The Crime Shack
The Crime Shack is a true crime podcast covering cold cases, unsolved murders, missing persons, infamous crimes, and current cases with clear, fact-based storytelling. We focus on real victims, verified sources, and updates when new information emerges.
Topics we cover: cold cases, unsolved murders, missing persons, serial killers, current investigations, case updates, wrongful convictions, forensics, trials, crime psychology.
Episodes
45 episodes
EP45: Dima Tower
They spent their life savings to save a boy from a harsh Ukrainian orphanage, then one night, everything inside their quiet Florida home went violently wrong.In this episode, I unravel the story of Robbie and Jennifer Tower, the son they...
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Season 5
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Episode 45
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39:51
EP44: Ed Gein • The Butcher of Plainfield
In 1957, police in a quiet Wisconsin town entered a farmhouse and uncovered one of the most disturbing crimes in American history. What they found inside revealed a life consumed by grief, isolation, and madness. This episode explores the tr...
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Season 5
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Episode 44
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EP43: The Murder and Abduction of Mollie Tibbetts
A small-town run on a warm July evening should have been routine for 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts. Instead, it became the last time anyone would see her alive. What unfolded next gripped the nation: a massive search, hidden clues, and a chill...
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Season 5
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Episode 43
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35:52
EP42: Christopher Porco
A brutal axe attack in the dead of night shatters a quiet New York suburb, leaving one parent dead, the other barely alive, and a son at the center of a shocking investigation. Lies, forged documents, and a mother’s haunting accusation unrav...
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Season 5
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Episode 42
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30:38
EP41: Russell and Shirley Dermond
In the tranquil setting of Lake Oconee, Georgia, the peaceful existence of Russell and Shirley Dermond was violently disrupted by a sinister act that baffled investigators and sent shockwaves through the community. Picture this: a quiet lake...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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28:32
EP40: Greg Mulvihill and Diana Lovejoy
In September of 2016, California tech-businessman and father of one, Greg Mulvihill, was shot after being lured to a dark, secluded California trail. The subsequent and shocking investigation into the shooting began to peel back layers of decep...
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Season 4
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Episode 40
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33:45
EP39: The Keddie Cabin Murders
On April 11, 1981, a mother and two teenage boys were found brutally murdered in their cabin at the Keddie Resort, in the small town of Keddie, California. The woman's youngest daughter was missing and presumed abducted from the scene, until a ...
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Season 3
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Episode 39
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42:02
EP38: The Eastburn Family Murders
The Eastburn family murders was a case that shocked the community of Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1985. On the morning of May 9, 1985, the wife and two daughters of military Captain Gary Eastburn were found brutally murdered in their home...
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Season 3
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Episode 38
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46:50
EP37: The Murder of Craig Rideout
During the early morning hours of July 20, 2016 the body of Craig Rideout was found in a wooded field in Yates County, New York. His remains were wrapped in a tarp, and his face and hands had been disfigured by some kind of caustic chemical ...
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Season 3
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Episode 37
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44:30
EP36: Paris Lee Bennett
In 2007, a Texas single mother of two is told that her 4-year-old daughter has been viciously assaulted and murdered in her own home. When she finds out who the perpetrator of this heinous atrocity is, she is faced with the choice of f...
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Season 3
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Episode 36
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38:11
EP35: The McMartin Preschool Trials
In 1983, an accusation was made by the parent of a toddler who attended a Southern California preschool. That single accusation launched an investigation that resulted in hundreds of children bringing accusations of abuse and satanic rituals...
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Season 3
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Episode 35
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45:56
EP34: William "Billy" Woodward • Neighborhood Vengeance
On Labor Day, 2012, a vicious neighborhood feud over a missing birthday present led to the brutal massacre of two people in a quiet Florida community. Were relentless months of taunts and bullying a sufficient reason to in...
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Season 3
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Episode 34
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32:13
EP33: Amber & Josh Hilberling
In 2011, Josh Hilberling fell to his death from his 25th-floor apartment in Tulsa Oklahoma. Digging into Josh and his wife Amber's volatile relationship would lead investigators to question whether or not this was simply an accident, or i...
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Season 3
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Episode 33
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39:54
EP32: Chandler Halderson • Web of Lies
In July 2021, Chandler Halderson of Wisconsin filed a missing person's report for his parents: 50-year-old Bart Halderson and 53-year-old Krista Halderson. He told authorities that on July 2, 2021, his parents had been picked up by unknow...
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Season 3
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Episode 32
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52:21
EP31: Cherish Perrywinkle • Abducted and Murdered
8 year old Cherish Perrywinkle went shopping with her mom Rayne and two younger sisters at a Florida Walmart on June 21, 2013, when they were approached by a seemingly generous stranger. Within a couple of hours, surveillance video would show C...
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Season 3
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Episode 31
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40:11
EP30: Tayler Hadley • A Killer Party
On July 16, 2011, troubled teen Tyler Hadley threw the "party of the year" in Port St. Lucie Florida. About a hundred attendees showed up at the Hadley home to drink, do drugs and party through the night and until the early morning hours....
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Season 3
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Episode 30
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39:46
EP29: Darlie Routier
“Somebody came in, they broke in and just stabbed me and my children!” On June 6, 1996, Darlie Routier and her two sons, Devon and Damon, were attacked by an unknown intruder in the middle of the night. Darlie's husband Da...
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Season 3
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Episode 29
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46:21
EP28: The Epidemic of U.S. Mass Schools Shootings
Within a span of 10 days, 21 men, women and children were murdered in New York and Texas by two lone gunmen. Following these massacres, there is shock, horror, public outcry, and even worse, a resolve and hopelessness that this has become...
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Season 3
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Episode 28
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48:34
EP27: The Disappearance of Suzanne Morphew
On Mother's Day 2020, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew went for a bike ride in Salida, Colorado, and never returned. She was reported missing, and the investigation that proceeded over the next two years appeared to point to a clear cause for her di...
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Season 3
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Episode 27
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55:41
EP26: Thomas Capano • The Ice Chest Murder
In 1996, an American lawyer who had a reputable and prominent career, and an enviable life, was accused of murdering his former lover, 30 year old Anna Marie Fahey. The headline-making trial that ensued, weaved a tale of politic...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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34:36
EP25: The Murder of Michele MacNeill
A respected Utah doctor. A devoted wife found dead in her bathtub. And a family whose picture-perfect life was built on lies. When Michele MacNeill died just days after cosmetic surgery, authorities ruled it an accident, but her daughters refus...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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32:47
EP24: George Allen Smith • Mysterious Cruise Ship Death
On the early morning of July 5, 2005, as the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas was on its Mediterranean voyage, newlywed George Allen Smith mysteriously plunged from the balcony of Stateroom 9062, never to be seen again. As the...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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42:02
EP23: The Caffey Family Murders
Two men broke into the Caffey family home in Alba Texas on March 1, 2008 and went on a murderous rampage that left two young children and their mother dead. The investigators, and the father who survived the tragic event, were shocked when they...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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38:15
EP22: Teresa Sievers • 1100 Miles to Murder
In June 2015, holistic medicine physician Teresa Sievers was attacked and brutally murdered in her Bonita Springs Florida home. Who would want to kill a successful doctor was a mystery to authorities, until the plot to murder her was uncovered,...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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29:49
EP21: The Bizarre Disappearance of Brandon Lawson
In August 2013, 26 year old Brandon Lawson ran out of gas on a remote highway near Bronte, Texas and vanished without a trace. A strange 911 call deepened the mystery and lead to many conspiracy theories, but what really happened to Brandon tha...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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20:28
