Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she was reported missing from her modesto home on christmas eve 2002. four months later, her body and the body of her unborn son conner washed up in the san francisco bay, just miles from where her husband scott said he had been fishing alone that day.

this episode walks through the full case. we cover the timeline of Laci's disappearance, scott's shifting story, his affair with amber frey, the wiretapped phone calls, and the evidence that led to his conviction. we also get into the 2020 ruling that overturned his death sentence and where the case stands now.

in this episode:

• who Laci peterson was and the life she and scott were building
• the events of december 24, 2002 and scott's fishing alibi
• amber frey and the affair scott was hiding
• the search, the tips, and the media frenzy that followed
• the discovery in the bay and what the evidence showed
• the 2004 trial, the conviction, and the death sentence
• the 2020 sentence reversal and the ongoing appeals

Nolan Xavier Wells was an 18 year old wide receiver from ocean springs, mississippi, preparing for his freshman season at southwest mississippi community college. on july 4, 2026, he traveled to horn island with a large group of friends on multiple boats. the boat he rode out on took on water from a failed bilge pump and turned back early. nolan was not on it. his body was found in the water on july 6.

in this episode we walk through the full case in order: who nolan was, the geography and currents of horn island, the boat that took on water and the released sea tow distress call, the conflicting accounts of his final hours, and a 22 page timeline review that found a material gap in his last confirmed hours. we cover the multi agency search and the two competing explanations, what both autopsies found, the independent one that ruled cause and manner undetermined without excluding foul play, and the official state autopsy that is complete but sealed while prosecutors prepare a grand jury presentation. we also cover the unresolved details around his phone and keys, his clothing, and the tides, the family's legal team led by ben crump, support from tyler perry, colin kaepernick, and al sharpton, and the new two sided legal fight as three of the friends, publicly named, hire attorneys and assert their innocence while three strangers face charges for threatening people connected to the case.

this is an open case. as of recording, no one has been charged in nolan's death, the cause and manner of death remain undetermined, and the friends have publicly stated they are innocent. we report only publicly available information.

in october 1989, ten-year-old amy mihaljevic left her school in bay village, ohio to meet a man she had spoken to on the phone. he told her that her mom had gotten a promotion. he said he wanted her help picking out a gift. she was never seen alive again.

her body was found four months later in a field in ashland county, more than fifty miles from home.

what most people don't know is that amy wasn't the only girl who got a call. other girls in the area received the same kind of pitch around the same time. some said no. some hung up. one didn't.

more than three decades later, the case is still open. the fbi still has the tip line. investigators still believe someone knows the voice on the other end of that phone.

this episode covers the call, the abduction, the search, the discovery in the field, and the details that have kept this case alive for a generation. we talk about what made amy trust him, why the phone angle still matters, and the evidence that still hasn't been matched to a name.

everyone remembers the verdict. almost nobody knows about the google search the jury never saw. on the last day Caylee Anthony was seen alive, someone in the anthony home searched "fool-proof suffocation" — and the state never found it, because investigators checked the wrong browser. this week: the full casey anthony case from the primary record. the 31 days, zanny the nanny, the deputy who wouldn't walk thirty yards, the chloroform number that collapsed mid-trial, and the two web sleuths who found what the state missed using free software. this isn't the story of a jury getting it wrong. it's the story of everything that never reached them.

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She spent 88 days in jail for a crime that never happened. The person who framed her was her own ex-fiancé: a deputy U.S. Marshal.

This is the true story behind Netflix's A Toxic Love Story (2026).

In 2016, Michelle Hadley was a 29-year-old grad student with a marketing job at Disney when Anaheim police arrested her for stalking, criminal threats, and six counts of attempted rape. Her bail was set at $1 million. She was facing life in prison.

The problem? She had never done any of it.

Michelle's ex-fiancé, deputy U.S. Marshal Ian Diaz, and his new wife of four months, Angela, had spent months building a fake online version of Michelle. They used her real writing style, pulled from private emails only Ian had access to. They created the "Lilithistruth" alias. They posted Craigslist ads directing strangers to Angela's home. They staged a garage attack. And they weaponized a federal badge to make local police believe every word.

The Orange County District Attorney would later call it "diabolical."

