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MURDERED: Robin Benedict

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

A discovery in a rest stop trash can leads police to suspect a young artist and sex worker has been ...

MURDERED: Karina Holmer in Boston

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

This episode was originally released in January 2018 and is one of seventeen episodes from the archi...

MURDERED: Lizzbeth Aleman-Popoca

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

When Lizzbeth Aleman-Popoca, a young mother on the brink of a new beginning, is found murdered just ...

INFAMOUS: The Preppy Murder in New York

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

This episode was originally released in October 2019, and is one of seventeen episodes from the arch...

INFAMOUS: The Lake Waco Murders Part 2

Mon, 9 Dec 2024

A community demands answers when three teenagers are found brutally slain in a scenic lakeside park,...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Joyce Chiang in Fairfax

Thu, 5 Dec 2024

This episode was originally released in Septemebr 2021, and is one of seventeen episodes from the ar...

INFAMOUS: The Lake Waco Murders Part 1

Mon, 2 Dec 2024

A community demands answers when three teenagers are found brutally slain in a scenic lakeside park,...

MISSING: Brian Wehrle from Atlanta

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

This episode was originally released in May 2023, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archives...

MURDERED: JonBenét Ramsey

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

The morning after Christmas Day 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was reported missing... only for...

INFAMOUS: The Todt Family from Orlando

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

This episode was originally released in June 2023, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archive...

MURDERED: Lyric Cook-Morrissey & Elizabeth Collins

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

When two young cousins go out for a bike ride and never come home, a community has to ask: is a pred...

MURDERED: Nathaniel Jones

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Investigative journalist Delia D'Ambra is back with Season 7 of CounterClock, The Murder of Nathanie...

CAPTURED: Hammer Killer in Denver

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

This episode was originally released in September 2021, and is one of seventeen episodes from the ar...

MURDERED: Malvina Krutz

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

When a young woman is found brutally murdered in her Indianapolis home in 1958, police start pointin...

SERIAL KILLER: The Hillside Strangler from Los Angeles

Thu, 7 Nov 2024

This episode was originally released in August 2019, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archi...

MURDERED: Roger "Fred" Farmer

Mon, 4 Nov 2024

As soon as Roger “Fred” Farmer’s family realizes they haven’t seen him in a few weeks, they ...

WANTED: Justice for Hassani Campbell and Tianna Kirchner from Everett

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

This episode was originally released in November 2022, and is one of seventeen episodes from the arc...

INFAMOUS: The Bricca Family

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

When the Bricca family is found murdered in their home, rumors and speculation follow every turn of ...

Anna Kendrick is CJAF!

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

On today's episode of CJAF, Ashley sits down with actor, director, and producer Anna Kendrick.  To ...

MURDERED: Deanna Cook from Dallas

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

This episode was originally released in October 2023, aand is one of seventeen episodes from the arc...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Elfrieda Knaak

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

In 1928, a 30-year-old woman is found barely alive, burned beyond recognition, in a basement of a sm...

WANTED: Yogurt Shop Killer in Austin

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

This episode was originally released in February 2019, and is one of seventeen episodes from the arc...

ANNOUNCING: Park Predators Weekly!

Tue, 15 Oct 2024

Park Predators is back and Delia D’Ambra is staying in the parks all year long, making Park Predat...

MURDERED: Jessica Chambers

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

When first responders made their way out to a rural road in Mississippi in 2014, the last thing they...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Bethany Deaton from Kansas City

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

This episode was originally released in June 2024, exclusively in the Crime Junkie Fan Club, and is ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Debanhi Escobar

Mon, 7 Oct 2024

When a young woman disappears after being left alone on a highway, the search for her whereabouts an...

MURDERED: Ada Haradine

Fri, 4 Oct 2024

Our card this season is Ada Haradine, the 3 of Clubs from Indiana."The Deck Investigates" returns wi...

INFAMOUS: The Lipstick Killer from Chicago

Thu, 3 Oct 2024

This episode was originally released in April 2020, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archiv...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: John Bender

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

When a 44-year-old millionaire ends up shot and killed in his bed in Costa Rica, authorities are qui...

SURVIVED: Cyntoia Brown from Nashville

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

This case was originally told in an episode released in January 2022, but we pulled Cyntoia's story ...

MURDERED: Mary Morris

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Two women, both in the same county in Texas, are murdered within days of each other. But along with ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: JoAnn Matouk Romain from Detroit

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

This episode was originally released in February, 2022 and is one of seventeen episodes from the arc...

MURDERED: Michella Welch & Jennifer Bastian

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

When a 13-year-old Tacoma girl disappears on a bike ride in her local park, the community rallies to...

SERIAL KILLER: Herb Baumeister from Indianapolis

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

This episode was originally released in April 2018, and is one of seventeen episodes from the archiv...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Jennifer Fergate

Mon, 9 Sep 2024

The bizarre case of Jennifer Fergate in June 1995 has intrigued investigators, journalists, and the ...

ANNOUNCING: Supernatural is BACK!

Fri, 6 Sep 2024

Now an audiochuck original, Supernatural is back! Only this time, it's better than ever... it's So S...

MURDERED: Mary & Susanne Reker

Mon, 2 Sep 2024

Monday, September 2, 2024, marks 50 years since the murders of Mary and Susanne Reker. 50 years of p...

AUDIO EXTRA: The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

When bits of meat fall from the sky seemingly at random, the citizens of Olympia, Kentucky, don't kn...

MURDERED: Bryan "Nick" Moore

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Described as one of the first antique hunters in the Anderson, South Carolina, area and beyond, this...

MURDERED: Kent Leppink

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Kent Leppink was murdered in 1996 near Hope Alaska. Many media sources attribute his death to a love...

MISSING: Ben McDaniel & Kenneth Plaisted

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

A young man disappears in the depths of an underwater cave system in 2010. A father mysteriously van...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Cindy James

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

On June 8, 1989, the quiet Vancouver, British Columbia, suburb of Richmond was shocked when a body w...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Jane Neumann

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

When a 30-year-old woman is found shot to death under the strangest of circumstances, police try to ...

SERIAL KILLER: Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka

Thu, 8 Aug 2024

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka’s wedding day was a lavish affair, horse-drawn carriage and all. W...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Robin Pope

Mon, 5 Aug 2024

When a young woman and her dog go mysteriously missing, only to be found dead in the Chesapeake Bay,...

WANTED: Justice for Arnold Archambeau & Ruby Bruguier

Thu, 1 Aug 2024

When a young South Dakota couple goes missing from the scene of a car accident in 1992, local police...

MURDERED: Kelly Disney

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

Kelly Disney disappeared without a trace in 1984, leaving behind a devastated family brimming with q...

AUDIO EXTRA: Unsolved Mysteries Part 1 & 2

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

We wanted to give you an Unsolved Mysteries recap Crime Junkie style – You’re watching it, we’...

MISSING: Trevor Deely

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

A 22-year-old IT worker attends his company holiday dinner party in downtown Dublin… and then vani...

MISSING: Barbara Bolick

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

When an experienced hiker vanishes from one of her favorite trails, her friends and family are force...

MURDERED: Roberta "Bibi" Lee

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

Roberta Lee, or "Bibi" to her friends, vanished while on a run with her boyfriend and friend. When h...

CONSPIRACY: Charles “Chuck” Morgan

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

When detectives discover a mysterious death in the desert southwest of Tucson, Arizona, questions im...

MISSING: Carolyn Killaby

Mon, 8 Jul 2024

When a young woman goes missing in November 1995, no one knew just how close they were to a monster ...

MURDERED: Thomas Bearson & Geetha Angara

Mon, 1 Jul 2024

We have two stories for you today. Two separate cases that both need one thing – people to talk. T...

MISSING: Kristen Modafferi

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

A vibrant young woman from North Carolina decides to spend the summer between her freshman and sopho...

INFAMOUS: The Bowraville Murders

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

When three Aboriginal children go missing in a span of several weeks in the small town of Bowraville...

MURDERED: Devan Duniver

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

When a beloved five-year-old falls victim to a brutal homicide, authorities quickly close in on a su...

MISSING: From a Bus Stop

Mon, 3 Jun 2024

For most of us, heading to a bus stop would be a mindless act. Just a stop before your next destinat...

