The Crimes of Margo Freshwater | 5. Tables, Turned
Episode Date: February 2, 2026What begins as an ordinary afternoon ends with Tonya in handcuffs and her family in disbelief that she’s a convicted murderer. It turns out there’s a...
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87 episodes transcribedWhat begins as an ordinary afternoon ends with Tonya in handcuffs and her family in disbelief that she’s a convicted murderer. It turns out there’s a...
With a new identity, Tonya begins to believe her past is buried for good. But when her story makes it to primetime TV, a swaggering young special agen...
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In a last-ditch gamble, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents conceive an elaborate ruse to try to get Margo’s relatives to turn on her. Bin...
On 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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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...
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...
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...
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...
There’s only one person left who holds the truth, Janis herself. David and host Larrison show up to answer the remaining mystery: Why did she keep up...
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...
You’ve probably heard of the Zodiac Killer but not The Doodler. Why not? Between 1974 and ‘75 he killed at least 5 gay men in San Francisco and got aw...
The alleged killer is finally on trial. So prosecutors call their star witness: the son of the accused, Collier. Binge all episodes of Finding Mom'...
Sara dives into the OC’s dark underbelly of dirty deals, high stakes scams, and hustlers. A mysterious new friend starts passing Sara off as his siste...