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A man in Detroit stops to help a stranger and is rewarded with more than a hundred thousand dollars and a new SUV. Eleven days later, police find him tied up beside that SUV. It's burning. And no one knows how he ended up there.

Today on Tell Me The Crime, John tells Febriana about the very recent kidnapping case of Curtis Dixon.

Listener Discretion Advised. The episode contains disturbing content and acts of betrayal. 

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On a rainy Halloween night in 1974, a group of children goes trick-or-treating in a Texas neighborhood. At one house, they knock, but no one answers. Moments later, a handful of unusually large candy sticks appear, supposedly from that very house.

What begins as an ordinary Halloween evening soon becomes the focus of a disturbing investigation. Where did the candy really come from? And what happened at the house that never answered?

In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, Febriana tells John the story of a Halloween night when...

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Two women leave a concert in Siberia. Neither makes it home. Then another woman survives a brutal attack and gives investigators a crucial lead. But the murders continue for years. And when police finally catch the killer, they discover just how close they'd been to him all along.

In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, John tells Febriana the case of one of the most prolific serial killers of all time that many people don't know exists.

Explicit and disturbing material. Listener discretion is advised. 

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When Paul Christos's wife begins telling him about a complicated love triangle involving her coworkers, it sounds like ordinary office gossip. But as the story becomes increasingly strange, a seemingly harmless game takes things in a terrifying direction.

In this episode of Tell Me the Crime, Feb tells John the story of Sheila Davalloo, a case involving obsession, deception, and a disturbing connection between two violent crimes.

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A 22-year-old man finishes his shift at a factory and walks out to his truck.

Someone is waiting for him.

He's shot three times, and for days, nobody knows why.

Eventually, detectives uncover a love triangle involving two coworkers and a young woman neither of them has ever met.

But when police finally track down the woman, they discover that the entire story is built on a lie.

And one of the people involved never knew it.

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In 2008, an aspiring filmmaker in Edmonton was working on a horror movie about a man who is lured to a garage and killed. Not long after, a real man disappeared after being directed to that very same garage.

When police began investigating, they discovered that the similarities didn’t end there. There was another man, another encounter - and a disturbing story hidden on the filmmaker’s computer.

So how much of this was fiction, and how much had actually happened?

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A man is waiting inside a woman’s bedroom with a hammer.

He’s been sent there to kill her.

But about fourteen minutes later, only one of them is still alive.

And it isn’t the hitman.

In this episode, John tells Febriana the case of Susan Kuhnhausen, a woman who fought back against the man hired to murder her and survived a plot that led directly back to her estranged husband.

Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses attempted murder, domestic violen...

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Imagine a pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with a bomb locked around his neck.

He says he has been forced into a bizarre scavenger hunt: rob the bank, follow a series of handwritten instructions, and complete each step before the bomb’s timer runs out.

But as investigators try to understand who had built the device and why, the story becomes much more complicated. Evidence begins pointing toward a group of people connected by money, murder, and an elaborate plan that may not have unfolded the way an...

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When Mark Winger finds his wife being brutally attacked inside their home, he shoots and kills her attacker. Police quickly view him as a grieving husband who tried to save his wife, and the case appears straightforward.

But one small piece of evidence suggests the supposed killer may have been invited there. Years later, a secret affair and a witness with a disturbing story force investigators to reconsider everything they thought they knew about the crime scene.

John tells Febriana the case of Donnah Winger and Roger Harrington.

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Imagine someone you love suddenly sells his business, leaves everything behind, and starts traveling the world. 

You keep getting emails from him - from South America, India, Africa - and everything seems fine.

Except you never hear his voice. You never see a new photo.

And months later, you discover the truth:
he was never traveling at all.
He had been dead the entire time.

On today's episode of Tell Me The Crime, Febriana tells John about the murder of Chris Smith.

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John tells Feb the story of Diane Whipple, an elite athlete and college lacrosse coach killed just outside her San Francisco apartment by her neighbors' dogs. What initially looked like a horrific animal attack soon exposed months of ignored warnings, a bizarre connection to an imprisoned gang member, and a question rarely asked in a courtroom: when does refusing to recognize a danger become murder?

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In February 1986, 29-year-old nursing director Sherri Rasmussen was found beaten and shot inside the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband, John. The LAPD decided that she had interrupted a burglary.

But Sherri’s parents believed the crime was personal. Before her death, she had been confronted by a woman with a complicated history with John, someone who had slept with him while he was engaged to Sherri. She was also an LAPD officer.

