True Crime Case Ledger

Fayetteville, West Virginia, ten o'clock on the night of Christmas Eve, 1945. A mother tells five of her children they can stay up a little longer. Their oldest sister has come home from the dime stor…

Bay Village, Ohio, twenty minutes to six on the morning of July 4, 1954. The mayor's telephone rang. His neighbour, a thirty-year-old osteopathic physician named Sam Sheppard, told him his wife was de…

Shelby, North Carolina, February 2000: a nine-year-old girl left her home in the middle of a stormy night. Two drivers saw her walking along a two-lane highway in the rain. She has never been seen aga…

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…