INFAMOUS: The LaSalle Street Murders

Mon, 27 May 2024

When a couple of young Indianapolis businessmen fail to show up for work in December of 1971, their ...

SURVIVED: The Chowchilla Kidnapping

Mon, 20 May 2024

On a warm summer day in 1976, 26 children went missing from the town of Chowchilla, California, sett...

MURDERED: Lisa Norell

Mon, 13 May 2024

When a 15-year-old girl vanishes on her way home from a friend’s quinceañera rehearsal in 1998, a...

WANTED: Justice for MMIP

Tue, 7 May 2024

May is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Month, and we want to highlight some of the...

MURDERED: Brittany Locklear

Mon, 6 May 2024

When a little girl goes missing from her bus stop in 1998, it’s just the start of one community’...

BWBRSA: Online Scams

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

Scammers have an infinite number of ways to steal your money and information. In this episode, we ex...

INTRODUCING: Crime Junkie AF

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

Have you heard yet? Your newest obsession and the ultimate destination for 24/7 true crime, Crime Ju...

MURDERED: Scott Johnson

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

When 27-year-old Scott Johnson is found deceased at the bottom of a cliff in Australia, authorities ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Franchesca Alvarado

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

When 22-year-old Franchesca Alvarado set out on a quick weekend trip to Atlantic City in March of 20...

MISSING: Steven Clark

Mon, 8 Apr 2024

A young man stops for a restroom break during a walk with his mom along the seaside in the United Ki...

MURDERED: María Marta García Belsunce Part 2

Tue, 2 Apr 2024

When tragedy strikes in a wealthy Argentinian community, the suspicions of the nation fall squarely ...

MURDERED: María Marta García Belsunce Part 1

Mon, 1 Apr 2024

When tragedy strikes in a wealthy Argentinian community, the suspicions of the nation fall squarely ...

CONSPIRACY: The Frog Boys of South Korea

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

When five young boys vanish from their village in South Korea, local authorities are quick to assume...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Joyce and John Sheridan

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Since 2014, the mysterious deaths of Joyce and John Sheridan have been a major topic of conversation...

NEW SHOW: Three

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

After midnight on July 6th, 2012, three teenage girls walked into the thick Appalachian woods somewh...

MISSING: Angela Green

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

When Angela Green vanished from her home in a Kansas suburb in 2019, she left behind a web of her hu...

WANTED: Justice for David Carter

Mon, 4 Mar 2024

Ohio State Highway Patrol were identifying unknown remains along the side of a highway in northern O...

SERIAL KILLER: The Alphabet Murders Part 2

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

Dozens of commuters see a young girl fleeing a car on the side of the expressway in Rochester, NY, b...

SERIAL KILLER: The Alphabet Murders Part 1

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

Dozens of commuters see a young girl fleeing a car on the side of the expressway in Rochester, NY, b...

MURDERED: Jodi Sanderholm

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

When a beloved college student disappears on her way home one January day in 2007, a massive city-wi...

MISSING: Runaway Train Kids

Tue, 6 Feb 2024

In honor of this past National Missing Persons Day, Ashley and Brit are going to take turns telling ...

MISSING: Maura Murray (NEW)

Mon, 5 Feb 2024

Over the past 20 years, Maura Murray’s case has taken on a life of its own. It’s become hard to ...

INFAMOUS: Aarushi Talwar & Hemraj Banjade

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

When Aarushi Talwar is found brutally murdered in her bedroom, it sets off one of the strangest and ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Lauren Agee

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

A fun-filled wakeboarding festival turns tragic after a young woman’s body is found floating in th...

MURDERED: Christie Mullins

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

When 14-year-old Christie Mullins is found murdered, police are quick to charge a young man who fits...

UPDATE: The Colonial Parkway Murders

Tue, 9 Jan 2024

In this episode, we discuss the latest update in the Colonial Parkway Murders case. Investigators ha...

MISSING: Alex Hernandez

Mon, 8 Jan 2024

Just days before she was due to give birth to her second child, 24-year-old Evelyn Hernandez goes mi...

MISSING: Lucely "Lily" Aramburo

Mon, 8 Jan 2024

A young mother walks out her front door in the middle of the night and seems to vanish into thin air...

MURDERED: Matthew Margolies

Thu, 4 Jan 2024

When 13-year old Matthew Margolies didn’t come home for supper on the night of August 31, 1984, po...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Hugues de la Plaza

Mon, 1 Jan 2024

When a 36-year-old man is found stabbed to death in his apartment, it’s just the beginning of a lo...

PRECEDENT: Kitty Genovese

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

Kitty Genovese has become infamous as the woman who was ignored by her neighbors as she was being mu...

PRECEDENT: Henry Alford

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

Sometimes we see our legal system as black or white. Innocent or Guilty. But there is a technical gr...

EXPERT ON: Safety from Online Sex Abuse

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Join Brit and the founder of Safe from Online Sex Abuse (SOSA), Roo Powell, and learn about the incr...

BWBRSA: Sextortion

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Two harrowing stories – those of Asia Anderson and Walker Montgomery – illustrate how the rising...

MURDERED: Fiona Yu

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

An ASU student comes home one afternoon in 1997 to find her roommate, Fiona Yu, clinging to life in ...

CONSPIRACY: Phillip Island Part 2

Mon, 4 Dec 2023

When 23-year-old Beth Barnard is found murdered in her home, investigators immediately suspect a wom...

CONSPIRACY: Phillip Island Part 1

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

When 23-year-old Beth Barnard is found murdered in her home, investigators immediately suspect a wom...

MURDERED: J.B. Beasley & Tracie Hawlett

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

Two 17-year-old girls set off one summer night in 1999 for a high school field party, excited to mar...

MURDERED: Bruce Blackwood

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

The sudden disappearance of the manager at an Off-Track Betting parlor has his family, friends, and ...

MISSING: Reed Jeppson

Mon, 6 Nov 2023

Reed Jeppson, a Salt Lake City teen, went outside to feed his dogs one Sunday afternoon in 1964 and ...

MURDERED: Patricia Newsom

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

After nearly 50 years as East Haven, Connecticut’s Jane Doe, police have finally identified the mu...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Molly Young

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

On March 24th, 2012, Molly Young rushed to her on-again, off-again boyfriend Richie Minton's aid, on...

MISSING: Rachel Good

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

When a young mother vanishes from her small town, alarm bells sound immediately. Local police are on...

UPDATE: James Reyos Exonerated

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

In May 2021, Crime Junkie covered the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Ryan and the subsequent convicti...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Jade Winston

Mon, 9 Oct 2023

When 18-year-old Jade Winston is found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in her Carrier Mills, ...

MURDERED: Deanna Cook

Mon, 2 Oct 2023

When 32-year-old Deanna Cook is found murdered in her home, her family automatically suspects her ex...

MURDERED: Pherbia “Faye” Tinsley

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

When Pherbia Tinsley is found shot to death inside her car miles from her apartment in Central Virgi...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Morgan Patten

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

When Morgan Patten is killed in a mysterious auto crash while visiting her fiancé in North Carolina...

MISSING: Jodi Huisentruit

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

When a local news anchor vanishes in the pre-dawn hours, the entire community is struck by the irony...

PRECEDENT: Daniel M’Naghten

Mon, 4 Sep 2023

In 1843, Daniel M’Naghten gunned down another man in broad daylight. But when he was taken to tria...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Clarence Roberts

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

When the body of a man is found in the burned remains of the Roberts home, the family assumes it’s...

UPDATE: Alissa Turney Trial

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

If you’ve been following Alissa Turney’s case, you’ll know that her stepfather, Michael Turney...

MISSING: Donyelle Johnson

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

When a young woman goes missing under mysterious circumstances, questions swirl around a local busin...

MURDERED: Shannon Siders

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

When a young woman vanishes, police think she left willingly. That changes when her body is discover...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Adrienne Salinas

Mon, 7 Aug 2023

When a promising young woman fails to show up for a Father’s Day celebration in 2013, her dad know...

CAPTURED: Gilgo Beach Killer

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

The update episode you all have been waiting for! On July 13th, 2023, Suffolk County ended the searc...

