10 year old best friends Holly and Jessica snuck out of a family barbecue in hopes of buying candy at a nearby vendor. After not coming back, one of the largest rescue searches ensued. What investigators didn't  know is the killer was amongst them. 

 

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Pregnant and 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett was contacted by a woman claiming to be interesting in buying a puppy from a litter that she had advertised online. But the woman was more interested in the baby which Bobbie Jo was carrying than a puppy. 

 

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On this episode we present the tragic story of forbidden love that turns to the deadly. After leaving her husband, Banaz was seen kissing her new boyfriend in public, a major dishonor to the community in the eyes of her father. What follows is the truly unthinkable. 

 

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Peggy Carr came down with some flu like symptoms that gradually got worse. But Doctors didn’t find that it was the flu. In fact, they were having a pretty hard time diagnosing Peggy’s condition. Until some very subtle signs pointed to something much worse than the flu... Peggy had been poisoned! 

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Kip Kinkel was 15 years old when the "voices" in his head commanded him to kill his father after he had been arrested and suspended for possession of a firearm at school. He followed up by killing his mother and next went on a shooting rampage at his local high school. 

 

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On the outside, John Joubert portrayed a model teenager who eventually achieved Eagle Scout. That made it easy for people to overlook him as a sadistic psychopath who’s fantasies about murder and cannibalism turned into the murder of 3 young boys

 

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On today's episode we discuss the curious case of Menhaz Zaman and his accused familicide of his sister, mother, father, and grandmother after dropping out of school to the dismay of his parents. 

 

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In August of 1982 Father Reynaldo Rivera answered a call from someone claiming to be looking for a pastor to administer last rites to a dying loved at a rest stop. Rivera agreed and drove to the location. A couple days later, Rivera’s body was found in a remote area, shot to death. 

 

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On this episode we follow the story of Kai the Hitchhiker, a drifter who found internet fame after saving lives from a manic man claiming to be Jesus. Just a few months later, Kai would be arrested and charged with first degree murder. 

 

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36 years ago, John Patrick Kerrigan disappeared the night before he was scheduled to deliver his first sermon as a “permanent pastor.” Investigators have struggled to find the motive let alone solving the case. Years after Kerrigan’s disappearance, some dark secrets were revealed which led some to theorize that this was not a random act of violence.

 

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