UNSOLVED MURDERS

For decades, investigators leaned on a simple framework to read crime scenes — organized killers who plan and control, disorganized killers who act on impulse and leave chaos. This episode traces how that model shaped...

When Ricky McCormick’s body was discovered in Missouri in 1999, investigators eventually encountered an extraordinary mystery. Two handwritten notes found in his pockets contained lines of letters, numbers, parentheses...

A killer can wipe away fingerprints, destroy clothing, and clean a crime scene—but escaping nature is considerably harder. Tiny fragments of leaves, seeds, wood, and pollen can connect a suspect to a location long after...

Twenty-five-year-old Shanquella Robinson traveled to Mexico with a group of acquaintances and was dead the following day. An initial account involving alcohol poisoning collided with disturbing video showing Robinson...

A man walked into a desert that promised no history and left one anyway. The knife was still in his neck when they found him. The hospital had sent him back into the dust four hours earlier. A year on, the playa is...

An 84-year-old woman is dropped at her Catalina Foothills door after a family dinner and vanishes before dawn: blood on the porch, a silenced pacemaker, and doorbell video of a masked, armed figure. Investigators call...

On March 31, 1922, six members of the Gruber family and their new maid were brutally murdered with a mattock on their isolated Hinterkaifeck farmstead in Bavaria, Germany.This episode reconstructs the chilling timeline...

Was Gareth Williams a victim of his own private life, or a targeted hit by a foreign intelligence agency? This episode navigates the two warring theories that define this cold case. On one side, the official police...

We often like to believe that "good" and "bad" people are fundamentally different, but psychology suggests the line between them is thinner than we think. This episode explores the specific environmental and internal...