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True Crime: Untold Cases

TrueCrime

100 episodes

4 months ago

Everyone knows the headline-grabbing cases, but what about the mysteries that slipped through the cracks? True Crime: Untold Cases uncovers the forgotten files, overlooked evidence, and untold stories that time almost buried. Each week, we dive deep into cases that deserve a second look - from unexplained disappearances and mysterious tech crimes to unsolved murders that flew under the radar. These aren’t the cases you’ve heard a hundred times before. These are the stories that got lost in the shadows, waiting to be brought into the light.

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Everyone knows the headline-grabbing cases, but what about the mysteries that slipped through the cracks? True Crime: Untold Cases uncovers the forgotten files, overlooked evidence, and untold stories that time almost buried. Each week, we dive deep into cases that deserve a second look - from unexplained disappearances and mysterious tech crimes to unsolved murders that flew under the radar. These aren’t the cases you’ve heard a hundred times before. These are the stories that got lost in the shadows, waiting to be brought into the light.

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Episodes (20/100)

True Crime: Untold Cases

Anthony Sowell – The Cleveland Strangler (Cleveland, Ohio, 2007–2009)

Between 2007 and 2009, Anthony Sowell was linked to the deaths of 11 women whose bodies were discovered in and around his Cleveland home. Known as “The Cleveland Strangler,” Sowell’s crimes shocked the community with their brutality and the apparent disregard for his surroundings.

4 months ago

37 minutes 14 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Beltway Sniper Attacks (Washington, D.C. Metro, 2002)

John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and injured 3 others in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area during a three-week period in October 2002. This episode details the chronology of shootings, the investigation process, the modified Chevrolet Caprice used as a mobile sniper's nest, the tarot card message ("Dear Policeman, I am God"), and other communications with police.

4 months ago

42 minutes 56 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Heather Elvis Case (South Carolina, 2013)

Heather Elvis, a 20-year-old woman from Myrtle Beach, vanished in 2013. Her disappearance led to a media frenzy and widespread speculation when evidence later suggested a tangled web of infidelity, possible organized crime involvement, and questionable law enforcement leads.

4 months ago

42 minutes 11 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Smiley Face Murders (Midwestern U.S., 1990s–2000s)

A controversial theory posits that a serial killer—or possibly a network of killers—was responsible for the mysterious drowning deaths of several college-aged men in the Midwest. Proponents point to unusual similarities in the circumstances of these deaths and the appearance of smiley face graffiti near some crime scenes.

4 months ago

43 minutes 18 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Gilgo Beach Murders (Long Island, New York, 1997–Present)

Dozens of bodies—primarily of young women—have been discovered along the Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.

5 months ago

45 minutes 55 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Kidnapping of Polly Klaas (California, 1993)

Twelve-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted at knifepoint from her Petaluma, California, bedroom during a sleepover on October 1, 1993. Richard Allen Davis took Polly into the night, sparking a massive manhunt. Her remains were found two months later, and Davis was eventually convicted. The case received intense national media coverage.

5 months ago

43 minutes 37 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Pizza Bomber Case (Pennsylvania, 2003)

On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery driver Brian Wells robbed a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania, with a bomb locked to his neck. He claimed he was forced to commit the heist under duress. The bomb detonated during a police standoff, killing him. Investigators uncovered a web of conspirators allegedly led by Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. The group orchestrated an elaborate scavenger-hunt-like plot, sending Wells on a route to collect clues that would supposedly unlock the device.

5 months ago

39 minutes 56 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Disappearance of Susan Powell (Utah, 2009)

Susan Powell disappeared from her West Valley City home on December 6, 2009. Her husband, Josh Powell, claimed he took their young sons on a midnight camping trip in freezing weather—an alibi that raised suspicion. When Josh later lost custody of the children, he killed himself and both boys in a murder-suicide house explosion. Susan’s body has never been found.

5 months ago

51 minutes 18 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Disappearance of Dorothy Jane Scott (California, 1980)

On May 28, 1980, Dorothy Jane Scott vanished from a hospital parking lot in Anaheim, California, after accompanying a coworker to the emergency room. Dorothy had been receiving bizarre, threatening phone calls from an unknown male stalker for months. Her remains were discovered four years later; the killer was never identified.

5 months ago

42 minutes 9 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Black Dahlia (California, 1947)

On January 15, 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short, later nicknamed the “Black Dahlia,” was found in a vacant Los Angeles lot. She had been brutally mutilated and bisected at the waist. Despite widespread media coverage and a flood of tips, her killer was never definitively identified. Various suspects have been proposed over the decades, including medical professionals and people in Short’s social circle.

