Mugshot Mysteries

September 29, 1982. A twelve-year-old girl takes one Tylenol for a sore throat and never wakes up. Six more strangers die across Chicago suburbs in three days. Same brand. Different stores. No connection except a bottle on a shelf.

Someone replaced acetaminophen with potassium cyanide at three times the lethal dose and returned the capsules to store shelves. No manifesto. No motive ever proven. No arrest. No conviction. One of Ameri...

July 15th, 1997. Gianni Versace, the man who dressed Princess Diana, Madonna, and Tupac, who built the supermodel era, who chose the face of Medusa as his logo, is shot twice on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by a 27-year-old serial killer from San Diego named Andrew Cunanan. 

Cunanan was already four murders deep into the most sensational FBI manhunt of the 1990s. And the bureau had completely failed to stop him. 

In Part One,...

July 15th, 1997. Gianni Versace, the man who dressed Princess Diana, Madonna, and Tupac, who built the supermodel era, who chose the face of Medusa as his logo, is shot twice on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by a 27-year-old serial killer from San Diego named Andrew Cunanan.

Cunanan was already four murders deep into the most sensational FBI manhunt of the 1990s. And the bureau had completely failed to stop him.

In Part One, K...

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.

Charles Lindbergh was not just a celebrity. In a country devastated by the Great Depression, he was proof the American Dream still worked. Then someone took his baby.

What followed was one of history's mos...

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 accused of having an affair with school superintendent Gordon Massie. Her husband Ron received threatening letters. In August 1977, Ron told his children he knew who the writer was, grabbed his gun, and left. He neve...

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-eight hours later, her body is found cut in half on a vacant lot.

This episode reconstructs Elizabeth Short's final 48 hours in real time. One hour of her life equals one minute of runtime. We walk backward ...

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 metallic body. They run in terror. Several begin vomiting.

To understand what happened, you need to understand 1952 America. The Soviets had the bomb. Boys were dying in Korea. UFOs appeared on radar over Washington...

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 witnesses report seeing the same impossible entity. Then, on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapses during rush hour, killing forty-six people. The sightings stop.

Was the Mothman a harbinger of disaster? ...

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 found. No distress signals. Just a stopped clock, an unlit lamp, and one missing oilskin coat. Official explanation: rogue wave swept them into the Atlantic. Locals say the island took them back. One of history&apo...

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 headless woman inside five inches too short and fifty pounds too light to be Belle. Did she die in that fire or escape with a suitc...

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 farm tool. The killer stayed for days afterward, sleeping in their beds, eating their food, feeding their animals. This is the Hinterkaifeck murders, Germany's most disturbing unsolved case.

THE CAS...

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 months of supernatural events: ghostly possession, levitating children, flying furniture, horrifying voice claiming to be a dead...

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 backpack. 57,000 laughing reactions. $1M defense fund. The case that divided America.

THE CRIME: Nov 24: Arrives NYC via Greyhound | Nov 30: Checks in as "Mark Rosario" | Dec 4, 6:44 AM: Shoots...

$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 legitimate claims. Using AI. With 90% error rates. When a UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed, 57,000 reacted with laughing emojis. This episode explains why.

WHAT WE COVER:

Criminal Fraud: Operation Gold Rush: Russian orga...

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. Supporters raise over $1 million for the suspect's defense. How did American healthcare get so broken that tens of thousands cheered a CEO's death?

This is the 96-year history that explains the r...

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, their two-year-old daughter, seven experienced sailors. The cargo of 1,701 barrels sits untouched. Six months of food and water remains. Personal belongings lie undisturbed. But the lifeboat is gone. And everyone...

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 only unsolved air piracy case in American history, the legend of D.B. Cooper (or Dan Cooper, because the media got his name wrong from day one).

Join us as we break down how a polite, bourbon-sipping hijacker ...

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) - Oct 1986
• David Knobling (20) & Robin Edwards (14) - Sept 1987
• Keith Call (20) & Cassandra Hailey (18) - April 1988 (sti...

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 possession. Medical professionals believed she was a mentally ill young woman who needed psychiatric care.

This Halloween, we present both sides with equal weight—the evidence for possession and the psychological...