Case 343: John Zera
Episode Date: June 20, 2026*** Content warnings: Child victims, sexual assault ***On February 28 1976, the suburban community of Hales Corners, Wisconsin, was rocked when the bo...
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452 episodes transcribed*** Content warnings: Child victims, sexual assault ***On February 28 1976, the suburban community of Hales Corners, Wisconsin, was rocked when the bo...
When 52-year-old Julia Wallace was found brutally murdered in her Liverpool home in 1931, no one could have anticipated the complex and challenging in...
*** Content warning: Child sexual abuse ***Late in 1991, a child said something strange to his mother: ‘I don’t like Peter’s black penis.’ Believ...
*** Content warning: Sexual assault ***When 22-year-old aspiring journalist Elisabeth Membrey failed to answer her phone on December 7 1994, her...
*** Content Warning: gun violence ***When Larry Phillips Junior and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered the North Hollywood branch of the Bank of America on Febr...
On Friday, August 20 2010, officers from the Holmes County Sheriff's Department were called to Vortex Spring, a commercially operated dive park just o...
*** Content Warning: serial killer, extreme violence ***In early 1993, Frankston resident Donna received a series of unnerving prank calls. Afraid of...
[Part 3 of 3]*** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***The standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians...
[Part 2 of 3]*** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***In 1992, a chance discovery by a UPS delivery driver...
[Part 1 of 3]*** Content warning: Gun violence, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, child abuse ***In 1981, a 20-year-old named Vernon Howell drove more...
[Part 2 of 2]*** Content warning: child victims ***As police looked into the deaths of Caleb, Patrick, Sarah and Laura Folbigg, they were introduced t...
[Part 1 of 2]*** Content warning: child victims ***Married couple Craig and Kathleen Folbigg wanted nothing more than to be parents. Throughout the la...
[Part 4 of 4]*** Content warning: child victims ***As police closed in on the elusive B.T.K, they received a floppy disk that contained some stunning...
[Part 3 of 4]*** Content warning: child victims ***B.T.K resumed his cat-and-mouse game with police, who raced to identify and capture the serial kill...
[Part 2 of 4]*** Content warning: child victims ***After claiming seven victims and terrorising Wichita for nearly three decades, the unidentified kil...
[Part 1 of 4]*** Content warning: child victims ***The quiet suburban life of Wichita, Kansas, was shattered in 1974 when four members of the Otero fa...
*** Content Warning: Child victims***On September 15 2006, detectives began investigating the sexual assault of 24-year-old Tiffany Hall from East St....
*** Content Warning: Crime against a child ***In 1998, the Easter holiday in Victoria, Australia, got off to a tragic beginning when 12-year-old Nicky...
*** Content Warning: Self-harm ***On May 17 2008, Swedish twin sisters Ursula and Sabina Eriksson boarded a bus from Liverpool to London. After a rout...
*** Content Warning: child victims ***Oklahoma teenager Ashley Freeman celebrated her sixteenth birthday by inviting her best friend, Lauria Bible, ov...