True Crime 24 Hours

In autumn 1888, at least five women were killed in the Whitechapel district of London in a span of ten weeks, in a case that has never been officially solved. The killer named himself in letters to the press, the newspapers turned a local series of murders into a global sensation, and over 136 years of investigation and analysis have produced no identification that meets an evidentiary standard. The question of whether the media coverage shaped, distorted or even helped construct the case remains as open as the identity of the killer itself.

On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger discovered the bisected, washed and posed body of Elizabeth Short in a vacant lot in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, beginning one of the most infamous unsolved murder investigations in American history. The LAPD cold case unit still lists the case as open, with no perpetrator biological sample ever recovered, no DNA profile possible, and Short's whereabouts in the five days before her death entirely unaccounted for.

Anyone with information about the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947 is asked to contact the LAPD Cold Case Unit at 213-486-6890.

In December 1968, two teenagers were shot and killed on Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California, in the first confirmed attack attributed to the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified assailant who went on to murder at least four more people across the San Francisco Bay Area and taunt investigators with coded letters and ciphers for decades. The Zodiac named himself in print, claimed a victim count that was never verified, and was never identified or arrested. The Z340 cipher was solved in 2020, but the Z13 cipher, believed to encode the killer's name, remains unsolved, and no confirmed DNA match has ever been...

In 1985, Richard Ramirez terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco, attacking strangers in their homes at night and leaving investigators struggling to connect crimes scattered across multiple jurisdictions. Convicted of 13 murders in 1989, Ramirez died on death row in 2013, but questions about additional attacks examined in other states were never formally resolved, and not all scenes received full forensic review with tools available after trial.

Anyone with information about unresolved Night Stalker linked cases should contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.

Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Wichita, Kansas, taunting police for years under the name BTK before going silent for over a decade. The case remained unsolved for thirty-one years until a floppy disk Rader sent to a local television station in February 2005 carried metadata linking him directly to Christ Lutheran Church, where he served as congregation president. Investigators still want to know what Rader concealed during the thirteen silent years between 1991 and 2004, and whether anyone who knew him before 2005 noticed something they never reported.

If you have information about the BTK murders in Wichita, Kansas...

In December 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest disappeared after stepping outside a Des Plaines, Illinois pharmacy to speak with a contractor named John Wayne Gacy. What investigators found beneath the floor of Gacy's home in Norwood Park Township led to the conviction of one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, with 33 confirmed victims. Decades later, one victim still has no publicly confirmed name, and the Cook County Sheriff's DNA initiative continues to seek family references that could finally close the last file.

Anyone with information about a family member who disappeared in the Chicago area during the 1970...

In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested at his Milwaukee apartment after seventeen men and boys were killed there over more than a decade, their remains hidden inside ordinary furniture and appliances. The case raised unresolved questions about whether repeated prior police contacts, including the return of a drugged fourteen-year-old boy to Dahmer's door, could have prevented specific later killings. No formal comprehensive review has fully answered that question.
Anyone with information about unresolved victim identifications from this case is asked to contact the Milwaukee Police Department cold case unit at 414-935-7360.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited...

Beginning in 1974 and continuing across at least seven states, Ted Bundy abducted and murdered dozens of young women while moving freely through campuses and communities, exploiting his intelligence and social charm to evade suspicion for years. Convicted and executed in 1989, Bundy claimed more than 30 victims, but investigators have never confirmed a final count, and some remains linked to his movements have never been identified. Forensic genealogy is now being applied to unidentified remains from the 1970s in the hope of returning names to families still waiting.

Anyone with information about unresolved disappearances from the 1970s should contact the...

Madeline Soto turned thirteen on a Thursday in February 2024, and had her birthday party that Sunday at her grandmother's house. Every morning she texted her closest friend, who woke up to the messages waiting. On Monday nothing came. That afternoon her mother stood outside Hunter's Creek Middle School and Maddie never walked out. The man who said he had dropped her off had stopped at a dumpster inside their own apartment complex before the drive to school ever began.

