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by Celisia Stanton

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Latest episodes

Jeanie Childs Part 1

November 3, 2025 · 38 min

In the Summer of 1993, a leak in a south Minneapolis high-rise led a caretaker to a horrifying discovery: 35-year-old Jeanie Childs, murdered inside her apartment. On the floor beside her, a haunting clue: a trail of bloody bare…
From Court TV to TikTok — The Menendez Effect

October 27, 2025 · 56 min

I’m going off the record with my co-producer, Olivia, to break down our Menendez Brothers series, from how the story evolved during production to what it reveals about our culture’s fascination with crime and punishment. We talk about the…
The Menendez Brothers Part 3

October 20, 2025 · 45 min

Broadcast into millions of homes, the Menendez trial became something bigger than a murder case. It was television. Tabloid fodder. Even comedy material. But when trauma turns into spectacle, what gets lost? In Part Three, we trace how the…
The Menendez Brothers Part 2

October 13, 2025 · 41 min

At just 18 and 21, Erik and Lyle Menendez stood trial for killing their parents. To many, it seemed unfathomable: how could two privileged kids from Beverly Hills do something like this? When they finally spoke, the picture that emerged…
The Menendez Brothers Part 1

October 6, 2025 · 41 min

In the summer of 1989, wealthy media executive José Menendez and his wife, Kitty, were found dead inside their Beverly Hills home. The brutality of the crime was shocking enough, until the truth came out. Their killers weren’t intruders…

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Facing Death: A Conversation with Keith LaMar

September 29, 2025 · 59 min

Keith LaMar has spent more than 30 years on death row for crimes he says he did not commit. With his execution date set for January 13, 2027, and his final legal options dwindling, Keith speaks candidly about betrayal by his own attorneys…
Keith LaMar + The Lucasville Prison Riot Part 4

September 22, 2025 · 59 min

In many true crime stories, the ending comes with the verdict: guilty, condemned, case closed. But for Keith LaMar, that moment marked the beginning of another story. For three decades, he has fought to keep living inside a system…
Keith LaMar + The Lucasville Prison Riot Part 3

September 15, 2025 · 46 min

Keith LaMar once admitted to murder. But when prosecutors accused him of ordering deaths in the Lucasville prison riot, he drew a line: this time, he said, he was innocent. In this episode, we return to the crime that put Keith behind…
Keith LaMar + The Lucasville Prison Riot Part 2

September 8, 2025 · 43 min

For eleven days, turmoil gripped the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Hostages were trapped, negotiations collapsed, and the violence only grew. Inside those same prison walls, Keith LaMar was forced to witness horrors that would shape…
Keith LaMar + The Lucasville Prison Riot Part 1

September 1, 2025 · 32 min

On Easter Sunday in 1993, the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville erupted into chaos. Tensions between prisoners and staff had reached a breaking point, sparking one of the longest prison sieges in U.S. history. Over eleven…
Mollie Tibbetts Part 2

August 11, 2025 · 43 min

For weeks, the search for Mollie Tibbetts consumed her small town, her face on posters, her name on everyone’s lips. And when investigators finally closed in on the man behind the wheel of the car seen circling Mollie on the night she…
Mollie Tibbetts Part 1

August 4, 2025 · 35 min

In July of 2018, 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts went on a run in her small hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa. Something she’d done countless times before. But this time, she didn’t come home. What followed was a search unlike anything this town…