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Serial killers. Unsolved murders. Investigations that gripped America. If you think you know these cases, think again. This is America's Most Infamous Crimes, a Crime House original hosted by Katie Ring. Each week, we cover the most notorious true-crime cases in American history across multiple episodes. These are the full stories, not the quick recaps, breaking down the crimes, the victims, the evidence, and how investigators closed in. New episodes drop every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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Visit website →On March 2nd, 2023, a jury found Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son. Three years later, South Carolina’s highest court threw the verdict out. In the final part of our 3-part series on the Murdaugh murders, Katie Ring takes you inside
At 8:44 PM on June 7th, 2021, Paul Murdaugh filmed a 50-second video of a dog at his family’s kennels. Minutes later, he and his mother Maggie were dead. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Murdaugh murders, Katie Ring walks through that n
For 87 years, the Murdaugh family ran the top prosecutor’s office in South Carolina’s Lowcountry, and their name was enough to make problems go away. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Murdaugh murders, Katie Ring digs into the secrets hid
Most nights, Niecy Nash and her daughter, Dia, end up in bed talking true crime, and now they’re inviting you in.If you love America's Most Infamous Crimes, you are going to love Crime House’s new podcast out tomorrow called Mother Knows Murder. It’s
This week’s Headline: On October 11th, 2026, makeup heir and convicted serial rapist Andrew Luster walked out of prison a free man. In 2003, he fled to Mexico in the middle of his trial for drugging and sexually assaulting women, until Dog the Bounty
When Brian Draper’s murder trial opened in April 2007, his lawyer told the jury that his client thought he and Torey Adamcik were just "making a movie." Then the jury watched the real footage. In the final part of our series on the "Scream" murder, K
A little after 10 PM on September 22nd, 2006, Cassie Jo Stoddart’s boyfriend called his friend Torey to ask where he was. Torey whispered that he was at the movies. He was actually in the basement, one floor below Cassie. In the second part of our se
On a Friday morning in September 2006, sixteen-year-old Cassie Jo Stoddart looked up from her locker and smiled at a camera. The two boys holding it were her friends. That night, they planned to kill her. In the first part of our series on the "Screa
This week’s Headline: we unpack the case behind HBO's creepiest new docuseries, "The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story." In 1985, Dorothy Lou Thompson was in a legal fight over her Louisiana pet cemetery. Ten days before her court date, she vanishe
“Supposing I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn’t prove it now.” Detectives caught those words on a hidden microphone in 1950, and still crossed the man off their list. In the final part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring covers
Elizabeth Short’s mother was told her daughter had won a beauty contest. It was a reporter’s trick to get her talking, and the truth came minutes later. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring covers the morning Elizab
Before she was “the Black Dahlia,” Elizabeth Short was a movie-struck kid from Massachusetts whose father vanished off a Boston bridge, then turned up alive twelve years later. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Black Dahlia, Katie Ring tr
Something has crept into this feed…For Halloween, Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat has slipped through the walls to haunt your feed with an episode just for you.For nearly three hundred years, something strange has been stalking the Pine Barrens o
This week’s headline: A possible father-and-son serial killer duo unfolding in Philadelphia. A parking stop led police to Raymond and Eugene Horsch’s house: a basement lab, five urns, over a million photos and videos and a hidden safe. Five women app
On September 30th, 2026, Colleen Slemmer’s mother traveled from Florida to watch the state of Tennessee execute Christa Pike. She’d been waiting thirty years. Officials administered two doses of a lethal drug, and Christa didn’t die. In the third and
The night of Colleen Slemmer’s murder, Christa Pike came back to her friend’s room and told her what she’d done. Then she showed her something she’d brought back: a chilling souvenir from the attack. In the second part of our series on Christa Pike,
On September 30th, 2026, the state of Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike, the only woman on its death row. Two doses of a lethal drug later, she was still breathing. Now, she’s walking and talking. In the first part of our series on Christa
This week’s Headline: the case that’s been all over your feed since the Netflix documentary dropped. Mica Miller alleged years of emotional, physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse by her husband, a charismatic pastor in Myrtle Beach. She filed for div
Twenty-three years after the fire, Jennie Sodder opened an envelope with no return address and found a photo of a grown man with her son's face. On the back: "Louis Sodder." In the final part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring co
For weeks, Jennie Sodder burned bones in her backyard, and every single time, they survived. So how did five children vanish in a fire without leaving a trace? In the second part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Katie Ring covers the one-
On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family went to bed with nine children under one roof. By sunrise, the house was ash and five children were gone, without a single bone left behind. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Sodder children, Kati
This week, Katie Ring has the full breakdown on the case dominating headlines: the Caleb Flynn trial. In February 2026, the worship pastor and former American Idol contestant called 911 to report that an intruder had shot his wife, Ashley, in their T
After thirty years of silence, BTK came back, and this time he couldn't stop sending packages. In the third and final part of our series on BTK, Katie Ring covers the communications that gave investigators everything they needed, the floppy disk that
BTK went silent for nearly a decade and Wichita slowly exhaled. Investigators assumed he might be dead. He wasn't, he'd just stopped writing letters. In the second part of our 3-part series on BTK, Katie Ring covers the years the city thought it was
