Crime Junkie

Mon, 3 May

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

Mon, 26 Apr

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

Mon, 19 Apr

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

Mon, 12 Apr

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

Mon, 5 Apr

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

Thu, 1 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 29 Mar

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

Mon, 22 Mar

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

Mon, 15 Mar

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

Mon, 8 Mar

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

Mon, 1 Mar

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

Mon, 22 Feb

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

Mon, 15 Feb

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

Mon, 8 Feb

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

Mon, 1 Feb

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

Mon, 25 Jan

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

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:01:00 +0000

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

Mon, 18 Jan

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

Mon, 11 Jan

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

Mon, 4 Jan

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

Mon, 21 Dec

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

Fri, 18 Dec

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

Mon, 14 Dec

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

Mon, 7 Dec

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

Fri, 4 Dec

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

Mon, 30 Nov

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

Mon, 23 Nov

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

Mon, 16 Nov

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

Mon, 9 Nov

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

Mon, 2 Nov

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

Mon, 26 Oct

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

Mon, 19 Oct

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

Mon, 12 Oct

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

Mon, 5 Oct

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

Mon, 28 Sep

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

Mon, 21 Sep

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

Mon, 14 Sep

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

Mon, 7 Sep

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

Mon, 31 Aug

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

Mon, 24 Aug

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

Mon, 17 Aug

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

Wed, 12 Aug

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

Mon, 10 Aug

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

Mon, 3 Aug

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

Mon, 27 Jul

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

Mon, 20 Jul

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

Mon, 13 Jul

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

Mon, 29 Jun

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

Mon, 22 Jun

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

Mon, 15 Jun

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

Mon, 8 Jun

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

Mon, 1 Jun

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

Mon, 25 May

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

Mon, 18 May

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

Mon, 11 May

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

Mon, 4 May

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

Mon, 27 Apr

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

Mon, 20 Apr

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

Mon, 13 Apr

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

Mon, 6 Apr

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

Mon, 30 Mar

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

Mon, 23 Mar

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

Mon, 9 Mar

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

Tue, 3 Mar 2020 22:39:49 +0000

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

Mon, 24 Feb

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

Mon, 17 Feb

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

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 10 Feb

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

Mon, 3 Feb

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

Mon, 27 Jan

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

Mon, 20 Jan

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

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:00:00 +0000

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

Mon, 13 Jan

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

Mon, 6 Jan

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

Mon, 23 Dec

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

Mon, 16 Dec

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

Mon, 9 Dec

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

Mon, 2 Dec

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

Mon, 25 Nov

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

Mon, 11 Nov

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

Mon, 4 Nov

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

Mon, 28 Oct

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

Mon, 21 Oct

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

Mon, 14 Oct

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

Mon, 7 Oct

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

Mon, 30 Sep

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

Mon, 23 Sep

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

Mon, 16 Sep

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

Mon, 9 Sep

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

Mon, 2 Sep

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

Mon, 26 Aug

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

Mon, 19 Aug

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

Mon, 12 Aug

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

Mon, 5 Aug

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

Mon, 29 Jul

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

Mon, 22 Jul

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

Mon, 15 Jul

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

Mon, 8 Jul

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

Mon, 1 Jul

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

Mon, 17 Jun

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