Vincent and Margaret Sherry were murdered in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1987. The case led to the Dixie Mafia and a betrayal by Vincent's own law partner. The murders remain technically unsolved.

D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane in 1971, collected $200,000, and was never found. We cover the full story and the string of copycat hijackers who tried to pull off the same heist.

Zarius Hildabrand was convicted of murdering his wife Saria in Anchorage, Alaska. Get the full story of the case, the trial, and the June 2026 guilty verdict.

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.

In 1996, Sally Snowden McKay and her nephew Lee Baker were murdered in their historic Arkansas home by fifteen-year-old Travis Lewis. Decades later, Sally's daughter Martha McKay forgave Travis, helped him get paroled, and gave him a job. In 2020, he returned to the same house and killed her.

Steven Riley Jr. was poisoned with antifreeze by his girlfriend Ina Kenoyer, who believed he was about to inherit $30 million. The fortune never existed.

Shirley and Virgil Best were beloved, hardworking members of their Riverview, Florida, community. For forty-five years, they built a life centered around their faith, their family, and their successful tropical fish farm, Quality Fins. They were finally looking forward to a well-earned retirement traveling the world together in their RV. But beneath the surface, the couple spent decades dealing with the constant crises of their oldest son, Robert Best. A convicted con artist who had once defrauded a blind woman out of nearly a million dollars, Robert was facing a new, deeply disturbing criminal trial set to begin on the morning of November 12, 2015. Hours before he was expected in court, Robert and his wife, Marisol Best, drove to his parents' home, supposedly to pray with them. Instead, they found Shirley and Virgil brutally shot to death. This week we cover the tragic murders of Shirley and Virgil Best, the bizarre web of manipulation surrounding their son, and the ultimate act of misguided loyalty that resulted in a double life sentence.

For nearly two decades, Joran van der Sloot spun a web of lies surrounding the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway. If you followed this case in real time as it dominated the news, this episode is the perfect way to see how the entire timeline—from Aruba to Peru, and finally to a federal courtroom in 2023—pieces together in one place.

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.

In March 2010, an ex-convict named Lawrence Ray moved into his daughter's co-ed dormitory at Sarah Lawrence College. Within years, he built a predatory cult of absolute control, extorting some of the brightest students in the country. This week, Melissa and Mandy cover the shocking story of Larry Ray, the psychological manipulation that dismantled his victims' lives, and the federal trial that finally brought him to justice.

In 2021, beloved Iowa farmer Ryan Cooper was found shot twice in the face in his living room recliner. His wife, Karina Cooper, claimed an intruder had killed him while she and their children slept upstairs. But as investigators dug into the quiet community of Traer, they uncovered a secret affair with a much younger man named Huston Danker, a half-million-dollar life insurance motive, and a chilling digital trail of deleted messages that revealed a cold-blooded conspiracy years in the making.

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.

The full story of Heaven's Gate, the UFO cult founded by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, whose 39 members died by mass suicide in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion in March 1997, convinced they were boarding a spacecraft hidden behind the Hale-Bopp comet.

The devastating story of Yana Huss, a loving mother and future nurse whose life was cut short by her abusive husband, Scott Lee Huss, after years of systemic failures in Port Charlotte, Florida.

Watching the Netflix documentary on Rachel Nickell? Get the full story here, including the wrongful accusation of Colin Stagg and how Robert Napper was finally caught.

Catch up on the shocking verdicts, sentences, and trial updates for the ten major true crime cases we have been watching closely throughout 2026.

On March 13, 2023, 24-year-old Colby Vinson received the news he had been fighting for all year. A judge officially granted him 50/50 custody of his four-year-old daughter, Preslee. But just six days later, on the very first night he brought her home, Colby was executed on his own doorstep while his little girl stood nearby.

On a freezing November night in 2015, 30-year-old nursing student Angila Wilder was stabbed 44 times inside her home in Minot, North Dakota. The brutal attack happened while her two-year-old son slept safely in the very next room. When her fiancé, Christopher Jackson, discovered the scene after returning from an overnight shift, investigators immediately began untangling a web of jealousy, obsession, and domestic violence.

The evidence quickly pointed toward Angila's ex-husband, Ritchie Wilder Jr., and his new wife, Cynthia. What started as a bitter custody dispute had morphed into a calculated, years-long plot to eliminate Angila entirely. The case features one of the most chilling interrogations in true crime history, a failed prison escape, and a stunning undercover recording that finally brought the whole diabolical plan crashing down.