Episodes

  • Episode 218: Nacole Smith and Betty Brown | A Monster in Atlanta

    Episode 218: Nacole Smith and Betty Brown | A Monster in Atlanta
    Nov 16 2025
    In 1995, the Campbellton Road neighborhood of southwest Atlanta was rocked by the brutal murder of 14 year old Nacole Smith. The crime would haunt the community for decades. Nearly ten years later, a young girl in nearby East Point survived a horrific attack with unsettling echoes of Nacole’s case. Join me as I tell John the heartbreaking cases of Nacole Smith and Betty Brown and we explore the parallel stories of two young victims, the forensics that tied their experiences together, and the long, painful wait for the truth.

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    Sources:
    https://www.disastercenter.com/georgia/crime/2726.htm
    https://www.atlantapublicschools.us/page/832
    https://www.newspapers.com/image/799530544/?match=1&terms=Nacole%20SMith
    https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/atlanta-nicole-smith
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/us/atlanta-child-murders.html
    https://www.ajc.com/news/local/years-later-year-old-brutal-killing-remains-unsolved/jBg57t8HJscJGpObfClDQL/
    Newspapers.com Accessed archived articles from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta Daily World, Atlanta Voice, and the Fulton COunty Daily Report from 1995-2022
    Cold Case Files: a Fatal Path
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlHQTDFNufg
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Episode 217: Daniel Morcombe | The Missing Minutes

    Episode 217: Daniel Morcombe | The Missing Minutes
    Nov 2 2025
    On December 7, 2003, 13-year-old Daniel Morcombe decided to spend his Sunday shopping at the Sunshine Plaza, hoping to find Christmas gifts for his family. To get there, he would need to take a 20-minute bus ride. As he waited for the bus, unaware that it had broken down, Daniel could never have imagined that a predator was lurking nearby, ready to take advantage of his unfortunate situation.

    Warning: This episode includes violence against children. A warning before this is discussed is provided within the show.

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    Sources:
    Kiels Mountain Road Underpass
    https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/10-years-later-the-life-and-death-of-daniel-morcombe/news-story/9f19aadc0645ea907316d2816e9b752d
    https://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2013/QSC13-337.pdf
    https://archive.sclqld.org.au/qjudgment/2015/QCA15-087.pdf
    Confession Video
    https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2003-040
    https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/prisoner-who-tortured-daniel-morcombes-killer-said-he-had-it-coming/0b69o2v2h
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/child-killer-laws/100665802
    https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/daniel-morcombe-murder-trial-brett-peter-cowans-second-confession-shown-in-court-20140227-33md8.html
    Crime Investigation Australia
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Episode 216: Listener Stories | Part IX

    Episode 216: Listener Stories | Part IX
    Oct 19 2025
    Join us for our ninth installment of listener stories!
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Episode 215: The Murder of Pamela Candelario

    Episode 215: The Murder of Pamela Candelario
    Oct 5 2025
    On the morning of January 16, 2014 a man was found yelling out for help on the sidewalk outside of his home in Walsenburg, CO. He had a traumatic brain injury and his wife had been murdered. After looking into the couple's family history the Colorado Bureau of Investigation discovered there were many possible suspects both within the family and out.

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    Sources:
    https://worldjournalnewspaper.com/tag/ralph-candelario/
    Newspapers.com Access
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Episode 214: The Murder of Mary Lou Arruda | The Devil in Massachusetts

    Episode 214: The Murder of Mary Lou Arruda | The Devil in Massachusetts
    Sep 21 2025
    On September 8, 1978 15 year old Raynham, MA resident, Mary Lou Arruda, was kidnapped while riding her bike to her friends house on the first friday of the new school year. Could her disappearance have had something to do with the fact that she grew up in the middle of what paranormal psychologists had coined the Bridgewater Triangle? Could it have been the work of the satanic cult who practiced their rituals in the Freetown State forest, or had the devil himself rode into town? Join me as I tell John the case of Mary Lou Arruda.

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    Sources:
    https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ma-supreme-judicial-court/1038292.html
    https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/01/26/no-tears-in-raynham-on/987501007/
    https://www.silvafuneralhome.com/obituaries/joanne-arruda
    https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/crime/2016/01/31/steve-damish-time-to-delete/32590506007/
    https://lailasnews.com/international/mary-lou-arruda-death-obituary-how-james-kater-death-happened/
    https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/02/01/decades-later-arruda-case-looms/32587202007/
    https://www.patriotledger.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/2020/10/28/enter-the-bridgewater-triangle-if/581946007/
    https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1983/388-mass-519-2.html#:~:text=*522%20On%20November%2011%2C%201978,afternoon%20of%20September%208%2C%201978.
    Articles from the Boston Globe from 1978-2002 accessed via Newspapers.com
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY

    Introducing: CRIME HOUSE DAILY
    Sep 15 2025
    Crime doesn’t take a day off. And neither does Crime House Daily. Hosted by self-defense instructor and advocate for victims, Katie Ring, Crime House Daily is coming to you twice every weekday, covering the biggest crime stories as they unfold. Morning episodes give you the need-to-know. The latest headlines, breaking developments, and
    where things are going next. Evening episodes go deeper. Into the people, the evidence, and the moments that matter most. The pursuit of justice never stops. And with Crime House Daily, you won’t have to either.

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    8 mins
  • 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…

    NOTE: In the show I used the term Native American, however, it has been brought to my attention that this is the incorrect terminology. Rather I should have used the term Alaska Native when referencing Sonya Ivanoff and other peoples indigenous to Alaska. I apologize.

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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