Murders & Minivans

mica miller: the trial that isn't about her death

mica miller was found dead on april 27, 2024, at lumber river state park in robeson county, north carolina, about seventy miles from her home in myrtle beach. she was 30. the robeson county sheriff's office determined she died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. the north carolina medical examiner ruled her death a suicide. investigators said there was no evidence her estranged husband was involved in it.

that is where most cases end. this one didn't.

on december 18, 2025, a federal grand jury in columbia indicted john-paul miller, 46...

between april 1971 and september 1972, six young Black girls disappeared from southeast washington, d.c. they were ten to eighteen years old. they were walking home from the store. going to work. going to night class. coming home from a boyfriend's house.

their bodies were found along highways in and around d.c. and maryland.

Carol Spinks. Darlenia Johnson. Brenda Crockett. Nenomoshia Yates. Brenda Woodard. Diane Williams.

at first the murders were not connected. different detectives worked different cases in a city overwhelmed by homicides. the media barely covered it. by the time investigators...

On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Ten months later, Andrew's daughter Lizzie was tried for both murders and acquitted in about ninety minutes. Nobody else was ever charged.

Everyone knows the rhyme. Almost none of it is true. The weapon was a hatchet. Abby was Lizzie's stepmother. And the autopsy records eighteen wounds to Abby and ten to Andrew, not forty and forty-one.

This episode isn't an attempt to solve it. The case can't be solved. The volume of the inquest transcript holding Lizzie's first day...

Seven people in Chicago died in three days in 1982 after taking Extra Strength Tylenol laced with cyanide. Nobody has ever been charged. Every seal on your medicine bottle comes from this case.

On September 29, 1982, a twelve-year-old girl in Elk Grove Village named Mary Kellerman took a capsule for a sore throat before school. She was dead within hours. By the end of that week, six more people were dead across the Chicago suburbs, including three members of the same family who took capsules from the same bottle on the same afternoon.

It took two off-duty...

Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing from her modesto home on christmas eve 2002. four months later, her body and the body of her unborn son conner washed up in the san francisco bay, just miles from where her husband scott said he had been fishing alone that day.

this episode walks through the full case. we cover the timeline of Laci's disappearance, scott's shifting story, his affair with amber frey, the wiretapped phone calls, and the evidence that led to his conviction. we also get into the 2020 ruling that overturned his death...

Nolan Xavier Wells was an 18 year old wide receiver from ocean springs, mississippi, preparing for his freshman season at southwest mississippi community college. on july 4, 2026, he traveled to horn island with a large group of friends on multiple boats. the boat he rode out on took on water from a failed bilge pump and turned back early. nolan was not on it. his body was found in the water on july 6.

in this episode we walk through the full case in order: who nolan was, the geography and currents of horn island, the boat that took on...

in october 1989, ten-year-old amy mihaljevic left her school in bay village, ohio to meet a man she had spoken to on the phone. he told her that her mom had gotten a promotion. he said he wanted her help picking out a gift. she was never seen alive again.

her body was found four months later in a field in ashland county, more than fifty miles from home.

what most people don't know is that amy wasn't the only girl who got a call. other girls in the area received the same kind of pitch...

everyone remembers the verdict. almost nobody knows about the google search the jury never saw. on the last day Caylee Anthony was seen alive, someone in the anthony home searched "fool-proof suffocation" — and the state never found it, because investigators checked the wrong browser. this week: the full casey anthony case from the primary record. the 31 days, zanny the nanny, the deputy who wouldn't walk thirty yards, the chloroform number that collapsed mid-trial, and the two web sleuths who found what the state missed using free software. this isn't the story of a jury getting it wrong. it's the st...

This is not a regular episode. An eleven-year-old boy has been missing in Calgary since Thursday, July 16, 2026, and as of today he has not been found. Parker is autistic and non-verbal. He cannot call for help, and he cannot tell a stranger his name or where he lives.

There is no speculation in this episode, because there is nothing to speculate about. Calgary police have said there is nothing to indicate foul play. This is a bulletin: what police have confirmed, what the search has covered so far, and what you can actually do today.

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She spent 88 days in jail for a crime that never happened. The person who framed her was her own ex-fiancé: a deputy U.S. Marshal.

This is the true story behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story (2026).

In 2016, Michelle Hadley was a 29-year-old grad student with a marketing job at Disney when Anaheim police arrested her for stalking, criminal threats, and six counts of attempted rape. Her bail was set at $1 million. She was facing life in prison.

The problem? She had never done any of it.

