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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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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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45:54

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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47:47

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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44:35

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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38:55

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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34:51

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOLENE LAKEY: ONE BLOCK FROM HOME

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2025/11/21

An 11-year-old leaves Mercy Hospital in Scranton with a stuffed animal for her mom and starts the short walk home—broad daylight, one block to go. Witnesses see a girl matching Michelle “Jolene” Lakey get into a light yellow car near North Washington Ave. She is never seen again. This episode of CRIMERY traces the chilling threads that still haunt Northeast PA: the three-day ransom call that named Nay Aug Park, the unexplained purse found on Jolene’s dresser, and years of scrutiny around a fa...

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THE MURDER OF AIDEN PAIZ: CUL-DE-SAC AMBUSH

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2025/11/14

A well-liked Pleasant Valley freshman drives to a secluded cul-de-sac for a $120 marijuana sale—and meets three teens who never planned to pay. Within minutes, 15-year-old Aiden Paiz is shot with an AR-15, his friend is wounded, and the killers scatter into the Poconos night. It will take Pennsylvania State Police less than a day to crack the case—built on a brave survivor’s account, confessions, recovered weapons, and a pattern of “drug rips” plaguing rural Monroe County. In this episode of ...

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THE MURDER OF DAVID MCENTIRE: PARANOIA IN THE POCONOS

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2025/11/07

A devoted father and small-town carpenter walks out of his Polk Township home one October afternoon—and never returns. His blue work van is found wiped clean. His bank accounts go quiet. For years, rumors swirl. Then a drunk shoplifter starts talking about a crack house in the woods, a hammer, a rifle, and a basement “injection” meant to end a man’s life. What follows is a decade-long path to justice without a body—built on confessions, forensics that survived a bleach-and-paint scrub, and th...

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44:32

MICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVE

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2025/10/31

MICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVEA trusted small-town pharmacist vanishes with his girlfriend and a year later investigators dig into a Kingston Township backyard and uncover a nightmare: multiple shallow graves, including Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett, strangled with plastic ties and buried one atop the other. The tip that cracks the case? An unexpected confession from burglar Paul Weakley that leads police straight to Hugo Selenski’s property—and to a truth mor...

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2025/09/16

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