True Crime Case Ledger

Pacific Northwest, 1982–1998: women and girls disappeared from a highway corridor south of Seattle, and the file that grew around them eventually ran to forty-nine names. The man convicted of those mu…

New Orleans, 1918–1919: a series of nighttime attacks turned ordinary homes and corner groceries into places of fear. The attacker was never identified, and the famous letter promising safety to homes…

In the 1930s, Cleveland's Kingsbury Run became the center of a series of killings now known as the Cleveland Torso Murders. Twelve victims are generally included in the official series, while addition…

Camp Scott was supposed to be a first night of summer camp for Lori Lee Farmer, Michele Heather Guse, and Doris Denise Milner. Instead, the three girls were murdered near Locust Grove, Oklahoma, on Ju…

In the early morning of June 7, 1992, Sherrill Levitt, her 19-year-old daughter Suzanne “Suzie” Streeter, and Suzie’s 18-year-old friend Stacy McCall disappeared from a home on East Delmar Street in S…

On January 15, 1947, Elizabeth Short was found dead in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. This episode follows the verified timeline, the evidence that survives, and the modern theories that remain unproven…

In Mesa, Arizona, on June 4, 2008, Travis Alexander — a thirty-year-old salesman and Mormon church member — was murdered in his own home. He had been stabbed twenty-seven times, his throat cut to the…

On the afternoon of August 27, 2021, a white Ford Transit van with Florida license plates drove north on Highway 89 toward Bridger-Teton National Forest. Inside were two people who had spent the summe…

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered seventeen men and boys in two states — most of them Black or Southeast Asian, most of them from Milwaukee's gay community. This episode follows the full…

In the spring of 1946, a masked attacker terrorized the twin border cities of Texarkana — a place where the Texas-Arkansas state line cuts right down the middle of a street. Over ten weeks, he struck…

For twelve years, he moved through the quiet neighborhoods of California — through Sacramento suburbs and beach communities and gated developments in Orange County — and he was never caught. He attend…

On Christmas Eve 2002, Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant, planning a holiday dinner, and looking forward to becoming a mother. She was twenty-seven years old, warm and vivid — the kind of person…