In 2016, Michelle Hadley spent 88 days in jail after being framed in a diabolical Craigslist plot orchestrated by Angela and Ian Diaz in Anaheim, California. If you have been watching Netflix's A Toxic Love Story, this episode covers the full timeline, including the shocking 2023 federal conviction of US Marshal Ian Diaz for his role in the scheme.

On September 16, 2009, 24-year-old Mitrice Richardson was arrested at a Malibu restaurant after an evening of unusual behavior. She passed a field sobriety test, cooperated with deputies throughout booking, and was released just after midnight with no car and no one to pick her up. Her mother had already called the station to say something was wrong. Nearly a year later, her remains were found in a remote canyon. The cause of death was listed as undetermined. This week we cover the full story of Mitrice Richardson and the questions her family is still asking today.

The true story of Corinna Mullen, a 20-year-old mother murdered in Central City, Kentucky in 1987. Her boyfriend was acquitted, evidence went missing, and nearly 20 years passed before a witness named Sandy came forward and accused Lieutenant Billy Fields of orchestrating the crime. Billy was convicted of murder in 2009 and sentenced to life in prison.

Jordan James Parke built a career on bigger lips and dramatic transformations as the "Lip King." But after a mother of five died following a cosmetic treatment linked to his business, he found himself at the center of a manslaughter investigation. Then, before that investigation could reach a conclusion, Jordan was found dead under mysterious circumstances of his own.

On April 15, 2005, Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar left his office for a routine afternoon drive through central Pennsylvania. He was 59 years old, highly respected, and just months away from a planned retirement. But Ray never returned home. Days later, his distinctive red and white Mini Cooper was found abandoned in an antique store parking lot near the Susquehanna River.

The investigation quickly took a bizarre turn when a fisherman pulled Ray's county-issued laptop from the river, only to discover that the hard drive had been intentionally removed and destroyed. With no body, no financial trail, and no clear motive, investigators were left to untangle a web of possibilities. Did Ray take his own life, walk away to start over, or fall victim to someone from his long career as a prosecutor?

On the evening of September 10, 2001, 31-year-old physician Sneha Philip walked into her Lower Manhattan apartment building carrying shopping bags. It was the last confirmed sighting of her. By the next morning, planes struck the World Trade Center just blocks away, plunging the city into chaos and swallowing the mystery of her disappearance into the tragedy of 9/11.

Explore the chilling Bennington Triangle disappearances, where five people, including Paula Welden, vanished without a trace in Vermont's remote woods.

Explore the Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias where incompetent people overestimate their abilities, through shocking true crime cases.

In 2014, Lars Mittank was captured on CCTV sprinting out of an airport and vanishing into the woods. He was never seen again. Dive into one of the internet's most haunting unsolved mysteries.

Explore the Lindsay Shiver case, from a picture-perfect life to an alleged murder-for-hire plot in The Bahamas revealed by a shocking text: "Kill him."

Explore the baffling case of Rey Rivera, who was found dead inside Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel after a mysterious fall. Was it suicide, an accident, or murder?

A man fakes his death in a canoe accident, his wife collects £250k in life insurance, and he hides in a secret passage for 5 years. The unbelievable true story of John Darwin.

Science is supposed to cure disease and improve life, but sometimes confidence goes off the rails. Today, we are taking you on a tour through history’s wildest moments when science went completely off the rails, including incidents where confidence reached levels of blowing up a dead whale, dropping cats out of planes, and poisoning an entire generation.

We are diving into one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Jazz Age, a case so baffling it feels like the plot of a spy novel. This is the story of Captain Alfred Lowenstein, the third-richest man in the world in 1928, a man who owned estates across Europe and brokered deals with kings.

An 18-year-old college freshman, full of creativity and ambition, walked out of her dorm room one cold February night and never made it back. Her family knew something was wrong immediately, but from the start, the investigation into her disappearance was plagued with delays and unanswered questions.

Fraud, greed, cult vibes, and murder. The Billionaire Boys Club wasn't some exclusive social club for LA's elite. It was a tangled mess of Ponzi schemes and manipulation led by charismatic conman Joe Hunt. We explore the true story of how Hunt convinced a group of young, wealthy men in 1980s Los Angeles to invest their families' fortunes into his venture, promising astronomical returns.

We are taking a wild ride back to the 1920s to meet the man whose name is now synonymous with financial fraud: Charles Ponzi. Born Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi, he was an ambitious Italian immigrant who arrived in America and turned a simple idea into a record-breaking financial deception.

We are diving into the unsettling history of one of America's most famous and infamous reservoirs: Lake Lanier in Georgia. This manmade lake is beautiful on the surface, but beneath its murky waters lies a buried past—literally.

Before he was the Notorious B.I.G., Christopher Wallace was a kid from Brooklyn with big dreams. His rise to rap superstardom was meteoric, but it was cut short on March 9, 1997, when he was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. He was just 24 years old. Despite multiple witnesses, FBI investigations, and decades of speculation, his murder remains unsolved. Theories include gang retaliation, corrupt LAPD officers, and revenge for Tupac's death. This episode explores Biggie's life, the East Coast-West Coast rivalry, and the mystery that haunts hip-hop history.

From the outside, a prison is supposed to be impenetrable. But throughout history, inmates have used planning, luck, and shocking ingenuity to pull off some of the most daring escapes the world has ever seen. This week, we're diving into the legendary prison breaks, from those involving elaborate disguises and sheep, to the more shocking trend of helicopter escapes. We look at how inmates managed to learn to fly, bypass high-security walls, and why the most unlikely plans sometimes turn out to be the most successful. This episode is a wild look at the human will to be free, and the unexpected ways people try to game the system.