Five-Minute Crime

A quiet college town became the center of a national true crime obsession after four University of Idaho students were murdered in their off-campus home. Ronan Wolfe breaks down the evidence, the suspect, and the digital trail at the heart of the case.

A Florida woman said a drunken game of hide-and-seek ended in tragedy. But two videos on her phone told detectives a much darker story.

A rapper, a tech entrepreneur, and billions in stolen Bitcoin: the Bitfinex laundering case sounded almost too strange to be real. Ronan Wolfe traces how one hack became a digital paper trail investigators followed for years.

A Utah widow promoted a children’s book about loss after her husband’s sudden death. Then investigators alleged the story of grief hid something far darker: fentanyl, money, and a possible poisoning plot.

A shocking Manhattan shooting turned into a national manhunt, a surveillance trail, and a debate over rage, healthcare, and violence. Ronan Wolfe breaks down the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the arrest of suspect Luigi Mangione.

Two teenage girls vanished on a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana—and left behind clues on a phone. Years later, a local man faced trial in a case that haunted the nation.

For nearly fifty years, a murdered woman found in the dunes of Cape Cod had no name. Then genetic genealogy gave investigators an answer—and pointed toward a chilling suspect who had been hiding in plain sight.

A quiet Long Island architect lived minutes from one of America’s most haunting crime scenes. Years after the Gilgo Beach discoveries, investigators say burner phones, DNA, and a discarded pizza box helped crack the case wide open.

In this gripping episode of Five-Minute Crime, Ronan Wolfe examines the tragic abduction of seven-year-old Maria Ridulph from a small Illinois town in 1957. For more than five decades, the case remained one of America’s oldest unsolved child murders—until an unexpected deathbed statement reignited the investigation. But did investigators truly identify the killer, or does the case still leave room for doubt?

In this special FIFA World Cup-themed episode of Five-Minute Crime, Ronan Wolfe explores the heartbreaking story of Colombian football star Andrés Escobar. After scoring a tragic own goal during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Escobar returned home to a nation consumed by pressure, money, and violence. Just days later, he was murdered. Was it a crime of passion, a football-fueled rage, or something much deeper? This is one of the darkest stories in World Cup history.