Michelle's ex-fiancé, deputy U.S. Ma...

on a friday morning in december 2017, two real estate agents walked a couple through a mansion in north toronto. downstairs by the lap pool, they found the owners. barry and honey sherman. fully dressed, sitting upright, necks looped to a low railing with leather belts. one agent thought it was some kind of weird yoga. they had been dead for almost two days.

barry built apotex into the largest canadian-owned drug company and a multibillion-dollar fortune. he was brilliant, famously cheap, and he ran his business on lawsuits. honey was one of the most connected philanthropists in...

This week we're covering Kouri Richins, the Utah mother, real estate investor, and children's book author who was convicted in March 2026 of poisoning her husband Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. We get into the debt, the fraud, the affair, the life insurance policies, the failed Valentine's Day attempt, the Moscow Mule, and the book that made this one of the most talked-about cases in recent true crime.

IN THIS EPISODE Who Kouri and Eric Richins were, and how different their upbringings were The real estate empire built on a forged power of attorney...

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death outside her condo on Bundy Drive in Brentwood. Nicole was nearly decapitated. Ron had defensive wounds on his hands. He was 25 and had just stopped by to return a pair of glasses.

OJ Simpson was arrested five days later, but only after a slow-speed chase down the 405 in a white Ford Bronco that 95 million people watched live. He had a passport, a disguise, and $8,000 in cash in the car.

The trial lasted nearly nine months. The prosecution had blood, DNA, a history of...

this week we're covering the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common, London.... one of the most mishandled cases in metropolitan police history.

Rachel was 23 years old when she was attacked and killed during a morning walk with her two-year-old son, Alex, and their dog molly. the case that followed lasted sixteen years and destroyed the life of an innocent man before dna evidence finally identified the real killer: Robert Napper, a serial rapist already detained at broadmoor hospital.

we cover:

In October 2020, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was found murdered in her home in New Boston, Texas. She was 35 weeks pregnant. Her daughter Braxlynn Sage was removed from her body and died hours later. Reagan's three-year-old daughter Kynlee was found hiding in another room of the house, physically unharmed.

The person responsible was Taylor Parker — a woman Reagan knew well enough to let photograph her wedding.

This episode covers the full story of the Taylor Parker case: the ten-month fake pregnancy, the elaborate fraud schemes running parallel to it, the meticulous planning that went into October 9th, 2020, an...

The Murdaugh Murders, Part 2: The Trial, the Verdict, and the Reversal

On June 7, 2021, Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were found shot to death at the family's Moselle property in Colleton County, South Carolina. Alex Murdaugh called 911 seventeen seconds after his GPS placed him at the scene. He had told investigators he was never there.

This is Part 2 of our Murdaugh family coverage. We walk through the investigation, the six-week trial, and the unanimous South Carolina Supreme Court ruling that overturned Alex's double murder convictions in May 2026.

The crime scene. Two victims. Two weapons. No...

Before Alex Murdaugh shot his wife and son at the family's South Carolina hunting estate, he spent decades building a lie so elaborate that almost no one saw it coming. In Part 1 of this two-part series, we go back to the beginning — not just to June 7, 2021, but to 1920, when the Murdaugh family first seized control of the criminal justice system in the South Carolina Lowcountry and didn't let go for 86 years.

This episode covers the full family dynasty, the mechanics of Alex's $12 million fraud operation, his opioid addiction, the death of housekeeper Gloria Satterfield, Paul Murdaugh's abuse of...

Beverly Hills. August 20, 1989. José and Kitty Menendez are watching a James Bond movie in the den of their $13.5 million mansion. By the end of the night, they'll be shot a combined sixteen times by their own sons.

This week on Murders & Minivans, we're going deep on one of the most complicated — and most misunderstood — cases in American true crime history. Lyle and Erik Menendez. The killings. The spending. The trial. The abuse claims. And the letter that sat undiscovered for over thirty years.

We talk about who José and Kitty Menendez actually were — not the shorthan...

Thallium is element 81. A heavy metal banned in the United States since 1972. Colorless, odorless, and tasteless in its soluble form. It mimics potassium so convincingly that your cells invite it in. It starts with nausea, fatigue, stomach pain — things that look like a hundred other conditions. Weeks later, the hair falls out in fistfuls. By then, the nervous system has already taken serious damage.

The antidote is called Prussian blue. Doctors almost never think to use it, because they almost never think to test for thallium. That gap between exposure and diagnosis is exactly what makes it a...

This is the first episode in our new pod studio! Tali's mic was not co-operating until about 8:20 which is right about when the case starts ◡̈

A Harvard law professor. A bitter divorce. A dentist with a Ferrari and a god complex. Two Miami gang members. And a mother-in-law who, the day after her son was convicted of murder, booked a one-way flight to a country with no extradition treaty.

