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  • He Smiled When Caught - "You Got Me. What Took You So Long?"

    He Smiled When Caught - "You Got Me. What Took You So Long?"
    Jul 30 2026
    He Smiled When Caught - "You Got Me. What Took You So Long?"

    A slow, deliberate smile met a detective’s gun on August 10, 1977 - after thirteen months of random shootings across New York that left six dead and seven permanently injured. The man in the back seat had a loaded semiautomatic rifle for a planned mass shooting and still claimed he didn’t act alone; he said the orders came through a dog - what did he truly believe?

    In this episode, we tell how a string of seemingly random attacks terrified a city, how a single .44 caliber Charter Arms Bulldog connected the crimes, and how a parking ticket finally put a name to the shooter - but not to the louder question: why did he say a dog ordered him to kill?

    Person: David Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco)
    Date: August 10, 1977 (arrest), July 29, 1976 (first murder)
    Location: New York City; Yonkers residence on Pine Street
    Weapon: .44 caliber Charter Arms Bulldog revolver (same weapon used in murders)
    Caseload: Six dead, seven permanently injured; loaded semiautomatic rifle found in car for planned mass shooting

    - Berkowitz spent thirteen months shooting strangers in parked cars across New York City before his arrest.
    - Six people were killed and seven more permanently injured in the series of shootings.
    - On August 10, 1977, police found a loaded semiautomatic rifle in his car, intended for a weekend mass shooting.
    - He shot neighbor Sam Carr’s dog Harvey with a .22 rifle on April 27, 1977; the dog survived.
    - A parking ticket from the night of the last attack (July 31, 1977) listed the name David Berkowitz and led detectives to him.

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    23 min
  • He Never Said "Not Me": The Ring That Accused a Killer

    He Never Said "Not Me": The Ring That Accused a Killer
    Jul 29 2026
    He Never Said "Not Me": The Ring That Accused a Killer

    A convicted killer without a weapon, confession, or cause of death - only a silence and a ring tied him to the crime. Luminol showed cleaned blood in the apartment, female DNA matching the victim was found in her truck, and a new ring turned up on another woman weeks later - so why did the accused never once say he didn't do it?

    In this episode, we tell the story of what the prosecution called circumstantial certainty and what friends called an unbearable silence. We follow the timeline from August 7, 1997 through the discovery of the GMC Jimmy on August 15, the forensic traces that remained, and the unanswered question at the trial: what happened in that apartment that was never meant to be found?

    Person: Uda Weber
    Date: August 7, 1997
    Location: Kingston, Ontario
    Vehicle: 1986 GMC Jimmy
    Status: Convicted of first-degree murder

    - Uda Weber was last seen leaving her Walmart shift and driving a 1986 GMC Jimmy at around 10:30 PM on August 7, 1997.
    - Investigators recovered female blood in the GMC Jimmy’s cargo area that DNA testing matched to Uda Weber.
    - The GMC Jimmy was found parked five blocks from Weber’s College Street apartment on August 15, 1997.
    - Luminol testing in the apartment’s kitchen and bathroom produced reactions indicating blood had been cleaned from those areas.
    - The only personal item missing from the apartment when it was reported on August 10 was the ring Weber had purchased after returning the wedding set.

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    19 min
  • She Wrote It Down: The Notebook That Outed Her Killers

    She Wrote It Down: The Notebook That Outed Her Killers
    Jul 28 2026
    She Wrote It Down: The Notebook That Outed Her Killers

    The notebook stared back like a quiet witness: an eighty-two-year-old former Rockette wrote, in her own hand, that the man living down the hall "looked like he should be in jail"-and weeks later she vanished with no body found. This episode traces how a single private notebook and a paper trail became the prosecution's centerpieces in a case where the killers walked into a coffee shop minutes after the deed-so how did handwriting replace a corpse as proof?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events that led from a multimillion-dollar Upper East Side townhouse to a duffel bag in Hoboken, detailing the people, aliases, and documents that tied the crime together. We follow Irene Silverman's notes, the arrival of "Manny Guerrin," and the shell company designed to steal a deed-what did that notebook reveal that changed everything?

