Episodes
Who Massacred the McStay Family?
On February 15, 2010, Joseph McStay, his wife Summer, and their two young sons were reported missing from their new home in San Diego County. They left eggs and fruit rotting on the counter. Their Dodge truck sat in the driveway. Their dogs…
SON OF SAM: The Lost Tapes
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the Son of Sam Case in the form of documentaries, the latest by NETFLIX. Many are subtitled, “The Lost Tapes,” a reference to recordings of multiple interviews with David Berkowitz in Attica pri…
Hell in the Heartland
On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing.While rumors of drug…
THE LARAMIE PROJECT--The Matthew Shepard Story
On October 7, 1998, a young gay man was discovered bound to a fence in the hills outside Laramie, WY, savagely beaten and left to die in an act of brutality and hate that shocked the nation. Matthew Shepard's death became a national symbol …
No Human Involved
When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as “N.H.I.” — “No Human Involved.”  Dehumanized and invisible to the public eye, they are rarely seen as victims. In the United States…
Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?
On Christmas night in 1996, the brutal murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey shocked the nation. Found dead in her family's Boulder, Colorado home, JonBenét's body was discovered in the basement, with a broken skull, strangled by a garrote…
The Fairbanks Four
Imagine, spending 18 years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit! October 1997. Late one night in Fairbanks, Alaska, a passerby finds a teenager unconscious, collapsed on the edge of the road, beaten nearly beyond recognition. Two days la…
Karen Read Murder Trial (Deja vu, all over again!)
When last we saw our heroine, Karen Read, she was free after her trial last year in Dedham, MA for the murder of her then boyfriend, Police Officer John O’Keefe. The trial ended in a hung jury. But like all soap operas, we ain’t done yet! H…
A Devil Went Down To Georgia
The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shockwaves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind o…
Mother-in-law from Hell!
The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy.Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California subu…
The ROPE
In 1910 in the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help…
The Sinners All Bow
On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead in a quiet farmyard in a small New England town. When her troubled past and a secret correspondence with charismatic Methodist minister Reverend Ephraim Avery was uncovered, m…
A Homicidal Love Story
Would you kill for love?After Alice, a desperate young mother in a gritty Wyoming boomtown, kills her husband in 1974 and dumps his body where it will never be found, she slips away and starts a new life with a new love. But when her new lo…
Death By Dentist
At just 41 years of age, Florida State law professor Dan Markel was among the most well-known and accomplished criminal law scholars in the country. He was also a newly divorced dad, his toddlers Ben and Lincoln the center of his universe.…
Homicide at Rough Point (Part One)
In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a se…
Homicide at Rough Point (Part Two)
In Part One of our two part series on 5 time Emmy winning investigative reporter Peter Lance’s Book, HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT, we left off as Mr. Lance was detailing how, back in the fall of 1966, the Newport, Rhode Island police covered up …
THE POISON TREE
Seven years before Lyle and Erik Menendez gunned down their parents in Beverly Hills, after years of abuse, suffered by he and his sister, Richard Jahnke ambushed their father in the garage of their home on Cowpoke Lane in Cheyenne, Wyoming…
Lyle and Erik
Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who murdered their parents in 1989 in Beverly Hills and would be all but forgotten as they languished in prison under a sentence of life without the possibility of parole save for recent developments in …
The Man in the White Van
Based on true events. In 1975 Florida, a series of violent disappearances go unnoticed, and young Annie (Madison Wolfe) is targeted by an ominous white van that stalks her every move. As the menace escalates, her parents dismiss her fears, …
NCIS: Cold Case Files
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the NCIS television dynasty. Some of you may have the impression that the entire agency is made up entirely of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and a handful of agents and wacky support staff. Au contraire. NCIS has…
NCIS: Cold Case Files
I’m sure most of you are familiar with the NCIS television dynasty. Some of you may have the impression that the entire agency is made up entirely of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and a handful of agents and wacky support staff. Au contraire. NCIS has…
KAREN READ: Cop killer or victim?
