On May 16th, 2021, in Tempe, AZ, a tragic and shocking family murder occurred. This brutal and disturbing crime would horrify the community and forever traumatize law enforcement, crime scene specialists, the coroner, and the entire courtroom. This is the case of Yui Inoue.

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On May 2nd, 2016, on the Navajo Reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, two young children disappeared while walking home after school. The tragedy that would unfold would expose a loophole in the system that failed to protect indigenous children. This is the story of Ashlynne Mike.

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On June 2nd, 2023, in a suburb outside of D.C., patrol officers entered a basement searching for signs of a missing woman. There, they were struck with the foulest of odors. As they looked around the room, they noticed a knife on the ground and several trash bags, all of which appeared to be wet. This routine welfare check had quickly turned into a crime scene.

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On Midsummer, 2003, in Pirkkala, Finland, the police received a call from a woman who had been told about a murder in which a man had been dismembered. It wasn’t until the second call, which was from a witness to this horrendous crime, that officers began to take the report seriously. These calls would lead investigators down a path to the discovery of atrocious and shocking crimes.

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Between April and June 2017, in the small rural Southern town of Lumberton, North Carolina, whispers of a serial killer spread throughout the neighborhood. The bodies of three women were discovered within only a few blocks of one another. Their deaths would shine a light on the unknown number of missing and murdered Indigenous women of Robeson County whose homicides have yet to be solved. 

This episode covers the unsolved murders and disappearances of: Michelle Ann Driggers, Lisa Hardin, Lisa Marie Hohman, Lauren Holmes, Marcey Elizabeth Blanks. Rhonda Jones, Christina “Kristin” Bennett, Megan Oxendine, Cynthia Jacobs, Lumbee Tribe, North Carolina

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On November 11th, 2010, in the quaint, lovely town of Apple Valley, Ohio, law enforcement officers entered a family’s residence who had been reported missing.  Inside, officers were met with a bloodbath, but there were no bodies in sight. The investigation would unravel one of the most brutal and bizarre of crimes. Many of the officers involved would forever be traumatized by what they saw.

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On January 6th, 1999, in Port St John, Florida, the body of 29-year-old Sonya Nicole Speights was discovered lying in a blood-drenched tub. Investigators were initially informed that it was the sight of an accidental shooting, but the evidence indicated something far more suspicious. This is the tragic case of brother and sister Catherine and Curtis Jones, who, at the time when these events unfolded, became the youngest convicted murderers in U.S. history.

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When paramedics entered a garage in Studio City, CA, they discovered the body of a woman lying on a pile of blankets. A lit charcoal grill had been knocked to the ground.  What police initially believed to be a tragic accident would unravel a murder mystery so bizarre that it could have been written in Hollywood, and it may have been.

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Disguised under their shared hatred of child predators, a group of men led by the dictatorial direction of an influential older man would embark on the most depraved and twisted of missions. To rid the world of individuals they defined as filth and lacking value, together they would commit some of the most horrifying serial murders the world has ever known. This is the Snowtown Murders of Australia.

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On Friday, October 24th, 2015, at 10:30 am, students gathered inside the cafeteria at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. They casually chatted and ate lunch with their peers like any other normal day. Then, out of nowhere, they stood frozen in horror as they witnessed five of their classmates being shot. They dropped their lunches on the ground, tripped over one another to escape, and screamed in terror as the room filled with smoke and the floors pooled over in blood. Who and why were these innocent teenagers being attacked, and who was the monster that ripped them of their young lives?

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