UPDATE: Alicia Navarro

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

On July 26, 2021, we covered the case of MISSING: Alicia Navarro. On July 26, 2023, exactly two year...

MISSING: Allison and Marie-Josée Benitez

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

When a beautiful young woman and her mother go missing, all eyes turn to the strange behavior of her...

MURDERED: Pamela Butler and Marta Rodriguez

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

When a successful career woman goes missing in Washington, D.C., her family immediately knows someth...

MURDERED: Maribel Ramos

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

When 36-year-old Maribel Ramos doesn’t show up to her weekly softball game, her friends and family...

SERIAL KILLER: The Honolulu Strangler

Mon, 3 Jul 2023

When young women start disappearing from the streets of Honolulu only to soon be found brutally murd...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Shawn O’Brien

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

When Shawn O’Brien is found unconscious in his Cranston, RI, apartment and dies days later in the ...

MISSING: Denise Pflum

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

On a Friday afternoon in 1986, 18-year-old Denise Pflum leaves her home in Connersville, Indiana, to...

INFAMOUS: The Todt Family

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

When police and federal agents descended on the home of the Todt family, they never expected to disc...

PRECEDENT: Amber Hagerman

Mon, 5 Jun 2023

When Amber Hagerman was abducted in 1996, there was a witness who saw a man and a distinctive car ne...

MISSING: Joey Lynn Offutt

Mon, 29 May 2023

When firefighters responded to 33-year-old Joey Lynn Offutt’s burning house in Sykesville, Pennsyl...

MURDERED: Sasha Samsudean

Mon, 22 May 2023

When a friend is MIA after a night out, loved ones worry that she didn’t make it home safely. When...

MISSING: Brian Wehrle

Mon, 15 May 2023

Brian Wehrle vanished without a trace during a trip to his hometown of Carrollton, Georgia. Everyone...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Nanette Krentel

Mon, 8 May 2023

When a fire destroys the Krentel home, family and friends are devastated to learn that one member, N...

MISSING: Ashley Loring HeavyRunner

Mon, 1 May 2023

When 20-year-old Ashley Loring HeavyRunner goes missing on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, her...

MURDERED: Mengqi Ji

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

When a young mother is reported missing, investigators quickly realize she was probably murdered. Th...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Elizabeth Santos

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

Elizabeth Santos’ unexpected and tragic death in 2020 left behind a million questions. Some believ...

CAPTURED: Michael Townson

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

When a young mother is found brutally beaten to death in 2007, investigators are able to quickly app...

MISSING: Oakley Carlson

Mon, 3 Apr 2023

Oakley Carlson was only four years old when she went missing in 2021. Investigators launched a despe...

PRECEDENT: Adam Walsh

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

In 1981, a young boy named Adam was abducted by a stranger from a shopping plaza. It would take almo...

MURDERED: QC Chadwick

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

When mother-of-three QC Chadwick and her husband, Peter, don’t pick their kids up at the bus stop,...

MISSING: Phoenix Coldon

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

When 23-year-old Phoenix Coldon walks out the front door of her family home, her parents never could...

MURDERED: Julie Kibuishi and Sam Herr

Mon, 6 Mar 2023

When Julie Kibuishi’s body is discovered in Sam Herr’s apartment, investigators immediately laun...

INFAMOUS: The Vernon-Tolland Three

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, multiple young women and girls go missing in the Vernon-Tolland a...

MURDERED: Tracy Kirkpatrick

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

When 17-year-old Tracy Kirkpatrick is found murdered in March 1989, investigators struggle to find a...

CONSPIRACY: Theresa Allore

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

When Theresa Allore vanishes from her college campus in Quebec, Canada, in 1978, local police dismis...

MURDERED: David Josiah Lawson

Mon, 6 Feb 2023

David Josiah Lawson headed off to college in Arcata, California with big dreams only to be stabbed t...

MISSING: Christina Calayca

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

When Christina Calayca disappeared on a camping trip in Ontario, Canada, in 2007, investigators expe...

MURDERED: Sharmini Anandavel

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

When 15-year-old Sharmini Anandavel doesn’t come home from her first day at a new job, her family ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Family in Anaqua Springs

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

When Nichol Olsen and her two daughters are found shot in the home they shared with her boyfriend, a...

MURDERED: Aaron Taylor

Mon, 9 Jan 2023

Aaron Taylor was 36 and experiencing homelessness when he was lit on fire on Christmas Day in 2007. ...

MISSING: Natanalie "Naty" Perez

Mon, 2 Jan 2023

Natanalie Perez was chasing her dream of being a singer when she fell victim to a violent sex-traffi...

PRECEDENT: Ernesto Miranda

Mon, 26 Dec 2022

In 1963, Ernesto Miranda was arrested for kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery. Ultimately, he gave p...

Everyone Needs a True Crime Friend

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

There are Crime Junkies far and wide and SURPRISE! Conan O’Brien is in fact a Crime Junkie. On thi...

MURDERED: Phylicia Simone Barnes Part 2

Wed, 21 Dec 2022

When 16-year-old Phylicia Simone Barnes is found dead in a river 40 miles from where she was staying...

MURDERED: Phylicia Simone Barnes Part 1

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

When 16-year-old Phylicia Simone Barnes goes missing while visiting her half-sister in Baltimore, th...

5 Years of Crime Junkie!

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

For our 5-year celebration episode, we take a look back at the impact Crime Junkie has made. From fu...

CONSPIRACY: Jonathan Luna

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

When federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna was found face-down in a creek with multiple stab wounds, homi...

SURVIVED: Jaycee Dugard

Mon, 5 Dec 2022

11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted as she was walking to school in June of 1991. No one would se...

MISSING: Anthonette Cayedito

Fri, 2 Dec 2022

When a 9-year-old girl vanishes from her home overnight, investigators must try and overcome a lack...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Nadia Malik

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

Nadia Malik was trying to break free of an abusive relationship when she disappeared only to be foun...

MISSING: Heather Teague

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

A young woman is abducted in the middle of the day, and despite seeming like an open and shut case...

MURDERED: The Short Family

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

When Michael and Mary Short are found murdered in their Virginia home in August of 2002, the questio...

MISSING: Arianna Fitts

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

When Nicole Fitts is found murdered in a park in San Francisco, both her family and law enforcement ...

WANTED: Justice for Hassani Campbell and Tianna Kirchner

Mon, 7 Nov 2022

Five-year-old Hassani Campbell disappears without a trace, leaving behind a community desperate for ...

CAPTURED: Killer on the High Bridge

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

Today, October 31, 2022, the Indiana State Police, in conjunction with the Carroll County Sheriff’...

MISSING: Celina Mays

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

Celina Mays was 12 years old when she vanished from her bedroom in the middle of the night back in 1...

SERIAL KILLER: Mack Ray Edwards

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

When 8-year-old Stella Nolan went missing in 1953, no one could have known that she was the first in...

MISSING: Kreneice Jones & LaMoine Allen

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

Toddlers Kreneice Jones and LaMoine Allen disappear from a small town in Mississippi during a family...

CONSPIRACY: Boys on the Track

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

When two boys are found deceased on the train tracks in Bryant, Arkansas, their deaths are considere...

MURDERED: Owachige Osceola

Thu, 6 Oct 2022

Recently divorced and living on her own in a new city, 27-year-old Owachige Osceola’s life was in ...

MURDERED: Yeardley Love

Mon, 3 Oct 2022

When 22-year-old Yeardley Love is found murdered in her apartment just a few weeks before graduatin...

MISSING: Hang Lee

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

When 17-year-old Hang Lee leaves for a job interview and never comes home, police are quick to dismi...

CAPTURED: Timothy Coggins Killers

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

In 1983, a young Black man named Timothy Coggins is found brutally murdered in Spalding County, Geor...

MURDERED: Shakara Carter

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

When Shakara Carter is found strangled to death on a dead-end road in Grand Rapids, Michigan, she’...

Update from Brit

Tue, 6 Sep 2022

Don’t miss out on all things Crime Junkie!Instagram: @crimejunkiepodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @Cr...

PRECEDENT: John Brady

Mon, 5 Sep 2022

In 1958, John Brady, along with an accomplice, was accused of murdering his friend, William Brooks. ...

MISSING: Mekayla Bali

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

16-year-old Mekayla Bali vanished from a bus depot in her hometown of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, in 2016...

MURDERED: Jenny Lin Part 2

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

After days of searching for 14-year-old Jenny Lin’s killer, detectives received some promising tip...

MURDERED: Jenny Lin Part 1

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

In 1994, the brutal murder of a 14-year-old inside her parents' safe suburban house left a community...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Davina Buff Jones

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

When Officer Davina Buff Jones is found dead in the middle of her shift on Bald Head Island, those i...

BONUS: Possible Bell Victims

Sun, 21 Aug 2022

After Larry Gene Bell is arrested, investigators dive into his past and uncover three unsolved cases...

ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE…IS HERE!!

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

The day has FINALLY arrived, Crime Junkies!! Ashley Flowers' debut novel ALL GOOD PEOPLE HERE is off...

MURDERED: Shari Smith and Debra Helmick

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

When 17-year-old Shari Smith is abducted from her driveway in broad daylight, it seems like her fami...

MISSING: The Millbrook Twins

Mon, 8 Aug 2022

When twin sisters Jeannette and Dannette Millbrook go missing in Augusta, Georgia, in 1990, police a...

MURDERED: Kathy Page

Mon, 1 Aug 2022

When a young woman is found dead in a crashed car, the first thought is a tragic accident. But after...

MISSING: Susan Robin Bender

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

Susan Robin Bender got into a van in 1986 and was never seen again. Police believe the teenage girl ...

SERIAL KILLER: Khalil Wheeler-Weaver

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

When a New Jersey family is rocked by the disappearance of one of their own, they set up a trap to c...

MURDERED: Ruby J. Doss

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

In 1986, a young woman named Ruby Doss is found strangled to death in the East Sprague area of Spoka...

MISSING: Jamie Fraley

Mon, 4 Jul 2022

Everything was going great for Jamie Fraley when she vanished in April of 2008, after telling a fri...

MURDERED: Shawn Edwards Part 2

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

After years of rumors, gossip, and dead-end leads, the investigation into 14-year-old Shawn Edwards’...

MURDERED: Shawn Edwards Part 1

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

When 14-year-old Shawn Edwards is stabbed and beaten to death outside of a high school in Middletown...

Ashley Flowers Wrote a Book!

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

Get ready Crime Junkies because Ashley Flowers’ debut novel All Good People Here will officially b...

MISSING: Dawnita Wilkerson

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

When Dawnita Wilkerson stops answering her phone one Sunday in June of 2020, her loved ones know som...

MURDERED: Joseph Kinville III

Mon, 6 Jun 2022

When 16-year-old Joseph Kinville III is brutally stabbed to death in a field in his neighborhood in ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Pravin Varughese

Wed, 1 Jun 2022

When 19-year-old Southern Illinois University student Pravin Varughese dies unexpectedly, police qui...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Casey MacPherson-Pomeroy and Caleb Guillory

Mon, 30 May 2022

Casey MacPherson-Pomeroy and Caleb Guillory had plans to ring in the new year on the beautiful Carib...

MISSING: Dulce Maria Alavez

Mon, 23 May 2022

When 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez vanishes from a playground in New Jersey, the whole community pit...

DESAPARECIDA: Dulce Maria Alavez

Mon, 23 May 2022

Cuando Dulce María Alavez, de 5 años, se desaparece de un parque infantil en Nueva Jersey, toda la...

SERIAL KILLER: The Freeway Phantom

Mon, 16 May 2022

When six young girls are found murdered, their similarities link them all to one killer. With no wit...

PRECEDENT: Polly Klaas

Mon, 9 May 2022

Polly Klaas was taken from her own home in the middle of the night back in 1993. But had the legal s...

Important Message

Tue, 3 May 2022

If you'd like to leave words of encouragement & well wishes for Brit, we've posted a virtual card on...

MISSING: Michelle Eason Part 2

Mon, 2 May 2022

When the bodies of eight missing sex workers are found in the home of a serial killer in Poughkeepsi...

MISSING: Michelle Eason Part 1

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

When Michelle Eason is reported missing, she’s the fifth sex worker in one year to vanish from Pou...

INFAMOUS: Circleville Letters

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

An anonymous letter-writer antagonized residents of Circleville, Ohio for years, singling out the sc...

MURDERED: Karen Gregory

Mon, 4 Apr 2022

Karen Gregory dies a violent death in the hallway of her own home, on a quiet residential street in ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Erica Alonso

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

When Erica Alonso disappears on Valentine’s Day after a night out with her ex-boyfriend, a months-...

MURDERED: Marqueise Coleman

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

Marqueise Coleman had his whole life ahead of him when he was shot to death in a trailer in North Ca...

UPDATE: Flathead County Doe

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

This is an update to the August 2020 episode "UNIDENTIFIED: Flathead County Doe." In the year and a ...

INFAMOUS: Juan Rivera

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

If you have any information in Holly Staker’s case, please contact Lake County Crime Stoppers at 8...

MURDERED: Erica Gene Shultz

Mon, 7 Mar 2022

From the moment her sister Erica’s phone went to voice mail, Emily Corbin knew something was wrong...

MURDERED: Emma Walker and Mya Peña

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

Emma Walker had what looked to the world like a picture-perfect high school relationship — until h...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: JoAnn Matouk Romain Part 2

Mon, 21 Feb 2022

The January 2010 death of JoAnn Matouk Romain gets even more mysterious when her family learns of tw...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: JoAnn Matouk Romain Part 1

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

In January 2010 JoAnn Matouk Romain runs a quick errand to get gas followed by attending a 15-minute...

PRECEDENT: Megan Kanka

Mon, 7 Feb 2022

When Megan Kanka went missing in 1994 her case exposed one of the holes in the sex offender registry...

PRECEDENT: Jacob Wetterling

Mon, 7 Feb 2022

When Jacob Wetterling went missing in 1989 one of the first thoughts police had, was to track down a...

MURDERED: Georgia Leah Moses

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

A 12-year-old girl slips through the cracks…and exposes them in every system that should have prot...

SURVIVED: Chrystul Kizer and Cyntoia Brown

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

When 17-year-old Chrystul Kizer is arrested for first-degree murder in Milwaukee, the investigation ...

MISSING: Diane Francis

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

To help Sherri fund the search for her mother you can donate HERE.If you know anything about the di...

MISSING: Lauren Dumolo

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

When Lauren Dumolo disappeared, she left behind a ton of questions, a mystery that keeps unfolding a...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Patricia Viola

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

Just before Valentine’s Day in 2001 a New Jersey housewife goes missing. For almost a decade her c...

MURDERED: Mary Lynn Witherspoon

Mon, 3 Jan 2022

When Mary Lynn Witherspoon doesn’t show up to work at the South Carolina school where she taught, ...

MISSING: Damien Nettles

Mon, 20 Dec 2021

A 16-year-old vanishes from England’s Isle of Wight. And the quest for answers leads us deeper and...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Sherese Walker Bingham Part 2

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

The investigation into Sherese Walker Bingham’s death points police in one direction: toward her h...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Sherese Walker Bingham Part 1

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

A woman takes her dogs for their nightly walk and is shot and killed with her own gun in a downtown ...

MURDERED: Candace Rough Surface

Mon, 6 Dec 2021

When young mother goes missing from the reservation border town of Mobridge, South Dakota, investiga...

MISSING: Kierra Coles and Keeshae Jacobs

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

Two women. Two cities. Two years apart. Both of them – vanished without a trace. Both are mysterie...

MURDERED: Janet Abaroa

Mon, 22 Nov 2021

After 25-year-old Janet Abaroa is discovered brutally murdered in her North Carolina home, her famil...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Ellen Greenberg

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

Petition to have attorney general re-open Ellen’s caseJustice for Ellen Facebook page Ellen Rae G...

MURDERED: Enrique Roman-Martinez

Mon, 8 Nov 2021

A young soldier vanishes during a camping trip. His partial remains wash up on the beach 10 days lat...

CAPTURED: Allan Showery

Mon, 1 Nov 2021

This year’s Halloween’s special is the story of a woman whose tragic murder almost went unsolved...

