logo
episode-header-image
Aug 2019
1h 14m

The Murder of Colleen Slemmer

Emash Digital / Wondery
About this episode
Colleen Slemmer was an 19-year-old woman training at the job corps in Knoxville, Tennessee. In January 1995, Colleen was lured into the woods by three other teens and killed in a very horrific way. The ringleader was an 18-year-old named Christa Pike who believed that Colleen was trying to steal away her boyfriend. Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss this t ... Show More
Up next
Nov 24
Marie Robards
<p>Marie Robards was charged with poisoning her father with chemicals she stole from her high school laboratory. Marie, who was just sixteen at the time, claimed she only wanted to make her father sick so she could go back to living with her mother, but prosecutors described the ... Show More
1 h
Nov 17
William Walker
<p>William Walker was a Cleveland firefighter who was fatally shot in his driveway one night in November 2013. Over a year later, a Crime Stoppers tip led police to look into those closest to William as suspects.</p><p>Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the murder of William Wal ... Show More
57m 33s
Nov 10
Shawn Johnson
<p>Shawn Johnson traveled to New Orleans for a work conference. He was eager to explore the city and meet new people, but Shawn was found dead in his hotel room on the last day of his trip. Investigators set out to identify four people captured on surveillance entering Shawn’s ho ... Show More
59m 39s
Recommended Episodes
Dec 2018
MURDERED: Colleen Orsborn
<p>In March of 1984, 15-year-old Colleen Orsborn skips school for a day on the beach but never returns home. Her case was connected to the infamous serial killer, Christopher Wilder, and it took 27 years for her family to find out that Colleen had been located just weeks after sh ... Show More
36m 37s
Jun 2020
The Buck Family and Linda Dearth Murders
In January 1973, in the span of fewer than two weeks, four murders rocked two normally peaceful townships north of Dayton, Ohio. Three members of the Buck family were murdered in their home. And then just 13 days later, 13-year-old Linda Dearth was murdered in her home on a day o ... Show More
53m 56s
Apr 2022
Woman kills mother, frames sister in murder-suicide plot; 18 yr old abducted from Walmart parking lot
This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: When a double homicide of a mother and daughter is staged as a murder-suicide, all fingers point to the sister. Megan Hargan was found guilty of the killings, motivated by money and jealousy. PLUS, did the delayed response of local polic ... Show More
53m 34s
Jun 2021
Wealthy South Carolina family's double-murder mystery; Sarah Lawrence College sex cult case
This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A mother and son from a prominent South Carolina family were shot and killed on their property while the son was awaiting trial in connection to a 2019 boat crash that left a 19-year-old woman dead. And an update to the Sarah Lawrence Co ... Show More
52m 53s
Jul 2023
EP. 117 ILLINOIS - The Coleman Family Killings: Lies, Prayers & Murder
In 2009, a family was found murdered in their home in Illinois. The only survivor was father Chris Coleman, a bodyguard who worked for Joyce Meyer, a famous televangelist. As it turned out, the family had been receiving death threats for months, but no one had really seemed to li ... Show More
1h 36m
Apr 2024
The Suspicious Death of Christine Cole (Rhode Island)
<p>When a 10-year-old girl didn’t come back from a quick trip to the store on a cold January night in 1988, her family and the Pawtucket, Rhode Island community searching for her feared the worst. Then weeks later when her body was found miles away, those fears were confirmed… an ... Show More
45m 30s