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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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24:04

Evidence Keeps Vanishing in Lonoke County — Is Aaron...

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2026/06/10

One county. One department. Over a decade. And every time the evidence matters most, it’s not there.The Aaron Spencer case ended with a judge writing “appearance of a coverup” in a signed court order. But the pattern in Lonoke County predates Spencer by years. In 2021, Deputy Michael Davis shot and killed seventeen-year-old Hunter Brittain during a traffic stop. Brittain was unarmed. The body camera wasn’t activated until after the shooting. Sheriff Staley fired the deputy for violating camera

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17:26

Can Dom’s Law Stop Mackenzie Shirilla From Cashing In...

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2026/06/10

Christine Russo watched her brother’s killer become a social media sensation. Mackenzie Shirilla — convicted of murdering Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan in a deliberate high-speed crash in Strongsville, Ohio — has gained tens of thousands of followers since Netflix released “The Crash.” Her accounts are managed by a “support team.” In jail calls, her mother floats book deals. Shirilla talks about her future as a model. Christine’s response was Dom’s Law — Victims Before Influencers — a petition

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19:30

Why Did BTK's Own Coworker File Two Discrimination...

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2026/06/10

Mary Capps worked as the only other compliance officer in Park City, Kansas, for more than six years. She reported directly to Dennis Rader. She would later tell the Wichita Eagle that he had never paid her a compliment in six years. That he discriminated against her because she was a woman. That he had created a hostile workplace she could not endure.After Rader's arrest in February of 2005, Mary Capps filed an EEOC complaint and a Kansas Human Rights Commission complaint against the city of Park

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12:37

What Happens When the Man Lonoke County Charged With...

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2026/06/10

Lonoke County charged Aaron Spencer with second-degree murder. A judge threw it out. And now Spencer is on track to run the department that investigated him.He won the Republican primary in March with 53.5 percent, beating incumbent Sheriff John Staley — the man whose office made the arrest — and a third candidate outright. No runoff. Lonoke County is deep red. Democrat Brian Mitchell Sr. faces steep odds in November.What makes this unprecedented isn’t the politics. It’s the proximity. Spencer will

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19:02

How Did One Detective’s 11 Failures Destroy the...

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2026/06/10

One detective. Eleven documented policy violations. A dashcam SD card that could have recorded everything — gone. And a judge who said the only appropriate response was to throw out the entire case.That’s the core of Judge Ralph Wilson’s 19-page order dismissing the second-degree murder charge against Aaron Spencer. Spencer — an Arkansas father and Army veteran — shot and killed Michael Fosler after finding the sixty-seven-year-old with his thirteen-year-old daughter. Fosler had been charged with

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19:14

What Was on the SD Card Lonoke County Lost in the...

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2026/06/10

A dashcam was mounted on the windshield of Michael Fosler's truck — dual cameras, recording forward and inside the cab. It was the only device that could have objectively captured the final encounter between Aaron Spencer and the man facing forty-three criminal counts involving Spencer's thirteen-year-old daughter. What the prosecution called murder, the defense called a father protecting his child. The dashcam could have settled it. And the SD card with that footage is gone.Judge Ralph Wilson Jr

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54:12

Who Should Have Intervened Before Three-Year-Old...

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2026/06/09

Elijah Vue was three years old. His father was in prison. His mother sent him to live with a convicted felon who was still on federal supervised release — a man she had once told police had trafficked her. The criminal complaint describes what happened inside that Two Rivers apartment as a coordinated campaign: standing punishments, cold water, text messages between Baur and Vang about making a toddler afraid. A deleted photograph of the boy blindfolded and bruised. And when Elijah was reported

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50:31

What Rex Heuermann Didn’t Answer For at Sentencing

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2026/06/09

He answered for eight murders. He did not answer for Karen Vergata’s — even though he confessed to it in the same courtroom. He did not answer for the civil conspiracy his ex-wife now faces. And he did not answer for the women who disappeared near his properties in states that can execute him.Rex Heuermann’s sentencing gave the Gilgo Beach families a moment they earned. Three consecutive life sentences. A hundred years. A judge who said he was disgusting and ordered officers to remove him. It was

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30:03

Christine Says Cops Wouldn't Touch Samuel Bateman… WHY?

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2026/06/09

The Netflix docuseries Trust Me: The False Prophet shows Christine Marie repeatedly bringing footage to the local police on the Utah-Arizona border — and the local police repeatedly sending her home. In this second part of a three-part conversation, Christine tells Tony what was really happening on the other side of that door.Short Creek had spent decades teaching itself to look away from its own children. By the time Samuel Bateman declared himself the new FLDS prophet and started taking

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19:55

Will One of the Two People Charged in Elijah Vue’s...

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2026/06/09

Jesse Vang faces life in prison. Katrina Baur faces sixty years. Both are charged in the death of Baur’s three-year-old son Elijah Vue. Both have pleaded not guilty. And both are heading toward separate trials in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The question hovering over every pretrial hearing: will one of them cooperate against the other?The evidence already creates pressure. Text messages between Baur and Vang document what the criminal complaint describes as coordinated cruelty against a toddler. A

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17:59

What Did Joseph Ryan’s Mother Say to Brendan Banfield...

