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January 07 Down-Low and Dangerous: The Detroit House Party Massacre
In the Spring of 2019 a group of 20-somethings spent their weekends partying at friend's house in east Detroit. On one of these nights the unthinkable happened. Jokes and dancing turned into terror when a man in a mask burst through the door, armed with a gun, and began firing. The attack left three friends dead and the remaining two witnesses wounded.

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32 min
January 06 He Wanted Another Woman For His Birthday: The Strange Case of Cain & Claire Wilkens
On a cold winter night in January 2018, a birthday party at an apartment complex in Denver Colorado turned deadly. Within minutes of the last guest leaving, a shot was fired - and a young wife and mother lost her life. From the apartment emerged the distraught husband, his pleas making clear what had happened: he was not to blame. He would never harm his wife

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38 min
January 05 From Harassment to Homicide: Tracing a Stalker's Digital Footprint
In the winter of 2023, the silence from a Broomfield, Colorado mother was more ominous than anyone knew. When police performed a welfare check, they discovered a tragedy that had been months in the making. For Kristil, a 43-year-old mother, a relentless cyber-stalker had turned her digital life into a living nightmare of threats and harassment. It was only after her death that investigators could finally piece together the sinister puzzle, using digital forensics to trace the threatening messages back to their source. This is the story of a modern-day investigation, where detectives had to follow a trail of digital breadcrumbs to unmask the person hiding behind the screen and answer the ultimate question: who was the stalker, and how close were they to their victim all along?

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46 min
January 04 Two Children Died and She Made Excuses: The Swan Boat Club Murders
On a spring afternoon in 2024, an unimaginable tragedy rocked the town of Newport, Michigan. Two children were killed and over a dozen more injured. Mixed with the community’s grief was outrage towards the woman responsible.

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39 min
January 03 An Innocent Breath: The Ketamine, the Carotid, and a Broken System
On a summer night in 2019, Elijah McClain was walking home, his only crime being a young Black man in a ski mask on a cool evening. A "suspicious person" call led to a violent police encounter in Aurora, Colorado, that ended with the 23-year-old massage therapist being rendered unconscious by a carotid hold. Paramedics then administered a powerful sedative, ketamine. He never woke up. This is the story of a life cut tragically short—a gentle, violin-playing soul who harmed no one. The investigation delves into the catastrophic chain of events, the initial lack of accountability, and the global outcry that turned Elijah's name into a rallying cry for justice and police reform, forcing a re-examination of use-of-force and medical procedures during arrests.

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37 min
January 02 The Strangest Case You Have Never Heard: The Murder of Mindi Kassotis
Over the period of five days in December 2022, the body parts of a woman were discovered scattered across a three mile radius within vast logging and hunting grounds in Southeast Georgia. It would take law enforcement nearly 6 months to identify their victim.

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54 min
January 01 Husband Poisons Wife, Then Targets Detective Who Caught Him: The Murder of Angela Craig
In March 2023, 44 year-old mother of six, Angela Craig, died of unknown causes in hospital after battling a mysterious illness for almost two weeks. While answers seemed elusive when she lived, they would reveal themselves with shocking speed upon her death. A single suspicion to investigators unraveled a dark plan; elaborate stories, deceit, affairs … and further murder plots.

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42 min
December 31, 2025 The Racist Sniper: Hunting a Lone Wolf Terrorist Across America
For years, a wave of seemingly random sniper attacks and bombings terrorized communities across America, from the Midwest to the South. The victims—targeted for their race or simply for being in the wrong place—appeared unconnected. This is the story of the monumental FBI task force that worked to connect these dots, revealing the horrifying pattern of a lone wolf terrorist: Joseph Paul Franklin. A self-proclaimed white supremacist, Franklin embarked on a solo campaign of murder to start a race war. Unravel the investigation alongside the Bureau's greatest law enforcers and forensic scientists as they use ballistic fingerprinting, eyewitness accounts, and psychological profiling to build an unassailable case against one of the most ideologically driven and mobile serial killers in modern history.

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50 min
December 30, 2025 The Poet and the Prostitutes: An International Hunt for a Celebrity Serial Killer
He was a celebrated poet, a darling of the Viennese intellectual elite, and a man who had been famously rehabilitated after a murder conviction. But Jack Unterweger was hiding a monstrous secret. Following his release, a series of murders began—first in Austria, then in Los Angeles. This is the story of the unprecedented international investigation that unfolded as the FBI and Austrian Federal Police joined forces, suspecting the unthinkable: their celebrated literary figure was a prolific, transatlantic serial killer. Unravel the mystery alongside the world's greatest law enforcers and forensic scientists as they work to pierce Unterweger's charming facade, using behavioral analysis and trace evidence to connect crimes across the globe and prove that a monster was hiding in plain sight.

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50 min
December 29, 2025 Blood on the Boulevard: The Investigation Behind the FBI's Deadliest Shootout
What began as a routine investigation into a string of violent armed robberies culminated in a horrific daylight shootout on the streets of Miami, leaving two special agents dead and five wounded. This is the story of the hunt for the cold-blooded and heavily armed perpetrators, Michael Lee Platt and William Russell Matix. Unravel the investigation alongside the FBI's greatest law enforcers and forensic scientists as they piece together the pair's violent crime spree, a pursuit that would end in a devastating six-minute firefight. The tragic outcome forced a nationwide reckoning, leading to the adoption of more powerful firearms, improved body armor, and radical changes in tactical training for every agent in the field.

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50 min

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True Crime is a compelling podcast dedicated to unraveling the mysteries, motives, and mayhem behind the world’s most fascinating and chilling real-life cases. With a deep dive into crimes that have…