Crime Crush

Crime Crush

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Crime Crush episodes

  • Gerald Watts Erased His Name From the Floppy Disk. His Church's Software License Did Not.
    Between 1977 and 1994, seven men in Burden Falls, Kansas, were killed in a series of crimes that went unsolved for decades, with taunting letters sent to local police and then, after eleven years of silence, a floppy disk arriving in the morning mail in March 2005. Cold-case detective Ralph Rice worked alone to trace a digital thread from an obscure software license to a respected church deacon, but whether every victim has been accounted for remains an open question in the case file.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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    49 min
  • Wayne Crell's Inspector Wrote Lime on the Permit. He Knew the Smell Was Not Lime.
    In February 1978, a routine crawl space inspection at a Norwood Park contractor's property was signed off by Chicago building inspector Todd Mason, whose handwritten notation described an odor he later believed he had deliberately mischaracterized. Twenty-five years after human remains were discovered beneath that property, Mason began a private reckoning with his own role, his silence, and the institutional cover that had sealed his record without his knowledge. The question of what he knew, and when, and whether he chose not to know, remains unanswered.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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    45 min
  • Douglas Cook Said the Blue Barrel Held Old Cooking Grease. Four Victims Were Inside His Apartment.
    In January 1991, a junior building inspector in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, became convinced that something irreversible was happening behind the door of a neighboring apartment, and spent nine days trying to find a legal way to make someone else believe him. The case raised questions about how long ordinary institutional life, an absentee landlord, a slow-moving bureaucracy, a polite tenant who paid cash, can insulate something unthinkable, and how many victims existed before anyone listened. The full scope of what occurred inside Apartment 213 of the Oxford Arms was never established in the public record.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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    48 min
  • Renee Cho's Walk to the Bus Stop Was Described on a 1975 Tape. The Label Said Do Not Transcribe.
    In autumn 1974, seventeen-year-old Renee Cho disappeared from Cascade Ridge University in Tacoma, Washington, and her case has never been officially resolved or linked to a Pacific Northwest killer active during that period. Fifty years later, retired forensic psychologist Gina Hunter returned to Tacoma with a digitized reel-to-reel tape from a 1975 campus interview session, a sealed records order signed by a judge with ties to a key witness, and a question about a partially cropped figure in a campus directory photo that she had been unable to answer for two decades. The case remains open, the evidence newly in independent hands, and whether any legal proceeding will follow is unknown.This episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.

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    52 min

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A quiet confession, a hidden motive, and a narrator who can't help but get closer to the truth. Crime Crush is where fictional cold cases feel eerily real and every episode leaves you questioning…