December 30, 1884 was the beginning of a nightmare in Austin, Texas when 25 year old Mollie Smith was murdered in the middle of the night, in her bed by an unknown intruder. Over the next 12 months, there would be 7 more murd...
Sandra Boss was figuratively and literally a Boss. She had an undergraduate degree from Stanford, an MBA from Harvard, and now worked as an executive in New York City making $2 million dollars a year. She was respected. She w...
Halee Rathgeber was a 20 year old student studying to be a nurse at the University of Southern Indiana when she was found murdered in the parking lot of a soccer field. She'd been shot in the back of the head, seemingly by so...
In 2016, Craig and Laura Rideout were in the midst of a nasty divorce. Their marriage had spanned 21 years and 7 children, 5 of which were either out of the house or had chosen to live with Laura. The problems escalated when ...
The morning of September 1, 2015, Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was found dead in wooded area in Fox Lake, Illinois. Just minutes before his body was found, he'd called dispatch to let them know he was pursuing a small group of suspicio...
The morning of September 1, 2015, Lt. Joe Gliniewicz was found dead in wooded area in Fox Lake, Illinois. Just minutes before his body was found, he'd called dispatch to let them know he was pursuing a small group of suspicio...
In 2017, David Josiah Lawson was a student at Humbolt State University with big plans for his future. He was the first in his family to go to college, and was majoring in Criminal Justice with plans to become a lawyer and lat...
It was November 2, 2016 when 34 year old married mother of two, Sherri Papini, disappeared. Her husband Keith arrived home to find her missing, and the only trace of her was her cell phone lying in the ground about a mile awa...
On the night of Halloween, 2001, Kent Heitholt, was murdered. A witness was able to create a composite sketch with police and in late 2003, the Columbia Tribune ran an article on the murder and included the composite sketch. ...
The Sun Gym Gang had just taken Marc Schiller for nearly every penny he had, and it had been so easy. They’d made millions in just a month, and they’d completely gotten away with it. But by May of 1995, they’d already burned ...
Marc Schiller thought he had normal people problems. The pump on his swimming pool was broken. His Schlotzky’s franchise was failing and he was trying to sell it. He was worried he wouldn’t get through his work as a CPA in ti...
It's our 100th episode!!!! For this very special episode, we are re-doing episode 1 - the Questionable Case of Richard Glossip. Kristin tells Mogab the story of Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for hiring Just...
It was April 26, 2006. 16 year old Ashley Reeves had plans to go to a job interview that afternoon and then to play basketball at a park afterwards. Before she left, she promised her mom she'd be home before her 10 PM curfew,...
It's SPOOOOKY season, y'all! I've been saving this one up for our Halloween episode, and Mogab was thoroughly creeped out so job well done! It was June of 2014, and Derek and Maria Broaddus were living the American dream: the...
In June of 2011, 27 year old Lauren Giddings was senselessly murdered. She had just graduated form law school, and was a month away from taking the BAR and becoming a full fledged attorney. When her friends and family discove...
We're living in frustration city for this one! This week, Kristin tells Mogab about the disappearance of Jason Landry - a fellow Texas State University student who was driving home to the Houston area for Christmas break of 2...
Rita Crundwell was living the high life. In 2011, she was a big deal on the quarter horse circuit; she had 52 world championships under her belt, and ran one of the best known quarter horse breeding operations in the country...
It was in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 3, 2016 when 19 year old Sarah Stern's car was found abandoned on a bridge in New Jersey. The car was reported by a few passers-by, and when police responded they could ...
Ashley Ellerin was loving her life in Hollywood, California. She was a student at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and she loved taking advantage of the Hollywood nightlife. She had a large social circle tha...
Just before Thanksgiving of 2003, Dru Sjodin was living her best life at the University of North Dakota. She'd just finished a shift at her job at Victoria's Secret and then did a little Christmas shopping at the mall. She wa...
The Whitaker family was in celebration mode - their oldest son, Thomas "Bart" Whitaker, had just finished his final exam at Sam Houston State University, he'd soon be walking the stage, and his parents, Tricia and Kent, and b...
When Valerie McDaniel met Leon Jacob, it was not love at first sight. She found him arrogant, but was drawn to him somehow. She'd gone through a recent divorce, ending a 17 year marriage from her husband Mack McDaniel, and Le...
Beverly Carter was one of the top real estate agents in Little Rock, Arkansas. She loved her job, but over the past several years crime against real estate agents had been rising, and she was taking her safety seriously. She ...
Lisa Marie Techel and her husband, Seth Techel, were high school sweethearts. They married young, both with aspirations of going into law enforcement. Lisa wanted to be like her father, Todd Caldwell, who worked for the sheri...
