The Pet Cemetery Murders: Part 2
Part One left off with detectives certain that groundskeeper Brandon Nodier killed pet cemetery owner Dorothy Thompson — but unable to prove it. In Part Two, we dig into an even wilder theory: that Do...
30 Sep 39min
The Pet Cemetery Murders: Part 1
In 1985, two fishermen pulled a body wrapped in 200 pounds of chains from the Mississippi River. It was Dorothy Thompson, 63, who ran a strange and beloved roadside attraction outside New Orleans call...
23 Sep 29min
Who Killed Roxanne? How a podcast helped solve a 44-year-old Louisiana murder
In 1982, 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp was raped and murdered in the woods outside Covington, Louisiana. Her case went cold for over 40 years, derailed early on by a serial killer's false confession. Then...
16 Sep 35min
She Killed the Man Who Almost Killed Her: The Jema Heffernan Story, Part 2
Part One left off with Jema Heffernan taking in a man named Javon Donahue — and Javon nearly strangling her to death. In Part Two, that single act of violence hardens into a decade-long "hostage relat...
9 Sep 29min
She Killed the Man Who Almost Killed Her: The Jema Heffernan Story, Part 1
Lloyd Lockridge:Journalist Justine van der Leun set out to find the untold stories of women serving murder sentences after surviving years of abuse — women whose only official record reads "guilty," w...
2 Sep 27min
Colonel Dixie: The Murder of Liz Leverett
In the mid-1960s, McDonald's sued a tiny Mobile, Alabama fast-food chain called Colonel Dixie — over golden arches, green sidewalks, red and white trash cans, and a stolen operations manual. Colonel D...
26 Aug 32min
J.J.: The Undercover FBI Agent Who Took Down Len Davis and New Orleans' Dirtiest Cops
Len Davis was a New Orleans police officer known in the Desire projects as Robocop and the Desire Terrorist. In 1994 he ordered the murder of Kim Groves, a 32-year-old mother of three who had filed a ...
12 Aug 47min
