On May 31, 2000, Nineteen-year-old Jill Behrman, went missing while riding her bike in Bloomington, Indiana. A local woman named Wendy Owings, and two of her shady friends confessed to 46 people that they murdered Jill. Wendy provided a detailed confession to the police and passed a polygraph test regarding her account of the crime. Wendy’s confession lead the police to drain Salt River, where they found evidence corroborating her story; however, they didn’t have enough to make an arrest and they still hadn’t found Jill’s body. Three years later, a hunter found Jill’s remains in a densely overgrown wooded area and the entire case got turned upside down. The police no longer focused on Wendy and her friends, and instead arrested another local man, John Myers II. In 2006, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 65 years in prison. In 2019, his conviction was overturned. So who killed Jill Behrman?

In January of 2008, Denise Amber Lee was a 21-year-old stay-at-home mother to two young children living in North Port, Florida. While her husband was at work, a man entered their home in the middle of the day and kidnapped her while she was watching her two boys. Five people called 911 regarding the crime, one of those people was Denise herself. Listen to all the 911 calls and find exactly what transpired on that fateful day.

In September 1981, in the idyllic village of Eiching, Bavaria, Germany, a 10-year-old girl named Ursula Herrmann was riding her bike home after having dinner at her aunt and uncle’s house. Ursula never arrived home and seemed to vanish into thin air. Her parents received two ransom notes and phone calls from the kidnappers but after they agreed to pay the ransom and were working out the details of the ransom drop, the communications suddenly stopped. Searchers, who were combing through the woods after Ursula had been missing for 19 days, found a strange wooden box buried in the woods. When they opened it, the mysterious disappearance of little Ursula only became more puzzling.

On May 27, 1997, 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer was playing games in the arcade of a hotel casino in Primm, Nevada, about 40 miles south of Las Vegas. While he is in the arcade, he notices 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson, who is running around the casino unsupervised. Jeremy and Sherrice start playing hide-and-seek, and their game turns deadly for Sherrice when Jeremy follows her into the ladies’ bathroom. Jeremy’s best friend, David Cash, Jr., who had accompanied Jeremy to the casino that night, follows the two into the bathroom and witnesses the horrors that Sherrice experiences in the last few minutes of her life. However, David does nothing to stop it and even laughs about it later. Listen to this week’s episode to hear more about the crime and the aftermath caused by the “The Bad Samaritan.”

In 1974, two Australian nursing students, Lorraine Wilson, and Wendy Evans, decided to take some time off from their work and studies to travel around Australia. Unfortunately for the young women, Lorraine’s car broke down in the middle of their vacation and the repair shop said would take over a week to fix it. Undeterred, the two decided to hitchhike to Brisbane to spend a week with Lorraine’s sister. As the days passed Lorraine began to grow more concerned that her car wouldn’t be fixed in time for both women to return to work on October 10, 1974. On October 6, Lorraine and Wendy couldn’t wait any longer for Lorraine’s car to be done so the two set off on foot, hoping to hitchhike their way back home. They never made it. Lorraine’s aunt reported them missing on October 12, 1974, but it would take almost 40 years to discover the truth of what happened to these women. Although there were at least a dozen bystanders that witnessed the crime and over 10 men who participated in the brutal rapes of the women, fear coupled with mistakes made by authorities, allowed the perpetrators to get away with murder and escape justice.

On June 2, 1991, in southern California, Denise Huber was getting ready to go to a Morrisey concert with a friend. After the concert, she and her friend, Rob, went for drinks at a local watering hole. They invited more friends to join them and the night didn’t end until last call. Denise dropped Rob off at his house at about 2 am, and she told him she was on her way home. She was never seen alive again. Denise’s car was found on the side of the highway the next day but the police came up short on clues. It wasn’t until three years later when someone noticed a Ryder truck parked in a driveway in Arizona did the horror of what happened to Denise come to light. 

On June 27, 1995, a local newscaster from Mason City, Iowa was running late for her 3 am call time at her station. Jodi Husentruit, who had overslept, hurriedly ran out the door of her apartment, got to her car to go to work, and was abducted, never to be seen again. It was about 4:30 am and there were no actual eyewitnesses. Police would arrive at the scene by 7:30 am to find her belongings strewn around her vehicle but there were very few clues to go on. Nearly 25 years later, Jodi’s abduction is still unsolved. Join us to hear about the case and possible suspects…what do YOU think happened to Jodi???