In January 1974, a family of four was found bound and killed in their Wichita home. The killer left nothing behind. Four months later, a letter arrived at a local newspaper describing details only the murderer could know, signing off with a name he'd
This is Trending Now, America's Most Infamous Crimes' new segment for the cases everyone is talking about right now. This week, Katie Ring has the full breakdown on the Lindsay Clancy trial. In 2023, Lindsay Clancy's three young children were found d
After nine victims and a decade of schemes, H.H. Holmes was finally caught. Not for murder, not for fraud, but for something far smaller. In the third and final part of our series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring covers the detective who followed children'
H.H. Holmes had three wives, none of whom knew the others existed. He insured his building with four different companies, set it on fire, and kept running schemes while two women vanished from his building during the World's Fair. In the second part
You've heard of H.H. Holmes. The murder castle, the gas chambers, two hundred victims lured from the World's Fair. Almost none of it is true. In the first part of our 3-part series on H.H. Holmes, Katie Ring strips away the legend and tells you what'
Charles Manson walked into his murder trial with an X carved into his forehead. A sitting president declared him guilty mid-trial. A defense attorney disappeared into a national forest and turned up dead. In the third and final part of our series on
The LAPD had the killers' fingerprints within hours of the Cielo Drive murders, had three crime scenes with the same signature, and arrested Charles Manson ten days later on an unrelated charge, then let him go. In the second part of our 3-part serie
Charles Manson spent more than half his life locked up, read at a seventh-grade level, and failed at the only thing he ever actually wanted: a record deal with a music label. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Manson murders, Katie Ring tr
When police knocked on the door in Wisconsin expecting to find a missing disabled girl, Gypsy Rose Blanchard answered it standing on her own two feet. In the third and final part of our series on Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Katie Ring covers the murder, th
While her mother slept, Gypsy Rose Blanchard got online. She had a secret Facebook account, a boyfriend 600 miles away who knew the truth, and a plan slowly taking shape. In the second part of our 3-part series on Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Katie Ring cov
Gypsy Rose Blanchard had chromosomal defects, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, leukemia, and the mind of a seven-year-old…according to her mother Dee Dee. In the first part of our 3-part series on Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Katie Ring goes back to the beginn
John Wayne Gacy had a police tail and invited the officers in for coffee. He cooked them breakfast and told them a clown could get away with murder. He believed it right up until investigators went into the crawl space. In the third and final part of
There was a smell in John Wayne Gacy's house that never went away. He always had an excuse. His neighbors believed him. His employees believed him. Even a survivor who handed police his name and license plate wasn't enough to stop him. In the second
John Wayne Gacy seemed like your ordinary neighbor. But underneath the surface, he was hiding urges he couldn't explain: ones that started in a Las Vegas funeral home basement, and ended with a body buried under his own house. In the first part of ou
In 2002, a woman told investigators she'd watched the Boy in the Box die as a child, and she knew two facts that had never been made public. Investigators were split. Then, two decades later, forensic genealogy did what no detective ever could. In th
For forty years, Remington Bristow spent his nights, weekends, and thousands of his own dollars chasing an answer nobody else could find. In the second part of our 3-part series on the Boy in the Box, Katie Ring covers the man who gave his life to th
In February 1957, a little boy was found dead in a cardboard box in the woods outside Philadelphia. His photo ran in newspapers across the country. Nobody came forward. Nobody knew his name. In the first part of our 3-part series on the Boy in the Bo
In 2017, Sarah Edmondson showed a reporter her brand mark from the cauterizing pen, and the walls around Keith Raniere's empire finally came down. In the final part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces the collapse of NXIVM: the New York Times exp
In 2015, a nineteen-year-old named India Oxenberg accepted an invitation into a secret sisterhood inside NXIVM, and handed over collateral she'd never get back. In the second part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces how DOS, NXIVM's hidden inner
In 1998, a self-proclaimed genius named Keith Raniere launched a self-help company outside Albany, New York, and thousands of people handed over their savings, their schedules, and their secrets to be part of it. In the first of our 3-part series on
A search dog tracked Maura Murray’s scent exactly 100 yards from her car. Then the scent stopped, as if she'd stepped into a vehicle and disappeared. More than twenty years later, her case is still open, still classified as suspicious, and still with
Maura Murray told her professors there'd been a death in the family. There wasn't. She withdrew almost everything from her bank account, bought alcohol, and drove north alone into a New Hampshire winter. The last person to see her offered a ride. She
At 7pm on a February night in 2004, 21-year-old Maura Murray crashed her car on a dark New Hampshire road and told a passing driver she was fine. Eleven minutes later, police arrived. The car was still there. Maura was gone. No footprints in the snow
The Warren Commission said one gunman, no conspiracy. The government's second investigation said it was probably a conspiracy, but couldn't name a single conspirator. And for sixty years, the files that might have answered everything stayed locked aw
The president's motorcade was rolling slow through a cheering Dealey Plaza when six seconds changed everything. Kennedy was killed within the hour, and by the end of the weekend, so was the man accused of doing it. In the second part of our 3-part se
On the morning of November 22nd, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald got up before his family was awake, left his wedding ring on the dresser, and carried a long brown package to work. He told his coworker it was curtain rods. A few miles away, President John F.
