Episodes

On May 30, 2014, Morgan Geyser celebrated her 12th birthday with her two best friends: Payton Leutner and Anissa Weier. They did all the normal stuff 12 year olds do at slumber parties - they went to a skating rink, they played dress up, they played on their phones. But the next morning, Payton was found in the park with multiple stab wounds. First responders were shocked to find a 12 year old who had been stabbed, but their shock would turn to horror when she told them who had done it: 12 year...

It was the spring of 1997 and Brook Baker was a journalism student at Vincennes University in Indiana, working on an expose of one of the fraternities on campus. One night, her brother went to visit her apartment where he found her dead in her bedroom. In the bathroom, the tub had been left running, and the kitchen sink had been filled with water. As police investigated, their suspect list continued to grow faster than they could eliminate people - there were the brothers of the fraternity, the ...

The worst mistake Claire Williamson ever made was the day she responded to an ad in a Seattle daily newspaper to ask for a copy of Fasting for the Cure of Disease, a book by Dr. Linda Burfield Hazzard. Claire and her sister, Dorothea, who went by Dora, were extremely close and extremely wealthy, heirs to a fortune of nearly 29 million that they alone controlled, but they were obsessed with one thing: fad cures. Cures for what, you might ask? I have no idea because both Claire and Dorothea seemed...

One day, Biology professor Amy Bishop spent 50 minutes in a staff meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville before pulling a gun out of her purse and letting shots fire around the conference room. By the time her gun jammed, only a minute into the shooting, she’d already killed 3 people and injured 3 others. At first glance, this seemed to be retaliation - Amy had recently been denied tenure. But then police in Alabama got a phone call from the chief of police in Amy’s hometown near Bos...

Rebecca Zahau was found hanging outside the Speckles Mansion on Coronado Island, California. She was naked, bound, and gagged, and there was a disturbing message written on the wall, which to most lay people immediately looked suspicious. But police were quick to categorize this death as a suicide. This was especially odd, since just 2 days later there had been another death in the mansion - that of 6 year old Max Shacknai, which had happened under Rebecca’s supervision. Was this a case of grief...

Martha Puebla was 16 years old when she became a victim of gang violence, gunned down while sitting outside her house chatting with friends. The suspect was obvious - Jose Ledesme and Mario Catalan had been arrested for another murder and told that Martha had identified them as the shooter. But instead of going after Jose and Mario, investigators arrest Mario's little brother, Juan Catalan, for the murder of Martha Puebla. Proving his innocence would require a wild goose chase involving the Dodg...

Back in Spring of 2017, Fyre Fest was going to be the experience of a lifetime. A luxury music festival in an idyllic tropical setting on a private island in the Bahamas. Festival-goers were promised a real-life island fantasy with luxury accommodations, gourmet food and the chance to party with rappers and models. People paid hundreds to hundreds of thousands for their tickets and accommodations for Fyre Fest, expecting a weekend living in the lap of luxury. What they got was something slightl...

In 2001, British tourist Peter Falconio disappeared while traveling with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, through the remote Australian Outback. Joanne was found with her wrists tied, duct tape around her neck, and blood on her shirt. Her story was bizarre and didn’t seem to fit the physical evidence, and the questions in the case would continue to pile up... Sources: Articles The Guardian | Doubts Mount Over Outback Manhunt (Patrick Barkham) Books Dead Centre by Robin Bowles Videos YouTube | Ou...

This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the murder of Angela Samota. Angela was a 20 year old college student in Dallas, Texas when she called her boyfriend, Ben, in the middle of the night sounding really odd. She said there was a man in her apartment asking to use the bathroom and her phone, and she asked Ben to keep talking to her. When she suddenly hung up, Ben was worried and drove over to her apartment. There, she was found on her bed, stabbed to death. It would take 20 years and a best frien...

This week, Kristin tells Mogab all about Angela Diaz. She was an attorney and a survivor of cervical cancer who had finally found love in Ian Diaz. They were married within a month of meeting each other, and a few months after that Angela became pregnant with twins! Everything was going great for the new couple, until someone started a major harassment campaign against Angela. She started receiving threatening emails, and someone started posting ads on Craigslist, posing as Angela and asking men...

We have a special episode for you today! You might call it a passion project. It’s Kristin’s birthday week and for her birthday, she decided this episode was going to be her genie wish case - you know, the one case you would spend a genie wish on to find out exactly what happened. We all know the case - it’s been covered extensively in podcasts like Serial, HBO documentaries, books, blogs, etc - January 13, 1999, High school student Hae Min Lee was murdered. Her body was found almost a month la...

It's Mogab's BIRTHDAY EPISODE!! It's a two for one episode today where Kristin tells Mogab all about that time our girl, Taylor, was assaulted at a meet and greet, and then sued because of it! The level of audacity is high in this one. Then, Kristin tells Mogab about Kesha's court situation against her producer, Dr. Luke. Just after Kesha signed a 6 year record deal with Dr. Luke's label, he (allegedly) raped her. Kesha has done everything possible to get out of this contract with her abuser, b...

