When 15-year-old Kirsten Costas left her home on the night of June 23, 1984, she was attending a secret initiation dinner for the Bobbies, a philanthropic school club. However, she soon found out that was not the case, when another member of the Bobbies picked her up to attend a party instead. The two girls made a stop at a church parking lot before heading there, but things soon took a turn which then caused Kirsten to walk to a nearby home and ask to use the phone to call her mom and pick her ...
May 21, 2026•53 min•Season 3Ep. 190
In July 2022, 20-year-old Jay Lee was living his life to the fullest. The popular University of Mississippi student was openly gay and well-liked in the LGBTQ+ community. But when Jay disappeared without a trace on July 8, it was believed to be due to his sexual orientation. As the investigation began, detectives found leads pointing to someone who didn’t want people to know he and Jay had some sort of relationship. Join us for today's case to learn what happened to Jay and who was responsible f...
May 14, 2026•50 min•Season 3Ep. 189
When Yingying Zhang arrived in Illinois as a visiting scholar from China, she was filled with excitement, knowing that this opportunity would help advance her academic career. After arriving in late April 2017, she concentrated on her research and began to settle into a routine. However, what was meant to be a wonderful opportunity turned into an unimaginable tragedy. On June 9, after Yingying did not return to campus from lunch, her colleagues became concerned and reported her missing later tha...
May 07, 2026•52 min•Season 3Ep. 188
In the afternoon of January 13, 2010, 16-year-old twin sisters, Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah, ran out of their home and flagged down a passing police car. They informed the officer that their mother appeared to be dead. Inside the home, 34-year-old Nikkie appeared to have been the victim of a brutal attack and was, in fact, deceased. As the investigation into the murder began, there were a couple of strong suspects, but they were eventually ruled out. It wasn't until detectives began to look more close...
May 02, 2026•54 min•Season 3Ep. 187
On Friday, May 11, 2007, the Haines family spent quality time together, having dinner and watching a movie before they all went to bed. What they were unaware of was that just hours later, 3 of its 4 members would be brutally killed. For weeks into the investigation, there were no leads or suspects, but then, out of seemingly nowhere, the killer confessed. Join us for today’s case to learn what happened to the Haines family and who was responsible for the murders. So, grab your cafecito, and let...
Apr 23, 2026•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 186
On February 24, 2020, 911 dispatch received a call from 42-year-old Sarah Boone informing them that her boyfriend was dead and that she needed help. When officers arrived at the scene, they had no idea what they were about to walk into. Not only was 42-year-old Jorge Torres dead, but he had died due to being left inside a suitcase after the couple decided to play hide and seek. During the investigation, Sarah claimed that it was an accident, but when forensic investigators searched her phone, th...
Apr 16, 2026•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 185
When 41-year-old chef Joe Vuli didn't show up for work on Monday, April 6, 2004, his business partner and nephew, Marash Gojcaj, wasn't too concerned. His uncle, Joe, tended to take a breather when things got too hectic at their restaurant, Gusto. After a couple of days of not hearing from Joe, he was reported missing by Marash and Joe's brother on April 8. The investigation into his disappearance began immediately, but it would take weeks before Joe was found. On April 24, a group of cleaning v...
Apr 09, 2026•53 min•Season 3Ep. 184
On the night of October 5, 1997, 14-year-old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Collins planned to walk to a party around 9 pm. Since the girls came from small, safe towns, they didn’t believe they were in danger. Sadly, that was the last night they were seen alive by their friends and family. After the girls didn’t show up the next morning, a large search began, but it yielded no results. Weeks went by with no credible leads until eventually, investigators received information that pointed th...
Apr 02, 2026•50 min•Season 3Ep. 183
When a couple of young women, Christine Vu and Wendie Prestcott, who lived in the same apartment complex, were sexually assaulted and killed at the end of 1996, fear gripped the Arlington, Texas community. Despite investigators finding physical evidence at the crime scenes, the killer remained at large for years. It wasn't until 2000, when the FBI introduced new technology, that police finally discovered who they were looking for. And they learned that Christine and Wendie were not the killers' ...
Mar 26, 2026•59 min•Season 3Ep. 182
On the night of December 30, 2000, the Miyazawa family had no idea that they would not live to see the following morning. The Miyazawas consisted of the father, Mikio, the mother, Yasuko, and their children, 8-year-old Niina and 6-year-old Rei. When Yasuko's mother, who lived next door, went to check on her daughter, whom she hadn't been able to contact, she made a horrifying discovery. Her daughter and her entire family had been brutally murdered. As the investigation began, Tokyo's police forc...
