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.

Cincinnati, Ohio. September 25th, 1966. A quiet Sunday evening in the Kennedy Heights neighborhood. Jerry and Linda Bricca tucked their four-year-old daughter Debbie into bed after dinner out at Frisch’s Big Boy. They were never seen alive again.

The next day, the family was found murdered in their home—stabbed multiple times, no signs of forced entry, no sounds heard by neighbors. The killer used a knife from the family’s own kitchen. Locked the door behind them. Disappeared.

Whispers began to spread. About Linda’s charm, her admirer at the veterinary clinic. About Jerry’s work at Monsanto. About how a family could be wiped out in silence.

This episode explores one of Cincinnati’s most chilling unsolved crimes, the theory of an obsessive killer who was never charged, and the tidy suburban home where the American Dream was shattered in a single night.

📍 Featured Address: 3381 Greenway Avenue, Cincinnati, OH
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of family murder, child victim, and unsolved violent crime. Listener discretion strongly advised.

Carnation, Washington. December 24th, 2007. A quiet rural town nestled among pine trees, where the holidays feel sacred. But inside a small wood-paneled home on 127th Place, six members of the Anderson family—spanning three generations—were executed on Christmas Eve.

Wayne and Judy Anderson, their son Scott, his girlfriend Erika, and two young children, Olivia and Nathan, were murdered by someone they knew. Michele Anderson—the couple’s daughter—and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, carried out one of the most chilling family annihilations in American history.

The motive? Grudges. Resentment. Entitlement. The killers stayed in the house for hours after the murders, sitting among the bodies, letting the holiday pass. It took two full days before anyone discovered what had happened.

This episode traces the path from simmering family tension to full-blown massacre, and explores how a house meant for joy and gathering became the site of a calculated, intimate horror. Even years later, that home in Carnation still carries the weight of what happened within its walls.

📍 Featured Address: 23119 127th Place NE, Carnation, WA
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of familicide, violence against children, and holiday-related trauma. Listener discretion strongly advised.

Chicago, Illinois. February 2nd, 2016. A cold Tuesday afternoon in the quiet neighborhood of Gage Park. For two full days, a modest red-brick bungalow sat silent. Inside, it held one of the most horrifying crime scenes in recent Chicago memory.

Six members of the Martinez family—three generations—were found brutally murdered inside their home. Noe and Rosa Martinez, their daughter Maria, their son Noe Jr., and Maria’s two young sons, Leonardo and Alexis. All beaten and stabbed. All left where they fell.

There was no forced entry. No robbery. Just a carefully executed massacre that unfolded in stages over hours. And the killer? He wasn’t a stranger.

This episode traces the full timeline of the Gage Park murders, from the eerie stillness of the crime scene to the unraveling of a case built on betrayal. We explore the psychology of the killer—Diego Uribe, the victims’ own nephew—and the lingering trauma held within the walls of 5706 South California Avenue.

It’s a story of trust broken, of silence that lasted too long, and a home that now carries a legacy of unbearable loss.

📍 Featured Address: 5706 South California Avenue, Chicago, IL
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence, child victims, and familial homicide. Listener discretion strongly advised.

Austin, Texas. December 6th, 1991. A Friday night in a thriving city known for its music, its charm, and its safety. But that illusion shattered when a fire at a local yogurt shop revealed a horror no one could have imagined.

Four teenage girls — Amy Ayers, Sarah Harbison, Eliza Thomas, and Jennifer Harbison — were found bound, gagged, and murdered inside the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! store. The shop was set ablaze in an attempt to cover up the crime, but the violence could not be erased.

Despite early arrests and confessions, the case has never truly been solved. DNA evidence conflicted with police narratives. Convictions were overturned. And decades later, Austin still doesn’t know who took those girls' lives.

This episode explores the failed investigation, the haunting physical space of 2949 West Anderson Lane, and the families left to endure a justice system that never delivered. It is a story of fire, silence, and four girls whose laughter still echoes through the city’s memory.

📍 Featured Address: 2949 West Anderson Lane, Austin, TX
⚠️ Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of violence, arson, and the murder of minors. Listener discretion strongly advised.

Medford, Oregon.

A quiet home tucked behind trees. A neighborhood that felt safe — until it wasn’t.

In October 1995, Julie Ramirez and her two young daughters, Danielle and Ava, were murdered inside their home at 29 Ingram Street. The killer was Julie’s estranged husband — a man she had tried to leave, a man who refused to let go.

This episode traces the story of a woman seeking peace, a family trying to rebuild, and a system that didn’t move fast enough. We walk through the rooms of that house — the living room, the bedrooms, the silence afterward — and ask how many warning signs go unheeded before tragedy strikes.

📍 Featured Address: 29 Ingram Street, Medford, Oregon ⚠️ Content Warning: Domestic violence, filicide, psychological trauma, and detailed discussion of intimate partner homicide. Listener discretion is strongly advised.