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The True Crime Author Whose Greatest Mystery Was Her Own Daughter's Death

When eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette called her mom to say she was breaking up with her boyfriend, it should have been routine relationship drama. Instead, it became the last conversation they'd ever have. Hours later, Kaitlyn was shot twice in the head while stopped at a red light in Albuquerque, and what followed was a mother's thirty-two-year quest for answers that would outlast police interest, public attention, and eventually her own life.

This is the story of bestselling author Lois Duncan, who refused to accept...

The Serial Killer Who Begged for Help and Got Ignored

Here's what makes the Charles Ray Hatcher case absolutely infuriating. This young man literally wrote a letter from prison begging for psychological help, and every single person in authority ignored him. By the time they finally paid attention, sixteen people were dead and an innocent man was rotting in prison for one of his crimes. The Missouri River Murders case shows us exactly how dangerous it gets when our justice system fails at every possible turn. From a childhood marked by violence and an electrocution tragedy that destroyed...

The Cup That Cracked A 30-Year Murder Case: Mandy Stavik's Story

When 18-year-old Amanda Stavik went for a Thanksgiving weekend jog in the tiny town of Acme, Washington, nobody expected her to vanish without a trace. What happened next would haunt this tight-knit community for three decades. This is the story of how a coworker's courage, a discarded cup, and revolutionary DNA technology finally brought justice to a young woman who deserved so much more. Sometimes the person you're looking for has been right there all along, living down the street, watching the investigation unfold. This case will...

Naval Academy Confession: The Murder That Shocked Texas

Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who think they're perfect. In 1995, two teenage honor students had their entire lives mapped out - military careers, marriage, maybe even space travel. But when seventeen-year-old David Graham confessed to his girlfriend Diane Zamora that he'd had sex with sixteen-year-old track star Adrianne Jones, their perfect love story turned into something unthinkable. What happened next wasn't a crime of passion. It was calculated, methodical, and absolutely devastating. Nine months later, when Diane couldn't resist bragging about what they'd done to her Naval...

Robert Lee Yates: The Decorated Soldier Who Hunted Women for Sport

You know that feeling when you find out your seemingly perfect neighbor has been living a completely different life? Robert Lee Yates took that concept and ran it straight into nightmare territory. This decorated Army helicopter pilot spent over two decades flying into combat zones, earning medals for bravery, and coming home to his wife and five kids in suburban Spokane. His colleagues couldn't say enough good things about him. His superiors trusted him with their lives. And for twenty-five years, he was systematically hunting and killing...

The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: Four Girls Who Changed America Forever

Four girls were getting ready for Youth Day at church on September 15, 1963, doing what kids do before big moments - checking their hair, smoothing their dresses, making sure they looked perfect. Denise McNair was 11 and loved poetry. Addie Mae Collins was 14 and sold her mom's handmade aprons door-to-door in white neighborhoods. Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley were also 14, chosen as ushers for the service. Sarah Collins, 12, had tagged along with her big sister Addie Mae because that's what little sisters do.

They were at...

Patrick Crusius and the Conspiracy Theory That Inspired Mass Murder

On August 3rd, 2019, a twenty-one-year-old drove 600 miles through the night to commit what would become the deadliest attack on Hispanic and Latino people in modern American history. But here's what makes this story so disturbing: Patrick Crusius looked like any other customer when he walked into that El Paso Walmart. He browsed, ate an orange, acted completely normal. Nobody suspected a thing.

What happened next wasn't random violence. It was calculated terrorism rooted in a conspiracy theory that's unfortunately moved from the darkest corners of the...

The Idaho Four: How a PhD Student Became a Quadruple Murderer

You know how some stories stick with you long after you've heard them? This is one of those stories. Four college students in Moscow, Idaho, were living their normal, messy, beautiful young adult lives when everything changed in one night. Xana, Ethan, Maddie, and Kaylee weren't famous before November 2022, but they should be remembered for who they actually were: real people with inside jokes, weekend plans, and futures that got stolen from them.

What makes this case particularly hard to process isn't the violence itself...

The Sunday Morning Slasher: Carl Watts and the Deal That Almost Set Him Free

Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who slip through every crack in the system. Carl Eugene Watts should have been stopped at fifteen when he first attacked a stranger. He should have been caught in college when a student was stabbed thirty-three times. He definitely should have been arrested in Michigan when police had him under twenty-four-hour surveillance. Instead, he moved to Houston and killed twelve more women before anyone could touch him.

What happens when childhood trauma meets untreated...

From Disney to Death Row: The Oba Chandler Case That Shocked Florida

When Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters took a wrong turn after their Disney vacation, they ended up in Tampa instead of heading home to Ohio. What should have been a simple request for directions turned into one of the most horrific crimes in Florida history. This is the story of how a charming stranger with a boat lured a grieving family into trusting him, and how his own handwriting eventually became the key to solving their murders.

