America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring
Serial killers. Unsolved murders. Investigations that gripped America. If you think you know these cases, think again. This is America's Most Infamous Crimes, a Crime House original hosted by Katie Ring. Each week, we cover the most notorious true-crime cases in American history across multiple episodes. These are the full stories, not the quick recaps, breaking down the crimes, the victims, the evidence, and how investigators closed in. New episodes drop every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. America's Infamous Crimes is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us on Instagram at @Crimehouse.
Episodes
Elizabeth Short’s mother was told her daughter had won a beauty contest. It was a reporter’s trick to get her talking, and the truth came minutes later. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring covers the morning Elizabeth was found, the newspaper war that rewrote who she was, and an envelope of her belongings scrubbed clean of every fingerprint.
Before she was “the Black Dahlia,” Elizabeth Short was a movie-struck kid from Massachusetts whose father vanished off a Boston bridge, then turned up alive twelve years later. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring traces who Elizabeth really was: the fiancé she lost days before the war ended, the stories she told strangers to get by, and the last place anyone can prove she was seen aliv...
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For nearly three hundred years, something strange has been stalking the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey: a winged, hooved, horse-headed creature first reported in 1735 and seen by hundreds in a single terrifying week in January 1909. Schools closed, po...
This week’s headline: A possible father-and-son serial killer duo unfolding in Philadelphia. A parking stop led police to Raymond and Eugene Horsch’s house: a basement lab, five urns, over a million photos and videos and a hidden safe. Five women appear dead in those files, and investigators just dug up bones in the backyard. Years earlier, Raymond published a “fictional” serial killer confession. Now police...
On September 30th, 2026, Colleen Slemmer’s mother traveled from Florida to watch the state of Tennessee execute Christa Pike. She’d been waiting thirty years. Officials administered two doses of a lethal drug, and Christa didn’t die. In the third and final part of our series on Christa Pike, Katie Ring covers the thirty years of appeals that followed her death sentence, the night the execution failed, and a case t...
The night of Colleen Slemmer’s murder, Christa Pike came back to her friend’s room and told her what she’d done. Then she showed her something she’d brought back: a chilling souvenir from the attack. In the second part of our series on Christa Pike, Katie Ring covers the murder, the investigation that came together in just 48 hours, and the trial that put an eighteen-year-old on death row.
On September 30th, 2026, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row. Two doses of a lethal drug later, she was still breathing. Now, she’s walking and talking. In the first part of our series on Christa Pike, Katie Ring goes back to the beginning: Two teenage girls, two very different childhoods, and the one place they were both sent to get their lives on track.
This week’s Headline: the case that’s been all over your feed since the Netflix documentary dropped. Mica Miller alleged years of emotional, physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse by her husband, a charismatic pastor in Myrtle Beach. She filed for divorce. She told people close to her she was afraid for her life. Two days after he was served with her papers, she was dead. And her husband has a lot to say about it.
Twenty-three years after the fire, Jennie Sodder opened an envelope with no return address and found a photo of a grown man with her son's face. On the back: "Louis Sodder." In the final part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring covers the mystery bones pulled from the cellar, a drunken claim in a Texas town, and a long-buried secret that could change everything.
For weeks, Jennie Sodder burned bones in her backyard, and every single time, they survived. So how did five children vanish in a fire without leaving a trace? In the second part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring covers the one-day inquest that closed the case, the sightings that suggested the kids were still alive, and a box the fire chief buried in the ashes.
On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family went to bed with nine children under one roof. By sunrise, the house was ash and five children were gone, without a single bone left behind. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring covers the warnings nobody took seriously, a night where everything that could go wrong did, and a father who knew it was no accident.
This week, Katie Ring has the full breakdown on the case dominating headlines: the Caleb Flynn trial. In February 2026, the worship pastor and former American Idol contestant called 911 to report that an intruder had shot his wife, Ashley, in their Tipp City home. More than 107,000 messages with his mistress, a crime scene that looked staged, and an Apple Watch that kept counting steps while he claimed he was asleep made this one o...
After thirty years of silence, BTK came back, and this time he couldn't stop sending packages. In the third and final part of our series on BTK, Katie Ring covers the communications that gave investigators everything they needed, the floppy disk that ended it, and the day Wichita found out the man they'd been looking for had been living right there the whole time.
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BTK went silent for nearly a decade and Wichita slowly exhaled. Investigators assumed he might be dead. He wasn't, he'd just stopped writing letters. In the second part of our 3-part series on BTK, Katie Ring covers the years the city thought it was over, the murders that proved it wasn't, and the man living an extraordinarily ordinary life right in the middle of all of it.
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In January 1974, a family of four was found bound and killed in their Wichita home. The killer left nothing behind. Four months later, a letter arrived at a local newspaper describing details only the murderer could know, signing off with a name he'd chosen for himself: BTK. In the first part of our 3-part series on BTK, Katie Ring traces the early murders, the taunting communications that made him notorious, and the investigation ...
Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new podcast out now called WHAT THE FACT hosted by Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy. It’s produced by the same team that brings you America's Most Infamous Crimes.
Connor and co-host Carter Roy pull three unbelievable...
This is Trending Now, America's Most Infamous Crimes' new segment for the cases everyone is talking about right now. This week, Katie Ring has the full breakdown on the Lindsay Clancy trial. In 2023, Lindsay Clancy's three young children were found dead in their Duxbury home, and she was charged with their murder. A postpartum psychosis defense, a husband whose behavior raised almost as many questions as hers, and a jury that could...
After nine victims and a decade of schemes, H.H. Holmes was finally caught. Not for murder, not for fraud, but for something far smaller. In the third and final part of our series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring covers the detective who followed children's unmailed letters across six cities, the trial that America couldn't look away from, and the confession that became his biggest lie yet.
H.H. Holmes had three wives, none of whom knew the others existed. He insured his building with four different companies, set it on fire, and kept running schemes while two women vanished from his building during the World's Fair. In the second part of our 3-part series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring covers the con man's most audacious scheme yet, and the business partner who knew too much and paid for it with his life.
You've heard of H.H. Holmes. The murder castle, the gas chambers, two hundred victims lured from the World's Fair. Almost none of it is true. In the first part of our 3-part series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring strips away the legend and tells you what's actually in the record: The medical school scams, the two wives who never knew about each other, the building that hid things behind its walls, and the woman and child who vanished fr...
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