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In the summer of 1969, a fringe commune led by ex-convict Charles Manson unleashed a wave of brutality that stunned the nation and marked the violent end of the 1960s counterculture. In today's second Cults & Cons episode, Vanessa Richardson traces Manson’s path from a troubled childhood to the creation of his devoted “Family,” revealing how he manipulated vulnerable followers with drugs, apocalyptic prophecy, and promises of revolution. As the Tate-LaBianca murders terrorized Los Angeles, investigators uncovered a chilling web of control, delusion, and orchestrated violence that made Manson one of history’s most notorious cult leaders.

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In 2009, a Colorado family claimed their six year-old son had floated away inside a homemade flying saucer. As helicopters tracked the balloon live on national television, the country braced for tragedy, until the story began to fall apart. In today's first Cults & Cons episode, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien revisit the Balloon Boy hoax, a crime that turned panic into spectacle and exposed the power of a well-timed lie.

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In the gripping conclusion of today's Justice Served series, Carter Roy follows the intense investigation that led authorities from scattered surveillance footage and a single DNA trace on a knife sheath to an unexpected suspect: criminology PhD student Bryan Kohberger. Carter breaks down how digital forensics, cell-phone data, and genetic genealogy converged to identify the killer... and how families, investigators, and an entire community sought justice in the aftermath. Even with a guilty plea and multiple life sentences, unanswered questions remain about motive, intent, and the chilling months Kohberger spent stalking the victims. This episode examines the pursuit of...

In November 2022, four University of Idaho students – Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin – returned home from a night out in their small college town, unaware that a killer was already watching. In today's emotional first episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy introduces the vibrant young lives at the heart of the tragedy and follows their final hours inside the now-infamous King Road house. Through detailed timelines, eyewitness accounts, and early clues, including a mysterious white Hyundai Elantra and chilling testimony from a surviving roommate, Carter unpacks how a community built on trust and closeness was thrust into...

Check out today's second Throwback Thursday epsiode as Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels finish the deep dive into17-year-old William Heirens. When Heirens was caught breaking into an apartment, police believed they had finally captured the infamous "Lipstick Killer." Heirens confessed to the brutal murders of two women and a young girl, but his controversial confession and questionable police tactics have led many to doubt his guilt.

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In today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engel being their deep dive into the "Lipstick Killer," who was known for the haunting message he left at one of his crime scenes, teenage serial killer William Heirens struck fear into the city of Chicago during the 1940s. Despite a troubled childhood, no one suspected Heirens of being a ruthless murderer, making his case even more chilling.

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A brilliant intelligence analyst is found dead inside a locked sports bag in his London apartment: no signs of forced entry, no clear cause of death, and a trail of secrets left behind. Officially ruled an accident, the case quickly sparks global controversy. Was this a tragic mistake, a dangerous private life gone wrong, or an expertly executed assassination? In today's second episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Carter Roy dives into one of the strangest deaths in modern history, exploring espionage, unexplained evidence, and the conspiracy theories that refuse to fade.

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In the 1950s and 60s, at the height of the Cold War, the CIA launched a secret program called Operation Midnight Climax as part of its notorious MKUltra mind-control research. Operating out of safehouses in San Francisco and New York, agents used sex workers to lure unwitting men, then dosed them with LSD without their knowledge and observed the results through one-way mirrors. The goal was to study whether psychedelics could be weaponized for interrogation, coercion, and control. What unfolded was a chilling abuse of government power, hidden from the public for decades until investigations finally exposed it. In...

In today's second Unsolved Tuesdays episode, Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole cover the case of Jennifer Kesse, who disappeared from her Orlando condo complex in January 2006, leaving behind a locked apartment and no sign of struggle. Surveillance footage showed an unknown person abandoning her car, but the suspect's face was obscured at every frame. Her disappearance remains one of Florida's most frustrating unsolved cases, defined by twelve seconds of footage that revealed everything and nothing at the same time.

