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I know a thing or two about true crime... I’ve been reporting on it for 36 years. This is the podcast where I take you on a journey through mystery and injustice... and dive deep into critical clues with an irreverent style that I don’t share on TV! Join me for my personal take on many of these stories and my personal connection to several as well! I’m Ashleigh Banfield, and I’m Drop Dead Serious! New Episodes Every Thursday!
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If there’s any case that deserves the word disturbing, it’s this one. The Ken & Barbie Killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, looked like the perfect couple straight out of the 90s… but the reality behind that polished image is almost impossible to wrap your head around. From November 18th - December 1st, get up to 20% Off at https://jonesroadbe…
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TMZ doubles down that Celeste was "frozen". A secret grand jury is now reviewing evidence in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and police have officially classified the case as a murder investigation. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down what this new move means, why prosecutors asked a judge to block the autopsy findings, and how thi…
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“Gave Away Melodee’s Things”: Tyler Brewer, the friend who tried to help Ashlee Buzzard, just came forward with explosive and honestly stomach turning new info about what he says he saw inside her house. And yes, it involves a pillow dressed up like Melodee. Tyler lays out exactly what happened, what Ashlee allegedly told him, and the moment everyt…
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In 2008, a man disguised as a delivery driver walked into a Lane Bryant store just outside Chicago, forced six women into the back room, bound them with duct tape, and shot them in cold blood, ultimately killing five women and sparing just one by sheer luck. Seventeen years later, the case remains unsolved. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks…
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This is SUSPICIOUS! Florida cheerleader Anna Kepner was found dead under a bed on a cruise ship, and the new information coming out is raising serious questions about what happened inside that cabin. Investigators are looking at the timeline, the family dynamics, and why her 16-year-old stepbrother is suddenly part of the conversation...…
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A secret audio recording made by Ashlee Buzzard just completely BLEW UP her entire false imprisonment case. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the shocking recording, the contradictions, and what this means for the search for missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard.By Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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TMZ is now reporting that D4vd made a sudden late night trip to a remote part of Santa Barbara County in the spring, raising new questions about whether Celeste Rivas Hernandez may have died months earlier than anyone realized. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the latest timeline gaps, the unexplained midnight drive, new reporting fro…
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A shocking new twist has emerged in the disappearance of nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard, and it is one of the strangest details in this case yet. Investigators say a private investigator working with Melodee’s family learned that Ashlee Buzzard was seen cutting her daughter’s face out of several missing posters and placing the cut-out photos inside …
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Brian Walshe just stunned the courtroom with a shocking twist in the Ana Walshe murder case. Prosecutors say he searched for how to dismember a body, bought the tools to do it, and dumped Ana’s belongings in a dumpster near his mother’s condo. But in court, Brian admitted to moving Ana’s remains and lying to police, while insisting he did not kill …
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The Sean Williams case is one of the most disturbing to come out of Tennessee. Investigators say this predator left a trail of sickening crimes that only came to light after his prison transport escape. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the allegations, the victims’ accounts, and how authorities finally uncovered the full scope of his …
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A private investigator working with the Bradley family is now sharing details that feel almost unbelievable. He says Amy Bradley was actually seen in Curacao after she vanished from that Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 1998, and not just once. People recognized her by the Tasmanian Devil tattoo on her shoulder and said she looked dazed and heavily d…
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New text messages have surfaced in the case of 43-year-old Illinois mom Robyn Polston, and they are jaw-dropping. The texts show her preparing to “look perfection,” planning a visit, and talking about getting “freaky” for a boy who was her daughter’s teenage classmate. Her tanning appointments, her maternity photo plans, and the timeline she laid o…
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Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard is still missing, yet Ashlee walked into court looking almost unrecognizable without her signature wigs, pleaded not guilty to a false imprisonment charge, and was sent home with an ankle monitor. Hours later she reappeared wearing the wig again, still offering no information about where her daughter is. In this episod…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has officially traded luxury for lockdown. Just days after being sentenced to more than four years in federal prison, new reports claim Diddy was caught with “toilet wine” behind bars. TMZ says the fallen hip-hop mogul was caught making alcohol in his cell while also facing punishment for a banned three-way phone call. In this ep…
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According to a new criminal complaint, Ashlee allegedly trapped a man named Tyler S. Brewer inside her Lompoc home after he confronted her about Melodee’s whereabouts. That confrontation, and what Ashlee told him before things spiraled, could be the biggest clue yet that Melodee is alive. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield uncovers what happened in…
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Newly released surveillance footage shows 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard and her mother, Ashlee, together for the very first time, just as police move in with a dramatic arrest. Officers swarmed Ashlee Buzzard’s California home, blocking the street and hauling out evidence bags before leading her away barefoot and in handcuffs. But investigators say th…
