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Crimery

CRIMERY is a long-form true crime podcast that goes beyond headlines to examine the people, psychology, and systems behind some of the most disturbing crimes in American history.Each episode is built from original research, police records, court documents, and contemporary reporting — presented with narrative restraint and respect for victims and their families. CRIMERY focuses not just on what happened, but how it was allowed to happen, and why certain cases continue to haunt communities decades

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IN COLD BLOOD (PART 4): THE CORNER

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2026/04/17

Send us Fan Mail IN COLD BLOOD PART 4: THE CORNER, THE EXECUTIONS, AND WHAT TRUMAN CAPOTE GOT WRONG In the final episode of Crimery’s four-part series on Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, host Jennifer Novotney takes you through the last chapter of one of the most famous true crime books ever written. This episode covers the trial of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the guilty verdict, their years on death row at the Kansas State Penitentiary, and the executions that brought the Clutter family...

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IN COLD BLOOD (PART 3): THE ANSWER

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2026/04/11

Send us Fan Mail IN COLD BLOOD PART 3: THE ANSWER — PERRY SMITH’S CONFESSION, THE CLUTTER MURDERS, AND CAPOTE’S DARKEST CHAPTER In Part 3 of Crimery’s four-part In Cold Blood series, Jennifer Novotney takes you into the section Truman Capote withheld until the book’s emotional breaking point: “Answer.” This is the episode where the 46-day manhunt ends in Las Vegas, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are arrested, and Perry finally tells Alvin Dewey what happened inside the Clutter house. The ...

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IN COLD BLOOD (PART 2): PERSONS UNKNOWN

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2026/04/03

Send us Fan Mail IN COLD BLOOD (PART 2): PERSONS UNKNOWN — THE CLUTTER MURDERS, ALVIN DEWEY, AND THE HUNT FOR PERRY SMITH The Clutter family is dead. Holcomb, Kansas is in shock. And for 6 weeks, investigators have nothing: no suspects, no motive, no real leads. In Part 2 of Crimery’s 4-part In Cold Blood series, host Jennifer Novotney follows the story into its most unsettling section: “Persons Unknown.” This is where Truman Capote’s book stops being only about the murders — and starts...

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IN COLD BLOOD (PART 1): THE LAST TO SEE THEM ALIVE

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2026/03/27

Send us Fan Mail In this special Crimery series opener, host Jennifer Novotney is back and takes you inside In Cold Blood — the true crime classic that changed American storytelling forever. This is Part 1: The Last to See Them Alive, covering the 1959 Clutter family murders in Holcomb, Kansas, the quiet wheat-town world they lived in, and the writing genius that made Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood one of the most important true crime books ever published. Before the killers are fully kn...

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35:51

BUCKS COUNTY HORROR: THE PIG ROASTER MURDERS OF COSMO...

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2026/03/20

Send us Fan Mail Four young men disappear in Bucks County, Pennsylvania after setting out to buy marijuana. What police called a drug deal gone wrong soon turns into one of the most disturbing true crime cases in Pennsylvania history. In this episode of Crimery, host Tim Novotney goes deep into the Cosmo DiNardo case, the murders of Jimi Patrick, Dean Finocchiaro, Tom Meo, and Mark Sturgis, and the terrifying question at the center of it all: was this really just a failed weed deal, or was so...

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KAREN READ: MURDER OR COVER-UP IN CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS

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2026/03/12

Send a text KAREN READ: MURDER OR COVER-UP IN CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS A Boston police officer is found face-down in the snow outside a fellow officer's home in Canton, Massachusetts. His name is John O'Keefe. He had been lying there for hours. His girlfriend, Karen Read, was accused of backing into him with her Lexus SUV and leaving him to die in a blizzard. But after two trials, two juries, and years of courtroom battles, the question still hasn't gone away: What really happened to John O'Keef...

