He was a loving father, a charming drifter, and a trusted coin collector—until closing time. For five years, Charles Sinclair crisscrossed the country, befriending coin shop owners before executing them in cold blood and vanishing without a trace. His perfect streak ended the day Kelly Finnegan took a bullet to the head—and lived to tell the tale. Author: Mike Colucci Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/c...
Jul 11, 2025•34 min
Colin Ireland, a self-declared serial killer with a chilling New Year’s resolution to "murder a human being," used London’s gay BDSM scene in the early '90s to lure five unsuspecting men to their deaths. Known as the "Gay Slayer," he meticulously planned each murder to avoid detection—until a single fingerprint finally unraveled his gruesome campaign of violence. Author: Mike Colucci Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at ...
Jul 04, 2025•41 min
Behind the sweet smile of a Sacramento landlady, a backyard turned into a graveyard as Dorothea Puente drugged, robbed, and buried her tenants—stealing their lives one government check at a time. Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/crimehub. SelectQuote: Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, and save more than fifty percent at selectquote.com/cri...
Jun 27, 2025•1 hr 7 min
When police reviewed a grainy security tape from a quiet Bradford apartment complex, they didn’t just witness a murder—they uncovered a narcissistic serial killer who filmed his crimes, ate his victims, and proudly dubbed himself 'The Crossbow Cannibal.' Author: Mike Colucci Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/crimehub. SelectQuote: Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life ins...
Jun 20, 2025•40 min
When a family moves into their dream home in one of America’s safest towns, they begin receiving chilling letters from someone calling themselves 'The Watcher'—a hidden figure who knows far too much and refuses to let them live in peace. Author: Samantha Davis Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/crimehub. SelectQuote: Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life insurance for YOU,...
Jun 13, 2025•55 min
In the quiet suburb of Frederick, Colorado, a seemingly perfect family was shattered when Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters in a chilling act of calculated betrayal. Beneath his calm facade lay a darkness so disturbing, it shocked the nation and exposed the terrifying reality that evil can wear a familiar face. Author: Samantha Davis Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/crimehu...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Inside one of South Africa’s most exclusive gated communities, 20-year-old Henri van Breda calmly reported a gruesome home invasion—his voice eerily composed as he described his family lying butchered in pools of blood. But as investigators dug deeper, it became clear there was no intruder… only a privileged son with a chilling secret and an axe to grind. Author: Samantha Davis Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmo...
May 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min
During World War II, a desperate woman seeking love went to a local fortune teller for help—and vanished. What no one knew was that Leonarda Cianciulli, a beloved soapmaker and grieving mother, was performing human sacrifices in a twisted attempt to save her son from the horrors of war. Her victims? Lonely women lured by false promises of marriage and jobs—then poisoned, butchered, and rendered into bars of soap and baked goods. This is the chilling tale of Italy’s most macabre serial killer… an...
May 23, 2025•48 min
San Francisco, 1973. A city defined by peace, progress, and counterculture… until the sun went down. That’s when the killers came out—dressed sharp, speaking soft, moving fast. They didn’t rob. They didn’t steal. They didn’t even know their victims. All they wanted was blood. By the time police figured out what they were dealing with, fifteen people were dead and the city was on the brink of collapse. This is the forgotten story of the Death Angels… a homegrown terror cell hiding in plain sight....
May 16, 2025•54 min
Chained, beaten, and bleeding in a remote Alaskan home, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson made a daring escape that would unravel the chilling truth behind Robert Hansen—the respected family man and baker who secretly hunted women for sport in the brutal wilderness. Author: Mike Colucci Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/crimehub. SelectQuote: Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life...
May 09, 2025•46 min
Before Kenneth McDuff became one of Texas’ most sadistic serial killers, he was a high school dropout with a crooked smile and a broomstick in his hands. This is the horrifying story of how the system caught him, let him go—and paid for it in blood. Author: Mike Colucci Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/crimehub. SelectQuote: Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life insuranc...
May 02, 2025•53 min
Beneath the ordinary hum of a suburban Cape Town post office, a young woman’s life was stolen in a calculated act of monstrous violence that would ignite a nationwide reckoning. This is the haunting story of Uyinene Mrwetyana—and the uprising that followed when her death shattered the illusion of safety for South African women everywhere. Author: Samantha Davis Huge thanks to our sponsors: Mint Mobile: Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/crimehub...
