True Crime with Kendall Rae

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Kendall Rae is a true-crime content creator on YouTube who has used her platform to spread awareness for victims and their families. Now she is bringing episodes of her YouTube true-crime series to podcast format, to hopefully create even more awareness around the cases she covers. Kendall's approach to true-crime content is empathetic and always approached with victims in mind first. Join Kendall in her journey to spread awareness and bring justice to those who need it most!

Episodes

June 12, 2025 62 mins
On the night of February 6, 2021, 26-year-old grad student Kevin Jiang left his fiancée's apartment in New Haven, CT. After he got into his car, another car crashed into it from behind. Upon getting out of his car to check on the man who hit him, Kevin was fatally shot by the driver. After the shooter got away, the case progressed from a potentially random crime to a manhunt for an armed and dangerous man.

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Melissa Lamesch was a 27-year-old mother to be. She was scheduled to be induced for childbirth in just two days. But it was in these final days of her pregnancy that she was murdered, and found dead in her burning house. Investigation into her death revealed that the house didn't just catch fire, and Melissa didn't even die as a result of the fire–she was killed and the fire was set after. Police soon discovered the man at the...
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When nursing student Haley Anderson was found dead in her apartment, suspicion quickly turned to an ex with a dark past. Kendall Rae explores the tragic case, the twisted relationship, and the international chase for justice.

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Schanda Handley was kidnapped from her home in Louisiana by two men posing as delivery workers — but this wasn’t random. In this episode, Kendall Rae unpacks the harrowing case and the shocking revelation that Schanda’s estranged husband was behind the plot. A chilling story of betrayal, survival, and strength.

Baron Li episode: She Wanted Him Dead, But He Lived: Baron L... 
Nikki Saelee McCain episode: Mom of 4...
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What was supposed to be a romantic honeymoon in paradise turned into a nightmare. In this episode, Kendall dives into the heartbreaking case of Christe Chen, a 36-year-old pharmacist from Memphis who was found brutally murdered in her luxury Fiji resort villa—just days after marrying her husband, Bradley Dawson.


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Some people will do anything for attention or personal gain. That's what happened when Rebecca Gray, then going by "Arrow" conned two men into relationships at the same time. First, she was allegedly dealing with end-stage cancer. Then she was suddenly pregnant. And on top of that, her young daughter who she had before meeting either man, supposedly came from a previous abusive relationship. In the end, nothing was gained.
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On July 9, 2012, 48-year-old Sarah Greenhalgh was found dead by firefighters, after a fire had been set in her home. But Sarah wasn’t killed by the fire–she was shot dead. The police had a suspect whom Sarah was posting about online just hours before her murder. But despite this, almost 13 years later, justice has still not been served.

If you have any information about Sarah’s murder, please contact the Fauquier Coun...
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On August 20th, 2023, 32-year-old Betty Bowman died in the hospital, where she suffered from heart problems, lung problems, and needing part of her colon removed. Toxicology reports showed a drug in her system that was not supposed to be there. Her husband, Connor Bowman, was charged with second and first degree murder–he’s accused of poisoning her. And not only that, he was caught changing his dating profile to say "widower" ...
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On February 14th, 2025, 14-year-old Emily Pike’s dismembered body was found in garbage bags in a remote part of an Arizonan forest. This discovery came about three weeks after she had gone missing. Not only was this a horrible crime committed against a child, but Emily was also a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, and violent crime is one of the leading causes of death in the Native American population.

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17-year-old Angelina Gonzales was leaving a cheerleading banquet when she was picked up by someone and brought to their house. That person was 18-year-old Daniel Rodriguez, her ex-boyfriend, who is now accused of stabbing and killing Angelina. When she didn't return home, her location was tracked by family, and pinged at Daniel's house. Her father went to investigate and bring Angelina home, only to find the house taped up and...
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In 2019, 38-year-old Michael Cochran suddenly died. Prosecutors say it was his wife Natalie, who poisoned him with insulin in order to hide her $2 million Ponzi scheme, which she ran for two years.

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In August 2024, 44-year-old Ryan Borgwardt went missing after leaving for a kayaking trip. But this wasn’t a typical missing person case. Borgwardt had faked his own death in order to flee to the country for a woman in Uzbekistan, leaving behind his wife and three children.

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After opening up about her abuse at the hands of her husband, Naresh, 28-year-old Mamta Kafle Bhatt disappeared. She had expressed concern for their new baby, who Naresh kept threatening to give away… so it didn’t make sense when Naresh started claiming that she had left the baby behind and ran away to “either New York or Texas.” Though her body still has not been located, DNA from blood found on a handheld saw of Naresh’s poi...
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In 2024, 13-year-old middle schooler Savannah Copeland was stabbed to death by a local 15-year-old boy. Using the tracking app Life360, her parents were able to track her phone which helped in leading them towards her location on a trail in the woods. Instead of a regular memorial on the spot where Savannah was found, her parents wanted to turn the area into a peaceful place in nature for people to enjoy or go to pay their res...
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In 2015, 18-year-old AJ Hadsell was on Spring break during her freshman year at college when she went missing from her family home. Her body was found weeks later in a ditch; she had been poisoned with heroin. But it wasn’t until years later that there was a conviction in the case: AJ’s stepfather, Wesley.

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In 2018, 28-year-old Kevin Graves went to the EDM festival, Electric Forest, in Michigan for the first time. It was during this trip that he suddenly went missing. His family and friends searched nonstop for him, handing out fliers and even putting up a billboard alerting people to Graves' disappearance. But after six and a half years, Graves' skeletonized remains were finally found on the festival grounds; an extremely bitter...
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In October 2024, Suzanne Simpson, a wife and mother, suddenly vanished. To this day, her body has not been found. Her husband, Brad Simpson, was indicted on counts of murder and aggravated assault after Suzanne’s DNA was found on a saw he was hiding–thus leaving their four children parentless.

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In 2023, Brendan Banfield and his au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães–whom he was having an affair with–planned and went through with the murder of Banfield's wife, Christine, and another man, Joe Ryan. And they had tried to make it look like a pre-arranged fetish sex meetup gone wrong at the Banfield house.

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