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True Crime Mania

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True Crime Mania tells you horrific stories from around the world that you've probably never heard of !

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The mysterious disappearance of the Lonergan family

On 25 January 1998, American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan mysteriously disappeared while on a scuba diving trip off the coast of Australia. A month later, two wetsuits and a disturbing message appeared off a Queensland beach: Forgotten at sea? Eaten by sharks? What really happened to the Lonergans? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 13, 202138 min

Denise Morelle : Justice for "Dame Plume"

On July 18, 1984, Denise Morelle, a famous Quebec actress, was found raped and brutally murdered in a flat. For her family, her stage friends and her fans, the death of "Dame Plume" caused deep consternation. For who could have been so angry at this simple, respectful woman as to subject her to such abuse and kill her with such barbarity? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dec 06, 202139 min

The tragic story of the Dionne sisters

On 28 May 1934, on a small farm in Canada, Elzire Dionne beat the odds to give birth to five identical girls. They are the first recorded quintuplets in the world to survive infancy. The girls became wards of the state, housed in a nursery that eventually turned into Quintland, a tourist attraction for visitors from around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 29, 202137 min

Beatrice Bowe case, the murder of the over possessive mother in law!

On 6 April 2017 in Durrenbach, a small town near Strasbourg, a horrifying tragedy shook the surrounding tranquillity. Beatrice Bowe, a 60-year-old pensioner, was found in her house, stabbed with thirty-six stabs and her face torn off. Who could blame the woman that everyone so affectionately called "Granny Football"? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 22, 202143 min

The curse of the Cecil Hotel

Murders, suicides, settling of scores, revenge, creaking doors, black water running from the taps, corpses hidden under the floor...but what is the curse that pursues the Cecil Hotel, a place that has everything to impress! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nov 15, 202140 min

Chloe Ayling, kidnapped to be sold on the dark web

Chloe Ayling is a young English model. At just twenty years old, she has several magazine covers to her credit. However, everything changed on 10 July 2017, when she was invited to take part in a photo shoot in a Milanese studio. Drugged, handcuffed, thrown into the trunk of a car, the nightmare begins for Chloe when she learns that auctions are underway for her sale on the dark web to a powerful human trafficking network: The Black Death Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Nov 08, 202137 min

The Thousand and One Lives of Billy Milligan

Billy Milligan is a suspect like no other. He is under arrest for the kidnapping and repeated rape of three young girls he kidnapped. On closer inspection, the twenty-three year old accused may look like any other young man of his age. However, after thorough psychological examinations, it turns out that Billy Milligan is not the person they thought he was. For in reality, there is not just one Billy, but many! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Nov 01, 202140 min

The Disappeared of the Isère : Cold cases

Between 1983 and 1996, the department of Isère experienced one of its darkest periods when children between the ages of five and fifteen began to disappear mysteriously. Some were found murdered while others were never found. Who is behind the disappearance of the children? A serial killer, a dangerous sexual predator? Are they one, two or more individuals? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 25, 202139 min

Andree Farre (the well of hell)

On 9 February 1949, on a cold windy day, a corpse floating in a wicker trunk was discovered in the Puits d'Enfer chasm in Les Sables-d'Olonne. Only one element makes it possible to identify the victim, the initials "R.T." sewn into his suit. Two culprits are in the police's sights: Andree Farre, a housekeeper, and her lover Roland Plannet, a young idler. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 18, 202139 min

Shoko Asahara, Tokyo subway sarin attack

It is Monday, March 20, 1995, and many commuters on the underground lines in the outskirts of Tokyo are waiting for their train to go to work. Suddenly, disaster strikes! An unbearable smell invades the carriages, the passengers feel increasingly ill and struggle to breathe. That day, five underground lines were hit by a deadly sarin gas attack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 11, 202140 min

Michel piery, from obscure sexual impulses to crime

Michel Peiry, or "The Sadist of Romont", is a Swiss serial killer whose crimes were committed between 1981 and 1987. All that is known about him is that he handpicks his victims: teenage boys hitchhiking home at night, whom he picks up in his vehicle before gagging, raping and burning them alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oct 04, 202140 min

Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Moors murders

In the early 1960s, mysterious child abductions and murders were making headlines. Between July 1963 and October 1965, five children and teenagers were horribly raped and mutilated and their remains buried on Saddleworth Moor. The long investigation led by the Manchester Police Department will gradually shed light on two immoral and demonic personalities: Myra Hindley is a charming blonde, and her partner, Ian Brady! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 27, 202140 min

kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby

At the beginning of the 20th century, the American pilot Charles Lindbergh became famous for his famous 33-hour flight from New York to Paris in his Spirit of Saint Louis monoplane. But at the height of his professional career, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrrow were faced with an unprecedented tragedy: on 1 March 1932, Chaz, their twenty-month-old baby, disappeared under mysterious circumstances, having been kidnapped. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Sep 20, 202140 min

Columbine High School shooting

On 20 April 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, two teenagers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, opened fire on their fellow students at Columbine High School. The two boys, armed with a veritable arsenal of weapons, fired for fifty minutes non-stop at students and teachers..., before the killing spree ended with the suicide of the two friends! The questions then arise: why did Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two intelligent and cultured teenagers, commit the irreparable? What was the trigger for this duet...

