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A father leaves Manson-style messages after killing his family—and a new mom vanishes with her baby, leading investigators to a shocking betrayal by her best friend. In the first case, a Massachusetts father drugs his children, kills them at a remote pond, and bludgeons his wife to death in their bed. He calls the school to say his children won't be in class. He tells police intruders did it. He leaves messages echoing Manson's race-war rhetoric. In the second, Heidi Broussard disappears two weeks after giving birth. A frantic search ends with a body in a car trunk and a suspect no one saw coming. These are true stories of family annihilation and betrayal. Listen if you dare.

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A 15-year-old boy strangled his mother for 30 minutes after an argument over a D grade. Then he used a wheelbarrow to load her body into the family van, drove to a church, and buried her beneath a fire pit. Hours later, he called 911 to report a burglary and his mother missing, giving what he later bragged was an "award-winning performance" to the dispatcher.
Gregory Ramos recruited two friends to help stage the crime scene and dispose of the evidence. Police grew suspicious when they noticed scratches on his face. Under questioning, he confessed to the murder, the staged burglary, and the burial. He told detectives he dreamed of becoming a homicide detective one day.
The Volusia County Sheriff called him one of the "top three sociopaths" he had ever encountered. In 2020, Ramos pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Listen if you dare.

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A former Stoughton police officer is accused of strangling a 23-year-old woman and staging her death to look like a suicide. Sandra Birchmore was found dead in her Canton apartment in February 2021 with a duffel bag strap around her neck. Her death was quickly ruled a suicide within an hour, before any DNA was collected and before surveillance footage was reviewed. But her family refused to accept it.
Three years later, federal prosecutors charged Matthew Farwell with killing Birchmore and her unborn child. They say he groomed her through a police youth program starting when she was 15, carried on a secret sexual relationship for years, and killed her when she threatened to tell his wife about the pregnancy. The medical examiner has since changed the manner of death from suicide to "undetermined." Farwell's DNA was found on the strap. His trial begins in October. He has pleaded not guilty.

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A 17-year-old girl vanishes after a trip to a gas station in Lovingston, Virginia. Surveillance footage shows her talking to a handyman named Randy Taylor. When investigators search his camper, they find the evidence that seals his fate: her diamond earring, a torn fingernail, and strands of her hair—all bearing her DNA. They also find her blood on a T-shirt stuffed under his couch. For seven years, her family waits for her body. In 2020, her remains are finally found along Route 29, just miles from where she was last seen. Randy Taylor is convicted of abduction and first-degree murder. He receives two life sentences. Listen if you dare.

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Two cases where obsession and desperation turned deadly. In Tennessee, a TikTok star's death is ruled a suicide—but her mother refuses to accept it. April Holt, 29, was found with a plastic bag duct-taped around her neck. Her mother, Jamie Dickerson, launched her own investigation, uncovering a 47-page police report with two fingerprint hits on the tape roll. She confronted her son-in-law with the evidence. He confessed to strangling April and staging it as a suicide to cover his tracks.
In California, a community theater actor kills to fund his wedding. Daniel Wozniak was deep in debt and days away from his honeymoon when he shot his neighbor, Army veteran Sam Herr, and dismembered his body to steal $50,000 in savings. He then lured Sam's friend, Julie Kibuishi, to the apartment and killed her to frame Sam for the murder. Wozniak performed in a musical the same night he killed Herr. He was convicted of double murder. Listen if you dare.

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A Fort Campbell soldier is dead, stabbed 68 times in her own home. Two people are charged: her husband and another woman. But the trial just ended in a mistrial. Prosecutors say Sofia Rodas, 37, stabbed 23-year-old Pfc. Katia Dueñas-Aguilar in a jealous rage. Defense attorneys point to a lack of DNA evidence linking their clients to the crime scene. As the case heads toward a new trial, one question remains: who killed Katia Dueñas-Aguilar, and why? Listen if you dare.

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A Florida mother shot her husband in the back of the head, buried him under a fire pit in the backyard, and then spent years pretending to be him on Facebook so no one would ask questions. She told friends he had abandoned the family and moved away. She remarried less than a year later. When police finally found Michael Shaver's body in 2018, Laurie Shaver had one final lie to tell: her 7-year-old daughter did it. The girl, then 15, testified in her mother's defense, claiming she shot her father to protect her mother from abuse. The jury didn't believe her. Laurie Shaver was sentenced to life in prison. Listen if you dare.

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John Michael "Mike" Crites wanted to live off the grid in the mountains outside Helena, Montana. He built a home without running water or electricity, surrounded by his beloved wolf dogs, and believed he had found peace. Then a dispute over a dirt road changed everything.
In June 2011, Mike vanished. Four months later, his dismembered remains were found in plastic bags near MacDonald Pass. His skull was discovered separately a year later. An autopsy revealed he had been shot twice in the head.
The investigation dragged on for nine years before prosecutors charged his neighbor, Leon Ford, with deliberate homicide. The trial ended in a mistrial in 2023. In 2024, prosecutors dropped all charges, leaving Mike's family without justice and a killer still walking free. This is the story of a turf war that turned deadly—and the murder that remains unsolved.

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A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled war to find safety in America was stabbed to death on a Charlotte light rail train by a stranger. The attack was captured on surveillance video, sparking national outrage and a wrongful death lawsuit against the city for failing to provide adequate security. She boarded the train to go home. She never made it off alive.

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Fabio Sementilli was a beloved hairstylist to Hollywood's biggest names and a mentor to thousands in the beauty industry. On January 23, 2017, his teenage daughter found him stabbed and beaten next to the swimming pool of their Los Angeles home. At first, investigators suspected a robbery gone wrong. But Fabio's Rolex was still on his wrist, and the only thing missing was his Porsche.
What detectives uncovered was a conspiracy built on an 18-month affair between Fabio's wife, Monica Sementilli, and her racquetball instructor, Robert Baker. Prosecutors say Monica shared her home security password, left a door unlocked, and fed Baker the details he needed to carry out the murder. Baker was captured on camera jogging toward the house with an accomplice, then fleeing in Fabio's stolen Porsche.
Baker pleaded no contest to murder and is serving life without parole. In April 2025, Monica Sementilli was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Fabio's daughters—including the one who found his body—had supported their stepmother throughout the trial. In a separate and still-unsolved case, Mary Morgan Pewitt's two daughters came home from a sleepover and found their mother stabbed to death on her bed. They are still searching for answers. Listen if you dare.