Top True Crime Podcasts

On Christmas day, 1929 a rural North Carolina tobacco farmer brutally murdered six of his children, his wife and then killed himself. The horrific crime made the front page of the New York Times. It inspired a hit record and would conjure up rumor and speculation for generations to come. Some say Charlie Lawson just snapped while others believe it may have been centered around a troubled heart. But as brutal and bizarre as the murders were, what followed the funeral has become the stuff of legend. The crime scene became a tourist attraction with bloody photographs being sold as souvenirs. Deadly Secrets, The Lawson Family Murder delves deep into the events ─ with recently discovered interviews from people who were there that day ─ in hopes of finding answers to this 90-year-old murder mystery.

A podcast looking into crimes that made the headlines, starting in the Quad City area, and expanding throughout the Midwest. Podcast host and News 8 Executive Producer Toria Wilson, has dedicated her time into researching, and looking back at stories News 8 has reported on, on the murder cases that shocked us, and the missing person's cases that has left unanswered questions.

November 12, 1999 – A baby is found underneath a stairwell at a Greensboro, NC apartment complex. The shocking crime stumped police as they had no leads on who abandoned the baby. More than a decade later, the hidden details would start to unravel. A separate crime would be the missing link investigators needed, but this isn’t your typical crime story. This is a story about hope and the divine connection between multiple people as their lives crossed at a specific moment in time. In this series, WGHP's Natalie Wilson brings us the final piece of a 20-year mystery as we finally learn what happened to “Baby Doe.”