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Robyn Polston was a 43-year-old mom and hairdresser from Washington, Illinois. Police say that same mom is now behind bars after allegedly giving birth to her daughter’s 14-year-old boyfriend’s baby. According to investigators, Robyn Polston carried on a secret relationship with the teenager for more than two years. They say she even posed for a ma…
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New and disturbing clues are surfacing in the investigation of D4vd and the death of his underage girlfriend, Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Detectives are piecing together what happened inside D4vd’s Hollywood Hills mansion and inside the Tesla where Celeste’s decomposing body was found. Among the new findings is a Build-A-Bear certificate that could co…
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Major update in the search for missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard! Police have released a new photo showing Melodee and her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, at a car rental office in Lompoc, California before a mysterious road trip. Both were wearing wigs, and investigators say Ashlee later switched license plates on the rental car. Now, police say the inve…
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New photos of Bryan Kohberger’s knife sheath have just been released, giving a closer look at one of the most important pieces of evidence in the Idaho murders investigation. Along with those images, new DoorDash bodycam footage shows an interview with the driver who delivered food to 1122 King Road only minutes before the murders. She recalled see…
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The FBI has executed three major search warrants in the case of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, tearing up carpet, drywall, and even concrete from her mother Ashlee Buzzard’s home in Lompoc, California. Agents were seen carrying out large evidence bags, while separate searches were conducted at a storage unit and the rental car Melodee was last…
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The FBI has raided the home of Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, in Lompoc, California. Agents searched the house with K-9 units, a storage locker, and a rental car connected to the case. Hours earlier, a neighbor captured shocking video of Ashlee tearing down her daughter’s missing posters. Police confirm she has be…
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A little girl disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night in a quiet Florida town. Three weeks later, investigators uncover a horror that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. When nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford vanished, no one could have imagined what police would find just a few doors away. When investigators finally uncover th…
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Six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack vanished from their trailer home in rural Nova Scotia without a trace. No footprints. No scent. No sign of a struggle. For months, investigators searched the woods, the lakes, and the fields-- but found nothing. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down one of …
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Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard has vanished from Lompoc, California and her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, refuses to cooperate with police. The case is drawing chilling comparisons to Lori Vallow, whose two children were found murdered after she ignored court orders to produce them. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield speaks with Colby…
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Nine-year-old Melodee Buzzard has vanished from Lompoc, California, and the FBI is now leading the search. Melodee's mother will not cooperate with investigators. Now, BRAND NEW surveillance footage shows Melodee at a car rental office, possibly wearing a wig to hide her identity, before her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, returned home without her. In thi…
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The FBI just cracked open one of the biggest gambling scandals in NBA history, involving players, coaches, and even four of New York’s infamous crime families. But forget the FBI, it's the mob you should be afraid of. Ashleigh Banfield sits down with real former mob bosses Michael Franzese and Sammy “The Bull” Gravano to break down whether this was…
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A man known as “Roofman” cut through McDonald’s roofs, robbed workers at gunpoint, then escaped prison and secretly lived inside a Toys “R” Us. Now, Hollywood’s turning his unbelievable story into a Channing Tatum movie. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the real story behind Roofman. Watch on YouTube: https://www.…
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A new witness just dropped a bombshell in the Luigi Mangione case. He says the accused killer ranted about “greedy CEOs” in a Bangkok, Thailand pub months before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in Manhattan. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DropDeadSerious Follow Ashleigh on Social Media Instagram: https://www.instagr…
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Virginia Giuffre’s shocking posthumous memoir, Nobody’s Girl, is finally out, and it is sending shockwaves through the same elite world that once protected Jeffrey Epstein. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the most explosive revelations from Giuffre’s book: the powerful men she says abused her, Epstein’s secret re…
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A 17-year-old boy in Stillwater, Oklahoma, was accused of brutal crimes against two girls, one of whom was nearly strangled to death. Police found disturbing videos on his phone, and prosecutors filed eleven felony counts. But the court called him a “youthful offender” and gave him probation and therapy instead of prison. In this episode of Drop De…
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Two women vanished on their way to pick up children in a small Oklahoma town. Weeks later, detectives made a horrifying discovery buried ten feet underground: a freezer packed with their bodies. The mastermind? A 54-year-old grandmother who called herself a woman of faith and led a group known as “God’s Misfits.” Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtu…
