We’re celebrating April, the month of “April Fools” by having a little fun with true crime. The best person I know to help me with this is my friend and fellow podcaster Leroy Luna, host of Excuse Me, That’s Illegal. Leroy will be my co-host on April’s episodes, so come and join us for true crime stories and quizzes. This week, we try to stump each other with a guessing game called “Fake or Felony?”.  Resources:  https://clickhole.com/ California man who beat wife to death with cement block claims group infected him with mayonnaise, reports say | Fox News Thieves snort cremated human, animal remains believing the ashes were cocaine – New York Daily News (nydailynews.com) https://www.nj.com/bergen/2017/10/the_strange_story_of_2_young_women_who_feds_say_he.html Links: Listen to Excuse Me, That’s Illegal - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/excuse-me-thats-illegal/id1526994548 Follow on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@excusemethatsillegal.pod Facebook Group - https://www.tiktok.com/@excusemethatsillegal.pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young couple out for a leisurely day at the lake find themselves faced with one of the most infamous killers of the 20th century. Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard were victims of a brutal attack by a hooded man who called himself “The Zodiac.” They survived the initial attack after being left for dead but still faced a fierce battle to summon help. Only one would survive.  Resources:  Zodiac, Robert Graysmith, Penguin Random House Publishers, 1986.  Napa Valley Sheriff’s Department Interview with Bryan Hartnell (NSO CASE #105907) at Queen of the Valley Hospital, September 28, 1969.  Zodiac Killer Police Report, Page 1 Zodiac Killer KPIX News report 1969 - YouTube   1969 Zodiac Killer news clip Interview with college student Bryan Hartnell and bus driver - YouTube KGO Story (zodiackiller.com) KCRA Story 1 (zodiackiller.com)  Bryan Hartnell – Shadow of the Zodiac The Zodiac Killer - Crime Museum The Zodiac Killer: A Timeline - HISTORY https://zodiackillerfacts.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=270&fullsize=1  Bryan Hartnell Interview in 1969 : MrBaseball2 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive  Zodiac Killer Letters: KRON-TV Compilation (1969-70) - Bay Area Television Archive (sfsu.edu) Something good comes from tragic tale – Redlands Daily Facts  Sponsors:  Dipsea - Get an extended 30-day free trial when you go to www.dipseastories.com/ONCE  Wondery/This is Actually Happening - Follow This is Actually Happening wherever you listen to podcasts. You can listen ad-free on Amazon Music or Wondery app.  Links:  Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Follow Once Upon a Crime on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@OnceUponACrimePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This month I’m sharing cases of people who, against all odds, survived some of the worst killers in modern history. In this week’s story, a teenage girl is picked up by a seemingly ordinary couple and then spends two days trapped in a nightmare. She is the fifth victim of one of the rarest types of killers on record - a serial killer couple. But Kate Moir would keep her wits about her, and even though she was only seventeen, she outsmarted the evil duo, ending their killing spree. Resources: The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime, Mitzi Szereto, Editor, Mango Publishing, 2022. Catherine, David Birnie: The macabre, sadistic Moorhouse murders | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site David and Catherine Birnie: Australia’s worst serial killer couple still haunt Kate Moir | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site 'How I escaped the house of horrors': Hostage of Australia’s most evil killers tells how she fled (yahoo.com) Links: Join our Patreon for bonus episodes and ad-free episodes - www.patreon.com/ onceuponacrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this month’s episodes I’ll tell you stories of people who were fortunate enough to survive horrifying experiences. In this episode, a family dream vacation turns into a nightmare on the sea. All seems lost when the ship sinks with all onboard. But by some miracle, a sole survivor is found. The story she tells about what happened onboard The Bluebelle will horrify all who hear it.  Resources:  Delivered From Evil: True Stories Of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived, Ron Franscell, Fair Winds Press, 2011.  Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean, Tere Duperrault and Richard D. Logan, Titletown Publishers, 2010.  SURVIVED: 11-Year-Old Found Alone in Middle of Ocean - YouTube Extraordinary Lives | Tere Jo Duperrault - YouTube Book 'Em: Alone, Orphaned on the Ocean - CBS News Terry Jo Duperrault – the girl who survived her entire family being brutally murdered at sea | Mysteriesrunsolved The Sea Waif: A Murder on the Ocean and the Little Girl Who Stayed Alive | Mental Floss Julian Arthur Harvey | American Air Museum Terry Jo Duperrault Family Now (thefamilynation.com)  Sponsors:  Dipsea - www.dipseastories.com/once  Rocket Money - www.rocketmoney.com/once Wondery - Cold Season 3 - Listen to COLD wherever you get your podcasts. Prime Members can binge the entire series ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this second part of a two-part episode, in their quest to be transformed into vampires, Daniel and Manuela Ruda conclude that the only way to prove their loyalty to Satan is by performing a human sacrifice. Their crime would be described as “a picture of cruelty and depravity” such as had never been seen before in the German town of Witten.  The subsequent trial would become a media circus with the two perpetrators proudly displaying their bizarre antics in front of the press and the public.  Resources:  The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime, Edited by Mitzi Szereto, Mango Publishing, 2022.  Murder Dictionary Podcast: “Occult Murders: Daniel and Manuela Ruda” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/occult-murders-daniel-manuela-ruda/id1169967004?i=1000389846158 https://serialkillercalendar.com/A-MATCH-MADE-IN-HELL-DANIEL-AND-MANUELA-RUDA.php  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/nov/16/thefarright.uk Satanist couple jailed for killing – The Irish Times  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1383474/Last-kiss-as-Satanist-killers-are-locked-up.html https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3674781/satanist-killer-who-butchered-friend-in-coffin-to-drink-his-blood-is-back-in-court-charged-with-plotting-to-kill-his-ex-wife/ https://expressdigest.com/german-murderer-who-drank-his-victims-blood-is-freed/ Sponsors: Wondery - Listen to Cold, Season 3 wherever you get your podcasts. Amazon Prime members can binge the entire series ad-free on Amazon Music.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Daniel Ruda, a 26-year-old, self-described “black vampire” immersed himself in Germany’s goth and death metal scene as an outlet for his dark proclivities. In the year 2000, he was ready to find his soulmate or, as he put it, his “princess of darkness” and placed a singles ad in a German black-metal magazine. 23-year-old Manuela Bartel answered his ad and the two soon became inseparable.  Separately, they participated in strange hobbies like sleeping in graves to “see what it felt like” and filing their teeth into fangs. But together they were deadly. In 2001, they jointly committed a gruesome murder. Was their violent behavior a result of mental illness or were they purely evil?  Resources:  The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime, Edited by Mitzi Szereto, Mango Publishing, 2022.  Murder Dictionary Podcast: “Occult Murders: Daniel and Manuela Ruda” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/occult-murders-daniel-manuela-ruda/id1169967004?i=1000389846158 https://serialkillercalendar.com/A-MATCH-MADE-IN-HELL-DANIEL-AND-MANUELA-RUDA.php  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/nov/16/thefarright.uk https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/06/17/tom-leppard-tattooed-man--obituary/ https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=cj_fac https://www.cesnur.org/testi/gothic.htm Sponsors: Dipsea - www.dipseastories.com/once - Get an extended 30-day free trial when you use our special URL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I’m pleased to have Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jake Halpern, back with me again to discuss a new case he investigated for his podcast “Deep Cover”. Deep Cover, a Pushkin podcast, is all about people who lead double lives. In the new season, Jake follows the story of a girl who goes missing without a trace in South Carolina in 1999. Years later, the missing girl is connected to another missing person’s case on the other side of the country. There are twists and turns in this story that you won’t see coming connected to stolen identities, a female fugitive on the run from the law, and even espionage.  Join me for this fascinating discussion with Jake where we talk about his latest case, female victims and perpetrators and how they are portrayed by the media, and the ethical dilemma faced by everyone who reports or podcasts about true crime. You can listen to episodes of Deep Cover: Never Seen Again beginning on January 30th. A new episode releases every Monday but you can binge the entire season by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. Go to www.pushkin.fm to find out more  You can also listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Overcast, and on YouTube.  Sponsors: RocketMoney - www.rocketmoney.com/once  Fabric by Gerber Life - www.meetfabric.com/once Listen to Stolen Hearts on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and other podcast apps. Listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We continue the story of Barbora Skrlova from where we left of last week. In part two, you’ll learn all the details of the bizarre unfolding of events in the Mauerova home. I’ll conclude by telling you the unbelievable tale of how Barbora Skrlova almost escaped all responsibility for her part in this horrendous abuse case.  Resources:  Book: “The Kurim Case: A Terrifying True Story of Child Abuse, Cults & Cannibalism” by Ryan Green, 2016.  The Kurim Case: https://youtu.be/DN3nelsuDx0 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/czechs-appalled-and-enthralled-by-obscure-cult-and-fake-identities-1.931498 https://mindlifetv.com/movies/torture-cannibalism-and-incestuous-sex-the-chilling-story-of-barbora-skrlova/# https://www.okaybliss.com/barbora-skrlova-now/ https://signalhorizon.com/orphan-first-kill-ending-explained-the-real-story-of-barbora-skrlova-and-a-fitting-origin-story-for-esther/ Links:  Human Monsters - Listen wherever you listen to podcasts or at https://humanmonsterspod.podbean.com. Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For our first series of 2023, we’ll do a deep dive into a case that has so many bizarre twists and turns a Hollywood horror movie was later based on it. In this first part of a 2-part series, a child who has been placed in a children’s home after allegations of abuse goes missing. When he’s found over a thousand miles away in the company of a strange man, the police discover a shocking secret. He is not who he said he was - nor is he a young boy - but an adult woman. The story of Barbora Skrlova only becomes more strange as the truth is revealed.  Resources:  Book: “The Kurim Case: A Terrifying True Story of Child Abuse, Cults & Cannibalism” by Ryan Green, 2016.  The Kurim Case: https://youtu.be/DN3nelsuDx0 https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/boys-don-t-cry-woman-arrested-in-norway-for-impersonating-teen-a-528047.html https://www.irishtimes.com/news/czechs-appalled-and-enthralled-by-obscure-cult-and-fake-identities-1.931498 https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-grail-movement-cult/amandasedlakhevener https://mindlifetv.com/movies/torture-cannibalism-and-incestuous-sex-the-chilling-story-of-barbora-skrlova/# Sponsors:  Rocket Money: www.rocketmoney.com/once Links:  Human Monsters - Listen wherever you listen to podcasts or at https://humanmonsterspod.podbean.com. Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2008, Travis Alexander was brutally murdered in his home in Mesa, Arizona. His ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias, was convicted of the slaying and was later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.  A new Lifetime Television movie tells the behind-the-scene story of Jodi’s life behind bars. In this follow-up to one of Lifetime's most successful true crime dramas, JODI ARIAS: DIRTY LITTLE SECRET, we see a whole new side of Jodi and follow the story that has captivated the public for nearly a decade.  In this episode, I speak with Donavan Bering, a cellmate of Jodi Arias’ who became her good friend and staunchest supporter - that is until she came to learn what kind of person Jodi really was and realized that her claims of innocence were all lies.  Jodi Arias: Bad Behind Bars, produced for Lifetime by Cineflix Productions premieres Saturday, January 21 at 8/7c.  Sponsors: Fabric by Gerber Life - Apply for an affordable term life insurance policy in just ten minutes and secure your family’s future by going to www.meetfabric.com/once. Rocket Money - Stop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions and manage your expenses the easy way by going to www.RocketMoney.com/once. Suspect Season 2 - Listen to Suspect wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Amazon Prime Members can binge the entire series ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today.  Links:  You can listen to Once Upon a Crime’s in-depth coverage of the Jodi Arias case in a 2-part series from Season 1. Listen to Episodes 43 and 44 on your favorite podcast app or listen on our website:  https://www.truecrimepodcast.com/episode-043-a-woman-scorned-jodi-arias-part-1/ https://www.truecrimepodcast.com/episode-044-a-woman-scorned-jodi-arias-part-2/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this last of our special holiday episodes, Esther and Lorena discuss the Netflix documentary “I Am Vanessa Guillen" with Margot, host of the podcast Military Murder.   Vanessa Guillen was a United States Army soldier who went missing from a Texas military base in 2020. Her family would face an uphill battle trying to get answers when Vanessa’s superiors closed ranks and did little to investigate her disappearance. But the efforts of her family through protests and social media posts that went viral sparked a movement that shone a spotlight on abuses that had, up to that point, gone unchecked.  Margot’s podcast, Military Murder, is a true crime podcast that covers cases where the victims or the perpetrators are members of the military.. Margot has served in the military and her knowledge and experience provided additional insights and information regarding this case and the documentary. She covered Vanessa Guillen’s case on her podcast.  You can listen to Military Murder on all your favorite podcast apps or at www.militarymurderpodcast.com. Links:  Link to the Netflix documentary: https://www.netflix.com/title/81460514 Link to an article about the Vanessa Guillen case: https://www.nytimes.com/article/vanessa-guillen-fort-hood.html Esther’s appearance on True Crime Binge w/Bob Ruff: https://audioboom.com/posts/8169182-esther-ludlow-once-upon-a-crime Esther’s appearance on Crawlspace Podcast w/Tim and Lance: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/335-once-upon-a-crime-with-esther-ludlow/id1187326340?i=1000588557865 And the YouTube video:  https://youtu.be/-_VZFhz2uss Patreon: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime  Sponsors:  Wondery-Exhibit C - Join now by following Wondery-Exhibit-C on Facebook or on the web at www.WonderyExhibitC.com Fabric Life Insurance - meetfabric.com/ONCE.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode Esther and Lorena talk with Bob Ruff, host of the podcasts Truth and Justice and True Crime Binge. They discuss the Netflix documentary series "Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist" that details one of the most high-profile incidents of catfishing on record. Manti Te’o was a celebrated linebacker from Hawaii who played for Notre Dame and was on track to become a first round draft pick for the NFL when a scandal marred his future prospects. He’d been in a long-term relationship with a girl who, it turned out, didn’t exist. He’d been fooled into believing that his long-distance girlfriend, Lennay Kukua, had died from a chronic illness. But, instead, it was discovered that Te’o’s girlfriend was actually a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Esther and Lorena also talk about hanging with podcasters at the Generation Why 10- Year Anniversary Livestream, Bob’s latest investigation on Truth and Justice, and who he has coming up as special guests on True Crime Binge. And, once and for all, we get to the bottom of the mystery - did Bob attend Notre Dame University or did he not? All this and more shenanigans on this very fun episode! Links: Link to the Netflix docuseries Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist: https:// www.netflix.com/title/81580141 A link to an article about the Manti Te’o catfishing case: https://www.usmagazine.com/ celebrity-news/pictures/the-manti-teo-catfish-controversy-a-complete-timeline/ Esther was recently a guest on True Crime Binge. Listen here: https://audioboom.com/ posts/8169182-esther-ludlow-once-upon-a-crime Sponsors: MasterClass - This holiday, give one annual membership and get one free. www.masterclass.com/once. Rocket Money - Get rid of old subscriptions with Rocket Money now. www.rocketmoney.com/once. Wondery-Exhibit C - Join now by following Wondery-Exhibit-C on Facebook or on the web at www.WonderyExhibitC.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special holiday episode Esther and Lorena discuss the Netflix series "The Watcher" with Tim and Lance from Crawlspace Podcast. We compare and contrast this fictionalized version of the true mystery "The Watcher House". In 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus purchased a home in New Jersey. Soon afterward they began receiving letters from an anonymous person who said they were watching the house and young family. When the letters became threatening they questioned whether they should give up their dream home.  A link to an article about this case with photos of the house: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/us/the-watcher-house-stalker-trnd/index.html Esther covered this case on Halloween Tales: Volume 2 in 2017, Episode #64. Link here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/once-upon-a-crime-true-crime/id1122650415?i=1000393914220 Here's a link to the Netflix series: https://g.co/kgs/gvwymw Esther was recently a guest on Crawlspace. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/335-once-upon-a-crime-with-esther-ludlow/id1187326340?i=1000588557865 or watch on their YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/-_VZFhz2uss To watch the uncut version of this episode become a Patreon member! Go to  www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime to join!  Sponsors:  Best Fiends: Go to the App Store or Google play to download Best Fiends for free. Chime: See for yourself why Chime is so loved at chime.com/once   Masterclass: This holiday, give the perfect gift of an annual MasterClass membership and get one free! Go to masterclass.com/once today. Scamfluencers: Follow Scamfluencers wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen ad-free on the Amazon Music or Wondery app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For many people around the world, ringing in the new year brings with it the promise of new hope, a fresh start, and renewed possibilities. But each year of Ricky Javon Gray’s short life brought only violence, brutality, and death ending in a shocking murder spree over New Year’s weekend 2006.  Sources:  “The Visitors” by Melissa Scott Sinclair for Style Weekly, October 20, 2010. https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/the-visitors/Content?oid=1381013 “Man convicted of grisly murders of Virginia couple, daughters” Associated Press, August 17, 2006.  “String of Slayings Shatters Richmond” by Carol Morello for The Washington Post, Jan 15, 2006. “Gray v. Commonwealth”, Supreme Court of Virginia, Decided June 8, 2007. Retrieved from FindLaw.com.  “Cold Blooded” on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck1M87CT1Tk “Lawyers describe childhood abuse as ‘sexual slavery’ as they argue Ricky Gray should be spared from death” by Gary A. Harki for PilotOnline.com, Dec 13, 2016.  “Ricky Gray’s execution took more than 30 minutes. His attorneys want to know why” by Rachel Weiner for The Washington Post, Jan 19, 2017.  “Virginia Becomes First Southern State to Abolish the Death Penalty” by Samantha O’Connell, AmericanBar.org, March 21, 2021.  Sponsors:  Best Fiends - Download Best Fiends for FREE on the App Store or Google Play. Hunt a Killer - www.huntakiller.com/once and use code ONCE for December discounts and limited edition merchandise.  Parade - Get up to 45% off with code BFONCE at https://yourparade.com/BFONCE.  Wondery - The Vanished - Follow The Vanished on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or listen early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus.  Smile - Smile, the hit horror movie is now streaming on Parmount+. Head to paramountplus.com to try it free.  Links:  Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime to listen to all episodes ad-free and gain access to bonus episodes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Christmas Eve, 1985 a grim discovery was made on a frozen field outside of Chester, Nebraska. The body of a child had been abandoned. The mystery of who the anonymous child who locals dubbed “Little Boy Blue” would take two years to solve. When the responsible party was identified, investigators began to suspect that an Amish man, Eli Stutzman, just might be a serial killer.  Resources:  Mystery of 'Little Boy Blue' solved - UPI Archives Crimes of Eli Stutzman, aka The Amish Serial Killer, investigated on ID (monstersandcritics.com) Eli Stutzman | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers Friday marks 25 years since Christmas Eve tragedy - Hebron Journal Register STUTZMAN, DANIEL, LITTLE BOY BLUE - Thayer County, Nebraska | LITTLE BOY BLUE STUTZMAN, DANIEL - Nebraska Gravestone Photos (nebraskagravestones.org)  Eli Stutzman Part 01 : Barn Fires & Bodies - YouTube Eli Stutzman Part 02 : Little Boy Blue - YouTube The Amish Serial Killer Eli Stutzman Was Anything But Provincial (ranker.com) Types of Amish (Who Are They, and How Do They Live?) (amishbaskets.com)  Sponsors:  Julie - www.JulieCare.co or find Julie at your nearest Walmart.  MasterClass - www.masterclass.com/once to give one annual membership and get one free!  Links:  www.Patreon.com/onceuponacrime YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/OnceUponACrimePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young mother goes missing after a Thankgiving Day shopping trip in 2018. After meticulous detective work on the part of several law enforcement agencies answers come to light. The perpetrator would be someone no one would suspect - least of all Kelsey Berreth the victim. This case has us pondering the question do we really know the dark thoughts of the people closest to us?  Resources:  https://www.insideedition.com/kelsey-berreth-case-what-to-know-about-the-missing-colorado-mom-last-seen-on-thanksgiving-day-49154 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/patrick-frazee-s-ex-girlfriend-reveals-kelsey-berreth-s-last-n1078236 https://people.com/crime/people-magazine-investigates-kelsey-berreth-murder/ Application and Affidavit for Arrest Warrant.pdf (state.co.us) Patrick Frazee's Mom Did Not Make 'Witch Is Dead' Facebook Post | Crime News (oxygen.com) Kelsey Berreth remains possibly found as tooth fragment found at killer fiance Patrick Frazee farm | Daily Mail Online Human tooth found near burned area on Patrick Frazee's ranch | 9news.com Patrick Frazee moved to Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility (denver7.com)  Sponsors:  Microdose Gummies - www.microdose.com - Use code ONCE for 30% off your first order and free shipping. Best Fiends - Download for FREE on the App Store or Google Play.  Links: Facebook Group: Once Upon a Crime Podcast Fan Page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505 Patreon: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/onceuponacrimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In today’s episode, I’ll share three strange and intriguing true crime cases currently in the news - a suspected serial killer hunting for victims in a small California town, a gruesome discovery on a local walking trail, and a bizarre discovery unearthed in a San Francisco Bay Area mansion’s back garden. Resources:  “Suspect is Arrested in Series of Killings in Stockton, Calif., Police Say”, Eduardo Medina, The New York Times, Oct 15, 2022 “Stockton serial killings: Everything we know now about suspect Wesley Brownlee”, Daniel Macht, Hilda Flores, KCRA 3, Oct 19, 2022 “Timeline: Stockton police arrest suspect linked to six serial killings”, Gabriel Porras, ABCNews.go.com, Oct 16, 2022 “What we’re learning about victims of the Stockton serial killings” Maricela DelaCruz, KCRA 3, Oct 19, 2022  “Coroner IDs Woman Found on Fire in Antioch, Suspects in Custody”, Bay City News, Oct 24, 2022 “Antioch Police Say Two Arrested in Homicide Case of Woman Found Burned on Mokelumne Trail”, East County Today, Oct 24, 2022 “2 Charged with Mutilation for Antioch Burned Woman’s Death”, Amy Larson, KRON News, Oct 27, 2022 “Atherton mystery mansion once owned by man convicted of murder: court records”, Amy Larson, Dan Kerman, KRON News, Oct 22, 2022.  “Update: Buried car unearthed in Atherton Saturday and taken away by tow truck”, Angela Swartz,The Almanac, Oct 22, 2022  “Buried Car Removed from Atherton Backyard Taken to Crime Lab”, Thom Jensen and Stephanie Guzman, NBC News, Oct 24, 2022 https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/buried-car-removed-atherton-backyard/3037992/ “Former owner of Atherton estate with mysterious buried car has history of murder, sunken yacht”, Julia Prodis Sulek, Bay Area News Group, Oct 24, 2022  “Buried car in Atherton: Onsite investigation complete, still no human remains found”, Angela Swartz, The Almanac, Oct 24, 2022 Links:  Episode #84 of Once Upon a Crime - “Last Stop: The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping”  https://www.truecrimepodcast.com/episode-084-last-stop-the-chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505 Sponsors: Listen to the Amazon Music exclusive podcast, SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow, in the Amazon Music App. Download the app today. So start your credit journey with Chime.Get started at chime.com/once Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Nightmare Before Halloween, Part 2 …1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Once Upon a Crime. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem? So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’ …but be warned… …bad things happen in these woods…. Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance: In this Part 2 Episode:  - True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj] - Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z] - The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn] - Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast] - Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory] - Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases] - Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh] - Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w] - Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet] - Morbidology [https://tinyurl.com/mshyvxyt] - Dark Pountine [https://tinyurl.com/ycydanm9]  - Hillbilly Horror Stories [https://tinyurl.com/567vxrkz]  - True Consequences [https://tinyurl.com/39fpfv3h]  - Gone Cold [https://tinyurl.com/ytzxudt8] - Crime Stories with Nancy Grace & Crime Online [https://tinyurl.com/3dxp47wf] - True Crime IRL & True Crime Sleep Stories [https://tinyurl.com/ykzwmnxr] Links: Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Photos of altars or ofrendas and other images of Dia De Los Muertos: https://www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2014-10-17/photos-dia-de-los-muertos-celebrations-from-around-the-world Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

…1 campfire… …1 dark forest… …31 bone-chilling stories… …Will YOU survive the night? This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including Once Upon a Crime. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem? So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’ …but be warned… …bad things happen in these woods…. Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance: In this Part 1 Episode:  - Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay] - Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk] - Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]  - Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines] - Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful] - Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore] - Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten] - The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y] - Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com] - Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d] - The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral] - Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast] - The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase] - True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs] - Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura] Sponsors:  Best Fiends - Download Best Fiends FREE on the App Store or Google Play Outschool - www.outschool.com/once and use code once to get $15 off your child’s first tutoring session. Hunt a Killer - www.huntakiller.com/once and use code once for $10 off your purchase. Julie - Go go www.juliecare.co to learn more or find Julie at your nearest Walmart today. Links: Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

N.W.A. became one of the most influential hip-hop artists of all time and became one of the first rap groups to reach platinum status with their debut album Straight Outta Compton. In 1989, they took the stage in front of a crowd of over 20,000 fans in Detroit, Michigan. But the group had been forbidden from performing one of their most controversial songs. When they chose to do so anyway, all hell broke loose.  Resources:  “The real story behind N.W.A.’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Detroit riot” by Lee DeVito for Detroit Metro Times, August 17, 2015.  https://www.metrotimes.com/music/the-real-story-behind-nwas-straight-outta-compton-detroit-riot-2362596 “Retired Detroit Sergeant recalls telling N.W.A. they couldn’t play ‘F*** tha Police’ at 1989 concert” by John Counts for Michigan Live, August 27, 2015.  https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2015/08/former_detroit_sergeant_recall.html “The famous 1989 Detroit concert by N.W.A., then and now” by Julie Hinds for Detroit Free Press, August 13, 2015.  https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2015/08/13/straight-outta-compton-movie-detroit-ice-cube-joe-louis-arena/31496317/ “The True Story of N.W.A. Playing ‘Fuck Tha Police’ Live in Detroit” by Steve Knopper for GQ, July 21, 2020.  https://www.gq.com/story/nwa-fuck-the-police-live-detroit Sponsors:  Best Fiends - Download Best Fiends FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. The Generation Why Podcast - Follow the Generation Why Podcast on Amazon Music or listen early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App.  Links:  Listen to True Crime Binge on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, ad-free, early release episodes, and “Behind the Scenes” peeks into Once Upon a Crime. www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robert Smith formed the band The Cure with his schoolmates when he was still in middle school. They found early success and soon began touring around the world. But their sobriety and mental health began to suffer from the strain while on tour. It all came to a dramatic end on stage in Brussels in 1982.  Resources:  “The Crack Up” by Tonino Cagnucci, October 11, 2014. https://thecuretc.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/the-crack-up-2/ “The ‘one time’ Robert Smith was really frightened with ‘The Cure’” by Jordan Potter for Far Out Magazine, August 20, 2022. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/time-robert-smith-really-frightened-the-cure/ The Story of “The Cure” (2004), More Music Shows, May 15, 2020, YouTube. https://youtu.be/9W7vOJC1qLI Sponsors:  Hunt a Killer - https://huntakiller.com/once and use offer code ONCE for $10 off your purchase. Chime - Get started building your credit with Chime. www.chime.com/once  MasterClass - Get 15% off an annual membership at www.masterclass.com/once . Julie - www.JulieCare.co or find Julie at your nearest Walmart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our first “Rocktober” episode of the month I’ll tell you the story of the Bad Boy of Rock and Roll - Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses. In July of 1991, Guns N’ Roses was on its 28-month “Use Your Illusion” tour when the lead singer got into a fight with a fan kicking off a 3-hour riot in St. Louis, Missouri. Guns N’ Roses would be banned from performing in St. Louis for years and face criminal and civil charges as a result.  Resources:  “Guns N’ Roses: The St. Louis Incident” https://youtu.be/1qVzAA-v3qM “Looking Back at the Riverport Riot” by David Durchholtz for Billboard, July 26, 2017 “Reclusive Rocker Breaks His Silence” Luke Bainbridge for The Guardian, Oct 25, 2008 “Axl Rose’s Tragic Real-Life Story” by Rob Smith and Brian Boone for The Grunge, August 30, 2022.  Thanks to our sponsors: Download BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, I’ll cover a case that sparked a national debate and shone a spotlight on discrepancies in the justice system regarding the treatment and rights of survivors of sexual assault. Brock Turner was a first-year student at Stanford University when he was accused of sexually assaulting a young woman. The media portrayal of the perpetrator and the leniency he received at sentencing would fuel public outrage regarding this highly publicized case.  Resources:  Know My Name: A Memoir, Chanel Miller, Penguin Books, 2019.  “Know My Name: Chanel Miller’s Story”, 60 Minutes, CBS, May 3, 2021. https://youtu.be/PTvHn2_0evo “Sentence in Stanford Assault Case Sparks Outrage”, Richard Gonzalez, NPR, June 6, 2016. “Thes Brock Turner Headlines are Beyond Tone Deaf”, Julie Sprankles, Bustle.com, June 6, 2016.  “Sexual assault victim Chanel Miller finally met the Swedish graduate students who helped save her from Brock Turner”, Kelly McLaughlin, Insider.com, September 23, 2019. “‘I Can Always Draw My Way Out of a Feeling’: Artist and Author Chanel Miller on Why Doodling Is Her Essential Emotional Outlet”, Naomi Rea, Artnet.com, March 31, 2021.  “Brock Turner’s life in 2022 – The convicted sexual offender lives and works in Ohio”, Brad Witter, VoxBliss.com, Jan 13, 2022. “The judge who was recalled over the Brock Turner case was fired from his new job as a high-school girls tennis coach”, Ashley Collman, Insider.com, Sept 12, 2019.  Sponsors: Best Fiends - Download for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Outschool - www.outschool.com/once - Use offer code ONCE for $15 off your child’s first class. Music Attributions Music: Cinematic Background Sad by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8181-cinematic-background-sad License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://cemmusicproject.wixsite.com/musiclibraryfiles Sadness by MusicLFiles Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8051-sadness License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this bonus episode I talk to Helen Molesworth, writer and art curator, about the story of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who was just gaining recognition for her genre-bending performance art when she fell 34 stories to her death from an apartment building in New York City. Her husband, Carl Andre, was a famous sculptor who expressed jealousy at the attention his much younger wife was receiving. Did his anger spill over into homicide on that September day in 1985 or was Ana’s death a result of suicide?  Listen to this fascinating true crime story from an art world insider on the new podcast “Death of an Artist” a co-production from Pushkin Industries, Somethin’ Else, and Sony Music Entertainment. Episode one releases on September 23rd of you can binge the entire series by becoming a Pushkin+ subscriber in Apple Podcasts or at Pushkin.fm/plus.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I’ll tell you about a case that got worldwide media attention due to the bizarre circumstances, the heinous nature of the crime, and the venue at which it occurred - a high school prom. Resources: Melissa Drexler, murderpedia.com https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/drexler-melissa.htm “Before Prom Night, a Suspect was the Girl Next Door” by Abby Goodnough and Bruce Weber for The New York Times, July 2, 1997. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/02/nyregion/before-prom-night-a-suspect-was-the-girl- next-door.html Thanks to our sponsors: Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play Download Hunt A Killer at https://huntakiller.com/ONCE and use code ONCE for $10 off your purchase!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A student residing with three roommates on an Indiana college campus finds herself mired in a tense living situation. An unusual set of circumstances soon turns deadly.  Resources:  Murder Loves Company: Dorm Living Nightmare, Season 1, Episode 1, The Investigation Discovery Channel, (2019). Liette Martinez Obituary, Las Cruces-Sun News, April 22, 2008.  A series of articles regarding this case can be found in the Albuquerque Journal, April 18, 2008 - Sept. 19, 2008.  Sponsors:  Best Fiends - Download FREE on the App Store or Google Play Chime - www.chime.com/once Blood Ties - Listen to Blood Ties, Season 3, Strange Days on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, or binge the series early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kitty LeRoy was a sharpshooter, cardsharp, dancer, and entrepreneur. She became a well-known entertainer in the Old West and ran with legends like Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickock. But her fierce temper and fiery personality often made her dangerous to be around. You may have never heard of Kitty LeRoy before but after this episode you won’t soon forget her.  Resources:  “Kitty LeRoy: Lady Gambler and Gunfighter” by Kathy Weiser for Legends of America, Feb 2020.  https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-kittyleroy/ “Kitty LeRoy: Untimely Death” by Greta for Explore Dallas History, Dec 29, 2018.  https://exploredallashistory.com/kitty-leroy-untimely-death/ “Kitty LeRoy was a Jig Dancer and Much More” by Marshall Trimble for True West Magazine, August 3, 2016.  https://truewestmagazine.com/kitty-leroy-was-a-jig-dancer-and-much-more/ “Wild Women Wednesday: Kitty LeRoy” by Chris Enss for Cowgir Magazinel, Dec 30, 2015. https://cowgirlmagazine.com/wild-women-wednesday-kitty-leroy/ Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women, Michael Rutter, Farcountry Press, 2015. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Boudoirs_to_Brothels/QhrICgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Sponsors:  Best Fiends - Download Best Fiends FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Outschool - www.outschool.com/once and use code ONCE for $15 off your child’s first class.  Links:  Get tickets to the Generation Why 10th Anniversary Live Show at www.genwhypod.com Join our Patreon at www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1819, Lavinia Fisher and her husband John were accused poisoning and murdering multiple guests of their Charleston, South Carolina inn and sentenced to hang. But were the Fishers really serial killers or is the legend simply a tall tale concocted to entertain tourists? The true story of who Lavinia Fisher was and why she was hanged may shock you.  Resources:  Lavinia Fisher: Legends of America, https://www.legendsofamerica.com/sc-laviniafisher/  Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City, Pat Hendrix, The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006. Six Miles to Charleston: The True Story of John and Lavinia Fisher, Bruce Orr, The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina, 2010.  