Episodes

  • Episode 213: Sonya Ivanoff | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

    Episode 213: Sonya Ivanoff | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
    Sep 7 2025
    In August of 2003 Sonya Ivanoff went missing after parting ways with her best friend and roommate. Within hours of being reported missing her body was found in a remote old mining road in Nome, Alaska. Police were shocked by the lack of evidence at the scene. It made them wonder if their killer had done this before…

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    Sources:
    https://law.justia.com/cases/alaska/court-of-appeals/2021/a-13016.html
    https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ivanoff-24
    https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2018/08/23/from-2003-nome-police-must-work-to-regain-trust-after-officer-charged-with-murder/
    https://www.oxygen.com/dateline-unforgettable/crime-news/alaska-officer-matt-owens-convicted-murder-sonya-ivanoff
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/579071706/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/1061988740/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/1061933416/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/1137349180/?match=1&terms=sonya%20ivanoff
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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • Episode 212: Retha Stratton | The Cheerleader Stalker

    Episode 212: Retha Stratton | The Cheerleader Stalker
    Aug 24 2025
    In the sleepy Fort Worth enclave of River Oaks football, like in all Texas towns, was king. The energy surrounding Friday nights under the stadium lights was electric. Football wasn’t just a game, it was a way of life. The players were hometown heroes, the cheerleaders their shining counterparts, and together they stood at the center of the community’s pride. To many, they were untouchable teenage gods living out through their glory years. But when whispers of fear began to spread, that illusion of safety cracked. Someone out there was watching the cheerleaders. Hunting them. One by one, the girls who had once been celebrated as the town’s brightest stars would become targets in a chilling game of obsession that would end in blood. What seemed like the plot in the newest slasher film quickly became the reality for the students of Castleberry High School in 1981.


    Sources:
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-reunion/
    Murder Under the Friday Night Lights, Season 1 Episode 1
    https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/convict-to-return-to-prison-for-jailhouse-romance/285-342720631
    https://law.justia.com/cases/texas/second-court-of-appeals/2010/21828.html
    https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/tx-court-of-appeals/1410329.html
    https://www.tuko.co.ke/facts-lifehacks/celebrity-biographies/485957-where-wesley-miller-today-retha-strattons-prison-sentence/
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-reunion/
    Newspapers.com
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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • Episode 211: Dan O'Connell and James Ellison | The Deaths at the Funeral Home

    Episode 211: Dan O'Connell and James Ellison | The Deaths at the Funeral Home
    Aug 10 2025
    Hudson, Wisconsin is a sleepy, quiet community bordering the St. Croix river. In 2002, as the rest of the country adjusted to the growing crime rates of the 21st century Hudson locked itself away in its tight northwest corner of the state. Everyone truly knew everyone and daily interactions between the residents resembled episodes from Leave It to Beaver and The Andy Griffith Show. That was why, when a beloved member of their community was murdered, the town was left reeling. It would be difficult, but, in order to catch the killer, the town would have to face their demons.

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    2 hrs
  • Episode 210: The Murder of Katrina Smith

    Episode 210: The Murder of Katrina Smith
    Jul 27 2025
    In late October of 2012 the sudden disappearance of Katrina Smith left an Illinois community reeling. As the days went on the search for her revealed troubling clues as to what had happened to her. Detectives in this case were confronted with many bizarre circumstances and possible suspects, but it would be the revelation of a shocking secret that would lead them straight to their killer.

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    Sources:
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/hidden-past-led-katrina-smiths-killer/story?id=104055372
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/katrina-smith-her-husband-thought-033832831.html
    https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Resources/fd640f4a-f898-4ca4-9e9a-bb6ddcbf9afe/2170299_R23.pdf#:~:text=Trial%20court%20affirmed.,in%20the%20Department%20of%20Corrections.
    Articles retrieved from the Chicago Tribune, The Times (Streator, Il), Northwest Herald, Southtown Star, and The Daily Republican-Register through Newspapers.com between the dates of 2012-2018
    20/20 Aired October 23, 2023
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Episode 209: The Murder of Barbara Jean Horn

    Episode 209: The Murder of Barbara Jean Horn
    Jul 14 2025
    In the late afternoon of July 12, 1988 the neighborhood search for four year old Barbara Jean Horn would end abruptly after the girl’s body was discovered completely washed and nude in a television box just over a quarter of a mile from her home. The hunt for the man that committed the horrific crime and the subsequent trials that would follow would expose other wrong doings and injustices in the city of Philadelphia.

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    Sources:
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/186267498/?match=1&terms=barbara%20jean%20horn
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/169372109/?match=1&terms=barbara%20jean%20horn
    https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Barbara_Jean_Horn
    https://northeasttimes.com/2020/04/09/barbara-jean-horns-mom-release-walter-ogrod-he-is-innocent/
    https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/barbara-jean-horn-murder-philadelphia-walter-ogrod/
    https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/2003/07/17/man-confesses-to-1987-rape/50978184007/
    https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6825730-The-Snitch-Career-Thief-A-Master-at-Dropping-the/
    https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/investigations/former-philadelphia-police-detectives-frank-jastrzembski-manuel-santiago-martin-devlin-perjury-lying-trial-wrongfully-convicted-man-anthony-wright/4144229/
    The Trials of Walter Ogrod by Thomas Lowenstein
    Chicago Review Press
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    2 hrs and 11 mins
  • Episode 208: The Eastburn Family Murders | A Chance Encounter

    Episode 208: The Eastburn Family Murders | A Chance Encounter
    Jun 29 2025
    In the second part of our two part series on the Eastburn family we will cover the suspect and the subsequent court hearings that will follow. Please be advised that this episode contains sexual assault and crimes against children.

