True Crime Blueprint
True Crime Blueprint takes you on a deep dive into the cases that changed how we understand murder, serial killers, and justice itself. From infamous names to crimes forgotten by time, each episode breaks down the facts, the evidence, and the real people behind the headlines.
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August 17, 2026 • 18 mins
An Unspeakable Orgy Of Violence: Denver's 1984 Hammer Murders
In January 1984, a stranger walked into four homes in the Denver suburbs over twelve days and used a hammer. Patricia Smith, a 50-year-old interior designer who had just started her own business, was killed in her Lakewood townhome in the middle of the afternoon. Six days later, Bruce, Debra, and Melissa Bennett were murdered in Aurora, and three-year-old Vanessa ...
In January 1984, a stranger walked into four homes in the Denver suburbs over twelve days and used a hammer. Patricia Smith, a 50-year-old interior designer who had just started her own business, was killed in her Lakewood townhome in the middle of the afternoon. Six days later, Bruce, Debra, and Melissa Bennett were murdered in Aurora, and three-year-old Vanessa ...
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August 10, 2026 • 22 mins
The Harold Shipman Story: Inside the Mind of Dr. Death
Harold Shipman was a family doctor in Hyde, a mill town outside Manchester, and for more than twenty years he was the most trusted man in it. He did house calls when nobody else did. He knew your family. He'd sit with you as long as you needed. He also murdered at least 215 of his own patients, most of them elderly women, in their own homes, and the paperwork waved him t...
Harold Shipman was a family doctor in Hyde, a mill town outside Manchester, and for more than twenty years he was the most trusted man in it. He did house calls when nobody else did. He knew your family. He'd sit with you as long as you needed. He also murdered at least 215 of his own patients, most of them elderly women, in their own homes, and the paperwork waved him t...
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August 3, 2026 • 22 mins
Stinky Piggy: The Robert Pickton Story
He grew up smelling like the animals he was raised alongside, teased at school for it, attached to a mother who cared more about her pigs than her sons' hygiene. Decades later, Robert Pickton would become the center of the largest serial murder investigation in Canadian history, a case that exposed just how easily police can look away when the victims are poor, addicted, and Indigenous....
He grew up smelling like the animals he was raised alongside, teased at school for it, attached to a mother who cared more about her pigs than her sons' hygiene. Decades later, Robert Pickton would become the center of the largest serial murder investigation in Canadian history, a case that exposed just how easily police can look away when the victims are poor, addicted, and Indigenous....
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July 20, 2026 • 24 mins
Married Into A House Of Predators: The Susan Cox Powell Case
In December 2009, Susan Cox Powell vanished from her home in West Valley City, Utah, leaving behind her purse, her wallet, and two young sons who would later tell investigators things no child should ever have to say. Her husband, Josh Powell, claimed he took the boys camping in a blizzard at midnight and came home to find her gone. What police uncovered instead wa...
In December 2009, Susan Cox Powell vanished from her home in West Valley City, Utah, leaving behind her purse, her wallet, and two young sons who would later tell investigators things no child should ever have to say. Her husband, Josh Powell, claimed he took the boys camping in a blizzard at midnight and came home to find her gone. What police uncovered instead wa...
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July 13, 2026 • 20 mins
Eight Bodies in Plain Sight: The Poughkeepsie Serial Killer
A quiet street two blocks from Vassar College. A family living inside a house that smelled bad enough to gag people on the sidewalk. And a father who spent two years sitting in rooms just feet away from eight bodies without ever knowing it. This is the story of Kendall Francois, the Poughkeepsie Killer, a 300-pound former Army recruit and middle school hall monitor ...
A quiet street two blocks from Vassar College. A family living inside a house that smelled bad enough to gag people on the sidewalk. And a father who spent two years sitting in rooms just feet away from eight bodies without ever knowing it. This is the story of Kendall Francois, the Poughkeepsie Killer, a 300-pound former Army recruit and middle school hall monitor ...
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June 29, 2026 • 20 mins
How the State Built a Killer: The Robert Alton Harris Case
On July 5th, 1978, sixteen-year-old best friends John Mayeski and Michael Baker were abducted from a Mira Mesa parking lot in San Diego, California, and murdered near Miramar Lake by Robert Alton Harris and his younger brother Daniel during the planning of a bank robbery. The investigation, the conviction, and the fourteen-year appeals process that followed produced ...
