True Crime Recaps

Thirty-three-year-old lacrosse coach Diane Whipple was attacked and killed just steps from her apartment door in San Francisco. Two massive Presa Canario dogs, Bane and Hera, mauled her in the hallway of her building while neighbors desperately tried to help. She never made it outside.

This was not a random dog attack. The dogs belonged to attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, who had taken them in despite repeated warnings ab...

Berry Bryant was just eighteen years old and had only been in college for five weeks when she vanished. A talented musician and scholarship freshman, she was known for checking in with her family and staying focused on her goals. On the night of October 4, 1996, Berry attended a campus dance, stopped briefly at a dorm party, and then disappeared.

By morning, her car was still parked where she left it. Her bed had not been slept in. ...

This episode was originally released exclusively for our members, but with Jeffrey Epstein back in the headlines, we are making it available publicly so everyone can hear the story that started it all.

Before billionaires, royals, politicians, and global outrage, the Epstein scandal began with something no one expected. A high school fight in Palm Beach, Florida.

In 2005, a fourteen-year-old girl casually told a friend she had been p...

Cynthia Campbell was a successful attorney with a busy Monday ahead of her. But that morning never happened.On July 27, 1998, police responded to strange activity outside Cynthia’s Pensacola home. After officers left, Cynthia accepted a coffee invitation from her neighbor, Norman Grim. She was never seen alive again.Hours later, Cynthia was reported missing. Evidence began to surface quickly, including items linked back to her neig...

The latest Jeffrey Epstein document release was expected to bring answers. Instead, it raised even more disturbing questions.Thousands of new records were made public under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, including photos, messages, and written materials from Epstein’s estate. Many appear with no explanation, while more than 500 pages are completely blacked out. Some of the images and texts are unsettling on their own and offer...

Rob Reiner spent decades trying to help his son survive addiction, relapse, and mental health struggles. Friends say his goal was simple. Just keep him alive.On December 14, police were called to Rob Reiner’s Brentwood home. Inside, Rob and his wife Michele were found dead. Within hours, their 32-year-old son Nick Reiner was arrested and charged.What followed was a disturbing timeline that included a holiday party, unexplained gaps...

In November 1987, first responders arrived at a Greenwich Village townhouse to find six-year-old Lisa Steinberg unconscious and severely injured. Her adoptive father, a prominent New York defense attorney, claimed she had choked. But doctors quickly determined Lisa had suffered months of abuse, with injuries far too severe to be accidental.

As investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a disturbing reality inside the home. Lisa had ne...

In 2005, Phoenix, Arizona was gripped by fear as two shooters roamed the city at night, firing at anyone they came across. Cyclists, pedestrians, people sitting in cars, even animals were targeted. There was no pattern, no warning, and no way to predict who would be next. The killers gave their spree a chilling name. Random Recreational Violence.

As weeks turned into months, panic spread across neighborhoods. Police chased thousands...

In 1981, police in California uncovered a horrifying crime. The body of 23-year-old Barbara Levoy was found buried in the backyard of long-haul truck driver Ward Francis Weaver Jr. She had been kidnapped and murdered after Weaver offered roadside help. At the time, investigators believed it was an isolated crime. They were wrong.

Two decades later, history repeated itself in Oregon City. In 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond vanished...

Trinity Poague appeared to be the perfect college student. A beauty pageant winner, nursing major, and leadership scholar with a bright future ahead of her. But behind the polished image, people close to her noticed growing tension when she was left alone with her boyfriend’s 18-month-old son, Romeo “J.D.” Angeles.

On the morning J.D. died, everything seemed normal. Trinity, Julian Angeles, and the toddler spent the morning together...

Four days before Christmas in 1992, two sisters, nine-year-old Nicole Schoo and four-year-old Diana, knocked on a neighbor’s door in Chicago. They were freezing, frightened, and completely alone. Their parents had boarded a plane to Acapulco for a nine-day vacation, leaving the girls behind with frozen meals, written instructions, and no adult supervision.

As days passed, the situation inside the house spiraled. A blaring fire alarm...

On Thanksgiving weekend in 2010, three brothers Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton vanished during a court ordered holiday visit with their father, John Skelton. What was supposed to be a routine custody exchange became one of the most haunting child disappearance cases in the Midwest.

John claimed he handed the boys to a woman named Joann Taylor to keep them safe while he attempted suicide. Investigators later proved Joann Taylo...

Jamie Fraley was just twenty-two when she stepped out for a late-night hospital trip and vanished without a trace. Her purse, wallet, keys, and dog were left untouched in her locked apartment, but her phone was later found abandoned a mile away.

Detectives quickly focused on one man Ricky Simonds Sr, Jamie’s neighbor and future father-in-law. A convicted strangler fresh out of prison, he was the last person known to have seen her. B...

Kenneth Parks committed one of the strangest and most controversial crimes in modern history. In 1987, he drove fourteen miles in the middle of the night to his in-laws home and attacked them, leaving his mother-in-law dead and his father-in-law severely injured. Then, covered in blood, he walked into a police station and confessed.

But Parks insisted he had been asleep the entire time. Doctors found no signs of psychosis, only a li...

John Robinson was the last person anyone expected to become one of America's most disturbing killers. A churchgoing father, Scoutmaster, and respected Kansas City businessman, he hid a second life built on manipulation, fraud, and murder. Under his online persona, the Slavemaster, Robinson lured vulnerable women with promises of work, housing, and love, only for them to disappear without a trace.

When investigators finally close...

In January 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, launched one of the most terrifying killing sprees in American history. Over eight days across Nebraska and Wyoming, ten people were murdered in shootings, stabbings, and home invasions that blindsided communities and left entire towns sheltering indoors.

Their victims ranged from Caril’s family to strangers who simply cro...

Nineteen-year-old music student Jessie Blodgett returned home from a cast party, went to sleep in her childhood bedroom, and never woke up. By morning, her mother found a scene that shattered the quiet town of Hartford, Wisconsin. There was no forced entry and no clear motive, leaving investigators with more questions than answers.

Then, in a nearby town, a young woman survived a violent attack in a park. Her detailed account pointe...

Joseph Naso spent more than fifty years living a quiet life as a photographer, drifting from California to Nevada and blending into every neighborhood he entered. But behind the camera, he was documenting something far darker. Hidden in his home were thousands of photographs of women, mannequins posed like victims, and a handwritten “top 10” list that pointed investigators toward cold cases stretching back decades.

A routine probati...

For more than forty years, Franklin Delano Floyd hid behind fake identities, forged documents, and stolen children. His crimes began in the 1970s when he kidnapped five-year-old Suzanne Sevakis from her mother and raised her under a series of false names. As the years passed, Suzanne was forced into new identities, new locations, and a life built entirely on Floyd’s control. By the time she died in 1990, no one even knew who she re...