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2026/06/09

Brendan Banfield’s defense attorney refused to handle his appeal. Another lawyer called the chances of overturning the verdict a 99-yard field goal. And the motion Banfield’s team filed the day before sentencing — built on three separate arguments — was denied across the board by Judge Penney Azcarate. So while Banfield has signaled he intends to fight his life-without-parole sentence, everything around him suggests the fight is already over.Banfield was a former IRS law enforcement officer living

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19:11

Did A Wichita Detective Have BTK's Face Drawn While...

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2026/06/09

Kevin Bright was nineteen years old when Dennis Rader shot him twice and left him for dead in his sister Kathryn's house in Wichita on April 4, 1974. Kevin survived. His sister did not. Before Kevin went into surgery, with one of Rader's bullets still inside his head, he gave Wichita detectives a description of the man who had attacked them.A police sketch artist drew the face. On April 23, 1974, that drawing ran on the front page of the Wichita Eagle. Nineteen days after the attack. Dennis Rader

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18:10

Why Were Three-Year-Old Elijah Vue’s Remains Found...

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2026/06/09

On September 7, 2024, a man preparing his private property for hunting season found skeletal remains in a wooded area with heavy underbrush near a quarry and the entrance to Camp Manitou — a Girl Scout camp roughly three miles from Jesse Vang’s apartment in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. The area had been searched before. Multiple times. DNA testing confirmed the remains belonged to three-year-old Elijah Vue, who had been reported missing seven months earlier.How remains end up in a location that was

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16:45

Why Did Elijah Vue’s Mother Photograph Her...

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2026/06/09

Elijah Vue’s biological father was in prison. The man his mother chose to care for him had a felony for harming a child, trafficking charges, and a federal drug conviction. His mother had once told police that the same man had trafficked her — and then, years later, placed her three-year-old in his apartment for “disciplinary reasons.” There was nowhere safe for this child to land. And no one intervened.The criminal complaint in this case lays out a relationship between Katrina Baur and Jesse Vang

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15:33

Why Won't Any Cop Admit What Happened to Sandra...

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2026/06/09

When Michael Proctor took the stand during the first Karen Read trial, he called his own messages about the woman he was investigating “juvenile” and “unprofessional” and insisted they had “zero impact” on the investigation. When Robert Devine was confronted by the POST Commission about his alleged conduct with Sandra Birchmore, he allegedly said she “lied about everything.” When the state police union responded to Proctor’s suspension, they said it appeared to be based on nothing more than “text

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50:22

Three Cases, Three Evidence Failures — What Went...

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2026/06/08

The Aaron Spencer murder prosecution was dismissed after a court found that law enforcement conduct, including the loss of a critical dashcam SD card, was "so egregious" that it constituted a due process violation. The court's order specifically cited "the appearance of a coverup." Spencer was the Republican nominee for Lonoke County sheriff, running against the incumbent whose department handled the evidence.The Mackenzie Shirilla double murder conviction was built entirely on circumstantial and

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21:26

Christine Tells The Truth About Filming Samuel...

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2026/06/08

The Netflix docuseries Trust Me: The False Prophet introduced the world to the woman who took Samuel Bateman down from the inside. But the documentary couldn't tell the whole story. There's a conversation behind that footage — about what it actually took to walk into a self-proclaimed prophet's house every day, lie about why you were there, and quietly build a case that would put him in federal prison for fifty years.In this first part of a three-part interview, Christine Marie sits down with Tony

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22:16

How Strong Is the FBI's Case Against Timothy Hudson...

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2026/06/08

The federal prosecution of Timothy Hudson in the death of Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon rests on DNA evidence with a statistical match of 120 sextillion to one, surveillance footage establishing a cabin timeline, cellphone location data, and autopsy findings of mechanical asphyxia with bilateral ruptured tympanic membranes consistent with sustained physical force.Hudson, sixteen, is charged as an adult with murder and aggravated offenses in connection with the death of his

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19:37

Why Would Anyone Fight to Keep Aaron Spencer's Murder...

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2026/06/08

A thirteen-year-old girl was found in the truck of the man charged with crimes against her — after midnight, while he was on bond with a no-contact order. Her father found her. Stopped the man. Called 911 himself. And the system that failed to protect that child turned around and charged her father with second-degree murder.That case is now over. Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. dismissed it after finding that Lonoke County law enforcement's conduct was "so egregious" that the prosecution couldn't stand. His

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20:01

Why Did The Whole Country Buy The BTK Killer's...

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2026/06/08

For half a century, the BTK Killer story has been told the way Dennis Rader wanted it told. Factor X. The Minotaur. The BTK brand. Every term that has anchored his mythology came from a typewriter in his own kitchen in Park City, Kansas. Every term was his.In this first chapter of a five-part investigation from True Crime Today, host Tony Brueski sets the version of Dennis Rader that documentaries have repeated for forty-seven years next to the actual investigative file. The two don't match.The man

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