“This little girl refused to give up”

-What happened on February 20th, 2016 would haunt the citizens of Kalamazoo, Michigan forever. It’s after 10 pm, outside a Cracker Barrel, when 14 year old Abigail Kopf & her friends are getting ready to head home, until an unknown man approaches them with a gun. Earlier in the day, 911 received a call about someone driving a silver Uber, who had attacked 25-year-old mother Tiana Carruthers as she shielded a group of neighbourhood children — now, he's chosen Abbie as his next target. The only hope for justice for the citizens of Kalamazoo, rests on the shoulders of whoever can survive him – and take him down before he hurts anyone else.

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CreditsWritten, edited & directed by Alexandre GendronResearched by Tiffany LoxtonVoiceover by William AkanaProduced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader-

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“How close was he to getting away with murder? Really close.”

In the early hours of April 8th, 2006, Pastor Matt Baker makes a frantic 911 call to Waco police—he's just found his wife, Kari, unresponsive in their bed. As police race to the scene, they also call in Linda Dulin, Kari's mother, to take care of the couple's two young daughters. Though the cops don't see anything suspicious, Linda slowly realizes that Kari's husband, Pastor Matt, in spite of his Baptist faith and proclaimed innocence, hides many sins, including a damning search history, secret phone calls, and a past as a predator. Without Linda, the truth might’ve stayed buried - but the Texas mother is determined to uncover what really happened to her daughter, and get justice for her & her granddaughters.

Credits

Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rice

Researched by Manon Lafosse

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

Sources:

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“Do what I say or I’ll kill you and be gone in the dark”It’s just before 6:30 AM on October 5th, 1976 when young mother Jane Carson is blindfolded and attacked with her 3YO son in the house. She is victim #5.2 months later, 15 YO Kris Pedretti stops playing piano, thinking she heard something in the other room, despite being alone in her house. She is victim #10.A year later, true crime fan Margaret Wardlow studies this serial killer, not knowing that she would become the 27th victim of the man she had read so much about.He's been known under many different names: the Visalia ransacker, the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker or the Golden State Killer, but 44 years later, 200 witnesses stand in front of him to make sure justice is served.

“If anyone can survive him, it’s her”--August 10th 2000 is a big day for 8 year old Midsi Sanchez as it’s her birthday party that afternoon, so she decides to walk home alone instead of waiting for her siblings like usual. Only one block away from her house, a man gets out of his car nearby and asks her to help him pick up something, and as she reaches down, the little girl suddenly vanishes from Vallejo. 3 days go by, until Midsi gathers her strength to escape one of California’s most dangerous serial killers.

“Where should I bury a body?”

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On June 28, 2007, single mom Paige Birgfeld goes on a date with her high school sweetheart, but when she doesn’t return home that night, her father, Frank, drops everything to find her, launching a massive search across Grand Junction, Colorado. 3 days later, investigators find Paige’s car on fire in an abandoned parking lot, but the missing mom is still nowhere to be found. However, investigators uncover something sinister in the ashes: a double life Paige had kept secret for years, and as things come to light, many suspects emerge, but Frank refuses to give up, even when everyone else does. What he uncovers will haunt the small town, revealing a terrifying killer hidden in plain sight, and set the stage for long-awaited justice.---CreditsWritten, directed & edited by Alexandre GendronResearch by Bianca Yzabelle TanVoiceover by William AkanaProduced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader---SourcesGetty Images48 Hours: The Secret Life of Paige Birgfeld, CBS Interactive, 2017. 20/20: If I Can’t Have You, ABC, ABC Entertainment, 2021.Mom with secret double life as escort murdered, True Crime News, Telepictures Productions, 2024.Dateline: Double Lives, NBC, NBCUniversal Media, 2017. The Killer in My Family: Lester Jones, Woodcut Media, 2023.World's Most Evil Killers: Lester Jones, Woodcut Media, 2023.Disappeared: A Mother's Secret, Investigation Discovery, Discovery Communications, 2010. Activists for Sex Workers’ rights protest the killing of one of them, KTN News Kenya, Kenya Television Network, 2014.Former St. Louis resident looking for justice in mother's cold case, other sex worker crimes, KMOV St. Louis, 2021.This women's month has seen rise in murders of sex workers, SABC News, 2014.Jules Kim: "Sex workers' rights are human rights", UNAIDS Official, 2024.Court dismisses sex workers’ law challenge, CTV Your Morning, 2023. Sex work decriminalization efforts leave workers, advocates and survivors divided, NBC News, 2023.

"He used bleach to do what?"

