Episode 28 - Bocas del Toro Murders

In February 2024, a late-night phone call sent one family into shock. A young mother was found dead inside an apartment in Berlin, New Hampshire, and the father of her two children was on the run.What followed was a nationwide manhunt, a custody dispute filled with conflicting st ...  Show more

On New Year’s Eve 2020 in San Diego, California, a woman sent a series of disturbing text messages claiming her stepfather was “waking up” in the back of her SUV. Hours later, 64 year old Tom Merriman was found dead beneath a pile of debris at the end of his driveway.How to suppo ...  Show more

Trevell Coleman signed with Bad Boy Records in 1998. He made it onto the Billboard charts, and was called “the latest protege of rap’s royal family.” But there was something from his past he hadn’t told anyone about – and he couldn’t let it go. Criminal is going back on tour in F ...  Show more

Jack Barsky was a college student in 1970 when the KGB knocked on the door of his dorm room to inquire about his plans after college. “I was told to broaden my knowledge of culture, of literature, of music, to become a well-educated person who could operate in higher strata of so ...  Show more

In February of 1896, a little boy discovered a woman's headless body in a farmer's field in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. No one knew who she was, or what had happened. Newspapers carried headlines like "Hunt for the Head" and "Headless Horror." Quickly, the crime scene became a tourist ...  Show more

In 1934, a man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found a human torso on the beach. No one could figure out what had happened. Over the next several years, more bodies were discovered. Eventually, a coroner assembled something he called the “Torso Clinic” to work on t ...  Show more