Voices for the Victims
A Weekly True Crime Podcast Exploring the Unknown
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As law enforcement occupied the Ramsey’s home in the aftermath of what appeared to be an audacious kidnapping by an unknown intruder, they patientl
In this installment of the JonBenet series, Ryan analyzes the infamous ransom note line by line to uncover the hidden meaning offered in the subtext. Was this the writing of an unknown kidnapper who disappeared into the night, or did someone else aut
Join host Ryan Kraus for a breakdown of the days leading up to JonBenet’s death, beginning with the mysterious 911 call hang up from the Ramsey’s home during a Xmas party on December 23, 1996 to the controversial events that took place on Christmas D
At 5:52am on December 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey dialed 911 to report that her 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet, had been kidnapped from the family's home in Boulder, CO, which became the impetus for one of the greatest mysteries in true crime lore.
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When FBI Special Agent Lee Harker agrees to take on a baffling cold case involving an elusive and unknown serial ki
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March 8, 2014. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 departs Kuala Lumpur in the darkness of night, heading for Beijing. I
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It's the night of November 16, 1957. In the aftermath of Bernice Worden's murder, law enforcement enters the home o
In the aftermath of Ed Gein's mother dying, his loneliness drives him into a psychosis in which he is going to try to satisfy both his need to be with another woman and her demand that he never does such a thing, leading to a horrific abomination of
Join host Ryan Kraus for the third installment in the Ed Gein series as we delve into the fascinating, yet disturbing psychology inherent within his adolescent upbringing in which Ed's unrequited childhood affections for Mother suddenly boil over int
Haunted by troubled pasts, young married couple George and Augusta unleash their demons upon each other and their sons, Henry and Eddie, foreshadowing the house of horrors their infamous home would one day become.
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Join host Ryan Kraus for the introductory episode in a series examining the harrowing psychology lurking behind the life and crimes of the Butcher of Plainfield, Ed Gein. In preparation for examining the events to come, we'll first break down Gein's
Join host Ryan Kraus for a strange psychological journey into the circumstances surrounding the stabbing death of 27-year-old school teacher Ellen Greenberg as we endeavor to answer one pertinent question: suicide or murder?
The most difficult part of examining true crime is often the gruesome, fatal injuries associated with extreme physical violence, but beneath those gratuitous offerings of gore lies a deeply enlightening and fascinating emotional context that tells us
On the evening of February 12, 1971, in Durham, NC, young lovers Jesse McBane and Pat Mann left a Valentine's dance and parked at a local "lovers' lane" spot called the Croasdaile Hotel, but never arrived home later that night. The next day, Jesse's
Join host Ryan Kraus for a strange journey through the emotional narrative lurking beneath the mysterious disappearance and untimely death of 24-year-old sex worker Shannan Gilbert in the early morning hours of May, 1, 2010, an event which led to the
Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological breakdown of the events leading to the disappearance of college student Josh Guimond on November 9, 2002.
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On the evening of September 12, 1980, lovers Roger Atkison and Rose Burkert checked into the Amana Holiday Inn in Williamsburg, IA, to kick off a weekend getaway of fun and romance. By morning, however, they would be discovered bludgeoned to death in
Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological examination of the mysterious death of Tiffany Valiante in May's Landing, NJ, on July 12, 2015.
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On the evening of May 3, 2014, 88-year-old Russell Dermond and his 87-year-old wife, Shirley, were expected to arrive at a friend's house in their gated community along Lake Oconee in GA to watch the Kentucky Derby. When the couple never arrived, and
In the early morning hours of September 11, 2000, 8-year-old Zachary Bernhardt disappeared from a Clearwater, FL apartment when his mother went for a short walk and a swim. To this day, there has been no evidence recovered to suggest what his fate mi
On the morning of November 4, 2018, 40-year-old wife and mother of five Tamla Horsford was found dead in the back yard of a friend's house in Cumming, GA, seemingly the victim of an accidental fall from a balcony during a party; however, a closer loo
Join host Ryan Kraus for an examination of one of the most feared men in the history of La Cosa Nostra, notoriously violent hitman and Gambino family Capo, Roy DeMeo.
On the afternoon of December 5, 2015, 19-year-old Katelin Akens was supposed to board a flight leaving Virginia and returning home to Arizona after visiting family. Upon being dropped off at the airport, Katelin unleashed a bizarre series of texts th
January 28, 1993. An attorney from Amarillo, TX named David Lewis tells coworkers at the firm that he's leaving because he doesn't fell well. They never saw him again.
What happened after his disappearance was difficult to believe.
