Murder: True Crime Stories

In October 2008, a 38-year-old Edmonton man named Johnny Altinger told friends he had a date with a woman he met on a dating site. He never came home. Altinger had been lured to a rented garage in Edmonton and murdered by Mark Twitchell, a filmmaker who weeks earlier had shot a short film about a man luring victims to a garage to kill them, and who was so fixated on the series Dexter that the press would name him for it. A week earlier, another man had been attacked in that garage and escaped. On Twitchell's laptop, police recovered a deleted document titled SKConfessions: a first-person account of both attacks, written in the voice of a serial killer. In this episode of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy examines the fake dating profile that lured Johnny Altinger, the earlier victim who got out of that garage alive, and the deleted document that prosecutors read to the jury at his murder trial as a confession dressed up as fiction. Please note, this episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and may not be suitable for all audiences.
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In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy follows the decades of suspects, theories and trials that never produced a conviction for the Villisca axe murders. The investigation started with a crime scene hundreds of people had already walked through, and it never recovered from that. Private detectives, grand juries, a state senator and a traveling minister all became part of the case. The minister, Lyn George Jacklin Kelly, was tried twice for the murders: the first jury hung and the second acquitted him, and no one has been charged in the years since. Researchers have pointed to a run of axe killings along Midwestern rail lines in the same era as a possible connection, though nothing has ever tied any of them to the house on East Second Street. More than a century later, the Villisca axe murders remain officially unsolved, no one has been convicted, and eight people, six of them children, have never had an answer. Please note, this episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and may not be suitable for all audiences.
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On the evening of June 9th, 1912, Josiah and Sarah Moore walked their four children home from a Children's Day program at the Presbyterian church in Villisca, Iowa. Two young sisters, Lena and Ina Stillinger, had been invited to stay the night. By the next morning all eight of them had been murdered with an axe in their beds while the small southwestern Iowa town slept, in what became known as the Villisca axe murders. Josiah ran the local farm implement dealership and Sarah had organized the church program that evening; the Moore children were 11, 10, 7 and 5. There was no forced entry, nothing of value taken, and no one who heard a sound. In Part 1 of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy introduces the Moore family and the town where they were among the best known names, the night eight people were killed behind unlocked doors, and the crime scene that curious neighbors walked through for more than a day before the bodies were removed. Please note, this episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and may not be suitable for all audiences.
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Beware...for Halloween, Carter Roy is haunting this feed with an episode of another show he hosts, The First 48.

Adapted from the hit A&E true crime series The First 48, Crime House Studios brings you the podcast that drops you inside that critical window: the interrogations, the dead ends, and the breakthroughs that crack a case wide open. Each week, we revisit a landmark investigation from the franchise, pairing its signature investigative depth with immersive, long-form storytelling built for your ears.

Real detectives. Real cases. Real stakes. Presented by Crime House Studios, A&E Global Media, and ITV America.

In this episode, two brothers are shot down after checking on their night cleaning crew. Detectives struggle to find a motive before the killers strike again.

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For Staten Island kids in the 1970s and '80s, the boogeyman had a name: Cropsey, a madman said to live in the tunnels beneath Willowbrook State School and take any child who stayed out too late. Then children began disappearing for real: five-year-old Alice Pereira in 1972, seven-year-old Holly Ann Hughes in 1981, eleven-year-old Tiahease Jackson in 1983. On July 9, 1987, 12-year-old Jennifer Schweiger, a girl with Down syndrome known to every neighbor on her block, went out for a walk and never came home. Thirty-five days later, a volunteer found her in a shallow grave near a Willowbrook campsite used by Andre Rand, a former custodian there. In this episode of Murder: True Crime Stories, host Carter Roy examines the legend that haunted a borough for two decades, the children who vanished without answers, and the grave behind Willowbrook that turned a bedtime story into a police investigation. Please note, this episode contains discussion of the abduction of children and may not be suitable for all audiences.
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