Cold Case Murder Mysteries

Cold Case Murder Mysteries


Latest Episodes

The Exorcism of Elliot Rodger Part I: Trajectory from the Old Rectory – E026
January 22, 2018

On the evening of May 23, 2014, 22-year-old UCSB student Elliot Rodger murdered three students in his apartment near campus before taking his rampage to the streets behind the wheel of a fast-moving car. After killing or wounding more than a dozen peop...

Murderous Musings on Marilyn Monroe – E025
January 08, 2018

On August 5, 1962, the world learned of the death of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, who succumbed to an overdose of barbiturates at age 36. Decades later, however, many still speculate the actress was the victim of murder.

Angie Housman & The Deification of the Devil – E024
December 17, 2017

On November 18, 1993, 9-year-old Angie Housman vanished after getting off a school bus less than a block from her home. In the following days, terror gripped the residents of St. Ann, MO as police searched desperately for a missing little girl and her ...

Gushing Geysers & Emotional Trip-Weiers: The Sickness in Summoning Slender Man – E023
November 26, 2017

On May 31, 2014, a 12-year-old middle school student from Waukesha, WI was discovered lying on a bike path covered in blood, the victim of a vicious stabbing. Police soon learned the attackers were the girl's best friend Morgan Geyser and classmate Ani...

Sabrina Aisenberg & The Peculiar Particulars of Passing Polygraphs While Pleading the Fifth
November 20, 2017

On the morning of November 24, 1997, parents Steve and Marlene Aisenberg called 911 to report their 5-month-old daughter, Sabrina, had been taken from her crib in the middle of the night. But the police didn't find any evidence of an intruder. So,

Big Fish, Back Doors & Blackouts: The Brian Shaffer Story
November 05, 2017

On March 31, 2006, a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student named Brian Shaffer went out for a night of drinking with a friend, one that culminated at the Big Tuna Saloona, where Brian is seen on security footage talking to two young women outside the ...

Menendez Bros: How We Hired Gordon Gekko to Murder John Candy & Bury Him in The Great Outdoors
November 05, 2017

August 20, 1989 - Two brothers, Lyle and Erik Menendez, enter their parents Beverly Hills mansion shortly before midnight and execute the couple with shotgun blasts, garnering the suspicion of police in the aftermath as they spend a fortune on lavish g...

From Cavemen to Combat to Macabre: The Origin Story of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – E019
October 21, 2017

On October 1, 1974 director Tobe Hooper unleashed a horror film that silenced US audiences from coast to coast with its unflinching look at a group of young people who run out of gas on a road trip and end up getting slaughtered by a crazed family livi...

Devil in the Details: The Disappearance of Joan Risch – E018
October 21, 2017

On the afternoon of October 24, 1961 a little girl shows up at the doorstep of her neighbor's home in Lincoln, MA to proclaim, "Mommy's gone and the kitchen is covered in red paint." What follows is one of the most baffling disappearances in American h...

West Memphis Three Part IV: Terry Hobbs & The Quintessential Questions for Creating a Cockroach
October 09, 2017

Join host Ryan Kraus for the final chapter of this series covering the infamous Robin Hood Hills child murders. In this episode, we examine Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of 8-year-old victim Stevie Branch, who garnered strong suspicion in the case when D...