U.S. Hidden Crimes uncovers the dark truths behind America's most concealed criminal cases, stories the public was never meant to hear. Each episode dives deep into crimes that were buried, covered up, or overlooked by the justice system and mainstream media. If you believe the full story is rarely told, this is the podcast that tells it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/u-s-hidden-crimes--6962513/support.
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Nov 14, 2026 · 7:19:48
Three real cases examine how trust can be exploited and how slowly justice sometimes arrives. A trusted Indianapolis fertility doctor secretly used his own sperm to father dozens…
Nov 14, 2026 · 6:58:43
This account follows the death of Jason Hughes, a beloved teacher, coach and mentor at North Hall High School in Gainesville, Georgia, who fell into the road and was struck by a…
Nov 13, 2026 · 5:00:47
Renee Pagel, a generous Michigan mother and teacher, was brutally murdered shortly after donating a kidney, leaving investigators and loved ones searching for answers amid a…
Nov 13, 2026 · 6:23:06
Thirty-year-old Bethany Israel, four months pregnant with her first child, Levy, was brutally murdered and dismembered by her 24-year-old brother, Jack Ball, in Lakeville,…
Nov 12, 2026 · 6:58:25
Michael Thompson and Roger Yaden, two escaped Alabama prisoners with histories of violent crime and repeated prison breaks, launched a cross-country flight in 1996, stealing…
Nov 12, 2026 · 6:14:34
Jeffrey Mathews, formerly known as Jeff Ciganek, built a cocaine-trafficking empire around his Fort Myers Beach pizzeria, Andretti’s, and was linked to a pattern of murders,…
Nov 12, 2026 · 5:52:26
On October 2, 2023, Angela Risi, a 30-year-old Duke dance graduate student, was shot eight times and killed in her Durham home after refusing her boyfriend Stephon Dubose's…
Nov 11, 2026 · 4:50:13
Julian Story, 39, a lifelong Port Lincoln resident, was found dead and dismembered with his head missing after a neighbour reported smoke at the Flinders Highway unit he shared…
Nov 11, 2026 · 5:24:26
Garnett-Paul Spears, a five-year-old with a feeding tube, died in January 2014 of sodium poisoning. His mother, Lacey Spears, who had spent years chronicling his supposed…
Nov 9, 2026 · 1:54:38
In 1983, 16-year-old Eric Cross left a drinking party in Vicksburg, Michigan, and was later found dead outside his family's home, with injuries that led police to rule it a…
Nov 7, 2026 · 7:40:20
This collection examines the murder of Amy Allwine in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, in November 2016, tracing how a staged suicide was unravelled into a premeditated killing by her…
Nov 7, 2026 · 4:56:06
This compelling reflection examines the moral, ethical, and societal lessons emerging from the tragic murders of Joshua Ford and Martha Crutchley, exploring trust, loyalty,…
Nov 6, 2026 · 4:44:45
This collection of narration scripts examines the killings carried out by James Kraig Kahler on Thanksgiving weekend in 2009 at the Burlingame, Kansas home of Dorothy Wight,…
Nov 6, 2026 · 4:06:06
This collection of narration scripts recounts the case of Rebecca Koster, a twenty four year old home health aide from Medford, New York, who vanished after a night out on Long…
Nov 5, 2026 · 4:58:17
This collection of narration scripts tells the story of Alexis Dekany, a single mother and criminal justice student at the University of Akron, and Eric Paull, her former…
Nov 3, 2026 · 4:34:01
This collection follows the 2009 murder of Rebecca Koster, a cheerful 24 year old home health aide from Medford, Long Island, from the bar encounter and the false text messages…
Nov 1, 2026 · 5:07:16
The document is a layered true crime study of two separate deaths that a Crime Watch Daily broadcast placed side by side: five year old Garnett Spears, whose mother Lacey Spears…
Nov 1, 2026 · 4:36:22
The document opens with a Crime Watch Daily transcript covering three cases: Mark Berrios, sentenced to life in Florida for fatally shooting used car salesman Olen Lee Hepler at…
Nov 1, 2026 · 5:59:19
This compilation brings together long form true crime writing on two very different cases of child abuse allegations: the prosecution of Georgia kindergarten teacher Tonya Craft,…
Oct 31, 2026 · 3:36:16
In 2008 Tonya Craft, a Georgia kindergarten teacher, was arrested on twenty two counts of child molestation after three young girls, one of them her own daughter, were questioned…
Oct 31, 2026 · 5:07:20
In July 2016, Heather Young, a forty two year old mother of three, left a bar in Onaway, Michigan, after a painful quarrel with her boyfriend and accepted an offer of a spare…
Oct 31, 2026 · 3:35:07
This extended true crime narration reconstructs the August 2015 murder of Crystal Caralea Pifer, a twenty eight year old mother from Daytona Beach who was beaten and strangled…
Oct 31, 2026 · 3:18:51
This collection examines the 2018 Colts Neck, New Jersey murders of Keith and Jennifer Caneiro and their children Jesse and Sophia, and the conviction of Keith's brother Paul…
Oct 30, 2026 · 8:49:27
This collection examines the 2023 poisoning death of Nashville chef Jade Benning and her unborn daughter Ivy, tracing the 911 call, her final phone call to her childhood friend…
Oct 29, 2026 · 6:26:24
This collection examines the murder of Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, tracing his rise from manual labor to a multimillion dollar jackpot, the financial entanglement…
Oct 29, 2026 · 4:57:19
The tragic deaths of Joby and Jason Graf in a backyard shed fire in Texas became the center of a decades long investigation marked by disputed forensic evidence, a controversial…
Oct 29, 2026 · 2:42:02
This collection traces the killing of five year old Ashley Zhao in Jackson Township, Ohio, from the long search that missed her hiding place inside her parents' restaurant to the…
Oct 29, 2026 · 3:17:27
This true crime case follows the death of four-year-old Lauren Key, who fell from a 120-foot cliff in Palos Verdes, California, while on a court-ordered visit with her estranged…
Oct 28, 2026 · 3:11:53
When Chris Regan accepted a married coworker’s invitation to dinner in the quiet town of Iron River, Michigan, he walked into a house he would never leave alive, and for nineteen…
Oct 28, 2026 · 2:45:52
The murder of Army soldier Karlyn Ramirez in her Maryland townhouse unfolds as a story of obsession, a staged alibi, and a husband who believed a marriage could only end on his…
Oct 28, 2026 · 8:16:49
Behind the quiet appearance of a New Hampshire farm lay a disturbing story of manipulation, disturbing beliefs, and two men whose lives ended in tragedy. As investigators…
Oct 28, 2026 · 3:40:30
Tennessee faces a reckoning after the failed lethal injection of Christa Pike, who survived two doses of pentobarbital, raising hard questions about whether and how the state may…
Oct 27, 2026 · 6:24:52
Sandra Birchmore, twenty three and newly pregnant, was found dead in her Massachusetts apartment in 2021, and the first official verdict of suicide was later amended to…
Oct 27, 2026 · 4:54:41
Twenty one year old Ohio State student Reagan Tokes was abducted after her waitressing shift in 2017 and murdered by Brian Golsby, a registered sex offender released from prison…
Oct 27, 2026 · 5:46:56
This week on True Crime News, host Anna Garcia and criminal justice professor Dr. Nikki Ali Jackson examine the Florida death penalty trial of a former plastic surgeon accused of…
Oct 27, 2026 · 4:42:20
Between 1974 and 1983, the FALN carried out more than a hundred bombings across New York, Chicago and Washington, killing five people and leaving a wound that has never fully…
Oct 26, 2026 · 7:13:52
Ash Rowl was a successful businessman, a devoted father, and a man remembered for his kindness, until a gunshot at his front door shattered his family’s world. As investigators…
Oct 26, 2026 · 3:49:56
In 2013, 21-year-old Demitri Hampton was shot dead fighting armed home invaders on Long Island, but his killers' 2017 murder trial collapsed when prosecutor Glenn Kurtzrock was…
Oct 26, 2026 · 2:33:21
In 1985, three drowned men in the Miami River exposed a ring of corrupt Miami cops who dressed as police to rob cocaine smugglers, leaving a trail of murders. After a mistrial,…
