In 1977, a couple built a Satanically-inspired mansion in rural Georgia. They called their abode Corpsewood Manor. Five years later, a gruesome double-murder made the home true to its name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In August 1969, eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant actress Sharon Tate was on top of the world, living the Hollywood dream. That is, until it turned into the bloodiest kind of Hollywood nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2011, 17-year-old Tyler Hadley threw a wild house party in Port St. Lucie, Florida. What his guests didn’t know was that on the other side of a locked door, dead bodies lay hidden. A jarring confession ignited a race against time to end the revelry for good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the 1990s, the Club Kids ruled the New York City party scene. They represented fun, freedom, and self-expression — until a grisly murder rocked their tight-knit community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With Marion’s killer in custody, a trial was set for January 1928. 19-year-old William Hickman immediately began laying the ground for his defense. But no matter how outrageous his tactics, Hickman eventually had to face the punishment for his grisly crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ten days before Christmas 1927, a smooth-talking man walked into a school in Los Angeles and convinced the office to let him take 12-year-old Marion Parker. Despite her desperate father’s attempts to get her back, she was murdered in a manner so ghastly, thousands of officers and volunteers organized an interstate manhunt for her killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. James Snook was a respected veterinarian, family man, and former Olympian. But by the time his trial was over, he was a condemned murderer. Revealing details about his affair with Theora that were too salacious to print, Snook confessed to the gruesome events that ended his young lover’s life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the summer of 1929, the body of 24-year-old Theora Hix was found on a shooting range in Columbus, Ohio. The investigation into her murder surfaced two suspects: a jilted ex, and a secret lover. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There was no doubt who committed the brutal assaults, or why. As another victim succumbed to his wounds, a search party hunted for Nicholas Behan — who, long after his trial and execution, remained a ghoulish figure in Long Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the spring of 1854, a failed courtship exploded into violence at a farm in Long Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Using little more than witness reports and a beer bottle, officers tracked down the kidnappers haunting Vancouver, Washington. In 1953, authorities finally put an end to the pair's reign of terror. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1950, countless locals watched two men force JoAnn Dewey into a dark sedan — but nobody tried to intervene. Police in Vancouver, Washington used what little evidence they had to track down the kidnappers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1895, Bridget Cleary vanished from her home after weeks of a protracted illness. Many in the area suspected she had been abducted by fairies, but investigators would discover that something much darker explained her strange disappearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1800s Ireland, County Tipperary was steeped in superstitions and folk traditions. Many who lived there believed in the existence of fairies. Those beliefs would result in one of the most brutal and vicious murders in Irish history: the killing of Bridget Cleary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After his abduction on July 7th, 1960, Graeme Thorne's body was discovered in a vacant lot in Sydney, Australia. The entire country longed to see his killer brought to justice, and the identity of his killer would surprise everyone who followed the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On July 7th, 1960, eight-year-old Graeme Thorne vanished from the convenience store he often visited before walking to school. His disappearance would turn into the first child abduction and ransoming Australia had ever experienced, and would shake his hometown of Sydney to the core. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The atmosphere was tense as the trial against Alma Rattenbury and her 18-year-old lover began. After five days of testimony, the jury returned their verdict. But the fates of Alma and the young George Stoner would not follow any ruling from the court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Late one evening in March 1935, Alma Rattenbury found her husband barely alive in the drawing room of their Bournemouth, England home. As Francis Rattenbury’s life hung in the balance, police began to investigate, and two shocking confessions complicated the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By February 1969, Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki had been missing for weeks, and things were looking grim. What began as a search for two missing women exploded into a hunt for a serial killer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On January 23, 1969, two college students went on a weekend trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts. They never returned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 1840 trial for the calculated murder of Lord William Russell had one defendant and multiple witnesses — but everyone seemed suspect: the housemaid who discovered his body, the valet who had been pilfering his money, even the police investigating the case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In May 1840, a well-known English aristocrat was found dead in his London home after what appeared to be a botched robbery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After the slaying of Wilson Turner, the all-powerful bootlegger who killed him seemed untouchable. But dramatic turns in the investigation would change one county in Georgia forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On April 20, 1948, residents of rural Coweta County, Georgia, saw a man named Wilson Turner get chased down and beaten in the middle of a campground parking lot. As his attacker hauled him away, witnesses were sure they recognized the man who beat him… but they weren't convinced the legal system could do anything to stop him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Just over a week after Bobby Franks’ body was found, his teenaged killers confessed, revealing a motive too callous to believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the early 1920s, some of Chicago’s wealthiest families became horribly intertwined after the murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The death of young Oceana Snead was dubbed a “bathtub tragedy” — but as investigators tracked her mysterious, veiled caretakers, they uncovered evidence of a callous crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1909, 24-year-old Oceana Snead died of an apparent suicide — but the case was far less clear-cut than the woman’s aunt, Virginia Wardlaw, would have police believe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
After Jane Britton's death in 1969, police suspected that one of her instructors may have been responsible for her gruesome murder. But the ensuing investigation would reveal the real culprit in a way nobody could have predicted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In January 1969, anthropology student Jane Britton was brutally murdered in her own apartment. The case gained national attention when evidence at the scene seemed to implicate certain members of Harvard's faculty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
