E170: “Tangled in the Web” Pt. 1: Ovida “Cricket” Coogler

After the death of Sam Giancana, investigators found that he had plenty of enemies, and lots of reasons to look over his shoulder. Neither the Chicago Outfit nor the CIA were pleased that he agreed to...

10 Jan 202336min

Days before he was set to testify at a Senate hearing, one of Chicago’s most notorious mob bosses was found dead in his home. Sam Giancana was once a teenage getaway driver who rose to the top of Chic...

3 Jan 202340min

It’s believed that the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer murdered eight women during the 1970s. Investigators speculated it could have been the work of the Zodiac Killer or even Ted Bundy. But a recent dis...

27 Dec 202242min

Santa Rosa was a safe, peaceful town going into the 1970s. But in a few short years, police realized that five hitchhiking young women had disappeared. Four of them were found dead. And a serial kille...

27 Dec 202237min

The spree continues into Christmas Day and beyond, during which the teen gang murders their third, fourth, fifth and sixth victims. After a tip, police catch the group wearing victims’ clothing, drivi...

21 Dec 202236min

In the early hours of Christmas Eve 1992, a senseless murder in Dayton, Ohio, marks the beginning of a rampage. What started as a desire for Christmas cash turns into a three-day killing spree that le...

21 Dec 202239min

A 19th-century adventurer obsessed with reaching the North Pole set out in the summer of 1871. But the Arctic expedition would be the death of him. Was it the severe weather conditions that bested the...

13 Dec 202252min

The deaths at Greystone mansion were far from straightforward — at least as far as Detective Leslie White was concerned. But shortly after the DA announced they’d be launching a full investigation, th...

6 Dec 202248min