The Crimes of Margo Freshwater | 2. Bad Lead
Episode Date: January 12, 2026On the run with nothing but adrenaline and borrowed luck, Margo Freshwater vanishes into Baltimore while detectives waste precious time chasing the wr...
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105 episodes transcribedOn the run with nothing but adrenaline and borrowed luck, Margo Freshwater vanishes into Baltimore while detectives waste precious time chasing the wr...
When the Bogeyman attacks again, police launch an unprecedented operation to hunt him down. And finally Nicole finds out how her case was linked to th...
In the Fall of 1975, a composite sketch of The Doodler is published in the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Sentinel, and tips begin to r...
After the publication of the composite sketch, leads begin to pour in. SFPD receives a call from a psychiatrist’s office. The doctor claims the man in...
Since the reactivation of the Doodler case in 2018, Dan Cunningham has been eyeing a key person of interest. Cunningham met with him and even got a sa...
During the lunch rush in a Texas Dairy Queen, Janis’s five decades of lies finally begin to crumble. But Ogden, the investigator, discovers that solvi...
After escaping from a murderous boyfriend, where does Janis turn up next? With a child she may or may not have stolen in the South Louisiana Bayous. A...
The investigator visits a pair of sisters who begin to drop breadcrumbs of clues possibly leading to Janis’s whereabouts. The problem is, a few of tho...
More than 40 years after Janis disappears from her Columbia, Mississippi home, Investigator Marc Ogden decides he’s going to solve the mystery of her...
Nicole is home alone when a masked man breaks in and sexually assaults her. She’s confident she can help police catch him. But things don’t go to plan...
When Nicole hears about another attack eerily like hers, she sounds the alarm. Fifty miles away, celebrated cold case detective Paul Holes discovers t...
At the end of 1975, The Doodler murders Harald Gullberg, the fifth and final suspected fatality that investigators have tied to this case. The Doodler...
After a breakthrough idea for solving cases cracks the mystery of the Golden State Killer, the NorCal Rapist’s identity is finally revealed. A stakeou...
When the NorCal Rapist goes to trial, evidence from his storage unit paints a terrifying picture of him as a catfisher and lifelong predator. But Nico...
Nicole wrestles with whether she should try and meet the rapist face to face. Then she finds some measure of peace in an unexpected way. Binge all...
When she’s 21, Nicole Earnest-Payte is attacked in her own home. She comes to believe a serial predator has started terrorizing women in Northern Cali...
Coming soon to The Binge, it's The Crimes of Margo Freshwater. When she was 18, Margo Freshwater fell in with a much older man, and together they...
Coming soon to The Binge, it's The Vanishing of Janis Rose. An investigator takes on the challenge of figuring out what became of a young mother of fo...
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Margo Freshwater is just 18 when she tries to bail out a friend charged with armed robbery. She ends up in big trouble of her own, when she and a much...