Mar 20, 2026•54 min•Season 3Ep. 181
On the night of March 25, 1996, 15-year-old Joey Martin had plans to meet his best friends for a night of drinking and comet-watching. The following morning, when Joey wasn't on the school bus, his older brother, Bill, knew something was wrong. As the Martin family begins to search for Joey with friends, their slight worry turns into full panic as they realize no one has seen or heard from Joey. And the friends who were supposed to meet him the night before say that Joey never showed up. Join us...
Mar 12, 2026•53 min•Season 3Ep. 180
When Adam Baker connected with a woman named Elisa online and started exchanging messages, he believed he had fallen in love. So much so that he moved himself and his young daughter, Zahra, from Australia to America to be with her. What no one ever expected was that Zahra's life would be marred by abuse from Elisa, tragically, leading to her death. Elisa quickly became a person of interest, and as the investigation unfolded, police discovered that her background revealed patterns of manipulation...
Mar 05, 2026•56 min•Season 3Ep. 179
In 1980, 18-year-old Katherine Foster was in her freshman year of college at the University of South Alabama. She was thriving academically and personally and was excited about the future. But one afternoon in late February, Katherine failed to meet friends for lunch and later that day missed a class, which was out of character for her. Family and friends knew something was wrong, and she was reported missing. Unfortunately, Katherine's body was found almost 2 days later, after she disappeared. ...
Feb 26, 2026•59 min•Season 3Ep. 178
In the morning of April 2001, a large explosion shook a suburban neighborhood in southern Scottsdale, Arizona. When first responders arrived, they learned that a home had been completely burned to the ground. Tragically, inside the rubble of what was left, three bodies were found: 10-year-old Bobby Fisher, 12-year-old Brittney Fisher, and 38-year-old Mary Fisher. But one member of the family was missing, Robert Fisher, Mary's husband, and the children's dad. As the investigation into the Fisher ...
Feb 19, 2026•44 min•Season 3Ep. 177
In 1980, 25-year-old Karin Strom was finally taking her life back and starting over. She filed for divorce from her abusive husband< Steve, and left the couple’s home. However, her new lease on life was cut short when Karin was found murdered in the bedroom of the house she had once shared with Steve. As the investigation begins, all signs point to Steve being Karin’s killer. But physical evidence collected from the crime scene would reveal her true killer almost three decades later. Join us ...
Jan 29, 2026•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 176
Ronald Cohen sold his home in Jericho, Long Island, in September 1999, and was ecstatic about it. The only thing left for him to do was remove a 55-gallon drum barrel from a crawlspace in the basement, per the new homeowner. That barrel had been in the home when Ronald initially moved many years earlier. Even back then, he tried to open the barrel but was unsuccessful, so he left it where he found it and forgot about it. After managing to get it hauled out of the basement, he decided to pry open...
Jan 22, 2026•47 min•Season 3Ep. 175
The Stockdale family was known in their community as a wholesome, tight-knit, loving family. Tim and Kathy raised their four sons, Calvin, Charles, Jacob, and James extremly sheltered from the rest of the world to keep them safe. They were not allowed to do a lot of what is considered normal for kids to do, such as watch TV and play video games amongts other things. So, when ABC's reality TV show, Wife Swap, knocked on their door, it was a surprise that they agreed to participate, allowing camer...
Jan 16, 2026•51 min•Season 3Ep. 174
America was introduced to Ariel Robinson, a teacher, during the 20th season of the Food Network's competition show "Worst Cooks in America," which aired in summer 2020. She won the competition and was awarded $25,000, which she stated she would use to help expand her family. Soon after, she and her husband, Jerry, went on to foster multiple children, including a 3-year-old girl named Victoria Rose Smith, in the hope of eventually adopting them. Everything seemed to be going well, with Ariel clai...
Jan 08, 2026•45 min•Season 3Ep. 173
Every year for Christmas, Jean Wholaver and her family would make the drive to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to spend the holiday with her parents. In 2002, the plan was no different than it had been in previous years. However, this year, Jean and her daughters, Vicky and Izzy, would never make it to her parents’ home on Christmas Eve. The following day, Jean, Vicky and Izzy were found murdered in their home. As the investigation began, the first suspect detectives looked into was Jean’s estranged hu...
Dec 25, 2025•59 min•Season 3Ep. 172
When 50-year-old Bill Hall Jr. was driving his motorcycle on October 10, 2013, he never imagined that it would be the last time he rode it. During a vehicle chase on the Texas Highway 1604 between Bill's wife, Frances Hall, and another woman he was seeing, Bonnie Contreras, Bill was run over and lost his life. After Bill’s death, Frances was arrested and charged with his murder. However, she maintained that it had all been an accident, but Bonnie claimed otherwise. Join us for today's episode to...
