10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

The Blood of Satan: The 1974 Michael Taylor Exorcism

In the fall of 1974, a church group in Yorkshire prayed over a man all night long and came out of it believing they had driven dozens of demons out of him. By sunrise, those same people were working the phones, scared for his wife. Michael Taylor was an out-of-work butcher in Ossett, a wool town losing its mills and its pits. Christine Taylor was raising their 5 kids and kept showing up for her husband as he changed in front of her. This episode follows a charismatic fellowship group, a 22-year-old...

28 Days on Ocean Avenue: The Real Amityville Murders

A big Colonial-style house sat on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York, with a statue of the Virgin Mary out front and a little sign on the lawn that said High Hopes. The DeFeo family had lived there since 1965. On a Wednesday night in November of 1974, the oldest son walked into his usual bar and asked his friends to come back to the house with him. What they found put 112 Ocean Avenue in the New York Times. A few years later, the same house became the star of a book...

Make Something of Yourself: The Murder of Randy Voigt

Bartow, Florida is an old phosphate town in the middle of the state, and Randy Voigt was born and raised there. He and his wife Susan bought a house there in 2006, and their son Joseph grew up inside it. The family called him JoJo. As a grown man, JoJo got arrested for firing 15 shots into the ground at that house, and a Tampa TV station dug up what he told officers about why. About a year later, he picked up a battery charge and walked out of jail on...

Just Felt Mean That Day: Christa Pike and the Knoxville Job Corps Murder

Colleen Slemmer could take a computer apart and put it back together, and she owned a shirt that said Computer Geek to prove it. She left Orange Park, Florida, on Halloween in 1994 for a federal job training program in Knoxville, Tennessee, so she could make computers her career. At the Knoxville Job Corps center, an 18-year-old classmate named Christa Pike decided Colleen was after her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp. We follow the students who heard warnings and never went to the police, and a jacket left...

Pink Ribbons on Every Lawn: The Unsolved Death of Lilly Bova

Pink ribbons started showing up all over Glenview, Illinois, and every one of them was for a 16-year-old sophomore named Lilly Bova. Lilly was learning to drive and making plans to spend the whole summer at the pool with her best friend. On the last Saturday of spring break, her family says she let a boy she knew into the apartment while her older sister was home. What her sister heard that morning, and what Lilly’s mom found under a bed on Mother’s Day, set off...

The Monster of Atwater Village: The Timothy McGhee Case

A T-shirt police seized from Timothy McGhee in the Arizona desert said, "Fugitive. Can't see me." Back home in Atwater Village, a working-class neighborhood on the LA River, he'd been a heavy kid who came home from school with a bloody nose, and later he was a leader in the Toonerville gang. Police tied him to as many as a dozen killings, and a lot of the people who saw things kept quiet, including a teenager in the LAPD's own Explorer program. Then a cellphone dropped at a shooting...

Modelbehavior63: The Catfishing Murder of Kacie Woody

Kacie Woody picked her screen name, modelbehavior63, from a Disney movie and her big brother's football number. She was a 13-year-old sax player with a big honking laugh, and she lived at the dead end of a dirt road outside Holland, Arkansas, where calling a friend in town cost long distance. In 2002 she spent her evenings in Yahoo chat rooms. One of the boys she met there was Scott, a football player from Georgia. Another was Dave, who said he was an 18-year-old guitar player from San Diego with a dying...

A Home Movie for Zachary: The Andrew Bagby Case

Andrew Bagby grew up starring in his best friend's homemade movies in California, and by 2001 he was a family medicine resident in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. One November morning, a man picking up cans in Keystone State Park found him face down on the gravel. Police zeroed in on a fellow doctor Andrew had broken up with a few days earlier, and within a couple of weeks she was back home in Newfoundland, pregnant with Andrew's baby. Andrew's parents, David and Kate, packed up and moved across the continent to be...

I Choose You: The Caleb Flynn Case

An Apple Watch in a Tipp City, Ohio, house counted 105 steps in the minutes before Caleb Flynn called for help. His wife, Ashley, taught Bible classes for LifeWise Academy and coached 7th grade volleyball. Caleb led worship at their church, and years earlier he made it to Hollywood Week on American Idol, where he said in a promo interview that he loved his wife more than anything. Early on February 16, 2026, Caleb told a dispatcher somebody had broken into the house and shot Ashley. Investigators started with a garage door and a...

