True Crime Recaps

In the middle of the night, ten-year-old Robin Doan woke to the sound of gunfire. Within minutes, her mother, stepfather, and the family dog were dead. Robin survived only by playing dead and hiding under her blankets while the killer walked through her home. That killer was Levi King, a man already on a violent spree that began in Missouri before ending in a Texas farmhouse.

From Pineville to Pampa, King’s murders showed no motive ...

Rhonda Belle Martin looked like a loving wife, a devoted mother, and a kind small-town waitress. But behind that gentle exterior was a deadly secret. Over nearly two decades, she poisoned the people closest to her. Husbands. Children. Even her own mother. Each death was slow, deliberate, and wrapped in the disguise of grief.

When investigators finally connected the pattern, the truth shocked Alabama and the entire country. Why did s...

In 1971, ten-year-old Carmen Colon was seen running half-dressed down Interstate 490 in Rochester, New York, desperately waving for help as cars drove past. Two days later, she was found murdered. Her death marked the beginning of one of America’s most chilling unsolved cases, later known as the Alphabet Murders.

Over the next two years, two more girls disappeared and were found dead: 11-year-old Wanda Walkowicz and 11-year-old Mich...

Actor Daniel Wozniak had no money, a wedding he could not afford, and a plan that would shock California. Instead of working to fix his problems, he chose murder. His first victim was 26-year-old Army veteran Sam Herr, a friend who trusted him and had more than $60,000 in savings. Wozniak lured Sam to a theater, shot him twice, and began staging a twisted cover-up.

To make Sam look like a killer on the run, Wozniak tricked 23-year-o...

Megan McDonald was just 20 years old when she was found brutally beaten to death on a quiet road in Wallkill, New York. The daughter of a retired NYPD detective, Megan’s murder shocked her community and left investigators searching for answers. Her car was found abandoned. There was no robbery, no sexual assault, and no arrests for more than two decades.

Behind the scenes, detectives focused on one man: her ex-boyfriend, Edward Holl...

On an October afternoon in 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch vanished from her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Her kitchen was smeared with blood. The phone cord was ripped. An open phone book was turned to emergency numbers. But there was no body, no struggle, and no witnesses. Her two small children were left unharmed.

Investigators chased every lead. A strange car parked in the driveway. Sightings of a woman, bleeding, walking along R...

Aileen Wuornos is remembered as one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. A sex worker who murdered seven men along Florida highways, she became the subject of headlines, documentaries, and the film Monster. But behind the sensational coverage was a life marked by trauma, instability, and survival at any cost.

Before the murders, Aileen experienced abandonment, sexual abuse, homelessness, and years of violence. Wh...

In under seven minutes, a team of thieves walked into one of the most secure museums in the world and stole nearly $100 million in diamonds and royal jewelry from the Louvre in Paris. Wearing construction uniforms and using a stolen truck and crane, they took France’s crown jewels, including a diamond necklace once gifted by Napoleon.

But the flawless heist was not as perfect as it seemed. A jewel fell during the getaway, security s...

Jeffrey Manchester, known as “The Roofman,” wasn’t your typical criminal. A former Army Reservist, he used military precision to rob nearly forty fast-food restaurants across nine states, always polite and disciplined. But his boldest move came after his arrest.

Serving a forty-five-year sentence, Manchester escaped prison by hiding under a delivery truck. For months, he vanished. Then police uncovered the unbelievable truth: he had...

It was Halloween night, 1973, when 9-year-old Lisa Ann French left her home in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, dressed as a little hobo and carrying a paper sack. She was only three houses away when she disappeared.

Three days later, her body was found in a rural field. The killer wasn’t a stranger. It was her neighbor, Gerald Turner, the man everyone thought they could trust. The crime horrified the nation and changed how parents let their...

Sometimes truth is far scarier than fiction. In this episode, we uncover the real killers whose crimes inspired some of the most terrifying horror films ever made, proving that true fear often begins long before the opening credits.

In Gainesville, Florida, Danny Rolling, the “Gainesville Ripper,” murdered five college students in 1990, leaving behind a trail of brutality and fear. His crimes became the blueprint for a new era of sl...

Tonight, we step inside the minds of killers who crossed the final line—turning murder into a meal. These aren’t movie plots or campfire stories. They are real crimes that shocked the world.

Kevin Bacon, a 25-year-old hairstylist from Michigan, trusted someone he met on a dating app and vanished on Christmas Day 2019. What police found in the basement of Mark Latunski’s home was horrifying.

In California, rapper Antron “Big Lurch” Si...

In 1984, 16-year-old Theresa Fusco was fired from her job at a Long Island roller rink and vanished while walking home. Weeks later, her body was found brutally murdered. Police arrested three local men—John Kogut, Dennis Halstead, and John Restivo—and despite a lack of physical evidence, all three were convicted. They spent nearly twenty years behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit.

Decades later, advances in DNA technology unc...

They are three of the most infamous names in true crime history: Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the Menendez Brothers. From Gein’s grave robberies and macabre trophies to Dahmer’s horrific apartment crimes and the Menendez brothers’ shocking family murder, these cases shattered any sense of normalcy and redefined what horror means in real life.

Ed Gein’s crimes inspired Hollywood’s darkest creations, from Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw ...

Before he became the “Night Stalker,” Richard Ramirez was already showing signs of the evil that would define his name.

While working at a Holiday Inn, he used a master key to sneak into guests’ rooms and was caught attempting to assault a woman before her husband intervened. That early crime was ignored, but it revealed what was coming.

In 1984, Ramirez began his first known murder, killing 79-year-old Jennie Vincow in her own home....

On December 6, 1991, four teenage girls—Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, Eliza Thomas, and Amy Ayers—were closing up a North Austin yogurt shop when a horrific crime unfolded.

Just before midnight, firefighters arrived to find smoke pouring from the store. Inside, they discovered a nightmare: three of the girls were bound, gagged, stripped, and shot execution-style.

The case quickly became one of Texas’s most infamous investigations. Pol...

In 2014, Russell and Shirley Dermond seemed to have the perfect retirement life in a quiet Georgia lake community. But when neighbors stopped by one morning, they found Russell decapitated in his garage. Shirley was gone.

Ten days later, her body surfaced in Lake Oconee, weighed down with concrete blocks. There was no forced entry, no robbery, and no clear motive. Russell’s wallet and Shirley’s jewelry were still in the house. But i...

It was supposed to be his masterpiece. A sanctuary where art and love could thrive. But on a summer afternoon in 1914, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, became the scene of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.

The cook, Julian Carlton, turned on everyone in the house. Armed with an axe and a can of gasoline, he killed seven people, including Wright’s lover, Mamah Borthwick, and her two children. Wha...

Sherri Dally was a wife, a mother, and a devoted friend. On a Monday morning, she stopped at a Target in Ventura, California, to run errands. But in the parking lot, someone was waiting with handcuffs and a plan.

She thought she was being arrested. In reality, it was an abduction. Behind the plot was her husband’s mistress, Diana Haun, and together with Sherri’s husband, Michael Dally, they conspired to make Sherri disappear.

The mos...