Goldilocks: The Boy Behind the Wall | Daniel LaPlante
This October, Serial Napper is opening the storybook for another season of Serial Nightmare. This year, we're taking familiar fairy tales and looking at the very real cases that echo their darkest the...
2 Okt 54min
Inside the Disturbing World of the “Vampire King of Fresno”
On March 12, 2004, two women arrived at a converted commercial building in Fresno, California, with one goal: they wanted their children back. Inside was their extended family, led by 57-year-old Marc...
29 Sep 59min
He Woke Up to His Mother on Fire: The Michael Politte Case
Fourteen-year-old Michael Politte woke to smoke filling his bedroom. His friend Josh was asleep on the floor nearby, and an orange glow was coming from underneath his mother's bedroom door. When Mich...
25 Sep 46min
He Told Police He’d Been Stabbed. Then They Handcuffed Him: Henry Nowak Was Dying
Eighteen-year-old Henry Nowak had only recently started his first semester at the University of Southampton. He was studying accounting and finance, playing football, making new friends and building a...
22 Sep 58min
We’re Here for the Party: Yoshihiro Hattori's First American Halloween
On October 17th, 1992, 16-year-old Yoshihiro “Yoshi” Hattori was getting ready for his first real American Halloween party. Yoshi had recently arrived in Louisiana from Japan as an exchange student. ...
18 Sep 1h 4min
The Story Behind the Interrogation: What Happened to Ryan Waller & Heather Quan?
On Christmas night in 2006, Ryan Waller’s parents became worried when their 18-year-old son didn’t show up for dinner and stopped answering his phone. They drove to the Phoenix home he shared with his...
15 Sep 50min
The Deleted Emails: The Sharon Lopatka Story
In October of 1996, 35-year-old Sharon Lopatka told her husband she was leaving their Maryland home for a short trip to visit friends in Georgia. But Sharon wasn't going to Georgia. She left her car ...
11 Sep 59min
What Happened on the 25th Floor?: The Tragic Stories of Josh and Amber Hilberling
On June 7th, 2011, a maintenance worker was repairing a broken window inside a 25th-floor apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he heard a couple arguing in the next room. Then came another crash. Withi...
8 Sep 1h 4min