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Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological excursion through the baffling, unsolved disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen, in addition to the shocking suicide of his mother, Amy Fry Pitzen, in May 2011.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a deep dive into the harrowing psychology lurking beneath the motivations of 10-year-old child killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who abducted, tortured, and murdered 2-year-old James Bulger.
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On the evening of April 22, 1974, a small group of armed men entered a home audio store in Ogden, UT called the Hi-Fi Shop with the intention of stealing its inventory. By the time they left, three people were dead, and two more suffered life-threate
Join host Ryan Kraus for a strange trip through the harrowing psychological narrative lurking beneath the events leading to the death of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp at the hands of her 26-year-old boyfriend, Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Osca
We all have unrealized monsters lurking in the abyss of our emotional lives, locked behind an invisible barrier, banging on the glass to break through to the other side.
And sometimes they do.
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Join host Ryan Kraus for this introductory episode in a limited series examining our political and evolutionary systems through the conduit of Frank Darabont's 2007 horror film, The Mist, which is based upon Stephen King's novella of the same name. *
Join host Ryan Kraus for part 3 of the Ryan Shtuka series as we conclude our in-depth psychological assessment of what really happened that fateful night the young man disappeared.
Join Ryan Kraus for part 2 of a limited series examining the baffling disappearance of 20-year-old Ryan Shtuka.
Join host Ryan Kraus for part 1 of the mysterious, unsolved disappearance of Ryan Shtuka, who vanished leaving a party near Sun Peaks resort in BC, Canada on the night of February 17, 2018.
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Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to the Tyler Davis series as we switch gears from the factual timeline and endeavor to assemble the harrowing psychological narrative lurking beneath the circumstances leading to his mysterious disappearance.
Join host Ryan Kraus for an examination of the baffling, unsolved disappearance of 29-year-old Tyler Davis in Columbus, OH. In part 1, we retrace the events leading to the moment this young man seems to vanish into thin air, and ask what drove him to
Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to a limited series examining the evolutionary implications of the Mindhunter pilot episode, in which we unlock the door to the next dimension of criminal behavioral analysis, and peer into the darkness of the
Holden Ford sets off on his journey to become the Mindhunter and enlighten his audience about criminal psychology, but his progress comes to a screeching halt when faced with a terrifying, unavoidable question staring back at him in the classroom:
H
Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological breakdown of the Mindhunter pilot episode. Part 2 of a limited series.
A time comes when we meet our shadow face to face. The monster. When we do, we rise above that darkness into the light or descend into th
Join host Ryan Kraus for this introductory episode in a trilogy examining the hit crime series, Mindhunter, where we'll first descend into the basement of reality to uncover the driving force behind the show's revolutionary criminal psychology. What
Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to this limited series examining the terrifying “Scream” murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart in Pocatello, ID on September 22, 2006.
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Pocatello, ID. September 22, 2006. 16-year-old high school student Cassie Jo Stoddart is house-sitting for family members who don’t want to leave their new dream home unoccupied while they’re away.
She has a couple of friends come over to watch a mo
Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion of an intriguing journey into the psychology present in Amy Bradley’s final moments before her baffling disappearance while vacationing aboard Rhapsody of the Seas cruise liner in March 1998.
Where did Amy go?
Join host Ryan Kraus for the first installment in a two-part series examining the baffling disappearance of 23-year-old Amy Bradley, who vanished into thin air while on a Caribbean cruise with her family in March 1998.
Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to the Delphi Murders series covering the psychological narrative present in the deaths of Libby German and Abby Williams.
Where will the case go from here? Will it ever be solved?
In October 1978, horror movie audiences were introduced to a new killer, Michael Myers, who dressed in blue with his collar up, carried a knife, and covered his face with a white mask. In February 2017, an eerily familiar figure appeared on the Monon
Why did law enforcement try to implore empathy from the suspect by mentioning The Shack at the 2019 Delphi press conference? Who is the mystery man they’re addressing?
They said he could be in the room.
Was he?
Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating psychological breakdown of the events leading up to the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams in Delphi, IN on February 13, 2017.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a structural breakdown of Bridge Guy. Who is the evil man in the video?
Join host Ryan Kraus for an intriguing journey deep into the evil mind of the mysterious man who took the young lives of Libby German and Abby Williams on February 13, 2017, including the hidden meaning behind that bone-chilling command: "down the hi
Join host Ryan Kraus for the introductory episode of a series examining the disturbing psychology lurking behind the predator's intentions in the unsolved Delphi Murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating, 5-hour exploration into the deepest psychological implications of the gruesome crimes and abusive lifestyle of serial killers Fred and Rosemary West.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a compelling excursion into the events surrounding the mysterious death of actress Natalie Wood.
