But here's what makes Ilse Koch's story so unsettling: the crime that made her famous might not have been hers at all. We're talking about human skin lampshades, systematic cruelty, and a legal mess that sparked internati...
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October 7, 2025 • 14 mins
Gulf War Ghosts: The Jeffrey Hutchinson Death Row Case
What happens when a decorated Gulf War veteran's mind becomes a casualty of war that no one wants to acknowledge? Jeffrey Hutchinson's story isn't your typical family annihilation case. This is about a system that failed to hear the voice of a broken soldier, a legal nightmare built on procedural technicalities, and the devastating cost of untreated military trauma. We're diving...
What happens when a decorated Gulf War veteran's mind becomes a casualty of war that no one wants to acknowledge? Jeffrey Hutchinson's story isn't your typical family annihilation case. This is about a system that failed to hear the voice of a broken soldier, a legal nightmare built on procedural technicalities, and the devastating cost of untreated military trauma. We're diving...
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October 5, 2025 • 11 mins
Adeline Watkins and Ed Gein: Separating Fact From Fiction
When Ed Gein was arrested in 1957, the press needed someone to explain how a monster could hide in plain sight. Enter Adeline Watkins, a quiet woman from Plainfield who claimed a decades-long romance with America's most infamous killer. But two weeks later, she took it all back. So what really happened between them? Did Gein ever actually propose? And why would she lie about ...
When Ed Gein was arrested in 1957, the press needed someone to explain how a monster could hide in plain sight. Enter Adeline Watkins, a quiet woman from Plainfield who claimed a decades-long romance with America's most infamous killer. But two weeks later, she took it all back. So what really happened between them? Did Gein ever actually propose? And why would she lie about ...
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October 4, 2025 • 13 mins
The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders: How DNA Finally Solved a 34-Year-Old Cold Case
In December 1991, four teenage girls were murdered inside an Austin yogurt shop. The crime scene was burned. The evidence was destroyed. Two innocent men went to prison for nearly a decade. And the real killer? He was already dead by the time they were arrested. This is the story of how genetic genealogy finally solved one of Texas's most brutal cold case...
In December 1991, four teenage girls were murdered inside an Austin yogurt shop. The crime scene was burned. The evidence was destroyed. Two innocent men went to prison for nearly a decade. And the real killer? He was already dead by the time they were arrested. This is the story of how genetic genealogy finally solved one of Texas's most brutal cold case...
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October 2, 2025 • 12 mins
The Pixy Stix Killer: How Ronald O'Bryan Weaponized Halloween
Halloween 1974 was supposed to be another night of trick-or-treating in Pasadena, Texas. Instead, it became the night that changed Halloween forever. When 8-year-old Timothy O'Bryan died from poisoned candy, investigators uncovered a twisted plot orchestrated by the one person who should have protected him most: his own father. Ronald O'Bryan didn't destroy Halloween by a...
Halloween 1974 was supposed to be another night of trick-or-treating in Pasadena, Texas. Instead, it became the night that changed Halloween forever. When 8-year-old Timothy O'Bryan died from poisoned candy, investigators uncovered a twisted plot orchestrated by the one person who should have protected him most: his own father. Ronald O'Bryan didn't destroy Halloween by a...
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September 30, 2025 • 12 mins
The Midnight Baseball Bat Murders: A Grandson's Unthinkable Crime
When a 20-year-old calls 911 covered in blood claiming he has no memory of the night, investigators uncover one of New Jersey's most devastating family tragedies. Louis and Betty Simon thought they were helping their grandson by letting him live with them. Instead, they became victims of an unthinkable crime that left more questions than answers. This is the story of ...
When a 20-year-old calls 911 covered in blood claiming he has no memory of the night, investigators uncover one of New Jersey's most devastating family tragedies. Louis and Betty Simon thought they were helping their grandson by letting him live with them. Instead, they became victims of an unthinkable crime that left more questions than answers. This is the story of ...
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September 25, 2025 • 13 mins
Adnan Syed Part 2: Alternative Suspects, DNA Evidence, and Legal Chaos
After Serial turned Adnan Syed into the most famous convicted murderer in podcast history, his legal team kept fighting. What happened next reads like legal fiction: prosecutors found alternative suspects, DNA evidence excluded Syed, and he walked free after 23 years. Then came the plot twist that broke everyone's brain. A paperwork error got his murder convictio...
After Serial turned Adnan Syed into the most famous convicted murderer in podcast history, his legal team kept fighting. What happened next reads like legal fiction: prosecutors found alternative suspects, DNA evidence excluded Syed, and he walked free after 23 years. Then came the plot twist that broke everyone's brain. A paperwork error got his murder convictio...
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