True Crimecast

Why would you drive a riding lawnmower into a Target? Or take a leaf blower into a Culvers? Or repeatedly use the same mask to commit robberies? The world may never know.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In March 1950, 25-year-old Timothy Evans was executed for a brutal crime inside his London home. The prosecution's star witness was his soft-spoken downstairs neighbor—a former police constable named John Christie, whose quiet authority seemed above suspicion. But three years later, a terrifying discovery hidden behind the wallpaper at 10 Rillington Place forced the nation to confront a horrific possibility.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and us...

A murder is solved by digging into a furnace and an indoor outhouse. Yes, you read that right. Also, John cries because a brass dog was assaulted.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A man loses his mind when he emerges from the sewer (or before he goes in?), and another tries to burn down his house and his roommates. Which one is insane? And John has a hot take on the insanity defense. 

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On January 16, 2018, Brittany Smith shot and killed 38-year-old Todd Smith inside her Stevenson, Alabama home. What followed was a complex legal battle that brought national attention to the intersection of sexual violence and "Stand Your Ground" laws. Though a sexual assault exam documented 33 injuries and Brittany had left a frantic note warning a gas station clerk hours before the shooting, a judge denied her immunity, leading to a controversial guilty plea and a split sentence without ever reaching a jury.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon! <...

We have to talk about the failed executions of Christa Pike (and others) in Tennessee. And to lighten things up, we talk about one of the dumbest criminals of all time. 

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

It's a scandal when sriracha producers gets greedy and sue the pepper-growers. And stealing trade secrets is apparently a lot easier than I expected.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On May 11, 2022, 25-year-old Moriah "Mo" Wilson, one of America's brightest rising stars in off-road cycling, was shot to death inside an Austin, Texas home just days before a major race. What began as a tragic loss quickly uncovered a web of jealousy, love triangles, and a calculated plot involving fellow cyclist.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A cold case is FINALLY solved, and a live is potentially saved by confusing traffic patterns.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On a freezing December morning in 2003, the body of Federal Prosecutor Jonathan Luna was discovered face down in a shallow stream in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania—90 miles away from his Baltimore office. His running Honda Accord sat nearby, stained with blood. Why did a dedicated prosecutor leave his glasses and cell phone behind at 11:30 PM for a midnight trek across state lines? In this episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John trace Luna’s electronic trail, examine the controversial FBI theories, and break down the newly unsealed 2025 autopsy.

--

For early, ad free episodes and mont...

Genuinely maybe the most disturbing story we have ever told. And we may have found a secret agent man.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

To millions scrolling social media in the summer of 2021, Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie were living the American dream by converting a Ford Transit van to travel across national parks. But beneath the curated Instagram posts lay a toxic and escalating dynamic. When Brian returned home to Florida alone in Gabby’s van, a frantic nationwide search captured the world's attention.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our co...

Kentucky uses 12 agencies to track down and indict five chicken fighters, and a crew steals a toilet made of solid gold.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A former NFL player consults ChatGPT when trying to cover up a murder, and a recent machete ban in Australia leads to the most dangerous geocaching event ever. 

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In April 2025, Karen Read returned to Norfolk Superior Court facing a second murder trial for the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. With lead investigator Michael Proctor officially fired and a complete roadmap from the first trial, both sides delivered an explosive replay of contested digital evidence, accident reconstruction, and claims of corruption. Also, who and what is a Turtleboy?

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...

Amber Kaset is a criminal defense investigator and mitigation specialist with more than 20 years of experience and over 1,000 cases. She spent seven years as an investigator with the Public Defender's Office in Nashville before founding AK Investigations in 2010. Today she leads a team of investigators and mitigation specialists working with defense attorneys nationwide on serious felonies, drug cases, complex federal cases, wrongful convictions, death penalty cases, and large civil matters.
https://www.akinvestigations.com/

True crime usually follows the investigation that leads to an arrest. But what happens when the defense starts investigating the case all...

A (Florida, of course) man is caught at a construction site hiding a weapon in his unmentionables, and a would-be robber in Scotland gets himself in a pickle. 

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Can one person give consent to another person to shoot them? If not, what would justify throwing a bucket of feces on another human?

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Did Karen Read strike her boyfriend with her vehicle, or was she framed by a tight-knit circle of local law enforcement? The death of John O'Keefe sparked one of the most divisive criminal cases in modern New England history. In Part One of our two-part series on True Crimecast, we examine O'Keefe's legacy as a dedicated officer and guardian, the timeline of the night at the Waterfall Bar, the controversial 2:27 a.m. phone search, and the investigative missteps that ultimately led to the lead trooper's termination.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly...

When cornered by the police, you have a few options: drive away, turn yourself in, or...swamp. What would you choose?
And a girl finds an extra special gift in her Barbie box. 

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What is worse:

Pretending to be an NFL player to defraud women of over $1 million?
Or being a former govorner charged with not supporting your adoption son?

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How does the legal system weigh moral awareness against severe psychiatric delusion? The tragedy of the Yates family forced a national reckoning on the M'Naghten legal standard, the vital distinction between postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, and medical accountability. In this episode of True Crimecast, Jamie and John examine the years of psychiatric breakdown leading to June 20, 2001, the coercive religious teachings of street preacher Michael Woroniecki, the commonalities with the Lindsay Clancy case, the false television testimony that overturned Andrea's original conviction, and the enduring legacy of five young lives lost in a quiet Houston suburb.

...

