In October of 2005, a 52-year-old woman was brutally murdered in her home in suburban San Francisco, bludgeoned and disemboweled. As police investigated the case, an unsuspecting person of interest entered their frame of view: her 16-year-old neighbor. This is the murder of Pamela Vitale.
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Ruth Finley: A Stalker Called 'The Poet' PART 1 // 653
In the late 1970s, a Kansas woman became the target of a relentless campaign of stalking and terror. It started with anonymous phone calls and letters, but escalated to multiple attacks, the likes of which she feared she wouldn’t survive. For years, her stalker, who had been dubb ... Show More
47m 7s
Oct 16
Nicole Hutchings: The Fake Halloween Party // 652
On the day after Halloween, 2004, a 21-year-old woman left her Bend, Oregon home to attend a belated Halloween party with friends. But she never came home... So when her family realized she had left all of her belongings behind, a seemingly ordinary night out became a disappearan ... Show More
52m 3s
Oct 13
Jacob Wetterling: The Masked Man // 651
Description: In October of 1989, an 11-year-old boy rode his bike to pick up a movie rental in rural Minnesota with his younger brother and a friend. But on their way home, the three boys were stopped by a masked man with a gun. Two of them were ordered to run, but one was kept b ... Show More
50m 22s
Aug 2021
Goth Teen “Jack the Ripper”
When 52-year-old Pamela Vitale was brutally beaten to death in a sleepy suburb of San Francisco, everyone in the neighborhood became a suspect. Was Scott Dyleski, the 16-year-old boy next door, a misunderstood goth, or a psychopathic serial killer in training?
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34m 29s
May 2022
#167: The Deadly Housewives of Missouri (Case of Betsy Faria & Pam Hupp)
<p>Pam was a normal housewife, she had a nice husband, and a job in the insurance industry. Everything about her was normal.</p><p>Except, the dead body in her hallway.</p><p>She had been ambushed in her own home and shot her attacker.</p><p>When the police arrive they find the a ... Show More
1h 40m
Apr 2023
Double Murder on the Fifth Floor
Just before Mother’s Day 2018, 62-year-old Ana Del Valle is found in her Brooklyn apartment with her hands bound and a gunshot wound in her head. A few days later, her next-door neighbor Basil Gray, 54, is also discovered dead inside his apartment with multiple gunshot wounds. Po ... Show More
29m 32s