    Person: Irene Silverman
    Person: Sante Kimes
    Person: Kenny Kimes (alias Manny Guerrin)
    Location: East Sixty-Fifth Street, Manhattan
    Date: July 5, 1998

    - Irene Silverman was eighty-two years old and a former Rockette living in a multimillion-dollar townhouse on East 65th Street.
    - Kenny Kimes moved in under the alias Manny Guerrin, paid $6,000 in cash, and carried a single piece of luggage.
    - Kenny planted a listening device within 24 hours of moving into Irene's suite and intercepted her phone calls.
    - Sante Kimes had used at least twenty-two documented aliases and served five years in federal prison in the mid-1980s.
    - The prosecution's case relied heavily on Irene's private notebook recording suspicions and observations before anyone discovered her disappearance.

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    20 min
  • She Said Coffee - Then the Night She Vanished Near the Cemetery

    She Said Coffee - Then the Night She Vanished Near the Cemetery
    Jul 27 2026
    She Said Coffee - Then the Night She Vanished Near the Cemetery

    A routine phone call ended with an eighteen-year-old saying she was going for coffee and getting into a car that drove toward her ex-boyfriend’s house; thirty-seven days later she was declared missing and investigators walked within a few hundred feet of her body in a cemetery without knowing. What happened between that front door and the Brandon Cemetery that turned an ordinary night into a vanished life?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the April 21 phone call through the first six days before a police report, the court appearance that overlapped her disappearance, and the ground searches near the Brandon Cemetery to ask whether familiarity disguised danger and how those early assumptions shaped the investigation.

    Person: Aaron Chorney
    Date: April 21, 2002
    Location: Brandon, Manitoba
    Investigator: Constable Dallas Lockhart
    Suspect: Michael Bridges

    - Aaron Chorney was eighteen years old when she left for coffee on April 21, 2002.
    - Debbie Chorney reported her daughter missing six days later, on April 27, 2002.
    - Michael Bridges was twenty years old and had a prior assault charge against Aaron the same week she disappeared.
    - Bridges pleaded guilty to the assault charge and received a probationary sentence the week of Aaron’s disappearance.
    - For the first thirty-seven days after April 21, Aaron was officially listed as a missing person.

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    22 min
  • The Secret Cash Envelope: How FIFA's Glamour Hid Organized Crime

    The Secret Cash Envelope: How FIFA's Glamour Hid Organized Crime
    Jul 26 2026
    The Secret Cash Envelope: How FIFA's Glamour Hid Organized Crime

    The thrill of access hid a single, routine gesture that helped turn world football into a criminal enterprise: a hotel bank withdrawal of $20,000 split into two envelopes of $9,900 to avoid reporting. How did everyday rituals and private errands normalize bribery at the highest levels, and who was unwittingly carrying the evidence?

    In this episode, we tell the story through the people who lived it and the small actions that enabled a vast corruption system. We follow Chuck Blazer’s rise and the woman who carried the cash, tracking the repeated pattern that made illicit payments feel ordinary - but what finally made the system collapse?

    Person: Chuck Blazer
    Person: Mary Lynn
    Organization: FIFA Executive Committee
    Location: Baur au Lac hotel, Zürich
    Amount: $20,000 per committee member (split into two $9,900 envelopes)

    - Chuck Blazer lived on the forty-ninth floor of Trump Tower in an apartment billed to CONCACAF.
    - A second apartment was rented for $5,500 per month and was mostly empty.
    - An aviary costing $150,000 was installed inside Blazer’s office.
    - Each FIFA Executive Committee member withdrew $20,000 in cash at the hotel bank before flights.
    - The $20,000 withdrawal was routinely split into two envelopes of $9,900 to avoid mandatory federal reporting.

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    18 min
  • When a Janitor Found a Box and Sacramento Lost Its Heart

    When a Janitor Found a Box and Sacramento Lost Its Heart
    Jul 25 2026
    When a Janitor Found a Box and Sacramento Lost Its Heart

    A janitor discovered a patch of wasteland beside a church hiding a box that contained the decapitated body of a twenty-two-month-old boy and the car keys of a man murdered four days earlier-no one had reported the box or seen it placed there. How could one man move through Sacramento in daylight, knock on doors, and leave six people dead across four days while the city had no idea he existed?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events, police interactions, and medical history that connect the murders and the warning signs leading up to them, focusing on the question: how did multiple documented encounters with the killer fail to prevent a spree of violence?

