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

Travis Walton: Abducted by a UFO | Crimes Of…

December 26, 2025 • 73 mins
In 1975, 22 year-old Travis Walton was struck by a blinding light in the Arizona forest and vanished without a trace. Five days later, he returned with a story that defied belief. In this episode of Crimes Of… Sabrina and Corinne uncover the truth behind the Travis Walton Incident: the alien abduction case that made headlines and still haunts UFO history.Follow Crimes Of… on your podcast app: https://play.megaphone.fm/l-fgzmmsrty0m...
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The Oslo Plaza Woman | Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes

December 25, 2025 • 39 mins
In 1995, a woman checked into Oslo’s Plaza Hotel under a fake name. Days later, she was found dead in her room: no ID, no fingerprints, and no one looking for her. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes, we investigate the chilling mystery of the Oslo Plaza Woman and why some believe she wasn’t just hiding… she was hunted.Follow Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes on your podcast app: https://play.megaphone.fm/m...
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Laci Peterson | Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore

December 24, 2025 • 77 mins
She was vibrant, loved, and days away from motherhood. He was calculating, distant, and hiding more than one secret. This episode of Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore dissects the chilling puzzle behind Laci Peterson’s murder—and the evidence that finally exposed the man behind it. Morgan and Kaelyn examine how a wandering dog, a secret boat, and one woman’s brave confession cracked open the case.Follow Clues on your podcas...
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HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Santa Claus Massacre Part 2 | Murder: True Crime Stories

December 23, 2025 • 38 mins
On Christmas Eve 2008, the Ortega family gathered at their home in Covina, California, for their annual holiday celebration. Laughter, food, and music filled the night—until a man dressed as Santa Claus knocked on their door. In Part 2 of The Santa Claus Massacre, Carter Roy reveals the shocking and tragic events that unfolded that night, when 45-year-old Bruce Pardo—Sylvia Ortega’s embittered ex-husband—turned holiday cheer into u...
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HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Santa Claus Massacre Part 1 | Murder: True Crime Stories

December 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Christmas is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year — but for Bruce Pardo, the holidays brought something far darker. After losing his marriage, his family, and even his dog, Bruce’s bitterness turned deadly. In this first part of our Christmas Crime Special, we meet the Ortega family — a loving, tight-knit clan from Covina, California. When Sylvia Ortega met Bruce, she believed she’d finally found her happily ever afte...
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True Crime This Week: Christmas Disappearances

December 21, 2025 • 53 mins
In 2002, Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant, vanished from her home in Modesto, California. Her husband, Scott Peterson, claimed he’d gone fishing—but as investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a web of lies, infidelity, and murder that captivated the world.Then, we travel back to 1945, when five children from the Sodder family vanished after a mysterious house fire in West Virginia. Decades later, their disappearance remains un...
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Night Watch: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Part 5

December 19, 2025 • 37 mins
Tonight, our Diddy series reaches its finale. We unpack Jane Doe’s testimony in full, including the “love contract,” the hotel nights she says turned into obligation, and the chilling ways coercion showed up even after Diddy’s arrest. Then we track the closing arguments, the jury’s reasoning, and the verdict that left the courtroom divided. And just as the trial dust settles, 50 Cent and Netflix light the fuse again, dropping a new...
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First Watch: Surfers in Baja Lured and Killed…For Tires?

December 19, 2025 • 27 mins
A Georgia firefighter and his wife are found shot to death in their living room, while their toddler is discovered the next morning in blood-soaked pajamas. Katie breaks down the prior harassment tied to the home, the Pentagon stabbing carried out by the suspect’s brother, and the bench trial that resulted in two life sentences plus additional years. Then, in Mexico, three friends surfing in Baja never make it back. Their truck is...
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Night Watch: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Part 4

December 18, 2025 • 26 mins
Part 4 of our Diddy series spotlights the trial’s biggest star witness: Kid Cudi. On the stand, the rapper walks through the alleged threats, the Cassie-linked break-in, and the moment his Porsche was torched with a Molotov cocktail, details prosecutors leaned on to paint a racketeering pattern. We also hear from ex-assistant Capricorn Clark, who says Diddy forced her into a terrifying revenge scheme at gunpoint. With fresh courtro...
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First Watch: She Went on a Cruise and Never Came Home: Anna Kepner

December 18, 2025 • 21 mins
A Caribbean family vacation turns tragic when 18-year-old Anna Kepner disappears overnight on a Carnival cruise and is later found dead, wrapped in a blanket under a stateroom bed. As her community mourns, new custody filings and leaked details show why investigators are scrutinizing her 16-year-old stepbrother and what her ex-boyfriend says happened before she vanished. Then, Katie investigates a case In Chicago, where 26-year-ol...
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Night Watch: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Part 3

