Crime Traveler

Daybreak in 10 (06/03/22)

In 2013, Sarah Staudte is rushed to the emergency room. Doctors race to save her but all their tests come back inconclusive. The family already lost two family members, a father and son, back in 2012. Is this just a case of bad luck or is there something more sinister happening to this Missouri family? Police intend to find out.

A Lincoln Missouri family is living every parent’s worst nightmare. Their child is gone. One-month-old Jesse Peaster was stolen right from his crib at 10 a.m. in 2004. With the help of law enforcement and Jesse’s four-year-old sibling, Jesse is found unharmed in Kansas City. How did he get there? And why does this case not only baffle the parents but law enforcement as well?

When Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper Russell Harper pulled over a pickup truck in February of 1987, the events that would follow changed the lives of his family, his fellow law enforcement and the armed man behind the wheel. That suspect was Glennon Paul Sweet and witnesses say he came out of his truck firing at Harper who died after taking a bullet above his eye. A description of Sweet prompts a massive multi-county manhunt. In this episode, former trooper Sam Kaunley describes the days-long hunt for the killer and the heart-stopping moment he was face-to-face with the man who killed his friend.

In 2007, 9-year-old Rowan Ford was left in the care of her stepfather while her mother went to work. Her stepfather and his friends would then have a night of drinking and smoking weed. The next day Rowan Ford was nowhere to be found. It wouldn’t be until later during the investigation that one of the stepfather’s friends would know something about her whereabouts. In this episode, you’ll hear sound from one of the lead investigators on the case and how it impacts him to this day.

In 2017, a pregnant woman falls dead inside a Springfield apartment. The only suspect in Valerie Williams’ murder is her boyfriend, Derik Osborn. Osborn would claim it was a freak accident, but past reports prove he had a history of abusing Williams. Neighbors heard fighting and loud crash that night, but the ultimate cause of Valerie’s death would be debated by many involved. What exactly happened to Valerie and her baby? Osborn’s double-murder trial in July 2021 will reveal the answer.

When one young man in love was asked to murder for her, he complied. Did he have the mental capability to know what he was doing or was this a ploy orchestrated by a veteran manipulator?

A girl who was convinced by her mother that she was sick tries to find an escape. Unfortunately, no one told her murder was not the way to do it. This is part two of the three-episode feature on Gypsy Blanchard.

A mother who started a lie becomes greedy. A daughter who wanted to be free finds a way. A boy willing to do anything for love loses himself. This is the first of three episodes about the Gypsy Blanchard case. Gypsy’s mother Dee Dee held on to her daughter so hard she ultimately loses her and more in the end. This is the story of Dee Dee Blanchard.

Four teenagers go on a double date, but only one returns alive. With a gunshot wound in her chest, she tells police that another police officer killed her friends.