Hosted and executive produced by Attorney and Law&Crime anchor Jesse Weber, Prime Crime puts a spotlight on infamously controversial stories that have shocked investigators and the public alike. Jesse Weber takes a deep dive into the most high-profile and shocking criminal cases that have garnered national attention.
150 episodes transcribedIn 1982, three teenagers were found murdered along Lake Waco. There was very little evidence, but Sergeant Truman Simons had a hunch. And he knew it w...
Known locally as "The Sausage King," Adolph Luetgert found himself in hot water after police found evidence of his wife Louise's murder. Shards of bon...
Adolph Luetgert came from Germany to chase the American dream. He started a successful sausage factory and even married a woman from his home country....
Detectives identified 25-year-old James Hanratty as their primary suspect. While in custody, he even admitted to his crime. But some of the public bel...
Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie were kidnapped, shot, and left on the side of the A6 at Deadman's Hill. The gunman then took off in Michael's car....
Authorities tracked down Albert Fish to a boarding house in New York. From the outside, he appeared to be a harmless old man. But inside, he was a col...
After the kidnapping of 10-year-old Grace Budd, authorities sifted through countless tips to locate the man who took her: Frank Howard. But after year...
The murder at Breakheart Hill Farm led reporters into the violent past of John Best, a farmhand who had worked under George Bailey. As the trial again...
His dismembered body was found in a series of burlap bags at Floating Bridge Pond in Massachusetts. Farm caretaker George Bailey had made quite a few...
Franz Müller was arrested in New York and extradited back to England for a criminal trial. The case against him was far from cut and dry, but that did...
On July 9th, 1864, a driver of a locomotive noticed the broken and bloodied body of banker Thomas Briggs. With the help of some key witnesses, authori...
Anybody investigating the mysterious death of Anna Brown, or any of the other suspicious deaths in the Osage Nation, had either been threatened or kil...
In the 1920s, the people of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma were the wealthiest people per capita in the entire world because their land sat on one of th...
By the time NYPD detectives learned the identity of the "Easter Sunday Killer," Robert Irwin had long since left the city. But a tip from a pantry mai...
In the early hours of Easter Sunday in 1937, model Ronnie Gedeon, her mother Mary, and their boarder Frank Byrnes were brutally murdered inside their...
On the evening of April 16, 1960, Irene Garza went to church in the peaceful town of McAllen, Texas but never came home. Less than a week later, her b...
Captain Schaack was dismissed for withholding that his partner, Dan Coughlin, was connected to the murder of Patrick Cronin. New detectives on the cas...
In May of 1889, in the Lake View area of Chicago, well-known and respected doctor Patrick Henry Cronin disappeared. Police Captain Michael Schaack inv...
When human remains washed up on Palmyra Island, authorities confirmed they belonged to Muff Graham who had disappeared along with her husband seven ye...
On September 25th, 1937, 72-year-old businessman Charles Sherman Ross was kidnapped. His wife wanted to pay the ransom, so the FBI took down the seria...
