In the winter of 1982 in Brighton, New York, a bedroom suburb of Rochester, Jim Krauseneck came home from work to discover his wife, Kathleen, lying in bed, dead, with an ax lodged in her head. Their 3-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sarah, was unharmed alone in the dark, cold house. She had attempted to dress herself and make herself breakfast, which was evident by the cereal strewn all over the kitchen floor.

For over 30 years, no one was charged with Cathy's murder, until the Brighton Police Department collaborated with the FBI to reopen the case in 2015 with their sights set on her husband, Jim Krauseneck, as the primary suspect. It wasn’t until 2022, after Covid loosened its grip on the city, did a trial ensue and justice finally prevailed.

Dennis O’Brien was a local TV news producer at the time of the brutal murder who not only covered the case until it quickly got cold but remained committed to it for over 40 years hoping to see a just resolution.

It is hard to imagine that there is anyone out there who doesn’t know the name Scott Peterson, the man convicted in 2004 of the murder of his young wife who at the time was 8 months pregnant with their child they had named Connor.

Peterson was initially sentenced to death, but in 2020 that sentence was overturned and

In 2020, Murder Most Foul covered the case with the help of Stanley Goldman: attorney,

Mr. Goldman was gracious enough to come back and discuss this new twist in the case.

1969: The Age of Aquarius - Peace, love and understanding! Nowhere was this more evident than in Helltown, also known as Provincetown, Massachusetts. And Tony Costa was at the center of it all. Like Charles Manson on the left coast, Tony had a group of loyal followers, mostly smitten women who called him Sire. Tony was the undisputed leader of their counter-culture movement, the charming man who speaks eloquently and hands out hallucinogenic drugs like candy.

But beneath his benign persona lurked a twisted and uncontrollable rage that threatens to break loose at any moment. Tony Costa is the most dangerous man on Cape Cod, and no one who crosses his path is safe.

When young women begin to disappear, Costa's natural charisma and good looks initially protect him from suspicion. But as the bodies are discovered, the police close in on him as the key suspect. Meanwhile, local writers Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Norman Mailer are locked in a desperate race to secure their legacies as great literary icons. 

Helltown written by New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman, is a landmark true crime narrative that transports us back to the turbulent late 1960s.  And Mr. Sherman joins me

Doppelganger: “A person who looks or acts the same way you do – a twin.” Many of us have been told that we look exactly like a celebrity. Sometimes you might walk up to someone in the supermarket and start talking to them as if they are someone you know, only to be fooled because they are not. Harmless fun? Yes, except for poor Pamela Hutchinson, who was murdered by her doppelganger. To tell us this

Elliot Ness and the American Demon. Almost sounds like a Nancy Drew Mystery. I wish the story were that benign. In the mid 1930’s, just after Prohibition ended, Cleveland played host to a killer whose grizzly murders rivaled that of London’s Jack the Ripper. The victims were all beheaded and often their limbs were also removed earning this sadist the moniker: Torso Killer!

My guest today is New York Times bestselling author, Daniel Stashower, who’s here to share the story of Elliot Ness and the hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper.

If you’ve ever been at a criminal trial or, like me, have never missed an episode of Law & Order on TV, you are aware that certain evidence and witness testimony is not allowed by our current judicial system. But in 1673, in Colonial Portsmouth, Rhode Island, it was not that restrictive. Thomas Cornell, Jr., was charged with killing his mother, Rebecca, by burning her alive. Evidence at the trial included testimony from the spirit

Join me today as we probe this interesting case with,

Sixty years ago this year, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Not quite two weeks after the tragedy, The Warren Commission, established by President Johnson, was launched to investigate the incident and report its

The Committee stated in publishing its findings that “the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a cruel and shocking act. This report endeavors to appraise this tragedy by the light of reason… to present to the American people

Simply put, did they succeed? Join me today as we attempt to answer that question by going inside the Warren Commission with William VanDerKloot, writer and director of the film by the same title, available this month on your local PBS station.

Look! Up in the sky, it’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! For us “baby-boomers” there is only one Superman. And that is as portrayed actor, George Reeves. Reeves version of the Man of Steel was beamed into our living rooms as The Adventures of Superman. The serial aired from 1952-1958, first in black white

In 1959, he was discovered in his bedroom, dead from what was deemed by authorities to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But was it indeed suicide or something more sinister?

In 2006 the film HOLLYWOODLAND was released and pondered this exact question. The movie

The Writer and Producer of HOLLYWOODLAND, Paul Bernbaum, joins me today on Murder Most Foul.

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. 

 If you have watched any cop show after 1965, from Dragnet to Law and Order, you recognize those words, often printed on a small, crumpled card pulled out of a detective’s pocket. Miranda Rights. But who is Miranda?

Ernesto Arturo Miranda was an American criminal and laborer whose conviction on the kidnapping and rape of an 18 year-old young woman was set aside in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case: Miranda v. Arizona

The movie MIRANDA'S VICTIM tells the true story of a brave victim of rape and her ordeal to put a serial rapist behind bars..twice and, in so doing, found her voice.

My guest today is Michelle Danner, director of MIRANDA’S VICTIM.

The biggest, the fastest, the longest of anything intrigues us. Many aspire to have their feats, no matter how trivial, immortalized in The Guiness Book of World the

Starting in 1971 and continuing for 20 years, the FBI confirmed Little's involvement in at least 63 of the 93 confessed murders - the largest number of confirmed victims for any serial

 My guest today is Jillian Lauren, author and journalist, who entered a modern version of the movie “Silence of the Lambs” to BEHOLD THE MONSTER. Come along with me as she tells her unique story of gathering confessions and details of scores