For more than twenty years, the case remained unsolved. Then a cold-case investigation finally re...

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Just after Christmas 2011, Russ Faria came home from a game night with friends and found his wife, Betsy, dead inside their Missouri home.

Police quickly decided that Russ had killed her. But four people said he had been with them that evening. Receipts, phone records, and surveillance footage supported his alibi. Meanwhile, the last person known to have seen Betsy alive had recently become the beneficiary of her $150,000 life-insurance policy.

Russ was convicted anyway.

Years later, a second trial exposed evidence the first jury never heard, and...

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A young woman is found dying on the side of a highway after an apparent hit-and-run. But when police try to identify her, they uncover something far stranger: multiple names, a mysterious past, and a life shaped by secrets that began when she was just a child.

In this episode of Tell Me the Crime, Feb tells John the story of Suzanne Sevakis, a woman whose true identity remained hidden for decades, and the disturbing circumstances that explain why.

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On December 7, 2009, Susan Powell vanished from her Utah home. Her purse, wallet, identification, and other belongings were still inside, but Susan, her husband Josh, and their two young sons were gone.

Josh returned hours later with an extraordinary explanation: he had taken the boys camping after midnight in the freezing desert while Susan slept at home. Then one of the children made a troubling comment about who had gone with them.

As investigators examined Josh’s story, they uncovered contradictions, hidden warnings, and disturbing secrets surrounding the Powell family. Ye...

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In today’s episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana  about a man in Florida who spent nearly $200,000, mostly stolen from his family, on a webcam performer in Bulgaria whom he believed truly loved him.

His family protected him, paid for treatment, and gave him one final chance. Then they contacted her themselves to expose his lies.

Within weeks, all three were dead - and Grant Amato had disappeared.

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Peter Porco was attacked in his bed with an axe. Despite catastrophic injuries, he got up, went downstairs, completed parts of his morning routine, and collapsed near the front door. His wife, Joan, was found alive upstairs.

In this episode, John tells Febriana the case of Christopher Porco, the 21-year-old accused of murdering his father and attempting to kill his mother. Police said Joan initially identified Christopher with a nod, but after recovering, she remembered nothing and became his strongest defender.

The case was built through accumulation: a yellow...

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Nineteen-year-old Ashley Wadsworth travelled from British Columbia to England to spend time with Jack Sepple, a man she had built a relationship with online. At first, it looked like a romantic adventure: sightseeing, smiling photos, and the excitement of finally being together in person.

But behind the pictures, the relationship became controlling and dangerous. Ashley decided she wanted to return home to Canada. Before she could leave, Sepple killed her.

In this episode, Febriana tells John the story of Ashley Wadsworth’s murder, the warning signs in Jack Sepple’s pa...

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In this episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana about Rachel Barber who was 15 years old and training full-time at a performing arts school in Melbourne when she told her boyfriend she had a job after class.

An old female friend was going to pay her a lot of money. Rachel didn’t say the woman’s name. Then she never came home.

In this episode, we cover the murder of Rachel Barber and the case against Caroline Robertson, a former family friend and babysitter whose obsession with Rachel became much...

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Today's episode is one of the strangest and most unsettling cases we've covered so far: a woman who wrote a children's grief book after her husband's death, then was later convicted of murdering him.

Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother and real estate investor whose husband, Eric Richins, died from a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022. At first, Kouri publicly presented herself as a grieving widow trying to help her children process the loss of their father. But investigators uncovered a very different story involving financial...

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In 1983, Diane Downs drove to an Oregon hospital with her three children shot in the car. She said a stranger had attacked them on a rural road.

But her story quickly started to fall apart.

This week, we cover the Diane Downs case: the strange hospital arrival, her relationship with Robert “Nick” Knickerbocker, the children she may have seen as obstacles, and the daughter who survived long enough to tell the truth.

Content warning: This episode discusses violence against children, child death, and parental violence.

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A mother is killed inside her own home. A father is shot and left for dead. Their daughter is upstairs, tied up, calling 911.

At first, it looks like a home invasion. But then the father wakes up, and the story starts falling apart.

In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we cover the Jennifer Pan case: the fake grades, fake university, fake work, hidden relationship, staged home invasion, and years of lies that led to one of Canada’s most disturbing family murder cases.

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In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the disturbing case of Jean-Claude Romand, the French man who spent nearly eighteen years pretending to be a doctor and researcher connected to the World Health Organization.

