Killer Destinations

In early 2002, 12-year-old Ashley Pond and 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis vanished into thin air, just months apart and from the exact same school bus stop. A shroud of terror gripped the community as investigators chased phantom leads, completely unaware that a monster was hiding in plain sight.

In 2011, a man desperate for money was offered a job to take care of someone else's problem. Little did he know he'd soon wind up in a police interrogation room... for murder.

This is an encore episode from January 2025. A husband and father lost his life in a brutal attack by gang members. The alleged attackers were arrested quickly, but it took the jury five days to reach a verdict. AND WE HAVE ONE OF THE JURORS AS A GUEST ON THIS EPISODE! Listen to all the behind-the-scenes details about the trial... and what happened afterward.

Madison Nygard narrowly escaped a man who attempted to kidnap her. And it was her brave fight to survive that led detectives not only to her own attacker, but also provided justice for the families of two young women whose unsolved cases had gone cold. 

In 1990, 8-year-old Jennifer Schuett was taken in the early morning hours from her bedroom in Dickinson, TX. She was found 12 hours later in a field barely clinging to life. Her attacker left her to die, but she survived and vowed to bring the man to justice.

Ohio State senior Reagan Tokes was just months away from graduation. She had a generous spirit and majored in psychology so she could help others. But one night after work, she disappeared. And just three days later her family and friends got the news they’d all been dreading. Their beautiful girl was gone.

A young woman survived a violent attack by thinking of her young son and how much he needed her. She stayed strong for him. Several years later police arrested the perpetrator, but when she saw who it was, she couldn’t believe it. They’d arrested the wrong man. 

Beginning in the late 1990s, two elderly women – Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt – began working with a local church and befriended vulnerable, homeless men in Hollywood to help them get housing and assistance. Behind what appeared to be gracious benevolence, however, beat the hearts of greedy, scheming fraudsters, who didn’t care who they hurt in their quest for treasure.

After suffering the devastating loss of his wife, Irishman Jack Corbett was happy after finding love again. After a few years of living in Limerick, Ireland, Jack, his new wife Molly, and Jack’s two children moved to the US to be closer to Molly’s family. But no one knew what really went on inside their new home until police arrived one summer night and found a shocking crime scene.

Just over three years after Rex Heuermann was arrested as the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer, the legal proceedings have concluded. Although he was suspected of being responsible for the deaths of more than 10 women from 1993-2010, Heuermann pleaded guilty to, and was sentenced for, seven women. He’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars.