The Child on Trial
In 1929 Kentucky, a six-year-old boy picked up his father’s shotgun—and changed American legal history.When little Carl Newton Mahan shot and killed eight-year-old Cecil Darnell after a fight over scr...
16 Nov 202531min
The Lufthansa Heist: The Mafia Robbery That Changed New York
In December 1978, a crew of mobsters slipped into JFK Airport and pulled off the largest cash robbery in American history. They stole nearly $6 million in unmarked bills and jewels from a Lufthansa va...
12 Nov 202529min
The Freeway Phantom: Washington’s Forgotten Serial Killer
Between 1971 and 1972, six young girls vanished from Washington, D.C.Their bodies were found along the highways leading out of the city — discarded like they didn’t matter. The press called him The Fr...
9 Nov 202529min
The West Mesa Bone Collector: 11 Women, One Desert, No Arrests
In 2009, a woman walking her dog in Albuquerque stumbled across a human bone in the desert. What followed would become one of the largest crime scenes in U.S. history. Eleven women and one unborn chil...
5 Nov 202529min
Elliot Castro: The Boy Who Outsmarted the Banks
In the late 1990s, a Scottish teenager named Elliot Castro discovered just how easy it was to cheat the system. What began with a stolen credit card quickly escalated into an international crime spree...
2 Nov 202529min
The Great Escape from Alcatraz: America’s Most Daring Prison Break
On the night of 11 June 1962, three inmates carried out the most daring prison break in American history — and vanished without a trace. Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin spent months...
29 Okt 202531min
Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Killer Who Terrorised Australia
Australia’s most infamous serial killer left a trail of terror that changed the country forever. In the early 1990s, Ivan Milat, later dubbed The Backpacker Killer, stalked young travellers hitchhikin...
26 Okt 202534min
The Denver Spiderman: The Murder That Came From the Ceiling
In 1941, a quiet Denver street became the centre of one of the strangest murder cases in American history. A killer hid for months in a cramped crawlspace above his victim’s home — listening, waiting,...
22 Okt 202529min
