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  • The Wrong Woman: Shot for a Stranger's Debt, or Mistaken Target?

    The Wrong Woman: Shot for a Stranger's Debt, or Mistaken Target?
    2026/07/15
    The Wrong Woman: Shot for a Stranger's Debt, or Mistaken Target?

    A woman shot once, at close range, less than a block from her front door on a quiet Fountain Valley morning-no motive, no prints, and a single nine-millimeter casing left like a period on the pavement. Witnesses described a calm Black man who walked back to a white compact car and left; nearly a year later detectives still had no answer. How did one small, accidental detail change everything about why Janie Carver died?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline of Janie Carver’s killing and the exhaustive early work by Fountain Valley detectives, from the crime scene details to the hundreds of thousands of flyers and the $50,000 reward, as one lead eventually emerges from outside the city; could a connection ten months later finally explain the shooting?

    Person: Janie Carver
    Date: June 11, 1995
    Location: Fountain Valley, California
    Weapon evidence: one nine-millimeter shell casing
    Reward offered: $50,000

    - Janie Carver was 46 years old and a flight attendant who lived less than one block from the shooting location.
    - The shooting occurred at approximately 8:00 AM on Saturday, June 11, 1995, as Janie returned from her usual run.
    - Witnesses reported a Black male of medium build who fired one shot, walked calmly back to a small white compact car, and drove away.
    - Investigators distributed roughly 250,000 flyers across Southern California and circulated a composite drawing without generating a tip that identified the shooter.
    - Janie’s husband, Al Carver, underwent a polygraph the day before Thanksgiving 1995 and was cleared after detectives found no motive in her relationships or finances.

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    17 分
  • Chained, Silent, Convicted: The Woman Missouri Kept for 29 Years

    Chained, Silent, Convicted: The Woman Missouri Kept for 29 Years
    2026/07/14
    Chained, Silent, Convicted: The Woman Missouri Kept for 29 Years

    She sat in a prison interview room and said she would not be eligible for parole until 2028 - when she would be ninety-seven - after already serving twenty-three years; the state of Missouri had decided that was fair. The detail that refused to let go was this: her lawyer instructed her not to mention that she had been chained to a bathroom wall, locked in a basement for five days, and forced into prostitution and theft - so who, then, did the law actually protect?

    In this episode, we tell the story of Shirley Lou Luet and the legal framework that silenced evidence of long-term abuse, covering the events from her childhood sale to her incarceration and the later legal efforts to reopen her case. How did a rule about battered spouse evidence transform into a mechanism that helped convict her?

    Person: Shirley Lou Luet
    Event: Chained to a bathroom wall and left; locked in basement for five days without food or water
    Date: Missouri recognized battered spouse syndrome as a legal defense in 1987
    Period: She had already served twenty-three years by the time she was told parole would be in 2028
    Organization: Missouri Battered Women's Clemency Coalition reviewed her case in 1998

    - She was seventy years old when told she would not be eligible for parole until 2028.
    - She had already been incarcerated for twenty-three years at that point.
    - She was chained close enough to a bathroom that she could barely reach it, then driven away by Melvin.
    - She was locked in a basement for five days without food or water after trying to leave.
    - In 1998, four Missouri law schools formed a coalition that reviewed twelve cases, including hers, and advanced eleven.

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    20 分
  • The Bathtub Poem: How the "Angel of Mercy" Left Clues

    The Bathtub Poem: How the "Angel of Mercy" Left Clues
    2026/07/13
    The Bathtub Poem: How the "Angel of Mercy" Left Clues

    A ripped page left a ghost: indentations on a notepad revealed a poem about a body in a bathtub signed "the angel of mercy" - and the man who wrote it had already killed twice. What did those faint impressions hide, and why did two neighbors end up arranged in bathtubs with dozens of stab wounds?

    In this episode, we tell the story of the crimes, the evidence found in Waterford Drive, and the moments that turned routine welfare checks into murder investigations - all leading back to one man and one overlooked clue: could an impression on paper solve the case?