MISSING: Young Men From Their Cars

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Daniel Robinson:To sign the petition to elevate Daniels’ case click HERE and to sign up to help se...

MURDERED: Meredith Kercher

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

A 21yo British woman is less than a month into a foreign exchange in Perugia, Italy when she is brut...

MURDERED: Billy Stafford

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

A violent marriage ends in a bloody murder. Police solve the case -- but it’s the victim who ends ...

MURDERED: The Hendricks Family

Mon, 4 Oct 2021

For years, David Hendricks was the walking embodiment of the true crime trope "The Husband Did It." ...

CAPTURED: Denver Hammer Killer

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

In the 1980s the Denver area was terrorized by a hammer-wielding mad man. But as fast as the attacks...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Joyce Chiang

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

One woman’s promising career in Washington, D.C. is cut short when she mysteriously vanishes one n...

MISSING: Gabby Petito

Sun, 19 Sep 2021

Gabby Petito is missing after a cross-country trip with her fiancée. He returned home alone with he...

MURDERED: Debra Jackson (Orange Socks Doe)

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

For decades after she was mysteriously murdered and left on the side of a busy interstate, she was k...

MISSING: Ryan Shtuka

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

When a young man vanishes in a small resort town, the question is: does someone know something, or d...

CAPTURED: Rocky Mountain Killer

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

Two notorious murder cases stay ice cold for decades, until a mysterious clue helps bring a killer t...

MISSING: Mary Badaracco

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

When a 38-year-old woman leaves her home - and a violent marriage - without saying goodbye, her two ...

MURDERED: Lisa Au

Mon, 9 Aug 2021

A young woman’s shocking murder forces residents to question the very people who are supposed to k...

SERIAL KILLER: The Cleveland Strangler

Mon, 2 Aug 2021

Police in Cleveland enter a home in Mount Pleasant to arrest a man on sexual assault charges. But th...

MISSING: Alicia Navarro

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

A teenage girl finds community online, but her family believes she also found something much more si...

DESAPARECIDA: Alicia Navarro

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

Una joven encuentra una comunidad en línea, pero su familia cree que ella se encontró con algo má...

INFAMOUS: Tommy Zeigler

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

Tommy Zeigler was sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, her parents, and a customer at his...

SEASON OF JUSTICE!!!

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

Audiochuck’s founder and CEO, Ashley Flowers, has founded a new non-profit called Season of Justic...

WANTED: The Keddie Cabin Killer

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

A family’s brutal murder rocks a tiny California town and leaves behind too many unanswered questi...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Kaysera Stops Pretty Places

Mon, 5 Jul 2021

When 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places disappears after a night with friends in Hardin, Montan...

SERIAL KILLER: Bruce McArthur

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

For years, the LGBTQ+ community in Toronto, Canada worried there was a serial killer targeting men i...

CAPTURED: Jennifer Pan

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

The Pan Family seemed to have it all until a shocking home invasion upended their lives in the most ...

MISSING: Branson Perry

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

In 2001, a young man vanished without a trace and more than 20 years later the only thing law enforc...

MURDERED: Mollie Olgin

Mon, 7 Jun 2021

Two teenage girls in love are forced to endure an unimaginable trauma that rocks their south Texas t...

INFAMOUS: The Signal Mountain Murders

Mon, 31 May 2021

A summer joyride turns deadly when three men are viciously gunned down in the hills of southern Tenn...

MURDERED: Father Patrick Ryan

Mon, 24 May 2021

A Catholic priest is found savagely beaten to death in an Odessa, TX motel room in 1981. A man confe...

INFAMOUS: The Setagaya Family Murders

Mon, 17 May 2021

A Tokyo family is slaughtered in their home, leaving behind a brutal and baffling mystery. For curr...

MURDERED: Rosie Tapia

Mon, 10 May 2021

A little girl vanishes from her bedroom in the middle of the night only to be found brutally murdere...

MISSING: Diane Louise Augat

Mon, 3 May 2021

A woman leaves her sister’s home one April day in 1998 and never returns. But she doesn’t vanish...

INFAMOUS: Prom Night Murders

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

In 1989 the small town of Lakeville, Indiana was rocked by the massacre of a pastor and his family. ...

MURDERED: Sierah Joughin

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

A beautiful young woman's brutal murder at the height of Midwestern summer shatters her community's ...

INFAMOUS: #ChallengeAccepted

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

When two women are violently murdered five years apart and half a world away, advocates look for a w...

MURDERED: Peggy Reome

Mon, 5 Apr 2021

When a mother of three walks out her front door and into the New York morning, she leaves a trail of...

MISSING: Esther Hollis

Thu, 1 Apr 2021

When Esther Hollis goes missing after a conversation with her husband, her best friend and sister tr...

MURDERED: Donnah Winger

Mon, 29 Mar 2021

In 1995 a new mother is killed after being attacked by a man who'd been harassing her. Or at least, ...

MURDERED: Heather Bogle

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

When a woman is murdered in a small Rust Belt town, the quest to find her killer gets turned upside ...

UNIDENTIFIED: St. Louis Doe // Beth Doe

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

Two different people have one terrible thing in common: they were both brutally murdered but despite...

SURVIVED: Elizabeth Smart

Mon, 8 Mar 2021

Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint in the middle of the night from her bedroom in Salt Lake ...

MURDERED: The Lundys Part 2

Mon, 1 Mar 2021

After Mark Lundy was convicted of viciously slaying his wife and daughter, another story started to...

MURDERED: The Lundys Part 1

Mon, 22 Feb 2021

When a woman and her young daughter are found brutally murdered in their home, the investigation lea...

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball 2.0

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball was one of our most popular episodes ever! And it's more terrifying than ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Holly Bartlett

Mon, 8 Feb 2021

On a cold day in March 2010, workers discovered a woman lying unconscious under the MacKay Bridge in...

MISSING: Jaliek Rainwalker

Mon, 1 Feb 2021

A child's mysterious disappearance sparks tough questions about his adoptive family and the system t...

MURDERED: Harvey and Jeannette Crewe

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

A shockingly brutal crime rocks a rural New Zealand community, but the fallout has bigger consequenc...

UPDATE: Sumter County Does - IDENTIFIED!!!

Thu, 21 Jan 2021

As of 2pm ET on January 21, 2021 The Sumter County Sheriff's office has identified the Sumter Count...

CAPTURED: Bay Area Predator

Mon, 18 Jan 2021

When Michaela Garecht was abducted in 1988, no one was prepared for the heartbreaking investigation ...

MISSING: Jeramy Burt

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

Late one night in 2007, Jeramy Burt left his home to meet up with a friend but never made it. His di...

INFAMOUS: Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

Mon, 4 Jan 2021

A normal Saturday morning at the bowling alley takes a shocking and brutal twist that shakes a New M...

MURDERED: Gina Hall

Mon, 21 Dec 2020

A young college student never comes home after a night of dancing. All the evidence suggests she's b...

AUDIO EXTRA: Bizarre Crime History

Fri, 18 Dec 2020

Crime Junkie OFFICIALLY turns 3 today, and we decided to give ourselves and YOU a little birthday gi...

STALKED: Dorothy Jane Scott // Cynthia Jane Anderson

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

Even though they're strangers who've never met, two women suffer through similar patterns of fear an...

MURDERED: Girly Chew Hossencofft

Mon, 7 Dec 2020

When a young mother fails to show up at her scheduled shift at the bank, her friends and colleagues ...

BWBRSA: Operation Fireball

Fri, 4 Dec 2020

We're dropping in your feed on an unusual day of the week to tell you an unusual Crime Junkie story....

INFAMOUS: Manhole Murders

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

The investigation into one man reported missing from South Bend, Indiana, uncovers four dead bodies ...

MURDERED: Madeleine McCann

Mon, 23 Nov 2020

Madeleine McCann was just three years old in 2007 when she disappeared from her family’s room duri...

MISSING: Leigh Occhi

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

In 1992, a teenage girl disappears from her home during Hurricane Andrew, leaving behind only a few ...

CONSPIRACY: Fort Hood

Mon, 9 Nov 2020

When a 20-year-old soldier goes missing from one of the largest military bases in the country, her t...

