Rebecca Schaeffer: The Slaying of a Starlet

In 1859, a wealthy Alabama landowner made a bet that he could do the unthinkable. The next spring, he did just that — trafficking human beings from West Africa to the United States a half-century after it had been made a federal crime punishable by death. The Clotilda brought bac ...  Show more

One April morning in 1948, a tenant farmer named Wilson Turner walked out of a rural Georgia jail and into an ambush. The man waiting for him owned 2,000 acres known as The Kingdom, a moonshine empire, and the county sheriff. What followed was a murder investigation that drew 500 ...  Show more

November 6th: Rebecca Schaeffer Born (1967) The obsession with celebrities is something that has been happening since the dawn of entertainment. While most of these obsessions are relatively harmless, other times they can evolve into something dangerous. On November 6th 1967 a yo ...  Show more

WILLIAM ELIZABETH AND BLAZER HOLES ARE BACK!On July 13, 2011, the body of 32 year-old Rebecca Zahau was found naked, bound, and hanging from a balcony at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California. The death was quickly ruled a suicide, but many strange facts surround the case ...  Show more

Hey, Strange & Unexplained listeners! We’re off this week for the Memorial Day holiday, but didn’t want to leave you with an empty feed, so we’re featuring an episode from another Obsessed Network show, “Crimes of the Centuries”Crime is so commonplace that it takes something part ...  Show more

Strangers! We're so thrilled that Crimes of the Centuries from the Obsessed Network is back for Season 3! Join host Amber Hunt each week as she dives deep into a case that was huge when it happened but somehow got lost to time. These cases may not be remembered, but their impact ...  Show more