Provocative title? In the early morning hours of January 29, 2022, Boston Police Department Officer John O'Keefe was found dead outside the home of fellow Boston Police Officer, Brian Albert, in Canton, Massachusetts. O'Keefe had been drop…
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much
Was “What's My Line?” TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large? These qu…
The Devil Behind the Badge
Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them co…
Who Killed Seth Rich?
Who Killed Seth Rich? If you guessed Hilary Clinton, you’d be wrong, but not alone. It’s been said that we all love a good conspiracy story. In the midst, of the political convulsions that surrounded the 2016 Presidential Election, a young …
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story
Can two brilliant minds outsmart the law?  In 1924 Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy University of Chicago students, sought to commit the perfect crime simply for the thrill of it.  They meticulously planned the kidnapping and mu…
Teach Me To Kill: The Pamela Smart Story
Teach me to kill. That’s exactly what Media Instructor, Pamela Smart, did for 3 of her teenage students in 1990, in Derry, New Hampshire. Smart seduced and slept with Billy Flynn, the trigger man, and encouraged his friends to participate i…
Then No One Can Have Her
Steve DeMocker was a narcissist, a philander and all-around cad, but was he a cold-blooded killer? In 2008, in Prescott, Carol Kennedy, his newly minted ex-wife, was found bludgeoned to death in her home. It wasn’t long until the police foc…
The Interrogation
On September 13, 2016, Shawn Grate was arrested in the small city of Ashland, Ohio for the abduction and rape of a young woman. Miraculously the victim actually guided her rescuers to her location using the perp’s cell phone as he slept. B…
MISSISSIPPI BURNING
MISSISSIPPI BURNING is the name of a motion picture, released in 1988, starring Gene Hackman and Willem DaFoe, loosely based on the murders of 3 Civil Rights workers in Mississippi, during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964.  James Chaney, Andrew…
Where is my mother?
On New Year’s Eve 1989, 11-year-old Collier Landry wakes up to a loud thud coming from his parents' bedroom, and it becomes the night his mother Noreen Boyle disappears forever. All his family has no doubts that she ran away after a fight …
WHITE HOT HATE
In the spring of 2016, as immigration debates rocked the United States, three men in a militia group known as the Crusaders grew aggravated over one Kansas town’s growing Somali community. They decided that complaining about their new neigh…
You'd Look Better as a Ghost
Today Murder Most Foul takes a slight departure from True Crime to discuss the above titled novel by author Joanna Wallace. Critics call it, “Refreshingly original and laugh-out-loud funny.” This comic thriller follows the trials and tribul…
Fatal Attraction (Part One)
In 1990, Jens Soering, a German honors student at the University of Virginia, was sentenced to life after a spectacular televised trial for the 1985 murders of his lover’s Elizabeth’s parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. In a classic example of…
Fatal Attraction (Part Two)
In 1990, Jens Soering, a German honors student at the University of Virginia, was sentenced to life after a spectacular televised trial for the 1985 murders of his lover’s Elizabeth’s parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. In a classic example of…
Mapping the Night
Crime movies, documentaries and literature come in several genres: True Crime (just the facts, Ma’am), “Non-Fiction Novel,” (made famous by Truman Capote with his masterpiece, In Cold Blood) and pure fiction. But even with fictitious crime …
Butcher Baker
To all who knew him, Robert Hansen was a typical hardworking businessman, husband, and father. But hidden beneath the veneer of mild respectability was a monster whose depraved appetites could not be sated. From 1971 to 1983, Hansen was a h…
I have your daughter!
On May 31,1985, two days before her high school graduation, Shari Faye Smith was abducted from the driveway of her family home in South Carolina. For several days after the abduction, the kidnapper called and sent letters to the family, ta…
MISSISSIPPI BURNING
MISSISSIPPI BURNING is the name of a motion picture, released in 1988, starring Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, loosely based on the murders of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi, during the “Freedom Summer” of 1964.  James Chaney, Andrew…
Killing Spree
I saw her standin' on her front lawnJust a twirlin' her batonMe and her went for a ride, sirAnd ten innocent people died From the town of Lincoln, Nebraska With a sawed off .41…