Cleveland, Ohio. October 2009. A foul odor seeps from a modest two-story home in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood. When police finally investigate 12205 Imperial Avenue, they make a discovery that shocks the nation: the bodies of eleven women, decomposing in shallow graves inside the house, buried in the backyard, and hidden in crawlspaces.

The man responsible is Anthony Sowell — a convicted sex offender who had been living freely, undisturbed, for years. His victims were mostly poor, Black women from the surrounding community. Many had been reported missing. Most had been ignored.

As the investigation unfolded, a second horror emerged: the failure of the systems meant to protect them. Reports went unanswered. Warnings were dismissed. The women were forgotten — until it was too late.

This episode retraces the chilling story of the Cleveland Strangler, from the disturbing conditions inside 12205 Imperial Avenue to the trial, the house’s demolition, and the legacy of a city forced to reckon with who it listens to — and who it doesn’t.

📍 Featured Address: 12205 Imperial Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence, sexual assault, and the murder of multiple women. Listener discretion strongly advised.

Box Hill, Victoria. July 7th, 1984.
A quiet winter night in suburban Melbourne turned into a waking nightmare when a young mother, Margaret Tapp, and her two children — 9-year-old Seana and 7-year-old Shaun — were brutally murdered in their home on Kent Street.

There was no forced entry. No robbery. No motive. Just a devastating act of violence carried out with surgical precision.

The killer? David Bennett, a 15-year-old neighbor who had once babysat the children. The boy across the lane.

What followed was one of Australia's most haunting and controversial murder cases — a psychological unraveling, a courtroom drama, and a parole decision that still leaves the community reeling.

This episode examines the tragedy behind closed doors, the failures of justice, and the lingering weight of a house that refuses to forget.

Because some crimes fade.
And others echo forever through the walls.

📍 Featured Address: Kent Street, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence and the murder of children. Listener discretion strongly advised.

Westfield, New Jersey. November 9th, 1971. Inside a grand 19-room mansion nicknamed Breeze Knoll, John List murdered his entire family—his wife, his mother, and his three teenage children—one by one. Then he cleaned the crime scene, wrote a five-page confession, turned on organ music over the intercom, and vanished.

For nearly a month, no one knew they were gone. The house remained eerily lit, with mail piling up and the lights burning out one by one. Inside, the bodies lay on sleeping bags in the ballroom. A perfectly staged funeral. A month-long silence.

List wouldn’t be captured for 18 years. By the time he was arrested in Denver, Colorado, under a false name, he had remarried and rebuilt his life. Calm. Ordinary. Unrepentant.

This episode explores the delusions of a man who believed murder was salvation, the months of horror trapped inside a house that never made a sound, and the town of Westfield that learned even the quietest homes can hide something monstrous.

📍 Featured Address: 431 Hillside Avenue, Westfield, NJ
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of familicide, child victims, religiously motivated violence. Listener discretion strongly advised.