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🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates. 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts, we uncover

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19:00

What Rex Heuermann's Phone Call to a Victim's Sister...

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2026/06/22

Rex Heuermann received consecutive life sentences for the murders of eight women he strangled over a seventeen-year span. The judge called him disgusting. Called him a coward. Told officers to get him out of the courtroom. Families cheered and chanted as he was led away.But one piece of testimony from that sentencing tells you more about who Heuermann is than the sentence itself. A family member of one of the victims described a phone call Heuermann made after the murder. It was not a threat. It

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20:07

Did Nancy Guthrie's Alleged Abductors Show Up at the...

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2026/06/22

An eighty-four-year-old woman with no known cryptocurrency was allegedly taken from her home in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Tucson. A six-million-dollar Bitcoin ransom was demanded. A two-billion-dollar cybersecurity firm called it a wrench attack by proxy — a classification that raises a question nobody else has asked publicly.What if the attackers had the wrong house? What if someone else in Catalina Foothills — someone with the kind of crypto holdings that draw a six-million-dollar

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41:04

Harmony Montgomery’s Murder Case Relied on One Witness!

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2026/06/22

The prosecution’s case for how five-year-old Harmony Montgomery died on December 7, 2019, depended almost entirely on the testimony of Kayla Montgomery — Adam Montgomery’s estranged wife. Kayla served a sentence for lying to investigators about Harmony’s whereabouts before she agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. The corroborating evidence — DNA in a ceiling vent, a co-worker’s testimony about a restaurant freezer, a friend who witnessed Adam pacing and repeating that he had made a mistake —

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35:35

If Alex Murdaugh Never Did Anything Alone, Why Would...

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2026/06/21

Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson served as the Murdaugh family’s housekeeper for approximately twenty years. She observed the defendant’s operational pattern across that period: the consistent use of intermediaries in financial transactions, the delegation of exposure to associates, the construction of deniability through layered relationships. Curtis Eddie Smith’s documented role — cashing approximately four hundred thirty-seven checks totaling roughly two point four million dollars — is one component of

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28:59

Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Case: Can Her Parents Be...

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2026/06/21

The question at the center of the Anna Kepner case has shifted from the accused to the adults who allegedly put her in harm’s way. Timothy Hudson’s own step-grandmother publicly stated on CBS that the parents should be held accountable and described the family cruise as “a recipe for disaster.” Anna’s ex-boyfriend has stated she was afraid of her stepbrother and took steps to avoid being alone with him. Three teenagers who had not been raised together were assigned to a single cabin aboard the

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75:20

Is Nick Reiner’s $1.5 Million Trust Beyond the Reach...

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2026/06/21

The question at the center of the Reiner trust litigation is not whether Nick Reiner should receive his parents’ money. It is whether the legal mechanism designed to prevent exactly that — California’s slayer statute — can reach money the trust itself reportedly classified as due before anyone was killed. The 136-page probate petition filed on Nick Reiner’s behalf argues that half of his trust distribution came due on September 14th, 2023, his thirtieth birthday, in a payout the trust describes as

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46:33

Nancy Guthrie Case: Was This a Crypto Operation — and...

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2026/06/21

CertiK, a blockchain security firm with a reported valuation exceeding two billion dollars, has formally classified the abduction of Nancy Guthrie as a wrench attack by proxy — a crypto-related kidnapping in which the person taken is not the digital asset holder but a family member used as leverage. Their 2026 report documents thirty-four verified wrench attacks between January and April, a forty-one percent increase year over year, with estimated losses approaching one hundred and one million

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36:07

Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Judge Praised Harpootlian...

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2026/06/21

Judge Debra McCaslin has been vested with exclusive jurisdiction over the Alex Murdaugh retrial and all related proceedings. During her judicial confirmation before the South Carolina General Assembly, McCaslin reportedly identified Dick Harpootlian — Murdaugh’s lead defense attorney — as one of three lawyers who shaped her legal career. She reportedly rented office space from him while in private practice. Neither the prosecution nor the defense has filed a motion to recuse.Defense attorney and

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37:45

Why Did Nancy Guthrie’s Caller Skip $1 Million in...

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2026/06/20

The combined FBI and family reward for information leading to the resolution of Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance exceeds one million dollars. An anonymous man who claims to know where she is buried chose not to collect it. He called Buscando Corazones Nogales — a volunteer search collective operating in Sonora, Mexico — and directed them to coordinates in the Mariposa arroyos near the Arizona border, approximately seventy miles from Guthrie’s Tucson residence. He described her clothing. He described

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37:07

Mackenzie Shirilla’s Mother Used Code to Ask About a...

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2026/06/20

Prosecutors decoded monitored prison calls in which Mackenzie Shirilla and her mother Natalie communicated using a fabricated language specifically designed to evade the institution’s recording system. In one decoded exchange, according to the prosecution, Shirilla asked whether they could tell police she had experienced a seizure prior to the crash. That seizure claim became the foundation of the defense theory at trial.Shirilla was convicted in August 2023 of killing Dominic Russo and Davion

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39:01

Is Alex Murdaugh’s Retrial Judge Too Close to His...