Thanks to our sponsors:  Chime - Sign up for a checking account with no monthly fees at www.chime.com/once. Away Travel - Get free shipping and a 100-day trial of Away travel essentials at www.awaytravel.com/once20. Best Fiends - Download Best Fiends FREE at the App Store or Google Play. Even the Rich Podcast - Listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.  Links:  Get your in-person or livestream tickets to the Generation Why Ten Year Podversary Live Show, September 8th at the Screenland Armour Theater, Kansas City, MO.  https://genwhypod.com Become a Patreon member for ad-free, early release episodes, OUAC merch, and more at www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime. Join Stitcher Premium to get ad-free versions of all your favorite podcasts including Once Upon a Crime. Use our offer code ONCEUPONACRIME to get your first month free at https://www.stitcher.com/premium.  Opt-in to receive texts from Once Upon Crime - Text OUAC to 408-676-1770. Text messaging provided by www.textsanity.com. Msg & data rates may apply.  Check out the OUAC YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/OnceUponACrimePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this series we’ll step back in history to learn about some of the history’s first female outlaws. In this episode I’ll tell you about Sally Skull, ranch owner, horse trader, fandango dancer, and gunslinger. Some say Sally’s quick temper - and even quicker hand with a gun - was responsible for the mysterious disappearances of two of her five husbands.  Resources:  “The legendary Sally Skull was a gun-slinging, foul-mouthed Texas horse trader”, Allison Ehrlich for the Corpus Christi Caller Times, March 17, 2022.  https://www.caller.com/story/news/special-reports/building-our-future/throwback/2022/03/17/tbt-sally-skull-gun-slinging-foul-mouthed-texas-horse-trader/7006359001/ “Two Sixshooters and a Sunbonnet”, Dan Kilgore for Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Legendary Ladies of Texas.  http://sonsofdewittcolony.org/texwomen.htm Scull, Sarah Jane Newman (Sally) (1817 - unknown), Texas State Historical Association.  https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/scull-sarah-jane-newman-sally “Sally Skull - The Scariest Siren in Texas”, Maggie Van Ostrand for Legends of America. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/tx-sallyskull/ The Generation Why 10 Year Podversary Live Show - September 8, 2022 in Kansas City, Missouri. Get your tickets at www.GenWhyPod.com.  Music Attributions: The following music was used for this media project: Music: Slow Western Intro by Brian Holtz Music Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8782-slow-western-intro License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://brianholtzmusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young girl leaves her hometown of Ohio for the Big Apple with her heart set on a career as a Broadway dancer. Instead, she meets a young man who becomes obsessed with controlling her life. Unable to let her go, Paul Cortez commits a shocking crime.  Resources:  The People v. Paul Cortez, New York Court of Appeals filing, April 8, 2013.  https://casetext.com/brief/e970db1d-the-people-respondentvpaul-cortez-appellant-brief  “A dancer’s secret life and savage murder, Keith Morrison/NBCNews.com, Jan 15, 2006.  https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10868185  “The Last Dance”, 48 Hours, May 4, 2006, retrieved from CBSNews.com https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-last-dance/  Thanks to our sponsors: Listen to SCAMFLUENCERS on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or listen one week early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Head over to outschool.com/once and use code once to learn all about Outschools’s summer programs and save fifteen dollars on your child’s first class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s episode details a murder that, at first glance, appears to be a cut-and-dried case of a lover’s quarrel turned deadly.  Upon investigation, it is discovered to be a much more thought-out and sinister plan. When authorities uncover the real killer he turns out to be an actor who attempted to parlay his skills as a performer to pull off “the perfect crime”. Sources: “Actor is held in double slaying.” Los Angeles Times, 29 05 2010,  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104583077/actor-is-held-in-double-slaying/. “Actress convicted of lying to police about ex-fiance's double murder pleads innocence in interrogation tapes.” ABC News, 30 May 2019,  https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/actress-convicted-lying-police-fiances-double-murder- pleads/story?id=63234575 . Accessed 4 July 2022. “As coldblooded as a murderer gets.” Los Angeles Times, 09 01 2016,  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104976453/as-coldblooded-as-a-murderer-gets/. Berg, Tom. “Justice delayed: Why it took more than 5 years for trial of Daniel Wozniak, accused of killing 2, beheading one victim.” Orange County Register, 7 December 2015,  https://www.ocregister.com/2015/12/07/justice-delayed-why-it-took-more-than-5-years- for-trial-of-daniel-wozniak-accused-of-killing-2-beheading-one-victim/. Accessed 4 July 2022. “Brother of double killer is arrested.” Los Angeles Times, 24 12 2016,  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105002079/brother-of-double-killer-is-arrested/. “Death Penalty for OC Killer.” Los Angeles Times, 12 01 2016,  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104977538/death-penalty-for-oc-killer/. “Neighbor beheaded and his friend killed.” Modesto Bee, 29 05 2010,  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105001017/neighbor-beheaded-and-his-friend-killed/. Pelisek, Christine. “Daniel Wozniak Murders Re-examined in New Podcast | PEOPLE.com.” People, 28 August 2018,  https://people.com/crime/daniel-wozniak-rachel-buffett-murders-in-new-podcast/. Accessed 28 June 2022. “Prosecutors will seek death penalty.” Los Angeles Times, 26 05 2012,  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104951198/prosecutors-will-seek-death-penalty/. Sclafani, Julia. “Double murderer's ex-fiancée is sentenced to jail as accessory after slayings.” Los Angeles Times, 8 November 2018,  https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-buffet-sentencing-20181108- story.html. Accessed 4 July 2022. “This community theater actor's final performance was a chilling confession to double murder.” ABC News, 29 May 2019,  https://abcnews.go.com/US/community-theater-actors-final-performance-chilling- confession-double/story?id=63181588. Accessed 4 July 2022. “Woman pleads not guilty in beheading.” The Californian, 05 12 2012,  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104945493/woman-pleads-not-guilty-in-beheading/. The following music was used for this media project: Music: Cinematic Background Sad by MusicLFiles Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/8181-cinematic-background-sad License (CC BY 4.0): https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Artist website: https://cemmusicproject.wixsite.com/musiclibraryfiles Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5048-stay-the-course License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  Edge Of Forever by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8488-edge-of-forever License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license What Lurks In The Dark by Dave Deville Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8233-what-lurks-in-the-dark License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Thanks to our sponsors: Listen to SCAMFLUENCERS on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music or listen one week early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Get started at chime.com/once. Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. You'll even get $5 worth of in-game rewards when you reach Level 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this month’s series “Final Curtain Call” a film or theater actor is connected to a sensational crime.  In 1973, The Exorcist was released in theaters. Moviegoers were shocked by the film’s graphic depiction of a little girl possessed by a demon. But one movie extra, Paul Bateson, had demons of his own which lead him to commit an act of violence and become a prime suspect in a series of grisly murders.  Resources:  Paul Bateson: The ‘Mindhunter’ Murderer Who Appeared in ‘The Exorcist’ -  https://allthatsinteresting.com/paul-bateson   The Exorcist Serial Killer -  https://www.truecrimeedition.com/post/paul-bateson Bag Murders and The Last Call Killer Put in Focus the Dangers the NY LGBTQ+ Community Faces, Inside Edition Online -  https://www.insideedition.com/how-the-bag-murders-and-the-last-call-killer-put-in-focus-the-dangers-the-new-york-lgbtq-community Rites Held for Addison Verrill, Variety Reporter Killed in Robbery, The New York Times, Sept 20, 1977. Arthur Bell, 51, a Columnist, Homosexual Rights Activist, The New York Times, June 6, 1984.  Cruising, The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Colorado, Feb 22, 1980.  Links:  Visit our website at www.truecrimepodcast.com  Thanks to our sponsors: So continue your credit journey with Chime. Sign up takes only two minutes and doesn't affect your credit score. Get started at chime.com/once. Start your 100-day trial and shop the entire Away lineup of travel essentials, including their best-selling suitcases and bags at awaytravel.com/once20. Go to goodamerican.com/ONCE and use code ONCE at checkout for $50 off your first pair and get your best butt ever! Listen to THE VANISHED on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, or listen one week early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Harry Uzoka was a rising star who’d broken into the world of high-end modeling against all odds. But another model envious of his success began a rivalry which lead to a violent showdown that no one saw coming. SOURCES Adey, Linda. “Remembering Harry.” BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/remembering_harry_uzoka_the_murder_of_a_model. Accessed 8 June 2022. Balogun, Simi. “FAB Editorial: Ty Ogunkoya & Harry Uzoka Featured In Paper Magazine.” FAB, 21 February 2014, http://fabmagazineonline.com/fab-editorial-ty-ogunkoya-harry-uzoka-featured-paper-magazine/. Accessed 8 June 2022. Okeowo, Alexis. “The Tragedy of Harry Uzoka.” The New York Times, 23 April 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/magazine/harry-uzoka-murder-george-koh.html. Accessed 8 June 2022. “Two charged over stabbing of male model.” London Evening Standard, 16 01 2018, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/103618163/two-charged-over-stabbing-of-male-model/. MUSIC CREDITS:  Missing (Loopable) by Dave Deville Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/9419-missing-loopable- License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  The End by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/9335-the-end License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license This episode was written by Troy Larson who also provided additional research.  Thanks to our sponsors: Download your new favorite getaway, BEST FIENDS, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Head over to outschool.com/once and use code once to learn all about Outschools’s summer programs and save fifteen dollars on your child’s first class. Check out apartments.com. The place to find a place.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In light of the ongoing tragedies of frequent mass shootings in America, I’ve decided to make this week’s episode one of hope and heroism.  In this story, a young girl becomes an unlikely hero when she acts upon a hunch derailing an evil plot before it could begin.  SOURCES:  “De Anza bomber receives 7-year prison sentence” | News | losaltosonline.com.” Los Altos Town Crier, 3 April 2022, https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/de-anza-bomber-receives-7-year-prison-sentence/article_53662dd7-5f2f-5b74-9719-7f6bb84b6cb0.html. Accessed 4 June 2022. Fernandez, Lisa. “Woman whose call to cops stopped De Anza College attack now has cancer.” The San Jose Mercury News, 17 August 2010, https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/08/17/woman-whose-call-to-cops-stopped-de-anza-college-attack-now-has-cancer/. Accessed 2 June 2022. Gathright, Alan. “De Anza massacre planned in diary / College student's bomb trial begins.” SFGATE, 11 April 2002, https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/De-Anza-massacre-planned-in-diary-College-2852635.php. Accessed 2 June 2022. Glionna, John M. “Man Accused of Bombing Plot 'Hated Everyone.'” Los Angeles Times, 1 February 2001, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-01-mn-19794-story.html. Accessed 2 June 2022. Hammack, Maria Esther. “A Brief History of Mass Shootings – Behind the Tower.” Behind the Tower, http://behindthetower.org/a-brief-history-of-mass-shootings. Accessed 4 June 2022. Hasan, Najeeb. “Features | Biter.” Metro Silicon Valley, https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/papers/metro/09.01.04/biter-0436.html. Accessed 2 June 2022. Ionides, Alex. “Metroactive News & Issues | Al DeGuzman.” Metro Silicon Valley, https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/papers/metro/01.31.02/cover/deguzman-0205.html. Accessed 2 June 2022. “Man who planned massacre at De Anza College commits suicide.” SFGATE, 9 August 2004, https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Man-who-planned-massacre-at-De-Anza-College-2702611.php. Accessed 2 June 2022. “PEOPLE v. DEGUZMAN | FindLaw.” FindLaw's Cases and Codes, https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1009557.html. Accessed 2 June 2022. Thanks to our sponsors: Head over to outschool.com/once and use code once to learn all about Outschools’s summer programs and save fifteen dollars on your child’s first class. Get started at chime.com/once Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1996, the longest and most expensive investigation in the FBI’s history was successfully solved when Theodore Kaczynski was identified as “The Unabomber” 18 years after he began building and planting bombs at various locations. Three people were killed and several others injured before he was brought to justice. A new book titled “Madman in the Woods” recounts the experiences of its author Jamie Gehring regarding Kaczynski who she knew as “Ted” the eccentric neighbor who lived in a one-room cabin just a stone’s throw from her family home in Lincoln, Montana. In this episode I speak with Jamie to discuss her memories of Kaczynski and learn how her own father was instrumental in the FBI”s capture of the elusive killer.  Link to Jamie’s book: Madman in the Woods: Life Next Door to the Unabomber by Jamie Gehring  https://amzn.to/3FNbD73 Thanks to our sponsors: Start your 100-day trial and shop the entire Away lineup of travel essentials, including their best-selling suitcases at awaytravel.com/once20. To score 15% off your Blenders purchase, visit blenderseyewear.com and enter promo code oncevip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christopher Wilder posed as a photographer to lure beautiful young women with the promise of modeling work. Those who take him up on his offer - and even those that didn’t - found themselves victims of a serial rapist who soon graduated to serial murder. Resources:  https://listverse.com/2019/08/07/10-shocking-facts-about-the-beauty-queen-killer/  https://allthatsinteresting.com/christopher-wilder   https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_Wilder  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wilder https://charleyproject.org/case/elizabeth-ann-kenyon  https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/wilder-christopher.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young woman who creates a YouTube channel to advocate for animal rights and veganism becomes disgruntled with the social media platform when she feels she is being targeted for discrimination. But, no one imagined that her anger would spiral into a random act of violence.  Resources:  “Sleeping in Car and Visiting Gun Range: How YouTube Attacker Spent Final Hours” by Daisuke Wakabayashi, Matthew Haag and Elizabeth Dias for The New York Times, April 4, 2018. MVPD Statement Regarding Officers’ Interaction with Woman Responsible for YouTube Shooting, City of Mountain View News Details.  “YouTube shooter was angry about company’s “Policies and Practices’: The Latest” by Aric Jenkins, Katy Steinmetz, and Mahita Gajanan for Time Magazine, April 4, 2018.  The Case Files: Nasim Najafi Aghdam by Virginia Simmons, blog post dated March 25, 2021, Ontic.com.  Clip from Mountain View Police Department bodycam footage can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmpjNUWpLBU Links: CrimeCon UK - www.crimecon.co.uk - Use offer code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration. Once Upon a Crime Facebrook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505 Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Thanks to our sponsors: Outschool helps kids explore their interests and discover new ones! Right now, for a limited time, you’ll save fifteen dollars on your child’s first class when you go to outschool.com/once and use code once. Download your new favorite getaway, Best Fiends, for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play. Take a moment and check out apartments.com. The place to find a place.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, a young man who dubs himself “Mr. Anime” gains a large following as a critic and reviewer on YouTube.. But, he’ll later admit to harboring dark fantasies most of his life after he commits a shocking act of violence against his closest family members.  Resources:  “Mr. Anime Loves God and His Family” by Jeannette Garrett for Crime Magazine. “Parents, brother each had high-powered rifle wounds” by Mike Glenn and Cindy George for The Houston Chronicle, Mar 21, 2012.  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2118711/Trey-Eric-Sesler-shot-dead-parents-brother-planning-Columbine-style-massacre.html  https://rabrewster.com/2019/07/21/human-monsters-trey-sesler-mr-anime-the-first-youtube-killer/  https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Police-Man-charged-in-Waller-deaths-planned-3425659.php https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/anime-youtube-star-murdered-family-22852419  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-dWvmMif68  Links:  CrimeCon UK - www.crimecon.co.uk - use discount code ONCEUPON22 Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Thanks to our sponsors: Start your 100-day trial and shop the entire Away lineup of travel essentials, including their best-selling suitcases at awaytravel.com/once20. To score 15% off your Blenders purchase, visit blenderseyewear.com and enter promo code oncevip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week I have a special episode diving into the topic of the psychology of mass killers. What prompts someone to commit mass murder against random strangers? How did Columbine become a cultural touchstone that inspired others to plan and execute their own mass shooting sprees? What can we do to slow down the number and frequency of these types of crimes, if anything? I'll get answers to some of these questions from psychotherapist and author, P. Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence.  Here's a link to Shavan's book which you can purchase at Amazon.com. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B09MB86W17&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_2M1AWDE85GG90D9JY8QH&tag=onc01a-20 Thanks to our sponsors: Listen to The Generation Why Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or you can listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. If you want to try the jeans that will make you feel confident about your body and give you your best.butt.ever - go to goodamerican.com/ONCE and use code ONCE at checkout for $50 off your first pair! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young couple on a quest for internet fame record a prank for their YouTube channel with tragic results.  Resources:  YouTube Prankster Jailed, BBC News, March 15, 2018 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43410816 The Last Moments Before a YouTube Stunt Went Fatally Wrong, Buzzfeed News, June 22, 2018. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/failed-youtube-stunt-killing-videos Who Was Pedro Ruiz?, The Sun, March 15, 2018 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3908168/pedro-ruiz-youtube-star-killed-girlfriend-monalisa-perez-shooting-stunt-jail-latest/ Stunt Gone Wrong, Valley News, June 27, 2017 https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/Family-says-it-was-a-YouTube-stunt-gone-wrong-a-22-year-old-man-is-dead-after-being-shot-in-the-chest-431170773.html Sponsors:  Best Fiends - Download for FREE today on the App Store or Google Play  Go to goodamerican.com/ONCE and use code ONCE at checkout for $50 off your first pair! Links:  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/OnceUponACrimePodcast  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OnceUponACrimePod  Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/onceuponacrimepod/  TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@ouacpod  Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is part 2 of a 2-part- episode. As we continue the story, Shelly and Dave Knotek have isolated themselves, their three daughters, nephew, and a boarder, Kathy Loreno, in their Ramond, Washington home. The torture and abuse Kathy endured would come to a shocking conclusion in July of 1994.  Resources:  If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Gregg Olsen https://murderpedia.org/female.K/k/knotek-michelle.htm https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/876416/shelly-knotek-abuse-daughters-serial-killer/ https://casetext.com/case/state-v-knotek Snapped: Season 10, Episode 19 Couple Held in Woman’s 1994 Disappearance https://apnews.com/article/1ba1a2ceca7d8bbbc82506c3b1b488b5 Sponsors:  Blenders Eyewear - www.BlendersEyewear.com - Use promo code oncevip for 15% off BetterHelp - Use my special URL www.BetterHelp.com/once to get 10% off your first month.  Apartments.com - www.Apartment.com - The most popular place to find your perfect place.  Links: CrimeCon - www.crimecon.com - use offer code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration Southern Fried True Crime Podcast - www.southernfriedtruecrime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shelly Knotek has been called “America’s Most Evil Mom”. She abused, tortured, and humiliated her children and partners, but her control and abuse went beyond her own family members. One-by-one people she took into her home as boarders also found themselves trapped and unable to escape her abuse.  This is part one of a two-part episode. To get Part 2 early and ad free, become a Patreon member of Once Upon a Crime at www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime.  Resources:  If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Gregg Olsen https://murderpedia.org/female.K/k/knotek-michelle.htm https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/876416/shelly-knotek-abuse-daughters-serial-killer/ https://casetext.com/case/state-v-knotek Snapped: Season 10, Episode 19 Couple Held in Woman’s 1994 Disappearance https://apnews.com/article/1ba1a2ceca7d8bbbc82506c3b1b488b5 Sponsors:  Credit Karma - www.creditkarma.com/loanoffers  Links: CrimeCon - www.crimecon.com - use offer code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration Fruit Loops Podcast - https://fruitloopspod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this month’s series, we’ll take a look at the fascinating phenomenon of narcissistic family cults - a family unit that exhibits all the hallmarks of a traditional cult group but is led by a narcissistic family member - usually a parent.  In this episode, a couple with thirteen children spend decades isolating themselves from the outside world. The public would be shocked when it was discovered their children had been subjected to long-term ritualistic abuse, neglect, and deprivation in one of the worst cases of child abuse ever recorded in California.  Sponsors:  Best Fiends - Download for free today on the App Store or Google Play.  BetterHelp - www.BetterHelp.com/once - Get 10% off your first month when you use our special URL.  Links:  CrimeCon - www.crimecon.com - Use my discount code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration for CrimeCon Las Vegas and CrimeCon UK.  Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime - Become a Patreon member of Once Upon a Crime to get ad-free, early release episodes, and more perks.  Military Murder Podcast - Check out my friend Margo’s podcast - Military Murder! www.militarymurderpodcast.com.  Resources:  The Family Next Door by John Glatt, St. Martin’s Press, 2019.   David Turpin Biography: 13 Things About Perris, California Engineer Turpin Trial: Couple Jailed for Life for ‘Inhuman’ Child Abuse All That’s Interesting: Louise Turpin California Torture House: Louise Turpin’s Sister Said Sibling Experimented with Religion, Sex People: Couple Accused in Calif. House of Horrors Case ‘Ran Away’ to Marry When She was 16 and He Was 23 David and Louise Turpin Eloped - Daily Mail Inside the Turpin “Horror House” as Young Survivors Reveal Ongoing Struggles ABC 20/20, S44/E7 - Escape from a House of Horror - A Diane Sawyer Special Event Classmate Says Oldest Turpin Sibling Was Bullied, Frail During Grade School in Viral Facebook Post Turpins: 1 Sibling’s Desperate Escape Attempt Foiled When Police Forced Her Back to the House California Torture Case Raises Questions About Home School Regulation People: I Lived with the House of Horrors Family: What Relative Says She Saw Years Before Child Torture Case Came to Light  CNN: Judge Bars Turpins from Contacting Children People - From a Desperate Escape to Revelations of Shocking Abuse: How Abuse of Horrors Case Unfolded Huffpost - Turpin Children Speak Out About Life in California ‘House of Horrors’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man’s racist ideology lead him to take the lives of 51 people and injure dozens more all while recording and uploading a video of the murders to Facebook Live.   Resources:  Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques on 15 March 2019. https://christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz  “Massacre Suspect Traveled the World but Lived on the Internet” by David D. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times, March 15, 2019.  “NZ gunman to stay silent at sentencing after families bring court to tears” by Nick Perry for The Times of Israel, 26 August 2020.  “The Christchurch shooting was streamed lived, but think twice about watching it” by Colleen Murrelll for abc.net.au, Mar 15, 2019.  “Family of alleged gunman apologises to Christchurch victims” by Padraig Collins for The Irish Times, Mar 17, 2109.  Links:  CrimeCon - www.crimecon.com www.crimecon.co.uk - Use discount code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration. Our website - www.truecrimepodcast.com Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Thanks to our sponsor: Join over 1 million people who have taken charge of their mental health at betterhelp.com/once. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man who identifies with as an Incel carries out a mass shooting at an Arizona mall while livestreaming it via Snapchat. Special thanks to Dr. Sohom Das for lending his expertise in this episode. Check out his YouTube Channel A Psych for Sore Minds for more insights into the criminal mind and the psychology of true crime!  https://www.youtube.com/c/APsychForSoreMinds Resources:  “Dark Side: The Westgate Shooting” by Erica Stapleton for News 12 Phoenix, Feb 18, 2021.  “‘God had such mercy’: Mother of 19-year-old Westgate shooting victim speaks about son’s recovery” by BrieAnna J. Frank for The Arizona Republic, May 23, 2020.  “A Mass Shooter Live-streamed his Attack on Snapchat at an Arizona Mall” by David Gilbert for Vice News, May 21, 2020.  “This real-life Air Force superhero saved 28 people from an active shooter in Arizona” by David Roza for Task and Purpose, May 27, 2021.  “Armando ‘Junior’ Hernandez: Glendale Westgate Shooting Suspect Arrested” by Emliy Bicks fr The Heavy, May 21, 2020.  Sponsors: Blenders Eyewear - www.blenderseyewear.com - Use promo code oncevip for 15% off. Links:  CrimeCon - www.crimecon.com and www.crimecon.co.uk - Use promo code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration.  Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A disgruntled, former television station employee takes out his revenge during a live news broadcast.  Resources:  “Ex-Broadcaster Kills 2 on Air Virginia Shooting” by Michael D. Shear, Richard Perez-Pena, and Alan Blinder, The New York Times, August 26, 2015. “Vester Lee Flanagan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know”, Tom Cleary, Heavy.com, April 8, 2021.  “A Life of Listing Grievances, and Then Virginia Gunman’s Final Homicidal Explosion”, Michael D. Shear and Sarah Maslin Nir, The New York Times, Aug 27, 2015.  “Murder on social media: Killer wanted the world to watch”, Emily Brown, USA Today, Aug 26, 2015.  Links: CrimeCon - www.crimecon.com www.crimecon.co.uk - Use discount code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration. Our website - www.truecrimepodcast.com Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A bizarre and terrifying crime spree has been on the rise in the UK for the past several years. In this episode, I’ll share stories illustrating how acid attacks have increasingly been used to retaliate against a romantic partner once a relationship ends.  Resources:  “Acid Attacks on the Rise in the U.K.”, Joanna Kakissis/NPR, Aug 6, 2017. “Acid Attacks: What has led to the rise and how can they be stopped?”, George Mann/BBC News, July 14, 2017.  “Jealous woman is jailed for 14 years after scarring her boyfriend”, Rory Tingle/DailyMail.com, Nov 21, 2021.  “Woman jailed for acid attack on boyfriend”, Tristan Kirk/Evening Standard, Nov 19, 2021. “Man recalls moment ex-girlfriend poured acid over him while he slept”, Jamie Barlow/Nottinghamshire Live, Feb 12, 2021.  The Queen v Mark Cummings and Katie Leong, Crown Court at Leicester, March 21, 2017.  “Katie Piper’s acid attacker is cleared for release”, Danny Gallagher/Daily Mail.com, Jun 18, 2020.  Links: CrimeCon - www.crimecon.com www.crimecon.co.uk - Use offer code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your CrimeCon tickets.  Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime  Once Upon a Crime website - www.truecrimepodcast.com More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Esther sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jake Halpern to talk about Season 2 of his podcast Deep Cover: Mob Land.  They also discuss podcast storytelling and Jake reveals which well-known actor makes a surprise guest appearance on Deep Cover in Season 2.  Links:  Listen to Deep Cover on Pushkin.fm - https://www.pushkin.fm/show/deep-cover/ Become a Pushkin+ member to binge all episodes of Deep Cover ad-free.  You will also have ad-free access to more than 20 Pushkin+ shows.  More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I’ll share with you one of the craziest “love” stories you’ve ever heard - right in time for Valentine’s Day. Burt Pagach meets Linda Riss in 1957 and quickly becomes obsessed with her. When she breaks off the relationship he plots a despicable act for revenge.  Resources:  “Burt and Linda Pugach: The story behind Crazy Love”, Amy Turner for The Sunday Times, June 29, 2008.  “CityPeople; A Sort of Love Story”, Mark Fass for The New York Times, March 21, 2004.  Crazy Love (2007), Directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens, Magnolia Pictures.  Links: CrimeCon.com - Use discount code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your ticket! More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 22-year-old recent graduate of a New Zealand University breaks off a short-lived relationship. Her ex would take deadly revenge on her in one of the most horrific attacks ever perpetrated in the country’s recent history.  Resources:  “Own Evidence Seals Fate” by John Hartevelt for Stuff.co.nz, July 23, 2009.  “Success accompanied by stress: Weatherston” by Kay Sinclair for the Otago Daily Times, July 9, 2009.  “The Day Sophie Died: A Mother’s Untold Story” by Lesley Elliott for NzHerald.co.nz, Jun 10, 2011.  “A Decade On: Sophie Elliott’s Family Remembers Her” by Kelley Dennett for NZHerald.co.nz, Jan 5, 2018.  “Provocation defence ‘made killer a victim”, NZ Herald, July 22, 2009.  “Sophie’s beauty not targeted court told” by Kay Sinclair for Otago Daily Times, July 14, 2009 “An examination he didn’t pass”, Otago Daily Times, July 23, 2009 “Provocation defence abolished”, Otago Daily Times, Nov 27, 2009.    Links: CrimeCon UK - www.crimecon.co.uk - use discount code ONCEUPON22 for 10% off your registration.  More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One family appears to have it all - success, wealth, a happy family life, and a beautiful ocean-view home on the California coast. But, trouble behind the scenes tears the family apart and the story of the Sachs family will end in a shocking murder.  Resources:  Shadow of Death, CBS/48 Hours, October 15, 2016.  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-investigates-andra-and-brad-sachs-murders-shadow-of-death/ “Capistrano killings: In marriage, divorce, death, couple never parted,” by Salvador Hernandez, Lily Leung, and Meghann Cuniff for The Orange County Register, Feb 17, 2014.  Capistrano killings: In marriage, divorce, death, couple never parted “Familly remembers entrepreneur Brad Sachs, allegedly slain by son” by Greg Fisher for CBS News, Oct 13, 2015 “Why Aston Sachs Says He Shot His Family” by Matthew Heiler for Orange Coast Magazine, Nov 20, 2014.  https://www.orangecoast.com/features/ashton-sachs-says-shot-family/ “Where is Aston Sachs Now?” by Kriti Mehrotra for The Cinemaholic.com, Nov 10, 2020.  https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-ashton-sachs-now/ More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An heiress builds a grand mansion as a showplace on a hill in the San Francisco Bay Area. But, it would become a white elephant and an eyesore during its long history. And, in 1985, it became a house of horrors for two young women.  Resources:  People v. Raley, Supreme Court of California Appeal, June 18, 1992. Retrieved from Findlaw.com.  “Yesterday’s Crimes: The Hillsborough Mansion Murder” by Bob Calhoun for SF Weekly, Jan 30, 2018.  “Carolands mansion murder: Survivor Laurie McKenna speaks, 20 years later” by Howard Mintz for San Jose Mercury News, Sept 16, 2014.  The Heiress and Her Chateau: Chateau Carolands of California” (2014), Directors: Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg, Luna Productions.  More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

July 27, 2001 Jeanine Sanchez Harms went missing after a night out with friends in Campbell, California. A man she'd only become acquainted with that night, Maurice Xavier Nasmeh, would be suspected of involvement in her disappearance. After a problematic investigation and numerous delays, the case would end in a shocking conclusion.  Resources: "Whatever Happened to Jeanine Harms?" by Loren Stein for MetroActive News, March 20, 2003. Jeanine Sanchez Harms, The Charley Project.  "Jeanine Harms 'Case Closed” by Lori Preuitt for NBC Bay Area News, Aug 24, 2011.  More about the Show:  Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: https://bit.ly/OnceUponACrimePodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes: On the last episode of the year, Lorena and I break down the case of family annihilator, Chris Watts. Resources: “Chris Watts: A Complete Timeline of the Murder of His Wife and Daughters” by Rachel Change for Biography.com, Sept 29, 2020. https://www.biography.com/news/chris-watts-wife-daughters-murder-mistress-confession-timeline “New Christopher Watts confession details how he murdered his wife, two daughters” by Elise Schmelzer for The Denver Post, March 7, 2019. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/03/07/christopher-watts-confession-murder-details/ The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, John Glatt, St. Martin’s Press, (2021). “The Case of Chris Watts, Parts 1 - 3“, JCS - Criminal Psychology, YouTube; Jan 23, 2019. https://youtu.be/Xfg861hO-Ag American Murder: The Family Next Door, Netflix, (2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week I’ll discuss the Nicole Brown/Ron Goldman murders with my sister, Yolanda. We’ll go over the evidence, timeline, and motivation for the crimes that all point to OJ Simpson as the killer. We’ll also discuss why the jury may have decided to acquit Simpson of the double homicide even in the face of overwhelming evidence of his guilt. Resources: Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Simpson, authors: Tom Lange, Phillip Vanatter, Dan Moldea, ©️1997, 2016. (If) I Did It: Confessions of the Killer, written by O.J. Simpson and Pablo Fenjves, introduction by Fred and Kim Goldman, Beaufort Books, New York, ©️2007. The OJ Simpson Case (1995), retrieved from Famous-Trials.com, https://famous-trials.com/simpson “What Happened to Al Cowlings, O.J. Simpson’s Former Teammate and White Bronco Driver?”, Luke Norris for Sportscasting.com, August 11, 2020. https://www.sportscasting.com/what-happened-to-al-cowlings-o-j-simpsons-former-teammate-and-white-bronco-driver/ “Murder Timeline, June 12, 1994,” retrieved from BobAugust.com. http://www.bobaugust.com/timeline3.htm “Inside the Short, Tragic Life of Nicole Brown Simpson and Her Hopeful Final Days,” by Natalie Finn for E!Online, June 12, 2019. Chronology of O.J. Simpson Case, The Associated Press, Jan 21, 1995. “5 other pieces of evidence that pointed to OJ as the killer,” by Debbie Lord for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mar 4, 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I break down the myths and realities of infamous serial killer, Edmund Emil Kemper, “The Co-Ed Killer”. My special guest is Emerson Murray, author of The Murder Capital of the World. You can find out more about Emerson and purchase the book at www.emersonmurray.com/murder-capital-of-the-world To enter a drawing to receive a copy of Murder Capital of the World sign up for texts from OUAC by texting “OUAC” to 408-676-1770 (Texting rates may apply. U.S. listeners only are eligible for this giveaway. Text messaging provided by Text Sanity). Deadline to enter drawing is December 22nd. Winners will be randomly chosen December 23rd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young girl living outside of New Delhi, India is found murdered in her own bedroom in a high-security apartment building with her parents sleeping mere feet away. Was her murder an inside job or caused by an unknown intruder? Join us for this “whodunit” that has been called the “JonBenet Ramsay case of India”. Resources: “Behind Closed Doors: How a 13-Year-Old’s Murder Ignited Class Warfare” by Nick Schager for The Daily Beast, July 14, 2019. “Arushi murder case: A timeline of events”, The Hindu, October 12, 2017. “2008 Noida double murder case”, retrieved from Wikipedia.com. The Talwars: Behind Closed Doors (2017), Directed by P.A. Carter for HBO Asia and Star World. Links Get links to all our social media at our website www.truecrimepodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jamison Bachman spent his adult years being “the roommate from hell”. He destroyed property, bullied his housemates, filed lawsuits for petty complaints, and rarely paid his rent. But, growing more desperate once his history of scamming people was revealed, he crossed the line from annoying to dangerous. Resources: “Worst Roommate Ever” by William Brennan for New York Magazine, Feb 19, 2018. “Philadelphia judge to squatter in viral roommate story: ‘You’re frightening’” by Andrew Parent, for The Philly Voice, Feb. 22, 2018. “Woman details terrifying ordeal of roommate from hell” by Aoibhinn McBride for The Daily Mail, Feb. 23, 2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The mysterious disappearance of a 4-year-old from her own bedroom takes a bizarre twist and rumors and conspiracy theories soon follow. This case would come to be known as “The JonBenet Ramsey Case of Mexico.” Resources: “Resignation in Mexican missing girl Paulette case”, BBC News, May 26, 2010 “Mexico Shocked by Discovery of Girl’s Body,” CBS News, April 5, 2010 Misterios favoritos en espanol/Unresolved Mysteries, reddit.com - https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/80s8r6/request_misterios_favoritos_en_espanol_what_are/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this special Halloween episode, I’ll share creepy tales of corpses that were mistaken for Halloween displays. I’ll also share the bizarre tale of a failed outlaw who became a successful carnival oddity…after his death. Resources: “Was a Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration?” by David Mikkelson for Snopes.com, Oct. 28, 2005. “75-Year-Old Marina Man Found Dead on Apartment Balcony” by Vince Echavaria for The Argonaut, October 22, 2009. “Body is Mistaken for a Halloween Display” by Rebecca Cathcart for The New York Times, Oct. 17, 2009. “Dead man slumped on balcony mistaken for Halloween decoration” by Seema Mehta for LA Now, October 16, 2009 “Woman’s Dead Body Mistaken for Halloween Decorations” by Maya Rhodan for Time, October 15, 2015. “Murdered woman hanging from fence mistaken for Halloween decoration”, WKRC/WSYK/Sinclair Broadcast Group, Oct 15, 2015. “Man faces murder charges after woman’s body found” by Sara Nealeigh for The Chillicothe Gazette, Oct 13, 2015. “See the Funhouse ‘Mannequin’ that was Actually the Body of an Old Bank Robber”, retrieved from All That’s Interesting, December 20, 2017. “How a Real Corpse Ended Up in a California Fun Park Spookhouse” by Ella Morton retrieved from Atlas Obscura on Slate.com, April 11, 2014. *Visit our website for music attributions* Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, a family claims a family member has become possessed by a demon. When a young man challenges the demon in an attempt to save his friend, he may have gotten more than he bargained for. He would later claim that demons drove him to commit a brutal murder. Resources: “By Demons Possessed” by Lynn Darling for The Washington Post, September 13, 1981. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/13/by-demons-possessed/3479fa6b-eee3-4233-a2fc-b9defa403504/ “The Murder That Inspired The Conjuring III” by Josie Klakstrom for Medium.com, June 8, 2021. https://medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/arne-johnson-the-devil-made-me-do-it-cf6ff04f611a Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A teenager takes the life of family members as well as a random stranger and then claims his involvement in “satanic rituals” lead him to murder. Was 16-year-old Sean Sellers demon possessed, mentally ill, or simply a cold-blooded killer? Resources: On Thursday He Dies, The Mirror (London), Jan 30, 1999 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/print/PrintArticle.aspx?id=60226483 Reaching Out as Time is Running Out by Lois Romano, The Washington Post, Jan 22, 1999. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/01/22/reaching-out-as-time-is-running-out/4a28249b-d5e3-4c50-908c-39226d069304/ Open Letter to Satanists, writings by Sean Sellers. Retrieved from The Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20081120020450/http://www.seansellers.com/open_letter_to_satanists.htm# Sean Richard Sellers - from the files of Clark County Prosecutor http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/sellers512.htm Sean Sellers: The Devil and Death Row, Doug Mesner for DailyKos.com, June 21, 2013. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2013/6/21/1217873/-Sean-Sellers-The-Devil-and-Death-Row Links: Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime TikTok - @OUACpod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this bonus episode, you’ll hear the live show from CrimeCon UK in London. Esther discusses the motivations and psychology behind mass shooters with Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Sohom Das, host of the YouTube channel A Psych for Sore Minds. Check out True Crime Week on Stitcher where they are kicking off the spookiest month of the year with the creepiest and crawliest True Crime Podcasts. Check out their curated homepage to find your next True Crime Pod obsession. If you’re on your phone you can download Stitcher in your app store or go to Stitcher.comFor tickets to CrimeCon UK, June 11-12, 2022 go to www.crimecon.co.uk. You can still use ONCEUPON21 for 10% off your pre-sale tickets. For info on CrimeCon in Las Vegas in May 2022 go to www.crimecon.com.Dr. Das’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/APsychForSoreMinds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this conclusion to our 2-part episode on spree killer, Robert Garrow, I’ll detail Garrow’s killing spree in the summer of 1973, his time as a fugitive, and his arrest and convcition. Resources: The Garrow Manhunt: A Serial Killer in the Adirondacks https://www.adirondack.net/history/garrow-manhunt/ Crime Library: Robert Garrow https://web.archive.org/web/20140403090224/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/robert_garrow/2.html Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies Case, Jim Tracy, Post Hill Press, March 2021 “When Robert Garrow’s murders, manhunt terrified the Adirondacks”, Mark Frost, Glens Falls Chronicle, July 9, 2021. “Secrets and Death: Former reporter tackles the Robert Garrow story,” Will Doolittle, Adirondack Daily Enterprise. “Dannemora Manhunt Harkens Back to Robert Garrow, Source of ‘Terror in the Adirondacks’, Bill Carey, New York State, June 16, 2015. “Garrow Reign of Terror 35 Years Later”, Lohr McKinstry, Press Publican, April 13, 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1973, a violent sexual predator went on a killing spree in the Adirondack Mountains. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, I detail Garrow’s abusive childhood, history of violence, and the escalation of his crimes from theft, to kidnapping and assault, and ultimately to rape and murder. Resources: Robert Francis Garrow, Jr: American Spree Killer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5e4RJKp9s&t=1235s Murderpedia.com: Robert Garrow https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g/garrow-robert-photos.htm The Garrow Manhunt: A Serial Killer in the Adirondacks https://www.adirondack.net/history/garrow-manhunt/ Crime Library: Robert Garrow https://web.archive.org/web/20140403090224/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/robert_garrow/2.html Sworn to Silence: The Truth Behind Robert Garrow and the Missing Bodies Case, Jim Tracy, Post Hill Press, March 2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1969, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy was the front runner to become the next Presidential candidate on the Democratic Party ticket. But, decisions he would make one fateful night on Chappaquiddick Island would result in the death of a young woman and leave his reputation in tatters. Did Ted Kennedy get away with murder?Resources“‘Kennedy Passenger Dies in Car Plunge’: How Chappaquiddick was covered by The Washington Post”, by Richard Harwood and Paul Blackwell for The Washington Post, July 18, 2019.“‘The Kennedy machine Buried What Really Happened’: Revisiting Chappaquiddick, 50 years later”, by Josh Sanburn for Vanity Fair, July 17, 2019.“The End of Camelot”, Vanity Fair, September 1993. “Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick Incident: What Really Happened”, by Sarah Pruitt for History, April 6, 2018. “Why the True Story of ‘Chappaquiddick’ Is Impossible to Tell”, by Lorraine Boissoneault for Smithsonian Magazine, April 2, 2018.Background Cinematic Sad by MusicLFilesLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/8031-background-cinematic-sadLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseMisty Lights by Rafael KruxLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/5686-misty-lights-License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A billionaire heiress kills her friend in a “freak accident”. Was Eduardo Tirella’s death actually an accident or did Doris Duke commit murder? Resources: Doris Duke: Facts, Death and Mansion, Biography.com:https://www.biography.com/personality/doris-dukeHomicide at Rough Point by Peter Lance for Vanity Fair, July 16, 2020 https://bit.ly/2VHjXC7The Fatal Crash that Plunged Doris Duke into a Scandal by Samantha Todd for Forbes Magazine, Oct 18, 2019https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthatodd/2019/10/18/the-fatal-crash-that-plunged-doris-duke-into-scandal/?sh=5a23b31e2057The Doris Duke Cold Case Reopens: The Only Known Eyewitness Speaks for the First Time by Peter Lance for Vanity Fair, August 5, 2021https://bit.ly/3Ct9oDQSponsor: Best Fiends - Download for FREE today at the Apple App store or Google Play. Links: CrimeCon UK: https://www.crimecon.co.uk - Use promo code ONCEUPON21 for 10% off your registration. Patreon: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrimeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/OnceUponACrimePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The wealthy son of a New York real estate family leaves town to avoid investigation in the decades-old disappearance of his wife. A year later, he will be the number one suspect in the murder of an elderly man in Texas. This is the first chapter in the series “Getting Away with Murder”, the case of Robert Durst. Resources:Books:A Deadly Secret: The Bizarre and Chilling Story of Robert Durst by Matt Birkbeck, Berkeley Books, 2005.He Killed them All: Robert Durst and my Quest for Justice by Jeanine Pirro, Gallery Books, 2015. Article links: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/robert-durst-case-timeline/26/https://abcnews.go.com/US/robert-durst-killed-neighbor-words/story?id=29689667https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a31043951/robert-durst-murder-trial-details/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-robert-durst-self-defense-20150316-story.htmlhttps://www.gq.com/story/killer-in-the-blue-dresshttps://www.cnn.com/2021/08/04/us/robert-durst-testimony/index.htmlSponsor:Small Town Murders - Download for FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play.Links:True Crime Guys Podcast: https://truecrimelasvegas.podbean.comOnce Upon a Crime Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1967, a double murder shocked a small town in Virginia. A suspect was quickly rounded up, but the case wasn’t truly resolved until decades later when a chance encounter led to a series of events that would ultimately bring about a deathbed confession. Resources: “Thomas Free on Bond; Hearing Slated Oct 27”, The News Leader, Oct 17, 1967. “Prosecution Rests in Thomas Hearing”, The News Leader, April 10, 1968. “Getting away with murder? Former cop has serious questions about why Staunton’s most infamous killer almost got away”, Lindsay Barnes for The Hook, Jan 8, 2009Sharron C. Smith, Obituary, retrieved from Legacy.com“Woman confesses to 1967 slayings”, Ashley Broughton for CNN, Jan 24, 2009. “Motive in Double Killing 42 Years Ago is Revealed”, The Associated Press, retrieved from The New York Times, Jan 24, 2009. “We just want the truth; Connie Hevener’s family wants to know why a cop allegedly hid her killer for 40 years”, Lindsay Barnes for The Hook, Feb 26, 2009. “Bound by blood? Were cop and killer father and child?”, Lindsay Barnes for The Hook, April 23, 2009. “A $200M Wrong? One-time suspect in ‘67 slayings says Staunton cops framed him”, Brad Zinn for The News Leader, Dec 23, 2010. “High’s case featured on Investigation Discovery”, Augusta Free Press, Feb 17, 2013.Sponsors: Hooked on Phonics - www.hookedonphonics.com/once to get your first month for $1 dollar. Small Town Murders - Download and play FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Links:Patreon - Join to become a Patreon member for bonus episodes, early release, ad-free episodes and more at www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime. CrimeCon UK - www.crimecon.co.uk and use my discount code ONCEUPON21 for 10% off your registration. Join the Once Upon a Crime Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this series I share cases where people on their deathbeds finally confess to terrible crimes. In his episode you’ll hear about a brutal murder that went unsolved for over a dozen years when the perpetrator confessed before meeting his maker. But, this story ends with a twist when fate intervenes. Resources: State of Tennessee v. James Murray Washington, Direct Appeal from the Criminal Court for Davidson County, July 15, 2014The Crime Reel: A Brutal Murder and a Deathbed Confession, YouTube.com, May 26, 2021. https://youtu.be/5vD_KFlPbtwhttps://blogs.findlaw.com/legalgrounds/2012/11/deathbed-confession-leads-to-conviction-after-man-gets-better.htmlhttps://abcnews.go.com/US/inmate-james-washington-convicted-death-bed-murder-confession/story?id=17653264https://criminallawyerwashingtondc.com/blog/tennessee-man-on-deathbed-confesses-to-murder-then-recovers-and-gets-life-sentence/Sponsors: Best Fiends - Download Best Fiends FREE on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Links: CrimeCon UK - www.crimecon.co.uk - Use my promo code ONCEUPON21 for 10% off your registration. Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrimeYou can sign up to receive texts from Once Upon a Crime by texting OUAC to 408-676-1770. Msg&DataRatesMayApply. Text messaging provided by Text Sanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this series "Deathbed Confessions" I share cases that went cold and the perpetrator was only revealed when they made a deathbed confession. In this first episode, a dying woman reveals a long-held secret to her children, leading to a shocking discovery. Resources: “Slaying Victim had Fled a Troubled Past”, The Boston Globe, November 20, 2004. http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/11/20/body_found_in_storage_tentatively_identified?pg=full“John’s in the Freezer”, What Lies Beyond, August 31, 2014. https://whatliesbeyond.boards.net/thread/2333/johns-freezer“Deathbed Confession Leads to Slain Husband”, Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times, Nov 20, 2004. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-nov-20-me-deathbed20-story.html“Murder Confession Confirmed”, Jay Lindsay/AP, Seacoast Online.com Nov 20, 2004“Slaying Victim was Cleared in 1981 Brawl”, Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe, Nov 25, 2004. “Lies of former Ventura woman, who kept body in freezer, went unchallenged”, Angelica Martinez and Aron Miller, Ventura County Star, Nov 20, 2004. “Authorities confirm woman’s deathbed murder confession”, Jay Lindsay/AP, The Berkshire Eagle, Nov 20, 2004. CrimeCon UK - www.crimecon.co.uk - Use my promo code ONCEUPON21 for 10% off your registration Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrimeYou can sign up to receive texts from Once Upon a Crime by texting OUAC to 408-676-1770. Msg&DataRatesMayApply. Text messaging provided by Text Sanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this final chapter of “Buried Truth” I share a story of one of the most rare categories of criminal - the female serial killer. Behind her grandmotherly exterior, Dorothea Puente was hiding some very dark secrets very close to home. This is the case of “The Killer Landlady”. Resources: Newspapers.com - Dorothea Puente by Julia Scheeres for TruTV.com Jailed Landlady: I Didn’t Kill Anyone - The Sacramento Bee - Nov 18, 1988 Puente Guilty of Killing 3 - The Sacramento Bee - Aug 27, 1993Murderous Landlady Puente Dies - The Sacramento Bee - March 28, 2011The Life and Deaths of Dorothea Puente by Martin Kuz for Sactown Magazine, 2009. Sacramento serial killer’s former home renovated, ready for visits - David Bienick for KCRA3, August 29, 2013Tours, documentary focus on Sacramento house of murderer Dorothea Puente - Ryan Lillis for The Sacramento Bee, Sept 1, 2015 California Superior Court (Sacramento County) case files for The People v. Dorothea Montalvo Puente - Retrieved from The Online Archive of California - oac.cdlib.org Links: Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrimeTo opt-in to receive texts from Once Upon a Crime text OUAC to 408-676-1770. Msg&DataRatesMayApply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A teenage boy goes missing in 1984. Authorities would quickly decide that he was a runaway, but his family didn’t agree. Fourteen years later his fate would be learned in a shocking and unusual way. Resources: The New Detectives: Grave Secrets - Season 8, Episode 7, The Discovery Channel Articles (Jackson Vallarta/Christopher Denoyer/Dale Vallarta) from The Californian newspaper, Feb 17 1998 to Feb 10, 2000 - Clipped from Newspapers.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this month’s series “Buried Truth” I share cases where a person goes missing never to be seen again. Just when it seemed their fate would remain a mystery, the truth would be uncovered. This time, a neighborhood menace harbors dark secrets in his own backyard. This is the case of Russell Tillis and The House of Horrors. You can now receive texts from Once Upon a Crime! Text OUAC to 408-676-1770 to opt-in! Links: www.truecrimepodcast.comResources:https://www.thedailybeast.com/womans-body-found-under-booby-trapped-mobile-homehttp://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?11401-Death-Penalty-Trial-Tentatively-Set-for-November-5-2018-for-Russell-David-Tillis-in-May-2015-FL-Murder-of-Joni-Lynn-Gunter&p=101924&viewfull=1https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/features/5-things-you-need-to-know-house-of-horrors-death-penalty-trial-starts-april-5-crime/77-611a8a49-232b-4d4e-b31f-fd367cf2b587https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2021/04/08/russell-tillis-expected-to-testify-in-own-defense-at-murder-trial/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Once Upon a Crime celebrates 5 years in true crime by summarizing the show by the numbers, sharing 5 Surprising True Crime Facts, and letting listeners in on a giveaway to win OUAC merchandise and prizes. Text OUAC to 408-676-1770 to opt-in to receive texts from Once Upon a Crime and enter our drawing! Text messaging provided by Text Sanity. Thanks so much for listening and supporting Once Upon a Crime over 5 years! OUAC episodes referenced in this bonus episode: Episode #3 - Lost and Found: The Cleveland KidnappingsEpisode #8 - Killer Kids: Brenda SpencerEpisode #39 - Monstrous Moms and Dastardly Dads: John ListEpisode #14 - Fatal Fans: Rebecca SchaefferEpisode #156 - Behind the Crime: Aileen WuornosEpisode #130 - Disorder in the Court: Ellie Nesler Episode #127 - Bad Sports: Soccer Brawl in BrazilEpisode #42 - A Woman Scorned: Betty Broderick Episode #50 - Millionaire Murders: Spoiled Son - Dale EwellEpisode #200 - Chopped: Anjette Donovan LylesEpisode #110 - Listener Suggestions: The Texas Cadet MurderEpisode #45 - A Woman Scorned: Murder by MercedesEpisode #196 - Hookups from Hell: Wade Ridley, "The Match.com Murderer" Episode #189 - Body of Evidence: Stacy Peterson Episode #38 - Monstrous Moms and Dastardly Dads: Diane DownsEpisode #40 - Monstrous Moms and Dastardly Dads: Susan Smith Episodes #71 and 72 - The 12 Crimes of Christmas: Laci PetersonEpisode #46 - Murder in Paradise: The Yosemite Murders Episode #65 - Murder in the Family: The Briley BrothersLinks:www.patreon.com/onceuponacrimewww.crimecon.comwww.crimecon.co.uk - Use discount code ONCEUPON21 for 10% off your registration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is a double episode to conclude the month-long miniseries where I detail the case of serial killer David Carpenter, known as “The Trailside Killer”. Carpenter stalked and killed men and women on the hiking trails of Marin County, San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Other suspected victims would disappear from San Jose and Daly City, California. Timestamps: 00:08:28 - Point Reyes National Seashore00:15:32 - Investigation00:24:00 - Ad Break 00:26:48 - Kelly, Daly City00:30:11 - David Carpenter00:36:38 - Henry Cowell State Park, Santa Cruz00:56:00 - Manhunt1:13:00 - Ad Break1:17:00 - Suspect1:24:00 - Surveillance 1:34:00 - Arrest1:38:00 - More Victims Discovered1:42:00 - Murder Weapon/Charges1:45:00 - Trial #1 - Santa Cruz1:51:00 - Trial #2 - Marin County1:57:00 - Verdict 1:59:00 - Case UpdatesResources:The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate by Robert Graysmith, Penguin Books, (1990)People v. Carpenter, Supreme Court of California, Nov 29, 1999. “The Frightening Case of the Trailside Killer”, Strange Outdoors, November 27, 2020. “DNA ties Trailside Killer to ‘79 SF Slaying”, Jaxon Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 24, 2010. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Part 2 of this 3-part mini-series, I’ll continue the story about a random series of attacks that took place on hiking trails in northern California beginning in 1979, soon after David Carpenter was released from prison for an earlier violent crime spree. After three women were found murdered on Mount Tamalpais, investigators began to suspect that a serial killer was on the loose and targeting local hikers. This is the case of “The Trailside Killer”. Resources:The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate by Robert Graysmith, Penguin Books, (1990)People v. Carpenter, Supreme Court of California, Nov 29, 1999. “The Frightening Case of the Trailside Killer”, Strange Outdoors, November 27, 2020. Links:Website: www.truecrimepodcast.comPatreon: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrimeCrime Con UK: www.crimecon.co.uk - Use my promo code ONCEUPON21 for 10% off your registration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This month I’ll be sharing a 3-part miniseries. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Northern California was terrorized by a series of random murders that took place on hiking trails in state parks, national forests and coastal lands. The public began to suspect that a serial killer was lurking among them and the media began referring to him as “The Trailside Killer”.In this first part, I’ll detail some of the Trailside Killers earliest victims and describe how he was allowed to slip through the cracks in the criminal justice system and set loose to stalk and kill more than ten people. Resources:The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate by Robert Graysmith, Penguin Books, (1990)People v. Carpenter, Supreme Court of California, Nov 29, 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2002, two paintings were stolen from The Van Gogh Museum worth $30 million dollars. The investigation into this crime would involve law enforcement in several countries. Special investigators in both art crimes and organized crime units would also be brought in to solve the case of the missing Van Goghs. Resources: Documentary: Stealing Van Gogh (2018), Julian Hendy, Director.“How 20 Stolen Van Gogh Paintings were Recovered” by Erik Shilling for Atlas Obscura, Sept. 30, 2016. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-20-stolen-van-gogh-paintings-were-recovered-35-minutes-after-a-heist“As Stolen Van Goghs Return to View, a Thief Tells All” by Nina Siegal for The New York Times, Mar 19, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/19/arts/design/van-gogh-museum-theft-octave-dunham.html“Italian police bust drug trafficking Camorra Clan”. Posted on Gangsters, Inc., Mar 21, 2017. https://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/italian-police-bust-drug-trafficking-camorra-clan-and-retrieve-st“How Two Stolen Van Gogh Paintings Made it Home After a 14-Year Saga” by Isaac Kaplan for Artsy.Net, Mar 21, 2017. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-two-stolen-van-gogh-paintings-made-14-year-saga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This bonus episode is brought to you by Once Upon a Crime in partnership with CrimeCon UK. I have a CrimeConVersation with Sinead from Mens Rea Podcast about true crime, being a true crime podcaster, women and true crime and more. You can listen to Mens Rea Podcast or connect with Sinead at www.mensreapod.com. To join me at CrimeCon UK go to www.crimecon.co.uk. When you register use my offer code ONCEUPON21 to get 10% off your ticket! To listen to more CrimeConVersations you can go to CrimeCon’s website at www.crimecon.co.uk or follow CrimeCon UK on Instagram @CrimeCon_UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright begins an affair with Martha “Mamah” Borthwick. When the scandal threatens his career and reputation, he builds a home near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Called “Taliesin”, it was supposed to be a place of peace and refuge for the couple, but in 1914, it became the site of a horrifying massacre. Resources: “Soulmate Stunt Loses its Zest”, Kokomo Daily Tribune, August 3, 1910.Frank Lloyd Wright by Jan Adkins, published by Penguin Random House, 2008 “Cook massacres seven at Wisconsin home Frank Lloyd Wright built for his mistress”, by Mara Bovsun for The New York Daily News, Jan 25, 2014. Links:Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505Patreon: www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To celebrate reaching 200 episodes we created a bonus episode to answer listener questions. Thanks everyone for submitting them!Links: www.Patreon.com/onceuponacrimeTo listen to our "haunted" episode go to Episode #108 - Haunted Homicides: The LaLaurie Mansion. Some hear a "ghost" at minute 20 or so. The Scott Peterson episodes with my sister, Yolanda is #71 and #72 - The 12 Crimes of Christmas - Laci Peterson, Part 1 and 2. Special thanks to Lorena Garcia for co-hosting this episode with me and to all the listeners who sent in questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A contemporary artist is murdered in broad daylight in Washington D.C. Conspiracy theories about who was responsible begin to swirl after her close connection to John F. Kennedy is revealed. Resources: “The Last Painting of Mary Pinchot Meyer” by Maria Hummel for Counterpoint, June 5, 2019. https://crimereads.com/the-last-painting-of-mary-pinchot-meyer/“The forgotten female artist who may have been murdered by the CIA” by Alina Cohen for Artsy.net, May 16, 2019. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-forgotten-female-artist-murdered-cia“Dovey Johnson Rountree, Barrier-Breaking Lawyer Dies at 104 by Margalit Fox for The New York Times, May 21, 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/obituaries/dovey-johnson-roundtree-dead.htmlLinks:Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrimeStitcher Premium - Use our promo code ONCEUPONACRIME to get your first month of Stitcher Premium FREE on the Stitcher app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young widow opens her own restaurant in Macon, Georgia in the 1950s. Suspicions arise when the people closest to her begin falling ill and dying. Was Anjette Lyles a serial killer?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay enters London's Brixton Prison in 2012 in an attempt to teach a group of inmates to run a successful bakery. Would he succeed or would the men return to a life of crime once the cameras stopped rolling?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this series we'll take a look at the restaurant industry to ask "What happens when good cooks go bad?".  In this episode, a restaurateur in Southern California is suspected of murder when his wife disappears. What detectives discover would shock and horrify the community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A serial killer preys on vulnerable women in Tokyo, Japan.  He will meet his victims on Twitter.  (Caution: This episode contains the subject of suicide.)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two women meet a man on Match.com. After they end the relationship, he vows deadly revenge.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Canadian man, inspired by the television show Dexter, lures his murder victims through online dating sites.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Part 3 of this miniseries, Curtis Dean Anderson confesses to a high-profile missing child case.  He would be investigated for a series of abductions and murders of children in Northern California.  Was he a serial killer as he claimed or was it just another manipulation by this serial predator?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In part two of this miniseries the bravery of an 8-year-old girl unmasks a serial predator named Curtis Dean Anderson. He would be linked to the disappearance of Xiana Fairchild.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 7-year-old goes missing from Vallejo, California in 1999.  It would be some time before Xiana Fairchild would be linked to a serial predator who would ultimately be connected to several missing and murdered women and children in Northern California and beyond. This is the first part of a month-long series about serial predator Curtis Dean Anderson.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week my special guest is Leroy Luna from Excuse Me, That's Illegal Podcast. We discuss some bizarre crimes, the dumbest criminals and crime stories that could only have happened in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I'll share three true crime cases you may not have heard of, but should have.  My special guest host is Laurah from The Fall Line and One Strange Thing Podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two women thought they'd met the man of their dreams. But one of them would be found dead of mysterious circumstances and one would go missing never to be seen again. Would justice prevail to convict Drew Peterson for these crimes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A teenager goes missing in Morgan Hill, California never to be seen again. It would take meticulous detective work to prove she'd been the victim of a murder and bring her killer to justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This month's series features crimes that were solved...without a body. Tom Capano thought he'd pulled off the perfect murder when his ex-girlfriend disappeared. Meticulous detective work and dogged determination would be needed to solve the crime.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A story about a teenage stalker who hides in his victim's homes to prey upon them becomes an urban legend.  But, the true life and crimes of Daniel J. LaPlante would be a real-life horror story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The mysterious murder of Fred William Oesterreich in Los Angeles in 1922 would be revealed years later as one of the strangest and most bizarre true crime cases in California history  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1998, a 14-year-old disappeared from Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.  It would be feared she had become a victim of serial killer, Leonard Fraser, but this story would end with a shocking revelation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A multimillionaire in a feud with his family over money and property perpetrates a bizarre hoax in order to get revenge on his children and hold on to his assets.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A well-respected educator in Bakersfield, California is accused of a brutal crime - the murders of five of his family members.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this month's series "Bad Teacher" I'll share cases of educators who committed newsworthy crimes. First up, a 34-year-old teacher scandalizes the nation when she is convicted of child rape with one of her 6th grade students.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Part 2 of Familiar Strangers - Anastasia Romanov, a young woman comes forward claiming to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia. The investigation into her claim would take decades to solve her true identity. I welcome back my sister, Yolanda, to help me discuss all the ins and outs of this case! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this first part of a 2-part episode, I share the fascinating story of the disappearance of the last imperial family of Russia, the Romanovs.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this second part of a two-part episode we continue the story of 9-year-old Walter Collins who went missing from Los Angeles in 1928.  In part two, we discover that a serial killer, Gordon Stewart Northcott, has been preying on boys and young men in the LA area.  Was Walter Collins a victim of Northcott's?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young boy who goes missing in 1928.  When he returns home, his mother will say he's an imposter, but her claims are dismissed.  Who was the boy claiming to be her missing son and what happened to the real Walter Collins?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The life and tragic death of a young socialite in the 1930s inspires an Academy Award winning movie. But, Starr Faithfull's life was far from the glamorous treatment it would receive on the big screen.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As a bonus for this month's theme "Stranger Than Fiction" I interviewed author Harold Schechter about his new book, Ripped from the Headlines: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes, an anthology of forty true crime cases that inspired films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two women accused of murder in the Roaring 20s would become the inspiration for one of the best known and longest running shows in American musical theater history. This is the story of the real life Roxie and Velma from "Chicago".  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1986, a beautiful young mother discovers her husband is cheating on her and files for divorce.  Soon afterward, she goes missing.  Discovering what happened to Helle Crafts would take an small army of detectives, forensic scientists, serologists, forensic anthropologists, a police diving team and other investigators to unravel this bizarre crime and would inspire an Academy-Award winning film.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the last chapter of "Till Death Do Us Part" a woman meets and quickly marries a man. He promises her a new life, but soon after the wedding she goes missing.  It will take years of investigative and legal work to bring her killer to justice.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A bride sees many red flags in her relationship before walking down the aisle. but her fear of angering her fiancee would compel her to go through with the ceremony.  Within hours, that decision would become fatal.  #domestic violence #coercive control Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new bride decides she's made a mistake in tying the knot.  The decision she makes in order to end the marriage will be a shocking act of cruelty.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this series, I'll share cases of newlyweds who's lives were cut short by the person who vowed to love them forever.  In this first case, a young bride is unaware that her new spouse married her to collect on a $1 million dollar insurance policy.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Part 2 of "The Pelley Murders" I'll tell you about Jeff Pelley's trial, theories of the murder and give you a strange and compelling story about who else may have been responsible for the murders of Bob Pelley and his family.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 17-year-old is suspected in the murder of four of his family members because he was forbidden from attending his prom.  Was this a case of a homicidal teen or a rush to judgement?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this series, "Last Dance", I share stories of crimes that happened on prom night.  In the first episode, a teenager commits an act of parricide then attends his prom and holds a party at the crime scene.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An abusive stepfather gets his comeuppance when his stepsons turn on him resulting in a grisly murder.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A child, unwanted from birth and neglected by her birth parents, is hopeful that her new stepmother will love her like a daughter. It is not to be and her story will become a cautionary tale in the U.K. of how the child protective system spectacularly failed Lauren Wright.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our new series, “StepMonsters,” I’ll share stories of bad stepparents whose actions became true crime news.  In this first episode I'll share the story of a young boy who went missing and was found in a very unlikely place.  Was he the victim of abuse as he would claim and, if so, who was the person most responsible - his stepmother, his own father or both?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A gruesome crime would become a media sensation in Canada in 1946 when a beautiful young woman was accused of the grisly murder.  This is the case of the infamous Evelyn Dick and the Torso Murder of 1946.Link to listen to the song "Evelyn Dick" by The Forgotten Rebels - https://youtu.be/OAkxFSM_rNs  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1991, Kurt Cobain released a song on the album Nevermind. Titled "Polly" the song was inspired by a kidnapping and rape of a young girl in Tacoma, Washington.  This is the story of that crime.Listen to "Polly" by Nirvana here: https://youtu.be/3H0NHHKBemg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young girl is brutally murdered in New York's Central Park in 1986. Her killer, Robert Chambers, would be dubbed "The Preppy Killer" in the press and his victim's name would be dragged through the mud. This is the real story of "The Preppy Murder" you haven't heard before.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The mysterious death of a young girl inspires Jon Bon Jovi to record a song dedicated to her.  This is the case of Katherine Korzilius.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Nebraska, in 1958, a high school junior holds animosity towards his mother and takes deadly revenge.  He is caught and imprisoned and, years later, disappears for decades.  Where is Leslie Arnold today?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Kansas in 1958, an 18-year-old kills both of his parents and his only sibling. Was it a case of greed, mental illness, or was Andrews just a "bad seed"?  #parricide #InColdBlood #TheBrothersKaramazov #deathrow #familyannihilators  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1975, a rebellious teen enlists her boyfriend to kill her parents in a small, Northern California town. The gruesome crime would be dubbed "The Barbecue Murders" in the press.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode I'll do an in-depth look at the infamous serial killer Aileen Wuornos.  Time stamps:Early Life: 02:41Teen Years: 13:25Young Adult Life: 32:17On the Road: 35:30Criminal Activity: 36:12Tyra: 47:30The Victims: 55:57Closing In/The Arrest: 1:36:40The Confession: 1:44:46Arlene Pralle/Adoption: 1:51:50The Trial: 1:56:42Death Sentence: 2:04:26Execution 2:12:44Final Thoughts: 2:14:35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this bonus episode I share the highs and lows for 2019, list the top episodes of last year, talk about upcoming events and share the last word on the 2019 plagiarism scandal.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this special episode my guest is Jack Luna from Crime Machine Podcast.  We discuss the evidence and theories behind the JonBenet Ramsey Case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this special episode, I discuss the death of Shawn Stephens Lewis. Shawn was the fifth wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, the rock and country music star.  When Shawn Lewis was found dead in Lewis's mansion on August 24, 1983, many questions would remain unanswered as to how she died. My very special guest this week is Erica Kelly from the Southern Fried True Crime podcast!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this year-end wrap up episode, I answer listener questions and share updates on cases I've covered in past episodes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this last episode about fugitives on the run from the law I tell you the story of the very first woman ever to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.  Ruth Eisemann-Schier, along with her boyfriend, Gary Krist, carried out a bizarre kidnapping plot in 1968.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young man from a wealthy family is accused of committing two rapes while still in high school. Before he could be tried on these charges he'd flee the jurisdiction and disappear for eight years before finally being brought to justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I’ll share two separate cases of women who became part of a very small and exclusive club - women who made the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List.  Nazira Ugalde killed for financial gain and flees to South America.  A young woman in Texas, Brenda Delgado, plans the murder of her romantic rival and disappears soon after being questioned by police.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A small time drug dealer kidnaps a rival's younger brother in order to settle a debt.  The unfolding series of events would become one of California's most bizarre and tragic kidnapping cases on record and would even inspire an award-winning Hollywood movie.