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Madeline "Maddie" Soto, 13, lived in the Venetian Bay community of Kissimmee, Osceola County, Florida. She was...

Months before her due date, Dina went looking for someone who could care for a newborn and a recovering mother as one job. She found a referral on RedNote, called the number, and a woman told her she had used this nanny herself. Baby H was born five days before the period prosecutors would later put in a charging document. Her parents had told the nanny that their baby monitor was not saving recordings. There was another camera in the room.

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The family lived in Hillsborough, California, in San Mateo County, and has spoken publicly...

At sixteen, Manohara Odelia Pinot traveled to Malaysia to meet a prince's parents. During the visit she was told she would be marrying their son that month. She laughed - she thought it was a joke. The invitations, she was told, had already gone out. She went through with the ceremony on one promise: that afterward she could go home to Jakarta. Nine months later, in a restaurant in Singapore, she slid a businessman a napkin with two words on it, written in eyeliner.

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Manohara Odelia Pinot, an Indonesian model with an American father, was...

For years, Desirrê Freitas paid a spiritual adviser she had found on Instagram to talk through her relationship and her life. In April 2022 the adviser said she was in crisis and needed her. Desirrê flew from Germany to a house outside Austin to help. Within weeks her passport was in a safe and a bill was waiting: the flight, the room, the furniture, and the witchcraft she had been told was protecting her. Then came the nightly target she had to reach before she was allowed back inside.

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Desirrê Freitas, a Brazilian who had studied in...

His parents had one rule about the bedroom door: it stayed open. Early in 2018, a thirteen-year-old boy in Goodyear, Arizona quietly stopped leaving it that way, and his stepmother put an app on his phone that watched for certain words. One of them was baby. The account sending those messages belonged to his sixth grade teacher, Brittany Zamora. What his parents did not know that night was that other children in that classroom had already put their concerns in writing, more than a month earlier.

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Brittany Zamora, 27, taught sixth grade at Las Brisas Academy in...

In July 2023, a twelve-year-old boy sleeping on concrete outside a house in Ivins, Utah, arranged small stones beside him into a message for his mother: Jail. I will call when I get there. His mother was Ruby Franke, who had spent years showing nearly two and a half million subscribers how she raised her six children. That attempt failed, and the women made the next one harder. Weeks later he went out a window with duct tape still on his wrists and rang a neighbor's doorbell.

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Ruby Franke, the Utah mother behind the YouTube channel...

In 2003, a television host asked Barbie Hsu and her younger sister Dee to imagine themselves at fifty. Dee joked that she would rather be rich and lazy. Barbie said two or three children, and then their children too. She was still in her twenties, and her sister was sitting beside her answering the same questions. Twenty-two years later that interview came back into circulation, and Dee was the one having to prove in public who had brought her sister home.

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Barbie Hsu, born in Taipei in 1976, was a Taiwanese singer, television host and actress, known...

Victoria Martens did gymnastics on her grandparents' lawn, and purple was her favorite color - the one everyone wore to her memorial. On the afternoon of August 23, 2016, the adult who was supposed to meet the ten-year-old at her school bus stop never came, and Victoria made her own way home to an apartment in Albuquerque. Within two years, the state would publicly take apart almost everything it had first told the world about what happened there.

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Victoria Martens, 10, a student at Petroglyph Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was killed on August 23, 2016, around the celebration...

In 2014, Christy Harris froze more than fifty bags of breast milk for her four-month-old daughter and wrote the date on every one. That September she was found dead in her bed, and the autopsy called it an accidental heroin overdose. Her family had never known her to use heroin — and Christy had already told a co-worker that if she ever turned up dead, they should look at her husband. Seven years later, the milk she had labeled for her baby was part of the case that proved her right.

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Christina Ann Harris, known as Christy, wa...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

If you’re looking for gripping true crime without the filler, small talk, or fiction, you’ve found it. True Crime 24 Hours is built for the ultimate binge-listener. We dive deep into the most disturbing solved and unsolved mysteries, cold cases, unexplained disappearances, and shocking murders from around the world. We don't just read headlines—we tear apart the police reports, analyze the forensic evidence, and ask the questions the official files left unanswered.