MURDERED: Tamika Huston

Mon, 2 Nov 2020

When Tamika Huston goes missing and leaves everything behind, her family is sure from the very start...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Michelle O’Connell

Mon, 26 Oct 2020

When a young mom is killed by her boyfriend's service weapon, local law enforcement treat her death ...

INFAMOUS: The “Lonely Hearts” Killers

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

In the late 1940's, women who thought they'd found true love were being conned out of their life sa...

MURDERED: Faith Hedgepeth

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

When 19-year-old college student Faith Hedgepeth is horrifically slain in her apartment after a ni...

MURDERED: Shaquita Bennett // Tara Costigan

Mon, 5 Oct 2020

This week, for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we're bringing you the stories of two women whose ...

MISSING: Tara Calico

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

A bright young college student vanishes while out on a bike ride, leaving behind a mystery that's en...

SERIAL KILLER: The Butcher Baker of Alaska

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

Robert Hansen owned and operated a successful bakery in Anchorage, Alaska in the 1970s and 80s, sell...

MISSING: DeOrr Kunz Jr.

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

An idyllic family camping trip in the Idaho forests turns into a nightmare when 2-year-old DeOrr Kun...

MURDERED: Stacey Stanton

Mon, 7 Sep 2020

After three decades of rumors, secrets and one man’s conviction...the question remains, who really...

MURDERED: Pamela Milam // Vickie Lynn Harrell

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

In 1972, two young women with their whole lives ahead of them vanish from public places, leaving beh...

MISSING: Bradley Sisters

Mon, 24 Aug 2020

When a pair of young sisters vanished from their home in Chicago, they left behind a mystery that ha...

SERIAL KILLER: Ed Kemper

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

When female college students started turning up dead in Santa Cruz in 1972, local police had no le...

UNIDENTIFIED: Flathead County Doe

Wed, 12 Aug 2020

The Flathead County Sheriff's office and the DNA Doe Project are so close to identifying a man who’...

MURDERED: Martha Moxley

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

When 15-year-old Martha Moxley was brutally murdered in 1975, no one could have imagined that the se...

INFAMOUS: Bathtub Killer

Mon, 3 Aug 2020

In 1996 there was one apartment complex in Texas that was home to two brutal killings, just months a...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Phoebe Handsjuk

Mon, 27 Jul 2020

When a young woman falls 12 floors down a garbage chute to her death only questions remain. Was it s...

MISSING: Rico Harris

Mon, 20 Jul 2020

In 2014 Rico Harris left Los Angeles to drive north for a new life in Seattle, only to vanish somewh...

CONSPIRACY: The Smiley Face Killer

Mon, 13 Jul 2020

For over 20 years young college-aged men have been going missing, only to turn up dead in local wate...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Rey Rivera

Mon, 29 Jun 2020

In 2006 Rey Rivera was found dead at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore. Did he die by suicide, or w...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Tamla Horsford // Joseph Smedley

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

In the last few years two people died under very mysterious circumstances. Though their cases aren't...

WANTED: Monsters of Ohio Part 2

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

After Asenath Dukat, 11 more young girls in Ohio were kidnapped and murdered. Many under eerily simi...

WANTED: Monsters of Ohio Part 1

Mon, 8 Jun 2020

In the 1980s something strange was going on in Ohio. Almost a dozen young girls were kidnapped and m...

MURDERED: Matthew, Daniel, & Islan

Mon, 1 Jun 2020

This very special episode for Pride Month tells the stories of three people joined together not just...

MISSING: Margaret Ellen Fox

Mon, 25 May 2020

In 2017 the FBI released a chilling recorded phone call that may be the only clue as to what happene...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: The Yuba County Five

Mon, 18 May 2020

In February 1978, five young men headed from their home in Yuba County, California to catch a colleg...

MISSING: Danielle Imbo & Richard Petrone

Mon, 11 May 2020

In February 2005 Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone had been broken up for a number of weeks. But on ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Mitrice Richardson

Mon, 4 May 2020

Mitrice Richardson disappeared after being released from an LA County Sheriff's station, leaving beh...

MURDERED: Diana Alvarez

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

In 2016 a young girl went missing from her home in the middle of the night. It would take four excru...

INFAMOUS: The Dexter Killer

Mon, 20 Apr 2020

In October 2008, Johnny Altinger headed out to meet up for the first time with Jen, a woman he’d m...

MURDERED: Najah // Angie

Mon, 13 Apr 2020

Two Indianapolis women have been murdered. Though the cases aren't connected they both have eerie ...

INFAMOUS: Lipstick Killer

Mon, 6 Apr 2020

A young Chicago girl's brutal murder in 1946 led police to a dangerous criminal with more blood on h...

MURDERED: Barry and Honey Sherman

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

In December 2017, a realtor touring the mansion of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman made a gru...

CAPTURED: The Monster of Miramichi

Mon, 23 Mar 2020

In 1989, Allan Legere was serving a life sentence for the murder of an elderly shopkeeper in a rural...

MURDERED: Missy Bevers

Mon, 9 Mar 2020

When Texas fitness instructor Missy Bevers was murdered in 2016, police and the public seized on a...

CAPTURED: A Secret Stalker

Tue, 3 Mar 2020

In 1992 Lisa Ziegert felt like someone was watching her at a gift shop where she worked. People woul...

MURDERED: Jessica Heeringa

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

Jessica Heeringa was a young mom in her mid-20’s who was trying to provide for her family. She...

MISSING: Relisha Rudd // Unique Harris

Mon, 17 Feb 2020

This week we bring you two mysterious disappearances. Why did it take 18 days for people to notice 8...

MURDERED: Breanna Moore

Tue, 11 Feb 2020

Breanna Moore was a young woman on the very cusp of the rest of her life when dating violence turn...

SERIAL KILLER: Rodney Alcala

Mon, 10 Feb 2020

He was charming enough to win an episode of The Dating Game back in the 70's and that charm is what ...

WANTED: Massachusetts Murderer

Mon, 3 Feb 2020

Is there a predator in Massachusetts who targeted two girls with an eerie connection?For current Fan...

MISSING: The Beaumont Children

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont left their home in Adelaide to go swimming at the beach on Austral...

CONSPIRACY: Ray Gricar

Mon, 20 Jan 2020

In 2005, a day of playing hooky for Ray Gricar turned into an enduring mystery for his friends and...

MURDERED: Denise Johnson

Thu, 16 Jan 2020

After more than two decades of rumors and secrets, the question still remains, who killed Denise Joh...

MISSING: Brittanee Drexel

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

High school junior Brittanee Drexel just wanted to get away for Spring Break and have a good time w...

MURDERED: Lindsay Buziak

Mon, 6 Jan 2020

24-year-old Lindsay Buziak was an up-and-coming real estate agent in beautiful Victoria, BC, when sh...

WANTED: A Christmas Killer

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

5 days before Christmas in 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews went missing from her Colorado home an...

SERIAL KILLER: Highway of Tears

Mon, 16 Dec 2019

Loren Donn Leslie was only 15 years old when police discovered her remains on a lonely logging road ...

MURDERED: Jody LeCornu

Mon, 9 Dec 2019

In March of 1996 a young woman was shot under very bizarre circumstances. 23 years later her case r...

SERIAL KILLER: Dellen Millard

Mon, 2 Dec 2019

Dellen Millard was the 27-year-old millionaire heir to a Canadian aviation company when he murdered ...

MISSING: Brian Shaffer

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

Brian Shaffer was supposed to be enjoying a night out with friends on April 1, 2006. Instead, he va...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Kyle Antonacci

Mon, 11 Nov 2019

When Navy sailor Kyle Antonacci was found dead in his barracks in 2010, investigators quickly ruled ...

INFAMOUS: D.C. Sniper

Mon, 4 Nov 2019

For three weeks in October 2002, the nation's capital region was paralyzed with fear as a series of...

INFAMOUS: The Preppy Murder

Mon, 28 Oct 2019

When Jennifer Levin is found murdered in Central Park in 1986, and one of her private school friend...

MURDERED: Annamarie Cochrane Rintala

Mon, 21 Oct 2019

Just like love knows no gender, neither does jealousy, dysfunction or murder. In honor of domestic v...

SERIAL KILLER: Robert William Pickton

Mon, 14 Oct 2019

In this week's episode, we talk more about the man responsible for making Canadian women disappear f...

