On the morning of March 11, 2004, ten bombs tore through Madrid’s commuter trains, killing 192 people and wounding nearly 2,000. Host Alexander Lawson examines the three men handed the longest sentences for the attacks: Jamal Zougam, who placed a bomb on one of the trains; Othman el Gnaoui, who helped transport and prepare the explosives; and Emilio Suárez Trashorras, the Spanish miner who supplied the dynamite. Their roles, the investigation, and the decades they still have left to serve.

Imagine investing your life savings in a digital farm where virtual cows and chickens promised real money. Tens of thousands of people did exactly that—until the payments stopped and the founders vanished.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson unravels the rise and collapse of Çiftlik Bank (Farm Bank), the massive online Ponzi scheme that took in more than $130 million from over 130,000 investors. At the center of it all were two brothers: Mehmet Aydın, the young entrepreneur known as “Tosuncuk,” and his older brother Fatih Aydın.

From the game’s explosive popularity and flashy success stories to the sudden collapse, the brothers’ flight across South America, their eventual capture, and one of the most staggering prison sentences in Turkish history—45,376 years each—this is the full story of how a simple farming app became one of Turkey’s biggest digital frauds.

If it sounds too good to be true… it almost always is.

One woman. Over 16,000 victims. A sentence longer than recorded human history.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson unravels the astonishing rise and fall of Chamoy Thipyaso—the Petroleum Authority employee and air-force wife who turned a simple chit fund into one of Thailand’s most devastating pyramid schemes. Promising oil-share returns of 78% a year, she drew in military officers, civil servants, and even members of the royal household, amassing hundreds of millions of dollars over nearly two decades.

When the scheme finally collapsed, the court handed down the longest prison sentence ever recorded: 141,078 years. She served less than eight.

A story of manufactured trust, elite complicity, and a justice system that delivered a number no one could serve.

A woman’s body is found in the trunk of her car outside a Florida Walgreens. The man who left her there was already a killer, already a fugitive, and already featured on America’s Most Wanted.

Host Alexander Lawson traces the crimes of Demorris Andy Hunter—from a 1985 shooting in Oakland that left one man dead and another paralyzed, to the 2002 murders of Ivora Huntley in California and Theresa Ann Green in Florida. After walking free on parole, Hunter killed again while on the run, using a false identity and leaving a trail of violence across two states.

This episode examines the full record: the early convictions, the years of freedom, the double murder spree, the capture in Texas, and the 2026 death sentence that closed the case more than two decades later.

A woman in Phoenix discovers a hidden camera pointed into her apartment. That single find unravels a disturbing case involving a young former Marine, secret recordings of sexual encounters—including with a minor—and child sexual abuse material recovered from his computers.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson recounts how the 2012 investigation into Donald Lee Linville led to fourteen felony convictions and a sentence of more than 121 years in prison.

Listener discretion is advised. This episode contains discussion of sexual crimes involving minors.

Imagine the phone rings one ordinary morning. A panicked whisper claims to be your husband, your daughter, or your closest friend—arrested, in danger, desperate for help. Then a calm “lawyer” comes on the line with a solution… that ends in rape.

This is the story of Richard Allen Minsky, the former used-car salesman who turned ordinary telephone calls into a decades-long weapon of coercion, sexual assault, and extortion. Operating across Massachusetts, Florida, Georgia, California, and beyond, Minsky preyed on hundreds of women with a chillingly simple scam that played on love and fear.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the full scope of Minsky’s crimes, the relentless pursuit by detectives, his eventual capture after features on America’s Most Wanted, and the 146-years-to-life sentence that finally stopped him.

A disturbing look at one of true crime’s most calculated predators.

On a cold December evening in 1993, eighty commuters boarded a Long Island Rail Road train just trying to get home. Three minutes later, six were dead and nineteen were wounded. The man responsible walked the aisle with a 9mm handgun, firing methodically… and left handwritten notes explaining exactly why.

Host Matthew Antonio Zarkzewski takes you inside the life of Colin Ferguson—from a privileged childhood in Jamaica to the surreal courtroom spectacle where he defended himself—and the lasting scars left by one of the most shocking mass shootings of its era.

On a quiet Friday afternoon in Carlsbad, California, 230 children played at recess. Then a man climbed the fence with a loaded .357 Magnum, a gas can, and matches. Within minutes, two little girls were shot and an entire school was terrorized.

In this episode, Matthew Antonio Zarkzewski examines the 2010 Kelly Elementary School shooting — the paranoid delusions that drove Brendan Liam O’Rourke, the chaotic minutes of the attack, the construction workers who stopped him, and the trial that sentenced him to nearly two centuries behind bars.

A chilling true-crime story of mental illness, premeditation, and a tragedy that could have been far worse.

Chauncey Scott Price promised protection and care. What his victims got instead was control, violence, and the demand to sell their bodies—sometimes to eight men a day.

In this episode, host Matthew Antonio Zarkzewski examines the Colorado case of the Park Hill Bloods-affiliated trafficker who ran a sex-trafficking and counterfeiting operation out of Denver-area hotels and truck stops. From the forced prostitution of adult women and a 17-year-old girl to homemade fake hundreds and a 304-year-to-life sentence, this is the story of one of the longest human-trafficking punishments in state history.

Content warning: sexual exploitation, violence, and threats.

If you or someone you know needs help, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or text BEFREE (233733).

On the evening of December 7, 1993, a routine Long Island Rail Road commute turned into three minutes of pure terror. Colin Ferguson rose from his seat, drew a 9mm Ruger, and methodically opened fire on his fellow passengers. Six people were killed. Nineteen more were wounded. Host Alexander Lawson reconstructs the chilling attack, the handwritten notes of rage found in Ferguson’s pockets, the passengers who stopped him, and the bizarre trial in which the gunman represented himself and claimed someone else pulled the trigger. A story of paranoia, violence, and a courtroom spectacle that still unsettles.