Join host Ryan Kraus in part two for a fascinating psychological exploration of the emotional wound that haunted OJ Simpson throughout his life, and acted as the catalyst for the explosive violence that erupted on June 12, 1994.
Join host Ryan Kraus for Part I of a limited series examining OJ Simpson through the lens of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. (I'll be back in a few days with the second installment.)
In October 2010, Russell Williams, a former Canadian Armed Forces Colonel, was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of two women, and given 82 separate, year-long sentences for breaking and entering, among other crimes related to sexual assaul
Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating psychological exploration of the unsolved 1989 murder of 10-year-old Amy Mihaljevic from Bay Village, OH. (Please note this episode was originally released to the CCMM premium-subscription catalogue on coldcasem
Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological and evolutionary exploration of the tragic events surrounding the disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip among the chaos that erupted in NYC on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Doubleheader episode: Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating journey through the psychological and evolutionary implications of the triple homicide in Pinyon Pines, CA, on September 17, 2006, followed by a special presentation about psychological abu
Join host Ryan Kraus for a comprehensive psychological evaluation of the mysterious, unsolved disappearance of Robert Hoagland in July 2013.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological journey through the crime scene of the December 30, 2000 Mizayawa Family Murders in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, Japan.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating psychological journey through the events leading up to the December 2000 disappearance of Trevor Deely in Dublin, Ireland.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological examination of the power of transformation present in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead.
Join host Ryan Kraus for in-depth analysis of the 1982 film E.T.
Join me for the inaugural episode of STORY with Ryan Kraus as we take a fascinating excursion into the evolutionary architecture of the 2013 sci-fi thriller GRAVITY.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a comprehensive psychological exploration of the unsolved murder of Faith Hedgepeth.
49-year-old Kelli Peters was a dedicated PTA mom who volunteered at her daughter's elementary school in Irvine, CA. One day in February 2011, shortly after arriving at the school for work, she received a call asking her to come to the main office. Fe
Join host Ryan Kraus for an evolutionary exploration of the mysterious events surrounding the unsolved vanishing of 19-year-old Logan Schiendelman on May 19, 2016.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating psychological exploration of the baffling disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating evolutionary excursion into the warped mind of serial killer Wayne Williams, the primary suspect in the mysterious Atlanta Child Murders that haunted America from 1979 - 1981.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a comprehensive psychological analysis of the Oakland County Child Killer.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a compelling journey into the tortured mind of infamous 2017 Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, whose murderous rampage ended abruptly in suicide, and subsequently left a stunned, silent nation without answers to the most im
In late 1982, a nurse from Richmond, BC, Canada started receiving calls from a mysterious man who would increasingly terrorize and stalk her over the course of the next 7 years in what amounted to nearly 100 encounters between the two of them.
Durin
On the night of September 12, 1982, 21-year-old Kristina Nelson and her 18-year-old stepsister Jacqueline “Brandy” Miller left Kristina’s Lewiston, ID apartment on foot, heading out to do laundry and buy groceries. A note was found at the residence i
Join host Ryan Kraus for a very special episode as we delve deep into the darkest recesses of the human mind to uncover the truth about who we are. First is an extensive, in-depth discussion of the evolutionary trajectory of humanity, from the battle
On the morning of June 26, 1981, 22-year-old college student Kristin David disappeared during a solo bike ride from Moscow, ID to Lewiston, ID. Despite numerous searches over the course of the next week, no trace of Kristin was found.
But to the hor
On the afternoon of April 28, 1979, 12-year-old Christina White disappeared after leaving a friend's home on her bike in the town of Asotin, WA. While no one could have known it then, this would be the first of at least five unsolved disappearances a
Join host Ryan Kraus for an in-depth psychological examination of the infamous wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a strange journey into the sensational 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba.
Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological exploration of the baffling, unsolved 1992 disappearances of Stacy McCall, Sherill Levitt, and Suzie Streeter in Springfield, MO.
On the night of July 12, 1994, friends Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay left the Rafay family’s Bellevue, WA home for some fun out on the town. When they returned hours later, however, what they discovered inside the house was nothing less than a massa
On January 26, 1996, police in Newtown Square, PA were called to the estate of John du Pont, a wealthy heir who'd become well known for starting the Foxcatcher wrestling team in recent years. He supported the dreams of future Olympians by offering tr
In August 1987, a local handyman named Harrison "Marty" Graham, who entertained kids with a Cookie Monster puppet, was evicted from his North Philadelphia apartment after residents repeatedly complained of a foul odor permeating the third floor of th
On the evening of April 8, 1997, attorney Jeffrey Smith waited for his wife, Judy, to meet him at a cocktail party hosted inside the DoubleTree Hotel in Center City Philadelphia. The couple had traveled from Boston the day prior, with Jeffrey schedul
On the night of June 3, 1995, a young woman was found deceased from a gunshot wound to the forehead on the 28th floor of the Oslo Plaza hotel in Norway. As she had just checked into the facility a few days earlier with her husband, it was initially t
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October 12, 2013. 2am. Mark Waugh, Rahul Gupta, and Taylor Gould are caught on surveillance entering
In August 2018, 33-year-old Chris Watts, a young father with a seemingly perfect life, found himself the subject of sensational headlines around the world when he viciously murdered his 34-year-old pregnant wife, Shanann, along with the couple's daug
On September 5, 2012, a British family of five on holiday in the French Alps near Lake Annecy decided to go for a scenic drive into the wilderness in search of a nice place to take a walk. Yet, before they could reach their destination, something cau
On September 29, 1982, a chain of events began that rendered 7 Chicago-area residents the victims of a sadistic killer who tainted over-the-counter- medications in local pharmacies. It was an incident that not only spread confusion, fear, and paranoi
On the night of December 24, 1945, the Sodder family of Fayetteville, WV went to bed in preparation for Christmas the next morning. But as they closed their eyes, they never could have imagined the nightmare that was about to ensue. A fire would brea
Sometime during the night of August 7, 1985, a gruesome mass murder took place within the residence located at White House Farm in Essex, England. Homeowners June and Nevill Bamber, 61, were hosting their 28-year-old daughter, Sheila, and her twin so
On the afternoon of February 16, 2009, a 70-year-old woman named Sandra Herold called 911 in Stamford, CT to report her 200-lb. chimp, Travis, had gone on a rampage outside her home, and was eating her friend, 55-year-old Charla Nash. The docile prim
On the evening of September 16, 2009, 24-year-old Mitrice Richardson drove to the beach in Malibu, CA alone to enjoy watching the sunset, after which she stopped at a local restaurant to have a nice dinner. But while there, Mitrice's behavior went fr
In the mid-1980s, on the heels of suffering an abusive childhood, a troubled Townsend, MA teen named Daniel LaPlante began a crime spree that terrorized the residents of the local area where he lived. It started as a string of burglaries, but a thirs
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From 1972 to 1978, infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy, the "Killer Clown" murdered no fewer than 33 young men and teen boys in his ranch home located in Cook County, IL near Chicago, a truth that came to light when the remains of 29 victims were
On June 12, 1977, busloads of enthusiastic young campers arrived at rural Camp Scott in Mayes County, OK for a two-week getaway hosted by the Girl Scouts that kicked off the summer season. It should have been the time of their lives, a carefree repri
On the evening of November 16, 1957, Deputy Sheriff Frank Worden entered a Plainfield, WI hardware store owned by his mother, Bernice, only to discover the woman was missing. After finding blood all over the floor, his initial investigation revealed
On the morning of September 14, 2007, an accomplished 14-year-old student named Andrew Gosden skipped school for unknown reasons and boarded a train headed to Kings Cross Station in London, at which point he was captured alone on surveillance video e
On April 14, 2013, 87-year-old Chip Northup and his 76-year-old wife, Claudia Maupin, were found brutally stabbed to death in the bedroom of the couple's Davis, CA home. Someone had broken into their house during the previous night and murdered them
Join host Ryan Kraus for the final episode of a two-part series exploring the disappearance of 12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch on September 5, 1982. In part I, we examined the crime itself, but this time we'll take a deep dive into the events that
Join host Ryan Kraus for Part I of a two-part series delving into one of the strangest, most complex disappearances in US history, the kidnapping of 12-year-old West Des Moines, Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch on the morning of September 5, 1982. In this
August 29, 2014. A Bladenboro, NC woman rises shortly after 7am to find a deceased black male hanging by a makeshift noose from an old swing set in the yard of the predominantly white trailer park where she lives. Her subsequent call to 911 draws pol
On November 2, 2016, husband and father of two young children, Keith Papini, arrived home to discover his wife, Sherri, was missing. After using an app to locate her phone, he found it lying on the side of the road about a mile from their house. Keit
On the night of September 26, 2014, a 30-year-old woman named Kayelyn Louder dialed 911 to report an altercation involving guns in the clubhouse at her condo development. What followed over the next 24 hours was a series of inexplicable events shroud
