A Georgia firefighter and his wife are found shot to death in their living room, while their toddler is discovered the next morning in blood-soaked pajamas. Katie breaks down the prior harassment tied to the home, the Pentagon stabbing carried out by the suspect’s brother, and the bench trial that resulted in two life sentences plus additional years. Then, in Mexico, three friends surfing in Baja never make it back. Their truck is burned, their bodies are recovered from a 50-foot well, and a loc...
Dec 19, 2025•28 min•Ep. 181
Part 4 of our Diddy series spotlights the trial’s biggest star witness: Kid Cudi. On the stand, the rapper walks through the alleged threats, the Cassie-linked break-in, and the moment his Porsche was torched with a Molotov cocktail, details prosecutors leaned on to paint a racketeering pattern. We also hear from ex-assistant Capricorn Clark, who says Diddy forced her into a terrifying revenge scheme at gunpoint. With fresh courtroom revelations still echoing after the 2025 verdict, this episode...
Dec 18, 2025•26 min•Ep. 180
A Caribbean family vacation turns tragic when 18-year-old Anna Kepner disappears overnight on a Carnival cruise and is later found dead, wrapped in a blanket under a stateroom bed. As her community mourns, new custody filings and leaked details show why investigators are scrutinizing her 16-year-old stepbrother and what her ex-boyfriend says happened before she vanished. Then, Katie investigates a case In Chicago, where 26-year-old Bethany MaGee is doused in gasoline and set on fire aboard a Blu...
Dec 18, 2025•22 min•Ep. 179
Part 3 of our Diddy trial deep dive centers on the defense’s sweeping cross-examination of Cassie Ventura, where her private texts, freak-off messages, and relationship history are reframed as “consent.” Katie breaks down why those same messages can read as survival inside coercive control, and how the defense’s timeline-scrambling strategy aims to create doubt. Then, the case widens as other witnesses take the stand: singer-songwriter Dawn Richard recounts a brutal 2009 attack she says she watc...
Dec 17, 2025•30 min•Ep. 178
Danny Masterson, the former That ’70s Show star and longtime Scientologist, is serving 30 years to life for rape and is now trying to overturn his conviction by blaming his attorney and the focus on Scientology. Katie breaks down the allegations, the church’s alleged involvement, the retrial that sent him to prison, and what his new habeas petition claims. Then in Indiana, 32-year-old Alanna Brown spent years insisting her toddler needed a feeding tube while secretly collecting caregiver payment...
Dec 17, 2025•24 min•Ep. 177
Diddy’s federal trial has entered its most explosive phase, and tonight we’re zeroing in on the witness who cracked this case wide open. In Part 2 of our five-episode deep dive, Katie breaks down Cassie Ventura’s harrowing four-day testimony, delivered while she was more than eight months pregnant. Cassie takes the jury through how a 19-year-old rising artist became trapped for over a decade in a world of control, violence, drugs, and the infamous “freak offs,” where she says “no” was never real...
Dec 16, 2025•34 min•Ep. 176
An 11-year-old Slender Man case returns to the headlines when Morgan Geyser cuts off his ankle monitor, escapes a Wisconsin group home, and is found sleeping outside a Chicago truck stop with an older companion he met at church. Katie breaks down how a shared delusion led to the near fatal stabbing of Payton Leutner, Morgan’s years in a state hospital, and what this escape could mean for his future. Then we go to Oakland, where Laney College legend and “Last Chance U” coach John Beam is shot ins...
Dec 16, 2025•28 min•Ep. 175
He was hip-hop’s ultimate power broker, until the whispers became lawsuits, raids, and a blockbuster federal case. In Part 1 of our five-episode deep dive, Katie Ring rewinds to the beginning of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ story: the Bad Boy Records rise, early scandals, and the long shadow of allegations that trailed him for decades. Then we track the turning point: Cassie Ventura’s claims, the hotel security footage Diddy allegedly tried to erase, and coordinated searches that seized drugs, weapons, a...
Dec 15, 2025•34 min•Ep. 174
In today’s first case, Katie looks into an assault in Texas, where former NBA guard Patrick Beverley is facing felony charges after police say he choked, dragged and beat his 15-year-old sister. What began as a reprimand spiraled into a full-blown assault that her boyfriend witnessed in real time. And in South Carolina, an award-winning elementary school teacher secretly showered an 11 year old student with gifts, handwritten letters and unwanted attention: behavior her family didn’t fully uncov...
Dec 15, 2025•21 min•Ep. 173
This week in crime history, we revisit two of the most infamous kidnappings that shocked the world. In 1973, 17-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of one of the world’s richest men, was freed in southern Italy after five harrowing months in captivity. His ordeal exposed the cold greed and dysfunction of America’s wealthiest family. Then, we travel back to 1927 Los Angeles, where 12-year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her school by a man posing as her father’s coworker. What followed bec...
