Crime Clueless

For sixteen years, the disappearance of Mike Williams sits unsolved — a mother's letters to the governor, a reopened investigation, and still, no answers. Then, in the summer of 2016, something happens that has nothing to do with Lake Seminole at all. And everything changes.

In Part Two, we follow the confession that finally broke a seventeen-year silence, the search that found what a 44-day effort never co...

December 16, 2000. Before sunrise, Mike Williams loads his boat and heads out onto Lake Seminole — a lake he's hunted a hundred times before, on a morning that's supposed to end with an anniversary dinner. He never makes it home.

What follows is a 44-day search across a reservoir riddled with submerged stumps and alligators, a discovery that seems to close the case for good, and a legal ruling that moves fa...

Steven Koecher's phone has gone silent, his family is left with more questions than answers. What investigators find years later — buried, hidden, and nearly destroyed by time — changes everything about how this case should have been handled from the start.

This episode picks up right where the story left off, following the trail into a landlord facing serious felony exposure at the exact moment Steven needed money more...

In December 2009, a 30-year-old man named Steven Koecher parks his car at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a Henderson, Nevada retirement community — and walks out of frame forever.

No struggle. No body. No answers. But in the days before he vanished, Steven put well over a thousand miles on his car for reasons he never explained to a single person, and on the day he disappeared, witnesses heard him say something that still d...

On the morning of February 4, 2015, 18-year-old Sara Nicole Graham left her home in Fairmont, North Carolina, to go to work. She never arrived.

Hours later, her father’s white Chevrolet Astro van was found locked and abandoned in a wheat field off East McDonald Road. There were no signs of a crash, no evidence of a struggle, and no explanation for why the van was there — or where Sara had gone.

He built the scene before he ever needed it. Then he found out how well the story worked.

Edmonton, Alberta. A married father with a failing production company, a growing obsession, and a garage full of secrets. A detective who doesn't buy the story.

A document buried on a laptop that reads like a confession dressed up as fiction.

This is the man behind the mask — and the trial that finally caught up to him. Press play to fin...

It starts with a message. A little hope, after a hard year. A date that feels, finally, like something good.

It doesn't stay that way.

Edmonton, Alberta. October 2008. A residential garage on the city's south side. Instructions that seem careful, reasonable, easy to follow — a partly open door, a walk across a dark backyard, a knock.

Behind that door is nothing anyone could have prepared for.

This is the beginning of one of C...

On April 15, 2005, Centre County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Ray Gricar took the day off, told his girlfriend he was going for a drive, and was never seen again.

His car was found locked the next day outside an antiques mall, his cell phone still inside — but his keys, wallet, and laptop were gone.

In Part One, we dig into Ray Gricar's twenty-year career as DA, the frantic first weeks of the search, an eerily similar case...

Years after Ray Gricar vanished without a trace, a disturbing discovery about his own computer reopens the case in a whole new light.

A scandal connects his name to one of the biggest in American sports history.

In Part Two, we trace the twists that followed the Centre County DA's 2005 disappearance: a missing hard drive, a fractured law enforcement community, an infamous case Gricar once declined to prosecute, and a theory tying h...

Last episode, we told you who Patsy Wright was. Today, we go looking for who killed her.

In part two, the suspects are named and the cards go on the table — one by one, with everything pointing toward them and everything that gives you pause.

A brother-in-law with a financial deadline two weeks away, and debt stacking up.

An ex-husband who told his own wife he knew people who could get someone snuffed out, had a looming trial...

Patsy Wright had everything going for her. A thriving business, a dream ranch on the horizon, a cutting horse she'd competed on and won with, and a life that was finally — after two marriages, an inheritance battle, and years of careful building — moving exactly in the direction she wanted.

On the evening of October 22nd, 1987, she came home from a Halloween party at her family's wax museum in Grand Prairie, Texas. She ...

For decades, the domestic violence movement has operated on a familiar script: abuser is bad, survivor should leave, and the system's job is to punish after the fact. Liz Ortenburger, CEO of SafeNest — Nevada's largest domestic and sexual violence nonprofit, serving Clark County since 1977 — has spent the last ten years challenging that script from the inside.

In this conversation, Liz walks us throug...

Barbara Mae Tucker was 19 years old — a business student at Mount Hood Community College, a former high school athlete, the baby of a big, blended family — when she was murdered walking to a night class on January 15th, 1980.

In her final minutes, multiple drivers saw her flagging down cars on a road at the edge of campus. Not one of them called police.

What followed was one of the largest investigations Gresham, Oregon...

This is part two of two, if you haven't, listen to part one, then come back to hear the shocking conclusion.

For years after Barbara Mae Tucker's murder in Gresham, Oregon, her case sat alongside a growing list of other unsolved local homicides — a running wound for a family, and a community, that never stopped waiting for answers.

Her mother died without knowing. Her father died without knowing. Her sister spent decades call...

In April 2010, Eric Preimesberger — a 29-year-old father of two known for his big smile and his beloved scooter — vanished from his Reno, Nevada home. His wife told police he'd stormed out after an argument and would never be back. For months, that was the only story anyone had.

But Eric's mother never bought it. She kept pushing, kept calling, kept refusing to let her son's disappearance quietly fade...

If you've been following the Josh Hunsucker case, you know he was arrested for his wife Stacy's death in 2019. What happened in the years after — while he waited, out on bond, for a trial that still hasn't happened — is a story we weren't prepared for either.

This week, we're covering everything that unfolded between his arrest and today: an ongoing wrongful death lawsuit from Stacy's parents, a change-of-venue fight bu...

Two weeks after a South Carolina eye drop poisoning case made national headlines, a flight paramedic's wife collapsed at their North Carolina home and died of an apparent heart attack — plausible, given her years of unexplained cardiac issues.

Josh Hunsucker refused an autopsy, had his wife cremated within two days, and filed for her life insurance before the week was out.

It would take a mother's suspicion, a preserved blood...

In May 2016, Lana Clayton walked into the York County Sheriff's Office and told deputies she'd accidentally shot her husband in the head with a crossbow while he slept. Steven Clayton backed up her story. Accident. No charges were filed. They moved on.

Two years later, Steve was dead — found at the bottom of the staircase in the South Carolina mansion he'd built as an exact replica of George Washington's Mo...

For over a decade, Sheriff Howard Sills has carried the unsolved murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond with him — a case that's outlasted every other investigation of his forty-year career. In this episode, we go deep into the man behind the badge, the staggering range of theories the public threw at this case — mafia, cult, extremism, even an alligator — and the family who's spent twelve years asking not f...