For decades, a locked door hid a secret.

A boy, vanishing from the outside world…but never leaving the house.

This is the story of Kimberly Sullivan — and the stepson she allegedly kept in captivity for more than twenty years.

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Five time award nominated at the True Crime Awards 2025, Independent podcast Awards and the British Podcast Awards as Best True Crime Podcast, Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London based true crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long forgotten murder cases.

Source Material:

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/under-pain-of-death-no-one-was-to-see-me-warrant-reveals-mans-account-of-20-years-in-captivity/3523142/

https://www.ctinsider.com/waterbury/article/waterbury-captivity-kimberly-sullivan-dcf-20793078.php

https://www.ctinsider.com/waterbury/article/waterbury-police-sullivan-captive-reports-ct-20250873.php

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-captive-20-years-fire-escape-stepmother-kimberly-sullivan/

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1892.

A quiet home in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Two brutal murders behind locked doors.

And a daughter whose calm demeanor would divide a nation.

This is the case of Lizzie Borden — a story of family tension, Victorian restraint, and violence that still echoes more than a century later.

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Morbidology is an award-winning weekly true crime podcast created and hosted by true crime author, Emily G. Thompson. Using investigative research combined with primary audio including 911 calls, interviews and trial testimony, Morbidology takes an in-depthlook at some of the world's most heinous murders.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden 

https://www.history.com/articles/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-lizzie-borden 

https://lizzieandrewborden.com/evidence.htm 

https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1460-sullivantestimony 

https://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/LizzieBorden/bordenaccount.html

https://mail.crimelibrary.org/notorious_murders/famous/borden/4c.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden_House

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/04/22/legends-of-lizzie

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Three friends go to a football watch party in Kansas City.

They never come home.

Two days later, their bodies are found frozen — in a backyard.

No one called for help.

No one noticed they were gone.

And the man who hosted the party… says he slept through the whole thing.

This is the story of Clayton McGeeney, Ricky Johnson, and David Harrington.

And the chilling silence that followed.

*Check out our friends over at Once Upon A Crime Podcast  as they dive deep into The Black Dahlia murder.

In 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant Los Angeles lot. The press dubbed her the Black Dahlia, and her murder became one of the most infamous unsolved cases in American history.

Behind the lurid headlines and wild speculation was a real woman, one whose life and story have been overshadowed by the myth.

Broken: The Black Dahlia Murder reveals who Elizabeth Short was, the shocking details of her murder, and the search for her killer. Along the way, we uncover the facts, the rumors, and the pieces of history that time tried to erase.

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Source Material:

https://people.com/all-about-deaths-of-3-men-found-in-friends-backyard-11692127

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-city-chiefs-fans-found-dead-charges/

https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-chiefs-fan-deaths-mystery-drugs-3ee80bc9147b374f894900348b551fea

https://www.newsweek.com/jordan-willis-three-bodies-kansas-city-missouri-mcgeeney-1865914

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kansas-city-chiefs-fans-deaths-b2488931.html

https://vt.co/news/us/causes-of-death-revealed-for-3-chiefs-fans-found-frozen-outside-home-of-friend

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Brian Shaffer was a 27-year-old med student with a bright future, a goofy smile, and a tragic past. On the night of March 31st, 2006, he walked into a bar in Columbus, Ohio.

And then he vanished.

No signs of struggle. No suspicious footage. No concrete leads.

Just…gone.

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https://people.com/what-happened-to-brian-shaffer-disappearance-11706304

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Brian_Shaffer 

https://614now.com/2024/hot-topics/at-18-year-anniversary-brian-schaffers-disappearance-remains-a-mystery

https://www.reddit.com/r/BrianShaffer/comments/10h2ucb/what_99_of_people_dont_know_about_the_brian/ 

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Ryker Webb was just 3 years old when he vanished from his backyard in Montana. A full-scale search turned up nothing. No tracks. No clues.

And then — two days later — he came back.

Alone. Cold. And with a look in his eyes no toddler should ever have.

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https://www.kpax.com/news/western-montana-news/lincoln-county-sheriff-recounts-finding-young-missing-child

https://www.krtv.com/news/child-reported-missing-in-lincoln-county-has-been-found

https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/lincoln-co-boy-in-good-spirits-after-going-missing

https://abcnews.go.com/US/boy-found-montana-woods-missing-48-hours/story?id=85283048

https://www.outdoorlife.com/survival/missing-montana-boy-found/

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/tale-of-survival-how-a-lost-3-year-old-boy-survived-two-days-alone-in-rural-montana/3072123/

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In 2013, a quiet English town became the backdrop for a killing spree — one that left three men dead, their bodies dumped like trash along rural ditches.

The killer wasn’t just a murderer. She was a manipulator. A seductress. A woman who took pleasure — actual pleasure — in inflicting pain. 

And she didn’t act alone.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_ditch_murders

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/29/joanna-dennehy-guilty-murders-cambridgeshire

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/12/joanna-dennehy-psychology-sadomasochism-murder

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/12/joanna-dennehy-murder-spree-jacobean-tragedy

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/12/joanna-dennehy-murder-gary-stretch-leslie-layton

https://www.itv.com/news/2014-02-12/woman-behind-peterborough-murders-killed-for-fun

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/articles/joanna-dennehy-and-peterborough-ditch-murders

https://allthatsinteresting.com/joanna-dennehy

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4. DARK FOG

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A man checks into a Kansas City hotel under a fake name. No luggage. No bags. Just a toothbrush and a comb.

Three days later, he’s dead — tortured, bound, and bleeding from stab wounds… inside a locked room.

No one saw a thing.

No one knows his real name.

And nearly a century later, we’re still asking:

Who was he?

And what happened in Room 1046?

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Wikipedia - The Murder of Artemus Ogletree

The Owen Case

Inside The Mystery of Roland T. Owen's Gruesome Murder in Room 1046

Artemus Ogletree and the Mystery in Room 1046

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When a video game tournament in Jacksonville, FL turned into a mass shooting, it left families shattered, a community reeling, and a nation once again asking: how the hell did this happen? 

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Time Magazine

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Teen Vogue

Axios

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Brandon Swanson drove into a ditch on a quiet Minnesota road. He called his parents, said he was walking toward help… and then, mid-call, he said “Oh shit” — and vanished.

No body. No clues. No good reason.

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Wikipedia – “Disappearance of Brandon Swanson”

InForum / The Vault – “Rural roads of Minnesota remain last known location of 19-year-old Brandon Swanson”

Marshall Independent – “Swanson case still unsolved” (May 2018)

FBI ViCAP – Brandon Victor Swanson Missing Person Poster

The Cold Cases – “Brandon Swanson: A Complete Timeline”

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In 2008, Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson’s world was shattered when her mother, brother, and 7-year-old nephew were brutally murdered in a calculated act of revenge. The culprit? Someone who had once been family, fueled by jealousy, control, and a desperate need for power.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/jennifer-hudson-family-murders-911-call-released/story?id=16249353

https://abc7chicago.com/archive/8658396/

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/jennifer-hudson-opens-familys-murders/story?id=34309912

https://abc7news.com/post/killer-of-jennifer-hudsons-family-members-breaks-silence/1207974/

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