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All the crime in half the time!® Because you've got a lot of mysteries to solve. Subscribe so you never miss a recap with Chris Nathan and Amy Townsend. Watch video episodes three times a week @truecrimerecaps on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and Snapchat.
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Molly Watson thought she was marrying the love of her life. Days before her wedding, she was found shot in the head on a rural Missouri road. Her fiancé, James Addie, had been living a double life. Molly thought he was a widower. In reality, his fourth wife was still alive, and he had been hiding the truth from everyone. What began as a love story …
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On February 6, 2021, Yale grad student Kevin Jiang was driving home when he was rear-ended. But this was no accident. Within seconds, the driver pulled out a gun and shot him eight times. Investigators soon uncovered a disturbing motive. The killer, MIT researcher Qinxuan Pan, was secretly obsessed with Kevin’s fiancée, Zion Perry. After the shooti…
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Two nights before Thanksgiving, Molly Elliott left her New Orleans office expecting a romantic evening with her husband. Instead, she was kidnapped at gunpoint by 18-year-old valet Jessie Hoffman. He forced her to withdraw money, drove her around for at least an hour, and then made her walk barefoot down a dirt path to her own execution. Molly’s bo…
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Elizabeth Thomas was just 15 years old when she disappeared with her 50-year-old high school teacher, Tad Cummins, in March 2017. Their disappearance sparked a nationwide manhunt. Investigators later revealed Cummins had spent nearly a year grooming her—flirting, giving her gifts, and convincing her they shared a secret bond. When school officials …
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Angela Sanford told police she stabbed Joel Leyva in self-defense. But when investigators looked at her phone, they found his number saved under a single chilling word: Sacrifice. Joel’s body was discovered in the desert, stabbed 13 times with a ceremonial dagger. What started as a meetup turned into what prosecutors described as a twisted ritual. …
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In 1975, 18-year-old Karen Grammer was abducted outside a Red Lobster in Colorado Springs. She was assaulted and stabbed 42 times, becoming the victim of a violent spree carried out by a group of soldiers. Karen’s brother, actor Kelsey Grammer, has carried the weight of her murder for decades. Now, in a new memoir, he shares how her death nearly br…
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In July 1995, 15-year-old Elyse Pahler thought she was meeting friends for a late-night hangout. Instead, she was lured into a brutal murder. Three teenage boys obsessed with heavy metal and satanic sacrifice believed killing a virgin would give their band fame and the devil’s blessing. Elyse was stabbed repeatedly as she begged for her life. For e…
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In the early morning of June 23, 1993, Lorena Bobbitt committed an act so shocking it made her a household name. Hours later, she was driving through Virginia holding the evidence of her crime in her hand, while her husband was rushed to the emergency room. Lorena claimed years of abuse—emotional, physical, and financial—drove her to the breaking p…
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Robert Rhoades, known as the Truck Stop Killer, transformed his long-haul sleeper cab into a rolling torture chamber. For more than 15 years, he prowled America’s highways, abducting women after murdering their boyfriends, then subjecting them to hours of brutality before dumping their bodies along desolate roads. Though Rhoades admitted to only a …
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Blake Chappell was just 17 when he vanished after a school dance in Newnan, Georgia. Two months later, his body was discovered in a creek, face down, shot in the head, and partially undressed. For nearly 14 years, no one was charged. The night he disappeared in 2011, Blake texted his girlfriend that a police officer had stopped him, but no officer …
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Robin Kaye, a music executive on American Idol, and her husband Thomas Deluca, a songwriter, were living the dream in their $5 million Encino mansion. That dream ended in tragedy when police found both of them murdered in separate rooms after a welfare check. Surveillance footage revealed a chilling scene. The killer jumped the fence, slipped throu…
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What began as another fiery campus debate ended with gunfire. Charlie Kirk was speaking at Utah Valley University when a single rifle shot from a rooftop sniper hit him mid-sentence. Panic swept through the crowd as the shooter fled. Authorities identified the suspect as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, a college apprentice who traveled nearly 300 miles…
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Al Kite lived a quiet life in suburban Denver until he rented a room to a man who called himself Robert Cooper. He seemed polite, professional, and trustworthy. Days later, Al was found tortured and murdered. The killer didn’t just flee. He showered, changed into Al’s clothes, and used his ATM card in a ski mask. Every detail of his life was fake. …
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Sarah Grace Patrick broke down in tears at her parents’ funeral, telling a packed church how much she loved them. She even posted TikToks begging for prayers and reached out to true crime creators to help find answers. But investigators say it was all an act. Five months later, the 17-year-old was arrested and charged with murdering her mom and ste…
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In 1958, 16-year-old Leslie Arnold shocked Omaha by murdering both of his parents after they refused to let him see his girlfriend. That same night, he buried their bodies in the backyard and went to the movies as if nothing had happened. Two weeks later he confessed and was sentenced to life in prison. But in 1967, he escaped and disappeared witho…
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In Michigan, 13-year-old Lauryn Licari received thousands of cruel and threatening texts that ruined her friendships and reputation. For two years she believed she was being stalked by classmates or strangers. The truth was far more shocking. The stalker was her own mother, Kendra Licari, a respected coach and so-called “cool mom” who tormented her…
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