When a mother fails to show up for her 10-year-old son's birthday party, his father drives home to check on her, only to learn she's been murdered in the shower with a shotgun blast to the head. In the aftermath, Tom Foley, Dar's husband, becomes the
On the night of May 28, 1980 a 32-year-old single mother named Dorothy Jane Scott, who had recently been stalked by an unknown man, left her 4-year-old son in the care of her parents as she went to a staff meeting being held at work. During the meeti
On July 13, 2014 the body of 18-year-old Conrad Roy was found inside the cab of a pickup truck in the parking lot of the Fairhaven, MA K-Mart store, a scene which suggested the young man had succumbed to suicide by way of inhaling carbon monoxide fro
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December 6, 1991. Austin, TX. The local fire department is called to the scene of a blaze at the I Can't Believe It's Yogurt store after 11pm when a police officer notices smoke coming from the rear of the building. But when the flames subside, it so
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On the afternoon of July 24, 2006 a 33-year-old man named Sean Dickus arrived home from work to discover his 26-year-old wife Chynna and 10-year-old son Blake had been brutally murdered inside their house in Franklin, IN. As the investigation proceed
At 10:40pm on the night of May 19, 1983 a young mother named Diane Downs pulled her Nissan Pulsar up to the ER entrance of a hospital near Springfield, OR and informed the staff her children had been shot by a strange man who tried to carjack her out
On the morning of June 20, 1994 police in Dunedin, NZ responded to an emergency call placed by 22-year-old David Bain that eerily proclaimed, "They're all dead." Upon arriving at his home, authorities soon discovered a massacre that left the other fi
Around 8pm on the night of December 16, 2011, young father Justin DiPietro put his 20-month-old daughter to sleep in her crib at their Waterville, ME home, leaving his sister to check on the child a while later. All seems fine. But sometime during th
On the morning of June 5, 1960, a grim discovery was made along the shoreline of Lake Bodom in Espoo, Finland. Four local teens on a camping trip were found brutally bludgeoned and stabbed inside their tent, with three of them having succumbed to the
On the evening of January 3, 2017, 24-year-old Alex Stevens and 20-year-old Megan Shaffer ventured to High Rock overlook in Western Maryland accompanied by multiple animals, where they abandoned their cars, hiked a mile up a dark trail in the freezin
September, 2015. 32-year-old Liberian immigrant Henry McCabe, an auditor for the Minnesota Department of Revenue, leaves his Mounds View home to go drinking at a nearby night club with two acquaintances. But within hours, Henry will make a desperate,
In the early morning hours of June 3, 2003, a 20-year-old Indiana University student named Lauren Spierer vanished off the streets of Bloomington while walking home after a long night of partying. Nearly 8 years later, there's still no sign of what h
June 18, 2014. Justin Ross Harris straps his 22-month-old son Cooper into a rear-facing car seat located in the back of his SUV after exiting an Atlanta Chik-Fil-A restaurant where the two just ate breakfast. He kisses the boy on the head and says "I
April 20, 1999. Seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold enter Columbine High School armed with bombs and guns, murdering twelve students and a teacher, while injuring dozens more in what becomes the most iconic school shooting in US history. In the aft
August, 2008. Kanika Powell, a 28-year-old Army veteran working in national security, is paid a visit at home by a man claiming to be an FBI agent, setting off a series of strange events culminating in her shooting death only days later. More than a
On the morning of April 12, 1981, 14-year-old Sheila Sharp returned from a neighbor's home after a sleepover to find her mother, 36-year-old Sue Sharp, 15-year-old brother John, and John's 17-year-old best friend Dana dead on the floor, victims of an
It's 4:18am on April 18, 2016. 45-year-old fitness instructor and mother of three, Missy Bevers, arrives at the Creekside Church in Midlothian, TX to host a boot-camp style workout that's being held indoors due to heavy rain. Upon entering the buildi
August 15, 2016 - A Tequesta, FL couple sat watching TV in their garage on a hot summer night like any other. It was a normal routine for them, one they tended to repeat every evening, taking advantage of a cool nighttime breeze and conversation with
In May 2008, Swedish-born twins Ursula and Sabina Eriksson fled Sabina's home without warning in the middle of the night, leaving her partner and two children ignorant of their whereabouts. Later that day, they arrived in Liverpool, England, presumab
In the late afternoon of February 2, 2008, a 24-year-old real estate agent named Lindsay Buziak meets a mysterious couple for a home viewing at a large executive property in Saanich, British Columbia. Concerned about the legitimacy of the buyers, but
On Monday, December 7, 2009, Josh Powell and his wife, Susan, failed to show up for work, or even call to say they'd be out that day. Their young sons, Charlie and Braden, are also no-shows at daycare, drawing the concern of extended family and frien
After enduring an abusive childhood in which Josh is essentially raised by his father to be a sociopath, his foray into the real world finds him unprepared to become a man. Faced with the choice to grow up or continue his increasingly antisocial beha
In December 2009, Josh Powell came under suspicion of murder when his wife, Susan, disappeared from their West Valley City, Utah home at a time he claims to have taken his young boys camping after midnight, and in freezing temperatures. Able to evade
