Tensions were high during the summer of 1983 in Saint Petersburg, Florida, leading it to become known as the “summer of hell” after a rash of murders plagued the city. Two years prior, Playboy had opened the Suncoast Club, the first of its kind in the area. And now, as the city grappled with a potential serial killer, the Suncoast Club’s “Bunny of the Year” ... Show More
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Kristin Smart: New Evidence Thirty Years Later // 608
In May of 1996, a 19-year-old college freshman vanished from her San Luis Obispo university in the middle of the night. When she never returned to her dorm room, what began as a missing-person case quickly gripped California and sparked decades of questions, rumors, and nationwid ... Show More
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May 12
Manijeh and Fanta: The Women in the Storage Units // 607
In April of 2023, a missing Minnesota woman was last spotted on surveillance footage being forced back into her apartment building after trying to flee. And afterwards, she was never seen again. With suspicious texts, a disturbing storage facility find, and a foul odor coming fro ... Show More
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May 8
Celeste Rivas and D4vd: Inside the Evidence (Happening Now) // 606
In April of 2026, an arrest was made in the disturbing, unfolding murder case of a 14-year-old girl who had been found in the trunk of a Tesla last September in Los Angeles. And since that arrest was made, countless horrific details have been released by prosecutors as they make ... Show More
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Jun 2025
The Murder of Holly Jean Cote (Massachusetts)
<p>It was a Saturday night, and she’d just clocked out of work to join a group of friends down the street for drinks at a favorite local watering hole. Later, when Holly Jean Cote left that bar in the early hours of March 4, 1984, she was expected to meet at a friend’s house for ... Show More
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Aug 2025
Uncovering A Serial Killer - Part 2 | 13
From 1976 to 1977, four young women were found dead, their bodies dumped outside of Calgary city limits. The first two were deemed “undetermined deaths.” The third and fourth were considered murders, and police felt the same offender was likely responsible. For decades, the four ... Show More
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Feb 2024
NEW LIMITED SERIES: Three
<p>After midnight on July 6th, 2012, three teenage girls walked into the thick Appalachian woods somewhere along the Mason-Dixon county line. Hours later, under the glow of a nearly full moon, only two walked out.</p><p>The very last time Dave and Mary Neese saw their only child ... Show More
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Jun 2025
The Real-Life Horror That Inspired 'Scream' - Gainesville Ripper
This week on Hot On The Case, we head to Gainesville, Florida, where a quiet college town was plunged into terror during the summer of 1990. College students were supposed to be settling into dorm life and new routines. Instead, a series of brutal murders left an entire community ... Show More
32m 11s
Jul 2025
Uncovering A Serial Killer | 12
In the late 1970s, there were a series of mysterious deaths. First, two jr. high girls were found in an underpass west of Calgary. Seven months later, another young woman was found in a ditch, beaten and strangled to death. Just months after that, a fourth woman was found strangl ... Show More
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