The Man Who Faked His Death for a New Life Wi...

On October 2nd, 2020, 24-year-old mother Alyssa Burkett was brutally murdered outside her workplace in Carrollton, Texas. Alyssa had been involved in a bitter custody battle with her ex-boyfriend over their young daughter, but the investigation into her death would uncover someth ...  Show more

In January 2018, 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein disappeared while visiting his family in California. Days later, his body was discovered, and the investigation led authorities to a former high school classmate. What unfolded was a heartbreaking cas ...  Show more

In this week's True Crime Daily Podcast: An American man accused of sex crimes in multiple states reportedly died from cancer in 2020. Now authorities say he faked his death and became an international fugitive, after he's caught in a Scottish hospital with a near-fatal case of C ...  Show more

People have faked death to escape criminal convictions, debts, and their spouses. In 2007, a man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death just to see who showed up at the funeral (answer: only his mom). John Darwin faked his own death in a canoeing accident in the UK. And the ex-boyf ...  Show more

A Wisconsin judge sentences a husband and father to twice the amount of time recommended after he duped authorities and his family into believing he drowned while kayaking at a lake, all so he could make a new life overseas with an Eastern European woman. Amy and T.J. go over the ...  Show more