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MAURA MURRAY DISAPPEARANCE: THE 7-MINUTE WINDOW

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2026/02/27

Send a text MAURA MURRAY DISAPPEARANCE: THE 7-MINUTE WINDOW, ROUTE 112 CRASH, WITNESS A’S SUV, AND THE FINGERPRINT MATCH On February 9, 2004, 21-year-old UMass nursing student Maura Murray crashed her black Saturn sedan on a dark curve on Route 112 in Haverhill, New Hampshire. A local bus driver stopped to help. Maura asked him not to call police. He called 911 anyway. And in the time between that call and the first officer’s arrival, Maura Murray vanished. Seven minutes. No confirmed footpri...

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THE NANCY GUTHRIE DISAPPEARANCE: TAKEN IN THE NIGHT

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2026/02/19

Send a text TAKEN IN THE NIGHT: THE NANCY GUTHRIE DISAPPEARANCE — MASKED INTRUDER, DOORBELL VIDEO, DNA GLOVE, AND THE $6M BITCOIN RANSOM On January 31, 2026, at 1:47 a.m., the doorbell camera at an isolated desert home outside Tucson, Arizona suddenly went offline. Forty-one minutes later, a masked man wearing gloves, a backpack, and a gun appeared on the front porch. By morning, Nancy Guthrie was gone. Blood was found outside her home. Her phone, wallet, hearing aid, and medication were left...

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IDAHO 4 MURDERS: HOW BRYAN KOHBERGER WAS CAUGHT

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2026/02/13

Send a text On November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. In the days that followed, fear spread across the country as investigators searched for the person responsible. In this episode of Crimery: True Crime Uncovered, we break down how one overlooked mistake—a knife sheath left behind at the crime scene—became the key that unraveled the entire case against Bryan Kohberger. Using court filings, the probable cause affidavit,...

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THE SUSAN REINERT MURDER: HOW A TEACHER PROGRAMMED A...

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2026/02/06

Send us a text September 18, 1992: the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns Jay C. Smith’s conviction—and bars a retrial for prosecutorial misconduct so extreme the court says trying him again would violate double jeopardy. After 13 years in prison—seven on death row—Smith walks free. Meanwhile, William Bradfield remains locked up on three consecutive life sentences. And the children—Karen Reinert (11) and Michael Reinert (10)—are still missing. In Part 2, the case shifts from a murder invest...

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43:17

THE TEACHER’S CULT: HOW WILLIAM BRADFIELD PROGRAMMED...

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2026/01/30

Send us a text In June 1979, a teacher’s body was found in the trunk of a car in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Susan Reinert had been drugged, beaten, and suffocated. Her two children—Karen, 11, and Michael, 10—were gone. They have never been found. This is the story of William Bradfield—a charismatic English teacher who inspired devotion, loyalty, and obedience from everyone around him. For months before Susan’s murder, Bradfield told friends exactly what was going to happen. He named the ...

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THE HUMAN MASK: THE LANDLORD WHO PLAYED GOD

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2026/01/23

Send us a text Weatherly/Freeland, Pennsylvania. 2016. A house fire at 234 Third Street looks like simple insurance fraud… until federal agents start pulling at one landlord’s life and uncover something far worse. Roberto Torner—a convicted felon turned “King of Weatherly”—ran a Pepto-Bismol-pink boarding house called The Cottage Hotel, collecting vulnerable tenants the way he collected distressed properties. Inside that world, fear was currency. Loyalty was demanded. And one man’s disa...

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WHO KILLED JONATHAN BALESTER? MURDER FOR PROFIT IN...

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2026/01/16

Send us a text It’s an ordinary Thursday night in Shavertown, Pennsylvania — until a family member walks through an unlocked door and finds the lights on… a ceiling fan still spinning… and a trail of blood cutting through the house like a roadmap of violence. At the end of that trail is 56-year-old Jonathan Balester, stabbed repeatedly in the back inside his own home. No forced entry. No robbery. Just brutal, personal violence in a quiet neighborhood where residents said “nothing ever happens...