A Flat Tire at the Bonefish Grill: The Savannah Gold Murder

Savannah Gold texted her mom or dad every time she got to work, and she did it in full sentences with actual punctuation. She was 21, an artist who put art school on hold to stay home while her mom went through chemo, and she waited tables at a Bonefish Grill in Jacksonville, Florida. One evening in August 2017, a text came from her phone saying she'd met a great guy and was running away, and her mom knew the second she saw it that Savannah didn't write it...

Hooters Girl Homicide: The Murder of Tina Foster

A soldier on an Army funeral detail stops for lunch at the Hooters on Williamson Road in Roanoke, Virginia, and strikes up a conversation with one of the waitresses. Her name is Tina Foster. She wants to model, and he wants to take her picture that same night for $200. Tina leaves her parents' house in blue jeans and clogs and heads for the Hooters parking lot. Days later, police are passing out copies of 3 photos found in her white Mustang, pictures of a young woman her own family can't identify...

Agent 47695: The Manchester Teen Who Incited A Murder

In June 2003, a 14-year-old boy known as John was stabbed twice in an alley behind a row of shops in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, and his 16-year-old friend Mark told detectives a hooded stranger had attacked them. The investigation that followed took police through CCTV footage and tens of thousands of lines of internet chatroom messages, and it ended in a conviction no British court had ever handed down before. This one starts in a Manchester teen chatroom back in the MSN Messenger days, with a gifted grammar school kid who...

A Revelation From God: The Real Killers of Under the Banner of Heaven

renda Wright Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, were murdered in their American Fork, Utah home in July 1984, and the homicide investigation led straight to her brothers-in-law, Ron and Dan Lafferty. This is the true crime case behind Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven, rooted in Mormon fundamentalism and a so-called removal revelation that sent 2 brothers to trial.Brenda was a campus TV anchor and a brand-new mom, and she was the one person in the Lafferty family who told 2 self-declared prophets exactly what...

Mamaw's House: The Sherry Cole and Jessie Allen Murders

In April 2022, 59-year-old Sherry Cole and her 7-year-old grandson, Jessie Allen, were found dead outside their home on Old Snapps Ferry Road in Limestone, Tennessee. The homicide investigation, led by the TBI and Greene County detectives, turned quickly to the 16-year-old suspect living under the same roof, Jordan Allen. A recorded confession, a juvenile transfer to adult court, and a false confession defense set up a Greene County murder trial that took 4 years to reach a jury. Sherry was the mamaw her daughters ran home to at the lowest...

The Chief's Wife: Murder in Gig Harbor

In April 2003, Tacoma Police Chief David Brame shot his estranged wife, Crystal Judson Brame, in a shopping center parking lot in Gig Harbor, Washington, while their 2 young children waited nearby. The homicide set off a state and federal investigation into how a man who failed his very first psychological evaluation ended up running the entire Tacoma Police Department.Crystal was a tiny Tacoma girl who danced ballet and wanted to be a lawyer, and she married into a family where carrying a badge was practically hereditary. What went on inside their...

Life Sentence at 14: The Carly Gregg Case

Ashley Smylie was a 40-year-old high school math teacher in Brandon, Mississippi who was shot and killed inside her own home on March 19, 2024, and the suspect deputies arrested nearby was her 14-year-old daughter, Carly Madison Gregg. Home surveillance footage drove the homicide investigation, an insanity defense, a nationally livestreamed trial, a first-degree murder conviction, and an appeal the Mississippi Supreme Court finally ruled on in August of 2026.

This one is about the people inside that house. A mother who buried one daughter and rebuilt an entire life around the...

The Last Call: Inside the Killing of Jordan Wheeler

In Clinton Township, Michigan, 33-year-old Jordan Wheeler was killed on October 19, 2023, inside her own home, and the criminal investigation that followed led to a 2025 conviction for her estranged husband, Steven Wheeler, on charges of first-degree premeditated murder. The trial built its case on 911 audio, forensic evidence, and testimony from the couple's young son, turning what started as a routine domestic call into one of Michigan's most talked about homicide convictions.

Jordan did everything you're told to do when a marriage turns dangerous. She left. She filed for...

A Marriage of Secrets: The Susan Cox Powell Case

Susan Cox Powell disappeared from her West Valley City, Utah home on December 6, 2009, launching a homicide investigation that centered on her husband, Josh Powell, before he killed himself and their two young sons in a 2012 murder-suicide. Despite a decade of searches, forensic evidence, and a $98.5 million negligence verdict against the state of Washington, Susan's body has never been found.

A husband tells police he took his toddlers camping at midnight, in a blizzard, on a work night, and came home to find his wife gone. That's the...

Divorce Papers on an Empty Bed: The Dan Markel Case

Dan Markel, a 41-year-old Florida State University law professor, was shot twice in the head in the garage of his Tallahassee home on July 18, 2014, in a murder-for-hire plot built by his former in-laws. The FBI and Tallahassee police investigation that followed used wiretaps, SunPass toll records, and a cooperating hitman to win five convictions, including first-degree murder verdicts against former brother-in-law Charlie Adelson and family matriarch Donna Adelson.

This one begins with a mop, a stepladder, and a hyperactive kid in Montreal who grew up to...

Gerald and Charlene: The Sex Slave Murders

Between 1978 and 1980, Gerald and Charlene Gallego abducted and murdered at least 10 victims across California, Nevada, and Oregon, including Sacramento teenagers Rhonda Scheffler and Kippi Vaught, in a homicide investigation detectives came to call the Sex Slave Murders. The FBI arrested the couple in November 1980, and what followed was a controversial plea bargain, a conviction built on a co-defendant's testimony, and 2 death sentences that people still argue about today.

A friendly young woman walks up to 2 girls at a Sacramento shopping plaza and offers to get them high. She is 21...

Au Pair Affair Murders: The Brendan Banfield Double Murder

On February 24, 2023, pediatric ICU nurse Christine Banfield, 37, and a stranger named Joseph Ryan, 39, were killed inside a home in Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, in a double homicide staged to look like a home invasion. The investigation eventually turned on Christine's husband, former IRS criminal investigator Brendan Banfield, and the family's 22-year-old Brazilian au pair, whose cooperating testimony and forensic evidence of a staged crime scene produced two aggravated murder convictions and a life sentence.

Christine spent her early career as a sexual assault nurse examiner, sitting with...

Dead Weight: The Windi Thomas and Keeno Butler Case

On March 18, 2018, 44-year-old Keeno Butler was killed inside his Erie, Pennsylvania apartment in a domestic violence homicide that ended with his girlfriend, 44-year-old Windi C. Thomas, pleading guilty to third-degree murder. Detectives, the Erie County Coroner, and forensic evidence documented more than 90 traumatic injuries on the victim's body, and the case closed with a plea deal and an 18-to-36-year sentence.

The whole world turned this into a headline about body weight and forgot the rest. Keeno was a grandfather at 44 who loved music and dancing and...

Three Words Carved in a Tree: The Kelly Cochran Case

Kelly and Jason grew up next door to each other, married young, and made a promise on their wedding night that most people would have laughed off by breakfast. Twelve years later, in a corner of Michigan where the nearest anything is 45 minutes away, that promise turned into a plan. This one has a woman at the center who never once stopped talking, and almost never told the same story twice. There is a tree in an Indiana park with 3 words carved into it, and those 3 words are...

A 13-Year-Old Killer: The Murder of Derrick Robie

On August 2, 1993, 4-year-old Derrick Robie was lured into a wooded area one block from his home in Savona, New York, and murdered. The suspect was 13-year-old Eric Smith, a neighbor, and the homicide investigation that followed made Smith the youngest defendant ever tried as an adult for murder in New York State, leading to a second-degree murder conviction, a sentence of 9 years to life, and 11 parole board hearings across 27 years.Savona had fewer than 1,000 people in it, and Derrick knew most of them by name. He sat on a corner...

