In Maryland, beloved professor and accountant Sue Ann Marcum tried to untangle herself from a romantic and financial partnership with yoga instructor Jorge Rueda Landeros. She was found murdered in her basement while her killer disappeared across borders for more than eleven years before finally facing a jury. Then, Katie investigates a case in Florida, where Taylor Cadle reported years of SA by her adoptive father when she was only twelve. She still found the courage at thirteen to secretly rec...
Dec 01, 2025•30 min•Ep. 151
This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson unravels two of history’s most mysterious vanishings — both stranger than fiction. First, in 1926, the “Queen of Mystery” herself, Agatha Christie, vanished after a late-night drive. Her abandoned car sparked an 11-day nationwide search that baffled police, fellow authors, and millions of readers. When she finally reappeared, Agatha claimed to remember nothing — leaving behind one of the greatest mysteries she ever created. Then, rewind ...
Nov 30, 2025•51 min•Ep. 150
Thanksgiving is meant for gratitude — but sometimes, it brings out the darkest parts of the human mind. In this chilling special, the Killer Minds team, joined by Murder: True Crime Stories host Carter Roy, examines two Thanksgiving tragedies: the 2009 Merhige family massacre, when a Florida man opened fire on his relatives after years of mental decline and resentment, and the gruesome murder of Bill Nelson by his wife, Omaima, whose fairytale romance turned into one of California’s most shockin...
Nov 27, 2025•59 min
Tonight, Katie breaks down a federal case that might sound like the plot to a movie, but is in fact very real. Prosecutors say New York crime families teamed up with former and current NBA players to run two overlapping schemes. In one, Damon Jones and Chauncey Billups allegedly acted as celebrity bait at underground poker games where hidden tech and rigged shufflers let Mafia backed cheating teams quietly drain high rollers of millions. In the other, investigators say Miami Heat guard Terry Roz...
Nov 26, 2025•27 min•Ep. 149
A French woman spent nearly a decade believing she was losing her mind, never knowing that her husband was drugging her, filming her, and inviting men to SA her while she slept. Police counted 74 men in total who assaulted the brave Gisèle Pelicot, identifying 54 of them. Today, Katie breaks down the newest twist in Gisèle’s case, where the only man who appealed his conviction just received even more prison time. Then, Katie follows a case in San Antonio, where police uncovered a staged crime sc...
Nov 26, 2025•33 min•Ep. 148
They say you should never call your ex, but this episode explores why you shouldn’t mix romance with business either. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn’t just date Michelle Ritter. He built a company with her and folded her into his world of mansions, staff, and early stage deals. When the relationship soured, their attempt to settle things quietly blew up after Michelle said Schmidt was trying to silence her from speaking about abuse and stalking. He responded by cutting off her access to pro...
Nov 25, 2025•25 min•Ep. 147
Two very different plots, one chilling theme: killers betting their victims won’t live long enough to tell the truth. In today’s first case, unfortunately they didn’t, but that didn’t stop authorities from pursuing justice. In Los Angeles, David Pearce (called the “devil personified”) was found guilty of drugging, assaulting, and murdering friends Christy Giles and Hilda Cabrales-Arzola after a night of partying, then having masked accomplices dump them at separate hospitals. Then, Katie dives i...
Nov 25, 2025•27 min•Ep. 146
As a college freshman, Shannon Keeler did everything she was told to do after being SA'd in her dorm room. She reported it immediately, completed an SA kit, named her attacker, and brought witnesses forward. Prosecutors still walked away, then destroyed the evidence. Years later, the man she says SAd her, Ian Cleary, flooded her Facebook with rambling messages that ended in a typed confession. Even then, the District Attorney refused to act until Shannon went public and national outrage forced t...
Nov 24, 2025•26 min•Ep. 145
Seventy percent of women killed by an abuser are killed after they leave, which makes walking away an act of real bravery. Today, Katie follows the cases of two women who tried. In Los Angeles, model and realtor Maleesa Mooney had a whirlwind romance with Magnus Humphrey, but her friends weren’t sold on her new boyfriend. Later, Maleesa was found bound and hidden in her refrigerator, and Humphrey is now in custody on murder and torture charges and ordered to stand trial. Crime House Daily is a C...
Nov 24, 2025•28 min•Ep. 144
This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson revisits two of America’s most shocking and unforgettable crimes — cases that defined their eras and captured the nation’s imagination. First, the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping, a crime so sensational it was called “the trial of the century.” When famed aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son vanished, a desperate nationwide manhunt ensued — and the suspect who finally faced justice would go to his death claiming innocence. Then, travel ...