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When 24-year-old intern Chandra Levy disappeared in Washington, D.C., her name became front-page news...and the truth got buried beneath the scandal. Congressman Gary Condit's silence fueled the media frenzy, but it was the evidence that told the real story. In today's first Unsolved Tuesdays episode, Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore unravel the flawed investigation, the discovery that changed everything, and the suspect who may have gotten away with murder.

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Aileen Wuornos was dubbed America’s first female serial killer...and she wanted the world to remember her name. In today's second Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels follow her journey from captured killer to death row inmate, exploring her obsession with legacy and her volatile final days.

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Before she became one of America’s most infamous female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos was a teenage runaway, a survivor of abuse, and a girl the system failed. In today's first Killer of the Week Episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels trace her early life: from abandonment and trauma to the desperate path that would lead her to murder.

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In the fourth and final episode of Campus Crimes, Vanessa Richardson examines the 2003 murder of Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who was shot and killed by his own teammate...but the crime that followed may have been even colder. Head coach Dave Bliss, facing exposure for recruiting violations, launched a calculated scheme to brand Dennehy a drug dealer after his death, recorded in his own words on a hidden tape. One young assistant coach risked everything to stop it.

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In 1993, a cult outside Waco, Texas went to war with the U.S. government. Seventy-six people, including 25 children, didn’t survive. In today's second episode of Cults and Cons, Vanessa Richardson unravels the terrifying rise of David Koresh and the Branch Davidians...and how belief in a coming apocalypse turned deadly.

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He stole trucks. He stole cattle. He stole a plane. And every time he was arrested, he seemed to walk free. Joshua Paul Calhoun, known as the Texas Superthief, turned small-town chaos into a years-long game of cat and mouse with law enforcement. In today's first episode of Cults and Cons, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien unpack one of the wildest crime sprees in Texas history.

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After suspicion fell on Shrien Dewani in the murder of his wife, Anni, the case quickly expanded into an international legal battle over whether he would be extradited to South Africa to stand trial. As prosecutors worked to build their case, the question of what truly happened on the couple’s honeymoon became even more contested. In today's second episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy examines the fight over Dewani’s extradition, the courtroom proceedings that followed, and the testimony surrounding Anni’s killing. The prosecution argued that the attack had been carefully orchestrated, while the defense challenged the credib...

In 2010, newlyweds Anni and Shrien Dewani arrived in Cape Town for what was meant to be a luxury honeymoon, but within days, Anni was found shot to death in a hijacked taxi in a crime that quickly made international headlines. What initially appeared to be a tragic robbery soon took a darker turn as investigators uncovered signs that the attack may have been planned. On today's first episode of Justice Served, Carter Roy examines the couple’s relationship, the events leading up to the night of the killing, and the early investigation that led to multiple arrests. As witness st...

On today's second Throwback Thursday, Carter Roy concludes the case of the Burger Chef murders, when four young employees were kidnapped and murdered at the Burger Chef restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. The investigation was at a dead end until 1984, when a convict named Donald Wayne Forrester confessed to the murders…but the case was far from closed.

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On today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Carter Roy goes back to November 1978, when four young employees were finishing a late shift at the Burger Chef fast food restaurant in Speedway, Indiana. Later that night, they disappeared… and were later found dead on the outskirts of town. The police had no idea who murdered them — or why.

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In today's second episode of Conspiracies and & the Unknown, Carter Roy investigates the mysterious death of journalist Danny Casolaro, who was found dead in a West Virginia hotel room in 1991 just as he claimed to be on the verge of exposing a vast global conspiracy he called “the Octopus.” Danny believed powerful government officials, intelligence agencies, and criminal networks were secretly connected through stolen software, covert weapons programs, and international corruption. After his death was ruled a suicide, his most critical files vanished, fueling decades of suspicion. Was Danny unraveling under pressure, or was he silenced for getting too clos...

