Dr. Insanity - Evil Dad Realizes Cops Found His Disturbing Secret

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

This is the moment Andy McCauley realized police were on his trail... Just hours earlier, his girlfriend’s daughter, Riley Crossman suddenly went radio silent, and police were quickly called to come and investigate. At first glance, it looked just like a messy teenager’s bedroom with nothing out of the ordinary. But as the officers scoured through the clutter, unsettling details began to emerge. Subscribe for more crime content like this.. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

She's not back yet. You might off take a look in her bedroom? Has she ever disappeared before? She didn't leave without information. She doesn't not text me when to text her. What does she normally take with her when she leaves? The phone. Their friend's not in here.

She's going to talk to you with that farm around. We're going to hear last night. I mean, night before anything, the reason she would leave. No, I guess. There's a rumor going around, people telling us that she's straight in the home. She's right in the home. This is the moment Andy McCauley realized police were on his trail. Just hours earlier, his girlfriend's daughter, Riley Crosman, suddenly went radio silent,

and police were quickly called to come and investigate. At first glance, it looked just like a messy teenager's bedroom with nothing out of the ordinary. But as the officers scoured through the clutter, unsettling details began to emerge. This was her book back. Debbie said she wore it, but she said the kids already went through everything. They would find items that a teenager might typically take if they were planning to run away, but as they begin to look even more, they start to notice blood. Blood was on her sheet, and Moore was found on her comforter.

The cops were now certain that foul play had occurred, and something terrible happened to Riley. As they try to piece together the puzzle, police find themselves entangled in one man's web of deception, and twisted lies, all crafted to conceal his one single disturbing secret. On May 2019, dispatchers received a call from a concerned woman reporting the disappearance of her 15-year-old daughter, Riley Crossman. As officers arrive at the scene, they come into contact with the caller Chantelle Oakley and her boyfriend, Andy McCauley. What's going on, man? I'm seeing you in Longtown. Any word?

You might have to think of look in her bedroom? Has you ever disappeared before? She doesn't leave without permission. She doesn't not text me when I text her. This is the only mirror we have like this, so I came in yesterday morning, and I don't remember that being there. And especially her glasses, because I, this is not exactly the way it was. I've been in here digging and looking to see if there was a node or anything like that. According to Riley's mother, this was unlike her, and she wasn't one to run off without telling anyone.

A quick search of her room revealed that her belongings were untouched, except her bed, which was covered in bloodstains. This was highly suspicious, so officers quickly took a sample and sent it off for DNA testing. But for now, officers need to gather as much information as possible from people who last saw Riley, so they decide to question Andy about his whereabouts that day. Did that the mom around? We're going to hear last night? No, I mean, night four or anything. The reason she would leave?

No. Because the room were going around, people telling us that she was right to come home. I don't know if that's, I mean, you know how people go soon now. That was nothing like that. Okay. So she was, she wouldn't have to be her. I mean, they're, right, anything like that. They were never like that.

This is. Nothing. Nothing. Yeah. My mom wouldn't even homes. Right. She used to work. No, you.

You, they said that she got an argument. No. No. She was, she was, you can ask her grandma. She was here doing dishes and everything. Grandma's here to 7.30. Okay. Oh, Debbie?

Right. Yeah. When's the last time you saw her? Oh, what, nine, maybe 10-ish? That night? Yeah. And what, and what context was that? Oh, she was here in the house.

She went to bed probably. Well, I don't know what I thought she was bed, but she was, all the kids were in the room by like 9.30, 9.9.30. Did she were leaving in the morning? According to family and friends, Andy was never an early riser. In fact, when police interviewed one of his colleagues, Johnny, he stated that he had to go to his house and repeatedly call him to wake him up. But on this particular day, things were different. I'll call him and see if he's up.

So that morning, do you remember if you called him or he called you? I didn't see more than. I want to say he called. But this was not the only strange thing about him. Andy that day. He also told police that he was at work all day, and when cops interviewed another one of his colleagues to verify his alibi, they found out that Andy had left work and was gone for nearly five hours. And he gets back in roughly, he's probably 245. So he wasn't going a while. For almost five hours. Because of this, detectives now know that Andy hasn't been completely

honest with them so far, at least about staying at work the full day. This is very clearly a red flag and means that he's trying to hide something from them. But Andy might not be the only one hiding something, as officers would find out when they decide to look into Riley's boyfriend, Hayden. For the last eight months, the two reportedly FaceTimed every night. So officers believed that if anyone was in contact with Riley the night before, it would be Hayden, and he was soon called in for an interview two days after Riley went missing. Can you just tell us when you were last FaceTime?

I was actually talking to her about the DC trip, what was going on. And do you know exactly what time? 10.30-ish. On the night of Riley's disappearance, it just so happened that Hayden deleted all his messages with Riley because he did not want his mother seeing them. This is why detectives could tell that Hayden knows something. But because of his mother's defensiveness, he's unable to speak his mind. I've told him to delete his messages, but he is in front.

It's deleting everything. wanting no-book or long her mom's lifestyle. I don't really feel like she just isn't a responsible person. She'll just let her do whatever she wants. They had a dance, and she was wearing this short dress. She let her walk to the school. By herself in this short dress. It's at night.

