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UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast

UNMARKED is a new true crime podcast and YouTube series built on rare interviews, real police evidence, and never-before-heard audio from some of the most infamous cases in North America. From inside prison phone calls to lost tapes and forgotten case files, these are the stories that were never meant to be heard — told by award-winning true crime filmmaker James Buddy Day. REAL CASES. REAL TAPES. NEVER-BEFORE HEARD. Exclusive interviews & archival recordings No reenactments. No gimmicks. Just

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25: Wayne Williams: Psychopath or Scapegoat?

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2026/06/03

For nearly fifty years, Wayne Williams has insisted he is innocent. But when you step back and examine the evidence as a whole, the picture becomes far more complicated.In this episode of UNMARKED, I dig through FBI files, surveillance reports, witness statements, and forensic evidence to understand the man at the center of one of America's most controversial murder investigations. Along the way, I speak with award-winning journalist Clemson Richardson, who covered the Atlanta Child Murders as they

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54:57

24: Erin Caffey: Who Was Really Responsible?

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2026/05/27

In 2008, 16-year-old Erin Caffey was accused of helping orchestrate the murder of her own family in rural East Texas. But nearly two decades later, one question still divides everyone who studies the case: Who was really responsible?Using newly released police recordings, interviews, court records, and original reporting from East Texas, this episode reconstructs the psychology behind the Caffey family murders. Was Erin Caffey a manipulative teenage psychopath? Was she controlled by her older

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23: John Wayne Gacy: What His Death Row Attorney...

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/05/20

John Wayne Gacy murdered at least 33 young men and boys. But for years after his conviction, attorney Karen Conti sat across from him on death row, trying to understand the man behind one of America’s most infamous serial murder cases.In this episode of UNMARKED, Conti describes what Gacy was really like behind closed doors: his manipulation, emotional detachment, need for control, and the contradictions that made him so difficult to fully understand. We also examine modern psychological and

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22: The Happy Face Killer: Psychopathy, Control, and...

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/05/13

Keith Hunter Jesperson wanted to be seen. Between 1990 and 1995, the long-haul truck driver murdered women across the United States while carefully shaping the story around himself. He wrote letters to newspapers. Confessed on truck stop bathroom walls. Participated in psychological research studies about his own behavior. Even donating his brain to science after death. But beneath the “Happy Face Killer” persona is something more revealing: a man driven by grandiosity, callousness, impulsivity,

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53:45

21: Joel Rifkin: What the Psychologist Discovered

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2026/05/06

Joel Rifkin confessed to the murders of 17 women in just three years—leaving their remains scattered across Long Island, New York City, and New Jersey.And for years, no one was looking for him.In this episode, we examine the case through the lens of N. G. Berrill—one of the first psychologists to evaluate Rifkin after his arrest. Drawing on interviews, court records, and police reports, this is a reconstruction of how Rifkin operated in plain sight—and what allowed him to continue.From his early

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20: BTK: The Identity Dennis Rader Built

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2026/04/29

“BTK” is one of the most recognizable names in true crime. But it’s also a name that Dennis Rader created.In this episode, I’m not just looking back at the investigation—I’m speaking to people who have been in direct contact with Rader, hearing from those who have corresponded with him, studied him, and, in some cases, continue to engage with him to this day.And what becomes clear very quickly… is that “BTK” isn’t just a label. It’s a carefully constructed identity—one that Rader has spent decades

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53:46

19: Paul Bernardo: Where Does Responsibility Lie?

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/04/22

Paul Bernardo is one of the most notorious serial offenders in Canadian history. But this episode asks a different question: who was really responsible? Between 1987 and 1993, Bernardo committed a series of violent assaults across the suburbs of Toronto before escalating to the abduction and murder of multiple victims alongside his wife, Karla Homolka.But the story doesn’t begin—or end—with him. In this episode of UNMARKED, we traveled to Toronto and speak with journalists who covered the case in

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18: The Times Square Killer: Reconstructing the...

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/04/15

Who is the Times Square Killer—and how many people did Richard Cottingham actually kill?In this episode of UNMARKED, we reconstruct the timeline of Cottingham’s crimes across New York and New Jersey—tracking his early escalation, his use of deception and control, and how he was able to evade detection for years.Featuring criminologist Peter Vronsky, who has spent over 700 hours in direct conversation with Cottingham, this episode draws on firsthand interviews, police records, and cold case

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17: Jeffery Dahmer: Breaking Down the Confession

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/04/08

In 1992, I wrote to the Milwaukee Police Department and asked for the Jeffrey Dahmer case files. Weeks later, they mailed me his full confession.In this episode of UNMARKED, I go inside Jeffrey Dahmer’s confession—page by page—to understand how one of the most notorious serial killers in history developed, escalated, and ultimately got caught.Using Dahmer’s own words, police reports, and expert insight from forensic psychologist Dr. Eric Hickey, this episode examines:How Dahmer’s childhood

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16: Ted Bundy: We Know What He Did. But Where Did It...

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2026/04/01

Ted Bundy didn’t begin with murder. Long before the headlines, before the trials, before the mythology took hold, there were patterns—behaviours that escalated, fractures that widened, and warning signs that, in hindsight, feel impossible to ignore.In this episode of UNMARKED, we step back from the crimes themselves and examine Bundy at the point of origin. Drawing from psychological analysis, original records, and the work of those who studied him closely, this isn’t a retelling—it’s an

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15: Danny Rolling: The Making of the Gainesville Ripper

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2026/03/25

Danny Rolling’s murders in Gainesville shocked the country. But they didn’t begin there. In this episode, I travel to Florida to investigate the Gainesville Ripper — speaking with journalists, authors, and witnesses who lived through the panic — and trace the case back to where it really starts.Long before the murders, there were warning signs: documented abuse, escalating behavior, and multiple points where intervention could have happened… but didn’t.This isn’t just the story of what Danny

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14: The Manson Family: Finding the Followers of...

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2026/03/18

In the final year of his life, I spoke with Charles Manson on the phone multiple times. Those conversations became the foundation of a decade-long investigation into the people who once called themselves the Manson Family.In this episode, I track down the surviving members of the Manson Family — speaking with former followers, examining trial records, and revisiting the places where the group formed, radicalized, and ultimately collapsed.What emerges is a story far more complicated than the word

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13: Hadden Clark: Disturbing Letters from a Serial...

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/03/11

Serial killer Hadden Clark is one of the most unsettling figures in modern criminal history — a man whose crimes, confessions, and psychological unraveling have baffled investigators for decades.In this episode of UNMARKED, we examine the case through the original record. Former FBI agents, primary documents, and Clark’s own words reveal a deeply fractured personality and a disturbing window into the mind of a killer.Clark’s writings and statements — including letters he sent from prison — offer

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12: Jodi Arias Is Innocent? Competing Perspectives on...

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/03/04

I’m in Phoenix, Arizona, sitting down with a group called “Jodi Arias Is Innocent.” They aren’t arguing that Travis Alexander wasn’t killed — they’re arguing the case is more complicated than the verdict suggests. For this episode, I read Jodi Arias’ full appeal (300+ pages), spoke with her supporters, revisited the evidence, and re-examined what the trial did — and what it may have failed to weigh. We walk through the relationship, the timeline, the forensic sequence, and the competing

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11: Celeste Beard Johnson: She Asked Me to Revisit...

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/02/25

Celeste Beard Johnson appeared to live a life of privilege and stability — marriage to a millionaire, social status, financial security.But beneath that image was something far more complicated.After Steven Beard was shot, attention initially focused on the woman who pulled the trigger. But the trial would hinge on a deeper question:Who created the circumstances that made the crime inevitable?In this episode of UNMARKED we examine how manipulation operates slowly — how influence can become

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Scott Kimball: A Serial Killer Under FBI Protection

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/02/18

Scott Kimball wasn’t just a fraudster or a murderer—he was a paid FBI informant.For over a year, I corresponded with Kimball from prison. Phone calls. Letters. Recorded conversations. What he told me—and how he told it—reveals how a career con artist convinced federal agents to release him without probation, and how that decision allowed him to murder at least four people. Beginning in 2003, Kimball used his position as an informant to gain access to vulnerable women, including the girlfriends of

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40:44

Aileen Wuornos: The Point of No Return

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/02/11

Aileen Wuornos is one of the most infamous killers in American history, often reduced to a label and a caricature. This episode of Unmarked examines what actually happened—and why.Through on-location reporting in Florida, primary source interviews, and a close analysis of the crimes, this episode traces Wuornos’s trajectory from lifelong abuse and instability to a clear pattern of escalating violence. It focuses on the moments where ambiguity gives way to repetition, and where personal pathology

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31:01

Amanda Logue: When Loyalty Becomes Evidence

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/02/04

The justice system assumes that when two people commit a crime together, one will eventually betray the other. Amanda Logue didn’t.In this episode of Unmarked, we examine a case defined not just by violence, but by loyalty—how emotional dependency, fear, and identity can bind people together even when silence becomes self-destructive. Using rare audio recordings and court records, this episode explores the prisoner’s dilemma at its most human: when survival demands betrayal, but loyalty feels safer

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The Grim Sleeper: A Serial Killer Hidden in Plain Sight

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/01/28

For decades, the Grim Sleeper terrorized South Los Angeles — killing women in neighborhoods he knew by heart, often within miles of his own home. Lonnie Franklin Jr. wasn’t a criminal mastermind or a drifter moving between states. He was a neighbor. A city worker. A man who lived quietly beneath the LAX flight path while violence unfolded around him.In this episode of UNMARKED, we break down how Franklin was able to operate for nearly thirty years without being caught — and why traditional

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Dee Dee Moore: The Lottery Winner Buried Beneath the...

UNMARKED: A True Crime Podcast ·

2026/01/21

On April 6th, 2009, a man vanished in Lakeland, Florida. Seven months later, investigators uncovered one of the most shocking fraud-to-murder cases in modern true crime.This episode of Unmarked investigates the con, the deception, and the killing of lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare—through prison interviews, interrogation recordings, recovered police files, and a psychological analysis of the woman at the center of the case: Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore. For months, Moore told anyone who would listen

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