A Videotape and a First Grade Mind: The Shelton Holloway Story

In April of 1987, 17 year old Patricia Ann Hannah disappeared after a school dance in York, Alabama, and two weeks later her body was found behind an Alabama Power office. A fellow Sumter County High School student named Shelton Jerome Holloway, a special education student with a documented intellectual disability, was arrested and eventually convicted based largely on a videotaped confession. The legal question at the center of the case wasn't whether he said the words on that tape. It was whether a young man functioning at a...

The Cooler That Wouldn't Sink: The Anne Marie Fahey Story

Anne Marie Fahey, a 30-year-old appointments secretary for Delaware's governor, vanished from Wilmington in June 1996 after having dinner with prominent attorney Thomas Capano. The investigation that followed became Delaware's first murder conviction ever secured without a body, a weapon, or a confirmed cause of death.This one starts at a dinner table in Philadelphia and ends with a fisherman patching bullet holes in a cooler he had no idea he'd fished off the Jersey coast. In between, there's a diary that changes tone completely over 2 years, a mistress...

Bobby Joe Long: The Serial Killer a 17-Year-Old Girl Took Down

Bobby Joe Long murdered at least 10 women across Tampa, Florida between March and November 1984, evading investigators until a 17-year-old survivor's memory cracked the case wide open. The homicide investigation, later corroborated by FBI forensic evidence and Long's own confession, led to his conviction and a 1988 death sentence.A body that survived collision after collision since childhood. A marriage that fell apart after a motorcycle wreck seemed to rewire something in him completely. And then, in the middle of a killing spree that had five agencies scrambling, a...

50 Dollars and a New Name: The Jeremy Bryan Jones Story

In September 2004, 43-year-old Lisa Nichols was raped and murdered inside her Turnerville, Alabama home just days after Hurricane Ivan tore through the region, and the man responsible had been living under a stolen identity for four years thanks to a fingerprint system that failed him. Jeremy Bryan Jones walked free through three separate arrests before investigators connected him to the crime, and once he was caught, he didn't stop talking. He confessed to killing over 20 people across five states. Some of it was true. A lot of it...

The Grandparents Who Killed for Cattle Money

Picture the most harmless looking couple you can imagine. Now picture that couple with a farm, a livestock scam, and a body count. Ray and Faye Copeland spent fifty years married before they became, at 66 and 69, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death row in American history. This one has a quilt in it. It has a list. It has a man who talked his way out of a barn and lived to make the call that ended it all. It's one of the strangest true crime cases you'll hear this...

The Fixer, the Photos, and the Death of Tom Merriman

In December 2020, a Solana Beach, California woman named Jade Janks drugged and killed the man she'd called her father for over two decades, then spent New Year's Day disguising his body as a pile of trash in their shared driveway. Thomas Merriman was a beloved butterfly conservationist. Jade Janks was the stepdaughter who'd cooked him dinner every night of the pandemic. Somewhere between those two facts sits a discovery on his computer that she said broke something in her permanently, and a string of increasingly desperate text messages...

The Serial Killer Shrine: The Shaye Groves and Frankie Fitzgerald Case

Her bedroom walls were covered in framed photos of serial killers. Her bookshelf was stacked with true crime and gangster biographies. And when the moment came, prosecutors say she used everything she'd absorbed from years of true crime obsession to try to talk her way out of what she'd done. This is the story of a relationship that turned lethal, a woman who thought she'd studied the perfect getaway, and the digital trail that proved otherwise.

Frankie Fitzgerald, 25, was found dead from a fatal knife...

The Captain Who Hired a Hitman: The Harding Story

On September 26, 2022, the body of 53-year-old Sacramento HVAC contractor Michael Harding was discovered inside a vacant home for sale on Glasgow Road in Burkesville, Kentucky, shot four times. The investigation that followed led Kentucky State Police, FBI agents, and detectives across three states to California Highway Patrol Captain Julie Harding and her secret partner Thomas O'Donnell, a 60-year-old amateur hitman from Napa Valley, in one of the most disturbing murder-for-hire cases of the decade.

This is a story about a 22-year law enforcement career that ended in...

The House of Horrors: Billy Mansfield's Family of Predators

In 1980, along the Florida coast from Spring Hill to Daytona Beach, a chilling pattern emerged that Detroit investigators would later connect to serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr. Six women and teenage girls vanished or were found buried beneath a mobile home in Weeki Wachee Acres, with DNA technology in 2022 finally identifying one victim as 16-year-old Theresa Fillingim after 42 years. The FBI continues searching for additional bodies as recently as June 2026.