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I dig into my file of spooky stories to share some haunted happenings in the world of rock and roll.  #themansionatlaurelcanyon #redhotchilipeppers #slipknot #hauntedhouses #bonscott #joshuatreeinn #halloween #ghoststories  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bob Marley went from singing R&B harmonies in Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica to becoming a pioneer of reggae music, bringing his own blend of reggae, rock and ska music to a global audience. But as a popular figure in Jamaica, he was unwillingly thrust into the country’s political strife.  The situation became so dangerous for Marley that on December 3, 1976, he became a target of assassins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A free concert took place in northern California in December of 1969 featuring The Rolling Stones.  It would descend into chaos due to poor planning, rampant drug use and the ill-advised use of the Hells Angels as concert security.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman begins receiving harassing phone calls and letters from a stalker.  It would take years to discover who the anonymous man was, but when he was finally identified a shocking secret would be revealed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 7-year-old goes missing while on a family camping trip in 1973.  Anonymous calls would be placed demanding a ransom, but, the trail would grow cold until exactly one year later when the kidnapper would call her mother to brag about taking her daughter.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a small French village, a little boy goes missing and the family receives anonymous letters from a person taking responsibility who is dubbed "The Crow".  This strange case could be considered the Jon Benet Ramsey case of France.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young girl goes missing in South Carolina in 1985.  Soon after, her kidnapper would begin calling her family - but not to make demands for her safe return, but only to cruelly taunt them.  This is the first chapter in the series "Taunting Terrors".  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A horror film franchise is seemingly cursed when it experiences tragedies including hauntings, serious accidents, fatal illness and murder.  #DominiqueDunne #LouPerryman #HeatherORourke Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From 1922 to the 1940s over 40 child actors would be cast in a popular series of short films and many of them would later fall victim to strange accidents, illnesses, drug addiction, financial hardship, murder and suicide.  This is The Curse of The Little Rascals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Every manifestation of the Man of Steel - comic books, television shows and films - has been marked by bad blood, shattered careers, tragic accidents and even murder.  This is the Curse of Superman.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three child actors become stars after being cast in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes in 1978.  But, all three would go on to live troubled adult lives including drug addiction, legal troubles and untimely death. These are the stories of Todd Bridges, Dana Plato and Gary Coleman.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Susan Polk enters into a relationship with her therapist when she is a young girl. Years later, after 20 years of marriage, she will claim she has been abused by her husband for decades.  After he is found dead in their guest house the question would be, was this a case of self-defense or a cold-blooded murder?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mother seeks help for her special needs child, but a church prayer service ends tragically.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the second chapter of the series "Deadly Therapy" a young girl who grows up in an unstable home is placed up for adoption.  Her adoptive mother finds her behavior problematic and has her undergo a new and controversial therapy - with tragic results.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This month's series, "Deadly Therapy", details cases of people seeking help from experts, but rather than receiving healing, their journeys came to an abrupt and deadly end.  In Chapter One, James, Arthur Ray, success coach and guru, requires his followers to perform extreme mental and physical challenges in the pursuit of “enlightenment” with deadly results.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Identical twin sisters, Sunny and Gina Han were lifelong rivals. One sister's jealousy would lead her to plot her twin's murder.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this bonus episode, I interview Jan Broberg and Skye Borgman about their documentary film "Abducted in Plain Sight" LIVE at CrimeCon 2019 in New Orleans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this bonus episode I take you along with me to CrimeCon 2019 in New Orleans and my travels to New York City and Toronto for the Toronto True Crime Film Festival.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I continue the story of the Gibbons Sisters - twins who were locked in a battle their entire lives. Neither believed they could survive without the other, but controlled each other so completely they only spoke to or associated with one another.  When they reached adolescence, they knew they had to find some way to break out of this destructive twin bond or both would perish.  Their desperation lead them to commit increasingly antisocial and criminal acts.  This is part two of "The Silent Twins".  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

June and Jennifer Gibbons were identical twins who, from a very young age, were so bonded to one another that they created their own “twin language” to communicate speaking only to one another.  They rejected any other relationships including their own parents and siblings.  Later, they would construct a fantasy world that only they inhabited.  This lead to more serious anti-social behavior that resulted in a shocking crime spree.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Lost and Found" was the very first series of Once Upon a Crime in June, 2016.  In that series I covered the story of three young women who were held captive and abused by Ariel Castro for over a decade.  In this bonus episode we give you an update about these survivors - Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina De Jesus.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mother takes justice into her own hands in Jamestown, California in 1993 when she discovers her son has been abused by a child molester.  Some called her a hero, others denounced her actions as vigilantism.  This is Chapter 2 of "Disorder in the Court". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2005, a man on trial for rape escapes custody in Atlanta's Fulton County Courthouse and goes on a violent rampage.  This is Chapter 1 of "Disorder in the Court".   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A summer ball game descends into chaos when a promotional event goes seriously awry.  This is the last chapter in the series "Bad Sports" recounting the Cleveland Indians' "Ten Cent Beer Night" riot.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A friendly soccer game on a dusty field in Brazil turns into a horrific act of violence.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ray and Sally McNeil were a married couple who were both accomplished athletes in the sport of professional bodybuilding.  But, a combination of infidelity, abuse and anabolic steroid use would lead to a final, bloody confrontation on Valentine’s Day, 1995.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A neighborhood ice rink, a pee-wee hockey pick-up game and some unsportsmanlike conduct leads to a confrontation between parents that ends with tragic results.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man starts having vivid memories of a violent crime he believes he may have committed during an alcoholic blackout.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I conclude the story about Eileen Franklin who claimed to have witnessed her friend, 8-year-old Susan Nason's murder in 1969. She would say her memory of the event was only recovered after 20 years.  Her story would begin a debate about the validity of "recovered memories" used in criminal trials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman reports that she witnessed the murder of her best friend and then forgot about it for decades until her memory resurfaced about the terrible event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A career criminal commits multiple murders plus an attempted murder and continues to be released on parole.  This is the case of Michael Keith Moon.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the conclusion of the Louise Peete story, the convicted murderess is released from prison and, before long, goes on to commit another violent crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I'm pleased to announce my new podcast "Let's Taco 'Bout True Crime"! Each episode will feature me and a special guest host talking about what's new, hot and trending in true crime - in a fun and casual format.  First episode drops on February 19th!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode. I share a story about a particularly lethal woman who''s long criminal career saw her acquitted of a murder, sentenced to life for another and still released to continue her murderous ways. This is Part One of the case of Louise Peete.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man murders three innocent teens in 1966, is sentenced to death and is later released from prison to kill again.  This is the case of Kenneth Allen McDuff aka "The Broomstick Killer".  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rare form of serial killer are Black Widows - women who kill their spouses and other family members - usually for financial gain. Even more rare are Black Widow Sisters.  This week I'll share two stories of sisters who set up murder syndicates for profit.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman is discovered to have murdered two of her husbands and hiding their bodies in her yard.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As a special holiday episode Yolanda from Not Perfect or Functional Podcast aka my little sister returns! This time we discuss the ever-debated Darlie Routier case.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Christmas week 1992, a series of murders took place in Dayton, Ohio.  Some would call it a case of “thrill killing” others would point to juvenile delinquency, dysfunctional family issues or just plain bad kids.  The identified “ringleader” would fit none of these stereotypes and yet, made the decision to go on a murder spree that would shock his community.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three generations of one family are murdered on Christmas Eve, 2007 in Carnation, Washington.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young couple play a deadly game with perfect strangers on Memorial Day weekend, 2002 in Ocean City, Maryland. #homicide #killercouples #thrillkillers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2002, a wealthy couple is found murdered in their home in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Their own daughter soon because a suspect and the case becomes a media sensation in Brazil.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young couple conspire to kill a romantic rival in Texas in 1995. Thanks to listener Casey Graham for the suggestion of this case.  This is the case of Diane Zamora and David Graham - The Texas Cadet Murder case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When a series of brutal crimes takes place in one neighborhood in Rhode Island in 1989, investigators zero in on an unlikely suspect - a teenage boy who would be considered one of the country's youngest serial killers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The last chapter of "Haunted Homicide" is the story of the LaLaurie Mansion known as "the most haunted house in America".  In this episode you'll hear the TRUE story of Madame Delphine LaLaurie who is called "the socialite serial killer".   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Tower of London has a long history of torture, murder and royal intrigue.  It has also been the scene of many ghostly sightings over its 950-year history.  Travel with me to through the Tower to uncover some of its dark history.  #ThomasBecket #WilliamWallace #HenryVIII #AnneBoleyn #ThePrincesintheTower #RichardIII #TudorEngland #ElizabethI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A house with a dark history is purchased by a young couple in 1975.  They soon begin experiencing unexplained and terrifying events inside the home.  Was it a result of their imaginations run wild? A hoax? Or the after effects of a horrific multiple homicide committed there? #Amityville #AmityvilleHorror #DeFeoMurders #RonaldDeFeo  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A serial killer uses his own home as his killing grounds.  After his crimes are discovered his property, Fox Hollow Farm, will be considered one of the most haunted places in the midwestern United States.  This is chapter one of the series, "Haunted Homicide".  #HerbBaumeister #hauntings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman finds a finger in a fast food item. A lawsuit is filed and investigators quickly learn that something's not quite right with her claim and a scam is discovered.  #scams #hoaxes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A series of fast food restaurant robberies take place in Nashville, Tennessee in 1997.  The accused, Paul Dennis Reid, would claim that his early history of brain damage was to blame.  #serialkillers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A series of women are found raped and strangled in their homes in Charlotte, North Carolina between 1992 and 1994.  Later it would be discovered that they could all be linked to one man - a manager at a Taco Bell restaurant in Charlotte. #CharlotteStrangler #serialkiller #HenryLouisWallace #FBIprofilers  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Part 2 of The Parker-Hulme Murder Case. In the conclusion, we'll discover that one of the convicted murderers would go on to an illustrious career as one of the world's most well known crime-fiction writers.  Her past would stay concealed for almost 40 years before her true identity was discovered.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A brutal murder takes place in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1954.  Two teenage girls are quickly identified as the murderers.  The crime would become infamous in New Zealand and the girl exposed as a well-known writer decades later.  This is Part 1. #Parker-HulmeMurder #NewZealand #PaulineParker #JulietHulme #matricide  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this second chapter of "Written in Blood" I detail cases of two writers who became wife killers - and then hid their crime from the public.  #domesticviolence #authors #writers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this series I detail crimes committed by authors or writers.  First up, two authors who became literary celebrities despite their criminal history....or even because of it. #JackHenryAbbott #IsseiSagawa #NormanMailer #GaryGilmore #TheExecutionersSong #Japan #cannibalism  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we wrap up the Pacific Heights dog mauling case. The attack on Diane Whipple was horrific and lead to a public outcry against the dog owners, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who continued to deflect responsibility and blame the victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A fatal dog mauling case shocked the San Francisco Bay Area and the world in early 2001.  When the details were revealed about the dogs and their owners the story took a bizarre twist.#dianewhipple #marjorieknoller #robertnoel #sfdogmauling #paulcornfedschneider Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dian Fossey became the foremost expert on the mountain gorillas of the Congo.  She conducted the first long-term field study of these animals and her story was immortalized in the book and movie Gorillas in the Mist. A few days after Christmas 1985 Dian Fossey was found brutally murdered in her cabin at the primate research center she founded.  People around the world wanted to know who killed Dian Fossey?#Rwanda #poachers #gorillaconservation #Virunga #Karisoke  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If true crime stories teach us anything it's that man is the most dangerous animal of all. In this new series I will detail cases where human's behavior results in wild animals becoming involved in crime stories.  This series will NOT detail cases of animal cruelty.First up, a tiger escapes its enclosure at a zoo and attacks three men? Was the tiger provoked? What would cause an animal to attack humans out of the blue?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this bonus episode I discuss the 4-part documentary series "Dead North" that premiered on A&E in late May.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young, Canadian college student goes missing from the Cecil Hotel while visiting Los Angeles in 2013.  The hotel's surveillance camera captures bizarre behavior by the young woman adding to the mystery.  #ElisaLam #mysteriousdeaths #elevatorvideo  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We continue the series "Infamous Locales" with another true crime story from the infamous Cecil Hotel. This time, I'll tell you about another serial killer who made the Cecil his base of operations -  Jack Unterweger, "The Vienna Woods Killer". #serialkillers #Austria #Vienna #ViennaWoodsKiller  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles has been home to at least two serial killers, numerous tragic deaths, a sniper shooting and one mysterious death.  Join me for this first installment of a 2-part episode covering the Cecil Hotel's history. #serial killers #RichardRamirez #TheNightStalker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special episode I give a wrap-up of CrimeCon - all the true crime celebrity sightings, the true crime podcast rockstars I got to hang out with, and all the inside gossip and info.  I also discuss a couple of cases related to what I learned in CrimeCon sessions this year - the Patsy Ramsey 911 call, Ted Bundy and Jodi Arias.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The district of Whitechapel in London, England was the location of one of the most infamous, unsolved serial murders in history - the Jack the Ripper Murders. But, there was possibly a second serial murderer operating at the same time. Journey with us to Whitechapel for some historical true crime cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One intersection in Beverly Hills has been the site of many events from airplane crashes, car accidents, and murders. Could it be a coincidence or is the area cursed? #beverlyhills #bermudatriangle #howardhughes #hollywood #bugsysiegel #ronnichasen  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Surprise! Here's an extra episode for you since I'm off this week.  This is as bonus episode that I would normally make available only for Patreon members, but I'll give you a little sneak peek of Patreon bonus content by sharing it with everyone.This is the story of another murder committed by the Aum Doomsday Cult that did I did not talk about on Episode #86: Last Stop: Chapter 3: The Tokyo Subway Attack.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman takes revenge for hundreds of raped and murdered women in Juarez, Mexico by targeting city bus drivers.#vigilantes #serialkillers #femicide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On March 20, 1995 a group of men board the Tokyo Metro subway and release deadly sarin gas. The mass murder was ordered by Aum Supreme Truth cult leader Shoko Asahara.