Dec 2024

Case Files 10: The Psychology of Perpetrators with Dr. Cathy Ayoub

In this last bonus episode before our season 5 premiere next week, we’re airing Andrea’s conversation with Dr. Catherine Ayoub, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, APSAC member, nurse practitioner, and counseling and consulting psychologist. Cathy tells listeners ab ... Show More

1h 27m

Jan 2025

S05 Ep01: Sophie Saves Zambia

We begin the season by delving into Sophie Hartman’s 2016 memoir about her time in Zambia, Crowns of Beauty, where we learn about how a young woman from Michigan came to be the adopted mother of two Zambian girls by the age of 25. We learn about Sophie’s deep roots in evangelical ... Show More

43m 2s

Jan 2025

S05 Ep02: Spiritual Warfare

In the second episode of season 5, Andrea dives into how Sophie’s Evangelical Christian beliefs colored her worldview. From claiming that adopting a child from Zambia was God’s path for her life to allegedly performing an exorcism, Sophie’s faith is an integral part of this case. ... Show More

53m 50s

Jan 2025

Nobody Should Believe Me Season 5 Trailer

Season five of Nobody Should Believe Me tells the story of Sophie Hartman: a young, white midwestern evangelical missionary who travels to Zambia and comes home with two vulnerable sisters in her care. When she returns to the states, she lands far away from her family in Seattle, ... Show More

3m 18s

Jul 2025

What Happened to Sophie Reeder? Preview Dateline: Missing in America Season 4

<p>Hey Dateline fans, we’re sharing with you a special preview of the final episode of an all-new season of Dateline: Missing in America. Josh Mankiewicz reports on the disappearance of Sophie Reeder, a 15-year-old girl who left her Fort Lauderdale home in the middle of the night ... Show More

2m 29s

Jan 2025

Episode 335: The Crimes of Peter Nygard

Peter Nygard is one of the world’s most reviled sexual predators who you may have never heard of. For decades the Canadian fashion mogul intimidated his victims into silence and paid to bury accusations made against him while trafficking underage girls to his Bahamian party mansi ... Show More

59m 22s

Sep 2024

Episode 318: Brandy Hutchins

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 n ... Show More

45m 44s

Mar 2025

Oprah and Caroline Darian: First Us Interview Since Her Father Dominique Pelicot’s Shocking Trial

In a story that made international headlines, French grandmother Gisèle Pelicot was drugged and raped by her husband Dominique Pelicot and more than 70 men he invited to rape her while she remained unconscious. In this episode of The Oprah Podcast, Gisèle’s daughter Caroline Dari ... Show More

1h 19m

Mar 2019

Traumatic Reenactment

The vicious cycle of family trauma continues as George Hodel's daughter, Tamar becomes a mother. Her children tell the heartbreaking story of growing up in a shockingly toxic environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

57m 55s

Sep 18

The Murder of Lena Bruce (Massachusetts)

<p>Lena Bruce had a bright future ahead of her. She’d just graduated from a top university and landed a great job, and she was settling into a new apartment in the heart of Boston’s South End neighborhood, already living the life she’d worked for since she was a child. But one ni ... Show More

34m 58s

Jun 2024

Alex Anaya

In 2005, 13-year-old Alex Anaya from Hammond, Indiana, lost her life in what the head of the FBI’s Chicago office calls one of the most heinous crimes involving a child that they’ve ever seen. They’ve put together a special task force and done multiple DNA testing rounds and whil ... Show More

45m 34s

May 2024

The Disappearance of April Dawn Pennington (Connecticut)

<p>When a 15-year-old girl snuck out of her bedroom window one night in May of 1996, it was like she vanished right into thin air with no leads. Years later unsealed court documents revealed that police had a theory and a suspect from the earliest days of the case, but it would t ... Show More

38m 4s

May 2024

The Lady Who Left Her Baby Outside

As Annette Sorensen drank margaritas in a New York BBQ restaurant on May 10th, 1997, she left her 14 month-old daughter outside, in a stroller. She spent two days in jail, was accused of child neglect, and was separated from her baby for four days. But Sorensen, a Danish visitor ... Show More

11m 58s