Crime Salad

Crime Salad

Truth. Awareness. Accountability. Crime Salad is a top-ranked true crime podcast hosted by husband-and-wife duo Ashley and Ricky. Each week, they deliver in-depth coverage of real crime stories, unsolved cases, missing persons, and criminal investigations that demand closer attention. With careful research and thoughtful storytelling, they examine the evidence, the timelines, and the systemic failures that shape each case. From cold cases and suspicious deaths to wrongful convictions and domestic violence tragedies, Crime Salad focuses on facts over speculation and victims over sensationalism. Their mission is simple: uncover the truth, promote accountability, and keep the focus where it belongs: on the lives affected and the justice still sought. If you’re looking for a true crime podcast that values integrity, depth, and clarity, you’re in the right place.

Episodes

The Death of Jaleayah Davis: Accident or Something Else?

March 1, 2026 • 72 mins
On a cold November morning in 2011, a 911 call shattered the silence along Interstate 77 near Marietta, Ohio. A car sat abandoned against a guardrail. Its lights were on. The driver was nowhere to be found. Minutes later, another call came in. A body had been discovered in the roadway. What followed should have been a straightforward investigation. There were crash reports, phone records, witness statements, and forensic evidenc...
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Confidential and Dangerous: The Andrew Sadek Case

February 21, 2026 • 64 mins
Andrew Sadek was a 20-year-old college student at North Dakota State College of Science when he disappeared from his dorm in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Weeks later, his body was found in the Red River. His death was ruled a suicide, but the circumstances surrounding it have continued to raise questions. In this episode of Crime Salad, we examine Andrew’s case and the broader risks tied to confidential informant agreements, including ...
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The Katie Autry Case: The Dorm Room Attack at WKU

February 13, 2026 • 59 mins
*Listener discretion is advised. This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, severe physical injury, and death. In the early morning hours of May 2003, a piercing fire alarm shattered the silence inside Hugh Poland Hall at Western Kentucky University. Students poured out into the dark, confused and half-asleep, unaware that behind one closed dorm room door an 18-year-old freshman was fighting for her life. This episode of...
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Ryder Belisle: When Custody Became a Medical Crisis

February 6, 2026 • 57 mins
Ryder was a medically fragile child living with Sanfilippo Syndrome Type IIIB, a rare and terminal neurological disease that required constant specialized care. For years, his survival depended on strict medical routines, equipment management, and a caregiver trained to respond to emergencies. Then a custody battle moved his case from hospital rooms into courtrooms, where legal procedure began to outweigh medical warnings. In this...
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Daniel Morcombe Case Explained | Child Abduction in Australia

January 31, 2026 • 49 mins
On December 7, 2003, 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe disappeared while waiting for a bus beneath the Kiel Mountain Road overpass on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. What should have been a routine trip to Sunshine Plaza became one of the largest missing child investigations in Queensland history, spanning years of public tips, shifting timelines, and missed opportunities. In this episode of Crime Salad, Ashley and Ricky trace Daniel’s fin...
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Rachel Hoffman Case: Florida Police Informant Operation Gone Wrong (Tallahassee)

January 24, 2026 • 59 mins
In late spring 2009, Florida State University students in Tallahassee, Florida were wrapping up finals when 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman became the center of a police operation that would end in tragedy. In this episode of Crime Salad, we break down the Rachel Hoffman case, focusing on how a “controlled” and “by-the-book” confidential informant (CI) operation unraveled, and why officers reportedly waited more than 90 minutes after he...
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Nicole “Nikki” Addimando: Survival or Murder

January 16, 2026 • 54 mins
Listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussion of domestic abuse and sexual violence. Nikki advocacy links We Stand With Nikki (website): https://westandwithnikki.com/ We Stand With Nikki (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/WeStandWithNikki/ In September 2017 in Poughkeepsie, New York, a routine traffic stop led police to Nicole “Nikki” Addimando, a shaken mother of two who said she acted in self-...
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The Suspicious Circumstances: The Death of Jennifer Harris

January 9, 2026 • 53 mins
In May 2002, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris of Bonham, Texas, vanished on Mother’s Day weekend. The next morning, her green Jeep was found abandoned near the Red River in rural Fannin County. Days later, Jennifer’s body was recovered from the river. With no clear cause of death and no arrests, her case remains unsolved more than twenty years later. Follow to support this case: https://www.facebook.com/justiceforjenniferharris  ​​ht...
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The Deadly Radium Craze

December 20, 2025 • 24 mins
Crime Salad steps into Weird History, traveling back to the early 1900s, when a glowing new element promised progress, beauty, and modern life. In this episode of Weird History by Crime Salad, we explore the rise of radium mania, from the young women who became known as the Radium Girls, to the powerful corporations that insisted radium was safe while workers grew sick and died. We touch on crumbling jaws, altered death certifi...
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Kaylene Oehling: A Relentless Fight for Justice | Pittsburgh, PA

