I know a thing or two about true crime... I’ve been reporting on it for 36 years. This is the podcast where I take you on a journey through mystery and injustice... and dive deep into critical clues with an irreverent style that I don’t share on TV! Join me for my personal take on many of these stories and my personal connection to several as well! I’m Ashleigh Banfield, and I’m Drop Dead Serious! New Episodes Every Thursday!
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Nov 13, 2026 · 1:13:28
The FBI says a witness recognized Meghan Markle’s father in disturbing photographs recovered from a California storage unit. Thomas Markle Sr., 82, was arrested in Lakeland,…
Nov 11, 2026 · 50:45
Kylie Arellano was 15 when she vanished from Garden City, Utah, on May 29, 2025. She was 17 when police found her alive 521 days later, on November 1, 2026, at the Huntington,…
Nov 10, 2026 · 29:06
A West Point cadet allegedly spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s protein shake with Xanax so he could give her abortion pills while she slept. On February 4, 2022, Caleb Suh gave…
Nov 9, 2026 · 52:45
Matthew Farwell’s defense says he went to Sandra Birchmore’s apartment to end their affair. Federal prosecutors say he went there to kill her. On February 4, 2021, 23-year-old…
Nov 7, 2026 · 57:50
Five months after Brooke Hanlon was found stabbed to death in her own home, a source tells Daily Mail reporter Dana Kennedy there’s a DNA clue the public hasn’t heard about. On…
Nov 5, 2026 · 37:05
Cherie and Dustin Walker said they had no idea their 11-year-old was pregnant. Then she gave birth at home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and a DNA test identified her stepfather, Dustin…
Nov 4, 2026 · 1:12:13
A married Massachusetts police detective is accused of killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and her unborn baby to conceal a secret that stretched back to when she was fifteen.…
Nov 4, 2026 · 41:14
At a November 2, 2026, hearing, Lindsay Clancy's attorneys challenged the mistrial that followed an 11–1 jury split and demanded answers about alleged misconduct by the lone…
Nov 2, 2026 · 1:24:54
Nine months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home, where are the answers? The 84-year-old mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie was reported…
Oct 31, 2026 · 58:14
She said she was dying of cancer, her family raised thousands to save her, and her little nephew even emptied his piggy bank... But according to the journalists behind “The Lexi…
Oct 29, 2026 · 50:07
I went into “You Can See Everything” thinking I had Elizabeth Holmes figured out. Then I watched her boyfriend, Billy Evans, strip naked on camera, negotiate a cut of the…
Oct 28, 2026 · 50:28
A bitter engagement-ring fight aired on “The People’s Court,” and that same day, Michelle Parker vanished. Nearly 15 years later, her ex-fiancé, Dale Smith Jr., is charged with…
Oct 27, 2026 · 34:10
Dirty cat litter dumped in their beds, dog poop on their belongings, and forced to run barefoot on a gravel driveway. That’s what three kids say they endured inside their West…
Oct 26, 2026 · 53:56
Matthew Farwell’s wife gave birth to their third child on February 2, 2021, the day after prosecutors say he killed 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore, and he was texting colleagues…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1:02:38
From beauty pageants and college cheerleading to a ten-year prison sentence for killing her newborn son, Laken Snelling is facing a VERY different future. The former University…
Oct 22, 2026 · 1:22:48
A married Massachusetts police detective is accused of killing 23-year-old Sandra Birchmore and her unborn baby to conceal a secret that stretched back to when she was fifteen.…
Oct 20, 2026 · 41:24
Disturbing new details in the case of a mother accused of cutting her own daughter’s baby from her womb: Rebecca Park’s fiancé testified that before he dated Rebecca, he was…
Oct 19, 2026 · 38:34
Do Jane Doe’s own words undermine her allegations—or should investigators have dug deeper before closing the door? In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is…
Oct 16, 2026 · 23:51
Florida mother Nathalie Belizaire is accused of leaving FOUR children home alone while she took a tropical getaway. Police found the siblings hiding together in a bathroom, and…
Oct 14, 2026 · 33:15
Lynette Hooker is still missing. Her husband Brian Hooker is making weed runs in California and hanging out in his mom’s garage. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh…
Oct 13, 2026 · 57:44
New text messages and Jane Doe’s full six-page police statement are fueling a fresh firestorm over the Cornell University fraternity allegations, with disturbing details and…
Oct 12, 2026 · 24:59
Could the missing women’s bodies have been dissolved and washed down the pipes? The FBI is searching floors, walls, and basement plumbing at Philadelphia’s “House of Horrors” as…
Oct 9, 2026 · 1:17:53
Christa Pike kept a piece of her teenage victim’s skull as a trophy, but after surviving Tennessee’s botched execution, her lawyers are demanding mercy. Convicted of torturing…
Oct 8, 2026 · 1:09:54
One of the men accused in the Cornell rape case says Jane Doe sexually assaulted HIM while he was incapacitated, and that Cornell University failed to tell him about his rights…
Oct 7, 2026 · 1:35:36
Jane Doe texted “none of the sexual stuff was illegal" and "i love u king” to a man she later accused of rape, and now her private messages and secretly recorded calls are…
Oct 6, 2026 · 36:48
Crybaby pastor Caleb Flynn had the nerve to quote scripture and deny murdering his wife while his own daughters tore into him for taking their mother’s life and destroying the…
Oct 2, 2026 · 39:10
Apparently, nine guilty verdicts still aren’t enough for Caleb Flynn’s mom, who insists her son is innocent and blames the media. The “worship pastor” and American Idol reject…
Oct 1, 2026 · 27:37
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer wants her acquitted of killing her three children, claiming prosecutors never proved she did it. After the first murder trial ended in a mistrial, Kevin…
Sep 29, 2026 · 36:42
All those tears, and Caleb Flynn still couldn’t sell the jury his sob story. The Ohio worship pastor and American Idol reject was found guilty on all counts in his wife Ashley…
Sep 29, 2026 · 35:08
Caleb Flynn cried in court while watching himself cry during a police interrogation about his wife’s murder. But as detectives pressed the former American Idol contestant and…
Sep 29, 2026 · 1:02:21
A Cornell student says seven fraternity brothers sexually assaulted her after one allegedly posted a Snapchat message inviting other men upstairs, but the district attorney says…
Sep 25, 2026 · 33:59
American Idol reject and “worship pastor” Caleb Flynn is on trial in Ohio, accused of shooting his wife, Ashley Flynn, twice in the back of the head as she slept in their bed,…
Sep 24, 2026 · 45:57
"Kill douche": Former American Idol contestant and worship pastor Caleb Flynn is on trial for allegedly shooting his wife, Ashley Flynn, inside their Tipp City, Ohio, home while…
Sep 23, 2026 · 40:39
In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield speaks with Lynette Hooker’s father and stepmother, Dan and Kathy Shepherd, after Brian Hooker claimed he wanted to be…
Sep 22, 2026 · 37:21
Patrick Clancy breaks his silence after Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial, opening up about losing Cora, Dawson, and Callan, forgiving Lindsay, and rebuilding his life with his new wife,…
Sep 19, 2026 · 36:56
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak Biermann and Kroy Biermann’s 15-year-old son, KJ, is facing seven felony charges as an adult for the alleged sexual assault of a…
Sep 18, 2026 · 40:49
A sprawling investigation into a Philadelphia “house of horrors” has uncovered more than one million digital files, five women who appear to be dead on camera, 17 people who…
Sep 16, 2026 · 36:04
Brian Hooker won’t answer police questions about his missing wife, but when our reporter started asking them, suddenly Brian couldn’t call the cops fast enough. In this episode…
Sep 10, 2026 · 29:49
18-year-old Karoline Heintz was stabbed in the chest, stuffed into the back of her own Jeep and abandoned near her college campus. Police say her boyfriend, Royce Moser, blamed a…
Sep 10, 2026 · 1:18:12
Just when you thought the Lindsay Clancy case could not get any more disturbing, an Illinois mom, Corie Walsh, is accused of killing her two-year-old son, Barrett, after…
Sep 8, 2026 · 26:51
She gave birth alone, ended her newborn son’s life, hid him in a trash bag, and went to McDonald’s. Now, former University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling has admitted it…
Sep 4, 2026 · 44:25
One holdout juror, one accusation of lying under oath, and one murder trial that went completely off the rails...? After seven days and roughly 36 hours of deliberations, the…
Sep 4, 2026 · 47:05
After nearly 36 hours of deliberations, a THIRD note from the jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case prompted Judge Peter Sullivan to call an emergency sidebar over an apparent…
Sep 2, 2026 · 47:21
After five days of deliberations and a second note saying jurors still cannot reach a unanimous verdict, Judge William Sullivan issued a rare Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, also…
Sep 2, 2026 · 55:35
After nearly six weeks of testimony, 80 witnesses and more than 300 exhibits, the jury deciding Lindsay Clancy’s fate says it cannot reach a unanimous verdict. But the deadlock…
Aug 31, 2026 · 50:29
After weeks of intense scrutiny and growing frustration from Brooke Hanlon’s family and neighbors, Conor Hanlon, the man who says he found his wife bleeding and unconscious in…
Aug 28, 2026 · 1:09:21
Prosecutors argued that Lindsay deliberately killed her three children and left them “like broken toys,” while the defense blamed powerful medications, failed psychiatric care,…
Aug 26, 2026 · 36:02
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is nearing its final and most consequential stage after explosive rebuttal testimony, conflicting mental health diagnoses and a dramatic defense…
Aug 25, 2026 · 19:12
A child sex abuse investigation in Vinton County, Ohio, has uncovered an alleged house of horrors involving 16 children, six defendants and 106 criminal charges. Gary Siders Jr.,…
Aug 24, 2026 · 1:07:25
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial is approaching a verdict after dueling forensic psychiatrists offered the jury two radically different explanations for the deaths of her three…
Aug 21, 2026 · 45:17
The Lindsay Clancy trial has ignited a bitter national debate over murder, motherhood and mental illness. Clancy is accused of killing her three young children, Cora, Dawson and…
Aug 20, 2026 · 1:01:18
Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to two federal stalking charges resulting in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting under oath that he traveled to New York…
Aug 20, 2026 · 45:47
Six months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson-area home, investigators still have not identified the masked person captured on her doorbell camera, determined who sent…
Aug 19, 2026 · 54:13
After weeks of testimony about Lindsay Clancy's mental health treatment, 13 psychiatric medications, conflicting medical records, and disturbing internet searches, did…
Aug 17, 2026 · 1:14:41
Lindsay Clancy’s doctors testified that they never saw signs of psychosis or mania before she strangled her three children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and…
Aug 14, 2026 · 51:47
Brian Hooker has officially been spotted for the first time since leaving the Bahamas after his wife, Lynette Hooker, vanished. An exclusive photo obtained by Drop Dead Serious…
Aug 11, 2026 · 59:38
Instagram Influencer & OnlyFans Model Courtney Clenney was facing the possibility of life in prison for the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend, Christian “Toby” Obumseli. Instead,…
Aug 7, 2026 · 1:03:59
Was 35-year-old Lindsay Clancy a mother consumed by severe postpartum mental illness or a calculating killer who sent her husband away before strangling their three children?…
Aug 4, 2026 · 46:05
Strange new clues are surfacing in the unsolved murder of Brooke Hanlon, the 35-year-old psychotherapist and new mother found stabbed to death inside her secluded Chester…
