Janteyl Johnson

Twenty-five years ago, my sister Alissa Turney disappeared. For most of that time, I have lived in the space between grief and action, between not knowing and refusing to look away. This episode is different. It is shorter, more personal, and less about retelling every detail of ...  Show more

On Mother’s Day in 1938, 4-year-old Marjorie West was picking wildflowers with her sister in the Allegheny Forest when she vanished. Within minutes, her family was searching. Within hours, hundreds of people were combing the woods. And within days, thousands of volunteers, law en ...  Show more

Ep 08: Lavena Johnson was just a few days shy of her 20th birthday when her body was found lifeless in a tent on a U.S. military base in Iraq. Her death was quickly ruled a suicide by army investigators, however it didn’t take long for questions to arise.  Was this a case of suic ...  Show more

This week on True Crime Daily the Podcast, we celebrate our 100th episode. An ex-cult leader has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the starvation and abuse of two children in the 1980s. And the body of Alexis Murphy has been found seven years after her disappearance, and s ...  Show more

Ep 86: On a Saturday evening, this 17-year-old girl hopped in her car to meet her friends for a fun night out, planning to make it home by her midnight curfew. But by 3 am when she hadn’t arrived home, her panicked mother called 911 reporting her daughter missing While the police ...  Show more

John "Sonny" Franzese was once described as "largely responsible for the glamorization of the Mafia over the past century.” He'd been active in the Colombo crime family since the 1960s. And then, when he was 93, he was given an 8-year sentence. The evidence that helped convict hi ...  Show more