Sword and Scale

Episode 332

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In August 2000, eighteen-year-old Jessica Currin was found burned behind a middle school in Mayfield, Kentucky. The case went cold until a determined ...

Episode 331

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When 65-year-old Kenneth Reece returned to his quiet farmhouse, he found a nightmare waiting: a decapitated body in his living room and his estranged ...

Episode 330

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2016, a teenage girl was found brutally murdered along a jogging trail in St. Joseph, Missouri. She was naked, stabbed repeatedly, and her ...

Episode 328

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a quiet Ohio town shaped by coal and tradition, Brad McGarry is found dead in his basement. At first, it looks like a break-in. But as detectives d...

Episode 327

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Kajavia Globe disappeared, her family’s worst fears came true in a city hardened by loss. As frustration with police mounted, the community - n...

Episode 326

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A night of celebration at a remote cabin takes a horrifying turn when a fight breaks out and a young father steps in to calm things down. Within momen...

Episode 325

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

17-year-old Halia Culbertson and 18-year-old Bryanna Baronzinni went from friends to enemies over the course of a few months. Then, it all ended in a ...

Episode 324

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the mountain valley town of Questa, New Mexico, a group of teenagers spent a summer afternoon the way so many do: unsupervised, a little bored, and...

Episode 323

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In June 2022, in the quiet city of Alton, Illinois, Heidi Noel found her 22-year-old daughter, Liese Dodd, savagely murdered in her apartment. A distu...

Episode 322

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The small city of Watertown, New York was rocked when 62-year-old Navy veteran, Randy Bent, was stabbed 46 times then set on fire in his home. When po...

Episode 321

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When 41-year-old Erika Huff opened her home to a man in need, she believed she was doing the right thing, but that simple act of kindness would cost h...

Episode 320

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a homeless woman in Anchorage finds a discarded SD card, she hopes it holds music. Instead, she uncovers something far more disturbing - graphic ...

Episode 318

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When 27-year-old Jamie Haggard vanished from her Kenmore, WA home in June 2016, she was just another name added to the long list of missing people in ...

Episode 316

06 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a traffic accident in Georgia led to a deadly confrontation, the line between heroism and vigilante justice blurred. A 21-year-old woman took mat...

Episode 315

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At just 16 years old, Daniel Gore had already fallen through the cracks. While homeless in Beaverton, Oregon, he kept mostly to the confines of his te...

Episode 314

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a butchered, bloody man was found by the Tri-Rail train station in Lake Worth, Florida, everyone assumed he had been hit by a train. But when pol...

Episode 312

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In July 2024, sanitation workers were completing their usual trash route at the abandoned Mother Goose Land amusement park in Canton, Ohio. While empt...

Episode 311

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When 16-year-old Britney Ujlaky vanished from Spring Creek, Nevada, those closest to her were desperate for answers. She was last seen getting into a ...

Episode 310

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Young lovers Toby Lowry and Morgan Leppert dreamed of escaping their small-town Florida lives, vanishing in the spring of 2008 to chase freedom at any...

Episode 308

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the tight-knit town of Arlington, Indiana, 17-year-old Valerie Tindall went missing on a seemingly ordinary day. At first glance, everything appear...

Episode 307

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Katelyn Markham vanished without a trace, investigators were left chasing shadows. A registered sex offender. A troubled coworker. A longtime fia...

Episode 306

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian and Brandon Allen were twin brothers, but their lives couldn’t have been more different. The troublemaker Brandon had always cast a shadow ove...

Episode 304

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In March of 2014 Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson were found murdered and dumped behind a convenience store in the desolate Texas peninsula of Port B...

Episode 303

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Rogers thought she had found a stable partner in Matthew Terry, a man who seemed fun and dependable when they met in Lansing, Michigan. But a...

Episode 301

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was a quiet Shabbat Saturday in Boca Raton, Florida. The Jewish community was shut off from the world for their holy day of rest, but inside Tzvi A...