    Person: Andrew Dawson
    Person: Dave Matthews
    Person: Paul Hancock
    Date: 25 July 2010
    Location: Waterford Drive, Derby

    - Dave Matthews was found in a bathtub on 25 July 2010 with 18 stab wounds.
    - Investigators initially assessed Matthews' death as a fall before autopsy revealed 18 stab wounds and clothing had been changed.
    - Paul Hancock, living one floor above Matthews, was found later with 22 stab wounds and had been dead about five days.
    - Andrew Dawson was 48 in summer 2010 and had previously killed Henry Walsh in August 1981 at age 18.
    - Henry Walsh had £1,800 hidden in his property; Dawson withdrew £50 from Walsh's pension book after the murder.

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    21 分
  • He Bought a Knife on His Birthday - The Man in Black

    He Bought a Knife on His Birthday - The Man in Black
    2026/07/12
    He Bought a Knife on His Birthday - The Man in Black

    He bought a double-bladed Commando knife on his forty-ninth birthday and drove it back along the North Wales coast, the weapon sitting on the passenger seat beside him. A man who owned three cinemas and wore black leather almost every day confessed to four murders and admitted to nearly fifty attacks on men across two decades - so how did he remain invisible to everyone around him for so long?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the purchase at an armory in Rhyl to the discovery of a body on Anglesey and the door knock in Kinmel Bay, describing the people, places, and items that tied the case together and asking how a respected local businessman could harbor a secret life of violence.

    Person: Peter Howard Moore
    Date: 19 September 1995 (knife purchased; Moore's 49th birthday)
    Location: Kinmel Bay, North Wales; Rhyl armory; Anglesey cottage
    Victim: Henry Roberts, aged 56
    Confession: Moore voluntarily confessed to four murders two days after police knock

    - Moore purchased a double-bladed Commando knife at an armory in Rhyl on 19 September 1995 and paid in cash.
    - Henry Roberts was stabbed 27 times; his body was found four days after the attack.
    - Two men were arrested in connection with Roberts's death and both were released without charge.
    - Moore owned three cinemas by 1995, including the newly opened Wedgwood in Denbigh that summer.
    - Moore admitted to nearly 50 attacks on men between 1975 and 1995 and had no criminal record before 1995.

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    18 分
  • Inverted Umbrella, Lost DNA: The Teen Gone in the Rain

    Inverted Umbrella, Lost DNA: The Teen Gone in the Rain
    2026/07/11
    Inverted Umbrella, Lost DNA: The Teen Gone in the Rain

    A rain-soaked bus stop, an umbrella turned into a water-filled bowl, and a DNA profile that sat unnamed for thirteen years - what connects a fifteen-year-old found alive against a school wall to crimes in another city? How did one shoe and a frozen queue of unprocessed samples finally point detectives to a killer?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the night Evelina LeBlanc left a football game to the discovery at Jefferson Elementary, the stalled investigation, and the later violent attack in Portland whose evidence intersected with the cold DNA. Follow the trail from the overturned umbrella and two torn acrylic nails to the moment the anonymous profile began to take a name.

    Person: Evelina LeBlanc
    Date: November 5, 1994
    Location: Jefferson Elementary, San Leandro, California
    Status: Died the morning after the attack
    Detectives: Autry James and Rick DeCosta

    - Evelina was fifteen years old when she left a football game early because of rain.
    - Officer Jim Stark found her at 8:30 p.m., propped against an exterior wall with an inverted umbrella beside her.
    - A single shell casing was found near the umbrella and doctors found two acrylic nails torn from her fingers.
    - DNA from the attacker was recovered from Evelina’s body and entered into a database but matched nothing for thirteen years.
    - In March (year not specified), a woman named Elena Thompson survived a stabbing on a bridge in Portland after a man approached her and later fled on a blue bicycle.

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    17 分
  • He Painted Their Trust - Then Stacked His Victims Like A Cross

    He Painted Their Trust - Then Stacked His Victims Like A Cross
    2026/07/10
    He Painted Their Trust - Then Stacked His Victims Like A Cross

    A charming drifter painted a mural at a school for the deaf and blind and, within three months, five people who welcomed him were dead. The killer arranged three of the bodies into a cross and left, and one question lingers: why did he take the time to stage them after the murders?

    In this episode, we tell the story of how Daniel Lee Sebert arrived at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, the relationships he formed there, and the sequence of killings on February 19, 1986 that ended with three bodies deliberately positioned in a living room - what drove him to act and to arrange the scene?