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reinvention, and second chances in life. See Is This Thing On, now playing in select theaters everywhere January 9th. Crucial piece of evidence afterwards. A series of disturbing. text messages that Riley sent to him the night before she disappeared, saying that Andy was in her room and that she was scared. Immediately, all suspicion was further confirmed around Andy, and officers would later use this information to piece together this dark puzzle. But for now, finding out Andy's actual whereabouts and what really happened during the five hours that Riley was missing

is crucial to the investigation. And the reason why Andy would be called in for questioning. I just talked to Donnie, right? We saw him leaving. Okay. Would you be surprised if you told me something completely different? Maybe. Do you not remember leaving that job staying down to Redhill? Oh, yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry. We did go to it. I'm sorry, we did. You're right. Okay. You're right. We did go and did a shell. How long were you there, Red Hill?

Like the rest of the day. Okay. And the rest of the day. Okay. Were you at that house the entire time fixing the shelves? No. Okay, where we got? I was it the other house.

Okay, I would, you got some, what do you got some, I want to got some more drugs? If Andy was off doing illegal drugs during those five missing hours, then that could possibly explain why he didn't initially tell the cops the truth about where he had been all day. But this also could just be his way of trying to distract the police by bringing their attention to something else. At this point, detectives know that Andy is desperate to give them an alternate alibi, and his drug story could possibly be true. So to cross-check, they would call in Johnny again. Johnny had a history of drug use, and the two would often do cocaine together,

so he can easily substantiate or discredit Andy's account. Would you say that there was enough to still do another line each? Oh, yeah. A couple lines each? Well, yeah. Okay. So you wouldn't have to... You didn't need any more coke.

No. So now, Andy's story about going to get more drugs isn't adding up. His colleague had already told the cops that they had more than enough cocaine to get them through the rest of the day, so there would be no reason for them to go get more drugs. Realizing that Andy has been lying, the police decide it's time to confront him and get to the bottom of his deception. What if I told you that, I know you weren't with that snow-go?

And you didn't buy drugs off anybody that day. See what I'm getting out? We went from this story to this story, now I don't get a third story. This is one of these times you really need to think for what you're telling me. Hey, because you're not being honest. Remember when I told you about being honest

and I'm not going to just throw shit at you. I know you weren't there. I know you didn't buy drugs off your time. cousin and I know you didn't use it in that far from a lot that day. Where did you go when you left? Went to my house, he had to the jones. Okay. I already had him in my house.

Okay. I already told you you can't tell. I still want to tell you I'm in my house. So you go back home, you use your drugs, and then you go back to work, and then what? Everything here. Considering the discrepancies in each version of the story he tells officers, there is more than enough reason for officers to not trust Andy, like they would express. I'm just telling you the whole part about you being honest.

honest with you. I've been honest with you. I told you said I didn't even want to tell you. You're being somewhat honest. I mean, we're doing some pulling to get some information about some drug activity, which is us, I don't even get two shits about. But yet, we're having trouble pulling that out of you. Because I was worried about it. And I told you, I don't care about that.

You told us about the drug activity what, two nights ago? Did I arrest you for it? I didn't know anything. The main reason for detectives pressuring Andy like this is because a record of his movements is crucial for this investigation. Usually, law enforcement can just track a suspect's

movements using their phone, but in Andy's case, he had supposedly left it at home the day that Riley went missing. Knowing that the more leniency detectives show to Andy, the bolder he would become in giving shady alibis, detectives decide to ramp up the intensity

of the conversation, even more to make Andy nervous and slip up about his real whereabouts. Um, you know, the further along this is whatever happens, whoever did is the worst off the catch for that person, too. Yes, I hope so. She was probably taken out of that house by somebody.

Yeah, I'll feel something that she was taken to that way. I'll feel because she'd be on by now. She was going to be her mom. She was taken from that house, is what I'm saying. She didn't wander off. She didn't pack a bag and take her clothes and take her glasses, take a cell phone charger, take all her money. She had most of her money.

Someone's going to go. Yeah, her money was still going to look back. Yeah. Yeah. So, like I said, if someone's going to run away or do it, something, they're going to make a little bit of better effort for a 15-year-old. For a 15-year-old kid, they're going to at least have the necessities. Even after explicitly stating the absurdity of the situation, Andy seems as calm as ever

and won't crack about where he really was. But even in this situation, detectives have one piece of evidence that would cause the pressure to mount on Andy, the texts that Hayden had showed them. Once confronted with these, Andy's behavior changes immediately. What if I told you her last text to her boyfriend, we're saying don't talk because she still has the FaceTime one. Andy's in here. I'm afraid. That's what I said. What if I told you that?

Obviously, that's crazy. I can put my hand on the Bible and tell you I saw those texts today. Well, I like to see him because I know probably didn't scare me. I know she was not only that. She said you were in here and she was in her bedroom because the FaceTime was still one. I was never in her room That's not what she's saying I don't go on her room

Andy I'm not lying to you I was not in a room for one and for two your kid's not scared of there's no reason for a beach getting I've been there for in her right for a year and a half taking care of her using

I get that I hear you but what we're saying is that's what she's saying so obviously to her he's afraid of something the walls are closing in on Andy quickly and he's no longer able to keep up with his lies. He can't think of any possible reason why Riley would be afraid of him or any explanation for why she would have sent her boyfriend those texts.

