Seven men were gunned down inside a Chicago garage on February 14, 1929. Investigators suspected organized crime, but the murders were never successfully prosecuted. Revisit the evidence and competing theories behind one of America’s most infamous...
A routine airport baggage inspection in Alabama uncovered something security officers never expected: five stolen Civil War cannonballs hidden inside a grandmother’s suitcase. But the woman reportedly had no idea she was carrying the historic military...
In 1980s New York City, something as routine as pouring concrete on a major building site could mean dealing with far more than contractors and unions — federal prosecutors alleged organized crime families were manipulating the construction industry...
On October 7, 2026, federal prosecutors announced charges against cybersecurity expert Zohar Pinhasi, accusing him of secretly paying ransomware criminals while promising customers that his company could recover their data without paying hackers....
Police say a man shoplifted unopened Pokémon card packs from a Walmart and drove off in an SUV with Tennessee temporary tags. When officers tried to stop him, he allegedly ran. Officers say they found the packs hidden in his…
For twenty years, the murders of 26-year-old Chynna Dickus and her 10-year-old stepson Blake haunted the small community of Franklin, Indiana. Now police have arrested a 35-year-old man who prosecutors allege committed the killings when he was only 14...
A man appears at a North Carolina home at 3:30 in the morning wearing a police uniform, ballistic vest, badge, and a handgun—and says he’s working undercover. The equipment was real, but police say the man wearing it wasn’t an officer. What happened...
Former Russian security officer Alexander Litvinenko walked into a London hospital in 2006 with a mystery illness that baffled doctors — until tests revealed polonium-210, one of the rarest and deadliest poisons ever used in a homicide, inside his...
On September 17, 2026, the GBI announced murder and related charges against Rashad Jackson in the 2020 death of 21-year-old Tyler Hall, who was found shot in his Norcross, Georgia home in August 2020. Six years later, the case finally broke open...
In 2015, 19-year-old Stephen Smith was found dead on a rural South Carolina road, his death initially ruled a hit-and-run. Eight years later, his body was exhumed and re-examined as investigators began questioning that original conclusion. This...
On a Signal chat in August, a user called “Sponge Jobb” advertised a contract killing with a SpongeBob SquarePants avatar and a cryptocurrency fee. A Danish undercover officer answered as the hitman and walked straight into an alleged cross-border...
Students at Tracy High School east of San Francisco found a cellphone actively recording them as they changed in the boys’ locker room on September 10. Police say the phone belonged to 48-year-old varsity football head coach and PE teacher Jeffrey...
When 22-year-old Malone Lam helped orchestrate the theft of over 4,100 Bitcoin, he didn’t stash the proceeds in an offshore trust—he set them ablaze across Miami and Los Angeles. From chartered jets and half-million-dollar watches to hurling Hermès...
Hospitals in the United States lose more than $18 billion annually to workplace and community violence, with over half of healthcare workers reporting the problem is worsening. This episode examines tragic incidents involving security personnel, the...
Cartels don't just move product — they build brands, and narcocultura is the marketing engine behind it. This episode looks at how cartels use music, imagery, social media, and folklore to recruit members, intimidate rivals, and shape public...
Jana Monroe broke ground as the first female FBI agent in the Behavioral Science Unit, consulting on roughly 850 homicide cases over her career, including work connected to Jeffrey Dahmer and the Rogers family murders. Drawing on her book Hearts of...
On May 20, 2012, a gang fight inside a privately run Mississippi prison exploded into a multi-hour riot that left the facility in chaos. Twenty-four-year-old Senior Correctional Officer Catlin Carithers, called in on his day off, was cornered and...
The legend goes that gangster "Machine Gun" Kelly coined the term "G-Men" when he begged federal agents not to shoot during his 1933 arrest — but the real story is a lesson in institutional myth-making. This episode traces how J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau...
In 1997, a fugitive con man who had stolen over a million dollars in religious artifacts while posing as an Anglican priest sought refuge inside a Benedictine monastery in Massachusetts. This episode examines how Michael Dongarra exploited the...
In 2006, a seasoned Belgian skydiver leapt from a plane only to find that neither of her parachutes would open. What first looked like a freak equipment failure was actually a meticulously staged killing, engineered days in advance by someone who...