On April 1, 2014, young Dutch tourists Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon took a day-hike into the mountains overlooking the small, picturesque town of Boquete, Panama, and were never seen alive again. Their remains were discovered soon after, but the my
On August 4, 1892, the town of Fall River, MA became witness to one of the more horrifying, yet fascinating crimes in modern history, the gruesome axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden, which remain unsolved to this day. At the time, however, strong
On the frigid morning of February 20, 2009, a 4-year-old girl appeared on the doorstep of a rural Wampum, PA home sobbing and proclaiming her pregnant mother wouldn't wake up. Police soon arrived on the scene to find the woman had been shot in the ba
On February 1, 1959, a group of Russian ski hikers stray off-course due to low visibility caused by snow and wind, only to find themselves forced to set up their tent for the night on the slopes of a remote peak in the northern Ural range called Khol
On the night of July 22, 1991 Milwaukee police entered the apartment of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer in response to a complaint by a man who said he'd been handcuffed and held hostage there only minutes earlier. Having been to the residence in the past
On the morning of June 4, 2010, 7-year-old Kyron Horman was photographed by his stepmother while standing proudly in front of his project at an elementary school science fair. The bespectacled, gap-toothed child was all smiles, as it was also the las
Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating journey through the terrifying psychology embedded in Stephen King’s horror classic Pet Sematary.
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On Thursday, July 9, 2015, little DeOrr Kunz left Idaho Falls with his family for a camping and fishing trip more than 120 miles away at the remote Timber Creek campground, but by the next afternoon he had vanished without a trace. At first, it was b
At 11:38pm on the night of December 3, 2003, Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Luna disappeared from his desk at the Baltimore federal courthouse, leaving behind his cell phone and glasses he needed for driving. Moments later, security footage captured
From 1971 to 1983, a madman roamed the remote wilderness outside of Anchorage, Alaska hunting attractive women as his prey. By the end of his reign of terror, Robert Christian Hansen, otherwise known as the Butcher Baker, would commit 30 rapes and at
On May 21, 1960, proud parents Lionel and Joyce Dahmer welcomed their baby boy Jeffrey into the world. By 1991, he would become one of the more notorious serial killers of all time. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological journey back in time to Jef
On April 15, 2005, Centre County, PA District Attorney Ray Gricar told his girlfriend he was taking a day off to go for a scenic drive and check out some antique stores. But as day turns to night, and night becomes the next morning, Ray never comes h
On the night of March 31, 1922, six members of a rural Bavarian family were viciously murdered inside their farmstead with a weapon believed to be something akin to a pickaxe. In the aftermath, many suspects came to light, as did rumors that the even
On the evening of February 24, 1978, four mentally challenged men set off on a road trip fifty miles from their homes in the Yuba City, CA area to watch a college basketball game in Chico. Expected back only hours later, they never arrive. But soon t
Circleville, OH. 1976. A local woman begins receiving threatening letters in the mail that instruct her to end an extramarital affair she swears is a fabrication. But when the letters continue, and the threats grow stronger, things finally come to a
At 11:30pm on August 28, 2013, a 19-year-old Sierra College student named Bryce Laspisa got behind the wheel of his SUV heading south on California's Interstate 5 headed in the direction of his parents' home nearly 500 miles away, soon after telling
On December 24, 2002, a young pregnant woman named Laci Peterson seemingly vanishes from the face of the earth while walking her dog. In the aftermath, media attention turns to her husband, Scott, who embarks on a series of odd behaviors before the b
Sometime after 2:30am on February 14, 2000, a 9-year-old girl from Shelby, NC named Asha Degree left her parents home in a rainstorm and began walking Highway 18 south toward an unknown destination. 1.3 miles later, and in temperatures barely above f
When 6-year-old Max Shacknai, son of wealthy pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai, plummets to his death in a mysterious fall over a second-floor banister at the Spreckels mansion in Coronado, CA, the family is left in a state of shock. But only t
On the evening of December 7, 1993 a 35-year-old Jamaican immigrant named Colin Ferguson boarded the number 3 train at Penn Station in New York City headed for long Island. He took a seat in the third car, among 80 other passengers, and remained sile
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1996 a frantic young mother of three from suburban Rowlett, TX makes a frantic call to 911 to report an intruder entered her home and viciously stabbed two of her sons to death. But when police arrive, they begin
On the night of August 2, 2006 a 32-year-old Washington, DC-area attorney named Robert Wone went to the home of a college roommate with plans to sleep at the residence in anticipation of arriving at work early the next day. But within an hour of his
On the morning of January 24, 2006 a young Orlando, FL woman named Jennifer Kesse failed to show up for work, causing concern among her family, friends, and employer. Hours later, it was apparent nobody could account for her whereabouts, but the scen
On the night of July 13, 1966 career criminal Richard Speck knocked at the door of a townhome on E. 100th St. in Chicago, IL with bad intentions. What followed changed the psychological landscape of American society forever.