Nov 23, 2025•50 min•Ep. 143
This final chapter in our five-part series on Sandra Birchmore asks one question: how did a “suicide” in Canton, Massachusetts turn into a federal murder case against a former cop? Katie pieces together how Sandra’s family refused to accept the original ruling, brought in famed pathologist Dr. Michael Baden to reclassify her death as homicidal strangulation, and found an unexpected ally in Chief Donna McNamara’s internal investigation, which uncovered years of grooming and abuse inside Stoughton...
Nov 21, 2025•30 min•Ep. 142
An Alabama bonfire that teens called “The Pit” turned into a war zone when 27-year-old Steven Tyler Whitehead pulled a gun and fired 13 rounds into the crowd, killing 18-year-old cheerleader Kimber Mills as she tried to break up a fight and later walked her final “honor walk” as an organ donor. Then, Katie looks into a case across state lines in Forney, Texas, where a long-simmering feud between neighbors ended with 35-year-old father and business owner Aaron Martinez shot 32 times on a country ...
Nov 21, 2025•26 min•Ep. 141
The system around Sandra Birchmore was broken long before she was found hanged in her Canton apartment. In the fourth installment of our five-part series on the death of Sandra Birchmore, Katie pulls back the curtain on the Stoughton Police Explorers program, which first brought Sandra in at 12 years-old. Stoughton Deputy Chief Robert Devine ran it while blurring boundaries with teen girls, and twins Matthew and William Farwell were shaped from “model” cadets to officers who later used their pow...
Nov 20, 2025•29 min•Ep. 140
A summer night of drinking in small-town Kentucky ended with 38-year-old Amber Spradlin sitting dead on a basement couch, her throat slashed, blood scrubbed from sinks and drains, and the home’s security system mysteriously destroyed, leaving a dentist, his son, and their friend now facing charges in a case built on missing footage and slow-moving DNA results. Hours and states away, Katie investigates a late-night first date in Houston that ended just as brutally, when a Porsche took a dark curv...
Nov 20, 2025•23 min•Ep. 139
After Sandra Birchmore’s death was stamped “suicide” and pushed aside, a very different story had already started to surface. In Part 3 of our five-part special series, Katie digs into Chief Donna McNamara’s internal probe, where recovered phone data and more than 32,000 text messages exposed years of grooming and statutory SA by Officer Matthew Farwell, his twin brother William, and their mentor Robert Devine, even as all three quietly resigned. Katie then follows how Sandra’s family’s lawsuit,...
Nov 19, 2025•34 min•Ep. 138
A phone was dead; a delivery driver was lost; a town official reached for a gun. Today’s first case follows 24-year-old DoorDash driver Alpha Barry, a recent immigrant from Guinea whose late-night delivery run to a quiet New York cul-de-sac ended with a highway superintendent striding out of his house, firing warning shots, and then shooting Alpha in the back as he tried to drive away. The encounter was captured on a Ring camera, nearly erased, and is now at the center of an attempted-murder cas...
Nov 19, 2025•21 min•Ep. 137
In Part 2 of our five-part investigation into Sandra Birchmore’s death, Katie stays in the same Massachusetts town shaken by the Karen Read saga, revisiting the night 23-year-old, pregnant Sandra was found hanged in her Canton apartment and quickly ruled a suicide. Did police miss crucial evidence? Katie digs into tips about a Stoughton officer who “didn’t want the baby,” the hooded man caught on camera entering Sandra’s building minutes before she likely died, and the broken flamingo necklace h...
Nov 18, 2025•26 min•Ep. 136
Katie unpacks two cases that expose the cracks in America’s justice system. First, a heartbreaking story from Wisconsin: 29-year-old Lauren Spors, long battling severe mental illness, is accused of murdering her mother after years of pleas for help went unanswered. Her family’s decade-long struggle to get her treatment reveals how systemic failures can turn tragedy into horror. Then, Katie dives into the decades-old Georgia case of former police officer Michael Chapel, convicted of a 1993 murder...
Nov 18, 2025•29 min•Ep. 135
In the same Massachusetts town rocked by the Karen Read case, 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore was found hanged in her Canton apartment in 2021. Sandra was pregnant and alone, and her death was quickly ruled a suicide, despite her family’s belief that she’d been groomed for years by Stoughton officer Matthew Farwell, who first “mentored” her in a police youth program when she was just 12. In this episode, Katie unpacks Sandra’s troubled childhood, her secret relationship with Farwell, and the threat...
Nov 17, 2025•31 min•Ep. 134
In rural Kentucky, 10-year-old Jayden Spicer was reported missing from his bed and his mother tearfully begged for his safe return, until two YouTubers, livestreaming their search in the woods, uncovered a bag of a little boy’s clothes hidden under plastic, forcing a shattering confession that Jayden was dead and buried miles away. Then, Katie covers a case in Nebraska, where 42-year-old Jesserae Beck slipped out one night to talk with her ex and never came home. The next morning police found on...
