A young widow with two daughters moves in across the street from Darrell and Debbie. They take her and her daughters under their wing. Their two daughters shared the same first name and become close almost like sisters. Over time, Darrell and the young window start an affair and the young widow becomes pregnant. Darrell moves in with her and her two daughters. The two Ariels are excited about it because NOW they will be REAL sisters. But things are not a “happily ever after.” Darrell has a criminal history and spends time in prison more than at home. He also has a drug problem. The young widow had enough and breaks up with Darrell but this decision would shatter her life and the two Ariel’s lives in ways no one saw. But that’s not all there is to this story. Listen to the end for the twist!

A happily married man with a beautiful, loving wife and three beautiful children with a fourth on the way. A great career. A large home. Friends and family. Everything seemed perfect on the outside. A young single mother working a waitressing job to fund her way through school. Not a native to Clovis, NM, she was deciding whether to make the move back home to San Diego but a divorce and child custody made that complicated until she was found dead. Did the husband do it? Did the canceled date that night do it? There were many red herrings but the elite major crimes unit put in the work and solved the case quick to get a potential serial killer off the streets.

While cleaning out her grandparent’s home, Sherri came across an 1990 newspaper clipping in her grandma’s stuff about a missing NY teenager, Kari Lynn Nixon written by Lane Willard. This sparked her curiosity on this case that uncovered a deeply disturbing and sad abduction and murder of a beautiful 19 year old, a New Kids on the Block connection, two Unsolved Mysteries episodes, and once again proof that evil lives everywhere even small, close-knit communities where doors are not locked and kids play after dark.

Tommy Sells was a serial killer that I had no interest ever outlining until a mother false accused and convicted on junk science for murdering her 10-year-old little boy captured my attention. Was she actually innocent? If so, who exactly killed her son? A true crime author and a serial killer helped exonerate this mother—one who cared deeply for her and the other who hated everyone.

Tommy Sells was a serial killer that I had no interest ever outlining until a mother false accused and convicted on junk science for murdering her 10-year-old little boy captured my attention. Was she actually innocent? If so, who exactly killed her son? A true crime author and a serial killer helped exonerate this mother—one who cared deeply for her and the other who hated everyone.

This case is one of the most disturbing, sad, and infuriating of the season so far. A man with a known history of violence toward women brutally murdered a mother of three and her daughter. The two boys survived thanks to the youngest. And to this day, Gary Green blames the victim. It is one of the best examples of this podcast’s purpose—educated others so they are smart, rude, and not a victim.

Traci McBride was at a military base in Texas for two short weeks. One night talking to her friend on a payphone she is snatched off a military base, brutally raped, and murdered. Misplaced anger made her a stranger-on-stranger victim. Did the killer do it from Gulf War Syndrome or just the usual poopbird monster?

This is one of the weirdest cases we’ve done and also the saddest. You have a young man deeply loved by both parents and brother. However, his life begins to spiral while his brother’s is going as planned. Depressed and unemployed, he begins building an online business. Or was he? No one would know what was really going on until everyone was dead.

Donald Rolle was a monster full of rage. It was just a matter of time before his explosive anger led to murder. A desperate 911 call and search wasn’t enough to save the victim. In this case, we not only outline the murder but we also dive into the legal ramifications of past bad acts.

A wealthy plastic surgeon wooed his prey using romantic airplane flights. One fell hard both in love with the wealthy, accomplished doctor and to her death. His genius almost helped him commit the perfect crime but a determined sister and detectives dogged him until he was finally caught.