Florence, KY - Clay Shrout: Killer Hostage Taker
One day in 1994, a police officer arrested a juvenile, and the first thing he asked the teenage boy was “What’s going on?” He replied to the officer matter-of-factly, “I’ve had a bad day today…I’ve ki...
24 Sep 202126min
Elephant Butte, NM - Toy Box Killer - David Parker Ray
In the U.S. state of New Mexico, one can find towns with unusual names such as Elephant Butte and Truth and Consequences. But few people know that in these towns there once lived a criminal with an eq...
20 Sep 202129min
Sacramento, CA - Death House Landlady - Dorothea Puente
To her neighbors, Dorothea Puente seemed almost saint-like. She opened her home to shelter society’s outcasts: the homeless, the mentally-ill, alcoholics, drug addicts, and even frail, sickly old peop...
12 Sep 202129min
Cleveland, OH - House of Horrors - Ariel Castro
“Want me to give you a ride?” This 7-word solicitous question may sound like an offer to help that deserves appreciation. But for three young women in Cleveland, Ohio who accepted the ride, it was a d...
3 Sep 202135min
Houston, TX - Double Morris Murders
It’s not uncommon for two people to share the same first and last names – and the only detail that doesn’t make their birth certificates identical is the difference in their middle names. Did you know...
27 Aug 202130min
Hampstead, Maryland - Autassassinophilia: The Consensual Homicide of Sharon Lopatka
Our public persona is what most people know and see, and it becomes the basis of how they love or hate us, and appreciate or judge us. What we tightly guard and don’t expose though is our private pers...
20 Aug 202129min
Englewood, CO - 1980 Radio Intern's Killer - Helene Pruszynski
Twenty-one year old Massachusetts native Helene Pruszynski had always aspired to be a journalist, and had ventured to Denver, Colorado to pursue her dream. She wanted to write the next big story, but...
14 Aug 202129min
Circleville, Ohio - The Unsolved Mystery of the Circleville Letters
American writer and literary critic Anatole Broyard once opined, “In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people’s lives.” In the...
7 Aug 202126min
