The Podcast
New cases every week. Hear from the investigators, the witnesses, and the families hoping to solve a mystery.
Murder in Boystown
A Mother’s Nightmare
Ruth Gotliebson thinks she has found the ideal husband in Charles Vosseler. But as the couple start a family, chilling clues begin to surface that “Charlie” might have a dark side. Then, when their two boys are just toddlers, he abducts them, taking every photo and scrap of information that might help to identify them. Thirty years later, Ruth and…
Update: The Girl with the “S” Tattoo
After 40 years, Detective Joseph Ebert has finally discovered the identity of a young girl who was murdered and left on the side of a road outside of Henderson, Nevada. Dubbed “Jane Arroyo Grande Doe,” by John Williams, the original investigator on the case, it has been confirmed that “Jane” was actually 17-year-old Tammy Tarrell of Artesia, New Mexico. But…
Tillie’s Last Walk
In the early hours of April 9, 1886, Tillie Smith, an 18-year-old who lived and worked at Centenary Collegiate Institute, was raped and strangled, her assaulted body left in an open field in plain view. Many have claimed Tillie still haunts the grounds of Centenary College, and that the man convicted of her murder was actually innocent of the crime.…
The Cold-Blooded Murder of Chelsea Small
Chelsea Small is just back from a short vacation when she is gunned down behind the desk of her workplace at a check advance company in Taylor, MI on November 12, 2013. At first glance the crime has all the ear marks of an attempted robbery gone wrong, but investigators soon have reason to wonder if the 30-year-old single mother…
Ambush in Inglewood
When a young music artist on the rise is fatally shot in a parked car outside a Los Angeles recording studio, police first suspect it is an act of random gang violence. But Kevin Harris II was no gangster. In fact, the 21-year-old beat master known as “Track Bully” was about to sign a major recording deal. Was Kevin the…
Missing in Mesquite
When 26-year-old Prisma Reyes fails to pick up her young son from the babysitter, friends and family know immediately that something is very wrong. The devoted single mother was last seen in the afternoon, entering the garage of an ex-boyfriend’s Dallas apartment building, where she appears to be disoriented and distressed. She is never seen again. Where is Prisma? Was…
911 Confession
After a 911 caller tells police he strangled a woman and left her body on the living room floor of a Michigan home, police find 48-year-old Sara Knight, her body covered with a sheet, her cell phone, and the names of family and friends to contact beside her. The caller is quickly identified as Sara’s husband, Harold “Butch” Knight, who…