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America"s Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring

Serial killers. Unsolved murders. Investigations that gripped America. If you think you know these cases, think again. This is America"s Most Infamous Crimes, a Crime House original hosted by Katie Ring. Each week, we cover the most notorious true-crime cases in American history across multiple episodes. These are the full stories, not the quick recaps, breaking down the crimes, the victims, the evidence, and how investigators closed in. New episodes drop every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

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44:45

Introducing: The First 48 | From Crime House and A&E

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2026/07/20

For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don’t get a lead within the first 48 hours.Adapted from the hit A&E true crime series The First 48, Crime House Studios brings you the podcast that drops you inside that critical window: the interrogations, the dead ends, and the breakthroughs that crack a case wide open. Each week, we revisit a landmark investigation from the franchise, pairing its signature investigative depth with immersive, long-form

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25:18

Richard Ramirez: The Neighborhood That Took Him Down...

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2026/07/16

Richard Ramirez had been a ghost for over a year. Then his mugshot hit the front page, and a neighborhood in East LA caught him themselves, chasing him down the street and pinning him to the pavement before police arrived.In the final part of our three-part series, Katie Ring covers the capture, the trial that became a circus, and the death sentence he brushed off with just five words. This episode contains descriptions of murder, sexual assault, and violence, and briefly references the death of a

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25:25

Richard Ramirez: How a 13-Year-Old Boy Helped Catch...

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2026/07/15

By the summer of 1985, Richard Ramirez was striking multiple times a week across Los Angeles: shooting, stabbing, and leaving Satanic pentagrams on the walls of ordinary bedrooms. Gun stores sold out. Locksmiths couldn't keep up. An entire city stopped sleeping with its windows open. In part two of our three-part series, Katie Ring tracks the summer of terror, the two detectives who refused to give up, and the single fingerprint from a stolen car that finally gave him a name. This episode contains

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30:27

Richard Ramirez: How His Cousin Taught Him How To...

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2026/07/14

Richard Ramirez grew up sleeping in graveyards to avoid his violent father. At twelve, he found the role model he'd been looking for: a Green Beret cousin who came home from Vietnam with Polaroids of his victims and a philosophy that holding power over life and death made you a god.In part one of our three-part series, Katie Ring traces the childhood of Richard Ramirez that built the “Night Stalker,” and the night his killing began. This episode contains descriptions of child abuse, sexual assault,

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28:08

Candy Montgomery: The Hypnosis Defense That Freed Her...

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2026/07/09

Candy Montgomery's lawyer stood up in front of the jury and admitted his client had killed Betty Gore with an axe. Then he spent eight days convincing them to let her walk free.The defense that followed was so audacious that reporters in the gallery actually laughed out loud. Some of the jurors didn't think it was funny. In the final episode on Candy Montgomery, we cover the trial, the verdict that stunned a town, and the aftermath. This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and the

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27:50

Candy Montgomery: What Caused Her to Snap and Kill...

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2026/07/08

Candy Montgomery didn't stumble into an affair. She planned it methodically: rules, boundaries, no feelings, and chose her friend Betty Gore’s husband as the man she'd sleep with. For ten months, nobody suspected a thing. On June 13th, 1980, Candy stopped by Betty’s to pick up a swimsuit, and by that night, Betty had been struck with an axe 41 times. The question we’re left with is: what happened in between? This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and the mutilation of a body. Please

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28:36

Candy Montgomery: The Last Person To See Betty Gore...

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2026/07/07

On the morning of June 13th, 1980, Candy Montgomery stopped by her friend Betty Gore's house to pick up a swimsuit. When she left, she said Betty was perfectly fine. That night, three neighbors found Betty's body in her utility room, struck with an axe 41 times while her baby cried alone upstairs. The bloody footprint on the floor was too small to belong to a man. And the last person to see Betty Gore alive was sleeping with her husband. This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence and the

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28:58

Elizabeth Smart Tells All After 281 Days In Captivity...

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2026/07/02

Brian Mitchell spent years singing hymns in court, disrupting hearings, and faking insanity to avoid standing trial for what he did to Elizabeth Smart. It took nearly a decade to get him in front of a jury. When Elizabeth finally took the stand, she described nine months of daily assault, a cable padlocked around her ankle, and threats against her family that kept her silent even when rescue was within reach. The jury deliberated for less than a day.This episode contains descriptions of kidnapping,

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30:28

Elizabeth Smart: She Was In Public For Months After...

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2026/07/01

Ed Smart defied police orders and released his daughter's kidnapper's sketch to the public himself. Within four days, someone recognized the man in it. Brian David Mitchell had been hiding in plain sight the whole time, eating at restaurants, preaching on street corners, and sleeping one block from a police station. Elizabeth was right there with him, and nobody said a word.This episode contains descriptions of kidnapping, child sexual abuse, and captivity. Please listen with careHead over to our

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31:35

Elizabeth Smart: Her Family Had Already Met Her...