#massmurder #cults #Japan #terrorism #chemicalweapons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hostages are taken on a bus in central Rio de Janeiro in 2000. The entire incident would be televised live. #hijacking #Brazil Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1976, in the small farming community of Chowchilla, California, a school bus full of children is kidnapped for ransom. #kidnappings #Chowchilla #ransom #crimehistory #California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wealthy and overprivileged youth commit crimes and then their defense attorneys use their indulgent upbringing to claim "diminished responsibility". I'll discuss the cases of Ethan Couch and Leopold and Loeb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Supervisor Dan White murders San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978. His defense would claim "diminished capacity" to keep him from being sentenced to death. The media dubbed this "The Twinkie Defense". But, what really caused Dan White to become a double murderer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our first chapter of "Unusual Criminal Defenses" outlines three cases where killers claimed to be sleepwalking while committing their crimes. #kennethparks #scottfalater #alberttirrell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The last chapter of this series continues with stories of the darker side of the Academy Awards. You'll hear about missing and stolen Oscars, the tragic story of the Oscar Night Streaker and a murder committed by the son of an Oscar winning songwriter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man escapes the genocide in Cambodia and becomes an Academy Award Winning Actor in the U.S.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Roman Polanski lives a life of hardship and tragedy before becoming an award winning director - and a fugitive from justice after being charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl. #hollywoodcrimes #charlesmanson #sharontate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Academy Awards is held annually to honor the best of Hollywood. But, there is a darker side of this star-studded ceremony. The first is the true story of the crime portrayed in the Academy Award winning film Dog Day Afternoon. #bankrobberies #johnwojtowicz #chasemanhattanbank #newyorkcrimes  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The last chapter of "Survivor Stories" is the terrifying story of the attack on Mary Vincent by Larry Singleton in Northern California in 1978. Singleton would become one of the most despised and feared criminals in California history. #Californiacrime #rapists #hitchhikers #murderers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tracey Thurman survives a vicious attack by her estranged husband, Buck Thurman, in broad daylight and in front of police officers. She will file a federal lawsuit against the Torrington Police Department for failure to protect. #domesticviolence #traceythurman #buckthurman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young woman is offered a ride by a nice looking man in Salt Lake City in 1974. By the end of the day she would be attacked and almost killed by the infamous serial killer, Ted Budy. #serial killers #tedbundy #rhondastapley #survivors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 14-year-old girl masterminds her own rescue when a pedophile kidnaps her and hides her in an underground bunker deep in the woods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Part 2 of my discussion of the Laci Peterson case will finish up the timeline of the investigation and do a deep dive into the background and psychology of Scott Peterson. I'll give my analysis of what factors contributed to Scott Peterson's crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This very special episode details the disappearance of Laci Peterson on Christmas Eve, 2002. Laci, 8-months pregnant at the time was found murdered months later. Her husband, Scott was charged with her murder and the murder of their unborn child. Me and my co-host, Yolanda Norris of the Not Perfect of Function Podcast provide analysis of this case and details you may not have heard before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're talking Black Friday Madness, Grinchy burglars, and more true crime holiday craziness on this special holiday edition episode.  Hear holiday greetings from some of my pod friends including Canadian True Crime, True Crime Garage, Southern Fried True Crime, Insight Podcast, True Crime Island, Murder Road Trip, The Cleaning of John Doe, Killifornia Dreaming and Done Disappeared. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This month's series is all about holiday-related true crimes. First up, crimes committed by bad Santas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cousins get revenge by murdering family members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A mother-son team of grifters turns to murder to get away with their financial schemes. serial killers, Sante Kimes, Kenny Kimes, con artists, true crime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One of the most prolific serial killer families in history was discovered in Jalisco, Mexico in 1964.  This is the story of the Gonzalez Sisters.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three brothers going on a killing spree in Richmond, Virginia in 1979. murder, serial killers, death row, prison escapes, executions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this special Halloween episode I share creepy urban legends...with a twist - they are based on true crimes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A pregnant mother dies as a result of a car accident. Thousands of Facebook friends mourn her loss. Could her whole life have been fabricated online? Chapter 2 tells the fascinating story of a case of Munchausen by Internet.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This series kicks off with a case from Australia and one of the most well-known cases of Munchausen's by Internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine Paolilla was befriended by Rachel Koloroutis and Tiffany Rowell and her life changed for the better. Why, then, did she turn on them in such a deadly way? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman goes missing in a small town in Tennessee. Soon, a kidnapper calls demanding a ransom. The communication from him becomes more bizarre and townspeople begin to believe the culprit might be one of their own community members.   Podcasts: Not Perfect of Functional, Twisted Philly, Murder Road Trip, The Minds of Madness, True Crime Fan Club, Generation Why, The Peripheral, Pleasing Terrors, Killafornia Dreaming, The Fall Line     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This series details cases where friends turn on friends - with deadly results. This is Chapter 2 - The Murder of Bobby Kent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jealousy and a deep desire to be accepted by the popular crowd drives a high school student to murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marie Hilley becomes a fugitive after murdering her husband and poisoning her daughter in Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The story of Marie Hilley's life is one of the most strange and bizarre true crime cases I've encountered. There are so many twists and turns in this case that I've split it into two parts. Frank and Marie Hilley early in their marriage.   Once Upon a Crime Podcast Fan Page on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our second chapter focuses on a case of Munchausen by Proxy - but this time the perpetrator is a health care worker preying on unsuspecting hospital patients. Beverley Allitt was a British serial killer dubbed "The Angel of Death". Many believe she killed because she had Munchausen's Syndrome. Others simply believe she was an evil person who used her position to attack the most vulnerable - the young and helpless.     Save Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rare phenomenon causes a mother to make her children ill for her own selfish gain. Chapter 1 of "Sick and Murdered". Laurie Williamson is wheeled into court to face charges (she claimed to be paralyzed). Resources: Podcasts featuring the Dee Dee & Gypsy Blanchard Case - Generation Why - Episode 234 Sword and Scale - Episode 49 Documentary: Mommy Dead and Dearest   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Part 2 of "Murder in the Hamptons" tells of the ugly and costly divorce of Ted and Generosa Ammon and how hate a resentment boiled over to murder. Clockwise from top: Greg & Alexa Ammon, The East Hampton beach house, Danny Pelosi, Ted Ammon, Generosa Ammon Check out this independent podcast! The Noir Factory Podcast Book: Almost Paradise: The East Hampton Murder of Ted Ammon by Kieren Crowley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A love story turn into a murder when a multi-millionaire finds himself in an ugly and vicious divorce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A billionaire banker dies under suspicious circumstances in Monaco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A family is murdered in their Fresno home. Was it for the inheritance? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two couples collide on a deserted island on the South Seas. Only one would leave alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After Natalee Holloway another woman goes missing in Aruba - was it an accidental death or a murder? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A serial killer strikes in Florence, Italy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A serial killer hunts and kills women in and around Yosemite National Park. Cary Stayner, Carole Sund, Joie Armstrong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clara Harris finds out her husband of 10 years is having an affair and takes matters into her own hands - in a particularly gruesome way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Part 2 tells about the investigation, interrogation, arrest and trial of Jodi Arias for the murder of Travis Alexander. This is Chapter 3 of "A Woman Scorned" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young woman who felt spurned by her on-again-off again lover and realizaing she couldn’t have him for herself, decides to take deadly revenge. This case became one of the most sensationalized trials on record.  Chapter 2 of "A Woman Scorned" is the murder of Travis Alexander by Jodi Arias. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1989, Betty Broderick guns down her ex-husband and his new wife. Did her cheating husband cause her to snap or did she commit cold-blood, premeditated murder?This is Chapter 1 of our new series "A Woman Scorned".  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A divorced dad takes revenge out on his ex-wife by attempting to murder his own son.Charles Rothenberg, David Rothenberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A woman reports her car stolen with her 2 young sons inside. After a 9 day search, the unthinkable would be discovered.Michael and Alex Smith, kidnapping, carjacking, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An entire family is found murdered in their home in 1971. The patriarch, John List, murdered his wife, mother and children and then disappeared.List Family murders, America's Most Wanted, fugitive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three children are shot on a lonely road one night in 1983. Was it the work of a violent stranger or was it even more horrifying? Could their own mother be to blame? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode I detail a rare phenomenon - female mass murderers. You'll hear three cases of women who killed several people in a single incident in the U.S., Germany and Kuwait. Jennifer San Marco, workplace shootings, Sabine Radmacher, Nasra Yousef Al-Enezi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The worst case of mass murder in the U.S. at the time occurred on July 18, 1984. The shooter entered a crowded McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro, California and killed 21 men, women and children before the siege was over.James Huberty, mass murderers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eight student nurses are found dead one morning in 1966. There was only one survivor. This is the case of mass murderer Richard Speck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A WWII vet goes on a killing rampage in Camden, New Jersey in 1949.historical true crime, spree killers, mass murders, Howard Unruh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A couple deceive, rob and, ultimately, kill women who place ads in "Lonely Hearts" columns in the 1940s.Martha Beck, Raymond Fernandez, killer couples Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two teens go on a killing spree in America's heartland in 1958. Charles Starkweather, Caril Fugate, Carol Fugate, spree killers, American murderers, teenage killers, killer couples Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A couple begin a reign of terror across several states in the Midwest United States in the summer of 1984.  The FBI would be called in to find and apprehend the serial killers.Alton Coleman, Debra Brown, killer couples, serial killers, spree killers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young girl infatuated with an older, married man sets out to eliminate her rival - his wife of 15 years. But, the story is soon discovered to be more sordid than originally thought. Amy Fisher, Joey Buttafuoco, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, New Jersey, Long Island Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts is robbed of over a half a billion dollars of rare art in 1990.art crimes, art heists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young aspiring writer shoots pop art icon Andy Warhol in 1968.Valerie Solanas, art, pop art Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The great artist Caravaggio lives an unparalleled life as a painter of masterpieces and as a mercurial and violent young man who became a convicted murderer before the age of 35. true crime artists murderers historical crime Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The series "Artful Crimes" details cases of crimes committed by and against artists. In Chapter 1 we'll explore the death of Vincent Van Gogh - suicide or murder?   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man leads police to a body buried in a snowbank on Christmas Day, 1977. This murder in Madison, Wisconsin, would captivate the public with a tale of sex, murder, drugs and money.    Barbara Hoffman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Christmas Day, 1929, one of the country's worst mass murders took place in North Carolina. This is Chapter 2 of Holiday Homicides: The Lawson Family Murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the early morning hours of Christmas Eve, 1881, a brutal attack was perpetrated on three sleeping teens in Ashland, Kentucky. historical murder, holiday homicides Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 9-year-old girl is abducted in Arlington, Texas. The community and, ultimately, the country would call for changes in the way law enforcement responds to missing and abducted children   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The murder of a young girls leads to sweeping changes in sentencing laws.Polly Klaas, Richard Allen Davis, Petaluma, abductions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Thanksgiving! Just sharing some info about the holiday schedule of podcast releases and some shout outs to listeners and podcasters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An abused woman spends years being beaten and terrorized by her husband while police and others turn a blind eye. In desperation, she takes the law into her own hands.Francine Hughes, domestic violence, burning bed, Mickey Hughes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young woman's murder becomes and indictment on American apathy and changes the way crime is reportedKitty Genovese, Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, Winston Mosley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this special bonus Halloween episode I share something a little different. Instead of the usual true crime case I'm sharing two ghost stories with you. Feel free to listen in the dark! Happy Halloween!Halloween, ghost stories, spooky tales, La Llorona, Bloody Mary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Hinckley, Jr. tries to impress an actress by killing President Ronald Reagan. Was he legally insane? This is the final chapter in the series "Fatal Fans". stalkers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark David Chapman stalks and murders John Lennon on a New York city street in 1980. This is Chapter 3 of Fatal Fans.stalkers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An unhinged fan has murderous plans towards young actress Rebecca Schaeffer.stalkers, celebrity crime, Robert John Bardo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young actress is stalked by an unhinged drifter who is intent on killing her. celebrity crime, stalking, Arthur Jackson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Queen of Tejano Music is gunned down by a fan in 1995.Selena Quintanilla, Yolanda Saldivar, fatal fans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two of music's biggest rap stars are cut down in their prime. But, who killed them? This week's episode - Tupac and Biggie.Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, Christopher Wallace Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The second installment in the series about the tragic endings of musical icons this time I discuss the life and death of Nirvana's frontman, Kurt Cobain. Justin Evans from the Generation Why and The Peripheral podcasts weighs in on "Soaked in Bleach" and the murder theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This series tells the tragic stories of recording artists who were killed or died under mysterious circumstances. In the first chapter, Marvin Gaye, a top R&B recording artist is murdered by a family member in 1984. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first school mass shooting in the U.S. is committed by a 16-year-old year girl. Brenda Spencer, school shootings, mass shootings Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An 11-year-old is accused of murdering two boys in the 1960s.British crime, kids who kill, killer kids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A bonus episode partially recorded at The Warfield Theater in San Francisco, CA. Making a Murderer's Dean Strang and Jerry Buting on their speaking tour "A Conversation on Justice".Steven Avery, Brendan Dassey, Theresa Halbach Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A young serial killer terrorizes South Boston in 1872. historical crime, serial killers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When kidnap victims are held for a period of time the public often wants to know "why didn't they try to escape?" This episode explains a psychological phenomenon known as "Stockholm Syndrome", how it might apply to the victims I discussed in the series "Lost and Found", and share probably the most well-known case of Stockholm Syndrome, the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Three girls go missing over as many years in a Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood.  Years go by before they are ever seen again. When it was revealed who had taken them and what they were subjected to the city was stunned to find that the perpetrator had been right under their nose all along. Ariel Castro, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, abductions, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is our second installment in the series "Lost and Found". Elizabeth Smart was a 14-year-old girl from a loving, Mormon family living in Salt Lake City, Utah. The family's kindness towards a local transient would make her a target for kidnapping. Her ordeal would encompass months of captivity and hundreds of miles before the final outcome in her story. Brian David Mitchell, Wanda Barzee, child abductions, kidnapping Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is the first installment in our series "Lost and Found". An 11-year-old girl is abducted by strangers in broad daylight. The abductors have carefully planned for their captive. The story of this well-publicized kidnapping is even more bizarre and unbelievable than you might have heard.   Jaycee Lee Dugard, Lake Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe, Phillip Garrido Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices