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In 1993, three men were found brutally mauled on a remote cannabis farm in Northern California. Locals whispered that Bigfoot was to blame. In today's first episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien uncover the shocking true story of the Humboldt Sasquatch Murders: a tale of drugs, danger, and the blurred line between myth and murder.

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In August 2013, 19-year-old college sophomore Bryce Laspisa gave away his most prized possessions, broke up with his girlfriend, and spent 30 hours driving aimlessly through California. He sat motionless in parking lots, for hours, before his SUV was found crashed and empty at the bottom of a 15-foot embankment near Castaic Lake. He had shattered the rear window from the inside, leaving behind his wallet, phone, and laptop, but no trace of himself. In today's second Unsolved Tuesday episode, Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole ask, was Bryce running from something he never got the chance to tell his parents?
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Seven-year-old Kyron Horman disappeared from his Portland elementary school in broad daylight and somehow no one saw him leave. In today's first Unsolved Tuesday episode, Kaelyn Moore and Morgan Absher unravel the baffling clues behind one of Oregon’s most haunting missing child cases: a suspicious timeline, conflicting eyewitness accounts, and a cell phone ping near a remote island. Was this a kidnapping, a family conspiracy, or something much darker?

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In today's second Killer of the Week episode on Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels trace his escalation from calculated bombings to deadly domestic terrorism that left three people dead and a nation in fear. As panic spreads and authorities scramble for answers, a bold and unprecedented move forces the entire country to confront the mind behind the violence. But the breakthrough doesn’t come from advanced forensics or surveillance...it comes from someone who knows him better than anyone else. Explore the psychology, ideology, and investigation behind one of the most notorious domestic terrorists in...

In today's first episode of Killer of the Week, explore the origins of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, in this deep dive into the psychology behind one of America’s most infamous domestic terrorists. From his troubled childhood, social isolation, and controversial Harvard psychological study to his retreat into the Montana wilderness, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels examine how a math prodigy became radicalized against technology and industrial society. What turns a gifted genius into a serial bomber...and what warning signs were missed along the way?

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An A&E original podcast presented by Rewind Studios, Celebrity Ghost Stories is adapted from the first and only series where celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal, told completely through first-person narratives by the respected actors, musicians, and athletes who experienced these phenomena themselves. From ghosts and angry spirits to real-life haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first-person POV’s from our favorite stars deliver a brand-new way to experience the thrills and chills of the paranormal.

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Join us for the fourth episode of the Crime House of Horrors limited series, where Vanessa Richardson examines the true stories behind the 2014 cult film The Taking of Deborah Logan. The story is made up of three real nightmares: the devastating toll of dementia on millions of families, the decades-long killing sprees of trusted doctors Harold Shipman and Johannes M., and the Satanic Panic that destroyed innocent lives across America in the 1980s and 90s.

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Rod Ferrell led a group of teenagers who believed they were vampires, blending goth subculture with authoritarian devotion. In 1996, Ferrell and an accomplice murdered the parents of one member in a violent attempt to cement control. In today's second episode of Cults & Cons, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien demonstrate how identity fantasy combined with cult hierarchy can culminate in real-world homicide.

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Today's first episode of Cults & Cons is all about the Raëlians cult. In the 1970s, a French journalist claimed he was contacted by extraterrestrial beings who revealed that humanity was scientifically created by an advanced alien race. From that encounter, the Raëlian Movement was born, blending UFO belief, sensual freedom, and a futuristic vision of human destiny. Vanessa Richardson examines the rise of founder Claude Vorilhon, known as Raël, and the group’s teachings about the Elohim, cloning, and eternal life through science. As the movement spread internationally and made headlines with controversial claims of human cloni...

Today's second episode of Justice Served concludes the murder of Laci Peterson. As the investigation into Laci Peterson's disappearance turned into a homicide case, detectives zeroed in on the likeliest suspect: her husband, Scott. But was he a murderer like so many believed, or was there more to the story? Listen as Carter Roy takes you through the haunting narrative, and Dr. Tristin Engels provides expert analysis into the psychology behind this tragic murder case.

