In November 1988, a 14-year-old girl is found murdered in an abandoned house in Johnson County, Arkansas, with satanic writings on the walls. She has been shot at point-blank range, and her body is hidden beneath old boards in the root cellar. A positive pregnancy test is found next to her body. Investigators quickly zero in on her 17-year-old boyfriend, but ... Show More
Nov 20
DEEP DIVE: BETTER CALL KRIS
Tin foil hats ON this week, people because there’s a lot to talk about. D4VD is finally named a suspect by authorities, Blake Lively’s team doing weird shit again, an adorable proposal turned into murder confession, and is Kris Jenner’s bday party the new Bohemian Grove? You te ... Show More
49m 53s
Nov 19
Episode 378: Thirteen Years Later
It began as a familiar face from high school, someone she once trusted. But over thirteen years, that connection twisted into something far darker. No matter how many times he was arrested or how long he was behind bars, he always came back. On episode 378 of The First Degree, Ja ... Show More
1h 9m
Oct 17
Episode 323
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 disturbing investigation uncovered missed warning signs, a fractured relationship, and a chilling unraveling. This is the story of a yo ... Show More
1h 6m
Oct 2023
EP. 128 TEXAS - She Killed Her Kids In The Street: Christy Sheats, The Killer Mom
In 2016, a brutal and horrific massacre rocked the Houston suburb of Katy, Texas. A mother had seemingly snapped and dispatched her own two daughters in the most brutal way. But the full story surrounding the shooting, the motive and the aftermath, only complicated the story in t ... Show More
1h 1m
Jan 2025
The Unsolved Murder of Melissa Witt
<p>On December 1, 1994, nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt planned to meet her mother at a Fort Smith, Arkansas bowling alley, but by all appearances, she only made it as far as the parking lot. Two days later, investigators discovered Melissa’s car abandoned in the Bowling World par ... Show More
52m 11s
Dec 2024
#558 - Helping Mom With Murder - Grovetown, Georgia
<p>This week, in Grovetown, Georgia, a woman is horribly murdered, in her own home, in what looks like an interrupted burglary. The house next door is also burglarized. But once the story begins to become more clear, it's obvious that this is actually a complicated plan of killin ... Show More
1h 9m
Feb 2025
The Unsolved Murder of Jeannette DePalma
<p>On the afternoon of August 7, 1972, sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma left her house in Springfield, NJ and was never seen alive again. Six weeks later, Jeannette’s remains were discovered when a neighborhood dog returned to its owner at a newly built apartment complex, carry ... Show More
1h 17m
Jul 2023
EP. 118 TEXAS - She Killed Her Best Friend & Stole Her Baby
At the end of 2019, a puzzling crime rocked the community of Austin, Texas. A mother, Heidi Broussard, had gone missing, along with her daughter... and nobody had a clue where she had went. But when the facts of the case began to emerge, an extremely dark picture was painted... a ... Show More
1h 10m
Jul 2025
EP. 208 - TEXAS: The Killing Of 11-Year-Old Audrii Cunningham
In February of 2024, a young girl disappeared in the deep, dark heart of Livingston, Texas. And when the full story was eventually investigated and revealed, the story took a darker turn than the people involved could possibly imagine. In today's episode, we spoke with Cassie Cun ... Show More
1h 37m