Dec 18, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 171
On Christmas Eve 2008, the Ortega family gathered for their annual celebration. The family, which included Joseph and Alicia Ortega, their five adult children, and their families, was spread out around the house. Some adults were playing poker, kids were playing video games, and others were hanging out outside by the pool. As everyone was enjoying themselves, there was a knock on the door at around 11:30 pm. The person at the door was someone dressed as Santa Claus. What was supposed to be a joy...
Dec 11, 2025•51 min•Season 3Ep. 170
When people around Velma Barfield began dying in the late 60s and 70s, it seemed tragic rather than suspicious since they suffered from health issues. It began with her first husband, Thomas Burke, in 1969, followed by her second husband, Jennings Barfield, in 1971. The deaths continued, spanning from other family members to the elderly she began to take care of. However, when she began a relationship and eventually became engaged to a man named Stuart Taylor, who was in good health, and then di...
Dec 04, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 169
On November 29, 1992, 39-year-old Sara Tokars was on her way back home, with her two kids, to Georgia, from spending the Thanksgiving holiday with her family down in Florida. Sara's family, the Ambrusko's, were waiting for Sara's call to let them know that she had arrived safely, but the call never came. Later that evening, two young boys knocked on the door of an isolated house and informed its occupants that their mother had been shot. Those two boys were Sara's sons, 6-year-old Ricky and 4-ye...
Nov 27, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 168
In the early morning of January 9, 2002, 12-year-old Ashley Pond headed to the school bus stop, but never arrived. As the search for Ashley began, her family and friends came together to help in any way they could. One of those people was 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis, who was Ashley's close friend and neighbor. However, in March, Miranda also vanished under the same suspicious circumstances as Ashley. It would take months after the girls' disappearance, but a big break in the case finally arrived....
Nov 20, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 167
In the early hours of May 26, 1984, 22-year-old Brad Perry was working his graveyard shift at the local Texaco gas station. After returning the change to customer who had purchased beer, he never expected for an argument to arise. The argument escalated into a brutal fight that ended up in Brad being brutally murdered. As the investigation begins, there were multiple suspects but physical evidence excluded them. In time, the case went cold, and it would take 24 years until Brad’s killer was brou...
Nov 06, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 166
In April 2014, Darren West was cleaning his garage, in the home he had once shared with his estranged wife, Megan Huntsman, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As he moved boxes around, he came across a strange white box wrapped in plastic and decided to open it to see what was inside. And what he discovered was something out of a horror film. The small box contained the body of a decomposed baby. Darren told detectives that there was one person he knew of whom the baby could have belonged to, and it was h...
Oct 31, 2025•56 min•Season 3Ep. 165
When 58-year-old Kristie Marks went to pick up her daughter, Taylor, from her boyfriend's house on October 24, 2009, she felt ecstatic. They had been going through some issues, and Kristie thought that maybe Taylor was ready to come home for good and work things out, but that wasn’t how things turned out that night. As the mother and daughter headed toward the vehicle to leave, Kristie was randomly attacked by an unknown assailant. Unfortunately, Kristie lost her life that night. As the investig...
Oct 23, 2025•59 min•Season 3Ep. 164
On the night of August 22, 2005, 20-year-old Josh Bennet went to his estranged mother, Jacqueline's, house to have dinner and spend the night, as they were trying to repair their strained relationship. However, those hopes were shattered when, in the early hours of August 23, two intruders broke into the home and stabbed Jacquiline and Josh, resulting in Josh's death. As the investigation begins, detectives discover that Josh and Jacquiline were not the intended targets. It was something more si...
Oct 16, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 163
On November 19, 1986, 39-year-old wife and mother Helle Crafts was dropped off by a friend and coworker at her home after returning from an overseas flight, where she worked as a flight attendant. After she made her way inside, she was never seen alive again. When she failed to show up at work, her friends asked her husband, Richard Crafts, about her whereabouts, and he claimed she had gone to visit her sick mother in Denmark. However, as days went by with no word from Helle, it began to seem su...
Oct 09, 2025•56 min•Season 3Ep. 162
On Halloween night in 1984, 31-year-old Doreen Erbert expected to relax after taking her four-year-old daughter, DeAnna, trick-or-treating. After her husband, Charles, left home to run to the nearby convenience store, Doreen planned to stop giving out candy and watch movies on the couch. Those plans were shattered when a loud knock sounded at the front door around 9 pm. Standing there was a man in a wolf mask, who proceeded to attack Doreen and kill her. In an expected turn of events, as the inv...
Oct 02, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 161
