Shirley Goodnight was a woman that everyone loved and aspired to be. All expect Marlene Johnson, a woman who believed Shirley was having an affair with Marlene’s husband. Although many private investigators told Marlene there was no secret affair, Marlene still pursued her dark obsession with Shirley for years, even after Marlene and her husband split. Marlene is good at manipulating people to get what she wants, but how far will she get in front of a jury at her own murder trail?
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S1 E9: Her Dark Obsession that Led to Murder:  Shirley Goodnight

Every week, Hailey Elizabeth will dive into the crazy, the creepy, and the unexpected on her new true crime podcast “Behind You”. This is everything you’ve loved about her YouTube true crime series, with even more hair-raising and spine-chilling details than ever before.

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Mahek Bukhari was a a 24 year-old tin-top influencer from the UK. On Mahek’s tin Tok she would often post just normal content like dancing trends, grwms, lip syncing and even the occasional video with her mom. The videos with her mom went the most viral because her mother 44 year-old Ansreen looked good for her age. The comments would be flooded with things like “Can your dad fight” and “yall look like sisters omg”. This far led Ansreen to start her own instagram and gain thousands of followers, being invited to events, parties, being sent PR. And over instagram is when Ansreen would later meet and have a 2 year affair with 18 y/o, Sakib Hussain. Sakib would come over to Ansreens home when he husband wasn’t there and engage in sexual acts. Until December of 2021 when Ansreen decided to put her foot down and say goodbye to Sakib. She said she wanted nothing to do with him and how this whole thing was a huge mistake. Things went quiet after this text and it gave Ansreen a sigh of relief. But Sakib would reply with multiple photos and videos of him and Ansreen engaging in sexual acts in her home and threatened to release all of it to her family and tik Tok fans if she left him. Ansreen loved all of the luxuries she was getting on her social media, but how far would Ansreen go to keep it from all crumbling? 
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Mother Forces Tik-Tok Famous Daughter to Murder for Fame: Case of Mohammad Hashim

In July of 2023, 29 year old Runa Tamura would be having a fun night out at the club. She was dancing and feeling the music while she talked and was kissing with a man she met there, 62 year-old Hitoshi Ura. At the end of the night, the two decided to get a love motel room not too far away. Runas father, 60 year old Osamu Tamura, had actually tagged along with Runa at the club where he’s seen on security footage the whole time, watching Runa as she danced and kissed on Hitoshi. Osamu would later drive and drop off Runa and Hitoshi at the love motel where they booked a room for a couple hours at 10:50pm. At 2am, Runa is seen leaving the motel but in unusual clothing. At first she was wearing jeans and a turtleneck with her natural black hair and glasses. But as she left, she was seen wearing all black with a blonde wig and a black fedora while rolling a suitcase beside her. And although the footage caught Runa leaving the motel in her odd choice of clothing. What the camera didn’t see, was what was inside of the suitcase. And inside, was the decapitated head of Hitoshi, and back in the motel, staff would later find Hitoshi’s body in the motel room’s bathtub naked. headless, and stabbed to death. This story follows the dark and twisted minds of the Tamura family and how Runa was able to manipulate her parents in helping her commit a brutal and ruthless crime
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Spoiled Daughter Manipulates Parents to Help her Murder: Case of Hitoshi Ura

Sam Greenberg grew up in a wealthy family. But although the was very well off himself, he was able to work hard for himself and had secured a job with NBC for 7 years and worked as a journalist for golf.com. And in college is when Sam would meet his future girlfriend and soon to be wife Ellen Greenberg. Ellen was described as the light of every room. She had a contagious smile and would make anyone feel warm and loved in her presence. But unfortunately that light would be cut short when on January 26th, 2011 when Ellen would be found dead with 20 stab wounds in the apartment she shared with Sam. Money can buy a lot of things, but could money buy sams way out of murder?
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S2 E28: How he got away with Murder: Case of Sam Greenberg

In January 2016, 21 year-old Narumi Kurosaki, ex-girlfriend of 26 year-old Nicholas Zepta was exchanging messages discussing their relationship. The couple had recently had a messy break up because Narumi Narumi had just gotten accepted into an elite college in France on a scholarship and had to leave Tokyo Japan, where her and Nicholas were living. Narumi wanted to go out there and see what else life had to offer and tried to break it off with Nicholas. But unfortunately, Nicholas didn’t take no for an answer. Nicholas would go on to send over 1000 messages to Narumi telling her she must obey his “conditions” in the relationship or else he's gonna break up with her, although they were already broken up and Narumi was currently moved on and in another relationship. Nicholas would even go on his daily motion account to post a video of him saying how Narumi had recently done some bad things to him that she was pay for. And gave her 2 weeks to obey his “conditions” before she would feel the “effects”. Narumi ignored all of Nik’s messages until one day as she was walking home from her school in France, she noticed in the distance, Nicholas was getting out of a car and walking right towards her. 
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S2 E27: He Made a Vlog about Hating his Girlfriend, Before Killing Her: Case of Narumi Kurasaki

Alexee Trevizo was an 19 y/o girl from New Mexico and lived with her mom, step dad and sister. Alexee was a senior in HS and was described as sort of an it girl. She was pretty, she was skinny, she was on the schools cheer team and was dating a man name Deyvn that played on the schools football team. Alexee also had tons of friends and seemed well-liked. And on Jan. 26th 2023, Alexee would wake up her mom at 11:30pm complaining of back problems. This wasn’t unusual because Alexee has had back problems since she was a kid, but on this night the back pain was so severe she asked her mom to drive her to the ER. At the hospital, Alexee would be asked if she was pregnant to which she said no because she was a virgin. But doctors took a test anyway to be safe and later on that night, Alexee’s test came back positive. And before doctors could tell her, Alexee was no where to be found. Alexee had spent 17 minutes in the hospital bathroom and upon coming out, nurses would be traumatized when they saw blood smeared and splattered all over the walls, the floors and the toilet. And in the trash bin, nurses would find a full term 9 month baby, lying cold and blue wrapped in a trash bag. This story is about the evil and selfish nature of Alexee Trevizo and her even more selfish and evil mother. And how Alexee may have even gotten away with it.
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S1 E9: Her Dark Obsession that Led to Murder: Shirley Goodnight

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