This is the murder of Daniel Markel.

Dan Markel was 41 years old, a tenured law professor at Florida State, a devoted father to two lit...

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints operated in plain sight for decades — a polygamist cult running across the American Southwest, into rural Texas, and up into the mountains of southeastern British Columbia. What they built wasn't a church. It was a supply chain for the sexual exploitation of children, protected by theology, enforced by economics, and ignored by governments for half a century.

This episode covers the full history: the 1953 Short Creek raid that backfired and gave the FLDS fifty years of immunity, Rulon Jeffs and the doctrine of absolute obedience, Warren Jeffs' rise to...

kaitlin armstrong googled "can pineapples burn your fingerprints" after killing someone. she sold her jeep for cash two days later. flew to new york. used her sister's passport to get to costa rica. got a nose job, changed her name, dyed her hair, and started teaching yoga on the beach. she responded to a fake job listing posted by u.s. marshals and got arrested in a hostel lobby 43 days after the murder.

the jury took two hours.

but before any of that, there was Mo. Anna Moriah Wilson. 25 years old, dartmouth engineering grad, professional...

On February 28, 1993, seventy-six ATF agents pulled up to a property outside Waco, Texas, in cattle trailers. Fifty-one days later, the building was gone and seventy-six people were dead inside it. Twenty of them were children.

This is the story of Vernon Wayne Howell, the ninth-grade dropout from Houston who memorized the Bible, renamed himself David Koresh, and convinced over a hundred people to follow him into an armed standoff with the federal government. It's also the story of what the ATF and FBI did, what they chose not to do, and why the question of who actually...

Moscow, Idaho hadn't seen a murder in seven years. It was the kind of town where parents felt okay dropping their kid off at college and driving away. Small. Quiet. Safe.

Then, sometime between 4:00 and 4:25 in the morning on November 13th, 2022, someone entered a house on King Road and stabbed four people to death in 25 minutes. Kaylee Goncalves. Madison Mogen. Xana Kernodle. Ethan Chapin. Two of them were weeks away from graduating. One of them was only there because it was the weekend and he was staying with his girlfriend.

The internet caught fire. Tips...

In March 1995, Maurizio Gucci was shot four times outside his Milan office. He had the money, the girlfriend, the peace. What he didn't have was any idea that a chain of people — a socialite, a psychic, a hotel porter, and a broke pizzeria owner — had been quietly building toward that morning. This is the story of a dynasty that ate itself alive, a woman who described $860,000 a year as a bowl of lentils, and a brand that only got good once the family was gone.

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In March 1995, Maurizio Gucci was shot four times outside his Milan office. He had the money, the girlfriend, the peace. What he didn't have was any idea that a chain of people — a socialite, a psychic, a hotel porter, and a broke pizzeria owner — had been quietly building toward that morning. This is the story of a dynasty that ate itself alive, a woman who described $860,000 a year as a bowl of lentils, and a brand that only got good once the family was gone.

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Fabio Sementilli spent thirty years building something remarkable. An Italian-Canadian kid who left school early to follow his sister into hairstyling, he climbed all the way to VP of Education at Wella Professionals, managing 500 employees, running studios across North America, mentoring thousands of stylists who called him Big Daddy. The day before he died, he posted about how blessed he felt. The next afternoon, his sixteen-year-old daughter came home from school and found him stabbed to death on his own patio. This week we're covering the full story: who Fabio actually was, the affair his wife had been hiding...

On the night of November 16th, 2012, a thirteen-year-old girl in a quiet Ohio suburb called 911 while her mother was being stabbed to death. The person holding the knife was an eighteen-year-old foster daughter named Sabrina Zunich. And for ten months, that's where the story seemed to end; a troubled teenager, a horrific act, a grieving family.

Then Sabrina started talking.

What came out was a case that gets darker the deeper you go: a 41-year-old man who spent months grooming a vulnerable foster child in his own home, coaching her on which knife to use...

In January 2011, 27-year-old first-grade teacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment during a blizzard. She had 23 stab wounds, including ten to the back of her own neck, 31 bruises in varying stages of healing, and a serrated kitchen knife buried four inches into her chest. The city of Philadelphia ruled it a suicide, and they have spent the last fourteen years defending that conclusion against independent forensic experts, two civil lawsuits, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court petition, and a court-mandated reinvestigation in which five out of seven outside consultants disagreed with them. The original pathologist who changed the...

Jeffrey Epstein didn't just know powerful people. He built a machine designed to make himself untouchable — one donation, one dinner, one named research program at a time. In this episode, we break down how that machine worked: the political donations, the Harvard money, the eugenics project he talked about openly while hiding everything else, and the 38,000+ mentions of the sitting president buried in files that took over a month past the legal deadline to release. We're not doing the hand-wavy coverage. We're going through it.

