When 23-year-old Linda Fleming disappeared in West Yorkshire on the 22nd of January 1993, the community immediately stepped up and began looking for her. 6 days into the search, there was still no sign of Linda or any clues to her whereabouts, so her boyfriend, Stuart Williamson, her father Derek, and her brother, also named Stuart, appealed for information before press and television cameras. During the press conference, fighting back tears, Linda’s father, Derek Fleming, said, “Wherever you ar...
Jun 30, 2023•23 min
On the 9th of January 2008, Sophie Elliott was excited and ready for a new stage in her life. She had recently ended an on and off again relationship with her abusive ex-boyfriend Clayton Weatherston, and was looking forward to a free and happy future. She was packing up her life in her bedroom as she had just gotten her dream job 500 miles away and was due to leave shortly. But her ex-boyfriend Clayton wouldn't let this happen. He turned up unannounced at her house and stabbed her 216 times in ...
Jun 22, 2023•40 min
When 36-year-old Army Veteran Maribel Ramos didn't show up to her softball game on the 3rd of May, 2013, her family immediately began to worry. Her roommate KC Joy, had also reported her missing at around 10:40am, saying that she had not come home that previous night. Her family made several attempts to contact her but when this failed, they immediately sprung into action and started searching for her. They scoured the city for any trace of her, but sadly, in a horrifying twist of events, about ...
Jun 14, 2023•34 min
On January 27th 2008 at around 8:35 pm, in Bridgwater, a town in Canada, the Police Department received a report of a missing 12-year-old girl, Karissa Boudreau. The report came in from her mother Penny Boudreau. Penny claimed that she had left her daughter sat in the car in the supermarket’s shopping centre, as she went inside to shop for groceries. On Penny’s return to the vehicle, Karissa was no longer inside. As the extensive investigation and search for Karissa went underway, Penny made a t...
May 31, 2023•20 min
When Chad Hebert heard that his 2 children, Camille and Braxton Hebert, had not arrived at school that day, and his ex-wife had also not gone to work, he immediately panicked and contacted the police. When police arrived at Amy’s house, they found the doors deadlocked and no response was coming from inside, so they broke in. When they reached the master bedroom, they found Amy Hebert in bed with her 2 children and the family dog. What had caused Amy Hebert to do this to her children and the fami...
May 22, 2023•26 min
On the 23rd January 2014, 5-year-old Garnett Spears sadly passed away in hospital due to swelling in his brain. He had been fatally poisoned by the one person who was meant to love him and protect him, the person in whose care he ought to feel the safest, and the person he should call family - his own mother, Lacey Spears. Why did Lacey Spears murder her own son in such a cruel and evil way? How could she do something so unspeakable to her own child? As the investigation unfolded, the true horro...
May 15, 2023•24 min
On June 15th 1990, Rosie Alfaro went to a friend's house in Anaheim, California as she desperately needed some money and planned to break in and steal some valuables. When she got to the house, she knocked on the front door, and her friends 9-year-old little sister Autumn answered. Little Autumn Wallace recognised her older sister's friend Rosie and let her inside as Rosie told her she needed to use the bathroom. As Autumn returned to what she had been doing – colouring paper dolls with crayones...
May 07, 2023•21 min
On February 11, 2011, police found 10-year-old Nubia Barahona, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag in the back of her adoptive step-father Jorge Barahona’s pickup truck along Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County. Her twin brother Victor, was also found inside the vehicle, severely injured but alive; he was suffering seizures due to being covered in chemical burns and inhalation of toxic gas. Their adoptive father, Jorge Barahona, was found passed out nearby. How had Nubia died? And who had hurt her t...
Apr 30, 2023•31 min
On the 18th of April 1987, Easter Weekend, 26-year-old Shani Warren’s body was found face down in Taplow Lake in England. Her wrists were tied with a car jump lead, and her ankles were tied by a tow rope. Her car was found abandoned nearby, with her personal items everywhere. Outrageously, a theory was suggested by a forensic pathologist that Shani had done this to herself, based on the looseness of the ties on her hands and that no other footprints were found alongside her stiletto heelprints a...
