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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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12:44

How Did a Car's Data Recorder Seal Mackenzie...

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2026/06/08

Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault, and two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide in a bench trial that turned almost entirely on physical and digital evidence. She never spoke to investigators. She never testified. The prosecution's case was built on what was recovered from the wreckage, the surveillance footage, and the digital record she left behind.The data recorder from Shirilla's Toyota Camry showed the accelerator at full capacity in

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16:01

Did Lonoke County Cops Lose Aaron Spencer's Evidence...

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2026/06/08

Aaron Spencer killed the man who was accused of hurting his daughter. The system charged him with murder. And now a judge has found that the people investigating him may have destroyed the one piece of evidence that could have told the whole story.The dashcam SD card from Michael Fosler's truck was most likely recording when Spencer pulled that trigger. It could have shown exactly what happened — whether Fosler was armed, whether Spencer acted in self-defense, whether the encounter unfolded the way

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43:25

What Does The Full Investigative Timeline Reveal In...

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2026/06/08

The evidentiary timeline in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance is anchored by three machine-generated timestamps that are not subject to interpretation. The residence's doorbell camera system disconnected at approximately 1:47 a.m. At approximately 2:12 a.m., the system's software detected a person at the front door. At 2:28 a.m., the pacemaker monitoring Nancy Guthrie's cardiac rhythm lost its signal — with her cellular phone remaining inside the residence she did not re-enter. The operational window

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32:55

What Does Kouri Richins' Jail Cell Letter Tell Us...

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2026/06/07

During a medical episode, deputies searched Kouri Richins' jail cell and recovered a six-page letter concealed inside an LSAT preparation book. The letter scripted testimony for her brother. When confronted, the defendant did not deny authorship. She characterized the document as part of a fictional novel set in a Mexican prison.The psychological pattern documented across the pre-trial and trial periods is consistent: each new threat to the defendant's position generated an automatic narrative

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37:58

Does The Clinical Evidence Support Mackenzie...

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2026/06/07

Mackenzie Shirilla has consistently maintained she has no memory of the Strongsville crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution rejected the claim. The victims' families dispute it. A fellow inmate provided a characterization of Shirilla's behavior in custody that contradicts her on-camera presentation in Netflix's The Crash. The public discourse has largely treated the memory claim as fabrication.Shavaun Scott — licensed psychotherapist, author of The Minds of Mass

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37:17

What Clinical Evidence Was Never Presented At The...

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2026/06/07

The prosecution presented Mackenzie Shirilla's text messages and threatening statements as evidence of premeditated intent. The trial court characterized her as "hell on wheels" and convicted her on four counts of murder. No clinical or psychological expert testimony was presented to provide an alternative framework for interpreting the defendant's behavior — specifically, whether a seventeen-year-old's volatile conduct represents a fixed personality pathology or an adolescent brain that has not

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43:34

What Household Evidence Could Replace Financial...

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2026/06/07

The South Carolina Supreme Court's ruling sharply limits the financial crimes testimony that consumed twelve and a half hours of the original trial. The prosecution's evidentiary framework for retrial must compensate for that loss. One category of evidence that received limited examination the first time — granular household testimony from the person with the most sustained access to the Murdaugh home — may carry substantially greater weight in a second proceeding.Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson served

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47:55

Do The Defense Failures In The Mackenzie Shirilla...

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2026/06/07

Mackenzie Shirilla's defense counsel identified a medical condition during the proceedings that could have provided an alternative explanation for the Strongsville crash. No expert was called to testify. No medical records were entered into evidence. The prosecution's intent theory — that surveillance footage proved prior calculation and design — went unchallenged on the specific point most likely to introduce reasonable doubt.Following the conviction on four counts of murder for the crash that

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34:52

Does The Physical Evidence In The Murdaugh Murders...

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2026/06/06

The South Carolina Supreme Court's unanimous reversal of Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions reset the legal record — and with it, the evidentiary question that a second jury will have to answer without twelve hours of financial crimes testimony supporting the prosecution's narrative. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer approaches that question as a clean-slate exercise: strip the name from the file and evaluate what the physical evidence actually supports.Two victims were shot at the

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37:25

How Did Kouri Richins Maintain A False Identity For...

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2026/06/06

The psychological profile that emerges from the Kouri Richins case presents a specific form of compartmentalization that forensic professionals have documented but rarely encounter at this operational duration. For approximately fourteen months following Eric Richins' death, the defendant maintained a constructed identity — grieving mother, children's book author, television interview subject — that was sufficiently convincing to deceive every personal acquaintance who subsequently testified at

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33:32

How Does A Federal Judge Justify Releasing Anna...

