You're Killing Me

At Taylor Parker's gender reveal party, something wasn't right. The bump didn't look right. The dates on Facebook didn't add up. The ultrasound she'd posted at twelve weeks showed a foetus that looked nothing like twelve weeks. Guests caught each other's eyes across the yard. A medical professional couldn't stop staring. Afterwards, calls were made. Texts were sent to local hospitals. Warnings were issued.

Nobody could have predicted what was coming next.

On October 9, 2020, in New Boston, Texas — a small town near the Arkansas border where everyone knows your business and you've all sat in the same church pews — Taylor Parker murdered 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who was 34 weeks pregnant. Then she cut Reagan's baby from her womb and drove away.

This episode traces everything that came before: the years of faked illnesses, fabricated pregnancies, and a pattern of deception so elaborate and sustained it defies easy explanation. It also tells you who Reagan was — a young mother with a toddler, a life, and people who loved her.

This is one of the most disturbing cases we've ever covered. Not because of the violence alone — but because of everything that led to it.

⚠️ Content warning: murder, foetal abduction, graphic violence, factitious disorder, infant death.

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It's mid-July 2011 in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Sixty teenagers are packed into a house on Grandeur Avenue — red solo cups, warm beer, music thumping through the walls. The host is 17-year-old Tyler Hadley, and the party is everything he always wanted.

His parents, Blake and Mary Jo Hadley, are in the master bedroom down the hall. Behind the locked door, underneath a pile of blood-soaked towels, is why they aren't coming out.

Tyler had killed them both with a framing hammer hours earlier. Then he cleaned up, hid the bodies, and sent out the invites.

Shawnee traces the story from the beginning: the suburb that promised more than it delivered, Tyler's diagnosis with Major Depressive Disorder, a cocktail of benzos, opioids and MDMA, a family trying to hold itself together, and the psychology of a teenager who felt, as he once put it, a step below everyone else.

This is not a story about a monster. It's about how someone gets there — and what everyone around him missed.

⚠️ Content warning: murder of parents, drug use, teen violence, graphic crime scene detail.

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Israel Keyes agreed to talk to the FBI. He just didn't agree to tell them everything.

After his arrest in 2012 for the abduction and murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Alaska, Keyes entered into a deal with investigators: he would confess — but on his terms, in his own time, with details released only as he chose. Over months of FBI interviews, he described murders stretching from Vermont to Texas to the Pacific Northwest, including the 2011 killing of Bill and Lorraine Currier in a house he'd never been to before that night.

Then, on December 2, 2012, he was found dead in his cell. He had taken everything else with him.

The FBI believes Keyes killed at least eleven people across at least ten states over more than a decade. Most of those victims have never been identified. His murder kits — buried in remote locations years in advance — may still be out there.

Part Two covers the Samantha Koenig case, the FBI interrogation tapes, the Currier murders, what Keyes did and didn't confess to, and why this remains one of the most haunting open investigations in modern American true crime.

⚠️ Content warning: murder, kidnapping, sexual violence.

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Israel Keyes agreed to talk to the FBI. He just didn't agree to tell them everything.

After his arrest in 2012 for the abduction and murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Alaska, Keyes entered into a deal with investigators: he would confess — but on his terms, in his own time, with details released only as he chose. Over months of FBI interviews, he described murders stretching from Vermont to Texas to the Pacific Northwest, including the 2011 killing of Bill and Lorraine Currier in a house he'd never been to before that night.

Then, on December 2, 2012, he was found dead in his cell. He had taken everything else with him.

The FBI believes Keyes killed at least eleven people across at least ten states over more than a decade. Most of those victims have never been identified. His murder kits — buried in remote locations years in advance — may still be out there.

Part Two covers the Samantha Koenig case, the FBI interrogation tapes, the Currier murders, what Keyes did and didn't confess to, and why this remains one of the most haunting open investigations in modern American true crime.

⚠️ Content warning: murder, kidnapping, sexual violence.

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You're Killing Me — Episode: Israel Keyes, Part One

He buried murder kits across the country years before he needed them. He flew into cities, rented cars under false names, and drove hundreds of miles to kill strangers he'd never met — people with no connection to him, no pattern, no motive anyone could trace. Israel Keyes didn't just commit murders. He engineered them.

In Part One, we cover his early life, the ideology that shaped him, the years of meticulous planning, and the crimes that unfolded across the United States before anyone even knew there was a serial killer to look for.