Episode 300

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The calm of a suburban street in Youngstown, Ohio, was shattered when a sudden explosion ripped through a home, leaving witnesses stunned as they watc...

Episode 299

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Bocanegra told everyone the attack was random, but deep down, she knew it wasn’t. Hours later, she was dead, and her attackers were on the ho...

Episode 297

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On June 5th, 1994, a young woman and her dog stumbled upon a dismembered torso behind a gas station dumpster in a quiet Florida town, setting off an i...

Episode 296

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On March 20, 2017, Tahirih Lua D’Angelo was found brutally murdered in her Riverview, Florida home. Investigators quickly realized this was a person...

Episode 295

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When 23-year-old Ellie Weik vanished from her West Chester, Ohio home on July 29, 2018, her journal entries and messages revealed a dangerous presence...

Episode 294

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some men think marriage means control, a game of blackmail sealed with secrets. Mark-Eric Ponsati thought he’d silenced his wife for good. But some ...

Episode 293

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1990, 11-year-old Robin Cornell and 32-year-old Lisa Story were brutally assaulted and murdered in their Cape Coral home. For over two decades, the...

Episode 292

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One morning, seven-year-old Adrian woke up to a confusing and upsetting scene at home. As he tries to understand what's happening, we learn about the ...

Episode 290

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When 14-year-old Alianna Defreeze didn’t come home from school one January afternoon, her parents knew something terrible had happened. Police would...

Episode 289

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On January 11, 2018, a routine house fire revealed something much more sinister. 28-year-old Elisabeth Bell had burned to death on the second floor of...

Episode 288

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Mother’s Day weekend in 2021, a brutal crime shattered an affluent neighborhood in St. Johns, Florida. When 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey was report...

Episode 287

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In November 2021, beloved Fairfield, Iowa, Spanish teacher Nohema Graber vanished during her routine walk in Chautauqua Park. Her body was found the n...

Episode 285

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a welfare check on Sherry Harlan led the Snohomish County police to her tattered and bloody apartment, they knew something much more sinister had...

Episode 284

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was just after Christmas in 2011, and 22-year-old college cheerleader Saleha Huuda was found dead and burning in a brush fire on the side of the Ga...

Episode 283

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the morning of June 14, 2012, 31-year-old Adam Chase stormed out of his home in Stanley, NY, following a heated argument with his wife, Rose. Hours...

Episode 282

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

21-year-old Lauren Kukla spent her life holding her family together - a Michigan household defined by chaos, addiction, and mental illness. Unlike her...

Episode 281

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On May 8th, 2008, an intruder entered the home of 53-year-old Thomas Randolph and his wife Sharon. The masked man waited until the couple arrived home...

Episode 280

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In June of 2014, 16-year-old Gina Burger went missing from her home in Austintown, Ohio. Two days after she was reported missing, Gina was found 50 mi...

A Holiday Message

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Wanted to take a minute to send you a holiday message.  Take care.If you're having a tough time and need someone to talk to, please call 988.You're n...

Episode 279

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On a warm afternoon in Wichita Falls, TX the twisted mind of Kody Lott would be unleashed on the unsuspecting middle-schoolers walking home. Forever e...

Episode 278

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The murder of 14-year-old April Millsap in July 2014 sent the village of Armada into a frenzy. They hadn’t seen a murder in years let alone the murd...

Episode 277

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Florida fire-fighter, Derrick Dorsey came home from work to discover his wife Kim dead from an apparent suicide. Then the police declared her death a ...

Episode 276

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the rare moments where love and fate converge, Reggie and Carol Sumner uncover a decades-old romance after years of being separated. Just as they b...

Episode 275

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Konrad Imirowicz wasn’t a perfect father by any means. He was an alcoholic with a messy home, but he loved his kids, especially his eldest daughter,...

