True Crime

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True Crime episodes

  • The Murder of Laura Wallen – A Promising Life Cut Short by Betrayal
    In September 2017, Laura Wallen, a beloved 31-year-old social studies teacher at Wilde Lake High School in Maryland, failed to show up for the first day of school. Colleagues grew worried—Laura had already decorated her classroom and was thrilled for the new year. But when police traced her last steps, they uncovered a sinister secret: Laura was four months pregnant… and the father was her ex-boyfriend, Tyler Tessier, who’d been lying to her about their future together.

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    34 min
  • The Chilling 911 Call That Exposed a Grandmother’s Murderous Rage
    She baked cookies, knitted sweaters, and seemed like the picture of a doting grandmother—until the night Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie" Black picked up a gun and executed her own 19-year-old grandson, Brandon Black, in cold blood. The entire attack was captured on a harrowing 911 call, with Brandon’s final screams and Maggie’s eerily calm voice begging the question: *How could a 74-year-old woman snap so violently?*

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    40 min
  • The Daring Prison Break That Unleashed a Predator – And the Statewide Terror That Followed
    In a scene ripped from a Hollywood thriller, a convicted killer defies gravity—and justice—by scaling a prison wall like a spider, vanishing into the night. This wasn’t fiction: it was June 6, 2023, when Danelo Cavalcante, a Brazilian fugitive serving life for brutally stabbing his ex-girlfriend, escaped from Chester County Prison in Pennsylvania. His method? A "crab-walk" technique—pressing his hands and feet against two walls to shimmy up a 15-foot alleyway, then sprinting across razor wire.

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    33 min
  • The Murder of Amie Harwick – A Stalker’s Decade-Long Obsession Ends in Brutal Violence
    On the night of February 15, 2020, sex therapist and feminist author Amie Harwick laughed and mingled at a Hollywood party, captured on camera in what would be her final public moments. Just hours later, she was dead—beaten, strangled, and thrown from her balcony by an ex-boyfriend who’d lurked in the shadows of her life for ten terrifying years.

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    34 min
  • Top 10 Most Disturbing Stories Of The Year
    This is a mix of our absolute best cases, we have produced so far! We can’t thank you all enough for being with us on this wild ride.


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    verb: وضع في صندوق, غطى بغطاء, راقب, مجموعة





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    5 hr 31 min
  • The Sydney Powell Case – Psychosis or Premeditation? A Murder That Split a Community
    On a quiet March evening in 2020, 19-year-old Sydney Powell called 911, screaming that an intruder had stabbed her mother, 43-year-old Hollywood Powell, inside their upscale Georgia home. But when police arrived, the scene felt off. The "break-in" looked staged—no forced entry, a knife oddly placed, and Sydney’s changing story. Then came the bombshell: Sydney’s own hands wielded the blade. But why?

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    39 min
  • A Mother’s Desperate Plea: The Tragic Failure to Protect Lauren McCluskey
    In October 2018, Lauren McCluskey, a 21-year-old track star at the University of Utah, was being hunted by a man she’d briefly dated—37-year-old Melvin Rowland, a registered sex offender with a fake identity and a violent past. Terrified, Lauren and her mother, Jill McCluskey, made repeated pleas for help—including a desperate call to a 911 center 600 miles away in Washington state, hoping to bypass local delays. But the system failed her at every turn.

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    35 min
  • The Handyman’s Hidden Horror: The Chilling Case of Katie Kenyon
    When Katie Kenyon, a vibrant 33-year-old mother of two, vanished in April 2022 after a camping trip with her on-again, off-again lover, Andrew Burfield, police initially dismissed him as just a "local handyman" with a shaky alibi. But as detectives peeled back the layers of his life, they uncovered a monster hiding in plain sight—a serial manipulator with a history of violence against women, whose calculated lies masked a murderous obsession.

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    35 min
  • Vanished on Mother’s Day: The Mysterious Disappearance of Suzanne Morphew
    On May 10, 2020, Suzanne Morphew, a beloved 49-year-old mother and wife, vanished without a trace from her idyllic Colorado home. When her daughters couldn’t reach her on Mother’s Day, panic set in. A search party scoured Chaffee County’s rugged terrain, finding only her blue mountain bike discarded down a steep ravine—but no body, no blood, and no clear answers.

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    48 min
  • The Panic in His Voice: Ryan Lamb’s 911 Call and the Mystery of a Partner’s Death – Grief or Guilt?
    On August 5, 2018, Ryan Cody Lamb’s frantic 911 call echoed through the Kalispell, Montana, police dispatch: “My partner’s dead! I just got home—I don’t know what happened!” Officers rushed to the scene, finding Lamb hyperventilating over his partner’s lifeless body. But something felt off. Why were there no signs of forced entry? Why did Lamb’s story keep shifting? And why did forensics find defensive wounds on the victim?

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    53 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…

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