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2026/06/20

When the South Carolina Supreme Court assigned Judge Debra McCaslin exclusive jurisdiction over the Alex Murdaugh murder retrial, the appointment carried a history that neither the prosecution nor the defense has publicly addressed. McCaslin reportedly rented office space from Murdaugh's lead defense attorney, Dick Harpootlian, during her years in private practice. She reportedly named him among the lawyers who made a lasting impression on her professional life during proceedings before state

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34:17

Is Nick Reiner About to Get $1.5 Million to Beat His...

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2026/06/20

A probate petition filed in Los Angeles County has brought the Nick Reiner murder case into a second courtroom — one where the rules are different and the stakes may be just as high. Nick Reiner, who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner, is petitioning for the release of more than $1.5 million held in an individual trust his parents established at his birth in 1993.The filing rests on the trust’s own distribution terms, which the

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20:24

Anna Kepner: The Accused Killer’s Own Grandmother...

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2026/06/20

She helped raise the teenager now accused of killing Anna Kepner. And she just went on national television and pointed the finger at his parents.Timothy Hudson’s step-grandmother, Sonya Ziske, broke her silence in a CBS News interview that fractured what was left of this family’s public front. She blamed Anna’s father Christopher Kepner and stepmother Shauntel Kepner directly. She called the cruise a “floating city that is usually like Sin City.” She said they created a “recipe for disaster” by

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14:32

Why Is LISK Rex Heuermann Only Reading About Serial...

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2026/06/19

Rex Heuermann isn’t reading sports books in his cell. He’s not reading cookbooks or self-help or anything a person does when they’re processing what they’ve done. According to Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon, the Gilgo Beach killer has been pulling crime novels from the jail library — specifically books about serial killers and the investigators who chase them.That detail alone is disturbing. But it’s not the whole picture.According to reporting, Heuermann also struck up a correspondence with

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17:40

Is Rex Heuermann Connected to Missing Women in Other...

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2026/06/19

Property in South Carolina. A timeshare in Las Vegas. Investigators examining ties to Atlantic City. And women who disappeared near all of them.Rex Heuermann’s Gilgo Beach sentencing closed the New York chapter — three consecutive life terms, a hundred years, no appeal. But the judge who handed down the sentence said five words that reopened everything: eight that we know of.Heuermann purchased four lots in Chester, South Carolina. Twenty miles from that property, a woman vanished. He bought a

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18:15

Nick Reiner's Trust Had No Clause to Stop a Payout...

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2026/06/19

Nick Reiner trust payout — his trust reportedly had no clause to stop a distribution after a murder charge. Does your family's trust have one? Most don't.The probate petition filed in the Nick Reiner case exposes something that goes well beyond one family. The trust Rob and Michele Reiner established for their son in 1993 allegedly used the most common settings in estate planning — mandatory distributions at fixed ages, no behavioral conditions, no trustee discretion to withhold. Those default

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13:47

How Did the Grim Sleeper Kill for 25 Years While the...

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2026/06/19

Lonnie Franklin Jr. was not a criminal mastermind. He used the same .25 caliber handgun for every killing. He operated within a ten-block radius in South Los Angeles for over two decades. At least six of those he killed were found blocks from his own home. He once worked as a mechanic for the LAPD. And the LAPD knew about him by 1988 and chose to tell nobody.The women Franklin targeted were young, Black, and poor. Some had ties to the street economy. During the crack epidemic, their deaths didn't

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17:42

Did Asa Ellerup Profit From Rex Heuermann’s Murders?

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2026/06/19

The number is reportedly over a million dollars. That is what Asa Ellerup earned from a Peacock documentary about the Gilgo Beach case — her ex-husband’s case. The case where he pleaded guilty to killing eight women.Now the families want the money back. And more.Valerie Mack’s son has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging civil conspiracy. The suit names Asa Ellerup, her daughter Victoria, and Rex Heuermann. The accusation is not that Asa was oblivious. It is that she knew or deliberately avoided

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15:48

Did Rex Heuermann Really Call Her Sister From the...

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2026/06/19

It is on the record. Melissa Barthelemy’s sister stood up in a Suffolk County courtroom during Rex Heuermann’s sentencing and told the court he called her from Melissa’s phone after he killed her — and described what he had done.The sentencing itself delivered what everyone expected: three consecutive life terms plus a hundred years, a judge who called Heuermann disgusting, families who cheered when officers removed him. But the legal details inside the plea agreement tell a different story than

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22:47

Is Mackenzie Shirilla Exactly Who Her Parents Raised...

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2026/06/19

The people watching the Mackenzie Shirilla case have a theory. They call it the Parental Architect theory, and the argument is blunt: Steve and Natalie Shirilla didn’t just fail to stop what their daughter became. They built it. Not intentionally. Not with malice. They built it by spending seventeen years choosing comfort over conflict — and the person who emerged from that household believed, at her core, that consequences were something that happened to other people.The documented record supports

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