In the summer of 1984, beautiful 15-year-old California high school cheerleader Kirsten Costas is murdered on the street where she lives by a mysterious, knife-wielding assailant – a killer who appears to be another teenage girl!

 

Why would anyone murder one of the most popular girls at school? How did the killer know when and where to target their prey? And who, among all the girls in town, could be the shadowy killer that murdered young Kirsten?

 

It’s a terrifying, heartbreaking high school murder mystery... And now, on a brand-new episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, hear the whole shocking story, including details of the bizarre confession that closed the case and shocked the sunny suburb of Orinda. 

ALSO – An argument in an alley between two women in Iowa leads to a deadly stabbing before the killer flees in a silver Cadillac – but why??? And down in Miami, a young woman is dead and so far, police don’t have any answers.

Real-life murder, mayhem and mystery on America’s favorite new True Crime podcast – THIS WEEK IN MURDER.

In the summer of 1970 and in the shadow of the Manson murders, a two-day Southern California crime spree leads to the horrific killing of two young Innocents. Jerry Carlin was about to be a dad. Florence Brown was a beautiful young mother and a teacher for children with special needs. Neither deserved their terrible fate at the hands of the deranged killers known as THE SONS OF SATAN.

 

A shocking story that’s been buried by the sands of time, the murders of the madman Steven Craig Hurd and his bloodthirsty followers offer a harrowing peek into the tragic descent of 1960s counterculture into an ORGY of drug fueled mayhem. Jerry and Flo had their lives snuffed out for little more than cheap thrills and a couple of bucks. Now, hear the sickening details of the whole sordid story.

 

PLUS – Two more BIZARRE tales! A young housewife storms out of the house in the middle of a fight, climbs into the car of a passing motorist and is never seen again! Then, a tragic story out of Florida about a missing child, whose mother has a terrifying story for the cops that… keeps… on… changing.

 

All this and more on America’s Favorite New True Crime Podcast – THIS WEEK IN MURDER! 

Just a small-town girl from Oregon, Illinois, Angela Crowley dreamed of escaping the midwest for the beaches and luxury of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. How was she to know that just four months into her Sunshine State adventure, a deranged killer would turn her dreams into a nightmare?

Strangled on a riverbank with her own gym pants around her neck, Angie’s Memorial Day Weekend murder almost went unsolved. Now, on a brand-new episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, hear the whole shocking story, including details of the bizarre confession that ended any mystery as to who killed the former cheerleader.

ALSO – TWO MORE INCREDIBLE STORIES about justice delayed, but not denied. And what is Justice anyway? A child molester gets taken out by an unlikely avenger in Omaha, Nebraska; while a pair of haunting cold cases in Virginia and Michigan are tied together by the same finger of blame.

Real-life murder, mayhem and mystery on America’s favorite new True Crime podcast – THIS WEEK IN MURDER.

Just a 14-year-old kid in Louisville, Kentucky, never hurt a soul… KILLED WITH A LOUISVILLE SLUGGER. One big swing to the head, that’s all it took. It’s a terrible, tragic murder that never had to happen – and to this day the killers can’t get their story straight! Was this homicide the work of a father & son tag-team, or did one man's guilt drive him to take the blame for the sins of his progeny? It's a modern murder mystery that screams to be unpacked.

If that’s not enough, this week’s INCREDIBLE NEW EPISODE features two new stories RIPPED from the headlines: A CORONAVIRUS MURDER in the Sunshine State – Did she die from the Rona, or was her ESTRANGED husband to blame?

Also – AMERICA’S NEWEST SERIAL KILLER DISCOVERED! Though his crimes were committed almost thirty years ago, today’s science proves his guilt only NOW! In the early 1990s, America’s interstate highways were a DEATHTRAP for young women -- THIS monster is one of the many reasons why!

GRETCHEN ANTHONY, JUPITER, FLORIDA, 2020

PAMELA MCCALL, SPRING HILL, TENNESSEE, 1991

BITTER CREEK BETTY, BITTER CREEK, WYOMING, 1992

I-90 JANE DOE, WYOMING, 1992

TERRENCE ZWICKER, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, 2011 

On April 7, 1986, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis, 19-year-old Trisha Meredith brings a basket full of dirty clothes to her apartment building’s laundry room. 

 

But, when her boyfriend comes to find her thirty minutes later, Trisha is dead – stuffed into a supply closet with 23 stab wounds; her throat slashed.

 

 Despite multiple suspects, to this day, the crime remains unsolved.

 

Now, on a TERRIFYING NEW episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER… Who are the suspects in this real-life murder mystery? Why have no arrests been made in the case? And what will it take for the Indianapolis police to find Trisha’s killer? 

 

Featuring an interview with the ORIGINAL LEAD DETECTIVE  on the case and a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR who has spent almost a decade investigating the murder, this UNSOLVED MYSTERY caps one of the most fascinating, most frightening, most incredible episodes of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, yet.

William “Junior” Pierce is America’s most forgotten serial killer. Convicted in the early 1970s of killing nine men and women in an eight-month long killing spree through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, Pierce was sentenced to 880 years in prison.

 

We first met Pierce in episode #6, when we investigated the rape and murder of 13-year-old Peg Cuttino – a crime that Pierce was convicted of. What we learned, was that Pierce was a petty criminal who was tortured into confessing to a crime that he likely did not commit.

 

Now, for an even closer look at the facts behind this incredible southern gothic murder mystery, Sean interviews Kenneth Young Jr., a Sumter County lawyer who tried three times – in the ‘70s, the ‘80s and the ‘90s – to prove that Pierce was innocent of the crime.

Is it possible that America’s Most Forgotten Serial Killer never killed at all? How many murders went unsolved in the haste to convict an innocent man? And how does maniacal serial killer Pee Wee Gaskins fit into this story?

The week before Christmas, in 1971, thirteen-year-old Peg Cuttino was kidnapped and murdered in rural Sumter County, South Carolina. Her murder would go unsolved, for months, until the arrest of a serial killer, responsible for the deaths of eight other men and women during a seven-month killing spree.

On a brand new, very special episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, we investigate the tragic deaths of Peg Cuttino and every other victim of the man we've dubbed America's Most Forgotten Serial Killer.

This week -- three stories, three murders, three bizarre mysteries…

 

A tourist from Florida, celebrating her birthday in Costa Rica never makes it home. Did her killer have help? And had he killed before, perhaps just weeks earlier?

 

A college professor cancels class, after summoning the police to her condo. What did she do – and why did she do it?

 

The body of a young woman is found floating beneath a bridge in Florida, in February 1971. Who is she? Who killed her? And what can be done today to finally bring her killer to justice?

 

We start this week with two grisly and disturbing stories that will make you wonder if love is truly dead.

Then, we step back in time to 1999, when the Yosemite Park Killer murdered two women and two teenage girls in the middle of one of America's most beloved national parks.

We also talk to FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Rinek, the man who cuffed and then cajoled a confession out of the notorious serial killer. Rinek shares his memories and insights about the case and tells us about his book, IN THE NAME OF THE CHILDREN: AN FBI AGENT'S RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THE NATION'S WORST PREDATORS.

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Our second episode! Two brutal stories plucked from the headlines and a deep dive on a 56-year-old murder mystery... Did Rena Paquette kill herself by lighting her own body on fire in her barn -- or did the Manchester, New Hampshire police let her killer escape town to protect the reputation of the state's Attorney General?

Guests include former Manchester Police Chief Louie Craig and author Richard Baron

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