5 months ago

41 minutes 43 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders (California, 1972–1973)

Between 1972 and 1973, at least seven young women (most of them teenagers) were abducted and murdered while hitchhiking in or around Santa Rosa, California. The victims’ bodies were found in rural, wooded areas of Sonoma County. The killings drew comparisons to other West Coast serial offenders, but no single suspect was definitively identified or charged.

5 months ago

45 minutes 48 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Easter Sunday Massacre – James Urban Ruppert (Hamilton, Ohio, 1975)

On Easter Sunday (March 30, 1975), James Urban Ruppert fatally shot 11 members of his own family (his mother, brother, sister-in-law, and eight nieces and nephews) in their Hamilton, Ohio home. Ruppert had a history of financial and emotional instability. In one of the deadliest shootings within a private residence in U.S. history, he methodically moved through the house, targeting his relatives during a holiday gathering.

5 months ago

41 minutes 40 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Joseph Naso “Double Initial” Murders (California, 1970s–1990s)

Joseph Naso was active primarily in California from the late 1970s through the 1990s. He was ultimately convicted of murdering at least four women. Naso’s victims often had matching first and last initials—e.g., Roxene Roggasch—leading some to draw parallels to the “Alphabet Murders” in Rochester, New York (though that case remains separate). Investigators found detailed journals and “lists” in Naso’s home suggesting additional victims.

5 months ago

38 minutes 12 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Taco Bell Strangler – Henry Louis Wallace (Charlotte, North Carolina, 1990s)

Between 1992 and 1994, Henry Louis Wallace murdered at least 10 young women in Charlotte, many of whom worked at fast-food restaurants, including Taco Bell. Wallace used his familiarity with the victims—often friends or coworkers—to gain access to them. Despite multiple murders happening in close proximity, law enforcement did not initially connect the cases. He was eventually arrested in 1994 and confessed to the killings.

5 months ago

40 minutes 23 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Fairbanks Four (Alaska, 1997)

On October 11, 1997, a teenager named John Hartman was found severely beaten on a downtown street in Fairbanks, Alaska; he died shortly after. Four young men—known collectively as the “Fairbanks Four”—were arrested and convicted despite limited physical evidence. Years later, new witnesses came forward, pointing to alternate suspects. After a lengthy legal battle and an evidentiary hearing in 2015, the four men were released, though questions about the true perpetrators remain.

5 months ago

38 minutes 41 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Mary Morris Murders (Houston, Texas, 2000)

Two women—both named Mary Morris—were killed in Houston, Texas, just days apart in October 2000. Mary Lou Morris was found burned in her car on October 12; Mary McGinnis Morris was found shot in her car on October 16. Despite similar names and circumstances, law enforcement never confirmed a definitive link. Some theorize the second murder might have been a botched hit meant for the first victim (or vice versa).

5 months ago

20 minutes 4 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The I-70 Killer (Midwestern U.S., 1992)

In the spring of 1992, six store clerks—often alone in small specialty shops—were shot to death in broad daylight along the Interstate 70 corridor in Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas. The unknown killer used a .22-caliber firearm, targeting women (and one man mistaken for a woman due to long hair) in shops close to the highway. Despite composite sketches and ballistic evidence, no suspect has ever been charged.

5 months ago

40 minutes

True Crime: Untold Cases

Israel Keyes (Alaska & Lower 48, 2001–2012)

Though based in Anchorage, Alaska, Israel Keyes traveled extensively throughout the continental United States between 2001 and 2012. Keyes is notorious for having “kill kits” buried in various states, which he would dig up to commit murders, then rebury. He confessed to multiple murders—including the 2012 abduction and killing of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig in Anchorage—before taking his own life in prison.

5 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes 46 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

The Speed Freak Killers (California, 1984–1999)

Childhood friends Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine carried out a series of abductions and murders across California’s Central Valley, beginning in the mid-1980s. The spree lasted into the late 1990s. Nicknamed the “Speed Freak Killers” due to their methamphetamine use, they were implicated in at least four confirmed murders, though authorities suspect the real count is significantly higher. Discovery of wells and burial sites years later fueled rumors of additional victims.

5 months ago

29 minutes 53 seconds

True Crime: Untold Cases

Robert Hansen, “The Butcher Baker” (Alaska, 1970s–1983)

Between the early 1970s and 1983, Robert Hansen abducted, assaulted, and murdered numerous women—often sex workers—in and around Anchorage, Alaska. He would sometimes fly them into the bush with his private plane, release them, and then hunt them. Hansen was an unassuming local baker and avid hunter, which aided in masking his crimes. He confessed to killing at least 17 women, though some speculate the number could be higher.

5 months ago

31 minutes 37 seconds