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A seemingly heartbroken newlywed becomes the face of a shocking murder-for-hire plot—caught on tape before the crime can even happen. But as the trial unfolds, the real mystery isn’t what she planned, it’s how far reality can bend when everyone knows the cameras are watching.
Sources for this episode include:
Murder for Hire, "Crocodile Tears" (S1, E11 - 2019)
Cnapped, "Dalia Dippolito (S8, E10 - 2012)
"Murder Plots, Bumbling Cops, and Con Men: When Reality TV Goes Wrong" (VICE)
"Florida Woman Dalia Dippolito Uses Reality TV Defense in Murder for Hire Trial" (ABC News)
"Wife Accused in Plot to Kill Husband Speaks While on House Arrest" (ABC News, Interview)
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Desperate to fit in, a teenage girl targets the most popular student at her school. The way she sees it, they can either be friends – or enemies.
Sources for this episode include:
“Death of a Cheerleader” by Randall Sullivan, reprinted in Best of Rolling Stone A Killer By Design by Ann Burgess
The 1980s: The Deadliest Decade “The Cheerleader Murder”
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When a young model vanishes in Italy, the story seems disturbingly familiar—until her sudden reappearance raises more questions than answers. As investigators dig deeper, a case that looked open-and-shut twists into something far stranger.
Sources for this episode include:
Chloe Ayling: My Unbelievable Kidnapping (2025, BBC Three) directed by Stuart Bernard and Miles Bladen-Ryall
"Model Says She Was Kidnapped, Auctioned as Sex Slave on Dark Web" (Vice)
"Model Chloe Ayling Was Lured to Italy and Held for Ransom for Days” (People)
“Drugged and kidnapped model says people still call her a liar years on” (BBC)
“Chloe Ayling: My Unbelievable Kindapping — Interview” (STYLE)
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Plenty of scam artists have pretended to be psychics. Not many of them secretly employ their daughters to sweep a client off their feet with their own purported psychic gifts. But then again, not every con artist has $15 million at stake.
Sources for this episode include:
Rachel Lee Sentencing Memorandum & Indictment
20/20: "Sweetheart Swindle" (2015, ABC News)
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When a lonely church volunteer in small-town Pennsylvania becomes obsessed with her new pastor, her festering jealousy toward a kindhearted fellow parishioner twists into delusion.
Sources for this episode include:
Love Me or Else: The True Story of a Devoted Pastor, a Fatal Jealousy, and the Murder that Rocked a Small Town by Colin McEvoy and Lynn Olanoff
Dateline "Deadly Sanctuary" (2009, NBC)
Lehigh Valley Live News Coverage
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A 76-year-old career criminal leads a crew of pensioner thieves in Britain’s biggest-ever burglary—an “Ocean’s Eleven with bad knees” that nets £14 million in loot.
Sources for this episode include:
The Last Job: The Bad Grandpas and the Hatton Garden Heist by Dan Bilefsky
Hatton Garden: The Inside Story (2019) Directed by Tim Conrad
“One last job: the inside story of the Hatton Garden heist” (The Guardian, 2016) by Duncan Campbell
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The world’s most iconic male strip show becomes a battleground of ego, greed, and murder when its visionary founder spirals from fame into paranoia—unleashing a deadly plot that shocks the entertainment industry.
Sources for this episode include:
A&E’s Secret of the Chippendales Murders
The surreal true crimes behind Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales (Vox)
The secret story of the Chippendales (The Independent)
Chippendales: The Indian whose US strip club empire ended with a murder
Chippendales vs. Strippendales: The battle over a male strip club empire (Los Angeles Times)
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An online love triangle explodes into deception and murder when a middle-aged factory worker poses as a young Marine to seduce a teenage girl.
Sources for this episode include:
Talhotblond (2009) Directed by Barbara Schroeder
“An IM Infatuation Turned to Romance. Then the Truth Came Out” (WIRED, 2007) by Nadya Labi
ABC News coverage (2010)
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After eight years sharing stories about serial killers, we’re stepping fully into a new chapter of the show. Same meticulous research and sharp storytelling you love, whole new range of gripping crimes to explore. All with the incomparable Harvey Guillén at the helm! Watch the video trailer to see what’s ahead. First episode drops January 19th!
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Hey listeners, we’re beyond excited to introduce you to your new host, Harvey Guillén! Stay tuned as he ushers in a new era of the podcast you know and love—now with video this season!
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