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2026/06/30

In June 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart was taken from her bedroom at knifepoint while her nine-year-old sister hid under the covers and watched. Her kidnapper knew exactly which door of the house wasn't wired to the alarm. For months, investigators zeroed in on the wrong man. And a sketch that could have broken the case wide open sat untouched in a filing cabinet.This episode contains descriptions of kidnapping, child sexual abuse, and captivity. Please listen with careHead over to our

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35:22

Karen Read: How Her Trial Revealed a History of Local...

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2026/06/25

Karen Read's first trial ended in a mistrial, and her second ended with a verdict that stunned America. In the final part of our 3-part series, Katie Ring breaks down the retrial, the acquittal, and the shocking fallout still unfolding today, including the disgraced cop Michael Proctor’s link to another infamous murder. This episode contains descriptions of death and references to alleged police misconduct. Please listen with care.Head over to our America’s Most Infamous Crimes YouTube channel to

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35:33

Karen Read: What the Lead Investigator’s Texts...

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2026/06/24

An alleged 2:27 AM Google search for "hos long to die in cold." A lead investigator texting "hopefully she kills herself" about the defendant. Destroyed phones, missing surveillance footage, and a coordinated group chat in the days after John O'Keefe's death. The deeper Karen's defense dug, the more questions surfaced about everyone inside 34 Fairview Road. This episode contains descriptions of death and graphic language. Please listen with care.Head over to our America’s Most Infamous Crimes

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33:52

Karen Read: Did She Kill Her Boyfriend…Or Was She...

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2026/06/23

Karen Read's boyfriend John O'Keefe was found dead in the snow outside a house in Canton, Massachusetts on January 29th, 2022. Within 72 hours, she was charged with his murder. Was she framed? Or did she kill him?Let’s go back to the beginning of one of the most polarizing true crime cases in recent American history, and the country still can't agree on the truth. This episode contains descriptions of death, and references to domestic conflict. Please listen with care.Head over to our America’s Most

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26:14

D.B. Cooper: After 53 Years, Here's Where the Case...

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2026/06/18

In 2016, the FBI suspended its investigation into D.B. Cooper after forty-five years with no confirmed identity. Then, in 2020, the adult children of a prime suspect found a parachute rig in their mother's shed, and the case came back to life.In the third and final episode on D.B. Cooper, Katie Ring covers the new evidence that reinvigorated the investigation, the DNA question still waiting to be answered, and the one thing the case has never produced in over fifty years: a body.This episode

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28:09

D.B. Cooper: How A Child Found His Money Nine Years...

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2026/06/17

Nine years after D.B. Cooper vanished, an eight-year-old boy digging a fire pit on the Columbia River pulled three rotting bundles of ransom money out of the sand. It was the first physical evidence in nearly a decade, and it raised more questions than it answered.In part two of three, Katie Ring follows the FBI's hunt: the copycat who may have been Cooper himself, the secret hidden in his tie for 36 years, and the suspects investigators could never fully rule out.This episode contains descriptions

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27:43

D.B. Cooper: The Man Who Hijacked A Plane, Took...

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2026/06/16

On the day before Thanksgiving, 1971, a man named D.B. Cooper walked up to an airport counter, paid cash for a one-way ticket, and boarded a commercial flight. By the time the plane landed, he had collected $200,000 in ransom, strapped it to his body, and jumped out the back of a jet. No one has seen him since.In the first of three episodes on D.B. Cooper, Katie Ring takes you back to November 24th, 1971: who this man was, how he pulled off one of the most audacious crimes in aviation history, and

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32:47

The Watts Family Murders: The Shocking Confession...

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2026/06/11

Two days after his family disappeared, Chris Watts sat down with investigators and agreed to take a polygraph. He said he had nothing to hide.The results told a very different story.In the third and final episode on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring takes us through the interrogation that broke Chris Watts, the confession that led investigators to Shanann, Bella, CeCe, and their unborn son Niko, and the full truth he refused to tell until months later from inside a prison cell.This episode

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28:25

The Watts Family Murders: What the Surveillance...

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2026/06/10

When Shanann Watts missed her prenatal appointment on the morning of August 13th, 2018, her closest friend knew immediately that something was wrong.In part two of three on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring takes us through the investigation that unfolded in the hours after Shanann, Bella, and CeCe were reported missing. From the unsettling details inside the house, to the surveillance footage his neighbor never knew would matter. As cadaver dogs were deployed and a motive began to emerge, the

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27:39

The Watts Family Murders: What the Netflix Doc Missed...

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2026/06/09

From the outside, the Watts family had everything: a beautiful home in Colorado, two young daughters, and a social media presence full of smiling family photos. Behind those posts, their marriage was quietly falling apart.In the first of three episodes on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring traces who Shanann Watts really was, how she and Chris built their life together, and the huge secret Chris was keeping from her. This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence, murder, and violence

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26:15

The Clutter Murders: The Trial, the Execution, and...

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2026/06/04

The jury took 40 minutes to convict Dick Hickock and Perry Smith of the Clutter family murders. On the gallows five years later, Perry Smith's last words were an apology.In the third and final episode on the Clutter family murders, Katie Ring walks through what actually happened inside the farmhouse that night, based on the killers' own confessions. Then the trial, the executions, and the complicated legacy of Truman Capote: the writer who formed a personal bond with the killers, may have let them

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