December 12, 2025 • 50 mins
Twenty-year-old Kaylene Marie Oehling disappeared from Etna, Pennsylvania, on January 10, 2020. What followed were years of confusion, frustration, and heartbreaking silence. At the center of this story is her father, Jason Oehling, whose relentless determination to find answers has never faded. For more than three years, Jason pushed for movement in a case that had stalled almost from the beginning. Then, in March 2023, Kaylene’s ...
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Codie Novack: A Family’s Continuous Fight for Justice

December 6, 2025 • 61 mins
On the night of January 4th, 2023, 26-year-old Codie Novack was found unresponsive inside a home in Silver Springs, Florida. What was first reported as a tragic accident quickly unraveled into a case filled with conflicting statements, unexplained injuries, and a timeline that never made sense to the people who loved her most. For the past two years, Codie’s family has fought for clarity in a system they believe never fully listene...
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Closed as Suicide: The Unanswered Questions in Libby Caswell’s Death

November 21, 2025 • 57 mins
National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, text START to 88788 or visit thehotline.org On a cold December night in 2017, police responded to the Sports Stadium Motel in Independence, Missouri, where 21 year old Libby Caswell was found dead inside Room 319. Her death was quickly ruled a suicide, even as the medical examiner listed the manner of death as undetermined and key surveillance footage from the motel went missin...
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Where is Fauna Frey? Missing in Southern Oregon | Josephine County

November 14, 2025 • 45 mins
Southern Oregon is known for its stunning summer landscapes, remote forests, and quiet mountain towns. But in the beauty of Josephine County, isolation and danger often live side by side. In late June of 2020, 45-year-old Fauna Frey set out on a short drive through Grants Pass and the surrounding mountain roads, a route filled with winding highways, dense forests, and long stretches with no cell service. Somewhere along that journe...
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Teresa “Terry” Peroni: Missing 1983. Found 1997. Identified 2024.

November 8, 2025 • 50 mins
In the summer of 1983, 27-year-old Teresa “Terry” Peroni disappeared from a remote counterculture community in rural Oregon. For years, rumors circulated about communes, drugs, and the controlling man she had last been seen with. Her family searched, asked questions, and followed every lead, but Terry’s trail went cold. Her name slowly faded from public memory. In 1997, human remains were discovered in the Oregon wilderness, but t...
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20 Stab Wounds: The Questionable ‘Suicide’ of Ellen Greenberg

October 31, 2025 • 66 mins
In January 2011, 27-year-old teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment, Unit 603 at the Venice Lofts. The swing-bar lock was secured from the inside, yet Ellen had been stabbed twenty times, including deep wounds to the back of her neck. Her fiancé discovered her body and called 911, but within days investigators changed the medical examiner’s original homicide ruling to suicide. More than a decade later,...
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Given to God At Atwood Lake: The Ruth Miller Case

October 25, 2025 • 48 mins
Atwood Lake Park in Ohio was known for peace and family vacations until the summer of 2025, when deputies found Ruth Miller, an Amish mother, standing knee-deep in the water claiming she had “given her child to God.” What followed became one of Ohio’s most haunting faith-related tragedies, now known as the Ruth Miller Atwood Lake case.Ashley and Ricky explore how faith, delusion, and mental illness collided in this heartbreaking st...
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Introducing: CRIMES OF...

October 20, 2025 • 7 mins
Power. Fame. Obsession. Betrayal. These are more than headlines. They are the forcesbehind some of the most unforgettable crimes in history. Crimes Of... is a weekly truecrime anthology series, hosted by Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien of Two GirlsOne Ghost, that explores a new theme each season, such as crimes of the paranormal,unsolved murders, mysterious disappearances, and more.For their first season, Sabrina and Corinne ar...
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The Disappearance of Mekayla Bali: Secrets, Sightings, and Silence

October 18, 2025 • 55 mins
Sixteen-year-old Mekayla Bali vanished in broad daylight from Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 2016. Nearly a decade later, her disappearance remains one of Canada’s most haunting mysteries.In this episode, Ashley and Ricky trace Mekayla’s final hours through security footage, phone records, and witness accounts that reveal a series of strange and unsettling moments. From cryptic texts and untraceable calls to online connections that may h...
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Missing: Oakley Carlson - Denial, Neglect, and the Fight for Justice

October 11, 2025 • 63 mins
Crime Salad dives into the case of Oakley Carlson, a 5-year-old girl from Grays Harbor County, Washington, who disappeared after being returned to her biological parents, Jordan Bowers and Andrew Carlson. This episode exposes the warning signs and system failures that continue to haunt advocates demanding justice for Oakley. Miracle Made: We’ve been loving our Miracle Made sheets, now you can too! 💫 Save 40%, get an extra 20% off...
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Trudy Appleby: The 1996 Moline Disappearance

October 3, 2025 • 54 mins
In August of 1996, 11-year-old Trudy Appleby vanished from her neighborhood in Moline, Illinois, leaving behind one of the most haunting mysteries in the Quad Cities. There was no sign of a struggle, no clear witnesses, and no immediate answers. For nearly three decades, her case remained unsolved. But behind the headlines, Trudy’s father never stopped fighting. From the very beginning, he insisted he knew who was responsible. Whi...
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