December 17, 2025 • 30 mins
Part 3 of our Diddy trial deep dive centers on the defense’s sweeping cross-examination of Cassie Ventura, where her private texts, freak-off messages, and relationship history are reframed as “consent.” Katie breaks down why those same messages can read as survival inside coercive control, and how the defense’s timeline-scrambling strategy aims to create doubt. Then, the case widens as other witnesses take the stand: singer-songwr...
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First Watch: Danny Masterson Fights Conviction & Munchausen Mom Faces Justice

December 17, 2025 • 24 mins
Danny Masterson, the former That ’70s Show star and longtime Scientologist, is serving 30 years to life for rape and is now trying to overturn his conviction by blaming his attorney and the focus on Scientology. Katie breaks down the allegations, the church’s alleged involvement, the retrial that sent him to prison, and what his new habeas petition claims. Then in Indiana, 32-year-old Alanna Brown spent years insisting her toddler...
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Night Watch: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Part 2

December 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Diddy’s federal trial has entered its most explosive phase, and tonight we’re zeroing in on the witness who cracked this case wide open. In Part 2 of our five-episode deep dive, Katie breaks down Cassie Ventura’s harrowing four-day testimony, delivered while she was more than eight months pregnant. Cassie takes the jury through how a 19-year-old rising artist became trapped for over a decade in a world of control, violence, drugs, ...
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First Watch: Slender Man Stabber Escapes & “Last Chance U” Murder

December 16, 2025 • 28 mins
An 11-year-old Slender Man case returns to the headlines when Morgan Geyser cuts off his ankle monitor, escapes a Wisconsin group home, and is found sleeping outside a Chicago truck stop with an older companion he met at church. Katie breaks down how a shared delusion led to the near fatal stabbing of Payton Leutner, Morgan’s years in a state hospital, and what this escape could mean for his future. Then we go to Oakland, where La...
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Night Watch: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Part 1

December 15, 2025 • 33 mins
He was hip-hop’s ultimate power broker, until the whispers became lawsuits, raids, and a blockbuster federal case. In Part 1 of our five-episode deep dive, Katie Ring rewinds to the beginning of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ story: the Bad Boy Records rise, early scandals, and the long shadow of allegations that trailed him for decades. Then we track the turning point: Cassie Ventura’s claims, the hotel security footage Diddy allegedly tried...
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First Watch: Ex-NBA Star Pat Bev Attacks Sister & Teacher’s 60 Illegal Love Letters

December 15, 2025 • 20 mins
In today’s first case, Katie looks into an assault in Texas, where former NBA guard Patrick Beverley is facing felony charges after police say he choked, dragged and beat his 15-year-old sister. What began as a reprimand spiraled into a full-blown assault that her boyfriend witnessed in real time.  And in South Carolina, an award-winning elementary school teacher secretly showered an 11 year old student with gifts, handwritten let...
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True Crime This Week: Famous Kidnappings

December 14, 2025 • 48 mins
This week in crime history, we revisit two of the most infamous kidnappings that shocked the world. In 1973, 17-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of one of the world’s richest men, was freed in southern Italy after five harrowing months in captivity. His ordeal exposed the cold greed and dysfunction of America’s wealthiest family.Then, we travel back to 1927 Los Angeles, where 12-year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her sc...
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Night Watch: Shot Through a Closed Door: The Ajike Owens Case

December 12, 2025 • 25 mins
In a courtyard where kids gathered to play, resentment turned deadly. Ajike “AJ” Owens had spent years navigating a neighbor who hurled slurs, made threats, and called police anytime the children stepped outside. After that neighbor injured AJ’s son with a roller skate, AJ walked to her door demanding answers. Susan Lorincz responded with a bullet fired through a locked door. Katie breaks down the case that rejected “stand your gro...
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First Watch: Methanol Coverups in Laos & a Montana Killer Called Out in Court

December 12, 2025 • 27 mins
A dream backpacking adventure in Southeast Asia ends in tragedy when free shots at a busy Laos hostel leave multiple tourists critically ill and three young women dead, including 19-year-old Australians Holly Morton Bowles and Bianca Jones, while grieving families fight for justice amid silence from local authorities. Later, Katie examines the haunting case of 35-year-old Montana contractor Dustin Kjersem, whose girlfriend discover...
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Night Watch: The Yogurt Shop Murders: Suspected Killer Named 34 Years Later

December 11, 2025 • 36 mins
In tonight’s Night Watch, Katie breaks down one of Texas’ most haunting cases: the 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders. Four teenage girls were bound, assaulted, shot, and left in a burning yogurt shop, launching a massive task force and decades of fear in the community. Katie traces how investigators turned to the Reid Technique, extracted detailed confessions from four young men, and secured convictions despite a total lack of physical evid...
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