Dec 14, 2025•48 min•Ep. 172
In a courtyard where kids gathered to play, resentment turned deadly. Ajike “AJ” Owens had spent years navigating a neighbor who hurled slurs, made threats, and called police anytime the children stepped outside. After that neighbor injured AJ’s son with a roller skate, AJ walked to her door demanding answers. Susan Lorincz responded with a bullet fired through a locked door. Katie breaks down the case that rejected “stand your ground,” the 25-year sentence, and Netflix’s “The Perfect Neighbor” ...
Dec 12, 2025•26 min•Ep. 171
A dream backpacking adventure in Southeast Asia ends in tragedy when free shots at a busy Laos hostel leave multiple tourists critically ill and three young women dead, including 19-year-old Australians Holly Morton Bowles and Bianca Jones, while grieving families fight for justice amid silence from local authorities. Later, Katie examines the haunting case of 35-year-old Montana contractor Dustin Kjersem, whose girlfriend discovered his mutilated body in a remote campsite. She initially believe...
Dec 12, 2025•28 min•Ep. 170
In tonight’s Night Watch, Katie breaks down one of Texas’ most haunting cases: the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders. Four teenage girls were bound, assaulted, shot, and left in a burning yogurt shop, launching a massive task force and decades of fear in the community. Katie traces how investigators turned to the Reid Technique, extracted detailed confessions from four young men, and secured convictions despite a total lack of physical evidence tying them to the scene. Then, the story flips as new Suprem...
Dec 11, 2025•37 min•Ep. 169
In Oklahoma, Katie examines how teenage offender Jesse Butler went from facing nearly a lifetime in prison for brutal attacks on two girls to serving only counseling and community service under youthful offender status, a decision that has neighbors, lawmakers, and classmates calling the system corrupt. Then the focus shifts to Halifax, where Mike Smith, best known as Bubbles on “Trailer Park Boys,” is now under a sexual assault charge for an incident prosecutors say happened in 2017, while prod...
Dec 11, 2025•25 min•Ep. 168
Tonight, Katie revisits the Caroline Flack case from the beginning, tracing her rise through British television to her dream job hosting Love Island UK, and then the December 2019 incident that changed everything. As CPS and the Metropolitan Police pushed forward with a domestic abuse prosecution and the tabloid press portrayed Caroline as a monster, her support system watched her unravel in real time. Katie looks at the evidence, the later findings about serious failings in how the case was han...
Dec 10, 2025•26 min•Ep. 167
Today, Katie reports on violent home intrusions making headlines. First, Seattle police search for a man who beat 88-year-old Emma Cotton and bit off her finger during a brazen backyard robbery. Next, a Berkeley sorority is left shaken after a masked man wandered inside repeatedly, watched residents bathe, and slipped out with underwear and pizza. Finally, Katie details an LA break-in, where a naked attacker ambushed a tenant and the 79-year-old Vietnam war veteran who bravely fought back. If yo...
Dec 10, 2025•22 min•Ep. 166
Tonight, Katie revisits the life of Aileen Wuornos, the abused Michigan girl who grew up hitchhiking, trading sex for survival and cycling through petty crime before becoming one of the most infamous serial killers in Florida history. From a childhood marked by alleged family violence and assault, to a violent string of roadside murders in the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, Katie traces Wuornos’ path from traumatized runaway to death row inmate, then explores how Hollywood t...
Dec 09, 2025•28 min•Ep. 165
When influencer Brenay Kennard started posting cozy videos with her cousin-in-law, the truth spilled out online before it ever did at home. Those clips eventually became evidence in a North Carolina courtroom, where a jury ruled that Brenay helped unravel another woman’s marriage and ordered her to pay $1.75 million in damages. Then, Katie examines the case of Olivia Henderson, a DoorDasher whose viral video accusing a customer of exposing himself set off a firestorm—until investigators reviewed...
Dec 09, 2025•22 min•Ep. 164
A New England patriarch is gunned down in his New Hampshire home, his daughter disappears during a supposed freak boating accident, and the grandson who stood to inherit millions survives at sea became the focus of two separate investigations. In this episode, Katie traces the rise of self-made millionaire John Chakalos, the strained relationships around his grandson Nathan, the forensic trail from a missing Sig Sauer rifle to a sabotaged fishing boat, and the federal murder case that ended when...
Dec 08, 2025•25 min•Ep. 163
Today’s first case is about a South Carolina killer who spent 21 years on death row before choosing to die by firing squad in 2025, raising new questions about how the death penalty is carried out. Then, Katie heads to North Carolina, where investigators say 24-year-old Dominic Liam Connelly murdered his 72-year-old grandmother and set her house on fire before vanishing into the woods, sparking an intense multi-state manhunt and fear in the community. If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow C...
