I’m in Phoenix, Arizona, sitting down with a group called “Jodi Arias Is Innocent.” They aren’t arguing that Travis Alexander wasn’t killed — they’re arguing the case is more complicated than the verdict suggests.

For this episode, I read Jodi Arias’ full appeal (300+ pages), spoke with her supporters, revisited the evidence, and re-examined what the trial did — and what it may have failed to weigh.

We walk through the relationship, the timeline, the forensic sequence, and the competing interpretations — then we get to the part that won’t go away: allegations of misconduct, a media spectacle, and why the question at the center of this case is still open.

At the end, you decide: not just what happened — but whether we got this right.

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Celeste Beard Johnson appeared to live a life of privilege and stability — marriage to a millionaire, social status, financial security.

But beneath that image was something far more complicated.

After Steven Beard was shot, attention initially focused on the woman who pulled the trigger. But the trial would hinge on a deeper question:

Who created the circumstances that made the crime inevitable?

In this episode of UNMARKED we examine how manipulation operates slowly — how influence can become pressure, how dependency can become leverage, and how someone can orchestrate violence without ever touching the weapon.

Because sometimes the most dangerous person in the room is the one shaping the story.

Scott Kimball wasn’t just a fraudster or a murderer—he was a paid FBI informant.

For over a year, I corresponded with Kimball from prison. Phone calls. Letters. Recorded conversations. What he told me—and how he told it—reveals how a career con artist convinced federal agents to release him without probation, and how that decision allowed him to murder at least four people.

Beginning in 2003, Kimball used his position as an informant to gain access to vulnerable women, including the girlfriends of the very men he was supposed to be informing on. The murders we know about happened while he operated under federal trust.

This isn’t just a story about murder. It’s about deception, institutional vulnerability, and a man who still believes he’s in control of the narrative.

Aileen Wuornos is one of the most infamous killers in American history, often reduced to a label and a caricature. This episode of Unmarked examines what actually happened—and why.

Through on-location reporting in Florida, primary source interviews, and a close analysis of the crimes, this episode traces Wuornos’s trajectory from lifelong abuse and instability to a clear pattern of escalating violence. It focuses on the moments where ambiguity gives way to repetition, and where personal pathology intersects with systemic failure.

This is not a retelling of myth or spectacle. It is an examination of responsibility, escalation, and the conditions that allow violence to repeat unchecked, until it becomes impossible to ignore.

UNMARKED: A true crime podcast built on real cases and never-before-heard audio.

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The justice system assumes that when two people commit a crime together, one will eventually betray the other. Amanda Logue didn’t.

In this episode of Unmarked, we examine a case defined not just by violence, but by loyalty—how emotional dependency, fear, and identity can bind people together even when silence becomes self-destructive.

Using rare audio recordings and court records, this episode explores the prisoner’s dilemma at its most human: when survival demands betrayal, but loyalty feels safer than freedom.

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On April 6th, 2009, a man vanished in Lakeland, Florida. Seven months later, investigators uncovered one of the most shocking fraud-to-murder cases in modern true crime.

This episode of Unmarked investigates the con, the deception, and the killing of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare—through prison interviews, interrogation recordings, recovered police files, and a psychological analysis of the woman at the center of the case: Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore.

For months, Moore told anyone who would listen that Abraham was alive. She forged documents, sent fake text messages, created phantom sightings, and even tried to buy a false confession. Behind the scenes, she controlled his money, his assets, and ultimately his fate.

But today, for the first time, we tell the full story—from the moment Abraham met Dee Dee, to the rapid transfer of his wealth, to the undercover operation that exposed her shifting stories, and the discovery of his body beneath a concrete slab behind her property.

Featuring original recordings, exclusive prison audio, archival reporting, and a forensic breakdown of her pathological lies, this is the most complete account of the Dee Dee Moore case ever told.

James Buddy Day is an award-winning true crime filmmaker known for directing and producing some of the most watched and most discussed crime documentaries today. His work covers infamous killers, cold cases, cults, missing persons, and some of the biggest true-crime stories of the last decade.

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In part 2 we dig deeper into Bob’s Diaries and into the years that his fantasies darken into a calculated pattern.

This episode of Unmarked investigates the crimes of “Bizarre” Bob Berdella, City’s first documented serial killer—using never-before-heard material, recovered police files, and an AI restoration of Berdella’s sealed confession.

For decades, the confession was believed lost. The tapes were ordered destroyed. The documents were sealed.

And the case slipped out of the headlines after a massive explosion reshaped the city’s priorities.

Featuring interviews with investigators, archival reporting, original documents, and restored audio based on the only surviving descriptions of the confession, this is the most complete account of the Berdella case ever told.

James Buddy Day is an award-winning true crime filmmaker known for directing and producing some of the most watched and most discussed crime documentaries today. His work covers infamous serial killers, cold cases, cults, missing persons, and some of the biggest true-crime stories of the last decade.

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