When the court documents are finally unsealed, they reveal a disturbing portrait of a sex offender who began preying on students in the late 1960s. Authorities, including police, were aware of the teacher's encounters with teens. The fresh details draw sympathy and forgiveness from some survivors, while others hold him responsible for failing to keep his dem ... Show More
Aug 2023
S22 E5: Face the Music | "The Band Played On"
A predatory music teacher has his day in court, and victims are there to watch. When Peter Hamer tried to reveal his secret decades ago, authorities failed to act. Now they're listening. But after so much time has passed, will this man go to prison? Will survivors get the answers ... Show More
38m 47s
Aug 2023
S22 E4: The Crush | "The Band Played On"
On a clear spring day in 2017, witnesses call 911 to report a fiery car crash. The driver of the car is a high school music teacher who’d been facing charges of sexual assault. That teacher's former student, Laurie Howat, is the one who pulls the thread that unravels a troubling ... Show More
48m 4s
Aug 2023
S22 E3: The Dance of the Lemons | "The Band Played On"
In 1986, Peter Hamer told a school administrator about his vulgar, abusive music teacher. Soon, the teacher was gone. Other adults had known what was going on, but it was a different time. This episode explores the institutional failure that allowed the abuse to continue. Listene ... Show More
44m 45s
Jan 2024
The Raincoat Killer | 2004 | 1/2
In 2004, South-Korean police would be called down to arrest a man that was presumably assaulting sex workers. However, during interrogation, they would soon discover that they were in the presence of one of the country's most notorious serial killers - Yoo Young-Chul, otherwise k ... Show More
16m 14s
Jul 2023
Gilgo Beach: Massacre in the Marsh (Part 1)
The Long Island Serial Killer case, also known as The Gilgo Beach Murders, has been a haunting unsolved mystery for over a decade that seems to have touched the lives of all New Yorkers, Tank and Slater included. From the disappearances of multiple young women to the discovery of ... Show More
1h 14m
Feb 2025
The Peggy Hettrick Case - Part 1
Part one of the investigation into the murder of 37-year-old Peggy Hettrick. In February 1987, her mutilated, half-naked body was discovered in a field near the Colorado home of Tim Masters, a 15-year-old boy. He told police he had seen the body on his way to school but, thinking ... Show More
49m 30s
Oct 2022
#404: The Shenandoah Murders - Part 1
In May 1996, Lollie Winans and Julie Williams were murdered at their campsite in the popular Shenandoah National Park in the middle of rural Virginia, not far from a busy tourist resort called Skyland. Many people, including park and resort staff, had seen the happy, friendly cou ... Show More
48m 58s