On the evening of November 28, 2012 two police officers discovered a distressed 26-year-old woman named Emma Fillipoff sitting outside the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC clutching her shoes. After a 45-minute interview in which she barely spoke, they
On Thanksgiving Day 2012, 65-year-old Little Falls, MN resident Byron David Smith fatally shoots two burglars in his home, seemingly enacting his right to protect his property by use of deadly force. But when the police arrive, the crime scene sugges
In the early morning hours of December 2, 2011 a young woman named Morgan Ingram was found dead inside her parents’ Carbondale, CO home after several months of reporting terrifying encounters with a vicious stalker. But when the toxicology report ret
BONUS EPISODE: In the early morning hours of August 8, 2014 a young woman named Warriena Wright plunged to her death from the hi-rise balcony of an apartment building located along Australia's Gold Coast. In the aftermath, her date for the evening, a
In November, 2004 somebody entered the home of Delmar, NY residents Joan and Peter Porco in the middle of the night, armed with a fireman's axe and the worst of intentions. By the next morning, local police had arrived at the house to find one of the
On February 9, 2004, a 21-year-old college student named Maura Murray disappears after a car accident on route 112 in Haverhill, NH and is never seen again. What follows is one of the more baffling mysteries in American true crime lore. Join host Rya
On May 3, 2007, a 3-year-old British girl disappears from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, igniting one of the most infamous missing persons cases in modern history. But in the 12 years since, from allegations of a kidnapper
At 10pm on June 9th, 1912, the Moore family of Villisca, Iowa returns home from the Children's Day Program at their local Presbyterian church along with two guests. But as night turns to dawn, the family of six never emerges from behind the drawn cur
Join host Ryan Kraus in part II of this series covering Elliot Rodger and the Isla Vista Massacre, in which he takes the audience down the rabbit hole once again for a psychological examination of evolution's war on introversion and its resulting soc
On the evening of May 23, 2014, 22-year-old UCSB student Elliot Rodger murdered three students in his apartment near campus before taking his rampage to the streets behind the wheel of a fast-moving car. After killing or wounding more than a dozen pe
On August 5, 1962, the world learned of the death of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, who succumbed to an overdose of barbiturates at age 36. Decades later, however, many still speculate the actress was the victim of murder. Join host Ryan Kraus for a
On November 18, 1993, 9-year-old Angie Housman vanished after getting off a school bus less than a block from her home. In the following days, terror gripped the residents of St. Ann, MO as police searched desperately for a missing little girl and he
On May 31, 2014, a 12-year-old middle school student from Waukesha, WI was discovered lying on a bike path covered in blood, the victim of a vicious stabbing. Police soon learned the attackers were the girl's best friend Morgan Geyser and classmate A
On the morning of November 24, 1997, parents Steve and Marlene Aisenberg called 911 to report their 5-month-old daughter, Sabrina, had been taken from her crib in the middle of the night. But the police didn't find any evidence of an intruder. So, wh
On March 31, 2006, a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student named Brian Shaffer went out for a night of drinking with a friend, one that culminated at the Big Tuna Saloona, where Brian is seen on security footage talking to two young women outside th
August 20, 1989 - Two brothers, Lyle and Erik Menendez, enter their parents Beverly Hills mansion shortly before midnight and execute the couple with shotgun blasts, garnering the suspicion of police in the aftermath as they spend a fortune on lavish
On October 1, 1974 director Tobe Hooper unleashed a horror film that silenced US audiences from coast to coast with its unflinching look at a group of young people who run out of gas on a road trip and end up getting slaughtered by a crazed family li
On the afternoon of October 24, 1961 a little girl shows up at the doorstep of her neighbor's home in Lincoln, MA to proclaim, "Mommy's gone and the kitchen is covered in red paint." What follows is one of the most baffling disappearances in American
Join host Ryan Kraus for the final chapter of this series covering the infamous Robin Hood Hills child murders. In this episode, we examine Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of 8-year-old victim Stevie Branch, who garnered strong suspicion in the case when
On June 3, 1993, a 17-year-old boy with a low IQ named Jessie Misskelley confessed to the Robin Hood Hills murders at the West Memphis police department. The minor was not represented by an attorney, nor were his parents present. By the end of the in
Nearly 25 years after the bodies of Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore were pulled from the murky waters of a shaded gully in the forest of Robin Hood Hills, we still don't have a clear picture of what transpired that afternoon that
