The Late Shift (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

On an evening in August 2000, a city council candidate stood behind a podium at a high school in small-town Alabama. He was speaking about why he'd entered the race, and he said he wanted a platform to discuss an important issue – the unsolved murder of a local school district em ...  Show more

Today's story is a fan favorite that was previously published as Episode 392. In the early hours of Thursday, February 21st, 2008, a six-year-old girl woke to a creaking noise down the hallway outside her bedroom door. It was a blustery night in rural Nevada, so she figured it wa ...  Show more

This week, in Rock Hill, South Carolina, what appears to be a person, taking their own life, turns out to be anything but that. It's actually a cold blooded, terrifying murder that occurred when someone slipped into a home, in the middle of the night, without forcing entry. Th ...

To the outside world, Charlie Brandt was a regular guy who loved fishing, drinking, and hanging out with his friends. In secret, he was a vicious serial killer. After a horrifying murder-suicide revealed his true nature in 2004, the authorities wondered: how many victims did Char ...  Show more

He left no fingerprints. No witnesses. Just bodies and patterns. In Part 2, we examine the forensic trail that finally exposed Steve Wright as "The Suffolk Strangler." As police closed in, Wright’s calm façade began to crack… revealing a killer who never showed remorse, even as t ...  Show more

After getting an early morning call about a body at an apartment complex, police officers canvass the area and interview the neighbors for clues. Detectives suspect it’s a so-called “body dump,” especially since nobody at the apartment complex seems to have heard anything the nig ...  Show more