Crime With a Twist

DeeDee Blanchard craved the attention brought by her disabled daughter Gypsy.  Things weren’t as they seemed though, when Gypsy and her boyfriend hatched a plan to kill DeeDee. Police discovered that DeeDee’s mental illness drove Gypsy to murder.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow hold a place in the American lexicon. Synonymous with outlaws and devoted couples, this telling of the Bonnie and Clyde story introduces them as the people they were rather than the icons they became.

August 2003 pizza delivery man Brian Wells robs an Erie, PA bank with a bomb strapped to his neck. Within the hour Wells would be dead and the investigation that follows finds more characters than ever imagined.  Including the possible willing participation of Wells himself.

Trigger Warning - This episode discusses rape and sexual assault

From a young age Aileen Wuornos was forced into situations way beyond her years. As an adult she found revenge in stealing from and murdering people who she viewed as threatening.

In March 1932, the nation was entranced by the devastating news that America’s hero Charles Lindbergh’s son had been kidnapped. It would be more than two months before the body of Charlie Lindbergh would be found and two more years before the kidnapper was caught. In the trial of the century Bruno Hauptmann was convicted of the crime.

In 2006 former UFC fighter Lee Murray pulls off the largest cash heist in UK history.

At the Bon Secours home for unwed mothers in Tuam, Ireland, over the course of thirty years single women delivered their babies under the watchful eyes of the nuns in residence. After the home closed a gruesome discovery was made in the septic system.

Gerta tells the story of the break-in at the Isabella Gardner museum resulting in one of the largest art heists ever.

Three boys from the wrong side of the tracks are arrested for killing three young boys.