Heidi Planck

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

In March 2012, 36-year-old Gayle McCaffrey vanished from the Charleston, South Carolina home she shared with her husband, Robert McCaffrey. At first, there were signs that Gayle may have left on her own but as investigators looked closer, the story became far more complicated. Mo ...  Show more

Send us Fan MailThis is the macbre story of a weathly mother, Sheila von Wiese, her spoiled and deeply troubled daughter, Heather Mack, and what was meant to be a peaceful mother/daughter vacation in paradise that ended in a grizly murder in Bali. Heather Mack was a problem child ...  Show more

Two tales from years gone by this week on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, that highlight just how obsessions can grow, and how dangerous and tragic they can sometimes become....

Music used in this episode: "Peaceful Mind" by Borrtex</ ...

Send us Fan MailIn this podcast we're going to dig in to the disturbing story of Karla Homolka and her then husband Paul Bernardo. Back in the early '90s the two met, married and then went on a spree of abduction, rape and murder of teenage girls, one of whom was Homolka's own si ...  Show more

This episode explores the psychology and motivations of infant abductors, and expands to discuss both Grady cases and others in our nation. Fetal abduction is discussed, so listener discretion advised. Thanks to forensic psychologist Dr. Jenny Johnson and NCMEC's Angeline Hartman ...  Show more