Police thought finding Bernice Worden in the shed was the worst of it. Then they went inside the house. In the final episode on Ed Gein, Katie Ring covers what investigators found room by room, the trial that took eleven years, and how the quiet hand
For ten years after his mother died, Ed Gein kept his secret from everyone in Plainfield. He robbed graves in the dead of night, killed at least two women, and kept right on babysitting the neighbors' kids. In the second part of our 3-part series, Ka
Ed Gein became the real-life blueprint for Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. But before any of that, he was a boy on an isolated Wisconsin farm, raised by a mother who taught him the entire world was sin. In the first part of our 3-part se
A chainsaw. A burn cage. A blue inflatable pool that tested positive for blood. D4VD's preliminary hearing just wrapped and the evidence prosecutors presented is beyond disturbing. America's Most Infamous Crimes host Katie Ring covers everything that
The Billionaire Boys Club had already killed once and were left empty handed. So they kidnapped a wealthy Iranian exile in an attempt to steal his fortune. In the third and final part of our series on the Billionaire Boys Club, Katie Ring covers the
Billionaire Boys Club leader Joe Hunt set his sights on what looked like the perfect solution to running out of money: Bringing in a wealthy Beverly Hills businessman named Ron Levin. What Joe didn't know was that Ron was a better con artist than he'
In 1983, a group of young men from wealthy LA families built a social club, a Ponzi scheme, and a homemade philosophy that told them the rules didn't apply, and called it the Billionaire Boys Club. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring t
In the fall of 1984, 751 people in a small Oregon town got violently sick, and nobody knew it was deliberate. In the third and final part of our 3-part series on the Rajneesh cult, Katie Ring covers the unraveling of Rajneeshpuram, the criminal empir
By 1984, the Rajneesh cult wasn't just battling the outside world: It was at war with its own members. In the second part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring goes behind the gates of the Rajneesh Movement, where fake AIDS diagnoses, forced sedation, a h
In 1981, a spiritual leader named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, known as the "sex guru", moved thousands of followers to an abandoned ranch in rural Oregon and built an entire city from scratch. In the first part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring traces the
Richard Ramirez had been a ghost for over a year. Then his mugshot hit the front page, and a neighborhood in East LA caught him themselves, chasing him down the street and pinning him to the pavement before police arrived.In the final part of our thr
By the summer of 1985, Richard Ramirez was striking multiple times a week across Los Angeles: shooting, stabbing, and leaving Satanic pentagrams on the walls of ordinary bedrooms. Gun stores sold out. Locksmiths couldn't keep up. An entire city stopp
Richard Ramirez grew up sleeping in graveyards to avoid his violent father. At twelve, he found the role model he'd been looking for: a Green Beret cousin who came home from Vietnam with Polaroids of his victims and a philosophy that holding power ov
Candy Montgomery's lawyer stood up in front of the jury and admitted his client had killed Betty Gore with an axe. Then he spent eight days convincing them to let her walk free.The defense that followed was so audacious that reporters in the gallery
Candy Montgomery didn't stumble into an affair. She planned it methodically: rules, boundaries, no feelings, and chose her friend Betty Gore’s husband as the man she'd sleep with. For ten months, nobody suspected a thing. On June 13th, 1980, Candy st
On the morning of June 13th, 1980, Candy Montgomery stopped by her friend Betty Gore's house to pick up a swimsuit. When she left, she said Betty was perfectly fine. That night, three neighbors found Betty's body in her utility room, struck with an a
Brian Mitchell spent years singing hymns in court, disrupting hearings, and faking insanity to avoid standing trial for what he did to Elizabeth Smart. It took nearly a decade to get him in front of a jury. When Elizabeth finally took the stand, she
Ed Smart defied police orders and released his daughter's kidnapper's sketch to the public himself. Within four days, someone recognized the man in it. Brian David Mitchell had been hiding in plain sight the whole time, eating at restaurants, preachi
In June 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bedroom at knifepoint while her nine-year-old sister hid under the covers and watched. Her kidnapper knew exactly which door of the house wasn't wired to the alarm. For months, invest
