Criminal

World-class biathlete Kari Swenson was on an afternoon trail run in the mountains near Big Sky, Montana in July 1984 whe... Read more

John Buettner-Janusch was one of the first Americans to study lemurs. He held prestigious faculty positions at Yale, Duk... Read more

Three mysteries we can’t stop thinking about. The first is about an impossible photo taken at a bed & breakfast in E... Read more

The “body farm” at Texas State University is a place almost no one is allowed to see, because it’s one of very few place... Read more

Before he was 10 years old, Willie Bosket had skipped school, started fires, picked pockets, and stolen a car. A psychia... Read more

One day Adam Braseel got a phone call from his mother. She said that a man in Grundy County, Tennessee had been murdered... Read more

Kim Dadou says she wishes she had a nickel for every person who has asked why she didn't leave her abusive boyfriend Dar... Read more

The Colorado Department of Transportation says the 420 mile markers on the state's highways were stolen so often, they h... Read more

In 1995, two men filmed an episode of the daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was ... Read more

In a suburb outside of Salt Lake City, a 69-year-old woman named Linda Gillman hired a man named Christian Olsen to do s... Read more

When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-... Read more

When Melinda Dawson was seven years old, she learned that she was adopted under suspicious circumstances. As she got old... Read more

“I never did anything wrong. I never had a speeding ticket. I think I just saved all my stuff up for just one thing.” Th... Read more

In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle sh... Read more

SPOILER WARNING: Please listen to Episode 53: Melinda and Judy before you listen to this one.Melinda Dawson found out on... Read more

On a hot summer day in 1978, a group of friends started renovating an old house in a neighborhood in Atlanta called Litt... Read more

Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an issue for as long as ... Read more

With the advent of the Inkjet printer, counterfeiting money became as simple as a trip to Staples. By the year 2000, the... Read more

John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past centur... Read more

This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.When Martin McNally met another... Read more