Oct 26, 2026 · 2:28:48
In 1992, Atlanta mother Sara Tokars was shot dead in front of her two young sons in what looked like a random carjacking. Investigators uncovered the truth: her prominent…
Oct 25, 2026 · 5:04:32
On October 23, 2026, gunmen opened fire on mourners at a Greek Orthodox church in Hamoud, in Jordan’s Karak governorate, leaving nine dead and forty wounded according to Reuters,…
Oct 24, 2026 · 5:58:01
A carpenter driving home for lunch in Bend, Oregon, spotted an armed teenager outside his daughters' school, crawled through a shattered window and stopped the gunman, yet he…
Oct 24, 2026 · 4:02:03
In Lauderhill, Florida, a routine welfare check in July of 2022 ended with a dead man discovered inside his own home, and years later a police officer stands accused of using…
Oct 24, 2026 · 2:45:59
In a Durban courtroom, seven men stand trial for the 2023 Florida Road killings of rapper AKA and chef Tibz Motsoane, while surveillance footage of a man in a white T-shirt,…
Oct 24, 2026 · 3:17:19
On October 20, 1981, masked gunmen from a Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground alliance robbed a Brink's truck at the Nanuet Mall, killing guard Peter Paige, then…
Oct 23, 2026 · 3:10:18
Three FBI investigations show how patience, forensic science, and behavioral insight can break cases that seem unsolvable. A Marine captain's missing body is answered by a hidden…
Oct 23, 2026 · 1:27:34
In March 2025, detectives in Dayton, Ohio executed a search warrant on a home tied to a sexual assault investigation and illegal online activity, seizing phones and laptops from…
Oct 23, 2026 · 2:36:09
Detective Susan Logothetti, working a cold case in Everett, Washington, linked a DNA match to Mitchell Gaff, a registered sex offender who had been living quietly under a new…
Oct 22, 2026 · 1:50:35
This crime report follows a federal immigration operation in Marble Hill that ended in gunfire and public outrage, while a Bronx community mourns a young mother killed in a…
Oct 22, 2026 · 1:53:16
This story follows two scam baiters who trace the impersonators behind a fake Elon Musk operation after a woman in Austria asks for help with her sister in Texas, who is…
Oct 22, 2026 · 1:34:25
This account recounts how a Nigerian banker and his small team allegedly impersonated senior government officials to persuade a Brazilian bank executive to pour 242 million…
Oct 22, 2026 · 7:48:30
This narrative follows a Romanian businesswoman who lost more than two and a half million dollars to an impostor posing as the Crown Prince of Dubai, a deception sustained…
Oct 21, 2026 · 1:46:44
This account traces how Anetchi Ezra built the Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative into a trusted Michigan nonprofit, then, by her own guilty plea, spent years diverting…
Oct 21, 2026 · 5:13:54
This 60 Minutes Australia investigation follows the evolution of Nigerian scammers from crude advance fee emails into romance fraud, as the team stages an undercover sting in a…
Oct 20, 2026 · 4:45:30
Federal prosecutors allege that Nigerian developer Sapphire Egemasi, known online as the tech queen, built counterfeit government websites for a Ghanaian led network that stole…
Oct 20, 2026 · 51:54
Between 1977 and 1980, a violent Croatian nationalist faction operating in America extorted, bombed, and murdered fellow immigrants who refused to fund its cause, striking as far…
Oct 20, 2026 · 1:33:16
In September 1990, fishermen at Burns Cut in the San Joaquin Delta uncovered the dismembered remains of Stockton marijuana dealer Sammy McCullough, and a trail of forged vehicle…
Oct 18, 2026 · 1:25:09
This countdown ranks ten Nigerian nationals linked to some of the most damaging online and financial frauds in recent history, ordered by documented sums and adjusted for the…
Oct 18, 2026 · 29:27
In August 1992, sixty five year old Doe Roberts disappeared from her farm in Eads, Tennessee, and a string of ransom calls from a mysterious voice pulled the FBI and Shelby…
Oct 18, 2026 · 1:25:53