Episode 274

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the early morning hours of July 31st, 2022, many teens in Strongsville, Ohio were sleeping off the previous night’s rowdy graduation parties. 17-...

Episode 273

22 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In April of 2015, two young women in Indiana went missing. They lived nearly 200 miles away from each other and seemed to have no connection at all. T...

Episode 272

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nancy Lewton evacuated her Florida home ahead of Hurricane Ian but a different storm was on her horizon. Not being able to contact her son Travis for ...

Episode 271

25 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When 25-year-old Whitney Hostler went missing and left her two-year-old daughter behind, everyone knew something was wrong. But they never expected th...

Episode 270

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Isabella Tagliarini was in bed with her new boyfriend, Nicholas Wilcox, when her former boyfriend, Eric Robinson, would get out of prison early and pa...

Episode 269

28 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In April of 2009, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for spring break. On the evening before she planned to return home...

Episode 268

14 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In April of 2017, Georgia teenagers Johnny Rider and Cassie Bjorge unexpectedly arrived at a friend's apartment. The young couple appeared distraught ...

Episode 267

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Smith and Trenton Mallory had a simple life together with two boys and a wedding in the works. Then Amber came home to find their house ransacke...

Episode 266

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In early September of 2016, two young men from Gillette, Wyoming went missing. About a month later, the local police were alerted to a strange, black ...

Episode 265

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sunday, February 1, 2004 was Superbowl XXXVIII, a game between the Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots. Sarasota Springs, a medium-sized co...

Episode 264

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2002, high school senior Stacy DeGrandchamp died after getting into a physical fight with her schoolmate, Holly Boisvert. For many, the assumption ...

Episode 263

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On August 21st, 2017, the lifeless body of Nada Huranieh, a beloved fitness instructor, was discovered on the pavement just outside her expansive resi...

Episode 262

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Naomi Jones was an exceptional 12-year-old girl. She was caring, smart, ambitious, responsible, and mature for her age. On May 31st, 2017, Naomi went ...

Episode 261

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

65-year-old Marilyn Gandert worked for the U.S. Postal Service for over 30 years. She was a solitary woman who lived alone and was getting ready to se...

Episode 260

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A group of kids playing with a mysterious app called Randonautica follow its directions to Alki Beach in West Seattle. There they find a strange black...

Episode 259

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Jessica Lynn Reale was 13-years-old, she was timid and untrusting. In early October of 1997, she mustered the courage to approach her 8th grade m...

Episode 258

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Micheal Redlick was a high-powered sports executive in his mid-sixties living with his kids and much younger wife, Danielle. To onlookers, the Redlick...

Episode 257

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sue Taynor was worried about her 21-year-old daughter, Jessica Sacco. She was bipolar, depressed, and vulnerable, having just gotten out of a bad rela...

Episode 256

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Several elderly women appear to have died of natural causes, until March of 2018 when a 91-year-old woman survives a brutal attack. As the pieces come...

Episode 255

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In August of 2014, a masked thief, dressed in black, walked away with nearly $20,000 from an American Eagle store in Fort Worth, Texas. Three months l...

Episode 254

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In February of 2017, 28-year-old aspiring cosmetologist Shannon Graves went missing. Five months later, a young married couple in Campbell, Ohio had p...

Episode 253

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In June of 2013, the dead body of 29-year-old Melinda Schaefer was found inside the leasing office of the Harvest View apartments in Baltimore County,...

Episode 252

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In July of 2010, 15-year-old Sidnee Stephens was a troubled teen with a history of mental illness and running away from home so, no one in her immedia...

Episode 251

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In June of 2013, 24-year-old Sarah Staudte became very ill and ended up in a hospital. Sarah’s internal organs were failing, her brain was hemorrhag...

Episode 250

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amber Lynn Coplin was a 30-year-old mother of four getting her life back on track and living happily. But on November 13 of 2014, her teenage son came...

