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S8 Ep305: Talking True Crime with Erin Moriarty

In this month’s episodes, I’ll wrap up 2023 by discovering what listeners, podcasters, and other true crime experts list as their “true crime obsessions” this year. This week, I’m privileged to talk to veteran true crime jou...

S8 Ep304: Psychic Detectives: The Murder of Ashley Howley

A missing person’s case in Columbus, Ohio, grows cold. It seemed that what happened to 20-year-old Ashley Howley would remain a mystery until a psychic medium connected with the spirit of the missing girl. Did Ashley Howley...

S8 Ep303: Psychic Detectives: The Murder of Andre Daigle

The family of a missing man turns to a psychic in a desperate attempt to locate him. Rosemarie Kerr’s psychic predictions as to the fate of Andre Daigle would prove to be so accurate that she was later called to testify at h...

S8 Ep302: Episode 302: Psychic Detectives: The Murders of Holly & Jessica

Two ten-year-old girls went missing in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England in 2002. After one of the most extensive searches in British criminal history, one of the girls’ parents consults a psychic in a desperate attempt to find...

S8 Ep301: A Family Affair: Theresa Cross Knorr

Theresa Cross Knor was jealous, controlling, and abusive to her partners and children. After murdering one husband and getting away with it, her children became her next targets. She would make her children complicit in the ...

S8 Ep300: Maze of Secrets

..1 eerie corn maze... ...9 haunting figures... ...9 spine-tingling tales... ...Will YOU find your way out? This holiday season, step into a labyrinth of shadows and suspense with Shane Waters as your guide. In this chilling ...

S8 Ep299: A Family Affair: Diane and Rachel Staudte

This week I’m continuing the series “A Family Affair,” detailing cases of a parent involving their children in murder plots. This time a mother and daughter team up to murder family members for financial profit and to rid th...

S8 Ep298: A Family Affair: David and Cinnamon Brown

In this month’s series “A Family Affair,” I’ll share cases in which children are manipulated into involvement in criminal offenses - even murder - at the direction of a parent. First up, lust and greed spur a man to manipulat...

S8 Ep297: School’s Out…Forever: The Hazing Death of Tim Piazza

A 19-year-old college student dies as a result of a fraternity hazing incident at Pennsylvania State University in 2017. It will result in the largest criminal indictment of a fraternity in American history. RESOURCE LINKS: “...

S8 Ep296: School’s Out…Forever: The Frontier Middle School Shooting

In this month’s series, I detail crimes that happened on school campuses. In 1996, a 14-year-old walked into his 8th-grade math class and opened fire. This early school shooting would shock his community and spark a nationwi...

S8: Bonus Episode: OUAC LIVE at CrimeCon London with Minds of Madness

LIVE FROM U.K. Tune in to this special bonus episode. We're pleased to offer you this special episode in collaboration with the amazing and very popular true crime podcast Minds of Madness! Esther and Tyler co-host this epis...

S8 Ep295: School’s Out…Forever: The Murder of Colleen Ritzer

In this month’s series, I detail crimes that happened on school campuses. In this episode, A 14-year-old high school student commits a horrific act of rape and murder in a school bathroom. Was Philip Chism mentally ill, as h...

S8 Ep294: Falling Stars: Instagram Star Alexis Sharkey

In this week’s episode, a successful, young entrepreneur gains a large following on Instagram by sharing her photos and videos of her life’s milestones over the years. Alexis Sharkey’s followers only saw the best times - fun ...

S8 Ep293: Falling Stars: YouTube Star Christina Grimmie

This week, I’ll tell you about a rising singing star who began her career on YouTube before making it to Hollywood to compete on a nationally televised talent show. Christina Grimmie had a bright future ahead of her as an en...

S8 Ep292: Episode 292: Falling Stars: TikTok Star Ali Abulaban

This month I’ll be detailing true crime cases that involved rising stars who made names for themselves in social media. In this first episode, a young comedian boasts almost a million followers on TikTok alone. But Ali Abul...

S8 Ep291: Love Triangles: Sheila Davalloo - Fatal Attraction

Sheila Davalloo made it a habit of looking outside her relationships for passion and sex. But she soon turned cold toward her secret lovers once these relationships became routine. That is until she met a man who rejected h...

S8 Ep290: Love Triangles: A Deadly Affair - Candy Montgomery

In this week’s episode, Lorena joins me to discuss another true crime that resulted from a love triangle. Betty Gore was brutally murdered with an axe in the summer of 1980 in her small town of Wylie, Texas. The community wo...

S8 Ep289: Love Triangles: The Case of the Killer Clown

In this episode, two people in committed relationships become infatuated with one another. When one of their spouses is murdered, investigators quickly zero in on the star-crossed lovers. However, investigators will find it...

S8 Ep288: Revisiting “The Staircase”: The Owl Theory

In this episode we’ll revisit the Michael Peterson case aka “The Staircase Murder”. My guest, author Tiddy Smith, will discuss an alternate theory to explain the death of Kathleen Peterson detailed in his new book Death by T...

S8 Ep287: The Long Con - The Murder of Mee Kuen Chong

On June 10th, 2021, an elderly woman vanished without a trace from her own home in Wembley, London. 16 agonizing days later, and a staggering 200 miles away, visitors exploring the seaside town of Salcombe stumbled across a h...

S8 Ep286: 7 Case Updates from 7 Years of Once Upon a Crime

We’re celebrating our 7th anniversary of the podcast by bringing you 7 case updates of crimes we’ve covered since 2016. Thank you all so much for making this crazy true crime ride possible! Episodes referenced: Episode 1: Los...