Apr 25, 2025•56 min
In 1974, 19-year-old newlywed Arlis Perry was found brutally murdered in Stanford Memorial Church—ritually posed with candles, sexually violated, and pierced with an ice pick—sparking wild theories of satanic cults, the Son of Sam, and a coast-to-coast conspiracy. But after 44 years of mystery and misdirection, DNA evidence revealed the killer wasn’t a satanist or serial predator from afar, but the church's own security guard—Stephen Crawford—who had locked her inside and kept his secret until t...
Apr 18, 2025•40 min
A deranged killer stalked the streets of Sacramento in 1978, drinking blood, devouring organs, and leaving corpses torn open like crime scene autopsies—his name was Richard Chase, and he would become known as the Vampire of Sacramento. Author: Mike Colucci * * * DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content. Parental guidance is advised for children under the age of 18. Listen at your own discretion. #crimehub #truecrime #truecrimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
Apr 11, 2025•48 min
A teenage girl’s late-night walk home turns into a nightmare when she crosses paths with Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka—Canada’s notorious “Ken and Barbie Killers”—in a horrifying true crime saga of rape, torture, and murder that shocked the nation. Author: Mike Colucci * * * DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content. Parental guidance is advised for children under the age of 18. Listen at your own discretion. #crimehub #truecrime #truecrimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
Apr 04, 2025•53 min
Rodney Alcala was a charming photographer and game show contestant—while secretly living as a sadistic serial killer. Known as the “Dating Game Killer,” he left behind a trail of victims, haunting photographs, and unanswered questions. Authorities fear the true death toll could be far higher than anyone imagined. * * * DISCLAIMER: This episode contains explicit content. Parental guidance is advised for children under the age of 18. Listen at your own discretion. #crimehub #truecrime #truecrimepo...
Mar 28, 2025•44 min
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders were a series of brutal attacks in 1946, where an unidentified assailant, dubbed the “Phantom Killer,” stalked and murdered young couples in secluded areas around Texarkana, Texas, and Arkansas. The killer, known for wearing a white sack mask, claimed five lives and seriously injured three others, instilling terror throughout the region and sparking one of the largest manhunts in the area’s history. Despite numerous suspects and investigations, the case remains un...
Mar 21, 2025•51 min
Jeffrey Lundgren, a self-proclaimed prophet and former RLDS preacher, led a cult in Kirtland, Ohio, where he manipulated his followers through religious extremism and violence. In April 1989, he orchestrated the brutal murders of Dennis and Cheryl Avery and their three daughters, believing their deaths were a necessary sacrifice for divine favor. After fleeing to West Virginia and later California, Lundgren was eventually captured, convicted, and executed in 2006, while several of his followers ...
Mar 14, 2025•46 min
In the summer of 1985, eleven-year-old Jesse Morgan stumbled upon a 55-gallon barrel in Bear Brook State Park while playing hide-and-seek, unaware that it contained the remains of a woman and child. This grim discovery would unravel a decades-long mystery involving four victims and a serial killer known as “The Chameleon,” who lived under multiple aliases to evade capture. Through breakthroughs in DNA technology and the determination of internet sleuths, police finally connected the dots, reveal...
Mar 07, 2025•38 min
Between 1990 and 2002, ambulance workers in Łódź, Poland, conspired with local funeral homes in a gruesome scheme known as the "Skin Hunters" scandal, selling dead bodies for profit. When natural deaths were insufficient, paramedics and doctors began killing patients, often using the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which induced a torturous, silent death by suffocation. Although some perpetrators were convicted, authorities fear that hundreds more victims remain unidentified, and the full extent of the...
Feb 28, 2025•40 min
Fritz Haarmann, the infamous "Butcher of Hanover," was one of Germany’s most prolific serial killers, luring young men and boys to their deaths between 1918 and 1924. His gruesome method of murder—biting through his victims’ throats—earned him the nickname "The Vampire of Hanover," while rumors swirled that he sold human meat on the black market. Protected for years by his status as a police informant, Haarmann was finally exposed after human bones flooded the Leine River, leading to his arrest,...
