“The Cleveland Strangler” Pt. 2: Anthony Sowe...

Desperate to fit in, a teenage girl targets the most popular student at her school. The way she sees it, they can either be friends – or enemies. Sources for this episode include:“Death of a Cheerleader” by Randall Sullivan, reprinted in Best of Rolling Stone A Killer By Design b ...  Show more

When a young model vanishes in Italy, the story seems disturbingly familiar—until her sudden reappearance raises more questions than answers. As investigators dig deeper, a case that looked open-and-shut twists into something far stranger.Sources for this episode include:Chloe Ay ...  Show more

After three Girl Scouts were found dead on the edge of an Oklahoma forest, authorities zeroed in on 33-year-old Gene LeRoy Hart – a fugitive who had been serving time for both rape and burglary. All the evidence pointed in his direction. Was he really a killer or the victim of po ...  Show more

It was Memorial Day, 1933, when a horrifying scream rang out from a Palo Alto, California home. As neighbors came to investigate, homeowner David Lamson claimed to have found his wife Allene's bloody body in the bathtub. Though he was despondent during an interview with police, h ...  Show more

Was Danny Casolaro murdered for getting too close to The Octopus? What had his investigations uncovered? And were his sources framed and defamed for helping him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

In the 1950s, at the height of Communist paranoia, Republican Senators Styles Bridges and Joe Welker went after Democratic Senator Lester Hunt in an attempt to blackmail him into giving up his coveted seat in Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad ...  Show more