Every case we cover is 100% real. From crime scenes staged to look like art, to killers who hide in plain sight, to interrogations that unrave...

Rhonda Campbell could take an order from a regular at the Timberline Diner and never write it down. She also noticed when someone who normally came in had missed a few days, and she would ask after them. On a Thursday in June of two thousand fourteen she did not show up for the six o'clock shift. Two days later a boy on a paper route found her truck on a mountain road, with one set of boot prints crossing the frost toward it and none leading away.

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Rhonda Campbell was twenty-three and lived at...

Every April, Beverly Whitaker started tomatoes and green beans from seed in four beds she had built herself, and she wrote the variety on every pot before she handed the spares to her sister. She knew which bed drained fast and which one had to wait. On the second Tuesday in May she left choir rehearsal with a solo verse still to work on, bought a bottle of water and drove east. Three mornings later a road grader operator stopped for something on a gravel shoulder.

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Beverly Whitaker, thirty-eight, of Oster Road in Cresswell County...

For nineteen years, Monica Morgan drove the same road home at seven in the morning and watched the sunrise come up over the flats. On Saturdays she drove ninety minutes to Blythe with food and a paperback for her sister, who never had to be told she was coming. On April 9, 2011, a deputy found her white pickup on the shoulder of County Road Seven with the navigation screen still lit, holding a route to an address her family had never heard of. Monica had not chosen it.

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Monica Morgan, 62, had worked overnight as the bookkeeper...

Wendy Richardson marked every piece of her work gear with a single letter: a W. On a March morning in Maine, a man who knew every crack in the Breakwater Path found one women's work boot standing upright in the middle of the pavement, laces still tied, with no second boot anywhere near it. Her roommate was brought out to look at a photograph, and she recognized the letter on the heel. Wendy had been missing since the night before. That boot had not fallen there.

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Wendy Richardson, twenty-six, was a marine equipment technician at...

Marie Powell remembered every volunteer's birthday at the food pantry where she showed up every Tuesday at seven thirty, and kept them written on index cards. She updated her budget every Sunday and had paid a deposit on an apartment in Lisbon for October. On a February morning at fourteen below zero, the burgundy coat she wore every winter was hanging on a chain link fence nine feet from her building, in snow with no footprints. The man who hung it there would later explain everything except that.

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Marie Powell, forty-eight, of Kellerton, Ohio, was...

Every Tuesday, Melvin Young took the same seat at Patsy's Diner and the owner put in his ticket without asking. Beef soup, grilled cheese, sweet tea. On a Saturday morning in January 2017, a volunteer at the youth basketball clinic set out the balls and waited for him, and he never came. Three weeks earlier Melvin had paid cash for a padlock and told nobody what it was for. That padlock is how he was found.

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This is an original fictional case written for this show; the people, places, and investigation are invented. Within the story...

George Rafferty shoveled his neighbors' walkways before the snow stopped falling and was gone before anyone could look out and thank him. One neighbor kept a photograph of him standing in the cleared path with his dog, Biscuit. At roughly two in the morning on a Thursday in December two thousand fourteen, Biscuit came out of the dark onto Interstate seventy-four with injured paws, three miles from where his owner lay. Nobody had reported George missing. The dog was the only reason anyone started looking.

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George Rafferty was fifty-two years old, a senior estimator at...

At eighteen minutes past four on the afternoon of November thirteenth, Deborah Mason texted her sister that she was ready, and actually excited, which she had not expected. She had already asked her neighbor to feed her two cats in the morning, because she meant to drive straight from her class reunion to the second day of her daughter's volleyball tournament. The neighbor fed the cats twice the next day. Sixty-one people had signed in at the reunion. The group photograph held sixty-two faces.

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Deborah Mason, forty-four, a dental hygienist of eleven years at the...