S1 Ep9: Charley Ross: America's First Kidnapping for Ransom
After 4-year-old Charley Ross vanished in a carriage with two men who'd offered him candy and fireworks, police at first told his father to wait it out. Surely the men had no bad intentions. Then came...
21 Joulu 202040min
S1 Ep8: Kitty Genovese: A Murder with 38 Witnesses
As a 28-year-old woman screamed for help on an otherwise quiet New York City street, neighbors roused from sleep ... and then largely did nothing. The 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese would soon represen...
14 Joulu 202037min
S1 Ep7: The Mysterious Beheading of Pearl Bryan
When a headless woman's remains were discovered near Cincinnati in 1896, police had a problem. Long before DNA and fingerprinting, the lack of a head made it tough to identify the victim. Thanks to a ...
7 Joulu 202039min
S1 Ep6: Bob Berdella: The Serial Killer Known as the Kansas City Butcher
To his neighbors, Bob Berdella was a proactive citizen who helped launch a neighborhood watch group. Sure, he was a bit condescending, but he seemed to have a big heart, using his Kansas City home as ...
30 Marras 202043min
S1 Ep5: Prohibition Murderers: The Karpis/Barker Gang
Thanks to Prohibition, criminal gangs were a dime a dozen in the 1920s and '30s, but the Karpis/Barker Gang became one of the era's longest lived, highest profile, and most consequential. During the D...
16 Marras 202043min
S1 Ep4: Nannie Doss: The Murderous Giggling Granny
When widower Sam Doss was rushed to the hospital with abdominal pains in 1954, his doctor was flummoxed by his life-threatening yet mysterious illness. But Doss got better and came home -- then died t...
9 Marras 202040min
S1 Ep3: Elma Sands: The Manhattan Well Murder
When a 22-year-old woman living with relatives in a boarding house disappeared on Dec. 22, 1799, her loved ones didn't immediately worry. But when she still hadn't returned days later, all eyes turned...
2 Marras 202045min
S1 Ep2: Leopold & Loeb: Jazz Age Killers
On May 21, 1924, 19-year-old Nathan Leopold and 18-year-old Richard Loeb convinced a younger boy, 14 year old Bobby Franks, to get in a car with them. We think Leopold was driving with Loeb in the bac...
26 Loka 202045min
