Episodes

March 1, 1932. The most famous man in America puts his twenty-month-old son to bed. By 10 PM, the nursery is empty. A ransom note on the windowsill. A homemade ladder against the house. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping had begun...

1977. Circleville, Ohio. An anonymous letter writer terrorizes a town for nearly two decades. Over 1,000 letters exposing affairs, corruption, and secrets. Then attempted murder. Mary Gillispie, a school bus driver, was accus...

January 9, 1947. Elizabeth Short walks into the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. She paces for four hours. Makes calls. Waits. At 10 PM, someone waves through the glass doors. She walks out. Turns south on Olive Street. Forty-e...

September 12, 1952. Seven people climb a hill in Flatwoods, West Virginia after watching a red light streak across the sky. At the top, they encounter something ten feet tall with a spade-shaped head, glowing eyes, and a meta...

November 15, 1966. Two young couples encounter a seven-foot creature with glowing red eyes and ten-foot wings at an abandoned TNT plant in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Over the next thirteen months, more than one hundred wi...

Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers mystery Scotland December 1900. Three experienced keepers James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald MacArthur vanished without trace from Eilean Mor island in the Outer Hebrides. No bodies foun...

Belle Gunness La Porte Indiana 1908. America's first prolific female serial killer. A lonely hearts scammer who lured at least 40 men to her farm with promises of marriage, poisoned them, bashed their skulls with a meat cleaver, and buried them in her hog pen. Then her farmhouse burned down with a …

Germany, 1922. Footprints in the snow leading to a farmhouse. None leading back. Someone walked out of the forest toward the Gruber family home and never left. Days later, all six people inside were murdered with their own fa...

Britain's most documented haunted house. The true story of the Enfield Poltergeist. August 1977, 284 Green Street, Enfield, London: 11-year-old Janet Hodgson's bed shakes. Knocking from inside walls. A police officer witnesses paranormal activity—chair slides 4 feet by itself, official report. 18 m…

December 4, 2024, 6:44 AM. Masked shooter kills UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Shell casings etched: "Delay. Deny. Depose." Five days later: 26-year-old arrested at McDonald's. Ghost gun, manifesto, $10K cash in backpac...

$14.6 billion in fraud. The 2025 DOJ Takedown, the largest ever. One billion catheters billed. A couple makes $615 million from fake wound care. While the government chases criminals, insurers legally deny billions in legitim...

December 4, 2024. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is killed outside a Manhattan hotel. Bullet casings read: "Delay. Deny. Depose." UnitedHealth's Facebook post gets 62,000 reactions...57,000 are laughing emojis. Supporter...

December 4, 1872. A ship appears on the horizon. No one at the wheel. No response to signals. The boarding party finds her: the Mary Celeste, drifting 400 miles east of the Azores. Ten people vanished: a captain, his wife, th...

The night before Thanksgiving, 1971. A man in a business suit. A bomb in a briefcase. $200,000 in twenties. And a jump into the freezing darkness over Washington state. This week on Mugshot Mysteries, we're diving into the on...

Between 1986-1989, eight young people were murdered or vanished along Virginia's Colonial Parkway. For 37 years, families sought answers. In January 2024, DNA identified a suspect: Alan Wade Wilmer Sr., a commercial fisherman who died in 2017. THE VICTIMS: Cathy Thomas (27) & Rebecca Dowski (21…

July 1, 1976. Bavaria, Germany. Twenty-three-year-old Anneliese Michel dies weighing 68 pounds after 67 exorcism sessions over ten months. Her parents and two Catholic priests believed they were saving her soul from demonic p...

In February 1959, nine experienced Soviet hikers cut through their tent from the inside and fled into the freezing Ural Mountains wearing only underwear. When searchers found their bodies weeks later, the scene was inexplicab...

The art is gone. The frames hang empty. But the real mystery isn't what happened that night in 1990—it's what happened after. In Part 3, we introduce everyone who touched this case: the street criminals who allegedly walked in, the made men who planned it, the associates who moved it, and the secur…

If you haven't listened to Part 1, start there. This week, we step deeper into Boston's underworld. March 18, 1990. Thirteen masterpieces worth $500 million vanished from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The FBI knows who did it—they just won't say. But all roads lead to organized crime. In Par…

March 18, 1990. Two men dressed as Boston police officers walk into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 1:24 AM. Eighty-one minutes later, they walk out with thirteen pieces of art worth over $500 million. No arrests. No r...

⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 In the 1980s, Eddie Dodson went from Melrose Avenue antique dealer to the most prolific bank robber in FBI history. Known as the "Gentleman Bandit," he robbed 64 banks in nine months with nothing but a Yankees cap, a note, …

⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 She wasn't a sharpshooter. She wasn't part of a gang. She wasn't even trying to make history. But Pearl Hart, stagecoach robber, courtroom rebel, and media darling, defied every expectation the frontier had for women in 189…

⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 Boston, 1920. Thousands crowded School Street with cash in hand—bank clerks, widows, dockworkers—all chanting one name: Charles Ponzi. For one blazing season, he was a financial messiah. Within months, his empire collapsed,…

⚠️ OLD FORMAT EPISODE - New listeners should start with Season 1, Episode 1 January 1928: New Yorkers awoke to a front page screaming DEAD! Beneath it was a blurred photo of a woman in the electric chair, captured at the moment of death. That woman was Ruth Snyder, a Queens housewife whose affair a…