In this episode:

• The whirlwind romance and the Rockefeller Center proposal
• The Anaheim condo dispute that started everything
• The real breakup emails that became the blueprint for the frame
• Angela's history of forged sonograms, fake cancer, and impersonating Ian's other exes
• The Craigslist "rape fantasy" ads and the plan to stage a real assault
• The 17-year-old who nearly became a victim
• 88 days in jail: the death threat, the letters home, the swagger coaching
• How Michelle's parents cracked the digital evidence at their kitchen table
• Michelle's exoneration and Angela's plea deal
• The $1.795 million civil settlement that finally exposed Ian
• The federal conviction that came the same day Michelle gave birth to her daughter

Watch: A Toxic Love Story, directed by Alexandra Lacey, premieres on Netflix July 22, 2026.

on a friday morning in december 2017, two real estate agents walked a couple through a mansion in north toronto. downstairs by the lap pool, they found the owners. barry and honey sherman. fully dressed, sitting upright, necks looped to a low railing with leather belts. one agent thought it was some kind of weird yoga. they had been dead for almost two days.

barry built apotex into the largest canadian-owned drug company and a multibillion-dollar fortune. he was brilliant, famously cheap, and he ran his business on lawsuits. honey was one of the most connected philanthropists in the country. together they gave away record amounts of money and made a very long list of enemies.

in this episode we go deep. the empire and the orphaned cousins who sued him. the money, the trusts, and the foundations he used like a piggy bank. the billion dollars in debt he refused to pay. the botched murder-suicide theory and the second autopsy that blew it apart. the walking man. the mystery visitor. and the six theories that are still on the table. police are now down to one detective and an ai program, and the family says it lives in fear.

we keep it direct and we keep it fair. no wild guessing, no naming names the reporting does not name.

what we get into

• how a ten-year-old counting zippers became a billionaire with a phd from mit
• the four orphaned cousins, the voided option, and the lawsuit that ended days before the murders
• kerry, the cousin who fantasized about killing barry on camera and failed a polygraph
• apotex, 1,200 lawsuits, and a man who called his own company a legal firm that sold drugs on the side
• the frugal billionaire: four cars in a lifetime, a chrysler sebring, and frosted flakes
• the foundations that loaned 240 million dollars back to his own business
• the cash crunch, the billion in debt, and the wills that may have been getting rewritten in the final hours
• the scene, the belts, and the bodies possibly posed to match the basement sculptures
• the second autopsy, the missing ligatures, and why murder-suicide was impossible
• the walking man video and the 29-minute mystery visitor
• all six theories, laid out with the case for and the case against each
• the house, the demolition, the property saga, and the 35 million dollar reward
• where it stands now: one detective, an ai program, and a daughter living in fear

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This week we're covering Kouri Richins, the Utah mother, real estate investor, and children's book author who was convicted in March 2026 of poisoning her husband Eric with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. We get into the debt, the fraud, the affair, the life insurance policies, the failed Valentine's Day attempt, the Moscow Mule, and the book that made this one of the most talked-about cases in recent true crime.

IN THIS EPISODE Who Kouri and Eric Richins were, and how different their upbringings were The real estate empire built on a forged power of attorney, a stolen $250,000 home equity line, and falsified records More than two million dollars in debt, and the life insurance policies Eric never knew existed Kouri's secret relationship with Josh Grossman and the text messages that surfaced at trial The warning signs, including Eric telling people he thought his wife was trying to poison him The estate plan Eric secretly changed to cut Kouri out and protect his three sons The Valentine's Day poisoning that became a separate attempted murder conviction The night Eric died, the Moscow Mule, and the fentanyl found in his system The internet searches and the children's book "Are You With Me?" The trial, the "black widow" moment, and the defense that called no witnesses The guilty verdict and a sentence of life without parole, handed down on what would have been Eric's 44th birthday

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On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were stabbed to death outside her condo on Bundy Drive in Brentwood. Nicole was nearly decapitated. Ron had defensive wounds on his hands. He was 25 and had just stopped by to return a pair of glasses.

OJ Simpson was arrested five days later, but only after a slow-speed chase down the 405 in a white Ford Bronco that 95 million people watched live. He had a passport, a disguise, and $8,000 in cash in the car.

The trial lasted nearly nine months. The prosecution had blood, DNA, a history of domestic violence, and a 911 call where Nicole said he was going to kill her. The defense had a glove that didn't fit, a detective who'd used racial slurs, and a jury that deliberated for four hours.

Not guilty.

Two years later a civil jury disagreed. They found him liable for both deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million. He never paid most of it.

In 2008 he was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas and sentenced to up to 33 years. He served nine. He died of cancer in April 2024, still insisting he was innocent.