A man gets locked in a car (that he's trying to steal), and we find out what happens when you streak on a sports field/court/pitch.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A truckload (literally) of cinnamon rolls go missing, and a college football locker room turns into a crime scene.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Karen Silkwood was a mother, a union activist, and a whistleblower who sacrificed everything to expose corporate negligence and protect her fellow workers. Whether her fatal crash was a tragic accident or a targeted hit, the disappearance of her binder of evidence and the tens of pounds of unaccounted plutonium remain two of the biggest unanswered mysteries in American industrial history.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our...

On March 6, 1983, 21-year-old Cheryl Ann Araujo walked into Big Dan’s Tavern in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to buy cigarettes. What followed was a nightmare: a two-hour assault on a pool table while a room of bystanders watched, cheered, and did nothing. When Cheryl chose to report the crime, she became the central figure in the first televised rape trial in American history, where her name and address were broadcast nationwide and defense attorneys subjected her to brutal victim-blaming cross-examinations.

(Hear the rest of the episode by subscribing to our Patreon!)

--

For ea...

Mikita Brottman is an acclaimed nonfiction author, psychoanalyst, and professor whose work explores the darker and more complicated corners of human behavior. Her books include A Double Life, Guilty Creatures, Couple Found Slain, and An Unexplained Death, a Gold Dagger Award finalist.

With professional experience in forensic psychiatric facilities and the Maryland prison system, Brottman brings a unique psychological perspective to true crime. Rather than simply asking who committed a crime and how they did it, she digs deeper into the relationships, obsessions, motivations, and emotional dynamics that can exist beneath the surface.

Her newest...

The entire country mourns as we lost Dolly Parton this week. So we found a few stories about crimes commited against her. You know she never committed a crime. Dolly never did anything wrong. 

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Kentucky has passed a new bill against grooming, and it’s already making a difference. Plus, there’s a story about a ninja burglar. #PowerRangers

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

When 21-year-old aspiring model Juliana Redding was found strangled in her Santa Monica apartment, police uncovered a bizarre crime scene: a lit candle left in a gas-filled room intended to trigger a lethal explosion. Investigators recovered an unprecedented amount of foreign DNA...on the stove, the front door, the victim’s phone, and even her throat. Would they be able to find the source of that DNA. And if they did, would it even matter?

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Ho...

Anna Sonoda, LCSW is a graduate of Emory University, where she double-majored in Anthropology and French Studies, and earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Georgia in 2006. She became a licensed clinical social worker in 2009.

With a career spanning counseling convicted sexual offenders, working in residential mental health, leading anger management and domestic violence programs, and supporting individuals with dual diagnoses, Anna brings rare, front-line expertise into the realities of predatory behavior. As both a clinician and a mother, she recognized a profound gap: society reacts to child sexual abuse after the fact bu...

Anna Sonoda, LCSW is a graduate of Emory University, where she double-majored in Anthropology and French Studies, and earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Georgia in 2006. She became a licensed clinical social worker in 2009.

With a career spanning counseling convicted sexual offenders, working in residential mental health, leading anger management and domestic violence programs, and supporting individuals with dual diagnoses, Anna brings rare, front-line expertise into the realities of predatory behavior. As both a clinician and a mother, she recognized a profound gap: society reacts to child sexual abuse after the fact bu...

What if the best way to deter texting and driving was to dress up like a bush? And if you got a murder for hire call on your voicemail, what would you do?

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

A fraternity at Penn State gets cause selling cocaine, and a murder for hire plot does not go as planned.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On April 17, 1994, 20-year-old expectant mother Tina Heins was brutally murdered in her Jacksonville, Florida apartment. Police quickly set their sights on her 19-year-old brother-in-law, Chad Heins, who had been sleeping on the living room couch after a night out. Did police have the right guy in Chad? Or did tunnel vision allow the actual killer to slip through their fingers?

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection...

In an attempt to save the world, a man recycles himself. And when you steal a forklift, you'd better have a good reason.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

How do you invent a human being from scratch to fool an enemy's intelligence apparatus? Operation Mincemeat wasn't just a military distraction, it was a masterclass in psychological manipulation. MI5 and Naval Intelligence meticulously crafted "Major William Martin," creating a paper trail of love letters, theater stubs, overdue bills, and fabricated top-secret memos attached to a dead man's wrist.

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and...

On April 13, 1987, 54-year-old psychiatric nurse and prison minister Retha Welch was found brutally murdered in her Newport, Kentucky home. Police quickly set their sights on William Virgil, a recently released inmate who admitted to a prior relationship with her. A jury convicted him in 1988, but decades later, the conviction unravelled amidst recanted snitch testimonies, missing rape kits, and DNA from three unknown men on preserved slides. Was William Virgil the victim of systemic police misconduct, or did legal technicalities and degraded decades-old evidence allow a killer to walk free?

--

For early, ad free...

In this episode, we sit down with Nikki Young, host of the Serial Napper podcast, to take a deep dive into the disturbing and unsolved disappearance of 22-year-old Liam Tomen.

On the weekend of January 31, 2025, Liam and two friends traveled from Whitby, Ontario, to the resort village of Mont Tremblant, Quebec, for a ski trip. After spending the evening at local village spots—ending at Le P'tit Caribou—Liam got separated from his friends. Surveillance footage captures him walking directly toward his hotel, L'Auberge du Voyageur, just minutes away. He never made it inside.

Despite exte...

A major corporation tries to push a local company out of business, and a deathbed confession is not always a get out of jail free card. 

--

For early, ad free episodes and monthly exclusive bonus content, join our Patreon!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.