May 5, 1993 - When three young boys out for an afternoon bike ride through West Memphis, Arkansas never return home, a search the next morning reveals they were brutally murdered, their bodies concealed in a drainage ditch. A police report filed that
The Lutz family has finally settled into their new home at 112 Ocean Ave in Amityville after a demanding move. But at 3:15am, in the dark silence of the of the night, George awakens to loud noises coming from downstairs. As he goes to check on the pr
December, 1975 - Thirteen months after the murders of the DeFeo family, George and Kathy Lutz purchase the Dutch Colonial located at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville with the same "High Hopes" as their predecessors. But 28 days later, they flee in terr
Join me for the most clinical entry in the series as I examine the impetus for convicted killer Butch DeFeo's claims of demonic possession leading to murder, and how it became the transitional psychology that rendered the terrifying haunting the foll
Join me for the second chapter of this series as I go inside 112 Ocean Avenue to diagram the psychology behind the DeFeo murders, specifically dissecting the killer's methods by way of the only survivor of the massacre: Shaggy the Sheepdog. Only days
Amity, NY. In the early morning hours of November 13, 1974, Suffolk County police make a gruesome discovery inside the DeFeo residence located at 112 Ocean Avenue. The bodies of two adults, in addition to four children, are found in different bedroom
In the early morning hours of May 14, 2008, a 19-year-old college student driving home from a party got his car stuck in a ditch while navigating the back roads of rural Minnesota. But as he contacted his father and attempted to meet him at a nearby
A harrowing discovery was made on Halloween morning, 1975, when 15-year-old Greenwich, CT resident Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death underneath a tree in the family's backyard. It soon became apparent a monster was lurking somewhere in the
Join host Ryan Kraus for the second part of this psychological examination of the motivations behind the 1999 murder of high school senior Hae Min Lee. In this episode, we dissect the possibilities of what occurred in the controversial 21 minutes for
Enter the strange, analytical mind of host Ryan Kraus as Part I of this series scratches the surface of motive in this case by specifically examining the psychological impetus for 17-year-old Adnan Syed to murder his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee after s
Gunshots rang out on the streets of LA shortly after midnight on March 9, 1997, and when the chaos subsided one of the greatest rappers to ever grace the game was dead. Twenty years later, we're still asking ourselves who killed Biggie Smalls. Who wa
On October 8, 2009, Bobby and Sherilynn Jamison leave their Eufaula, OK home in the family truck with 6-year-old daughter Madison and her dog Maisy in tow. They trek 30 miles away into the Sans Bois Mountains, where they supposedly scout property to
July 26, 2009. A Ford Windstar minivan enters the Taconic State Parkway shortly after 1:30pm and accelerates to a speed of 85 mph ... going the wrong way into oncoming traffic. Behind the wheel is 36-year-old Diane Schuler, high on marijuana with a b
On February 19, 2013, a maintenance worker at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles checks the 4 towering water tanks on the building's rooftop after complaints from guests about a strange taste and smell emanating from the supply to their rooms. I
26-year-old father and oil-field worker Brandon Lawson leaves his San Angelo, TX home shortly before midnight on August 9, 2013, at the culmination of an argument with his common-law wife, Ladessa. After calling his father, he drives north on Highway
On the morning of November 1, 2007, Amanda Knox, an American college student living abroad in Perugia, Italy, returns to her apartment to find the front door open, blood in the bathroom, and her unresponsive roommate locked inside a bedroom. Fearing
On July 5, 2011, Casey Anthony was acquitted of numerous charges related to the asphyxiation death of her 3-year-old daughter Caylee in Orlando, FL, drawing outrage from the media and general public that persists to this day, even garnering her the m
In the early morning hours of December 9, 2001, novelist and aspiring politician Mike Peterson makes a harrowing 911 call to report that his wife Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC mansion and is barely breathing. By the time pol
In a 2-part episode, we first delve into the unsolved Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders, a series of unexplained deaths throughout the 1970s involving young female victims being dumped along roadsides, a case in which there is still very little evidence.
On September 27, 1969, a young woman named Cecelia Shepard died while being rushed to the hospital after she and fellow student Bryan Hartnell were viciously stabbed as they picnicked along an isthmus on a beautiful day at Lake Berryessa in Northern
On the morning of December 26, 1996, a frantic mother named Patsy Ramsey calls 911 to report that her daughter is missing and a ransom note was left on their back staircase demanding $118,000. As authorities investigate the disappearance, however, it