What’s the Crime?

In 1991 Esther and Frank Mc Cann were so excited about adopting beautiful baby Jessica into their home in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Strange incidents in the home lead to a terrible accident.. but there was much more going on behind the scenes than anyone could have imagined.  

Last Call normally signals the last time to order a drink at a bar before closing.. but in the 1990’s in New York, the gay community were worried as it looked they had a serial killer on their hands, who struck at ‘last call’.

Lululemon is a premium athleisure store and in Maryland 2011, Lululemon hit the headlines for a very different reason. A robbery gone wrong led to a fatality that no one could have predicted. 

In the Spring of 2016 a 27 year old scholar, Yingying Zhang, flies over from China to start a new life, to undertake  PHD in the University of Illinois. Excited to start a new life and study in the USA, Yingying wasn’t aware of the dangers lurking in this American college.  

Dave Kroupa thought he had met the girl of his dreams when she walked into his auto repair shop in Omaha, Nebraska in 2012, but unbeknownst to Dave a nightmare had just begun

When 10 year olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left home, in the small town of Soham, UK 2002, their photograph would be soon be one of the most recognisable pictures in the country as the whole world wondered where were Holly and Jessica? 

The murder of young, mother of two, Rachel Callaly in her home in Dublin in 2004 sent shockwaves throughout the country. But who was to blame and why? 

In the 1970's hitchhikingwas a rite of passage for America's youth. For 20 year old Colleen Stan it was a cheap and easy way to get around and the dangers of this were not at the forefront of her mind. Colleen was to learn that sometimes the most dangerous of people can look like the most trusting.

Welcome back to the third season of 'What's the Crime'. One hot Summer night in Texas, 8 year old Jennifer Schuett is trying to sleep in her ground floor apparment. But with the light left on and the window open Jennifer has no idea who is watching her from the outside. 

The 1990’s was a prolific time for women going missing in Ireland, we remember the names of the unfound.. Annie Mc Carrick, Jojo Dullard. The names Patricia Mc Gauley and Mary Cummins were once on that list.. but little did they know they had both spent time with a predator. 

Infidelity, lies, and deceit in a small highly religious area in Northern Ireland led to something that no one expected or could believe.

After a burglary gone wrong, Sherri Rasmussen was murdered in cold blood. However.. not all is as it seems.

When a family of six went missing while camping in Canada.. no one could have predicted what had happened.

When three women mysteriously go missing from Yosemite National Park, the search is on to find out what happened and where they are…

7 year old Steven Staynor was walking home from school the last time anyone saw him. It was years later a startling discovery was made.

Elyse Pahler was a beautiful smart young girl with no doubt a bright future ahead of her, when her parents wake to find Elyse isn’t in her room in the morning panic and uncertainty arise, where is Elyse?

On today’s bonus episode which Gemma narrates.. 

Sophie was so excited to start her new adventure in London working for a glamorous couple in a prosperous area… however she, nor anyone else could of predicted what exactly this would entail.. 

For the penultimate episode of season 1 of ‘Whats the Crime’ this Irish crime rocked the country. The Grangegorman Dublin murders rocked the country, the grotesque manner of the killings shocked everyone... but the killer wasn’t done.