A locked Philadelphia apartment. A death certificate changed from homicide to suicide. A family that kept fighting for fourteen years. This episode examines the Ellen Greenberg case through forensic interpretation, police procedure, court standing, and the 2025 review that reaffirmed suicide.

In April 2026, Louisiana authorities charged four men in the decades-old killing of sixteen-year-old Roxanne Sharp. This episode examines how a 1982 St. Tammany Parish homicide moved forward after renewed witness cooperation, DNA testing, and a local podcast brought attention back to the case.

On November 25, 1991, Cindy Wanner vanished from a Granite Bay home while her 11-month-old daughter cried in a high chair. Her body was found three weeks later—raped and strangled. The prime suspect disappeared. For 34 years, detectives pursued leads that went cold. Then, advanced DNA analysis and a sister's betrayal of the truth led them to a man living under a false name in Arizona. This is the investigation that finally brought answers.

How investigators connected a secretive Southern California religious group to the deaths of a 4-year-old boy and a 40-year-old former member — and what former members reveal about life inside a group where the leader claimed to be a physical embodiment of the Holy Spirit.

On June 4, 2002, Frank Weiss's body was found in Lake Lewisville, wrapped in black plastic bags, tied with rope, and weighted down with sandbags duct-taped to his legs. He had been shot with a .38 caliber revolver. For 24 years, the case went unsolved—until a witness came forward in 2026 to tell investigators what they'd kept secret for over two decades.

A new parliamentary inquiry is examining whether one of Australia's most notorious serial killers murdered far more than the seven backpackers he was convicted of killing — potentially dozens more victims across three decades.

On September 18, 2022, two teenagers—Devin Clark, 18, and Lyric Woods, 14—were found shot to death on a remote ATV path in Orange County, North Carolina. At trial in January 2026, defendant Issiah Ross took the stand and offered a startling defense: he admitted killing Clark but claimed self-defense, testifying that Clark had shot Woods during an argument and then turned the gun on him. The jury convicted Ross of second-degree murder for Clark's death but deadlocked on whether he killed Woods—leaving her family facing the prospect of a second trial.

On January 24, 2023, a Duxbury mother allegedly strangled her three children before attempting to take her own life. Lindsay Clancy's upcoming trial will test the boundaries between mental illness and criminal responsibility, with her defense arguing she was suffering from postpartum psychosis while being prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications in just four months.

On March 4, 2022, Utah mother Kouri Richins called 911 to report finding her husband Eric dead at the foot of their bed. A year later, she published a children's book about coping with grief. In March 2026, a jury convicted her of aggravated murder, revealing how digital forensics and a housekeeper's testimony exposed a calculated plot involving fentanyl-laced cocktails, forged insurance policies, and hundreds of deleted text messages.

Florida and Indiana launch major initiatives to solve thousands of unsolved murders using forensic genetic genealogy — examining the technology, the funding, and the cases being cracked as states race to clear their cold case backlogs.