Nov 17, 2025•31 min•Ep. 133
This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson explores the twisted lives of two of history’s most notorious prisoners. First, the story of Charles Manson, the manipulative cult leader whose “Family” turned peace and love into terror. From failed musician to prophet of “Helter Skelter,” Manson’s descent into madness culminated in one of the most chilling murder sprees in American history. Then, meet Robert Stroud, the “Birdman of Alcatraz.” Though immortalized as a gentle animal love...
Nov 16, 2025•51 min•Ep. 132
With Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story soaring into the global Top 10, the chilling case that inspired it is back in the headlines. But behind the streaming sensation lies the real tragedy of Bernice Worden, a small-town hardware store owner whose 1957 murder exposed one of history’s most horrifying killers. Tonight, Katie revisits the investigation that began with a missing person report and ended inside Ed Gein’s “house of horrors,” telling the story of multiple women whose lives and legaci...
Nov 14, 2025•27 min•Ep. 131
In Milan, a quiet night in one of the city’s most elegant neighborhoods turned into horror when 29-year-old model Pamela Genini was stabbed to death on her balcony as neighbors watched helplessly from across the street. Her boyfriend, Gianluca Soncin, is now behind bars, but his silence has only deepened the mystery. As investigators dig into his past, they uncover disturbing signs of stalking, threats, and obsession that may reveal what really happened that night. Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Kati...
Nov 14, 2025•29 min•Ep. 130
In the summer of 2015, beloved Florida doctor Teresa Sievers returned home from a family trip and walked straight into a nightmare. Within minutes, she was brutally bludgeoned to death with a hammer inside her own kitchen. The men responsible were soon caught, and the truth that emerged stunned everyone: one of them was her husband’s best friend, and prosecutors said her husband, Mark Sievers, was the man who ordered the hit. Mark was sentenced to death, and for years the case seemed closed…unti...
Nov 13, 2025•29 min•Ep. 129
In Spain, police are reopening the investigation into the death of Isak Andic, billionaire founder of the global fashion brand Mango. The 71-year-old mogul fell more than 300 feet while hiking with his son, Jonathan Andic, in 2024. What was first believed to be a tragic accident is now being investigated as homicide, with Jonathan named the prime suspect amid growing tension over family finances and control of the Mango empire. Then, Katie dives deep into a Michigan case, where 17-year-old Londo...
Nov 13, 2025•24 min•Ep. 128
When 22-year-old Logan Federico was found shot to death in her Columbia, South Carolina rental, police quickly learned her killer, Alexander Dickey, had an alarming past. The 30-year-old had racked up 40 criminal charges, 25 of them felonies, yet remained free after years of dismissed cases, lenient sentencing, and record-keeping failures. Investigators say Dickey stole a gun and car during a string of burglaries before breaking into Logan’s home and killing her. Logan’s father is demanding acco...
Nov 12, 2025•21 min•Ep. 127
In Florida, 17-year-old Caden Speight vanished after sending his family a frantic text claiming four men in a white van had shot and kidnapped him. Police launched a massive manhunt, complete with helicopters and the FBI, until they found Caden a day later with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and proof he staged the whole thing. Then Katie watches a case in Brazil, where Jeniffer Castro became the target of worldwide outrage after a viral video showed her refusing to give up her airplane seat to ...
Nov 12, 2025•27 min•Ep. 126
Colorado meteorologist Kylie Bearse thought her stalker was finally gone…until he showed up at her home nearly two years later. For more than three years, she’s endured relentless harassment from a man convinced they’re married, despite restraining orders and repeated police reports. Now, after he allegedly tracked her down again, prosecutors have downgraded his charges to a misdemeanor, a move that’s left Kylie furious and fighting back. As she goes public with her story, her case is exposing m...
Nov 11, 2025•25 min•Ep. 125
In Arkansas, Aaron Spencer raced to save his 13-year-old daughter from her alleged kidnapper, and ended up killing the man accused of assaulting her. Now, as he awaits trial for murder, he’s running for sheriff in the same county that arrested him. Then, Katie investigates a case in Arizona, where Christopher Scholtes left his two-year-old daughter in a car in 110-degree heat while he played video games inside. By the time he remembered her, it was too late. He faced decades in prison, but then,...
Nov 11, 2025•25 min•Ep. 124
What began as a petty feud over a gold chain spiraled into tragedy. When 14-year-old Parise Larry Jr. and 17-year-old Antonio Johnston confronted 18-year-old Keyshawn Johnson outside their Wisconsin apartment complex, an online rivalry turned into a shootout. In the chaos, 20-year-old Tatyanna Zech, an innocent bystander, was struck and killed. Now, the community is left asking how a social media argument ended with a young woman’s life cut short. Crime House Daily is a Crime House Original Podc...
Nov 10, 2025•23 min•Ep. 123