In the fall of 1995, a charming drifter named Glenn Rogers lured women in bars, killed four of them across California, Mississippi, Florida and Louisiana in just six weeks, and…
Oct 17, 2026 · 1:08:47
In July 1997, three young employees, Mary Caitrin Mahoney, Emory Allen Evans, and Aaron David Goodrich, were shot dead inside a Georgetown Starbucks during a failed robbery, a…
Oct 17, 2026 · 1:38:49
In June 1997, Iowa stepbrothers Jamie McMahan and Christopher Kauffman, driven by a methamphetamine habit and a craving for a green pickup, murdered two women who trusted them,…
Oct 16, 2026 · 7:02:29
This account traces the case of Danny Ray Horning, from the discovery of a dismembered body in a California river and the forensic work that tied him to the murder, through his…
Oct 16, 2026 · 4:08:09
Danny Ray Horning’s chilling story follows a convicted murderer whose daring prison escape unleashed a terrifying manhunt, multiple hostage incidents, and a wave of fear across…
Oct 14, 2026 · 8:23:16
The story follows the rise of Chippendales and the murder of Nick De Noia, a talented producer whose business success created a bitter conflict with his partner, Steve Baker…
Oct 14, 2026 · 4:16:28
The murder of David Wilkey was a carefully planned crime disguised as a hunting accident, driven by greed, betrayal, and an attempt to collect life insurance money. What…
Oct 14, 2026 · 6:30:17
The Brinks robbery began as a carefully planned armed heist that left a security guard and two police officers dead, exposing a hidden network of radical militants whose criminal…
Oct 13, 2026 · 5:38:20
This documentary account tells how a ruthless Indian immigrant gas station tycoon, known in the Sikh community as the Indian Godfather, used fear, murder, and a rigged pump fraud…
Oct 13, 2026 · 3:18:52
On November 28, 1994, a Wells Fargo armored van was hijacked at an Arizona mall and found abandoned at a church with driver John Mosh shot dead and about $920,000 missing. FBI…
Oct 13, 2026 · 4:49:22
The disappearance of Marine Caption Shirley Gibbs Russell in 1989 became one of America's most extraordinary murder cases, marked by a missing body, a missing weapon, and a…
Oct 12, 2026 · 7:23:54
In September 1984, eight year old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson disappeared in Arizona while riding her pink bicycle to mail a birthday card, leaving her family and community desperately…
Oct 11, 2026 · 5:49:00
In June 1996, Anne Marie Fahey, a young appointments secretary to the Delaware governor, vanished after ending a secret affair with Thomas Capano, a powerful and married…
Oct 11, 2026 · 3:36:44
This documentary account follows the 1995 hunt for Glenn Rogers, a charming drifter who met women in bars, then killed them and fled, leaving victims in California, Mississippi,…
Oct 10, 2026 · 2:48:42
This documentary account follows the manhunt for Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian writer and paroled murderer who strangled prostitutes across Czechoslovakia, Austria, and…
Oct 9, 2026 · 6:51:23
The story explores the life and crimes of Joseph Paul Franklin, a violent white supremacist whose racial hatred fueled a nationwide campaign of shootings and murders. Through…
Oct 8, 2026 · 5:21:21
This documentary account traces the hunt for Robert Hansen, an Anchorage baker and respected family man who secretly stalked, abducted, and murdered women across the Alaskan…
Oct 8, 2026 · 5:37:04
A notorious serial killer moved across Europe and America, murdering women and using their own clothing to hide his crimes while maintaining the image of a respected writer. When…
Oct 8, 2026 · 6:18:53
Glen Edward Rogers became the center of a nationwide murder investigation after a series of killings across several American states exposed a disturbing pattern of violence,…
Oct 7, 2026 · 4:44:55
The disappearance of eleven year old Brittany Martinez began as an ordinary spring evening in Elgin, Illinois, before an innocent bicycle ride became the opening chapter of a…
Oct 6, 2026 · 3:47:38