This is the case that taught America to watch a trial like a TV show. We get into all of it.

In This Episode:

• The timeline of June 12 and what the evidence actually showed
• Nicole's documented history with OJ and the calls that went unanswered
• The Bronco chase and why he didn't run
• The Dream Team, Mark Fuhrman, and how the defense flipped the script
• The glove, the DNA, and what the jury didn't buy
• The verdict, the reaction, and the racial divide it exposed
• The civil case and the $33.5 million he never paid
• Las Vegas, prison, parole, and how it ended

this week we're covering the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common, London.... one of the most mishandled cases in metropolitan police history.

Rachel was 23 years old when she was attacked and killed during a morning walk with her two-year-old son, Alex, and their dog molly. the case that followed lasted sixteen years and destroyed the life of an innocent man before dna evidence finally identified the real killer: Robert Napper, a serial rapist already detained at broadmoor hospital.

we cover:

• who Rachel was and the life she was building
• what Alex witnessed and what he told police
• the offender profile that derailed the entire investigation
• operation Edzell — the five-month undercover honeytrap targeting colin stagg
• the old bailey collapse and what acquittal actually looked like for colin
• Robert Napper's history and the multiple times police could have stopped him
• the Bisset murders
• the cold case DNA work that cracked it open
• the IPCC report and the catalogue of failures it confirmed
• where Colin, Alex, and Andre are now

if you want to go deeper: netflix's the murder of rachel nickell (documentary) and the witness (drama series) are both streaming now. alex and andré hanscombe consulted on both.

sources used in this episode: wikipedia, crime+investigation uk, the guardian, bbc, time magazine, the sun, ipcc 2010 commissioner's report, biography.com, thecinemaholic, people magazine, oxygen.com, primetimer, courtnewsuk, tvguide.co.uk

In October 2020, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was found murdered in her home in New Boston, Texas. She was 35 weeks pregnant. Her daughter Braxlynn Sage was removed from her body and died hours later. Reagan's three-year-old daughter Kynlee was found hiding in another room of the house, physically unharmed.

The person responsible was Taylor Parker — a woman Reagan knew well enough to let photograph her wedding.

This episode covers the full story of the Taylor Parker case: the ten-month fake pregnancy, the elaborate fraud schemes running parallel to it, the meticulous planning that went into October 9th, 2020, and the 49-day capital murder trial that followed. Taylor Parker was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in November 2022. In November 2025, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed her conviction and death sentence in full, overruling all 25 points of error.

In this episode:

• Who Taylor Parker was before the murder — two marriages, two children she didn't have custody of, and a decade-long pattern of elaborate deception documented across employment records, medical files, and court testimony
• The 2015 hysterectomy that left her permanently infertile — and how she weaponized the grief of it rather than processing it
• The fake pregnant belly, recycled sonogram images, staged maternity photoshoot, and gender reveal party that formed the architecture of a ten-month lie
• The parallel schemes running alongside the fake pregnancy: a staged $20 million real estate fraud, a manufactured murder-for-hire plot, fake personas including a fictional father, a fictional police contact, and a fictional detective she invented from inside a jail cell
• What her former friends Kenzie Bright and Abby Bell testified to at trial — including Abby reaching out two days before the murder and never getting a response
• How Taylor got Wade Griffin 200 miles away on the morning of October 9th — and why she'd been planning that specific detail for weeks
• The events of October 9th, 2020, as established by the physical evidence and crime scene testimony
• What Taylor's own mother Shonna Prior knew, when she knew it, and what she testified to at the penalty phase — including the exchange on the stand that stopped the courtroom
• The 49-day trial, 142 witnesses, the verdict, and the sentencing
• Where things stand now: Reagan's family, Kynlee, Homer Hancock, and Taylor Parker on death row at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas

Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock was born November 14, 1998, in Hope, Arkansas. She was 21 years old when she died. She loved sunflowers. She let her three-year-old announce the pregnancy. She is buried alongside her daughter.

Braxlynn Sage Hancock was born and died on October 9, 2020. She had a heartbeat. She was a few hours old.

Kynlee Grace Hancock is approximately eight years old. She goes to the gravesite when she wants to see her mom.

Sources & further reading:

• KTAL/KMSS Texarkana trial coverage (day-by-day)
• Texarkana Gazette trial reporting
• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals opinion, November 6, 2025
• Bowie County District Court records