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Today's episodes of Justice Served follow the murder of Laci Peterson, one of the most sensational stories of the 21st century. As Carter Roy takes you through Scott and Laci Petersons' marriage and Laci's chilling disappearance, Dr. Tristin Engels offers expert analysis into the psychology of all involved with one of the world's most infamous murder cases.

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After decades of intimidation and legal loopholes, Ken McElroy’s reign of terror came to a sudden end on July 10, 1981. In front of 30 to 45 witnesses, he was shot dead in the middle of Skidmore, Missouri, and no one claimed to see who pulled the trigger. In today's second Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy reconstructs the tense town meeting that preceded the shooting, the fatal confrontation outside a local tavern, and the investigation that unraveled when an entire community closed ranks.

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For nearly 30 years, Ken McElroy terrorized the small town of Skidmore, Missouri. Accused of theft, assault, arson, statutory rape, and intimidation, he manipulated the legal system and silenced witnesses through fear. When he shot 70-year-old grocery store owner Bo Bowenkamp in broad daylight, and still managed to delay justice yet again, the town’s patience began to crack. In today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy unravels how one man’s unchecked violence exposed the limits of the justice system and pushed a quiet farming community toward the brink.

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In November 2006, Abraham Shakespeare won 30 million dollars in the Florida Lottery. He couldn't read or write and had spent most of his life scraping by on odd jobs in Lakeland, Florida, but overnight he became one of the wealthiest men in town. He gave most of it away within two years, paying off mortgages, covering funeral costs, and helping nearly anyone who asked. Then a woman named Dee Dee Moore showed up, promising to protect what was left. Within months, she had his house, his insurance, and his power of attorney. Not long after that, Abe vanished, and the...

Since 2022, at least thirteen people connected to American scientific and defense research have died or disappeared under circumstances that have drawn scrutiny from the FBI, Congress, and the White House. Some cases have clear explanations: a revenge killing, a system failure, a man lost to grief. But others remain genuinely unsolved, with no confirmed sightings and no answers for the families left behind. In today's first episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Vanessa Richardson examines every name on the list, the skeptics who see pattern-seeking over evidence, and the real human cost when tragedy becomes a conspiracy theory.

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In April 2014, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon, two Dutch women in their early twenties, went for a daytime hike on a trail near Boquete, Panama. They never came back. Weeks later, their backpack was found on a jungle riverbank with their phones, camera, and cash still inside. What was on that camera changed everything: photographs taken in total darkness, including what appears to be an SOS signal and one photo that seemed to be deliberately deleted. Partial remains found months later were scattered miles from where their distress calls began and the official verdict of accidental death hasn't satisfied...

In June 2018, 23 year-old Jermain Charlo walked out of a Missoula bar and vanished before dawn. The search for her uncovered surveillance footage, shifting stories, troubling relationship history, and phone data that led investigators deep into the surrounding wilderness. In today's first Unsolved Tuesday episode, Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore trace the clues from Jermain’s final hours to the extensive searches that followed, examining what investigators found and what remains unanswered in her disappearance. Resources: snowbirdfund.org strongheartshelpline.org

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For years, Charles Cullen slipped through the cracks: fired, rehired, and free to kill again. Hospitals ignored the warning signs. Administrators covered their tracks. And hundreds of patients paid the price. But when a fellow nurse befriends Charles, she becomes the key to his downfall. In this shocking conclusion to this week's Killer of the Week, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels reveal how Cullen’s arrogance, obsession, and chilling lack of remorse turned hospitals into his hunting grounds...and how one woman’s courage finally stopped him.

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He was trusted to save lives...but used his nursing uniform to hide pure evil. When Charles Cullen entered the medical field, he wasn’t looking to heal patients. He was looking for revenge. Over the course of 16 years, he quietly poisoned hospital patients across New Jersey and Pennsylvania, becoming one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. In today's first episode of Killer of the Week, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels trace how Cullen’s childhood trauma, obsession with control, and thirst for vengeance led him to play God: one lethal injection at a time.
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Join us for the third episode of the Crime House of Horrors limited series, where Vanessa Richardson explores the true stories behind 2012's Sinister, where a true-crime writer finds home-movie reels documenting a series of family murders...and can't stop watching. The real stories underneath are just as disturbing: Truman Capote's destruction after years inside Perry Smith's world, the 2014 Waukesha stabbing in which two 12-year-olds nearly killed a friend for an internet myth, and 5,000 years of human belief that a dangerous image can change you just by being seen.