July 4th 2011, arriving on the scene of a burned down house, the Fort Collins Colorado police are shocked by what they are seeing: the fire is so hot that all of the metal handles are melted down but even so, a strong smell of bleach remains. The Bleach Monster has reappeared, but this time, she survived: Lydia Tillman jumped from the second floor and is now in a coma, but nobody expected her to be the one who would solve the case, and find the one responsible for the unsolved murder of Kenia Monge.Learn more about Kenia's foundation: https://keniamonge.wordpress.com/

“I was thinking, is this how I’m gonna die?”

On the night of November 2nd, 2014, security cameras capture a disturbing sequence of events after 22 year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither misses her bus following a birthday party in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A strange man approaches, asking for directions– but what Carlesha doesn’t know is that this man, Delvin Barnes, is a dangerous kidnapper, rapist and killer from Virginia evading police. However, Carlesha is far smarter than Delvin anticipated, and as he continues his crimes on the run and now with her as hostage, from Germantown to Jessup, Maryland, she will leave a trail of clues for the cops to be able to finally put an end to his reign of terror.

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Credits:

Directed, written and edited by Justin Chalifoux

Researched by Tiffany Loxton

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

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Sources:

See No Evil - Captured on Camera (Investigation Discovery)

Caught on Camera: The Untold Stories (Discovery Plus)

Finding Carlesha (NBC 10)Crimes Gone Viral (Lion Television)

Abducted off the Street: The Carlesha Gaither Story (Lifetime)

ABC-7CBS Philadelphia

NBC 10 Philadelphia

WBAL TV-11 Baltimore

28/22 News

Dwayne Fletcher (Instagram)

Top 4 Wildest High-Speed Police Chases with Suspects on the Run.mp4 (Law & Crime Network)

Philadelphia Police Department

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“My grandparents were lying in bed, melted”

At 9:15AM on March 23, 2007, a 4-year-old arrives at his church daycare alone, wearing his pajamas and out of breath. Following his next words, his teacher immediately calls 911. Something terrible has just happened in the rural community of Bradford, and Dameon Huffman, the 4-year-old boy, is the only witness to the horrors.Little do police know that what little Dameon saw was actually one of the most twisted cases of home invasion gone wrong that the state of Ohio has ever known.

Credits

Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rice

Researched by Manon Lafosse

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

Sources:

“The Green Monster”, American Monster, Discovery+, 2017 (Arrow Media)“

A Dragon in the Farmhouse”, In Ice Cold Blood, Oxygen Network, 2021. (Asylum Entertainment & Final Level Entertainment)

“The Green Dragon”, On the Case with Paula Zahn: Discovery+, 2014. (Investigation Discovery & Scott Sternberg Productions, Inc.)

“The Green Dragon”, Solved: Investigation Discovery, 2009 (Digital Ranch)

“In the Bag”, Forensic Files: Film Rise & Tru TV, 2008, (Medstar Television)

“Greg Must Choose Life In Prison or Death”, Red Tree Stories: Youtube, 2023 (Youtube)

“I may be 5ft1 and blonde, but I’m a barracuda”

At 1:13 AM on the morning of October 5th, 2005, Christie Wilson is captured on a casino parking lot CCTV, walking next to a mysterious figure. The rotating camera takes 3 minutes and 40 seconds to complete its next turn, but in those minutes something terrible happens hidden in the dark, and Christie disappears. It's up to her parents, Debbie and Pat Boyd, to bring their daughter home, and do whatever it takes to catch this dangerous man, and finally put an end to his killing spree.

Credits

Directed, written & edited by Alexandre Gendron

Curated by Tanvi Rajvanshi

Researched by Manon Lafosse

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

"When you cross the line, you pay for it"

Brook Weber is just 18 years old in August of 1996 when she and her boyfriend Jeffrey Wolfe find themselves in the most disturbing home in all of Mississippi. Gary Carl Simmons, a local butcher in Moss Pointe, has been waiting for someone like Brook to fall into his clutches after his ex-wife Lori Simmons fled with their children in fear of her life. In fact, Gary has a perfect human-sized box hidden in his house, waiting to make his fantasies come to life. Little does Gary know that the Butcher’s Box is no match for Brook, and with a little luck and a lot of skill, not only will she escape, but she’ll make him pay for his crimes.

Credits

Directed, written, & edited by Justin Chalifoux

Curated by Tianyi Zhang

Research by Tiffany Loxton

Voiceover by William Akana

Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader

Sources

Shattered: The Box (Red Marble Media)

Evil Lives Here: Butcher and the Box (Red Marble Media)

The Horrific Crimes of Gary Simmons (Vocal Media)