In October of 1986, 17-year-old Alicia from Terra Haute, Indiana, walked two blocks to the gas station to get some pop for her family, but she never returned. Months later, another girl from Alicia’s neighborhood disappeared. An informant and an anonymous tipster provided leads to the police which led to a shocking discovery.

In 1973, five teenagers decided to spend their Saturday night listening to guitar by the campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Park.  Five of them entered the park, but only one left alive.  This story is truly what nightmares are made of…

Karen Gregory moved into her boyfriend’s house in Gulfport, Florida on May 22, 1984. Late evening and into the early morning hours of the following day, many of her neighbors heard her blood-curdling screams, but none of them called the police. Her body was found 2 days later, in a pool of her own blood in the hallway of her boyfriend’s home. The police followed many leads, and interviewed several suspects; they were very thankful that the neighborhood watchdog, a firefighter named George Lewis, had an important eyewitness account of the night Karen was murdered. George helped their investigation in important ways and even encountered a suspect that very night. The police arrested the murderer years after Karen’s death—and it was the LAST person the police suspected.

Carmine Lapello was a taxi cab driver during the Canadian prohibition on alcohol. He was arrested twice for using his cab to deliver alcohol to the bootleggers. In 1917, he was viciously murdered and humiliated in death by having his pants pulled down leaving him exposed on the road beside his cab. The last people to catch a ride from Carmine was a shady couple that insisted that Carmine drive them to a seedy part of town. Was Carmine murdered in a fit of jealous rage, or did his dealings with the bootleggers and the Italian Mafia cause his downfall? Find out who Carmine’s great-nephew believes is responsible for his killing and why, as we try to piece together the puzzle of one of Canada’s oldest unsolved murders.

On January 25, 2012, the body of a woman was discovered in the backseat of a Mercedes SUV that had been abandoned in the City of Detroit.  The police soon discovered the woman was 57-year-old Jane Bashara, who had been reported missing the night before by her husband of nearly 27 years, Bob. Bob insisted Jane must have been murdered after a car-jacking gone wrong, but the police soon uncovered a story with so many twists and turns, as well as one peppered with stories of plots to hire hitmen, sex dungeons, and BDSM, that the truth something you thought you’d only find in the movies.

On a July evening in 2014, 14-year-old April took her dog Penny for a walk on a popular biking trail not far from her home. At 6:28 pm she texted her boyfriend sending him a chilling message, “OMFG I think I was almost kidnapped.” It was the last time anyone would ever hear from April again.

In 2006, a married couple, Christine and Ronald, were brutally bludgeoned, stabbed, and left for dead in the garage of their home. Before dying, Christine scrawled a final cryptic message in her blood on the floor. After originally leaving, the killer came back in an attempt to clean up the crime scene but missed part of Christine’s message hidden under her jeep.  What was Christine trying to say? 

On March 10, 2016, teen Stephen McAfee, went missing from his home. He seemingly vanished into thin air leaving no clues behind. His family and friends did everything they could to find him. Unfortunately, Stephen’s case grew cold. Then,  13 months after his disappearance, Eevette MacDonald revealed a secret.  She described a chilling tale of murder and betrayal.  Stephen was dead. Shockingly, his best friend Andrew Fiacco murdered him.  But that’s not the end of this story…

In the summer of 2014, the decapitated body of a male was found off the trail in a city park. Police soon discovered that the deceased young man’s eight months pregnant girlfriend had been missing for days. Their investigation led them to a basement that was filled with instruments used for torture.  Even more disturbing than that was the collection of homemade videos they found along with a note that stated in part, “Pain is for learning.”

On December 17, 1927, twelve-year-old Marion Parker was inadvertently handed over to a kidnapper by naive school employees.   What started out as a kidnapping for ransom turned into what the Los Angeles Times deemed “The Case of the Century.” The kidnapper eventually returned Marion to her parents…in pieces. This is the unfortunate story of the kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker.

Keddie California was the home of a run-down resort filled with dilapidated cabins. One night in April of 1981, four people were tortured and killed in Cabin 28. The massacre that occurred lasted hours. This case was cold until 2013 when new evidence, including DNA, finally shed light on what happened that night and the answers are truly shocking…