    Person: Daniel Lee Sebert
    Date: February 19, 1986
    Location: Talladega, Alabama
    Victims: Five people, including two children aged five and four
    First victim discovery: Linda Odum found March 30, 1986 in a cemetery off Alabama Highway 21

    - Sebert arrived at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind in December 1985 using the false name Daniel Spence.
    - He had previously stabbed his partner 29 times in Las Vegas in 1979 and escaped prison in December 1981.
    - On February 19, 1986 Sebert strangled 32-year-old Linda Odum in his apartment, wrapped her in sheets, and left her in a cemetery.
    - That same night he killed 24-year-old Sherry Weathers and her sons Chad (5) and Joey (4), waking the children before killing them.
    - Investigators found Sherry, Chad, and Joey stacked and arranged in the center of a living room in the shape of a cross.

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    20 分
  • The Antifreeze Wife: How One Crystal Proved Two Murders

    The Antifreeze Wife: How One Crystal Proved Two Murders
    2026/07/09
    The Antifreeze Wife: How One Crystal Proved Two Murders

    A single polarized-light photo of kidney tissue lit up like shattered glass: those crystals form only after ethylene glycol poisoning, and that image turned two closed "natural cause" deaths into a criminal case. What happened when a decimal point, a life insurance payout of $150,000, and one woman's calm courtroom demeanor converged on the same name?

    In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Glenn Turner's sudden death at 31 to Randy Thompson's nearly identical collapse, and how family suspicion, a reporter's persistence, and a corrected toxicology figure forced investigators to revisit both cases. Could one lab slice and one journalist be the difference between a burial and a murder charge?

    Person: Glenn Turner
    Age: 31
    Location: Marietta, Georgia
    Event: Vomiting, treated in hospital, died in bed
    Status: Initial ruling "natural causes" (cardiac dysrhythmia)

    Person: Lynn Turner (legal name Julia Lynn Womack Turner)
    Event: Collected roughly $150,000 in life insurance and Glenn's pension
    Location: Moved to Forsyth County after Glenn's death

    Person: Randy Thompson
    Age: 32
    Location: Cumming, Forsyth County, Georgia
    Event: Vomiting and severe head pain after dinner, treated and sent home, found dead alone

    Toxicology: Reported ethylene glycol 38 mg/L, actual level 380 mg/L after error
    Reporter: Jane Hansen, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, pulled autopsy reports and raised concerns

    - Glenn Turner vomited repeatedly for three days before death and had a hospital visit for fluid loss.
    - Lynn and Glenn married on August 21 at Marietta Baptist Church; Glenn worked for Cobb County Police.
    - Lynn later worked as a secretary in the Forsyth County District Attorney's office and for a judge.
    - Randy Thompson went to dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse with Lynn and the children the night before his decline.
    - A decimal point error changed ethylene glycol from 380 mg/L (lethal) to 38 mg/L (dismissed as contamination).

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    19 分
  • The Man with Five-Star Reviews and a Hidden Container of Terror

    The Man with Five-Star Reviews and a Hidden Container of Terror
    2026/07/08
    The Man with Five-Star Reviews and a Hidden Container of Terror

    The smell of stale air and chains hid a truth beneath ninety-five acres: a woman alive inside a padlocked metal shipping container after sixty-five days, while a registered sex offender with five-star real estate reviews lived a twenty-minute drive away, calm when detectives arrived. How did public records and warning signs fail to stop seven murders and a woman chained in the dark?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the discovery on November 3, 2016 to the files that stretched back over thirteen years, following the connections between property records, past convictions, and a cold case that reopened. What mistakes in process and oversight allowed Todd Kohlhepp to continue operating openly until the container door was opened?

    Person: Todd Kohlhepp
    Date: November 3, 2016
    Location: Woodruff, South Carolina
    Status: Woman found alive after 65 days; seven people dead linked to Kohlhepp
    Event: Discovery of a padlocked metal shipping container on 95 acres

    - The property where the container was found measured 95 acres.
    - Kayla Brown had been missing for 65 days before officers found her in the container.
    - Todd Kohlhepp was born March 7, 1971 and was originally named Todd Samsel.
    - Kohlhepp was released from prison on November 24, 2001 after a 1987 sentence of 15 years.
    - Four people were shot dead in a motorcycle shop on November 6, 2003, a case that went cold for 13 years.

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    18 分