Crime Scene

In May 2005, 18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared on the final night of her high school graduation trip to Aruba. Her mother, Beth Holloway, arrived on the island within hours and quickly pointed police toward Joran van der Sloot.

Ahead of Netflix’s Taken: Natalee Holloway, premiering November 4, Jonathan and Cooper revisit the case that captivated the world. They trace the investigation, the massive search that turned up no trace of Natalee, and a series of twists that kept the case in the headlines for years. From a controversial hidden-camera confession to a shocking attempt to profit from Beth Holloway’s desperation for answers, the case became even more complicated as the years passed.

Nearly two decades later, van der Sloot finally described what happened to Natalee as part of a deal with U.S. prosecutors. But her remains have never been found. Jonathan and Cooper examine the unanswered questions that remain and the determination of a mother who refused to let her daughter’s case fade from public view.

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Mary Carole McDonnell spent decades in television producing true crime shows. But in 2017, she allegedly pulled off a multimillion-dollar con of her own.

Her company, Bellum Entertainment, made syndicated true crime shows like Corrupt Crimes, Murderous Affairs and I Married a Murderer. In December 2017, she walked into a bank and said she was heir to the McDonnell Douglas aerospace fortune — with an $80 million trust about to pay out. The bank extended her a line of credit, and over the next six weeks, she obtained $14.7 million.

She drove a Porsche and kept a boat in Newport Beach. Meanwhile her staff went unpaid for weeks at a time. Her on-camera experts were retired FBI agents, including Joe Pistone, the agent known as Donnie Brasco. None of them saw through her the alleged scheme. 

So how did a woman who made television about criminals allegedly pull off a fraud of this scale? 

Jonathan and Cooper break down the case, from a fabricated family fortune to the people who were left dealing with the fallout. A federal grand jury indicted McDonnell in 2018, but she never appeared to face the charges. She remains a fugitive on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

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Elizabeth Holmes said a single drop of blood could run dozens of lab tests in a few hours. Investors believed her. So did Walgreens, a board full of former cabinet secretaries, and Forbes, which named her the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. 

But the technology never worked as promised. 

Jonathan and Cooper trace how Theranos raised more than $700 million, and sent most patient samples to other companies’ analyzers. 

They also cover how a pathologist’s blog, two young lab workers, and Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou helped bring the company down.

The story was supposed to end with Holmes’s 2022 conviction and 11-year sentence. Then came You Can See Everything, the new A24 documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Filmed inside Holmes’s home during the 34 days before she reported to prison. 

Jonathan and Cooper ask what a film like this owes the patients and investors who still haven’t been paid back. Stay until the end to hear their reactions, recorded outside the theater on opening day in Los Angeles. 

You can hear John Carreyrou’s full account of the case in Bad Blood, now on The Binge.

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In August 1987, two teenage boys were found lying side by side on railroad tracks in Saline County, Arkansas. Don Henry and Kevin Ives were dead, partly covered by a tarp, with a rifle nearby. The initial ruling was that they had fallen asleep on the tracks after smoking marijuana. A second autopsy raised serious questions. Nearly 40 years later, their deaths remain unsolved.

Co-host Jonathan Hirsch returns to the case that started Crime Scene to examine where the investigation stands today, the troubling questions surrounding the original inquiry, and why he still believes there are answers to be found. The prosecutor who led a grand jury investigation was later convicted on drug charges, while questions about a possible connection to drug trafficking have never fully gone away.

Now Jonathan has acquired boxes of archival material collected by the Ives family, along with files from a federal task force investigator whose work on the case reportedly put him at odds with local authorities. Could any of the evidence still be tested? What might these records reveal about an investigation that has gone unanswered for decades?

Jonathan is taking a fresh look at the case — and the investigation will continue in a new Boys on the Tracks series coming to The Binge for the case’s 40th anniversary in 2027.

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In January 2021, Maya Millete, a mother of three from Chula Vista, California, disappeared. Surveillance cameras captured no footage of her leaving her neighborhood, and her body has never been found. 

Jonathan and Cooper walk through the case against her husband, Larry Millete. Maya had told her family that if anything happened to her, Larry would be the reason. She had just borrowed $10,000 to hire a divorce attorney. After she disappeared, investigators found 1,700 pages of messages on Larry's laptop. For more than a year he had paid online spellcasters. At first he wanted spells to keep her in the marriage, but later he asked them to make her sick, break her bones and put her in an accident. Two days after she vanished, before anyone had reported her missing, he asked them to lift every hex off her.

The episode also covers the 444 unexplained miles on the family Lexus, the freezer rolled out of the house, Maya's secret relationship with a coworker, and how prosecutors won a first-degree murder conviction against Larry without ever explaining how she died. 

Plus, Jonathan and Cooper react to Larry Millete’s sentencing and what the verdict means for Maya’s family.

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On October 17, 2021, Heidi Planck left her son’s football game at halftime and disappeared. About an hour later, surveillance footage captured her walking her dog behind a luxury high-rise in downtown Los Angeles. Three hours after that, the dog was found alone on the building’s 28th floor. Heidi was nowhere to be found.

The building had cameras throughout its corridors and key-card access at its elevators. Heidi’s phone, smartwatch, laptop, and car tracking were all switched off. Yet despite an extensive investigation, her disappearance remains unexplained.

Producer, journalist, and podcast host Alexis Linkletter (The First Degree, Crimes of Reddit, Unraveled: Long Island Serial Killer) joins Jonathan and Cooper to examine the disappearance of Heidi Planck, the LAPD’s decision to classify the case as a homicide, and a massive landfill search that yielded no answers.

They also explore the financial fraud allegations involving Heidi’s employer, an underground poker ring that drew investigators into a federal raid, and the unanswered questions surrounding a case in which no one has been charged. A court has declared Heidi legally dead, but she remains listed as missing by the state.

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“The Journey,” an audio investigation hosted by the New Yorker staff writer Ava Kofman, unravels the mystery of how Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang, a wealthy Los Angeles couple, obtained dozens of children through nearly as many surrogates—and exposes a scandal that threatens to undermine the entire surrogacy industry.

In Episode 1, "Gifts," a woman in Texas agrees to carry a child for the couple. She thinks she’s helping a family in need. Then, she becomes a whistleblower.In the Dark is an acclaimed investigative-journalism podcast that launched in 2016. Its third season won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for audio.

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Thirty years after Tupac Shakur was gunned down at a Las Vegas stoplight, the first person ever charged in his murder is finally on trial. But with no gun, no DNA, and no living eyewitness willing to identify the shooter, the case hinges on one extraordinary question: did Duane “Keffe D” Davis spend two decades confessing to his role in Tupac’s death, or just selling a story too good to stop telling?

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Before you watch the new Netflix series, you need to know the real story. 

Lizzie Borden’s infamous rhyme says she gave her mother forty whacks, but nearly every word of it is wrong. Now, as Netflix’s new Monsters series tells the story again, we return to the blood-soaked house that launched more than a century of books, films, and theories, all chasing the same impossible question: if Lizzie didn’t do it, who did?

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On the night of September 11th, while New York’s detectives were pulled toward the ruins of Lower Manhattan, a Polish immigrant gets lost on his way to a cleaning job and is shot dead on a Brooklyn street. Henryk Siwiak becomes the only homicide New York City records that day, but with no witnesses, no suspect, and a crime scene swallowed by history, the question of who killed him has remained unanswered for twenty-five years.

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