We'll explore the man behind...

The Golden State Killer: When Evil Wore a Badge

We all have that one neighbor who seems a little off, right? Maybe they're too quiet, maybe they mow their lawn at weird hours, maybe they wave just a little too enthusiastically. Well, Joseph James DeAngelo was that neighbor for decades, except his secret wasn't hoarding cats or playing music too loud. For forty years, this guy managed to hide the fact that he was one of California's most prolific serial killers while living completely under the radar as a grandfather in suburban Sacramento.

Here's what gets...

The Catfish Killer: How a Snapchat Romance Led to Murder

You know that feeling when you hear a story that makes you want to immediately check your teenager's phone? This is one of those episodes. We're talking about nineteen-year-old Denali Brehmer, who fell for a guy on Snapchat who promised her nine million dollars to kill her best friend. And before you roll your eyes and think "teenagers are so gullible," let me tell you about the web of trauma, desperation, and manipulation that led to this tragedy.

This case has everything that makes our modern...

Philadelphia's Shoemaker Killer: How Joseph Kallinger Turned His Son Into a Murderer

Sometimes the most disturbing true crime cases are the ones that show us exactly how monsters get made. Joseph Kallinger's story starts with a father who vanished when his son was four years old and ends with that same son terrorizing families across three states with his own twelve-year-old child as his accomplice. This is what happens when trauma doesn't get healed, it gets passed down.

We're talking about a man who went from being tortured by his adoptive parents to torturing his own...

The Brooklyn Vampire: How Albert Fish Became America's Boogeyman

Some stories stick with you long after you hear them, and Albert Fish's case is one that refuses to let go. Born in 1870 into a family tree riddled with mental illness, Fish's early years were marked by abandonment, abuse, and the complete failure of every system meant to protect vulnerable children. What started as a troubled kid nicknamed "Ham and Eggs" at an orphanage became something far more terrifying.

We're diving deep into the psychology and crimes of the man who terrorized multiple generations with names like...

Israel Keyes and the Kill Kits Still Buried Across America

After his arrest, Israel Keyes started talking. He confessed to Samantha Koenig’s murder, then casually gave investigators the names of two more victims.He described how he traveled thousands of miles to kill strangers, how he planned every move, and how he buried evidence years before using it.

But he never gave the full story. And before the FBI could get everything out of him, he made sure the rest of it died with him.

This episode goes inside the interrogations, the confessions, an...

The Secret Life of Israel Keyes: America’s Most Organized Killer

Israel Keyes spent years living like a normal guy. He ran a construction business in Alaska, paid in cash, and took his daughter on cruises. But behind that routine was a system built for murder.He studied serial killers, mapped out his own methods, and buried kill kits across the country. No pattern. No profile. No warning signs.This episode covers how he built a double life, stayed off the radar, and how one mistake brought it all down.

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The Taylor Schabusiness Case: Murder, Meth, and a Head in a Bucket

On February 21, 2022, Shad Thyrion was killed in the basement of his mother’s house by someone he knew well. Taylor Schabusiness had a long history of drug use, recent run-ins with law enforcement, and a growing obsession with Jeffrey Dahmer. What happened that night was violent, intentional, and deeply disturbing.

She didn’t try to hide the crime. She stayed with Shad’s body, dismembered him, and left parts of him behind... including his head in a bucket his mother would later discover herself.
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Bart Whitaker: The Son Who Staged a Hit on His Own Family

Bart Whitaker had every advantage growing up. Private schools, expensive gifts, and parents who bent over backwards to give him the kind of life most people only read about. So when the family sat down to celebrate his college graduation over dinner and handed him a Rolex, no one expected what came next. By the end of the night, two family members were dead, one barely hanging on, and Bart had vanished. This episode unpacks how a carefully staged home invasion unraveled into one of the...

Craig Price: The Teenager Who Terrified Rhode Island

Craig Price looked like the kind of teenager you might ask to help you with your groceries. Quiet. Polite. A little awkward. But at thirteen, he stabbed his neighbor to death in one of the most brutal crimes Rhode Island had ever seen. And it did not stop there. Before he turned sixteen, Craig killed four people, including two young children, all while blending into his suburban neighborhood. This episode breaks down how someone so young could commit crimes so violent, how his babyface kept him hidden in plain sight...

The Killers Who Bragged: Inside the Murder of Amy Robinson

Amy Robinson was doing everything right. She got through high school, started building a life of her own, and found some freedom riding her bike to work every day. But on a February afternoon in 1998, that routine put her in the path of two men who saw her as a target, because of who she was and because they thought no one would fight for her.

This story isn’t about a random act of violence. It’s about a calculated act of cruelty, carried out by p...

