Crime House Daily

Crime House Daily

The biggest cases. The latest developments. Delivered every weekday, morning and night. Hosted by Katie Ring, Crime House Daily brings you twice-daily true crime updates on active investigations, headline trials, and breaking developments. Every morning, we give you the need-to-know with our First Watch episodes. And every evening? We go even deeper. Follow a case from the first 911 call to the final verdict with our Night Watch episodes. And on Sundays, don’t miss True Crime This Week episodes. A weekly drop hosted by Vanessa Richardson exploring the most unforgettable cases in true crime history, tied together by a chilling theme like serial killers, disappearances, and more. Crime House Daily is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. For more breaking news stories, follow us on TikTok and Instagram.

Episodes

November 1, 2025 84 mins
Here at Crime House, we love Halloween and we know you do too! Because you’re one of our most loyal fans, we’re treating you to a spooky bonus episode from our hit series, Clues. Join hosts Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore as they take a deep dive into the paranoia and chaos that consumed The Salem Witch Trials. From shocking murders to serial killers, Clues dives into all the forensic details and brilliant sleuthing of the world's ...
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He asked a victim if she recognized his voice. Years later, DNA answered: he was Grant Hardin, a cop, police chief, and convicted rapist. After pleading to murdering James Appleton in 2017 and being convicted of the 1997 rape of Amy Harrison, Hardin drew 80 years in prison. Yet in 2025 he turned a kitchen apron into a “vest,” a marker-dyed shirt into a “uniform,” and a soup-can lid into a “badge,” then sauntered out of a prison. Th...
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This Halloween, Katie breaks down cases that may sound like nightmares, but are very much real horrors. In Edna, Texas, 16-year-old cheerleader Lizbeth Medina missed her town’s Christmas parade. But then she was found mysteriously stabbed to death at home. Investigators say a stranger, Rafael Romero, had been lurking for weeks. Katie explains the police investigation that caught the killer stalker. Then in Milwaukee, 19-year-old Sa...
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Fifteen years. Twenty stab wounds. One official ruling that left her parents devastated. In 2011, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg was found in her Philadelphia apartment with a head laceration and 20 stab wounds: ten to the back of her neck, others to her chest and abdomen, and a fatal wound to the heart. Police initially labeled it a suicide at the scene. But the medical examiner ruled it a homicide…before changing it back to suicide ...
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From bottle service to burglary: Miami detectives say Angelina Esty targeted men leaving clubs and high-end hotels, going home with them, drugging them and allegedly walking out with thousands of dollars in luxury items. Then Katie investigates a tragedy in Reading, Pennsylvania, where investigators say Jose Luis Rodriguez confessed to killing Junior Cabrera-Colon and Geraldina Peguero Mancebo…and to drowning their 1-year-old, Jeyd...
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It’s the crime that shattered Memphis. 25-year-old Brandon Isabelle didn’t want to be a father…so he murdered his ex-girlfriend, Danielle Hoyle, and their newborn daughter, Kennedy, just two days after her birth. Prosecutors say he shot Danielle five times, dumped her body in a ditch, and then threw baby Kennedy by her leg into the Mississippi River before heading to his other girlfriend’s house like nothing happened. In this Night...
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In Utah, 15-year-old Nick Vetecnik had already faced unimaginable loss after both of his parents passed away. Known as a “gentle giant,” Nick was finally starting to rebuild his life when his best friend, Rowdy Aguilar, betrayed him and took his life. Then, in Idaho, Katie explores how a husband-and-wife duo turned faith into fanaticism. Jonathan and Jolene Harms wrote a 277-page “divine manifesto” calling themselves God’s chosen “...
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When 15-year-old Sarah Kopp met her 31-year-old PE teacher, she thought he was just being kind. What followed was years of manipulation, control, and abuse that changed the course of her life. Katie unpacks how Sarah’s teacher became her abuser, and the father of her children. Now, Sarah is fighting to make sure no child endures what she did. In tonight’s Night Watch episode, Katie traces Sarah’s journey from victim to survivor and...
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For her first case, Katie reveals how a young boy in Iowa became a real-life hero after saving his mother from a terrifying hostage situation. The boy heard her being abused throughout the night by a man, so when he went on the school bus the next morning, he did something courageous that sprang authorities into action. Then, Katie turns to Detroit, where a viral “feel-good” video changed Curtis Dixon’s life overnight, but also mad...