Feb 21, 2025•36 min
In 1985, a simple shoplifting incident led San Francisco police to uncover one of the most sadistic serial killing duos in American history—Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Obsessed with survivalism and torture, they built a hidden bunker in Wilseyville, California, where they abducted, raped, and murdered victims, often entire families. Their depravity was documented on chilling video tapes, many of which were destroyed by Lake’s ex-wife, who was granted immunity. When police closed in, Lake took a...
Feb 14, 2025•45 min
In the early 1980s, the Chicago suburbs became the hunting grounds for the Chicago Rippers, a sadistic group led by Robin Gecht, whose twisted rituals of mutilation and murder left at least 17 women dead. The gang's youngest victim, 21-year-old Lorraine Borowski, vanished on her walk to work, her golden high heels left behind as a chilling clue. Through shocking confessions, satanic rituals, and heinous crimes, the Rippers became infamous for their depravity. Decades later, their legacy still ha...
Feb 07, 2025•26 min
Ricky Atkinson’s journey is one of grit, crime, and redemption. Growing up as a mixed-race boy in 1960s Toronto, he faced harsh racism and poverty. Torn between his father’s law-abiding life and the allure of his uncle's flashy criminal world, Ricky chose both paths. He became the leader of the Dirty Tricks Gang, notorious for sophisticated heists and tactical maneuvers, earning millions while evading police with cunning strategies like spike belts. Ricky’s life of crime saw him spend half his y...
Jan 31, 2025•37 min
In the 1980s, women with red hair began vanishing along highways in the Bible Belt, their bodies discarded in shallow graves or along desolate roads. Truck driver Jerry Leon Johns was arrested after his brutal attack on a young dancer went awry, linking him to at least one of the infamous "Redhead Murders." Spanning six states, 14 victims, and decades of unanswered questions, this chilling true crime saga explores the patterns of a predator, the lives of the victims, and the enduring mystery: Wa...
Jan 24, 2025•22 min
In 1850s North Carolina, schoolmaster Clement Lassiter’s fateful journey turns deadly when he crosses paths with Reverend George Carawan, a charismatic preacher with a violent past. After Lassiter’s body is discovered in a shallow grave, a sensational trial exposes dark secrets, fiery tempers, and shocking betrayal. A haunting tale of honor, vengeance, and the sinister legacy of a man of God. Tune in to Crime After Dark here: Spotify Apple Podcasts Author: Jake Bible * * * DISCLAIMER: This episo...
Jan 17, 2025•54 min
Edwin Alonzo Boyd, a former soldier and family man, transformed into one of Canada’s most infamous criminals. Initially seen as a charming "Robin Hood," Boyd led a gang of armed robbers in the 1950s, orchestrating elaborate heists while evading capture. His life of crime included daring prison escapes, violent shootouts, and a reputation as a cunning master of disguise. The public fascination with Boyd turned to horror after a police detective’s death, sealing his gang’s fate. Later in life, Boy...
Jan 10, 2025•32 min
In 1995, a woman checked into Oslo's luxurious Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel under the name Jennifer Fairgate. Days later, she was found dead in her locked hotel room, sparking one of Scandinavia's most perplexing mysteries. Was it suicide, murder, or something more sinister? With falsified identities, erased clues, and whispers of espionage, the case remains shrouded in secrecy. Who was Jennifer Fairgate, and what secrets did she carry to Room 2805? This is the chilling, unsolved story of a locked-d...
Jan 03, 2025•50 min
Philadelphia, 1876: Bananas first captivated the American public at the World’s Fair, but their journey to supermarket shelves is steeped in blood and corporate greed. This episode uncovers the dark history of the United Fruit Company—now Chiquita Brands—and its role in government overthrows, civil wars, and massacres across Latin America. From the 1928 Banana Massacre in Colombia to the CIA-backed Guatemalan coup of 1954, we peel back the layers of history’s most controversial fruit. A chilling...
Dec 27, 2024•35 min
In the 1930s and 40s, an unassuming candy shop in Brownsville, Brooklyn, doubled as the headquarters for Murder Inc., the Mafia's secretive enforcement arm. Led by ruthless figures like Louis “Lepke” Buchalter and Albert “Mad Hatter” Anastasia, this group of killers carried out hundreds of hits with chilling efficiency, shaping the underworld of organized crime. Discover how the mob’s "middlemen for murder" rose to power, upheld their deadly code, and eventually met their own violent demise. Aut...
Dec 20, 2024•36 min