Episode 249

24 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On Mother’s Day weekend of 2018, a hairdresser named Joleen Cummings was reported missing after she failed to pick up her kids from their father. So...

Episode 248

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Noble suffered a lot of loss in the last decade of her life but she always persevered. She was physically healthy and took her mental health ser...

Episode 247

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the day before Halloween, sisters Ashlee and Lisa Rucker were shot in the head inside their Florida condominium. There were four witnesses in the a...

Episode 246

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Robinson family seemingly had it all in a small town in upstate South Carolina. They had a lovely house, burgeoning careers, and 5 wonderful kids....

Episode 245

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In June of 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found raped and murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment. For Idaho homicide detectives, this case was a big...

Episode 244

16 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Isabella Guzman was 18-years-old when she savagely murdered her mother. Isabella’s crazy court appearances and attractive face turned her into a vir...

Episode 243

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When police in Vancouver, Washington received a 911 call the morning of January 7th, 2007, they didn’t expect the caller to admit to a murder in the...

Episode 242

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An unexpected crime in central New York state by the unassuming David Renz would send a town into a frenzy and a man named Bill Cregg on a mission. Wh...

Episode 241

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

20-year-old Amanda Plasse was a bright and bubbly modern-day hippy that lived alone in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Sadly, her life was cut short in late ...

Episode 240

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Independence, Missouri has never seen much crime, let alone against middle-class churchgoers. When 42-year-old Randy Stone was found dead in his insur...

Episode 239

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fire fighters responded to calls leading them to Chattaroy Road in Colbert, Washington during the early morning of May 26, 2015. Rushing to the blazin...

Episode 238

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In February of 2020, Orange County deputies reported to an address in Winter Park, Florida, and discovered the body of an adult male in a suitcase. Th...

Episode 237

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Megan Rose Hiatt thought she had met her Prince Charming when a handsome, military man named Gawain Rush Wilson waltzed into her life and swept her of...

Episode 236

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On March 11th, 2018, 15-year-old Kyle Bancroft and his younger brother invited two teenage friends to a sleepover at their home in Palm Beach Gardens,...

Episode 235

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A young pregnant mother goes missing in the chill of an Arkansas December night. The small town of Rison and surrounding communities are well known fi...

Introducing - Sword and Scale Nightmares

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing Sword and Scale Nightmares! True Crime for Bedtime. Your nightmare begins now...The first three episodes will drop on 3.2.23 at 3:23pm EDT...

Episode 234

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, 25-year-old Amelia Bissoon worked as a personal banker in Florida. In July of that year, Orlando detectives questioned Amelia about 50,000 do...

Episode 233

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Philosopher John Locke believed that we have no innate ideas; our minds are blank slates upon which experience writes. Modern geneticists argue that w...

Episode 232

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When the body of 17-year-old high school student Kendrick Johnson was found in his own Lowndes County gym back in January of 2013, the whole nation to...

Episode 231

31 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The world can be a scary place when you’re young. After her husband moved to a nursing home Barb Olson thought the scariest times were behind her. A...

Episode 230

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Every mother’s worst nightmare came true for the Joughin family on July 19th, 2016, when their daughter Sierah never came home from her bike ride. A...

Episode 229

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In June of 2012, the dismembered body parts of 23-year-old Jaren Lockhart began washing ashore on various beaches in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. In tr...

Episode 228

21 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When 6-year-old James Hutchinson went missing from his family home in the early morning hours of February 28th, 2021, police immediately began compili...

Episode 227

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bad things can happen in good places. On January 31st, 2011, Johnny Clarke and his girlfriend, Lisa Straub, were house-sitting for Lisa’s parents in...

Episode 226

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It took nearly a year to solve the murder of Alexis Robinault. After her nude body was found a few miles from home on the side of the road her status ...

Episode 225

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout the year of 2017, the police in Strongsville, Ohio were called to the home of The Pleskovic family several times. For months, this kind-hea...