On Their Behalf: A True Crime Podcast

In the Season 4 Finale, Aja tells Devon the case of Abraham Lee Shakespeare, a Florida man who disappears after winning the Lottery. 

In 2018, Kierra Coles was pregnant with her first child and on a great career path. And then, she vanished. Almost every step in the investigation came up with nothing. So, what happened to Kierra Coles? 

In 2018, Kenyatta Barris and her two children were violently attacked by her boyfriend and their father, Ronnie Oneal. What followed was a bizarre, traumatic rigamarole. 

This week Aja tells the case on behalf a Beverly Jackson, a single mother living Florida who goes missing and is found days later dead in the trunk of her car with no visible sign of how she died. 

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode is particularly graphic and violent. Listener discretion advised.

In 1980s Japan, high schooler Junko Furuta was kidnapped and held prisoner for 40 days. The brutality of her murder shocked the Japanese public, but gained little attention overseas. 

This week Aja tells Devon the case of the Charleston Race Massacre. June 17th, 2015 Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and murdered 9 innocent people attending a bible study.

In 1980, Sister Margaret Ann Pahl was brutally murdered in Toledo, Ohio. Her case remained unsolved for nearly 23 years, until shocking new evidence gave the case a sinister new angle. 

In the season 4 premiere, Aja and Devon discuss the Tulsa Race Massacre and context in which the worst case of racial violence in American history came to be. 

South Central Los Angeles experienced a slew of murders across 3 decades. Listen as Devon and Aja spend the season finale detailing the reign of terror of the Grimm Sleeper. 

In 1961, Herbert Lee was shot point blank in front of a crowd of people. His killer went free. Listen to find out just exactly how that came to be.