Allegedly

In January 1992 Shanda Sharer - a vibrant, energetic, and popular young girl - was tortured and murdered at just twelve years old.

Her killers? Four teenaged girls, ages 15-17.

All four women have since been released from prison without having served their full sentences.

Was justice served in this case?

Pull up a chair, grab a snicky snack, and hear Mike & Heather’s most heated debate yet, this week on Allegedly!

Elizabeth Short’s nude, mutilated, and bisected body was found in a vacant lot on the morning of January 15, 1947. This gruesome discovery began a media frenzy surrounding one of America’s most famous unsolved murders and led to Elizabeth becoming forever known as the Black Dahlia.

The case remains unsolved to this day, more than 70 years later.

Pull up a chair, grab a snicky snack, and hear what Mike & Heather think happened to the Black Dahlia, this week on Allegedly!

One December afternoon, Sandra Melgar was discovered bound and locked in her own bathroom closet. Just feet away, in another closet, her husband Jim Melgar was found dead, having been beaten and stabbed.

Sandra was convicted of the murder but maintains to this day that there was an intruder, although she can’t remember what happened...

Did Sandra Melgar murder her husband and then bind herself in a closet 30 feet away to await being discovered?

Pull up a chair, grab a snicky-snack, and let’s talk about the murder of Jim Melgar, this week on Allegedly!

On the morning of July 13, 2011 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau was found hanging from the guest room balcony of the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California. The brother of Zahau’s CEO boyfriend discovered her lifeless body and dialed 911. When police arrived the rope had been cut and Rebecca’s naked body lay on the ground, bound at the wrists and ankles.

Did Rebecca really strip off her clothes, bind herself and throw herself over the balcony to hang in the courtyard? Or did something more sinister occur? Was there any connection between her death and the six-year-old boy in critical condition at the nearby hospital? And what was the meaning of the mysterious message painted on the bedroom door?

Pull up a chair and let’s talk about the curious death of Rebecca Zahau, this week on Allegedly!

On the morning of May 16, 2008 the parents of Aarushi Talwar found her dead in her bed in what was a gruesome crime scene.

All signs pointed to their live in domestic help; Hemraj Benjade who had since gone missing.

That was until....Hemraj’s remains are also found on the property a few days later.

Dive into the famous Noida double murders with Mike and Heather, this week on Allegedly!

Dr. Jack Kevorkian (“Dr. Death”) assisted at least 130 people in exercising their “right to die” between 1990 and 1998, before being tried and convicted for murder in the death of 52-year-old Thomas Youk.

The most damning piece of evidence? A video that Kevorkian himself created and allowed to be aired during an appearance on the November 22, 1998 episode of 60 Minutes.

Did Kevorkian’s “patients” have the right to choose physician-assisted suicide? Did Kevorkian have a Hippocratic obligation to help these people end their lives?

Arpana Jinaga and Martha Moxley - both young, beautiful girls with bright futures ahead of them - both murdered on Halloween. There are multiple persons of interest in each case, but no one has served time for these gruesome murders.

Dive into our Halloween Whodunnit Special and get to know a little bit about Mike and Heather! Happy Halloween!!

One night in March of 2001, Armin Meiwes dressed his table and poured a glass of wine before he sat down to a meal he had just prepared. His meal consisted of Princess potatoes and his date from a few days before - Bernd Brandes.

Armin videotapes the careful slaughter of his online acquaintance before consuming him - but what crime was actually commited?

For our very first episode we dive into the mysterious death of Kathleen Peterson, more commonly known as “The Staircase Murder.” The case was featured in Netflix’s docu-series “The Staircase,” which followed the murder trial of Kathleen’s husband Michael Peterson. Michael was convicted, but that verdict was reversed. Did he kill his wife to protect his secrets or was Kathleen’s death a tragic accident?

This episode features the case against Darlie Routier for murder in the deaths of her sons, Devon and Damen. Darlie was only tried and convicted for one of the two deaths and currently sits on death row. Did she really murder her children in cold blood?