Ted Bundy crossed a state line in September 1974 and became a new person. Washington had his name. Washington had his composite. Washington had two hundred thousand tips. None of it followed him to Utah. He arrived in Salt Lake City as a first-year law student with clean plates and Read more…
A children’s book called “Are You With Me?” with a father in angel wings on the cover. Published one year after Eric Richins’ death. Promoted on local television by the woman convicted of killing him.The prosecution called it deflection. And it was. But this episode argues it was something far Read more…
The case against Mackenzie Shirilla was prosecuted as murder. Not manslaughter. Not reckless homicide. Four counts of murder for a car crash. That charging decision carries enormous weight — it’s the difference between a reckless teenager who caused a catastrophe and a calculated killer who executed a plan. And the Read more…
Mackenzie Shirilla’s text messages were ugly. “My way or the highway — watch your back, your house, your car, your life.” She was controlling, explosive, and by every account a difficult person to be in a relationship with. But ugly texts and a bad personality aren’t the same thing as Read more…
For months, almost everything about the death of eighteen-year-old Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise was locked behind a sealed court file. Now that file is open — and what’s inside is chilling. On this episode of Hidden Killers, we dig into the evidence prosecutors unveiled against Anna’s sixteen-year-old stepbrother, Read more…
What does the evidence actually show in three of the most talked-about cases in the country right now? Tony Brueski brings in former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer to go case by case through the physical and digital trails in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance, the Anna Kepner cruise-ship death, and Read more…
The South Carolina Supreme Court erased Alex Murdaugh’s murder conviction, and Blanca Simpson didn’t pick up her phone. She drove to Maggie’s grave and sat in silence.For twenty years, Blanca wasn’t just cleaning the Murdaugh house — she was holding its secrets. She was the person Maggie trusted enough to Read more…
Here’s a fact in the Alex Murdaugh case that never stops being strange: the two guns used to kill Maggie and Paul Murdaugh were never recovered. Not the shotgun. Not the rifle. Two weapons, two victims at the family’s dog kennels, and to this day neither one has been found. Read more…
Before the country learned his name, before the trials, before the cameras — there was a year in Seattle where young women kept disappearing and nobody could connect them to each other. Karen Sparks, beaten in her own bed with a metal rod from the bed frame, survived with brain Read more…
Valentine’s Day 2022. Kouri Richins gave her husband a fentanyl-laced sandwich. He got violently sick. He called friends and told them he thought he was dying. He survived. Seventeen days later, she put five times the lethal dose in a Moscow Mule. He didn’t survive.Most people can’t get past the Read more…