The Chicago Strangler Cases: The Unforgotten 51
Between 2001 and 2017, at least 75 women were strangled or smothered in Chicago. Many were found in alleys, vacant buildings, garbage cans, and other places where it was easy for their deaths to becom...
3 Sep 58min
The Murder of Lori Ann Slesinski: A Conviction Without a Body
In June 2006, 24 year old Lori Ann Slesinski left an Auburn Walmart to pick up drink mixes before a night at her best friend’s house. She never arrived. Days later, her Yorkshire Terrier, Peanut, was ...
1 Sep 1h 3min
Emma Compton: The Trial Is Underway
Today, we’re replaying our 2024 episode about Emma Compton Layne, a woman remembered by the people who loved her for her generous heart, her contagious joy, and the way she always showed up for her fa...
28 Aug 36min
The Murder of Peggy Carr: Poisoned Coca-Cola and the Neighbor Next Door
In the fall of 1988, Peggy Carr, her son Duane Dubberly, and her stepson Travis Carr became violently ill inside their rural Florida home. The symptoms were strange and terrifying: severe nerve pain, ...
27 Aug 1h 6min
The Murder of Alex Pennig: Behind the Locked Bathroom Door
When 32-year-old nurse Alex Pennig was found dead inside the bathroom of her St. Paul apartment, the man who called 911, Matthew Ecker, insisted she had taken her own life behind a locked door. Alex h...
25 Aug 55min
The Murder of Harold Allen: The Root Beer Float Poisoning
For months, Harold Allen suffered from worsening illnesses that doctors could not fully explain. When he died in Freetown, Indiana, just days before Christmas 2022, his death was attributed to serious...
18 Aug 52min
Holly Bartlett's Death: The Unanswered Hours Beneath Halifax's MacKay Bridge
In March 2010, Holly Bartlett, a 31 year old blind public servant and graduate student, left a party in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and took a cab toward her condo. Seven hours later, ironworkers found her ...
13 Aug 57min