In 1997, thousands across Arizona reported seeing strange lights in the night sky. The military called them flares. But some witnesses, including pilots, doctors, and the state’s own governor, say it was something far more mysterious. In today's first episode of Conspiracies & the Unknown, Vanessa Richardson explores the Phoenix Lights, one of the largest UFO sightings in U.S. history.

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On today's second Unsolved Tuesday episode, Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole cover the disappearance of four-year-old Nyleen Marshall, who vanished during a family picnic in Montana's Helena National Forest in 1983. At first, authorities believed she had wandered into the wilderness. Later, children reported seeing a strange man speaking with her moments before she disappeared. Years afterward, a cryptic letter surfaced from someone claiming personal knowledge of Nyleen's life. Decades later, the case remains one of Montana's most haunting unsolved disappearances.

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A mother makes a difficult choice. When Latice Sutton learned her daughter had been arrested, she believed she’d be safest spending the night in custody. But just after midnight, Mitrice Richardson was released — without a phone, without transportation, and without anyone notified. Hours later, a homeowner spotted her six miles away in the dark hills of Malibu Canyon. Then she was gone. In today's first Unsolved Tuesday episode, Kaelyn Moore and Morgan Absher ask the question her family still demands an answer to: Should she ever have been released that night?

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For years, the Golden State Killer haunted California—and then simply vanished. But he wasn't gone. He was hiding in plain sight. In today's second Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels follow the decades-long investigation that finally unmasked Joseph James DeAngelo, the DNA that cracked the case, and the shocking moment he was brought to justice.

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Burglary. Stalking. Rape. Murder. Before the world knew him as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo instilled fear across California. In today's first Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels explore his dark past, twisted relationships, and how his obsession with control escalated into cold-blooded murder.

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In the third of our four-episode Campus Crimes limited series, Vanessa Richardson follows the events of the Friday after Thanksgiving 1969, when 22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma was stabbed through the heart in the basement stacks of Penn State's Pattee Library, surrounded by people, in broad daylight, and dead within minutes. A man walked calmly out of the stacks, said five words, and vanished; no one was ever charged. Decades of institutional silence, a scrubbed crime scene, and a suspect who died before investigators assembled the full picture left her family without justice.

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In today's second episode of Cults & Cons, Vanessa Richardson unpacks the rise and collapse of the Rajneesh Movement, a New Age cult that transformed a remote stretch of rural Oregon into a powerful and deeply disturbing experiment in control. What began as a promise of spiritual enlightenment and communal living under the guidance of guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh quickly devolved into paranoia, political manipulation, and violence. As the cult’s leadership consolidated power, its members carried out election interference, intimidation campaigns, and ultimately the largest bioterror attack in U.S. history.

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On today's first Cults & Cons episode, Sabrina Deana-Roga and Corinne Vien follow one of the strangest and stickiest white-collar crimes ever committed, a group of Quebec thieves siphoned off nearly 3,000 tons of maple syrup—worth over $18 million—from the Global Strategic Maple Reserve, an actual government-run stockpile meant to stabilize syrup prices.

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Within days of his family’s disappearance, Chris Watts’s façade begins to crumble. Failed polygraphs, missing sheets, and GPS data all lead detectives to one horrifying conclusion: the husband everyone trusted has been lying. As the truth unfolds, from the interrogation room to the oil fields ,the nation learns what really happened inside the Watts home. Join Carter Roy for today's first episode of Justice Served on the Watts Family Murder. Featuring the confessions, the aftermath, and the lasting impact on everyone who loved Shanann, Bella, CeCe, and baby Niko, this is the devastating end to a story...

Join Carter Roy for today's first episode of Justice Served on the Watts Family Murder. To the outside world, Chris and Shanann Watts had it all: a beautiful home, two adorable daughters, and a baby boy on the way. But behind the smiling family photos, cracks were forming. When Shanann and the girls vanish without a trace, Chris’s pleas for their return ignite a nationwide search. Yet, as investigators look closer, they uncover secrets that turn a picture-perfect marriage into one of the most chilling crimes of the decade.

