The Black Docket

What started as a simple ride home ended in a murder that shook Fairburn, Georgia and exposed how quickly ordinary decisions can turn fatal. In this episode of The Black Docket, we break down the case of De’Asia Page and Jared Kemp, two teenagers whose relationship became dangerously unbalanced and ultimately led to the killing of Toni Abad, a mother, grandmother, and coworker known for helping others. This is a courtroom-focused, ...

A 1962 murder in New Jersey. A teenage defendant. A prison escape. A 1970s airline hijacking. A man who disappeared for decades. And a courtroom battle that forced two countries to answer the same impossible question: what is justice after half a lifetime?

In this episode of The Black Docket, we unpack the extraordinary true crime case of George Wright, one of the most complex fugitives in American history. From New Jersey to Eu...

On January 1, 2006, Richmond, Virginia woke up to a crime that would change the city forever.

In this season premiere of The Black Docket, we will take listeners inside the story of Ricky Gray and Ray Dandridge — two men whose names became permanently tied to one of the most haunting crime sprees in Virginia history. What begins as a quiet New Year’s morning unravels into a layered, courtroom-centered account of how a city, multiple...

This week on The Black Docket, we’re telling the story of Christie Neely and her son, Jordan Neely a family whose name the country learned years apart, under very different circumstances.

We begin where this story actually starts: with Christie.

A Black mother. A New Yorker. A woman working to build stability for herself and her child in a system that never made it easy.

From there, the story unfolds across time, courtrooms, city stre...

Step into 1990s Washington, D.C., a city surviving a storm the rest of the country barely understood. In this episode of The Black Docket, We take you deep inside a true story shaped by trauma, poverty, policing, and the young lives caught in between.

This is a case about a generation raised in the aftermath of the crack era… a city where childhood ended early… and where one split-second decision could change every future connected ...

In this gripping deep dive, The Black Docket takes you inside one of the most controversial serial murder cases in the American South: the story of Carlton Michael Gary, the man Georgia labeled “The Stocking Strangler.”

From Columbus, Georgia to Albany and Syracuse, New York, this episode uncovers decades of unanswered questions, racial power dynamics, missing evidence, DNA surprises, and a death sentence carried out under a clo...

A Pennsylvania judge goes from “All rise” to “Guilty” – but this time, she’s the one on the other side of the bench.

In this episode of The Black Docket, we dive into the rise and fall of former Dauphin County Judge Sonya McKnight, a Black woman who beat the odds, won a magisterial seat in Harrisburg, and built a reputation as the judge who “understood the community.” But behind the robe, the story at home was chaos: protection-from...

A Florida lottery winner is found dead in his own van on a dead-end road, one shot to the back of the head. The headlines call it a “lottery curse” but with this case , the trail doesn’t lead to strangers. It leads straight into the family.

In this episode of The Black Docket, Tammi and Kendell break down the murder of Jeffrey Dampier, a Black lottery winner who moved to Florida for a fresh start and ended up caught in a dangerous m...

A decorated Army veteran disappears without a trace. Her family knows something is wrong. Her command knows something is wrong. But the system doesn’t move fast enough. And when the truth finally surfaces, it’s already too late.

This episode examines what happens behind closed doors when love turns into control, and silence becomes dangerous. We follow the timeline, the investigation, and the courtroom, as a community tries to under...

They called him The Grim Sleeper. For decades, women vanished from the streets of South Central Los Angeles. The city barely noticed. Years would pass between murders. Then, more bodies would appear. They said he was dormant, but the Grim Sleeper was never really sleeping.

On this episode of The Black Docket, we descend into one of LA's most chilling cases. How did Lonnie Franklin Jr. live a double life for over twenty years? He was...

On this episode of The Black Docket, we dive into the chilling and heartbreaking case of Shelie Turner—a rising high-school track star from Philadelphia, whose promising future was abruptly cut short when she disappeared without a trace.

Join us as we unpack how Shelie’s story went from winning major track events to being the center of a complex missing-person investigation. We’ll explore high school sports rivalries, the pressures ...

A Black Docket deep dive into Malachi Z. York, from Brooklyn storefront sermons to the 476-acre Tama-Re compound in Eatonton, Georgia. We trace the reinventions (Imam Isa → Dr. York → Malachi Z. York), the shifting banners (Ansaaru Allah Community, Holy Tabernacle Ministries, United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors), the migration south with roughly 300 followers, and the investigation that ended in a 135-year federal sentence. Along the ...

On this episode of The Black Docket, we’re taking it straight to Harlem to tell the story of Trevell Coleman, the man the world knows as G-Dep. He had gold records, Bad Boy hits, and a seat at the table during one of hip-hop’s most iconic eras. 

But in 2010, he shocked the world!

We dig deep into what happened that night in Harlem, why Trevell kept that secret and what made him finally tell the truth. You’ll hear the details...

Six young Black men were murdered in Atlanta between December 1985 and October 1986 shot, stabbed, and left in alleys, parks, and abandoned buildings. Their names barely made the news. Their deaths were dismissed as “street violence."

But there was a pattern. And behind that pattern was one man: Michael Terry.

In this episode of The Black Docket, we dive deep into the Atlanta of the mid-80s a city with two faces: the booming “Bl...

Anthony Sowell known as the Cleveland Strangler turned his Imperial Avenue home into a house of horror that shocked Ohio and the nation. In this episode of The Black Docket, we uncover the chilling story of one of America’s most notorious serial killers.

From survivor stories to police missteps, we explore how a convicted sex offender slipped through the cracks and continued killing women in Cleveland. You’ll hear how neighbors, inv...

What began as a simple disagreement between Kayla Henriques and Kamisha Richardson spiraled into a public feud on social media — one that the whole neighborhood seemed to be watching. But when online insults turned into a face-to-face confrontation inside a Brooklyn apartment, everything took a dark and irreversible turn.

On this episode of The Black Docket, we explore the tension, the pride, and the chain of events that transformed...

On this episode of The Black Docket, we pull back the curtain on Maury Travis, a name that should be infamous but too many have never heard. The reason is simple. His victims were mostly poor, mostly Black, and all overlooked.

Travis was a sadistic serial killer operating out of St. Louis who not only hunted vulnerable women but recorded their suffering on videotape. 

Today we will walk you through how he got away with it for...

Bodies dumped. Families betrayed. A small-town secret spiraling into a national nightmare.

In this chilling episode of The Black Docket, we investigate the shocking case of the Tri-State Crematory in Georgia. Over 300 corpses were found discarded in the woods. None of them were cremated as promised.

Loved ones were given urns filled with concrete dust and wood chips instead of ashes. What went wrong? Who allowed this to conti...

On this episode of The Black Docket, we examine the courtroom that became a crime scene and the man whose escape sent shockwaves through the country. What started as a routine trial in Fulton County spiraled into one of the most devastating failures of courthouse security the criminal justice system has ever seen.

But this isn’t just a story about violence. It's a look at what happens when the system breaks down from the inside. We ...