Donuts, Death, and the Devil: The True Story of the Chicago Ripper Crew

Most people have never heard of the Chicago Ripper Crew, which is wild considering how brutal and bizarre this story actually is. It starts with a kid working at a donut shop and ends in an attic filled with severed body parts and something that loosely resembles a satanic shrine. Four men, led by a guy who once worked for John Wayne Gacy, went on a spree of violence that targeted women in the most dehumanizing way imaginable. There were rituals. There were trophies. There...

The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: How a Cult Brought Terror to Japan

In the mid-90s, a doomsday cult launched a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system during rush hour. But that attack wasn’t random. It was the result of years of planning, delusion, and violence led by a self-proclaimed messiah who went from acupuncture to apocalypse in one of the most disturbing cult stories you’ve probably never heard all the way through. This episode breaks down the rise of Shoko Asahara, the creation of Aum Shinrikyo, and how a group of highly educated peop...

Lyda Southard: The Serial Widow Who Cooked with Arsenic

Lyda Southard wanted a quiet life. She wanted a husband, a child, maybe a porch to sit on and watch things grow. What she left behind instead was a string of dead husbands, a trail of insurance payouts, and enough arsenic to make even the most optimistic pharmacist raise an eyebrow.

In this episode, we follow Lyda from rural Idaho to Honolulu, through five marriages, four funerals, one prison escape, and a shocking discovery that unraveled the truth she kept so carefully hidden. Was she just a...

The Incel Ideology: Roots and Radicalization

This one’s not your usual 10 Minute Murder. It started as a blog I wrote for the site, and a lot of people asked to hear it out loud. So here we are.

This is a more thoughtfully written piece than what I usually record... something I originally meant for reading, not necessarily narrating. But the topic matters too much to leave it on the page.

We’re unpacking the incel ideology. Where it came from, how it spread, and why it turned violent. What began as a lone...

Ruby Ridge Revisited: Fear, Firearms, and Family on the Edge

The Weaver family retreated to Idaho hoping to protect their kids from a world they saw as collapsing. But their attempt to live off the grid pulled them into a web of suspicion tied to white supremacist groups, federal agents, and a neighbor’s feud. What began as a land dispute escalated into a deadly standoff fueled by mistrust and miscommunication. This episode digs into how paranoia, firearms, and government pressure collided with family loyalty, and how that mix exploded in a way nobody saw coming.

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Inside the Mind of Eugene Butler: Paranoia and Murder on the Farm

Eugene Butler was a man who built a fortune on 480 acres of North Dakota farmland. On the surface, he was a hardworking, thrifty farmer who kept to himself. But beneath that quiet exterior, something darker was unfolding. As paranoia took hold, Eugene’s life spiraled into isolation and fear. When he was finally admitted to a mental hospital, his story seemed to reach its end. That was until a shocking discovery beneath his farmhouse revealed a secret that turned the community upside down. This episode unpacks th...

The True Story of The Bluebeard Killer

Harry Powers lied to lonely women during one of the hardest times in American history and turned it into a full-blown system. While people were standing in breadlines and trying to keep their families fed, he was writing letters. Not looking for love—looking for leverage.

He promised wealth, mansions, and stability. What he actually had was a garage behind his wife’s grocery store and a growing list of people who vanished after meeting him.

This episode unpacks the story of Harry Powers, the so-called Bluebeard Kill...

Muscles, Marriage, and Murder: The Sally McNeil Story

Sally McNeil was trained for war, but her real battles happened at home. A former Marine, mother of two, and competitive bodybuilder, Sally spent years trapped in a violent marriage with a man who had the muscles of a champion and the temper of a ticking time bomb. The abuse started early and got worse, escalating from bruises to broken bones, from manipulation to full-blown terror. Then came the shotgun. On Valentine’s Day, Sally pulled the trigger. The headlines called her “Killer Sally.”But what really happened inside that home...

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate: Nebraska’s Deadly Crime Duo

Charles Starkweather wasn’t your average small-town kid, and his crime spree wasn’t your average headline. Dragging along Caril Ann Fugate, barely a teenager herself, this pair tore through 1950s Nebraska in a brutal blur nobody saw coming. Was Caril just a scared kid caught in Starkweather’s storm, or something darker? We break down the messy, violent truth behind the headlines—because sometimes, real life is stranger and messier than fiction.

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Inside the Toy Box: The David Parker Ray Story

In a small New Mexico town with a name that sounds like a game show, a nightmare was unfolding behind closed doors. David Parker Ray wasn’t your average maintenance man—he built a torture chamber he called the “Toy Box,” where vulnerable women were trapped, tormented, and left to disappear. This episode dives into the twisted mind and dark deeds of a man who took advantage of a forgotten community, revealing the chilling reality behind the facade of a quiet town. You’ll hear about the brave escape that final...

