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 transcribedWith Marion’s killer in custody, a trial was set for January 1928. 19-year-old William Hickman immediately began laying the ground for his defense. Bu...
Ten days before Christmas 1927, a smooth-talking man walked into a school in Los Angeles and convinced the office to let him take 12-year-old Marion P...
Dr. James Snook was a respected veterinarian, family man, and former Olympian. But by the time his trial was over, he was a condemned murderer. Reveal...
In the summer of 1929, the body of 24-year-old Theora Hix was found on a shooting range in Columbus, Ohio. The investigation into her murder surfaced...
There was no doubt who committed the brutal assaults, or why. As another victim succumbed to his wounds, a search party hunted for Nicholas Behan — wh...
After his abduction on July 7th, 1960, Graeme Thorne's body was discovered in a vacant lot in Sydney, Australia. The entire country longed to see his...
On January 23, 1969, two college students went on a weekend trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts. They never returned. Learn more about your ad choices...
The 1840 trial for the calculated murder of Lord William Russell had one defendant and multiple witnesses — but everyone seemed suspect: the housemaid...
After the slaying of Wilson Turner, the all-powerful bootlegger who killed him seemed untouchable. But dramatic turns in the investigation would chang...
On April 20, 1948, residents of rural Coweta County, Georgia, saw a man named Wilson Turner get chased down and beaten in the middle of a campground p...
In 1909, 24-year-old Oceana Snead died of an apparent suicide — but the case was far less clear-cut than the woman’s aunt, Virginia Wardlaw, would hav...
After Jane Britton's death in 1969, police suspected that one of her instructors may have been responsible for her gruesome murder. But the ensuing in...
In January 1969, anthropology student Jane Britton was brutally murdered in her own apartment. The case gained national attention when evidence at the...
It didn’t take long to find the perpetrator of the Taliesin massacre: 30-year-old Julian Carlton. But though they had the “who,” police still needed t...
In 1911, Frank Lloyd Wright built a mansion in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The sprawling estate was a haven for him and his mistress, “Mamah” Cheney. But...
As police zeroed in on a local contractor named John Wayne Gacy, they began to suspect they weren’t investigating the disappearance of one missing tee...
After ending his shift at Nisson Pharmacy in Des Plaines, Illinois, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest asked his mother to wait while he spoke to a man abo...
The brutal murder of one of the wealthiest ship owners in the world shocked the town of Salem, Massachusetts in 1830. Learn more about your ad choic...
After Ruth Ellis murdered her lover in April 1955, people throughout London thought she was guaranteed the death penalty. But as investigators began l...
In 1955, wealthy racecar driver David Blakely was gunned down outside a bar in London. Passersby were shocked to see a petite, picturesque woman stand...