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    Sources:
    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder
    Three trial for murder By Nicholas Schmidle

    Innocent Victims: The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders by Scott Whisnant
    Open Roads Media
    https://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/newcaaf/opinions/2019OctTerm/170263.pdf
    https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/hennis-v-united-states/
    https://5clpp.com/2020/02/10/the-relationship-between-dual-sovereignty-and-double-jeopardy-the-trials-of-tim-hennis/
    https://www.stripes.com/news/soldier-on-death-row-will-ask-the-military-s-highest-court-to-overturn-his-conviction-1.603983
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/25-years-later-widower-recalls-slain-family
    https://abcnews.go.com/2020/3rd-trial-master-sgt-timothy-hennis-guilty-1985/story?id=10324918
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/655987126/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/984728037/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/655994809/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/gary-jana-eastburns-nightmare-odyssey-convict-familys-killer/story?id=11644539
    https://www.cityviewnc.com/stories/president-leaves-military-defendants-on-death-row-after-commuting-others/
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    2 hrs and 1 min
  • Episode 207: The Eastburn Family Murders | Discovery

    Episode 207: The Eastburn Family Murders | Discovery
    Jun 15 2025
    On Mother's Day 1985, a call came into the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department that neighbors had not seen a mother of three, nor her three children in days. When they had gone to check on the welfare of the family, they could hear the youngest of the daughters crying. When they had looked through her window, they saw the toddler alone, wailing, desperately seeking comfort. A deputy came to respond to the distressing call, but it would not be the condition of the poor child that would shock the city of Fayetteville, it would be the horrors that lay beyond her room.

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    Sources:
    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder
    Three trial for murder By Nicholas Schmidle

    Innocent Victims: The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders by Scott Whisnant
    Open Roads Media
    https://www.armfor.uscourts.gov/newcaaf/opinions/2019OctTerm/170263.pdf
    https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/hennis-v-united-states/
    https://5clpp.com/2020/02/10/the-relationship-between-dual-sovereignty-and-double-jeopardy-the-trials-of-tim-hennis/
    https://www.stripes.com/news/soldier-on-death-row-will-ask-the-military-s-highest-court-to-overturn-his-conviction-1.603983
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/25-years-later-widower-recalls-slain-family
    https://abcnews.go.com/2020/3rd-trial-master-sgt-timothy-hennis-guilty-1985/story?id=10324918
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/655987126/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/984728037/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/655994809/?match=1&terms=Timothy%20Hennis
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/gary-jana-eastburns-nightmare-odyssey-convict-familys-killer/story?id=11644539
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Episode 206: Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman | Solved

    Episode 206: Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman | Solved
    Jun 1 2025
    The history of Craig County Oklahoma is filled with stories of sadness and chaos.
    Today we will be discussing another time that blood was spilled on the dirt of Craig County, but this time there was no massive conflict or war, this was an entirely different kind of modern tragedy for two families in late December of 1999. It was an exciting time, not only was it one of their 16th birthdays but they were on the precipice of new millennium, an exciting new year. To celebrate this the girls planned a sleepover. The night was supposed to be filled with whispered secrets, junk food and laughter, but instead it encompassed their final hours, which were marked by unimaginable terror.

    Sources:
    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/04/18/records-released-in-shooting-death/62098673007/
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/662257052/?match=1&terms=shane%20freeman
    https://www.newson6.com/story/67731da48a4b0cd5008f7dd9/25-years-later:-the-1999-disappearance-of-lauria-bible-and-ashley-freeman
    https://unsolved.com/gallery/lauria-bible-ashley-freeman/
    https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2002/04/18/records-released-in-shooting-death/62098673007/
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13038073/kathy-eleta-freeman
    https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/more-than-12-people-kept-silent-after-oklahoma-girls-disappeared-in-1999-prosecutors-say/520-b2f75c47-9eea-48fa-b88f-31a7b5797532
    https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=PI002
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/lauria-bible-and-ashley-freeman-murder-mystery-dark-forces-at-work/2XAINSQXRXXVT4NKWFNS22R3OQ/
    https://people.com/crime/people-magazine-investigates-overlooked-clue-broke-open-1999-murder-case/
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180926224748/https://www.tulsaworld.com/specialreports/missingwelchgirls/
    https://odcr.com/detail?court=018-&casekey=018-CF++1800056
    https://www.okhouse.gov/posts/news-20250312_5
    https://www.koamnewsnow.com/phil-welch-mug/image_2e20efd4-f88a-11ef-8546-eb0aed0f10dc.html
    https://kfor.com/news/local/25-years-later-families-continue-search-for-missing-oklahoma-teens/
    https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-welch-girls-cold-case-picher-ashley-freeman-lauria-bible/41759447
    Hell in the Heartland Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls By Jax Miller


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    2 hrs and 5 mins