Karen Read's first trial ended in a mistrial, and her second ended with a verdict that stunned America. In the final part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring breaks down the retrial, the acquittal, and the shocking fallout still unfolding today, includi
An alleged 2:27 AM Google search for "hos long to die in cold." A lead investigator texting "hopefully she kills herself" about the defendant. Destroyed phones, missing surveillance footage, and a coordinated group chat in the days after John O'Keefe
Karen Read's boyfriend John O'Keefe was found dead in the snow outside a house in Canton, Massachusetts on January 29th, 2022. Within 72 hours, she was charged with his murder. Was she framed? Or did she kill him?Let’s go back to the beginning of one
In 2016, the FBI suspended its investigation into D.B. Cooper after forty-five years with no confirmed identity. Then, in 2020, the adult children of a prime suspect found a parachute rig in their mother's shed, and the case came back to life.In the
Nine years after D.B. Cooper vanished, an eight-year-old boy digging a fire pit on the Columbia River pulled three rotting bundles of ransom money out of the sand. It was the first physical evidence in nearly a decade, and it raised more questions th
On the day before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man named D.B. Cooper walked up to an airport counter, paid cash for a one-way ticket, and boarded a commercial flight. By the time the plane landed, he had collected $200,000 in ransom, strapped it to his body
Two days after his family disappeared, Chris Watts sat down with investigators and agreed to take a polygraph. He said he had nothing to hide.The results told a very different story.In the third and final episode on the Watts family murders, Katie Ri
When Shanann Watts missed her prenatal appointment on the morning of August 13th, 2018, her closest friend knew immediately that something was wrong.In part two of three on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring takes us through the investigation that
From the outside, the Watts family had everything: a beautiful home in Colorado, two young daughters, and a social media presence full of smiling family photos. Behind those posts, their marriage was quietly falling apart.In the first of three episod
The jury took 40 minutes to convict Dick Hickock and Perry Smith of the Clutter family murders. On the gallows five years later, Perry Smith's last words were an apology.
In the third and final episode on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring walks
The Clutter family was murdered for approximately $50 in cash and a radio. The safe full of money that the killers drove 400 miles to find never existed.
In part two of three episodes on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring introduces the two men r
On the night of November 14th, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were bound and shot dead in their farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas. Nothing of value had been stolen. The doors, as always, had been unlocked.
In the first of three episodes on the C
On the day Caylee Anthony was last seen alive, someone searched "fool-proof suffocation" on the Anthony family computer. It was Casey's preferred browser. The jury never heard a single word about it.
In the third and final episode on the death of Cay
Three pieces of duct tape were found on two-year-old Caylee Anthony's face. One of them had the outline of a heart-shaped sticker on it. Matching stickers were found in Casey Anthony's bedroom.
In part two of three episodes on the death of Caylee Ant
In the summer of 2008, two-year-old Caylee Anthony vanished, and her mother Casey didn't report her missing for thirty-one days. In that time, she got a tattoo, went to nightclubs, and stayed at her boyfriend's apartment. When Casey's car turned up a
She confessed to seven murders to protect the woman she loved. She went to trial represented by a real estate attorney in a capital case. And the day before her execution, she told a filmmaker that God was taking her to heaven on a spaceship.
In the
By the spring of 1990, Aileen Wuornos had killed once and gotten away with it. So she kept going.
In part two of three episodes on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring traces the six men killed after Richard Mallory: who they were, what happened to them, and h
Before Aileen Wuornos became one of America's most feared female serial killers, she was a 13-year-old girl who was assaulted and impregnated by a stranger, gave birth completely alone, and came home to a family that blamed her.
In the first of three
More than forty years after seven people died after taking poisoned Tylenol in the Chicago area, the suspects investigators chased would consume decades of their careers.
In the third and final episode on the Tylenol murders, Katie Ring digs into the
A week after seven people died from poisoned Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson received a handwritten letter demanding one million dollars. It was the first real break in the case, and it raised more questions than it answered.
In the second of three episod
On a single night in 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol. They didn't know each other, they weren't targeted, and the killer never had to get close to a single one of them.
In the first of three episodes on the Tylenol mu
Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and sentenced to death. The case against him had no murder weapon, no DNA, and no witnesses. Just circumstantial evidence and a jury that was convinced.
In the third and final episode on the
On Christmas Eve 2002, Laci Peterson vanished. She was eight months pregnant. Her husband Scott said he'd been out fishing. And almost immediately, something about his story didn't add up.
In part two of three episodes on the murder of Laci Peterson,
When Scott Peterson met Amber Frey in November 2002, he told her he was a widower. His wife Laci was eight months pregnant and very much alive.
In the first of three episodes on the murder of Laci Peterson, Katie Ring traces who Laci really was: a wa
On May 27th, 1991, two police officers escorted a dazed, injured teenager back into Jeffrey Dahmer's apartment after he escaped, ignoring the pleas of the women who had called for help. That teenager was dead within the hour.
In the third and final e
In 1987, Jeffrey Dahmer sat down for Thanksgiving dinner with his family while a dismembered body was hidden in his grandmother's basement below them. Nobody suspected a thing.
In part two of three episodes on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Katie Ring
In June 1978, eighteen-year-old Steven Hicks had no way of knowing that a chance encounter would cost him his life. It was Jeffrey Dahmer's first murder, and a crime that had been years in the making.
In part one of three episodes, Katie Ring traces
With a mountain of forensic evidence and a documented history of abuse, the prosecution had what looked like an unbeatable case. Then, O.J. tried on the gloves.
In the third and final episode on the O.J. Simpson case, Katie Ring breaks down the trial
On June 12th, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were found murdered outside her Brentwood home. Within days, the investigation had a prime suspect. Within a week, that suspect had vanished.
In part two of three episodes on the O.J
Before the trial that divided a nation, there was a woman. Nicole Brown grew up in Southern California with dreams of modeling, a close-knit family, and a future full of possibility…until a chance encounter with football legend O.J. Simpson at a Beve
After nearly a decade of dead ends, investigators finally had a conviction in the murder of Chandra Levy. Then the case took one final, unexpected turn.
In the third and final episode on the Chandra Levy case, Katie Ring traces the long road from a d
When detectives began looking into Chandra Levy's disappearance, they quickly found themselves at the center of one of the biggest political scandals Washington had seen in years.
In part two of three episodes on the Chandra Levy case, Katie Ring fol
In May 2001, 24-year-old Chandra Levy vanished from Washington D.C. She was a government intern with a bright future, a prestigious job, and a secret she hadn't told anyone: she was having an affair with a sitting U.S. Congressman.
In the first of th
The break in the Idaho murders came down to something the killer left behind without knowing it: a knife sheath, and a single strand of DNA.In the third and final episode on the Idaho student murders, Katie Ring follows the investigation to its concl
When one of the surviving roommates described what she saw in the hallway that night, it sent chills through the entire investigation: a masked man, moving through the dark, just feet away from where her friends had been killed.
In part two of three
In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death inside their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. They had no idea anyone was coming.
In the first of three episodes on the Idaho student murders, K
In this episode of America’s Most Infamous Crimes, Katie Ring breaks down the final chapter of the Gabby Petito case: from the discovery of her body to the nationwide manhunt for Brian Laundrie, and the unanswered questions that remain.
As investigat
In this episode of America’s Most Infamous Crimes, Katie Ring continues with part two of our three-part series on Gabby Petito and how her disappearance turned into a nationwide investigation.
When Gabby's mom received suspicious text messages from G
In this episode of America’s Most Infamous Crimes, Katie Ring explores the early warning signs in the Gabby Petito case and the relationship between Gabby and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, before her disappearance. Their van life journey across the Uni
Welcome to America’s Most Infamous Crimes. Katie Ring takes you deep into cases that have left a lasting imprint on society, and still haunt us today. In this final chapter, Katie follows the unraveling of Ted Bundy: from a routine traffic stop to a
Welcome to America’s Most Infamous Crimes. Katie Ring takes you deep into cases that have left a lasting imprint on society, and still haunt us today. In part two of our three part series, Katie examines the escalation of Ted Bundy’s killing spree in
Welcome to America’s Most Infamous Crimes. Katie Ring takes you deep into cases that have left a lasting imprint on society, and still haunt us today. Ted Bundy didn’t fit the image of a killer. He was educated, ambitious, and outwardly composed, the