Convict Leasing, Lynch Mobs, and the Killing of Mary Turner

In May of 1918, a white plantation owner in Georgia was killed by a Black laborer he had beaten and abused. What followed wasn’t a trial or investigation… it was a mob. A violent, racist mob that left 13 people dead, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child. This episode walks through the brutal aftermath of Hampton Smith’s murder, how the system of convict leasing laid the groundwork for modern-day slavery, and why Mary Turner’s story still echoes over a century later. It’s about power, fear, and...

When Trust Becomes a Weapon: The Lisa Knoefel Case

Lisa Knoefel was asleep in her own bed when everything unraveled. Her foster daughter, Sabrina Zunich, was standing over her with a knife… and it wasn’t random, or sudden, or some spur-of-the-moment break. This had been planned. Encouraged. Groomed. And the person behind it wasn’t just a bystander. It was Lisa’s husband.

This episode walks through how a woman who dedicated her life to helping others was manipulated, betrayed, and murdered by the people she trusted most. We’ll break down the disturbing relationship between a...

Viral to Violent: The Nasim Aghdam Story

In 2018, Nasim Najafi Aghdam walked into YouTube headquarters with a loaded gun and a personal vendetta. But this story doesn’t start with violence—it starts with viral vegan videos, fitness content, and a YouTube channel that once brought her internet fame. Nasim believed the platform was silencing her. Censoring her. Punishing her for speaking out about animal cruelty. Whether that was true or not didn’t matter anymore, because she acted on it.

This episode tracks how Nasim’s rise as a content creator spiraled into isolation, conspiracy, and viole...

Who Was the Skid Row Stabber?

In 1978, someone started targeting the most vulnerable people in Los Angeles—men living on the streets of Skid Row. Over the course of a year, eleven of them were stabbed to death. The press called the killer the “Skid Row Stabber,” but despite witness accounts, a creepy bathroom confession, and a guy named Luther who may or may not have existed, the murders stayed unsolved.

Then police arrested Bobby Joe Maxwell—a guy with a rough past, a questionable knife, and a diary full of Satanic ramblings. It was enough to land...

The Making of Ted Bundy: Secrets, Shame, and Silence

Before the headlines. Before the manhunt. Before the courtroom smirks and the fan mail from strangers—Ted Bundy was just a kid with a fake name and a made-up family. In this episode, we’re not talking about what he did. We’re talking about who he was before anyone knew what he was capable of.From a birth certificate stamped “father unknown” to a childhood built on lies, Bundy’s early life is a slow-burn psychological case study. Raised by his grandparents under the illusion that his mother was his sist...

Delivering Death: The Leaflet Lane Murders

A man dressed like a FedEx driver knocked on the door of a quiet Texas home. But he wasn’t delivering a package. He was there to deliver payback. Ronald Lee Haskell had a long and ugly history of violence, and on this day, it all came to a head. What followed was a targeted, calculated attack on an entire family, with one survivor who changed everything. This episode walks through the red flags that got ignored, the system that gave him just enough rope, and how a 15-year-old girl managed to ou...

Suitcase in the Pond: The Sandra Cantu Case

Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu left her house on a Friday afternoon to play with friends. She never made it home. What followed was a frantic search, a community gripped by fear, and a discovery that would shake even the most seasoned investigators. But what makes this case especially disturbing isn’t just what happened to Sandra—it’s who did it. In this episode, we’re walking through the final hours before Sandra disappeared, how a neighbor became a suspect, and why this case still leaves people asking how no one saw it c...

Susan Monica: The Pig Farmer Killer of Oregon

Susan Monica built a life most people wouldn’t sign up for. Alone on 20 acres in rural Oregon, she raised pigs, ran a construction business, and kept mostly to herself. But when a handyman disappeared—and a severed leg turned up in her pond—investigators uncovered a story that kept getting stranger. In this episode, we’re unpacking how a woman who seemed like an eccentric farmer ended up convicted of murder, what really happened on that isolated farm, and why some questions might never get answered.

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Kelly Tinyes and the Basement Horror the Courts Almost Missed

On the night before her fourteenth birthday, Kelly Tinyes got a phone call that pulled her out of her house—and straight into danger. Hours later, her body was found in a neighbor’s basement, hidden under piles of trash. What followed was a conviction built on brand-new DNA technology, a family left fighting for the full truth, and a man who managed to vanish before anyone could ask harder questions. In today’s episode, we’re walking through the heartbreaking case of Kelly Tinyes—and the pieces that still...

The Untold Story of Julia Bulette: Survival, Scandal, and Silver Rush Secrets

Julia Bulette didn’t come to Virginia City to become a legend. She came for the same reason everyone else did — to survive. But where most people blended into the dust and desperation, Julia stood out. She fought fires. She nursed the sick. She built a life in a town that didn’t have room for women like her… until it did.

In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on a woman who carved out a place for herself in the middle of the Wil...