Killer Couples
Partners who planned and carried out their crimes together.
26 cases
The Girl in the Box
In 1977, twenty-year-old hitchhiker Colleen Stan turned down rides that looked like trouble before accepting one from a clean-cut young couple with a baby — a decision near Red Bluff, California that would swallow seven years of her life.
Taking a Chance
Rick Chance, the windshield king of Phoenix TV commercials, arrived at a hotel-room business meeting carrying a briefcase holding more than a million dollars in jewelry — unaware of what Brandi Hungerford had planned for the evening.
The Tiger Parents
Hann and Bich Pan pushed their daughter Jennifer toward perfection at any cost — and when she told police three armed men had burst into the family's Toronto-area home, investigators noticed her story didn't quite add up.
A Grisly New Orleans Tale
Bartenders Zack Bowen and Addie Hall became French Quarter folk heroes for riding out Hurricane Katrina in style — a year before a note found on the roof of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel sent police to their Rampart Street apartment.
The Alligator Theory
On the morning of his sixth wedding anniversary, Mike Williams set out alone to hunt ducks among the stumps of Lake Seminole and never returned — and with no body to recover, investigators reasoned the lake's alligators had left nothing to find.
The Homeschoolers
Eleven-year-old Hana Alemu was adopted from Ethiopia into Larry and Carri Williams' strict homeschooling household of nine in Sedro-Woolley, Washington — a rescue rooted in faith, and in the harsh discipline of a book called To Train Up A Child.
Unlucky 13
On Friday the 13th of April 2012, Brittany Killgore was packing to leave Fallbrook, California when Marine Louis Perez offered a Hornblower dinner cruise in San Diego — an evening entangled with Dorothy Maraglino, a woman who despised her.
Devious Dixie
On Halloween night 1984, accountant Mel Dyson worked late at his Huntington Beach office while his common-law wife Dixie kept to her routine — a routine that, along with two men named George Ira Lamb and Enrico Vasquez, would draw hard questions from detectives.
Beyond Redemption
Sixteen-year-old Jason Sweeney saved every paycheck from his father's construction company to pay for military academy — his first step toward becoming a Navy SEAL. In Philadelphia's Fishtown, his lifelong best friend Eddie Batzig and the Coia brothers were growing jealous of every dollar.
The Bears
Susan Barnes traded a posh Scottsdale life for LSD and free love, then met marijuana dealer James Carson. Reborn as 'Michael and Suzan Bear,' they believed God had tasked them with ridding the world of witches — and aspiring actress Keryn Barnes became an early follower.
Wheres Savanna
Nursing student Savanna Greywind, twenty-two and pregnant, lived with her close-knit family in a Fargo apartment building where neighbors rarely got past hello in the hallway. Then the woman from the third floor knocked on the Greywinds' door — and Savanna answered.
The French Nanny
Sabrina Kouider craved fame and glamour long before she and her partner Sam Medouni brought a shy French au pair named Sophie Lionnet into their London home to care for the children. Behind that front door, Sophie's life became a nightmare no one outside could see.
Friendly Reminders
No one outside the family noticed that thirteen-year-old Erica Parsons had been missing for a year and a half — until her adoptive brother Jamie, kicked out after a fierce argument, walked into the Rowan County Sheriff's Office with a chilling accusation about their parents.
The Krug Park Killers
A jogger's trembling 911 call one October morning in 2016 reported a body on a trail in St. Joseph, Missouri's Krug Park. Seventeen-year-old Kaytlin Root had been lured there by a Facebook message from someone calling herself 'Amanda Panda.'
The Limburg Schoolgirl Murders
Best friends Jasmin and Yvonne, both sixteen, left a German discotheque at 3:00 a.m. in October 1994 and accepted a ride from a friendly middle-aged couple — a motherly woman and her quiet husband. Neither girl made it home to Limburg.
Silent Screams
Sarah Hallow's frantic 911 call said her stepdaughter had drowned in the bathtub — but when Elk River officers reached eight-year-old Autumn Hallow, her skin was dry, her body frail, and rigor mortis had already set in.
The Crown Hill Murder
Sixteen-year-old Becky Watts was home alone in Bristol's Crown Hill neighborhood on an ordinary Thursday in February 2015. By evening she had vanished — and the search would lead somewhere her family never imagined.
The Middletown Nightmare
Twelve-year-old Valerie Smelser vanished from a Virginia gas station restroom on a freezing January night in 1995. The story told by Norman Hoverter, the man traveling with her mother, would soon begin to unravel.
The Birthday Surprise
On a dark stretch of Ortega Highway in 1999, a security guard found Dr. Kenneth Stahl's car idling with its window blown out and two bodies inside — the night of what was supposed to be a birthday dinner.
The Plastic Roses
When police forced entry into Gail Smith's Berryville, Virginia, home after four days of silence, her prized garden was rotting on the vine — and the answers lay with the two people closest to her.
They'll Blame Us
When four-year-old Genny Rojas was found burned and lifeless in her aunt and uncle's Chula Vista apartment, Veronica Gonzales begged the neighbors not to call police — and she and her husband Ivan each had a story to tell.
The Boardwalk Murders
Kosta Fotopoulos told Daytona Beach police he had shot a burglar who put a bullet in his sleeping wife's head. But the dead intruder had stolen nothing — and had walked straight to the couple's bedroom.
The Lonely Hearts Killers
After a ship's hatch fractured his skull, Raymond Fernandez emerged a changed and dangerous man — one who trawled the lonely hearts columns and, with Martha Beck, left a trail of widows across postwar America.
Fourteen Days
Patients in Reidsville, North Carolina, trusted 'Young Dr. Klenner' with their lives — but Fritz Klenner had never attended medical school, and his years of deception would end in a trail of dead across two families.
The Gold Digger
Retired Austin TV executive Steven Beard called 911 unable to explain why his stomach had 'blown out' as he slept. The shotgun shell at the foot of his bed pointed toward his young wife Celeste — and her friend Tracey Tarlton.
The Grieving Widow
Jamie Faith was walking the dog with his wife Jennifer on their quiet Dallas street when a masked gunman shot him seven times, then turned on her with duct tape. Doorbell cameras up and down South Waverly Drive caught everything.
No cases tagged this yet.
Back to all casesEvery case, narrated.
Hundreds of true crime cases, with new cases every week. The first three minutes of every case are free.
Start listening — $9.99/month or $89.99 a year