Killer Genes

Kelly & Melissa go behind the scenes of true crime reporting with reporter, colleague and friend, Jason Mattera, the king of ambushes!

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A real estate agent living in Hawaii, Adam Riojas took a birthday vacation to the mainland to visit family in Los Angeles. What ensued in the weeks and months following could have been ripped from the pages of a movie script. Riojas would be arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of a man he did not know. So what evidence put him away for life? Never wavering on his innocence, it would be a deathbed confession that would finally set him free. But you won’t believe just who confessed to the murder!

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Kelly & Melissa take a deep dive into the state of true crime and true crime programming with CrimeCon, CrowdSolve and CrimeHQ Executive Producer, Kevin Balfe. Here the behind-the-scenes of these revolutionary events and learn more about the popular, and even controversial, topics and session covered over the years.

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Ash Rowell’s murderer(s) left no DNA at the scene, but his mother was left with haunting suspicions of who was behind it and why. Ash and his mother Charlotte created one of the largest and most successful craft beer distribution companies in Texas, but when business dealings with Ash’s brother-in-law Brian Lam went south, Lam made it clear he was not happy and felt he was owed millions. The Lam family has had a criminal reputation in the past, so was Ash’s murder a Lam family retaliation for being cut out of the deals? And did Ash’s wife know more about her brother’s possible involvement in her husband’s murder than what she’s been letting on? The Lam family has had quite a few run in’s with the law, does the Lam family have a Killer Gene in them?

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Ash Rowell’s murderer(s) left no DNA at the scene, but his mother was left with haunting suspicions of who was behind it and why. Ash and his mother Charlotte created one of the largest and most successful craft beer distribution companies in Texas, but when business dealings with Ash’s brother-in-law Brian Lam went south, Lam made it clear he was not happy and felt he was owed millions. The Lam family has had a criminal reputation in the past, so was Ash’s murder a Lam family retaliation for being cut out of the deals? And did Ash’s wife know more about her brother’s possible involvement in her husband’s murder than what she’s been letting on? The Lam family has had quite a few run in’s with the law, does the Lam family have a Killer Gene in them?

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On this special episode of Killer Genes: Stripped Down, Melissa and Kelly take a deep dive into teen and serial killers with expert and author Phil Chalmers.

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A popular schoolteacher mysteriously leaves her home at 3am – her body would be discovered hours later in a nearby river. But rather than ruling her death a possible suicide, investigator dig deeper and find her death was not suicide or tragic accident, but a homicide. We reveal new information and details on Susan Ledyard’s puzzling death.

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McCarty and McLear are joined by Aros Artimus of Adaptive Operations, an organization dedicated to finding missing persons and combating human trafficking. Aros recounts his hunt for a person of interest in the Wendy Hukakoc case, gives listeners an inside look into the world of private investigations, and how he's the dark knight in searching for the missing.

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Exclusive new details in the death of Canadian, Texas teen Thomas Brown as we go one-on-one with famed private investigator, Philip Klein.

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Killer Genes: Stripped Down are episodes with special guests, experts, breaking news in cases they've covered and a behind the scenes look at crime reporting. Kelly & Melissa wrap up D'Andre Lane's case with Investigative Journalist Jason Mattera. Plus new details in the arrest of Hailey Dunn's alleged killer with Private Investigator Erica Morse.

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