Serial killers. Unsolved murders. Investigations that gripped America. If you think you know these cases, think again.America's Most Infamous Crimes is a Crime House original hosted by Katie Ring. Each week, we go deep on one of the most notorious true-crime cases in American history. Not the quick recap version, but the full story told across multiple episodes every Tuesday through Thursday.We break down:What happened: the crimes, the victims, and the evidenceHow investigators closed in: the br
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