This episode originally aired February 18, 2019. A human skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands and, when investigators learned she'd been dead for 18 months, they knew it would be difficult to find out who she was, much less who killed her. A forensic anthropologist was able to determine the victim's race, age and height, but it would take ... Show More
Jun 2022
EP. 68 NORTH CAROLINA - The Murder Of 10-Year Old Cancer Survivor Zahra Baker
In 2010, a little girl from North Carolina went missing, and a massive manhunt was started to try locate her. Zahra Baker was a cancer survivor and an inspiration to many... but she was taken from this world too soon, by someone that she should have been able to trust. This, is t ... Show More
1h 43m
Jul 7
Phone Call From a Serial Killer: Larry Gene Bell
May, 1985. Two days before her high school graduation, Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her parents’ driveway in broad daylight. Her kidnapper taunted Shari’s family by phone for days, calling in the middle of the night and revealing bone-chilling details of his crime. With lit ... Show More
35m 13s
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 12m
Nov 2024
FORENSICS | Clues only a death investigator sees
When a human body is discovered in the United States, there is a person who takes on the role of eyes and ears of the dead: the death investigator. There is a whole chain of officials from the police, to forensic pathologists, to families and loved ones that depend on these speci ... Show More
50m 15s
May 2024
The Murder of Sarah Hunter (Vermont)
Sarah Hunter was only 15 minutes late for work when her coworker called police to report her missing, but despite his swift action, Sarah’s case would go cold and stay that way for years. Decades later, an individual known to the case from the earliest days of the investigation b ... Show More
36m 39s
Jan 2025
Episode 639: The Unsolved Murder of Melissa Witt
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 parkin ... Show More
52m 11s
Mar 2024
EP. 146: OHIO - They Found A Child's Body In The Wall
In 2017, young Ashley Zhao disappeared from the restaurant that her parents operated in Ohio. It was only when they searched the last place that authorities thought she would be, that they found her- in the walls of the restaurant. So, who killed Ashley? Listen to today's episode ... Show More
1h 16m
Aug 2024
Ep. 167: OHIO - Crashed On Purpose: The TikTok Killer Mackenzie Shirilla
In the summer of 2022, 16 year old Mackenzie Shirilla crashed her car into a brick building at 100 MPH. She would end up surviving her injuries, but sadly, her two passengers Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan would pass away at the scene. At first, this seemed like a horrific acc ... Show More
1h 39m
Sep 2024
The Murder of Natalie Scheublin (Massachusetts)
Investigators who first worked the 1971 homicide case of Natalie Scheublin in Bedford, Massachusetts considered every possible theory for her death – kidnapping for ransom, burglary gone wrong, a random attack in an otherwise quiet community – and yet nothing led police to the tr ... Show More
39m 42s