Sep 13, 202139 min

Leonarda Cianciulli, the soap-maker of Correggio

Leonarda Cianciulli was born in 1893 and died in 1970. She is widely considered to be the Correggio's soapmaid. In case you don't know her, let me tell you that she killed three women in Reggio Emilia. These incidents occurred from 1939 to 1940, and the worst part is that she turned their corpses into cakes and soap. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sep 06, 202139 min

Elizabeth wettlaufer, the killer nurse

Elizabeth wettlaufer is an ex-nurse...a serial killer in a white coat. No one would have suspected that this pleasant, plump lady in her fifties from Ontario would commit crimes of such cruelty and with such methodical coolness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 30, 202138 min

Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo

Between 1987 and 1990, a series of rapes by an elusive assailant shook the peace of mind of the residents of the Canadian city of Toronto. "The Scarborough Rapist, as he was dubbed in the media, always drugged and sedated them before sexually assaulting them. The rapist always worked in tandem with his wife and accomplice who acted as a flirt. This couple is Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka! No one could have discovered their secret, not even their families. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Aug 23, 202138 min

The exorcism of Anneliese Michel

Annaliese Michel, a twenty-three year old German woman, spent long periods of time in various clinics in the late sixties. And Anneliese never knew what she was really suffering from! Convinced that their daughter is possessed, her parents call in two exorcising priests to get rid of the possible entity that seems to have haunted her. But things don't go as planned: her condition deteriorates rapidly, her physical and vocal metamorphosis is frightening and her seizures become uncontrollable. For...

Aug 16, 202138 min

The Toa Payoh ritual murders

In the early 1980s, Singapore experienced its darkest and most difficult times. It was in this context that the terrible crimes of the Toa Payoh district took place, in which two young children were kidnapped, tortured and then murdered in sordid and horrible conditions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 09, 202137 min

The Order of the Solar Temple

Between October 1994 and March 1997, 74 people died: burnt in fires and placed in circles in cottages. Order of the Solar Temple remains, to this day, one of the biggest sectarian aberrations of the end of the 20th century. Who is really behind the glossy façade of the two emblematic gurus, Jo Di Mambro and Luc Jouret? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aug 02, 202143 min

The poquianchis : Most Feared Serial Killer Sisters

In the early 1960s, Mexican society was shocked to learn of the heinous crimes committed by four women; the González Valenzuela sisters, María de Jesús, María del Carmen, María Luisa and Delfina. They died as serial killers, witches, torturers and pimps. Around these four women a horror legend worthy of the best black novels was born. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 26, 202143 min

Alexia Daval : Almost perfect conjugal crime

Alexia Daval, a young woman of 29, mysteriously disappeared while going for a jog. Her husband Jonathann Daval, not seeing her return all day, reported her disappearance to the gendarmes. Two days later, Alexia's half-charred body was finally found by the gendarmes of the Saône. But strange as it may seem, suspicions begin to weigh on this fragile and grieving husband... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 19, 202140 min

Lindy Chamberlain, accused of killing her child

Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton was at the centre of one of Australia's most high-profile murder trials, in which she was convicted of the murder of her baby daughter, Azaria. But the mother claims that it was Crazy who killed the girl...The conviction was later overturned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 12, 202141 min

Chris Watts, the family next door

Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shannan and his two daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, and buried their bodies at an oil yard. At first Watts denied being involved in the deaths of his wife and daughters, but a few days later he confessed to strangling Shannan and suffocating his two daughters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 04, 202139 min

The enigmatic vanishing of Betty Belshaw

On January 6, 1979, Cyril Belshaw, a prominent Canadian anthropologist, is on holiday in Paris with his wife Betty Joe. When they are due to meet for lunch, Betty fails to show up. But three months later, the mysterious body of a woman is found under a bridge and many believe it is that of the missing woman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 03, 202142 min

Lee Choon-jae, the killer who inspired "Memories of Murder"

Between 15 September 1986 and 3 April 1991, no less than ten victims were counted in one province in South Korea, all female, aged between 13 and 70 and wearing at least one red garment. How to find the criminal at a time when neither telephone tracing nor DNA data exploitation exists yet? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jul 01, 202140 min

David koresh and the apocalyptic sect of the Davidians

With his nerdy glasses and his air of a young man, David Koresh was as charismatic as he was unpredictable and dangerous! However, in his early days, nothing suggested the diabolical spirit of the man who would lead his followers into a suicidal madness, sparing neither men, nor women, nor young children. The siege of Waco, which dramatically closed the history of the Davidians, remains one of the most infamous sectarian episodes in the United States. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m...

Jun 29, 202140 min

The Witches of Salem: between myths and facts!

In 1692, Abigail Williams and her cousin Betty Parris, two young girls belonging to the very rigorous Puritan community of Salem, begin to show worrying signs of demonic possession. Soon, other girls join them, claiming to have the same symptoms. For their community, all this has only one explanation: they have been bewitched, someone has cast a spell on them, but who and why? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jun 28, 202139 min
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