How The Killer Got Away

The Circus Singer In 2017, CNN reporter Thomas Lake receives a phone call from a circus singer who tells a wild, hard-to-believe story: James Brown didn’t die of natural causes in 2006; instead the Godfather of Soul was murdered. After months of calls from the circus singer, Lake ...  Show more

After Ron DeFeo Jr. finds his parents and younger siblings dead in their Amityville, New York, home, police begin to search for the killer. Host Donnie Wahlberg and local journalist Joel Martin revisit that horrific evening in 1974, the crime scene and the investigation — all in ...  Show more

True-crime author Diane Fanning stumbles upon the case of Julie Rea, convicted of murdering her son. As she uncovers flaws in the prosecution’s argument, Fanning interviews a serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells. With new evidence in hand, she wonders if her discovery could exonerate a ...  Show more

A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other. Five years earlier, a student was assaulted and killed in her off-campus apartment, and a year after that, another student was killed in almost th ...  Show more

This week on True Crime Daily The Podcast, we take a deep dive into the case Debra BlackCrow and how the California Innocence Project attempted to free her murderer from jail. Debra's daughter Shantel Haynes, former district attorney Michael Ramos and private investigator Luis Bo ...  Show more

The Golden State Killer committed at least 13 murders, 50 rapes, and 120 burglaries during the 70s and 80s, and eluded law enforcement for 32 years. On April 24, 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. But what tips the scales and makes the difference in finally solving these types o ...  Show more