This is one of the most calculated killers in modern American history — and somehow, most people have never heard of him.

Content warning: murder, kidnapping, sexual violence, child abuse, extremist ideology.

Five police officers are clearing a flat in Batley Carr, West Yorkshire. They've already searched 1,800 properties. This is just another one.

Then Detective Constable Nick Townsend crouches beside a divan bed and hears a small voice coming from inside it. A nine-year-old girl wriggles out of a hidden slot in the base. Tear-streaked. Terrified. Blinking.

She says: "I'm Shannon."

Shannon Matthews had been missing for 24 days. The search had gripped the UK. A community of working-class women on a Dewsbury council estate had organised themselves into one of the most extraordinary missing-child campaigns the country had ever seen — fundraisers, search parties, TV appearances, tears.

And then Shannon told the officer one more thing. He's under the bed. The man. He's where I was.

What followed would freeze the room, break the community, and become one of the most shocking betrayals in modern British true crime.

This week on You're Killing Me, Shawnee covers the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews — the case that asked who we extend sympathy to, who we believe, and what happens when the person who should protect you is the one who put you in danger.

Topics: Shannon Matthews | UK true crime | Dewsbury | missing child | Karen Matthews | Michael Donovan | West Yorkshire | British true crime | working class | YKM

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In 2006, the quiet city of Medicine Hat, Alberta became the centre of one of Canada’s most horrifying family murders.

Twelve-year-old Jasmine Richardson and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Jeremy Steinke, were accused of brutally murdering Jasmine’s mother, father, and eight-year-old brother inside their family home — a crime so shocking it immediately made international headlines.

What began as an online relationship built around dark fantasies, vampire culture, and teenage rebellion quickly spiralled into obsession, isolation, and violence. Investigators uncovered disturbing messages between the pair discussing murder, running away together, and a belief that they were destined to be together no matter who stood in the way.

In this episode, we break down the full case: Jasmine’s upbringing, her relationship with Jeremy, the warning signs missed by the adults around them, the night of the murders, the police investigation, interrogation details, and the trial that followed.

We also explore the psychological manipulation, online influence, and emotional vulnerability that turned a deeply unhealthy relationship into one of the most disturbing crimes in Canadian history.

This episode contains discussions of child victims, graphic violence, and family homicide.

On May 31st, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times — all to prove their loyalty to a fictional internet character known as Slenderman.

This is the story behind one of the most disturbing cases in modern true crime.

We follow Payton Leutner — the girl who survived — and the two friends who believed they had no choice but to kill her. From the rise of creepypasta and the Slenderman myth, to the months of planning, the attack itself, and the chilling police interrogations where both girls calmly explained why they did it.

We also examine the evidence uncovered during the investigation, including disturbing drawings, search histories, and the belief system that turned fiction into something dangerously real.

Then, we break down the trial — and the mental health diagnoses that changed everything.

This episode contains discussions of attempted murder, childhood mental illness, and graphic violence.

In 2001, British backpackers Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees were traveling through the Australian outback when they were flagged down by a stranger on a remote highway. What happened next became one of Australia's most infamous unsolved mysteries. Peter was shot and killed—his body never found. Joanne escaped and hid in the desert for five hours while a killer hunted her with a torch and a dog. This case inspired the horror film Wolf Creek and led to Australia's "no body, no parole" law. Join us as we uncover the terrifying true story of Bradley Murdoch, the DNA evidence that convicted him, and the secret he took to his grave.

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In February 2021, a 19-year-old named Brian Cohee drove his car into the Colorado River — with a murdered man's remains in the boot. The next morning, his mother Terri went to clean his room and found something she will never unsee.

This is the true crime story of Warren Barnes — Grand Junction, Colorado's beloved "Reading Man" — and the teenager who spent six months planning his murder, believing nobody would notice Warren was gone. He was catastrophically wrong.

In this episode: a driveway confession caught on bodycam, a nearly two-hour police interrogation where Brian was eager to talk, a jury trial centred on an insanity plea, and a community that proved — within one business day — exactly how wrong Brian Cohee's calculations were.

Warren Barnes was 69 years old. Unhoused. Known by everyone on his block. He finished a book every single day, showed up at the Shell station before 5:30am every morning, and greeted everyone who passed him the same way: "And you also."

His story deserves to be told right.

Watch the body cam of this footage on the Explore with Us Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvrp87VXtD4

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