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As fear gripped California, the Zodiac Killer escalated his mind games, sending letters, making threats, and pushing police and the public to the brink. In today's second Throwback Thursday episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels trace his psychological unraveling, the search for his true identity, and the failed attempts to bring one of America’s most notorious murderers to justice.

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The Zodiac Killer left behind more than victims; he masterminded a chilling legacy of cryptic messages, taunts, and terror. In today's first Throwback Thursday episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels trace his early murders, the ciphers that baffled authorities, and explore the disturbing psychology that drove one of history’s most notorious serial killers.

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A woman checks into a luxury hotel using a fake name—and is later found dead under suspicious circumstances. With labels removed from her clothes, no identification, and evidence suggesting the scene was staged, investigators are left with more questions than answers. In today's second Conspiracies & the Unknown episode, Carter Roy explores the haunting mystery of the Oslo Plaza Woman, a case filled with espionage theories, deliberate erasure, and unanswered questions about who she was... and why someone went to such lengths to make her disappear.

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In today's first Conspiracies & the Unknown episode, Vanessa Richardson unravels one of Russia’s most enduring mysteries: the 1959 Dyatlov Pass Incident, where nine experienced hikers were found dead under bizarre and increasingly inexplicable circumstances. Torn tents, barefoot footprints in the snow, massive internal injuries, missing body parts, traces of radiation, and eyewitness accounts of strange lights in the sky fueled decades of speculation, ranging from Soviet weapons tests and secret military cover-ups to UFOs, infrasound-induced panic, and natural but deadly environmental forces. With newly uncovered reports, expert analysis, and the 2019 reopening of the case, Vanessa explores how science, secrecy, an...

Today's second Unsolved Tuesday case is about Sneha Anne Philip, who was last seen shopping in Lower Manhattan on September 10, 2001. The next morning, the attacks on the World Trade Center reshaped the world and Sneha disappeared into the chaos. Some believe she rushed out to help and died in the collapse. Others think she vanished before the towers fell. Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole cover her case, which remains one of the most haunting missing person mysteries connected to 9/11.

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He threw her a birthday party. Named his boat after her. And was the last known person to see her alive.

When Jodi Huisentruit disappeared in 1995, investigators quickly focused on the people closest to her... especially one man who inserted himself into the case from the very beginning.

But he wasn’t the only suspect.

In this episode of Unsolved Tuesdays, Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore break down the evidence, the alibis, the behavior, and the alternate theories that have kept this case alive for decades.

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Richard Ramirez believed Satan protected him, but he couldn't outrun justice forever. In today's second Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels explore "The Night Stalker’s" gruesome 1985 killing spree, the chilling trail of clues left in his wake, and the courageous community that ended his reign of terror in an unforgettable showdown.

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Richard Ramirez, "The Night Stalker," wasn't born a killer, but his path was paved with trauma, violence, and a dark obsession. In today's first Killer of the Week episode, Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels explore Ramirez’s disturbing childhood in El Paso, his fascination with Satanism, and the twisted influences that turned him into one of California’s most feared serial killers.

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On February 12, 2010, biology professor Amy Bishop opened fire on her colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, killing three and wounding three more after being denied tenure. But investigators quickly discovered the shooting wasn't her first act of violence: a quarter century of buried history, closed files, and institutional failures had put a gun in that room long before tenure ever came up. This second episode of Campus Crimes traces the deaths of Gopi Podila, Maria Davis, and Adriel Johnson, and the chain of overlooked warnings that preceded them.

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In 1955, Jim Jones founded the Peoples Temple. By 1978, he led more than 900 of his followers to their deaths. From political power plays to psychological torture in the Guyanese jungle, in this episode of Cults and Cons, Vanessa Richardson exposes how one man’s delusions led to one of the deadliest cult tragedies in history: the Jonestown Massacre.

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