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2026/06/06

At the detention hearing in the Anna Kepner case, the presiding judge acknowledged that if Timothy Hudson were an adult facing the same charges under the same evidentiary circumstances, he would almost certainly be detained pending trial. The judge characterized the case as "a different animal." He then concluded the hearing without issuing a ruling on detention — and the defendant, a sixteen-year-old charged as an adult with first-degree murder in federal court, was released.The evidentiary record

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41:17

Can Wendi Adelson's Limited Immunity In The Dan...

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2026/06/06

Wendi Adelson testified under limited immunity at every trial connected to the murder of Dan Markel. That immunity holds only if she told the truth. If prosecutors can establish that she provided false testimony under oath, the agreement is voidable — and everything she said on the stand becomes potential evidence against her rather than a shield protecting her.Five individuals have been convicted in the murder-for-hire conspiracy. Charlie Adelson and Donna Adelson are serving life sentences. The

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37:08

Did Mackenzie Shirilla and Her Mom Use a Secret Code...

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2026/06/06

Prosecutors hired a team to decode phone calls between Mackenzie Shirilla and her mother Natalie — calls where the two spoke in a private language built to hide what they were saying on monitored lines. What they found became evidence at trial.The coded communication is one piece of a larger pattern now laid bare by recorded prison calls and institutional records released in the wake of the Netflix documentary The Crash. Mackenzie, convicted of killing Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan after

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56:19

What Mackenzie Shirilla's Prison Record Could Cost...

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2026/06/05

Two cases raising different questions about how the system processes evidence — one institutional, one forensic. Mackenzie Shirilla's family is generating a growing record on monitored prison calls that defense attorney Eric Faddis says the parole board will scrutinize. In the Anna Kepner cruise ship case, a federal judge stated the prosecution's evidence is not as strong as it appears, despite DNA odds of 120 sextillion to one.Shirilla has accumulated thirty-six conduct violations at the Ohio

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21:53

Why Was Elijah Vue’s DNA Found in a Suitcase Jesse...

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2026/06/05

The night before Jesse Vang called 911 to report three-year-old Elijah Vue missing, surveillance cameras in Two Rivers, Wisconsin captured him driving a borrowed Nissan Altima through town. His phone was sitting at his apartment, playing a Netflix movie — building what prosecutors allege was a false alibi. On camera, Vang pulled up to the donation door at a St. Vincent de Paul store and dropped off a dark-colored suitcase. When investigators recovered that suitcase weeks later, the Wisconsin State

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17:39

What the Unsealed Transcript Revealed in the Anna...

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2026/06/05

A hundred and forty-five pages of unsealed transcript from a February detention hearing in the Anna Kepner cruise ship case placed the prosecution's complete theory on the public record. The transcript detailed CCTV footage, phone records, DNA evidence with match odds of 120 sextillion to one, and an FBI agent's admission that he cannot directly connect that DNA to cause of death. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis provides analysis of what the evidence establishes and where it

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14:59

Why Did the Judge Who Sentenced Ted Bundy to Death...

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2026/06/05

The investigation of Ted Bundy did not end with his arrest. It continued through three trials, nine years on death row, and a final week of confessions that produced more questions than answers.The Chi Omega trial, Miami, June 1979: the first American criminal trial broadcast nationally, gavel to gavel. Over two hundred and fifty reporters. Forensic dentist Dr. Richard Souviron walked a jury through the bite mark evidence that matched Bundy's teeth to the wound on Lisa Levy. Guilty on all counts

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17:21

What Was Kouri Richins Really Doing During Those 45...

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2026/06/05

Kouri Richins rolled her eyes while her children's statements described being locked in basements and denied food. She mouthed "What?" when Eric's sister spoke. Then her own family called her the glue of the family — and the tears appeared. For the first time all day.That split — contempt for suffering, emotion for validation — frames everything she said in the forty-five minutes that followed. And what she said wasn't a goodbye or a plea for mercy. It was a recruitment operation targeting the

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18:10

How Far Have Mackenzie Shirilla's Parents Gone to...

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2026/06/05

Steve Shirilla's teaching contract at Mary Queen of Peace School in Cleveland was not renewed following his appearance in the Netflix documentary The Crash. The Diocese of Cleveland confirmed he will not be returning. Natalie Shirilla was captured on a recorded prison call referring to the family of Dominic Russo — the man their daughter was convicted of killing — as "evil people." Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis provides analysis on whether the Shirilla parents' conduct has

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21:10

How Could Mackenzie Shirilla's Conduct Record Affect...

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2026/06/05

Mackenzie Shirilla has accumulated thirty-six conduct violations at the Ohio Reformatory for Women since her August 2023 conviction — guilty findings on thirty-two. Her institutional file includes unauthorized medication, contraband, altered clothing, refusal of work assignments, and more than a hundred video visits with an unapproved released former inmate conducted under a false identity. Defense attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis examines what this record means for her September 2037

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