Jul 31, 2026 · 34:56
For the first time, the full Nancy Guthrie ransom notes reveal the alleged kidnappers’ complete series of demands, deadlines and chilling threats, including claims that Nancy…
Jul 29, 2026 · 48:55
Brian Hooker’s stepmother is revealing a shocking claim she says he made decades ago: that he “had to have someone killed” after running into trouble while living on a beach in…
Jul 29, 2026 · 39:17
Six months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona, home, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos is making startling new admissions about the troubled investigation. In an…
Jul 27, 2026 · 47:30
Explosive new reporting from The New York Times reveals that Bryan Kohberger is now declaring his innocence and fighting to reopen the University of Idaho murders case. In his…
Jul 27, 2026 · 1:00:28
Messages recovered from singer d4vd’s phone indicate fourteen-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez became pregnant by him at thirteen and later had an abortion. During David Anthony…
Jul 24, 2026 · 57:13
Just days before an affluent Houston man was supposed to stand trial for allegedly strangling his pregnant wife, authorities say he vanished, crossed an international border, and…
Jul 22, 2026 · 55:05
Gruesome and horrifying new details came to light during the first day of D4vd's preliminary hearing as prosecutors began presenting evidence in the murder case of 14-year-old…
Jul 21, 2026 · 1:08:10
As Lindsay Clancy’s triple murder trial begins in Massachusetts, prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse deliberately sent her husband away before strangling…
Jul 18, 2026 · 40:13
What is happening to the 16 children rescued from the alleged Ohio “House of Horrors” right now? The forensic interviewer who questioned the 13 Turpin siblings after their 2018…
Jul 16, 2026 · 54:00
A chilling 911 call made by Conor Hanlon after finding his wife, Brooke Hanlon, stabbed inside their secluded Chester Township, New Jersey, home is raising major questions about…
Jul 15, 2026 · 1:08:00
New details in the Siders family case are raising even more disturbing questions about the Ohio house of horrors where 16 children were found living in filthy, squalid…
Jul 13, 2026 · 49:29
Brian Hooker’s own behavior may be creating some of the biggest problems yet for his story about what happened to his missing wife, Lynette Hooker, in the Bahamas. In this…
Jul 10, 2026 · 57:35
Breaking new information in the Lynette Hooker investigation is raising major questions about Brian Hooker’s timeline of the night his wife vanished in the Bahamas. Sources close…
Jul 10, 2026 · 1:08:44
Sixteen children were found inside a rural Hamden, Ohio home in conditions officials described as “pure evil,” and four adults inside the family are now charged: Gary Siders Sr.,…
Jul 9, 2026 · 53:53
Explosive new lies are surfacing in the Lynette Hooker investigation after sources with knowledge of the case said evidence shows Lynette made it back to the couple’s sailboat…
Jul 8, 2026 · 46:06
Bombshell new evidence in the Lynette Hooker investigation suggests Brian Hooker’s story about what happened the night his wife vanished in the Bahamas was a lie. According to…
Jul 3, 2026 · 47:45
Just days after Nancy Guthrie vanished, a fake Bitcoin ransom scammer tried to exploit her family’s worst nightmare. Five months later, on July 2, Derrick Callella, a 42-year-old…
Jul 2, 2026 · 56:37
The Nancy Guthrie case just got even more confusing, as the FBI is now pushing back on reports that every alleged ransom note tied to Savannah Guthrie’s missing mother was fake.…
Jul 1, 2026 · 52:07
Alex Murdaugh is heading back to court for a new murder trial in 2027, and one overlooked piece of evidence could become a major problem for prosecutors: unknown male DNA found…
Jun 30, 2026 · 55:24
A critical new detail in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping mystery may help explain why investigators have been taking the first ransom note so seriously. According to new reporting…
Jun 27, 2026 · 40:32