Apr 24, 2023•23 min
On the morning of 27th January 2015, police arrived at the doors of 12 Goske Street after receiving a strange call stating that intruders had broken into a house in one of the most exclusive estates in Stellenbosch, South Africa and attacked and killed the whole family with an axe. The call had come in just after 7am, from one of the survivors of the attack, 20-year-old Henri Van Breda, who strangely sounded very unphased…
Apr 11, 2023•24 min
"Grandad shot me mummy" were some of six-year-old Stanley Metcalf's last words. No one could foresee the tragedy that would occur in the village of Sproatley in Hull, England, on the 26th of July, 2018, when Stanley was shot in the abdomen by with own great-grandfather. As Stanley’s family mourned the loss of his innocent young life, questions were raised about how such a terrible event could have happened during a close-knit family gathering. Why would a 78-year-old fire towards his own great-g...
Apr 04, 2023•18 min
In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2013, tragedy struck young parents Jordan Monaghan and Laura Gray when their three-week-old baby, Ruby, was found dead in her Moses basket. Merely eight months later, their 21-month-old son, Logan, was also found dead in his pushchair after a trip to the swimming baths with his father. Six years after that, Jordan Monaghan’s new partner Evie Adams died from an overdose of prescription medication. How could one man suffer such misfortune, losing three loved on...
Mar 27, 2023•39 min
On March 6th 1995 Scott Amedure and Donna Riley took their friend Jonathan Schmitz on The Jenny Jones talk show and planned to drop a bombshell on Jon. In front of a live studio audience, Scott told Jon that he had a gay crush on him. In a shocking twist of events, three days later, one would end up dead. On March 9th 1995, Scott Amedure was shot and killed in his trailer home in Lake Orion, Michigan. Just minutes after his death, Jonathan Schmitz called 911 to confess. When asked by the 911 ope...
Mar 20, 2023•29 min
On the evening of the 26th of January 2018, Georgia Hooper aged just 14, was sitting in the car just inches away from her mother Cheryl Hooper. Suddenly a familiar ominous presence filled with jealousy and rage appeared out of nowhere and shot Cheryl twice through the windscreen at point-blank with a double-barrelled shotgun. With her daughter being the prime witness and there during the gruesome attack, they knew exactly who had murdered Cheryl Hooper, but why had he done it?...
Mar 11, 2023•29 min
When Carol Jarvis, a loving mother of 4 disappeared, her concerned children questioned their father Harry, about her whereabouts. After telling his children that she was in Dundee and would be back soon, they knew he was lying and hiding something. They reported Carol missing to the police, and after getting a search warrant to gain access to the family home, the police made a disturbing discovery decomposing under the floorboards of the house. They had found Carol, their mother, but now their f...
Mar 05, 2023•18 min
In 2009 on Valentine's day, Tiana Notice’s life was brutally taken away from her by her ex-boyfriend James Carter. In the months leading up to her murder, Tiana went to the police station over 33 times to report multiple violations of the restraining order she had against him, only to be sent away and told by the officers “it was a long weekend and they were short-staffed.” When James Carter left a handwritten letter on her door, she went directly to the police with the evidence she needed that ...
Feb 14, 2023•14 min
On March 13th, 1964, while walking back to her apartment in the Kew Gardens district of Queens, New York, Kitty Genovese was brutally attacked and killed. "For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law‐abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens" These were the words the New York Times would release about the attack. Kitty’s murder became a staple of psychological textbooks when discussing “the bystander effect” because it was pub...
Feb 12, 2023•20 min
On Monday, August 2nd, 1993, in the quaint village of Savona, New York, four-year-old Derrick Robie was found dead in a small patch of woods just half a block away from his home. An entire week would pass before his parents, Doreen and Dale Robie, and the rest of the village would get any answers. Derrick was only four years old. He had been lured away from the path he was walking and brutally beaten, choked and killed. Everyone in the community struggled to understand how anyone could impose su...
Jan 30, 2023•34 min
When 17-year-old Je'Rean Blake was shot dead outside a store in May 2010, the police found themselves with a suspect, Chauncey Owens. In a raid to arrest their suspected killer, the police stormed a house at Lillibridge, and a gunshot was heard; They would then discover that an innocent young girl had been shot. Her killer would try to justify his actions, claiming it was a mistake triggered by Aiyana’s grandmother's actions. The shooter insisted he had lost control of his gun for a few seconds....
Jan 23, 2023•34 min
When Devi Unmathallegadoo split from her husband, Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo, it was not long before she found love again. After marrying her new husband, Imtiaz Muhammed, Devi would become Sana Muhammed and would have high hopes of moving on, ready to start a new life filled with love and happiness... Her ex-husband, Ramanodge, however, would be filled with anger and jealousy, and he would do anything in his power to stop this from happening, quickly becoming a dangerous stalker in her life. How...