    Person: Richard Trenton Chase
    Date: May 23, 1950 (birth)
    Location: Sacramento, California
    Event: Series of murders across four days in January 1978
    Status: Perpetrator confessed

    - A janitor found a box beside a church containing the decapitated body of a twenty-two-month-old boy and car keys from a man murdered four days earlier.
    - Teresa Wallin, age 22 and three months pregnant, was found dead on January 23, 1978, with a cleaned kitchen knife placed back in the dish rack and a yogurt cup coated with dried blood nearby.
    - Richard Chase had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at age 23 and had a documented history of killing rabbits and drinking their blood.
    - Chase was involuntarily committed to Beverly Manor in April 1976, released on September 29, 1976, and staff had found dead birds drained of blood on the grounds.
    - On December 27, 1977, Chase retrieved his car from police custody, bought a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol that day, and hours later fired a shot through a kitchen window that passed through a woman's hair.

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    20 min
  • Two Arms in a Dumpster: Friend Arrested, Body Never Found

    Two Arms in a Dumpster: Friend Arrested, Body Never Found
    Jul 24 2026
    Two Arms in a Dumpster: Friend Arrested, Body Never Found

    A human arm tattooed in Celtic script and skulls was pulled from a dumpster on a January morning - severed clean at the shoulder - and a second arm lay hidden in the same bin while police kept it secret for weeks. The covered detail would unravel every story told about the case: how did two dismembered arms end up three blocks from an apartment where a young man vanished after a late-night visit?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from discovery through arrest, outlining the forensic details, witness statements, and investigative choices that shaped the case. What did the hidden second arm reveal about the truth, and why has the body still never been found?

    Person: Chad Largy
    Age: 22
    Date: January 17-18, 2008
    Location: Calgary
    Investigator: Sergeant Jolene Anderson

    - A homeless man found a human arm inside a black garbage bag on the morning of January 18, 2008.
    - The arm was severed at the clavicle and tattooed from wrist upward with Celtic letters and skulls.
    - A second arm was found in the same dumpster hours later but was kept secret by investigators for weeks.
    - Chad Largy was identified by AFIS fingerprints within hours after the arms were processed.
    - Chad was born three and a half months premature, weighing two pounds three ounces, and spent 121 days in hospital after birth.

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    20 min
  • He Drove a County Van - Smiled While Bodies Appeared

    He Drove a County Van - Smiled While Bodies Appeared
    Jul 23 2026
    He Drove a County Van - Smiled While Bodies Appeared

    A county van with his smiling face on the side hid a man later convicted of a string of brutal murders; thirteen women were killed around Riverside between 1989 and 1991, and one body was found a block from the police station. How did a county supply clerk whose image headlined an employee newsletter live a double life that took years to expose?

    In this episode, we lay out the timeline, evidence, and courtroom drama that followed a routine traffic stop on January 9, 1992, when a patrol officer pulled over William Lester Suff on University Avenue. We follow the cases that led to a seven-month trial and a guilty verdict on twelve counts of first-degree murder, and we ask what remained unresolved about the thirteenth count.

    Person: William Lester Suff
    Date: January 9, 1992 (traffic stop); July 19, 1995 (verdict)
    Location: Riverside, California; University Avenue; Lake Elsinore; Main Street
    Case: Convicted of twelve counts of first-degree murder; jury deadlocked on the thirteenth count
    Evidence: more than 1,000 pieces of physical evidence; 271 witnesses testified

    - Thirteen women were killed in and around Riverside between 1989 and 1991.
    - William Lester Suff had worked as a county supply clerk since October 1986 and was 41 at the time of the 1992 stop.
    - Investigators collected over 1,000 pieces of physical evidence and called 271 witnesses during the prosecution.
    - The trial lasted seven months and on July 19, 1995, the jury convicted Suff on twelve counts of first-degree murder.
    - One victim, Eleanor Casares, age 39, was found on December 23, 1991, a block from the police station, strangled, stabbed, and mutilated.

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    18 min