MISSING: Women of Vancouver’s downtown Eastside

Mon, 7 Oct 2019

For two decades, women living in a ten-block stretch of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, were di...

MISSING: Lauren Spierer

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

In the early morning hours of June 3, 2011, Lauren Spierer went out and celebrated the end of a seme...

MURDERED: Yingying Zhang

Mon, 23 Sep 2019

When Chinese graduate student Yingying Zhang agreed to spend a year in America, she did so by lookin...

INFAMOUS: Darlie Routier Part 2

Mon, 16 Sep 2019

After Darlie was sentenced to death for the murder of her two boys her defense team immediately star...

INFAMOUS: Darlie Routier Part 1

Mon, 9 Sep 2019

In 1996 a small Texas community was rocked by the tragic slaying of two young boys. The police and p...

MURDERED: Adam Walsh (Preview)

Mon, 2 Sep 2019

In 1981 a young boy named Adam was abducted by a stranger from a shopping plaza. It would take almos...

MURDERED: Russell and Shirley Dermond

Mon, 26 Aug 2019

In May of 2014, a married couple went to check in on their elderly neighbors, who lived alongside th...

SERIAL KILLER: The Hillside Strangler

Mon, 19 Aug 2019

Between October of 1977 and February of 1978, a serial killer terrorized women in Southern Californi...

MISSING: Kimberly McAndrew

Mon, 12 Aug 2019

Today, August 12, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of Kimberly McAndrew's disappearance. Over the ye...

CAPTURED: Lloyd Lee Welch

Mon, 5 Aug 2019

During spring break of 1975, Sheila & Kate Lyon went missing from a shopping center near their home ...

MURDERED: Kara, Kelsey, & Jessica

Mon, 29 Jul 2019

Three cases over ten years. Each one bringing a killer a little closer to justice.EDIT TO THE EPISOD...

SERIAL KILLER: Charlie Brandt

Mon, 22 Jul 2019

In 2004 a seemingly normal man commits an unthinkable crime. Police and friends are left to wonder w...

MISSING: Brandy Hall

Mon, 15 Jul 2019

In 2006 Brandy Hall vanished after leaving her post at the volunteer fire station early. It would ta...

INFAMOUS: Alice Crimmins

Mon, 8 Jul 2019

Long before Casey Anthony, there was another mother America loved to hate... Alice Crimmins. When he...

UNIDENTIFIED: Sumter County Does

Mon, 1 Jul 2019

In August of 1976, the bodies of a young man and woman were found in rural Sumter County, South Caro...

MURDERED: Reyna Marroquin // Michelle Schroader

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

This week we have two stories of women who were murdered and laid to rest, Reyna and Michelle. It wo...

CONSPIRACY: North Fox Island & The Oakland County Child Killer Part 2

Mon, 10 Jun 2019

In part 2 we discuss more suspects in the Oakland County Child Killings and how some or all of them ...

CONSPIRACY: North Fox Island & The Oakland County Child Killer Part 1

Mon, 3 Jun 2019

In the 1970s the affluent neighborhoods around Detroit, Michigan were terrorized by a child killer b...

MISSING: Patti Adkins

Mon, 20 May 2019

Patti Adkins had been having a secret relationship with a man from her work. When she went missing i...

MURDERED: The Eastburn Family

Mon, 13 May 2019

In 1985 Katie Eastburn and two of her daughters were brutally murdered while her husband was away. I...

SERIAL KILLER: Israel Keyes

Mon, 6 May 2019

Israel Keyes is the most terrifying name you have probably never heard of. Officials believe he hunt...

MISSING: Suzanne Lyall

Mon, 29 Apr 2019

In 1998 a 19 year old college student boarded a bus from her job at the mall to go back to her campu...

UPDATE: Killer on the High Bridge

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

On April 22, 2019, the Indiana State Police released new information in the unsolved murder case of ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Kendrick Johnson

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

In 2013 a 17-year-old boy's body was found rolled up in a high school gym mat. Local law enforcement...

MISSING: Timmothy Pitzen

Mon, 15 Apr 2019

On April 3, 2019 someone claiming Timmothy Pitzen approached a stranger in KY and told them he had e...

MURDERED: Jerry Michael Williams

Mon, 8 Apr 2019

One day before his anniversary Jerry Michael Williams went for a duck hunting trip on Lake Seminole ...

MISSING: Rachel Cooke

Mon, 1 Apr 2019

17 years ago, college student Rachel Cooke was visiting her family home in Texas for her winter brea...

MURDERED: Kacie Woody

Mon, 25 Mar 2019

Like many young kids, Kacie Woody had an active online life in 2002 but the ‘friends’ she was me...

MURDERED: Kirsten Hatfield

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

It took decades and DNA science to catch a predator who was able to snatch a girl, Kirsten Hatfield,...

UPDATE: April Tinsley & The Monster in Ft. Wayne

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

Captain Kevin Smith of the Indiana State Police granted us an interview to discuss the arrest of Apr...

MISSING: Amy Lynn Bradley

Mon, 4 Mar 2019

In March of 1998 Amy Lynn Bradley and her family set off on what was to be the trip of a lifetime, a...

UPDATE: Angela "Mischelle" Lawless (Interview with Josh Kezer)

Mon, 25 Feb 2019

UPDATE: Josh Kezer, the man who was wrongfully convicted of Angela's murder and then later declared ...

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Lynn Messer

Mon, 18 Feb 2019

In 2014, Lynn Messer went missing from her 260-acre farm in the middle of the night. When her remain...

CAPTURED: Dr. No

Sun, 17 Feb 2019

We just found out the man we know as Dr. No has been captured. His name is Samuel Legg III and Brit ...

MISSING: Sneha Philip

Mon, 11 Feb 2019

Sneha Philip was last seen shopping just a couple blocks away from the World Trade Centers on Septem...

WANTED: Austin Yogurt Shop Killer

Mon, 4 Feb 2019

In the early 90's, Austin, TX was turned upside down when four young girls were sexually assaulted, ...

MURDERED: Robert Wone

Mon, 28 Jan 2019

This is probably the strangest case of murder we have ever covered here on Crime Junkie. It's the st...

SERIAL KILLER: Dr. No

Mon, 21 Jan 2019

During the 80's and 90's, a serial killer was operating out of Ohio, killing sex workers and leaving...

WANTED: Bradford Bishop // Yaser Said

Mon, 14 Jan 2019

This week, we have two stories for you of men who are wanted for killing their families.Our first st...

MISSING: Asha Degree

Mon, 7 Jan 2019

In February of 2000, a 9-year-old girl named Asha Degree packed her book bag and tucked it away, wai...

MURDERED: The Watts Family

Mon, 24 Dec 2018

The most recent family annihilator case in the U.S. was incredibly heartbreaking and had every Ameri...

MURDERED: Colleen Orsborn

Mon, 17 Dec 2018

In March of 1984, 15-year-old Colleen Orsborn skips school for a day on the beach but never returns ...

SERIAL KILLER: On The Colonial Parkway (Part 2)

Mon, 10 Dec 2018

In part two, we tell you about the murders of Cassandra Lee Hailey, Richard Keith Call, Annamaria Ph...

SERIAL KILLER: On The Colonial Parkway (Part 1)

Mon, 3 Dec 2018

In 1986, park rangers near Virginia's Colonial Parkway get notified of a possible traffic accident. ...

UPDATE: Alissa Turney

Tue, 27 Nov 2018

An interview with Alissa's half-sister, Sarah, reveals she no longer thinks her sister ran away. She...

MISSING: Alissa Turney

Mon, 26 Nov 2018

In 2001 Mike Turney reported to Phoenix, Arizona police that his 17-year-old step-daughter, Alissa, ...

MURDERED: Oklahoma Girl Scouts

Mon, 19 Nov 2018

One of Oklahoma's darkest stories. Three young girl scouts are brutally murdered while away at their...

MISSING: Zachary Bernhardt

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

In September of 2000, Zachary Bernhardt went missing from his mother's bed while she was out for a b...

MURDERED: The Camm Family

Mon, 5 Nov 2018

In 2000, David Camm, a former Indiana State Trooper, came home from playing basketball to find his e...