Jan 14, 2023•20 min
On Christmas morning in 2002, a policeman entered the Wholaver household to find all three Wholaver women dead. Jean Wholaver and her two daughters, Victoria and Elizabeth. All the phone lines had been cut, and the only survivor found inside was 9-months-old baby Madison, who was left in the arms of her deceased mother, Victoria Wholaver. Law enforcement immediately knew that the murders had been premeditated and extremely personal. Who would commit such a heinous crime and pull apart and break ...
Dec 31, 2022•23 min
Just five days after Christmas in 2017, at 10:19pm, Suffolk police received what they later described as one of the most bizarre 999 calls they had ever received. Stephen Searle calmly explained to police that he had killed his wife in their suburban house in the sleepy Suffolk town of Stowmarket. When paramedics arrived, 62 year old Anne Searle was found unresponsive and despite their best efforts, she was pronounced dead at the scene. Anne had been strangled by her husband of 45 years, before ...
Dec 24, 2022•23 min
It was a cold and gloomy Sunday afternoon in Beckton, East London, on the 2nd of October, 1994. Daniel Handley, a helpful nine-year-old, had returned home after earning a few coins at the local supermarket, where he often helped out customers to load their cars with their shopping. As he always did in his free time, he had then asked his mother, Maxine, if he was allowed to go to play at Alan's house, his best friend. Unknown to the dangers lurking around, Maxine had agreed to his request with s...
Nov 29, 2022•47 min
On April 2nd 1993, Ellie Nesler took the law into her own hands in a Northern California courtroom, by shooting to death Daniel Driver in the head and neck 5 times. 35-year-old Daniel Driver was a Christian camp employee who in the summer of 1988 allegedly abused the then 6-year-old son of Ellie Nesler, Willie Nesler. Ellie Nesler was praised by some as a protective mother, driven to act by the prospect of having her traumatised son testify against Driver in open court. Others criticised her for...
Nov 12, 2022•14 min
On the evening of the 11th September 1994, a gang of at least three men, one wearing a clown’s mask and a boiler suit, brandishing a knife, broke into Carol and Gordon Wardell's home in Bonneville Close, Meriden. Only Carol was home during the break-in. When her husband Gordon returned home from the pub later that night, he was attacked and drugged. He was overpowered and knocked unconscious with a chemical, and when he came around he found himself bound and gagged on the floor, alone, his wife ...
Nov 07, 2022•23 min
When 22 year old Janet Chandler was abducted whilst working her Night Shift at the Blue Mill Inn, detectives first believed it to be part of a robbery. However, when her naked body was found at 1am (2am?) in a wooded area buried in the snow, it would become clear to investigators that foal play was involved. Janet had died of strangulation, with clear evidence she had been bound and gagged for long periods before her death. Law enforcement would interview hundreds of people over years, chasing d...
Oct 06, 2022•38 min
Terry King loved being a dad and always wanted to be a good father to his two sons, Derek and Alex, but the family was destroyed when Terry died in a mysterious fire and the boys went missing. Who bludgeoned Terry King to death and then set the house on fire to cover it up? And were his two missing sons safe? Were they in danger, or even worse also dead? As the case would unfold, a twisted world of lies and deceit would be revealed. This is the chilling case of the King Family....
Sep 19, 2022•26 min
All week, Tyler had been telling his friends that he was going to throw a house party, but nobody believed him. He had never thrown a party before and there was no way his strict parents, Blake and Mary Jo would give their consent. However, the hours leading up to the party, Tyler confirmed that It was indeed happening over Facebook, saying that his parents would be out of town. Where exactly were Tyler’s parents and where had they travelled to? This is the shocking and horrible story of a troub...
Sep 12, 2022•22 min
One of Britain's youngest killers walks among us today, completely anonymous. After serving only 11 years in jail for the brutal manslaughter of 4-year-old Martin Brown, and 3-year-old Brian Howe, she was released at the age of 23. No one will ever know the whereabouts of a woman who, at the tender age of 11, took the lives of 2 young boys. This is the story of child killer Mary Bell.
Sep 08, 2022•18 min
17-year-old Jessica Dishon is missing, and all that’s left behind at the scene are her mobile phone, purse, backpack and 1 of her shoes. Who abducted and killed Jessica Dishon? Unfortunately, the world would have to wait fifteen years for her case to be solved due to issues such as police misconduct, contamination of evidence and false accusations... This is the story of the tragic murder of Jessica Dishon.
Sep 08, 2022•23 min
