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

October 9, 2025 91 mins
Lauren McCluskey was a 21-year-old college student with a full life ahead of her when she was killed by a vengeful stalker ex-boyfriend. She tried on multiple occasions to get both campus police and local police involved as her dangerous situation escalated, but sadly, they failed her so many times along the way. The worst part being that if someone with the police had realized that her ex was a felon on parole–or perhaps if t...
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In October 2020, Lauryn Licari and her boyfriend Owen, both 13-years-old at the time, started receiving weird text messages about themselves from an unknown number. These weird messages would ramp up over the next few years, getting violent, graphic, and encouraging Lauryn to self-harm. After police got involved, the messages started to try to pin the sender as one of Lauryn’s classmates. Further investigation revealed Lauryn’...
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In December 1997, a fire broke out in Luz Cuevas and Pedro Vera’s house. While trying to get her kids out of the house, Luz realized that her newborn daughter Delimar was nowhere to be found. Firefighters thought that maybe she had just been taken by the fire, as they could find no trace of her anywhere. In actuality, Delimar had been kidnapped before the fire broke out. But the story doesn’t end here. In what seems like a mir...
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Check out my foundation: Higher Hope Foundation: https://www.higherhope.org/

Watch my documentaries:
530 Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUWkmOjNLk
Apartment 801: https://bit.ly/2RJ9XXr 

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On December 19, 2017, 17-year-old Nathaniel Holmes was dropped off at high school for the last day of school before Winter Break, and was never seen by friends or family again. When his mother went to pick him up at the end of the day, she was informed by administration that Nathaniel wasn’t at school, and hadn’t been to classes all afternoon. He seemingly just left the building. Strangely, Nathaniel didn’t take any of his bel...
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Jackie Vandagriff was a 24-year-old student at Texas Woman’s University, who was killed in September 2016. Her murderer was her ex-boyfriend, 30-year-old Charles Bryant, who stalked and harassed her leading up to the violent and senseless murder. Jackie did everything right, calling the police, getting a trespass warrant issued for Charles since he kept showing up at her dorm room… but sadly it wasn’t enough.

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Angelina Resendiz was a 21-year-old sailor in the Navy, who suddenly went missing on May 29, 2025, and was later found dead on June 10, near Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia. Her disappearance was not handled properly by the Naval Police, and a missing person’s alert wasn’t sent out until six whole days after she went missing.

According to the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC): “Resendiz's disappearanc...
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On March 22, 2018, 24-year-old Alex Woodworth was stabbed 16 times and killed by 20-year-old Ezra McCandless. The two had an unusual relationship with one another, in that McCandless left her boyfriend Jason Mengel for Woodworth, who was a barista at a local coffee shop that she and Mengel frequented. But eventually, McCandless wanted to get back together with Mengel, and figured she would look more sympathetic if she was a vi...
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On December 18, 2022, 20-year-old Kadin Black went missing from a friend’s house in Lower Windsor, PA. Kadin was known as a gifted athlete, but also as someone who had been in trouble at school. After hanging out with his friends, he was supposed to go over to his father’s house, but he never made it there, and was never seen again.

If you have information on Kadin’s disappearance, please call the Lower Windsor Townsh...
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Gary Farris was a well-known Georgia attorney when he was found dead, his remains in a lit burn-pile on his property. The culprit? His wife, Melody, who would go on to blame their own son for killing Gary and trying to hide his remains.


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Anyone with information on the murder of Ebby is encouraged to call the Little Rock Police Department Cold Case Unit at (501) 404-3128.


This episode is sponsored by:
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Check out my foundation: Higher Hope Foundation: https://www.higherhope.org/

Watch my documentaries:
530 Days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjUWkmOjNLk
Ap...
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In 2022, a 25-year-old Hannah Pettey got away with her life and her kids–an extremely lucky end to the situation she was in. Her husband, 36-year-old Brian Mann was charged with attempted murder after authorities say he was trying to poison Hannah with lead. How did Mann get his hands on the toxic metal? As a chiropractor, he was having some lead installed in the walls of the X-ray room in his office… an X-ray room that he als...
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If you have any information on Brittany McGlone’s murder, please contact the Wood County Sheriff’s Office at (903) 760-1008.

Follow the Justice For Brittany McGlone Facebook Page: / justiceforbrittanymcglone

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EMAIL: 
aalbers@mywoodcounty.com, bbaade@mywoodcounty.com, lsawyer@mywoodcounty.com 

Dear District Attorney Albers & All,

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In 2008, 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted from her home in North Port, Florida, and murdered. This case was widely reported on and became well known because of the circumstances surrounding her death. Despite multiple 911 calls, some operators failed to report their findings to law enforcement during the active kidnapping. This ultimately led to Denise not being found in time, when she was right under the nose of poli...
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In the early hours of September 2, 2022, 34-year-old wife and mother of two Eliza Fletcher went out for a ten mile run. She had been training for a marathon, and found that the earlier she went out for her runs, the more time she had later in the day to spend with her two young sons. But in the middle of this run, she was shot and killed. Her body was found three days later, and the culprit, 40-year-old Cleotha Abston, was cau...
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In May of 2020, 58-year-old Colleen Rebelo was found dead in her home in the shower. At first, her death was not looked at suspiciously, but that changed when her 28-year-old son Andre tried cashing in on a $1 million life insurance policy on her. Andre and his girlfriend Grace, a local Australian model and influencer, were over $100k in debt, as the two tried to finance the lavish lifestyle they portrayed online with overdraw...
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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.

Kevin's You...
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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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