INFAMOUS: Lizzie Borden

Mon, 29 Oct 2018

Lizzie Borden took an axGave her mother 40 whacksWhen she saw what she had doneShe gave her father 4...

CONSPIRACY: Women in the U.S. Military

Mon, 22 Oct 2018

In 2010, statistics came out that 120 female U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq had died. Half of those...

EXPERT ON: Domestic Violence

Tue, 2 Oct 2018

In our last episode, we talked about Susan Powell who was a victim of domestic violence. Many of her...

MURDERED: The Powell Family

Mon, 1 Oct 2018

During a blizzard on December 6, 2009 Josh Powell Claims to have taken his two young sons, ages 2 an...

MURDERED: Angela Savage

Mon, 24 Sep 2018

Sometime after dropping off her young daughter at the school bus, Angela Savage and her 6-month-old ...

SERIAL KILLER: Bible John

Mon, 17 Sep 2018

In the late 1960s, three women were murdered after attending the same nightclub. But aside from thei...

MURDERED: Danielle "Gabby" Akers

Mon, 10 Sep 2018

In April of 2016, Danielle "Gabby" Akers's body was found in a creek bed 60 miles from her home. She...

MURDERED: The Coleman Family

Mon, 3 Sep 2018

When the head of security for a cutting edge televangelist starts getting threatening emails, no one...

MURDERED: Chandra Levy

Mon, 27 Aug 2018

When a political intern goes missing, all eyes turn towards her hometown congressman. But when that ...

WANTED: Answers from a Deputy

Mon, 20 Aug 2018

When Terrance Williams goes missing, most law enforcement officers consider him a low-priority; He w...

MISSING: Leah Roberts

Mon, 13 Aug 2018

After friends and family can't get ahold of her for days in a row, they decide that college student ...

SERIAL KILLER: Todd Kohlhepp

Mon, 6 Aug 2018

Our Fan Club supporters will be happy to note that today, we are covering the multiple murders commi...

IF I GO MISSING: Tanya Rider

Mon, 30 Jul 2018

When hard-working Tanya Rider misses two shifts and is late for a third, her husband knows something...

MURDERED: Barbara Nantais & Claire Hough

Mon, 23 Jul 2018

In the dreamy summers of southern California, two murders happen within yards of each other, but a d...

WHITE COLLAR: The Dalkon Shield

Mon, 16 Jul 2018

With the permission from the team over at Swindled Podcast, we are covering one of their best True C...

CAPTURED: Monster in Fort Wayne

Sun, 15 Jul 2018

On July 15, 2018 police finally made an arrest in the 30-year unsolved murder of April Marie Tinsley...

MURDERED: Angela "Mischelle" Lawless

Mon, 9 Jul 2018

In November 1992, Mischelle Lawless was found by passersbys deceased in her car with the headlights ...

CONSPIRACY: The Women of Juarez

Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Since 1993, women in Juarez, Mexico have been dying violent deaths. Is this the work of one killer o...

SERIAL KILLER: The Claremont Killer

Mon, 18 Jun 2018

Since 1996, people in Claremont had been looking over their shoulders when they go out for a night o...

MISSING: Sage Smith

Mon, 11 Jun 2018

On November 20, 2012, Sage Smith left her home at 5:30 for a date. She was seen alone at 6:30 talkin...

UPDATE: Katelin Akens

Fri, 8 Jun 2018

In this update episode, Ashley gets the chance to talk to Lisa, Katelin's mom, about Katelin's case,...

MURDERED: Sylvia Likens

Mon, 4 Jun 2018

Sylvia was a happy, beautiful 16-year-old when her parents left her and her sister in the care of Ge...

SERIAL KILLER: The Green River Killer

Mon, 28 May 2018

Through the '80s & '90s, women in the state of Washington were turning up dead. First, along the Gre...

MISSING: Misty Copsey

Mon, 21 May 2018

In September of 1992, a young teenager named Misty Copsey went missing after visiting the local fair...

CAPTURED: Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible's Killer

Mon, 14 May 2018

 In April of 2018, we were all talking about the capture of the Gold State Killer but did you know ...

MURDERED: Amber Tuccaro // Henry McCabe

Mon, 14 May 2018

This week we tell you not one but two stories that have been underreported despite the terrifying au...

MISSING: Bethany Decker

Mon, 30 Apr 2018

In 2011, Bethany Decker's life was far from easy. As a young wife and mother with a husband overseas...

CAPTURED: The Golden State Killer

Thu, 26 Apr 2018

On April 25th, 2018, a decades-long search for the man believed to be the Visalia Ransacker, the Eas...

MURDERED: Kenia Monge

Mon, 23 Apr 2018

19-year-old Kenia Monge went missing in downtown Denver on April 1, 2011. When Kenia's stepdad finds...

SERIAL KILLER: L.I.S.K.

Mon, 16 Apr 2018

When a young escort goes missing after an outcall on Long Island in 2010, no one bothers to search f...

ADNAN: What Serial Didn't Tell You

Mon, 9 Apr 2018

Hundreds of millions of people tuned into Serial season one back in 2014. Sarah Koenig told us all a...

UPDATE: Monster in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Thu, 5 Apr 2018

In this bonus episode, we get the opportunity to talk with April Tinsley’s mom, Janet, about the i...

WANTED: Monster in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Mon, 2 Apr 2018

Thirty years ago this week, a little girl in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was abducted, sexually assaulted, ...

MISSING: Kiplyn Davis

Mon, 26 Mar 2018

In 1995, one of our listeners from Kentucky was high school pen pals with a girl named Kiplyn Davis ...

MURDERED: The Longo Family

Mon, 19 Mar 2018

What makes a seemingly normal family man snap, murder his entire family, and assume a new identity i...

MISSING: Katelin Akens

Mon, 12 Mar 2018

In December of 2015, Katelin was to board a plane from VA to AZ. She texted her mom that she made it...

SERIAL KILLER: Herb Baumeister

Mon, 5 Mar 2018

In the late '90s, Indianapolis was rocked when it was found out that a local businessman was murderi...

UPDATE: Niqui McCown

Thu, 1 Mar 2018

In this bonus episode we get the opportunity to talk with Niqui McCown’s daughter, Payton, and get...

CONSPIRACY: Bardstown, Kentucky

Mon, 26 Feb 2018

A 35-year-old woman named Crystal Rogers went missing from Bardstown, KY back in 2015. Her car was f...

MURDERED: Tent Girl

Mon, 19 Feb 2018

On May 17, 1968, a woman was found in the woods, murdered and wrapped in tent fabric. For over 30 ye...

WANTED: Killer on the High Bridge

Mon, 12 Feb 2018

On February 13th, 2017, Abby Williams and Libby German went for a hike near the Monon High Bridge, i...

MURDERED: Amy Weidner

Mon, 5 Feb 2018

A teenage mother stays home from school one day with her daughter because she isn't feeling well. Ju...

MISSING: Bryce Laspisa

Mon, 29 Jan 2018

Bryce Laspisa started acting strange on August 27, 2013. Just a couple of days into his sophomore ye...

SERIAL KILLER: Shawn Grate

Mon, 22 Jan 2018

Shawn Grate is currently awaiting trial in Ohio for two counts of murder but his admitted body count...

MURDERED: Karina Holmer

Mon, 15 Jan 2018

In 1996, Boston saw one of the most brutal, and now notorious, murders of their city. Over 20 years ...

WANTED: Robert Fisher

Mon, 8 Jan 2018

Robert William Fisher is an American fugitive wanted for the murder of his wife and two children. Th...

SERIAL KILLER: The West Mesa Serial Killer

Mon, 1 Jan 2018

Happy New Year! For our first episode of 2018, we outline the still-unsolved murders of the West Mes...

MURDERED: Laci Peterson Part 2

Mon, 25 Dec 2017

The story everyone thinks they know... but do you really? In part two, we discuss the continued focu...

MURDERED: Laci Peterson Part 1

Mon, 18 Dec 2017

The story everyone thinks they know... but do you really? In part one we cover Laci’s disappearanc...

MISSING: Niqui McCown

Mon, 18 Dec 2017

The story of an Indiana woman who disappears from a laundry mat only weeks before her wedding.For cu...