The Heavy Backpack: Colt Gray and the Apalachee High Shooting
A heavy backpack. A quiet question in first‑period math. And a year of warnings that went unanswered. This episode of Serial Napper traces the long, tangled path leading to the Apalachee High shooting...
7 Mar 42min
Between 7:00 and 7:46: Rebecca Reusch is Missing
On the morning of February 18, 2019, 15-year-old Rebecca Reusch was supposed to go to school. She never arrived. The last confirmed sign of life? A Snapchat sent from inside her sister’s home in Berl...
27 Feb 41min
Britain’s Child Killer: Mary Bell and the Question of Evil
In the summer of 1968, the tight-knit community of Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne was shaken by two devastating deaths. Four-year-old Martin Brown was found in an abandoned house. Three-year-old Bri...
25 Feb 43min
The Hurricane, The Baby, The Life Sentence: Tiffany Woods Plea
In 2005, just weeks after surviving a 41-day stay in the NICU, baby Emmanuel Woods died of malnutrition in Shreveport, Louisiana. His mother, Tiffany Woods, was later convicted of second-degree murder...
20 Feb 35min
The Night the Party Turned Silent: Matthew Degrood and the Brentwood Stabbings
April 15, 2014. What began as a small student gathering near the University of Calgary ended in one of the most devastating nights in the city’s history. Five young people went to a house party in B...
18 Feb 37min
He Was 2 Minutes From His Hotel… Then Vanished: Liam Toman is Missing
In February 2025, 22-year-old Liam Gabriel Toman disappeared from Mont-Tremblant after a night out at Le P’tit Caribou. Last seen on surveillance walking toward his hotel, he never made it back — and ...
14 Feb 40min
Living Next Door to a Monster: The Murders of Mchale Busch and Noah McConnell
In September 2021, Mchale Busch and her 16-month-old son Noah McConnell were murdered in their apartment building in Hinton, Alberta, by a neighbour the system already knew was dangerous. This episod...
10 Feb 36min
No Person Is Disposable: The Unsolved Murder of Wilma June Nissen
In October of 1978, a young woman’s body was found dragged into a roadside ditch along a rural gravel road in Lyon County, Iowa. She had been dead for months. She had no identification. No missing per...
6 Feb 39min