They were 12, 13, 14 years old. They told their stories to the FBI, to police, to prosecutors. And for years, nobody did anything. In Part 2, we go deep into the lives of the victims — Virginia Giuffre, Maria Farmer, Annie Farmer, Courtney Wild, and dozens of Jane Does — and trace exactly how the system failed them at every turn. We break down the grooming process, the weaponization of poverty, and the secret 2008 plea deal that let a serial predator walk free. This is the episode that needs to be heard.

He was born to a groundskeeper and a school aide in a middle-class neighborhood in Coney Island. He never finished college. He had no credentials, no pedigree, no obvious path to power. So how did Jeffrey Epstein end up with a Manhattan mansion, a private island, a Boeing 727, and the phone numbers of presidents and princes? In part one of this three-part series, we trace the early life of one of the most prolific predators in modern history, from his surprisingly ordinary Brooklyn upbringing to the elite Manhattan school where the behavior started, through the Wall Street firm that...

On a snowy January morning in 2022, Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found dying in the front yard of a fellow officer's home in Canton, Massachusetts. His girlfriend, Karen Read, was quickly arrested and charged with murder. But what seemed like a straightforward case spiraled into one of the most controversial and divisive criminal trials in recent Massachusetts history.

Was Karen Read a drunk, jealous girlfriend who ran down her boyfriend and left him to die? Or was she the victim of a massive law enforcement cover-up, framed for a murder committed by others inside the house?<...

This comprehensive true crime deep-dive examines one of Canada's most disturbing criminal cases; the story of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, dubbed "The Ken and Barbie Killers."

In this episode, we explore the horrifying crimes committed by this seemingly perfect couple in Southern Ontario during the late 1980s and early 1990s. From Paul's reign of terror as the Scarborough Rapist to the murders of three teenage girls; including Karla's own sister - this case shocked the nation and exposed catastrophic failures in the justice system.

We examine Paul Bernardo's transformation from a charming university student...

Colonel Russell Williams seemed to embody military excellence; a decorated commander of Canada's largest air force base, trusted to fly prime ministers and royalty, with an impeccable service record spanning decades. But behind the uniform and accolades lurked a predator whose crimes would shock a nation.

Between 2007 and 2010, Williams led a sinister double life. While commanding Canadian Forces Base Trenton by day, he spent his nights breaking into homes in the communities he was sworn to protect. What began as fetish burglaries—stealing lingerie from women and girl; escalated into sexual assault and eventually murder. His victims in...

A wealthy pharmaceutical CEO's girlfriend is found dead: naked, bound hand and foot, hanging from a balcony. Days earlier, his six-year-old son suffered a mysterious fall in the same mansion. The sheriff says suicide. Her family says murder. A jury awarded them $5.2 million. Then everything changed.

This is the Rebecca Zahau case, and it's one of the strangest death investigations you'll ever hear. We've got deleted voicemails, four separate head injuries that may or may not make sense, a cryptic message painted on a door, and medical examiners who can't agree on what killed her. Police demonstrated...

This episode examines two cases separated by decades but connected by a troubling pattern: teachers who exploited their positions of authority to abuse students in their care.

We begin with the 1996 case of Mary Kay Letourneau, a sixth-grade teacher arrested while pregnant with her twelve-year-old student's child. What followed was years of media spectacle, debates about "forbidden love," and language that consistently softened what had actually happened...the systematic grooming and abuse of a child by a trusted adult.

Then we turn to a more recent case from 2025, when special education teacher Christina Formella was...

Some cases go cold because evidence disappears. Others because the truth is buried beneath mistakes, assumptions, and public pressure. The murder of JonBenét Ramsey may be both.

In this episode, we revisit the facts of the case, the forensic evidence that still sparks debate, and the investigative errors that changed everything. We also explore why this case continues to captivate the public and why it may never be fully resolved

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Susan Powell went missing in December 2009. Her husband claimed he took their children camping in a snowstorm but investigators suspected something far more sinister. This episode explores the evidence, the investigation, and the heartbreaking failures that allowed this case to end the way it did.

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RentAHitman dot com is not a hitman service. It never was.

And yet, it has helped put multiple people in prison for trying to have someone murdered.

This episode breaks down how a fake website became one of the most effective accidental crime traps on the internet.

It starts in 2005 with Bob Innes, a former police academy graduate working in IT. He buys a domain name for a potential tech business. The word “hit” refers to web traffic and security testing. The business never launches. The inbox does.

For years, messages come...