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Lorena Bobbitt became one of the most infamous women of the 1990s after she severed her husband John Bobbitt’s penis in 1993. But behind the sensational headlines was a harrowing story of domestic violence, marital rape, and a system that repeatedly failed her. In today's second episodes of Cults & Cons, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien unpack the Lorena Bobbitt case, unpacking the abuse, the trials, and the crime of passion that forever reshaped public conversations about gender-based violence.

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In the late 19th century, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn emerged in Britain as a secretive society devoted to ritual magic, mysticism, and hidden knowledge. Drawing in artists, writers, and intellectuals, including figures like Aleister Crowley, the group promised spiritual enlightenment through a structured system of occult teachings. In today's first episode of Cults & Cons, Vanessa Richardson examines the origins of the Golden Dawn, its belief system, and the influential members who helped shape its legacy. As the order grew, internal rivalries and power struggles began to fracture the group, exposing tensions beneath its secretive surface. The...

In today's second episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy follows the case against Kaitlin Armstrong in the 2022 murder of rising gravel racing star Mo Wilson. Digital forensics revealed months of obsessive surveillance, but a clerical error let Armstrong walk out of the police station before the murder warrant was ready. Within days, she had sold her Jeep, stolen her sister's passport, and fled to Costa Rica, where she paid cash for plastic surgery and assumed a fake identity. What followed was a 43-day international manhunt, a forensic goldmine hidden in her vehicle's GPS, and a trial that ended with...

In May 2022, 25-year-old Moriah "Mo" Wilson traveled to Austin, Texas, for a gravel race that was supposed to kick off her biggest season yet. A former elite ski racer turned dominant cyclist, Mo had overcome two ACL tears to become one of the top gravel racers in the country, with journalists calling her the future of the sport. But on the evening of May 11th, after a swim and dinner with a fellow racer, she returned to a friend's apartment and never came out alive. In today's first episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy traces Mo's journey from small-town...

In today's second Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy and Nicole Lapin finish their discussion on the Osage Murders. After dozens of Osage people were murdered for their headrights, one Native woman decided to take matters into her own hands. Thanks to Mollie Burkhart, the U.S. Government got involved and the killing spree finally came to an end in 1930.

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In today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy and Nicole Lapin dive into the Osage Murders. In the late 1800s, members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma became unbelievably wealthy when oil was discovered on their land. But their newfound riches came with sinister enemies who were willing to do anything to steal the Osage People's budding fortune...even murder.

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In 1892, a woman calling herself Lottie Bernard checked into the Hotel del Coronado alone, sick, and afraid. She was found dead five days later, the bullet in her body not matching the gun she bought. Over forty years later, a young man registered as Roland T. Owen sat alone in a dark Kansas City hotel room with the door unlocked, as if waiting for whoever came to kill him. In todays second episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Carter Roy investigates both cases, separated by decades and a thousand miles, but united by fake names, unanswered questions, and killers who...

In today's first episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Vanessa Richardson examines the 2022 destruction of the Georgia Guidestones, a rural monument that had long been at the center of global conspiracy theories. Erected in 1980 and inscribed with ten guiding principles for humanity, the massive granite structure was viewed by some as a call for unity and sustainability, and by others as evidence of a secret plan for population control and global governance. For decades, the Guidestones attracted speculation about the New World Order, elite agendas, and hidden messages. This episode traces the origins of the monument, the rise of conspiracy...

On April 16, 2005, 59-year-old Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar called in to work, took a scenic drive, and parked his Mini Cooper outside an antique mall in Lewisburg. Then, he vanished. No note, no signs of a struggle. Months later, his laptop turned up in the Susquehanna River, its hard drive missing, raising urgent questions about what secrets it may have held. In today's second Unsolved Tuesday episode, Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole ask why would a respected, soon-to-retire prosecutor walk away from everything?

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In 2011, 27 year-old teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment with twenty stab wounds, ten of them in her back, and a knife still lodged in her chest. The door was locked from the inside, the room spotless, and the investigation quickly shifted from homicide to suicide, despite bruises, conflicting evidence, and a crime scene that was cleaned within hours. In today's first Unsolved Tuesdays episode, Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore break down the timeline, the missteps, the autopsy contradictions, and the years-long fight Ellen’s parents have waged to prove their daughter was murdered.

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As his body count grew, Keith Jesperson left more than victims behind: he left smiley face graffiti, taunting letters, and a desperate need for attention. In today's second Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels unravel the psychology behind the Happy Face Killer's sadistic murder spree, his chilling confession, and the moment his own ego brought him down.

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Before he became the Happy Face Killer, Keith Jesperson was a bullied kid, an animal abuser, and a man spiraling out of control. In today's first Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels unpack the warning signs: from his violent fantasies to the moment he crossed the line and committed his first brutal murder.

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Join us for the second episode of the Crime House of Horrors limited series, where Vanessa Richardson traces the true histories behind the 2016 horror film The Autopsy of Jane Doe. In 1980, a teenage girl was found strangled along a Texas highway with no ID and no one looking for her...and she would remain nameless for 41 years. Her case reveals a system riddled with gaps that turn real people into case numbers, while bog bodies, ancient curse objects, and the Salem witch trials expose how long the dead have been forced to carry others' stories.

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Happy Halloween, Crime House listeners. Join us every Sunday in the month of October for Crime House of Horrors, where Vanessa Richardson dives into the stories behind some of our favorite scary movies. Behind the 2024 horror film Abigail lies a darker truth: children exploited as bargaining chips and weapons, from the Getty case to the more than 105,000 children verified as recruited by armed groups worldwide.

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In 2007, astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak went from NASA hero to tabloid sensation after a secret love triangle exploded into attempted assault. Believing she was fighting for the love of fellow astronaut Bill Oefelein, Lisa embarked on a desperate, calculated cross-country drive to confront the woman she saw as her rival. In today's second episode of Cults & Cons, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien break down the case where passion overpowered reason and sent a celebrated astronaut crashing back to Earth.

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In the 1970s, a small, radical group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army emerged in the United States, promoting a mix of revolutionary politics, anti-capitalist ideology, and violent action. The group gained national attention after the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, a crime that quickly escalated into a media spectacle. In today's first episode of Cults & Cons, Vanessa Richardson examines the origins of the Symbionese Liberation Army, its leadership and belief system, and the events that transformed it from a fringe movement into a national headline. As the group carried out robberies and issued political statements, questions grew about...

All the threats against Veronica Guerin reached a head one day in 1996, when the Irish investigative journalist was shot multiple times while stopped at a red light outside Dublin. For years, Guerin had exposed powerful Dublin drug gangs in the Sunday Independent, naming crime bosses and revealing how heroin was devastating communities across Ireland, despite escalating intimidation and violence. In today's second episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy examines the murder of Veronica Guerin, the urgent investigation that dismantled key figures in Ireland’s criminal underworld, and the sweeping anti organized crime laws that followed. Her assassination became a tu...

Veronica Guerin was a fearless Irish investigative journalist who became known for exposing Dublin’s powerful drug gangs in the 1990s. After leaving a career in public relations, she joined the Sunday Independent and quickly built a reputation for naming suspected crime bosses and detailing how heroin was devastating communities across Ireland. In today's first episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy traces Guerin’s rise as a crime reporter, her high profile investigations into organized crime, and the escalating threats she faced as a result of her reporting. Her home was shot at, she was assaulted, and she received repe...

In today's second Throwback Thursday episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels continue their analysis of the Dark Strangler, Earle Leonard Nelson. After the American police started to catch on to his murderous rampage, he tried to lie low in Canada. But Earle couldn't stop himself from seeking out more victims...and it wasn't long before the Canadian authorities realized there was a serial killer in their midst.

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In today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels dive into the mind of Earle Leonard Nelson, known as the Dark Strangler. In the early 20th century, this terrifying serial killer targeted older women in San Francisco. He charmed his way into their homes...then murdered them with his bare hands.

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