Kelli Peters was just out there living her best life, volunteering at her daughter's school while running a small business painting tie-dyed jeans, when a police officer came to the school to say he needed to speak to her. The officer told her that they'd gotten a call that she'd been driving at the school under the influence of drugs, and that she had drugs in her car parked at the school. Kelli was shocked. The worst thing she'd ever done in her life was that time she threw her company phone o...

All of Abraham Shakespeare's wildest dreams came true the day he realized he'd won $30 million dollars in the lottery. From dropping out of school in 7th grade to being incarcerated in a juvenile detention center for theft until he was 18, he hadn't had the easiest life. But now, this money would change everything. He wouldn't have to struggle anymore. Unfortunately, that turned out not to be the case. People started popping up all over the place, whether they actually knew Abraham or not, askin...

This story starts with a bit of an urban legend. An urban legend about 16 year old Daniel LaPlante tormenting two teenage girls by pretending to be the spirit of their late mother. Kristin tells Mogab the real story behind the legend, and how Daniel went from terrorizing teenage girls to murdering pregnant mother Priscilla Gustafson and her small children. Sources: Articles Boston Globe | Neighbors Recall Suspect in Slayings as One Who Sowed Fear UPI | A Teenager Accused of Holding a Man and Hi...

23 year old Julie Kibuishi was found murdered in her friend, Sam Herr's, apartment. She'd been shot twice in the back of the head, written on the back of the sweater she was wearing were the words "She's all yours... f*** you", and Sam Herr was nowhere to be seen. Police found texts from Sam, showing that he had asked Julie to come to his apartment the night she was murdered. It was clear - all signs pointed to Sam.... until they started pointing to someone else. Enter Daniel Wozniak.... Source...

LaVena was 19 years old and fresh out of high school when she was deployed to Balad, Iraq with the US Army. Within just a few months of her deployment, LaVena was dead. The Army called it a suicide and asked everyone to kindly move on, nothing to see here, folks! But her dad, Dr. John Johnson, was noticing things that just didn't add up with the Army's story. He fought them for all of the information they had on her death, and once he received the information, he could not believe what he was se...

Betsy Faria was 42 years old when she was brutally stabbed to death in her home. Her husband, Russell Faria, was the one to find her body, and immediately police were suspicious of him, even though his alibi was rock solid. Throughout their investigation, police would uncover Betsy's friend, Pam Hupp, was the last person to see Betsy alive. She was also the sole beneficiary of Betsy's life insurance policy, and had no alibi for the time of Betsy's murder. Unfortunately, it seems the police on th...

This week we continue our Spears saga, diving into the conservatorship that has controlled Britney Spears' life for 13 years. Free Britney! Sources: See part 1 for the rest of our sources for this episode. Articles NBC News | Britney Spears' Ex-manager Ordered to Stay Away from Singer, Her Family For 5 Years (AP) ABC News | Britney Spears vs. Sam Lutfi: 7 Biggest Revelations from the Trial (Sheila Marikar) VOGUE | These Were Britney Spears’s Best Performances of All Time (Christian Allaire) US...

This week, Kristin and Mogab dive into the major rabbit hole that is Britney Spears and the Free Britney Movement. For the past 13 years, Britney Spears has been living under a legal conservatorship that has complete control over her person and her estate. It controls who she talks to, where she lives, what she eats, what jobs she can take, and how she spends her money. The person in control of all of this is her father, Jamie Spears, someone that Britney has never been close to. In part 1, Kris...

It was September, 2006 and Megan Meier was 13 years old when the MySpace friend request popped up. It was from a boy named Josh Evans, and everything about him was perfect. Maybe a little too perfect... Talking to Josh made Megan happier than she'd been in a long time, because she experienced low self esteem and depression. Seemingly out of nowhere, Josh turned on Megan and began firing hateful messages at her, and this ended in absolute tragedy. But little did anyone know, Josh Evans wasn't rea...

This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the ax murder of Betty Gore. In a small town in Texas, Candy Montgomery just wanted to have an affair. She wanted something to shake up her boring housewife life, and she set her sights on Betty's husband, Allen. A year later, however, Betty would end up murdered after being struck with an ax over 40 times. How did this happen? How could a petite housewife with no history of violence do something like this? And what would her defense be at trial? And where ar...

It's our first serial killer, peeps and creeps! This week, Kristin tells Mogab the story of Belle "Triflers Need Not Apply" Gunness, the most prolific female serial killer In American history. Belle was a true success story - she was able to overcome the struggles of being a woman immigrating to the US on her own in the late 1800’s. She managed to make a very comfortable life for herself by employing such tactics as arson, insurance fraud, and lots of good ol’ fashioned murder. And many people, ...

This week, Kristin tells Mogab all about Brittany Murphy and the mysteries surrounding her death. Brittany Murphy was a talented actress who starred in movies like Clueless, Girl Interrupted, Just Married, and 8 Mile. When she was 32, Brittany died suddenly of supposed "natural causes". People were confused - how could a healthy 32 year old woman die suddenly of natural causes? And then her husband, Simon Monjack, started doing interviews, and boy were they CREEPY. It made people wonder - could ...