The person who has repeatedly contacted TMZ claiming to know the identities of Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers is now making an even bigger claim: that he has video of Nancy with the…
Jun 26, 2026 · 51:23
Mackenzie Shirilla’s mother, Natalie Shirilla, is speaking out after Netflix’s The Crash reignited outrage over the deadly 2022 Ohio crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion…
Jun 25, 2026 · 1:04:43
The Nancy Guthrie case just took another disturbing turn after new reporting revealed the chilling words allegedly sent after the 84-year-old Tucson grandmother vanished: “Hello…
Jun 24, 2026 · 53:08
The 39-year-old Lexington, South Carolina personal trainer vanished after being seen at Planet Fitness and was later found dead in a wooded area near a bridge. Now, the autopsy…
Jun 23, 2026 · 55:09
A stunning new report is raising disturbing questions in the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Savannah Guthrie, after sources say an old ransom note…
Jun 19, 2026 · 36:46
Chilling New Details: A body has been found in the search for missing Lexington, South Carolina woman Elena Moore, but the coroner says there was “nothing obvious” at first…
Jun 18, 2026 · 42:12
Breaking: A body matching Elena Moore’s clothing was found in a wooded area after newly obtained surveillance video showed the missing 39-year-old walking near Old Cherokee Road…
Jun 17, 2026 · 45:03
Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona home more than 135 days ago, and investigators have released almost nothing about what happened to the 84-year-old grandmother.…
Jun 16, 2026 · 50:10
Anna Kepner was found dead under a bed on a Carnival cruise ship, and now the 16-year-old stepbrother who shared that cabin with her has been sent to jail. Timothy Hudson, the…
Jun 12, 2026 · 55:55
A chilling new tip has pushed the Nancy Guthrie case across the border and into one of the darkest possible search areas yet. After 131 days with no sign of the missing Arizona…
Jun 10, 2026 · 33:22
Breaking: Brian Hooker is refusing to cooperate in the suspected murder investigation into his missing wife, Lynette Hooker. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh breaks…
Jun 9, 2026 · 41:37
Brian Hooker has been spotted in Michigan, far from the Bahamas where he said he would never leave without Lynette. After weeks of questions about where Brian went after Lynette…
Jun 6, 2026 · 28:25
Lynette Hooker’s mother, Darlene Hamlett, and her husband Bill sit down with Ashleigh after the latest search in the Lynette Hooker suspected murder investigation, reacting to…
Jun 5, 2026 · 30:50
Law Enforcement: "He's F*cked" | No remains were found in the search for Lynette Hooker, but sources say the Coast Guard still left the Bahamas with evidence that could be…
Jun 4, 2026 · 41:01
Exclusive New Video: Coast Guard teams are now searching northwest of Lubbers Quarters Cay and Marsh Harbor near an abandoned boat harbor as the hunt for Lynette Hooker expands…
Jun 2, 2026 · 28:16
Sources confirm the Lynette Hooker case is now being treated as a suspected murder investigation, and the search is zeroing in on new areas tied to Brian Hooker’s timeline, GPS…
May 29, 2026 · 21:48
Exclusive Coast Guard video shows the moment Soulmate was intercepted at sea, 40 miles off the coast of Florida, after Brian Hooker’s boat left the Bahamas and headed back toward…
May 28, 2026 · 39:51
New GPS data tied to Brian Hooker’s movements after Lynette Hooker vanished has triggered a major new development in the Bahamas investigation: a potential Coast Guard dive…
May 26, 2026 · 45:45
Soulmate is gone, and that may be the biggest signal yet that the Lynette Hooker case is moving into a new phase. The 46-foot sailboat Brian Hooker shared with his missing wife…
May 23, 2026 · 38:49
A damning new photo shows the water near Soulmate looking eerily calm at the very time Brian Hooker claims his wife, Lynette Hooker, “bounced” out of their dinghy in rough seas…
May 21, 2026 · 41:31
Brian Hooker told the world Lynette “bounced” off the back of the dinghy and vanished in the Sea of Abaco, but now a boatyard security guard’s account is raising new questions…
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