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THE PITTSBURGH BORGIA: THE ANGEL OF DEATH NEXT DOOR

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2026/01/09

Send us a text Victorian Pittsburgh trusted her with the sick. Martha Grinder was the woman neighbors called when illness crept into their homes — the quiet caregiver who brought soup, tea, clean linens, and patience. She sat through long nights at the bedside, whispering comfort, holding hands, earning a reputation as the perfect Victorian woman. And then people died. In this episode of CRIMERY: True Crime Uncovered, we examine one of the earliest and most disturbing “angel of death” cases i...

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THE UNICORN KILLER: THE HUNT FOR JUSTICE (PART TWO)

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2026/01/02

Send us a text Eighteen months after Holly Maddux was murdered, her killer walked free on bail — and vanished into Europe. In Part Two of The Unicorn Killer, the story shifts from the crime itself to the longest and most relentless manhunt most people have never heard of. As Ira Einhorn disappears across borders, changing names and building a new life abroad, Holly’s father, Fred Maddux, makes a promise at her grave: he will bring her killer home — no matter how long it takes. What follows is...

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THE UNICORN KILLER: INSIDE IRA EINHORN (PART ONE)

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2025/12/26

Send us a text For years, Ira Einhorn was celebrated as a visionary. He called himself The Unicorn — a peace activist, environmental prophet, and counterculture icon with powerful friends and devoted followers. He spoke about consciousness, love, and the future of humanity. People believed him. Then, in March of 1979, police opened a padlocked closet in his Philadelphia apartment. Inside was a steamer trunk. Inside that trunk was the body of Holly Maddux. In Part One of this two-part Cr...

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WHO TOOK CHERRIE MAHAN?: THE BUS STOP ABDUCTION

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2025/12/19

Send us a text On February 22, 1985, in rural Winfield Township, Pennsylvania, eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan stepped off her school bus at 4:10 p.m. She had only 150 feet to walk home. She never made it. Witnesses reported two suspicious vehicles near the stop—a bright blue van with a painted skier mural and a small blue car. In the snow, investigators found tire marks… but no footprints leading up Cherrie’s driveway. The case became one of Pennsylvania’s most haunting child disappearances—fue...

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WHO KILLED BETSY AARDSMA?: SILENCE IN THE STACKS

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2025/12/12

On November 28, 1969—the quiet day after Thanksgiving—a 22-year-old Penn State graduate student walked into Pattee Library to retrieve one final source for a research paper. She never walked out. Betsy Ruth Aardsma was stabbed once—cleanly, precisely—between the shelves of the basement stacks. No scream. No visible blood. Students and staff believed she had collapsed from a medical emergency and unknowingly wiped away crucial evidence while trying to save her life. By the time doctors discove...

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THE IMPOSSIBLE GRAVE OF SUSAN CERRITELLI: BURIED IN FIRE

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2025/12/05

A 26-year-old woman vanishes from Long Pond, PA on May 11, 1983. Her husband waits 72 hours to call police. Fifteen years later, two separate accounts surface—one claiming her remains were dumped off Seaside Heights, another pointing to a shaft in Centralia, the ghost town that’s been burning underground since 1962. If investigators are right, Susan Cerritelli rests in a place no one can safely search—an impossible grave. In this episode, we trace the timeline, the red flags, and why “no-body...

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THE DISAPPEARANCES OF JENNIFER BARZILOSKI & PHYLICIA...

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2025/11/28

Eighteen-year-old Jennifer Barziloski walks out into a warm June night in 2001 and never makes it home. Three years later, her closest friend, 22-year-old Phylicia Thomas—the one who wouldn’t stop asking what happened to Jennifer—vanishes too. One skull is found along an ATV trail years later; the other woman is still missing. The same names, the same party talk, the same rural pocket of Luzerne County keep surfacing. Coincidence—or a pattern everyone’s been too afraid to say out loud? In thi...

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