There's no way. There's the way you that's not true. I'm telling you, I read that with my own eyes today. I don't know. So you see where that puts us? Yeah, I understand, but the kid's not scared me. I understand how you guys can say that. Despite the damning physical evidence, Andy continues to insist that there was no reason that Riley would have been afraid of him. Perhaps he thinks that if he denies this enough times, the cops will simply move on. That's not. That's what she is saying.

She's saying. That's why we're saying that. We don't know what goes on behind both doors when you and Chantel are there, or Chantel and Riley are there, or we don't know. But obviously, in her mind, she's afraid of you. Would you agree, it doesn't make sense? This doesn't make sense at all. So does she have any reason to say that? No. Why would she say that?

Oh, no. At this point, the cops have given Andy an opportunity to come up with any sort of explanation at all or even a lie. This would have been his chance to point towards something that may have happened in the past, even as simple as a disagreement between the two of them,

as a possible reason Riley would have written these things. But Andy is not taking the bait. Is she been hateful toward you? Does she hate you? No. She'll hate me. She'll hate me. She's fucking loves me. I don't know that. Does she argue with you? No. Ever. We have to cusset you. You

crush you out. Nothing. Never nothing. The year and a half, nothing. Okay, so it sounds like to me she does love you so heartedly. Yes. Okay, so why would she say that? I don't know. The year and a half, we have not had one conflict. Okay.

We and the boy, yeah, we have. Okay, but there's never been anything, like you said, a year and a half, for the last several weeks, several months, several days, nothing. You're like, oh, yeah, you had her out of one time. She wanted this, and I told her to know, maybe she got mad, and she's nothing. With all else failing, Andy would attempt to try and convince the cops that he shares the same sentiments as them. But you see where that puts us right?

Yeah, I understand. I understand what you guys are doing the job. I mean, that's the last message he has from her. I'm not that you guys are doing the job. I think of. There's nothing I can think of. He wants to do her job. That's what we're doing.

I'm asking you to job up. I'm not bad. You guys, I think he's little pissed off. But there's nothing that I can think of. She would be mad at it or she would be upset or me or scared of me or. anything would be. You didn't go in that room? No.

She still had FaceTime one too. I can't. Well, I was in that room. The cops lacked probable cause at this time to arrest Andy, but there is one piece of evidence that is about to change the course of this entire investigation. It was around this time that the lab

results on that blood sample would finally return, and it would be an exact match to Andy's DNA. But that's not all. They also learned that the blood they tested was also mixed with saliva. This made the cops suspect that Riley's face may have been forced into the pillow in an attempt to keep her from screaming. This is an important development, but they still haven't located Riley,

and they need to find more information about where Andy was during those five missing hours. Luckily, though, all of that can be answered in the CCTV footage that captured all of Andy's movements. There were cameras attached to a nearby high school that captured Andy McCauley leaving his work site. That was the starting point of the investigation for the cops. They knew the direction of his travel, including the facts that he was on Route 9. An eyewitness who knew what Andy's vehicle looked like, was able to confirm that she saw his truck backed up into the driveway of Riley's home in the middle of the day when he should have been at work.

At this point, the cops believe that Andy killed Riley during the late night or early morning hours, likely to keep her from screaming while he assaulted her. They believe he then hid her body in the bedroom until everyone left, and then later returned to the house when it was empty to pick up her body and dispose of it, using CCTV footage to guide them, and with the help of police canines trained to pick up Riley's scent, they search a nearby mountainous area. It is there that they tragically find Riley's decomposing body left in a secluded area.

While this is the outcome that nobody wanted, it marks the turning point in the case. Near where Riley's body is found, there are several unique-looking screws discovered. These are the same screws that were located when the cops had searched Andy's vehicle the day previously. This is even further evidence that solidified the case against him, and eight days after the discovery of Riley's body, Andy is arrested and charged with her murder. He pleaded not guilty. In the trial, Andy's defense argued that the prosecution failed to provide a clear motive

or definitive cause of death as the exact cause could not be determined due to the body's decommission. Despite this, the jury found significant evidence linking McCauley to the crime, such as the presence of drywall mud on Crossman's body, which matched the drywall found in McColley's truck and inconsistencies in McColley's statements about his whereabouts on the day of Crossman's disappearance. The jury deliberated for about four hours over the course of two days and decided that the monster who murdered Riley was none other than Andy McCauley. We, the members of the pettit jury, as to the issues joined, find the defendant, Andrew J. McCauley, Jr., as follows. Count one, murder. Guilty of murder in the first degree. Finally, justice for Riley had been served. The only thing left was for Andy to be sentenced.

The judge presiding over the case sealed his fate by giving him two life sentences. He will never see the light of day as a free man ever again. And most importantly, he will never be able to hurt. another innocent child.