Dec 08, 2025•25 min•Ep. 162
This week on True Crime This Week, host Vanessa Richardson examines two killings that shook the music world — both committed by fans whose admiration turned to obsession. First, in 1980, 25-year-old Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon outside The Dakota in New York City. Once a devoted Beatles fan, Chapman’s delusions and fixation on The Catcher in the Rye pushed him to murder the very man whose music had once inspired him. Then, in 2004, heavy metal icon Dimebag Darrell Abbott of Pan...
Dec 07, 2025•50 min•Ep. 161
For twelve years, Eva LaRue and her daughter Kaya moved homes, installed security cameras, and lived in constant fear as an unseen stalker tracked them across state lines and called Kaya’s high school. Tonight, Katie unpacks the letters signed by stalker “Freddie Krueger,” the chilling phone calls to a high school, the breakthrough that came from consumer DNA databases, and the identity of the man responsible. Nearly twelve years after the first threats and fresh off the November 2025 release of...
Dec 05, 2025•31 min•Ep. 160
It started with whispers in a detention center: a teacher lingering too long by a seventeen-year-old’s door, and ended with investigators pulling nearly two hundred explicit letters from his cell, including a written play-by-play of abuse and a chilling request to kill her husband. At trial, the truth spilled out in her own handwriting, yet she escaped a solicitation of murder conviction. When a blueprint for violence is written in ink, why isn’t it treated like a threat? Then, Katie watches an ...
Dec 05, 2025•23 min•Ep. 159
Sixteen years ago today, Amanda Knox was first convicted in the murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, and the world focused almost entirely on the “Foxy Knoxy” story. Tonight, Katie steps back into that case to center Meredith, unpacks how a rushed and chaotic investigation turned Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, into tabloid villains, and looks closely at the third person in the room, Rudy Guede. Guede’s DNA was everywhere at the crime scene, but he largely escaped global...
Dec 04, 2025•35 min•Ep. 158
A routine home visit turned deadly when 56-year-old social worker Maria Coto knocked on the wrong apartment door and walked straight into the drug-fueled rage of a man high on PCP. Minutes later, Maria was fighting for her life as a 911 dispatcher listened helplessly on the line. Her killer has now been convicted, but her death has shaken an entire community. Then in Florida, a family facing eviction made a horrifying choice: a suicide pact involving two parents and their disabled teenage son. T...
Dec 04, 2025•23 min•Ep. 157
Anthony Lennon was facing eight new CSAM charges when he suddenly disappeared in 2012, leaving behind blood, a missing shoe, and signs of a struggle at the motel where he worked. But investigators quickly realized the scene was staged…and the suspect had fled. Thirteen years later, a surveillance team cornered a man living under a completely different name in upstate New York. Now, authorities say their long-missing fugitive has been caught, even as he insists they have the wrong man. Tonight, K...
Dec 03, 2025•22 min•Ep. 156
In Illinois, a 43-year-old mother’s unlawful, secret relationship with her daughter’s teenage classmate came crashing down after a maternity photoshoot exposed the truth she’d been hiding for months. Now, Robyn Polston is behind bars, accused of SAing the boy and concealing her pregnancy with the help of her own family. Then Katie dives deep into a California case, where the kidnapping and murder of cannabis mogul Tushar Atre sent investigators down a twisting trail of surveillance footage, cell...
Dec 03, 2025•26 min•Ep. 155
When 27-year-old first grade teacher Abby Zwerner was shot by a six-year-old student in her classroom, the story shocked the country. But what happened before that single gunshot tells an even darker story. Tonight, Katie retraces every warning that staff gave about the child bringing a gun to school, how those concerns were allegedly dismissed, and how Abby still managed to get her students to safety after being hit. She then follows the fallout, from the child’s mother facing prison time to Ab...
Dec 02, 2025•26 min•Ep. 154
A routine shopping trip in Louisiana turned into an unexpected chase when preschool teacher Lesli Smith spotted an officer running after two suspected shoplifters and offered him a seat in her SUV. What unfolded was a slow, careful pursuit through local streets. By that evening, she was back to her errands unaware her quick instinct would earn her a city commendation. In Texas, another call for help revealed a far darker scene. Officers responding to screams behind a fenced yard found a woman ch...
Dec 02, 2025•22 min•Ep. 153
By the time 24-year-old Julia Wandelt walked into a British courtroom in October 2025, she had already spent years chasing a life that was never hers. Haunted by painful childhood memories and convinced her own parents were hiding the truth, Julia turned to missing persons databases and fixated on one of the most recognizable cases in the world: Madeleine McCann. What started as late-night searches spiraled into an online campaign as she posted side-by-side photos, built a following, and repeate...
Dec 01, 2025•27 min•Ep. 152