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After weeks of silence in the shocking death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, new surveillance footage of singer D4vd’s Tesla has surfaced, and it changes everything. The private investigator who uncovered the video says it shows exactly when and where the luxury car was abandoned in the Hollywood Hills with Celeste’s body inside. The LAPD h…
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Rebecca Haro told police her baby, Emmanuel, had been kidnapped by strangers outside a California store. But it was all a lie. Days later, detectives arrested both parents. Now Jake Haro has confessed to torturing and murdering his 7-month-old son while Emmanuel’s body is still missing. Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the horrifying case inside Drop …
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It was supposed to be an ordinary walk home. Instead, it became every parent’s nightmare. For nine months, no one knew where Abby Hernandez was or what had happened to her. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield unravels the terrifying true story of Abby Hernandez, the teen who vanished in broad daylight, the desperate search that …
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Alivea and Steve Goncalves, the sister and father of University of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves, sit down with Ashleigh Banfield to react to Lifetime’s upcoming Idaho Murders movie and the shocking new twist involving Bryan Kohberger’s sister on the prosecution’s witness list. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DropDeadSerious Follo…
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An Indiana mother, Britney Gard, vanished right after her house caught fire. Her car was still in the driveway, her purse was inside, and her phone was silent. For eight days, family and police feared the worst. Then came the discovery that stunned everyone: Britney was found alive in the woods, just two and a half miles from home. How did she surv…
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One year after the beloved San Antonio, Texas real estate agent and mother of four vanished without a trace, her sister has now been arrested while Suzanne’s husband, Brad Simpson, remains locked up awaiting trial for her murder. Investigators say Brad was caught on camera buying cleaning supplies, hauling trash bags and a tarp in his truck, and la…
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She was a substitute teacher and a mother-- trusted by parents, admired by students. But prosecutors say Brittany Fortinberry was living a secret double life, one that crossed every imaginable line. In fact, prosecutors say Ms. Fortinberry engaged in sexual acts with SEVERAL teenage boys, some as young as 13. One of those boys told investigators he…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs faced the music in federal court, and it was brutal. Judge Arun Subramanian eviscerated the hip-hop mogul during sentencing, quoting Diddy’s own filthy words back to him. Diddy sobbed in court, called his behavior “sick, shameful, and disgusting,” and begged for mercy before being sentenced to 50 months in federal prison on Mann …
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On February 2, 2008, inside a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park, Illinois, six women were bound with duct tape and forced to the floor. Within minutes, five were executed, one miraculously survived, and the gunman vanished without a trace. Seventeen years later, the case known as the Tinley Park Five remains one of the largest unsolved mass shooting…
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Fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez ran away from home again and again, but this time, she never came back. Her badly decomposed body was discovered in the trunk of a Tesla tied to rising singer D4vd. Now, shocking new records reveal police were called to Celeste’s family’s home 11 times in just over a year. Surveillance footage, missing pers…
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A wild new twist in the D4vd scandal as Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s teenage ex-boyfriend breaks his silence, speaking out about their relationship before she ran away to live with the rising star D4vd, aka David Anthony Burke, in his Hollywood Hills mansion. Police also swarmed D4vd’s family home in Houston after a bogus 911 call that triggered an ar…
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The case of University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has taken an even DARKER turn. Prosecutors revealed bombshell new details in court docs: her newborn baby was possibly born alive, wrapped in a towel “like a burrito,” and hidden in her closet. Hours later, instead of seeking help, Laken allegedly grabbed McDonald’s and stopped by the ca…
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A haunting new surveillance video of Celeste Rivas Hernandez has surfaced and it could be the most important clue yet in the Tesla death mystery. The footage shows the 14-year-old before her decomposed body was discovered in the trunk of a Tesla belonging to rising singer D4vd. At the same time, police records reveal tickets piling up on that same …
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Singer D4vd’s relationship with 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez has now been confirmed, just weeks after her body was found in the trunk of his Tesla. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield unpacks the explosive revelation and the disturbing timeline leading up to Celeste’s death. Ashleigh is joined by Charlie Neff from TMZ, wh…
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Disturbing new evidence is raising chilling questions about Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s final days- from what forensic experts can still uncover from her decomposed remains, to the digital trail hidden inside the Tesla itself. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down the science and the technology with two leading experts: …
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Fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez vanished from Lake Elsinore, California. Weeks later she was found dead inside the trunk of a Tesla tied to rising singer D4vd. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield investigates chilling new clues that are shaking the case wide open. From a viral concert video that fans swear shows Celest…
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Singer D4vd has abruptly bolted from his Hollywood Hills mansion just days after LAPD spent 12 hours searching the home for “blood evidence.” Detectives seized multiple items, including a laptop, in their investigation into the shocking case of Celeste Rivas Hernandez – a 14-year-old girl whose decomposed body was discovered in the trunk of D4vd’s …
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