The Mir Aimal Kansi case follows a shocking attack outside CIA headquarters that transformed an ordinary morning commute into an international terrorism investigation. It traces…
Oct 6, 2026 · 3:36:04
The Robert Hansen case reveals the devastating consequences of overlooking vulnerable people and dismissing the voices of those who survive violence. It examines the failures,…
Oct 6, 2026 · 5:05:10
The story of Jeffrey and Jill Erickson reveals how ordinary lives can conceal devastating choices, as ambition, isolation, criminal partnership, and unchecked consequences…
Oct 5, 2026 · 4:57:05
A reflective examination of the moral and societal lessons revealed by the tragic relationship between Anne Marie Fahey and Thomas Capano, exploring power, secrecy, control,…
Oct 5, 2026 · 4:55:16
A reflective exploration of the moral, ethical, and societal questions surrounding the Vicki Lynn Hoskinson case, examining justice, evidence, grief, accountability, and the…
Oct 4, 2026 · 4:34:16
A reflective exploration of the moral and societal lessons emerging from the tragic case of Brittany Martinez, examining justice, family, evidence, responsibility, and the…
Oct 4, 2026 · 5:03:03
The story examines how desperation, pride, loyalty, and resentment can converge into choices with consequences far beyond the people who make them. It explores the moral…
Oct 4, 2026 · 5:16:52
This reflective narrative explores the moral and societal consequences of political violence, examining how conviction, justice, accountability, and compassion collide in the…
Oct 3, 2026 · 4:19:52
A haunting exploration of the moral consequences surrounding a calculated murder, where money, trust, fear, and human vulnerability converge with devastating consequences. The…
Oct 3, 2026 · 3:27:01
A quiet and deeply researched journey into the Croatian nationalist underground, its fractured networks, and the campaign of bombings, extortion, and violence that reached the…
Oct 2, 2026 · 4:04:41
A reflective examination of how political conviction can become corrupted by fear, coercion, and violence, leaving victims and communities to bear the consequences. Through the…
Oct 2, 2026 · 5:05:16
In 1984, Mario Portela, the 22-year-old son of a prominent Miami developer, was abducted at gunpoint outside his father's sales office, setting off a joint FBI and Metro-Dade…
Oct 2, 2026 · 2:51:31
The story of Charles Moses Jr. reveals the devastating consequences of violence, desperation, and choices made under pressure, while exploring the human cost carried by victims,…
Oct 2, 2026 · 3:48:18
The story of Charles Moses Jr. reveals how a chain of desperate choices can escalate into violence, tragedy, and a far reaching manhunt. Through the experiences of law…
Oct 2, 2026 · 4:19:56
This essay draws out the moral and societal lessons buried in the abduction and murder of Shannon Sanderson, finding them not in the verdict but in small, human details: a…
Oct 2, 2026 · 3:46:22
This reflective podcast segment gently dismantles the smoothed over popular retelling of the Railroad Killer case, correcting common errors about who was convicted of what, which…
Oct 1, 2026 · 2:39:27
A true crime narration exploring the 1986 killing of probation officer Thomas Gahl by parolee Michael Wayne Jackson, tracing the eleven day manhunt, its myths, and the people it…
Sep 26, 2026 · 1:54:04
A meticulously researched companion piece to the Wells Fargo armored car murder narration, returning to the exact hours of November 28th, 1994 to examine the crime scene itself,…
Sep 26, 2026 · 3:34:17
A two-part true crime audio script exploring the 1987 murder of South Carolina tobacco farmer Billy Graham by the foster son he raised, tracing the decade long murder for hire…
Sep 26, 2026 · 2:33:36
This essay draws thirteen interwoven lessons from the true story of Amy McNiel's 1985 kidnapping, examining decisions, characters, and consequences that carried moral weight far…
Sep 25, 2026 · 2:27:57
This reflective long form narration draws out the moral and societal lessons embedded in the 1996 Spokane bombings, tracing how a small cell of ideologically bound men,…
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