But this story doesn't start with bodies in the ground. It starts with a father who couldn't...

Blood in the Rocket City: The 1998 Franklin Family Massacre

On March 10, 1998, seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Brendan Franklin attacked his own family inside their home at 1305 Camelot Drive in Huntsville, Alabama, killing his parents Gerald and Cynthia Franklin and critically wounding three of his four younger siblings with a sledgehammer, hatchet, butcher knife, and a mechanic’s rat-tail file. The Huntsville Police investigation led by detective Mac McCutcheon, the journals and Satanic writings recovered from Jeffrey’s bedroom, the prescription psychiatric medications he had been taking, and Alabama’s pursuit of the juvenile death penalty turned one afternoon into one of the mo...

Fifty Dollars and a Bus Ticket: The Robert Alton Harris Story

On July 5, 1978, sixteen-year-old best friends John Mayeski and Michael Baker were abducted, murdered, and left in the brush near Miramar Lake in San Diego, California, by Robert Alton Harris and his younger brother Daniel during the planning of a bank robbery. The investigation, the trial, the criminal profile of the suspect, and the fourteen-year appeals process that followed turned this homicide into one of the most consequential capital cases in American legal history.

Robert Alton Harris came into the world already broken. He was born...

The Real-Life Boogeyman: Albert Fish in 1920s New York

In 1928 New York City, ten-year-old Grace Budd walks out of her family’s Manhattan apartment with a soft-spoken “farmer” named Frank Howard and disappears, pulling her parents, detectives, and eventually a courtroom into one of the most disturbing homicide investigations in American history. The search for Grace exposes a pattern of missing children, a mild-mannered house painter named Hamilton “Albert” Fish, and a criminal profile that collides with questions of insanity, responsibility, and what justice looks like when the suspect looks like somebody’s grandfather instead of a monster.

I...

The Beauty School Killer: What Really Happened in Wenatchee

In February 2010, 17-year-old Mackenzie Cowell disappeared from the Academy of Hair Design in Wenatchee, Washington, and four days later her body was found on the banks of the Columbia River. The homicide investigation that followed became the largest multi-agency case the region had seen in years, eventually drawing in the FBI and zeroing in on a 29-year-old beauty school classmate named Christopher Scott Wilson, a man with a Hannibal Lecter tattoo on his forearm and a history that made investigators stop and take a very long pause. What started...

Two Dead Fathers and a Demon: The 2008 Texas Exorcism Murder


The 2008 murder of 13-month-old Amora Bain Carson in Tatum, Texas remains one of the most disturbing capital cases in modern American history. Her mother, Jesseca Bain Carson, and the mother's boyfriend, Blaine Keith Milam, were both convicted of capital murder after a sheriff's investigation, forensic evidence including 24 human bite marks, and a partial jailhouse confession placed them at the center of what they later called an exorcism. Milam was sentenced to death; Carson received life without parole under the Texas law of parties. He was executed by...

Killed by a Fake Cop: The Kaylee Sawyer Story

The 2016 murder of Kaylee Sawyer in Bend, Oregon shocked a town that thought it was untouchable. Edwin Enoc Lara, a Central Oregon Community College campus safety officer who had failed his police psychological evaluation, abducted and killed the 23-year-old student in his marked patrol vehicle, sparking a multi-state manhunt, a federal kidnapping case, and the legislation now known as Kaylee's Law.

This is the story of how one community college dressed its security guards up to look exactly like cops, then handed a man with documented warning...

The Digital Leash: Serial Murder Under Government Supervision

In Orange County, California, between October 2013 and March 2014, registered sex offenders Steven Dean Gordon and Franc Cano abducted, raped, and murdered at least five women while actively wearing state and federally mandated GPS ankle monitors. The investigation, led by Anaheim homicide detective Julissa Trapp, eventually cracked the case when a victim's body surfaced on a recycling conveyor belt, triggering a digital dragnet that matched both men's trackers to the crime scenes.

The system that was supposed to make these men impossible to ignore was watching everything and doing...