His wife believed him. His children believed him. His parents, friends, and even people who trusted him with money believed him. But there was no real medical career, no WHO job, and no normal workday. When Romand left home “for work,” he often spent his days in cafes, libraries, parking lots, service stations, and airp...

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In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the devastating case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001. There was never any question that Andrea committed the act. The question was whether she was legally sane when she did it.

This case forces a difficult conversation about postpartum psychosis, religious delusions, criminal responsibility, and how the legal system should respond when severe mental illness and unimaginable harm collide.

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Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy’s case is one of the most disturbing we’ve covered.

It is about a teenage girl convincing her boyfriend to kill himself. But not just that. According to what Michelle later told a friend, when Conrad got scared and tried to back out, she told him to get back in.

This episode looks at the texts, the pressure, the promise, and the messages Michelle sent to friends before Conrad was even dead. The central question: was this just encouragement, or was it intervention agai...

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A family of four was murdered inside their Tokyo home.

Then the killer stayed.

He left behind blood.
Clothes.
A knife.
Fingerprints.
DNA.

Clues everywhere.

But more than twenty years later…

no name.

No arrest.

No answer.

This is the Setagaya Family Murder.

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A neighbor asks for help. A veteran says yes. And within hours, two people are dead.

In this episode, we cover the murders of Sam Herr and Julie Kibuishi, a case involving trust, money, staged evidence, and a plan that briefly made one victim look like the killer.

Daniel Wozniak was days away from his wedding when Sam disappeared and Julie was found dead in Sam’s apartment. What looked at first like one story quickly became something much darker.

This is a case about manipulation, performance, an...

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Her name was Laci Peterson.
She was eight months pregnant with a baby boy named Conner.

By the end of the day, her dog would be found wandering alone.
Her house would be empty.
And her husband would have a story that would raise more questions than answers.

Within days, the case would become a national obsession.

Because what looked like an ordinary holiday morning…
would unravel into something much darker.

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Travis Alexander’s friends knew something was wrong.

Not “murder” wrong.

But wrong.

She showed up unannounced.
She seemed to know things she should not know.
She inserted herself into his life even after the relationship was over.

Then Travis missed a trip.

His friends went to his house.

And they found him in the shower.

Stabbed more than 27 times

His throat cut.
Shot in the head.

And the woman everyone had alread...

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He left to clear his head.
Just a short trip to a waterfall trail near Mount Salak.

A few hours passed.
Then he came home.

But when he walked through the door—
his family was already mourning him.

Because to them…
he had been gone for three months.

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A woman goes out for a run… and disappears.

When her husband finds her phone, it’s lying on the ground.
With earbuds and hair stuck in them.

Three weeks later, she’s found on the side of the road. 

Bruised. Beaten. Even Branded.

There's a chain around her waist… and a story about being kidnapped.

But the DNA evidence....tells a different story.

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She arrived in Los Angeles alone.
Just another traveler—passing through a city full of strangers.

At first, nothing seemed out of place.
She explored the city, spoke with people, and stayed in a downtown hotel.

But within days, something began to change.

Her behavior became increasingly unusual.
Guests grew concerned.
And then—she vanished.

Weeks later, what was discovered inside the hotel…
would turn the case into one of the most unsettling mysteries in recent memory.

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He lived a completely normal life.

Husband. Father. Church member. Nothing about him stood out.

But over time, something else was happening—something hidden, controlled, and deliberate.

And eventually…

he started communicating.

Not to confess.

But to be known.

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She got into the car willingly.

At first, everything felt normal. Familiar. Safe.

But over the course of a single night, something began to shift.

Not all at once—but enough that someone could have stopped it.

No one did.

And each moment made the next one harder to turn back.

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An 8-year-old girl vanishes in Bali, Indonesia.

Not from a crowded street—but from inside her own home.

At first, it seems impossible.

Then the story starts to unravel.

And what investigators uncover next…

is darker than anyone expected.

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A brutal murder.

A confession that seemed to settle everything. A case the system considered closed.

But something didn’t sit right.

Years later, one piece of evidence forces a second look—

and raises a much darker question:

What if they got it completely wrong?

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A man is found dead on a beach.

No identification. No clear cause of death. No explanation for how he got there.

But hidden in his pocket…

is a message no one can decode.

And the deeper investigators dig—

the stranger it gets.

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It started with footprints in the snow.

They led to the house—but never came back out.

Then came the sounds from the attic. The missing keys. The feeling that someone was watching.

By the time anyone understood what was happening…

it was already too late.

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