A Crack in Everything

Andrea Canning sits down with Josh Mankiewicz to discuss his episode, “Out of the Darkness.” In 2016, Chacey Poynter called 911 in hysterics to report that her husband, Bob, a fire captain, had been fatally shot by a stranger on a Texas country road. When police arrived at the sc ...  Show more

A wife calls 911 to report her husband has been shot on a country road in Texas. Could the dramatic police footage from the scene end up being key in the investigation? Josh Mankiewicz reports. Andrea Canning and Josh Mankiewicz go behind the scenes of the making of this episode ...  Show more

A woman's body was found at the bottom of the stairs. When an investigator recreates the fall, the results are surprising. Was this just a freak accident, or murder by an angry spouse.To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about yo ...  Show more

A building manager finds the violated and lifeless body of a young woman in the bathtub of her first apartment. When questioned, an ex-con living downstairs lies to police. But the lies alone do not prove murder and the case goes cold. Then a new forensic tool examines the old ev ...  Show more

A woman dies and the question soon becomes: murder or death by suicide? It’s a case with twists and turns that would take years to unravel. 

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A mother is found hanged on a closet door with her two young children dead in the next room... The police say it's a simple murder-suicide but one detective suspects foul play.

Content Warning: Discussions of suicide that some listeners may find disturbing or triggering ...