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Miami Hurricanes football standout Bryan Pata was months from the NFL when he was shot outside his apartment in 2006. Fifteen years later, former teammate Rashaun Jones was arrested and charged in the killing, but the case swerved again when ESPN reporters located a supposedly “deceased” eyewitness…alive. With the witness now deemed unfit to testify and prior statements set to be used at trial, Jones maintains his innocence as the ...
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In California, police say 29-year-old Varun Suresh used Megan’s Law listings to track down 71-year-old David Brimmer—then stabbed him to death, allegedly calling it “justice.” Suresh now faces murder and burglary charges as investigators probe his past and his vigilante motive. Meanwhile, Katie investigates a second case in Argentina, where the dismembered bodies of two young women and a teenage girl were unearthed behind a suburba...
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October 26, 2025 41 mins
On the scariest night of the year, two women met real-life terror. In 2008, Arpana Jinaga hosted a costume party in her Seattle apartment and was found strangled days later, her killer still unknown. On Halloween morning in 1981, Sister Tadea Benz was murdered inside her Amarillo convent, a case that may have ended with the wrong man executed. The scariest part of Halloween is knowing justice never came. Crime House Daily is a C...
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He wouldn’t talk after his arrest…but the data did. In the finale of our Idaho Student Murders series, we unpack what investigators uncovered about Bryan Kohberger’s alleged motive: unsettling internet searches, late-night car cleaning, Instagram follows and unanswered DMs to the victims, and a digital trail that points to obsession. With the trial moved to Boise and the death penalty on the table, Kohberger took a plea to avoid ex...
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Today, Katie digs into two disturbing cases of power and violence. First, the fall of Howard “Horrible Howie” Rubin, a wealthy Wall Street trader accused of luring vulnerable women into a Manhattan torture chamber with the help of his assistant. Now facing federal sex trafficking charges, and linked to dozens of potential victims, Rubin’s decades of abuse are finally catching up to him. Then, the heartbreaking story of June Bunyan,...
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In Part 4 of our five-part deep dive into the Idaho student murders, the investigation closes in on its prime suspect. Detectives trace the movements of Bryan Kohberger through the early-morning hours of November 13th, 2022: his phone going dark just before the murders, his car circling the neighborhood, and his suspicious return to the crime scene hours later. Each clue paints a clearer picture of a killer who may have been watchi...
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Today’s first case follows a shocking “family affair” murder that is headed back to court. Jeffrey Spence is accused of gunning down his daughter Caitlin’s drug dealer boyfriend, Kirby Carpenter, in a deadly plot that prosecutors say he carried out with Caitlin and her mother. After a dramatic mistrial fueled by Caitlin’s testimony against her own father, a new trial is set for 2026, where jurors will decide if Spence really pulled...
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In Part 3 of our five-part deep dive into the Idaho student murders, the investigation moves beyond the crime scene and into the chaotic world of online speculation. As police race to find the killer who brutally stabbed Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, a mysterious internet user known as “Pappa Rodger” begins posting disturbingly specific questions about the crime…including details never released to...
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In Iowa, 20-year-old Melody Hoffman, who lived with an intellectual disability, vanished after late-night messages. She was later found strangled and stabbed…a crime prosecutors say was planned by her ex-boyfriend McKinley Louisma and two accomplices. Investigators found a machete and bloodstained clothing in McKinley’s car. With two already convicted and serving life sentences, the final trial of Logan Kimpton is set for November ...
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The Idaho student murders left a small college town reeling, and nearly two years later, new details continue to emerge about what happened inside 1122 King Road. In Part 2 of our special five-part series, Katie takes us inside the house as investigators uncover a brutal crime scene that shocked even seasoned officers. As the search for clues begins, detectives find a mysterious knife sheath that could identify the killer, and a co...
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In Ohio, 32-year-old Angel Holland and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Aaron Stalling, were arrested last month after police say 3 children in their care were starved and abused. A 9-year-old weighing just 30 pounds arrived at the hospital in cardiac arrest and severe hypothermia. Katie breaks down the case against them while both suspects are jailed on high cash bonds, and doctors continue to fight to stabilize the kids. Meanwhile in F...
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