On July 5th, 1978, sixteen-year-old best friends John Mayeski and Michael Baker were abducted from a Mira Mesa parking lot in San Diego, California, and murdered near Miramar Lake by Robert Alton Harris and his younger brother Daniel during the planning of a bank robbery. The investigation, the conviction, and the fourteen-year appeals process that followed produced ...
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June 22, 2026 • 21 mins
The Gray Man of New York: The Albert Fish Story
Albert Fish was 64 years old when Detective William King caught him in December of 1934. He looked like somebody’s grandfather. He had murdered ten-year-old Grace Budd in 1928 at an abandoned house called Wisteria Cottage, and six years later he mailed her mother a letter describing the crime. This is the full deep-dive into the man known as the Gray Man, the Brooklyn Vam...
Albert Fish was 64 years old when Detective William King caught him in December of 1934. He looked like somebody’s grandfather. He had murdered ten-year-old Grace Budd in 1928 at an abandoned house called Wisteria Cottage, and six years later he mailed her mother a letter describing the crime. This is the full deep-dive into the man known as the Gray Man, the Brooklyn Vam...
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June 15, 2026 • 24 mins
Lies, a Fake Belly, and a Murder
In October 2020, Taylor Rene Parker drove to a small town in East Texas with a silicone belly under her shirt and a scalpel in her bag. By the end of that morning, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was dead and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage had been cut from her body. In this deep dive on True Crime Blueprint, we walk through the entire Taylor Parker fetal abduction case from the beginni...
In October 2020, Taylor Rene Parker drove to a small town in East Texas with a silicone belly under her shirt and a scalpel in her bag. By the end of that morning, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was dead and her unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage had been cut from her body. In this deep dive on True Crime Blueprint, we walk through the entire Taylor Parker fetal abduction case from the beginni...
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June 8, 2026 • 25 mins
Going Postal in Goleta: The Jennifer San Marco Story
On a January night, a former mail clerk drove from a small New Mexico town back to the Santa Barbara processing center she'd been quietly retired from a couple years earlier for being too sick to work. She had a 9mm pistol she bought legally at a pawn shop, a stack of notebooks full of grievances, and a plan she'd been building in her head since her mind started slipping i...
On a January night, a former mail clerk drove from a small New Mexico town back to the Santa Barbara processing center she'd been quietly retired from a couple years earlier for being too sick to work. She had a 9mm pistol she bought legally at a pawn shop, a stack of notebooks full of grievances, and a plan she'd been building in her head since her mind started slipping i...
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June 1, 2026 • 24 mins
The Plastic Coffin: Greed, Twins, and the Legacy of Sean Dugas
In August 2012, Sean Dugas, a well-loved former crime reporter and avid Magic: The Gathering collector in Pensacola, Florida, was beaten to death with a hammer by a pair of identical twin brothers who had been living in his home. His body was stuffed into a plastic container, sealed under a layer of concrete, and buried in a backyard in rural Georgia. The motive?...
In August 2012, Sean Dugas, a well-loved former crime reporter and avid Magic: The Gathering collector in Pensacola, Florida, was beaten to death with a hammer by a pair of identical twin brothers who had been living in his home. His body was stuffed into a plastic container, sealed under a layer of concrete, and buried in a backyard in rural Georgia. The motive?...
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May 25, 2026 • 28 mins
Mackenzie Shirilla and the Crash That Became a Murder Case
In the early morning hours of July 31, 2022, a black Toyota Camry rocketed down a dead-end industrial road in Strongsville, Ohio at 97 miles per hour and buried itself into a brick wall. Two young men died at the scene. The 17-year-old driver survived with three broken ribs, a fractured femur, and 8.1 grams of mushrooms tucked into her shirt. What investigators foun...
In the early morning hours of July 31, 2022, a black Toyota Camry rocketed down a dead-end industrial road in Strongsville, Ohio at 97 miles per hour and buried itself into a brick wall. Two young men died at the scene. The 17-year-old driver survived with three broken ribs, a fractured femur, and 8.1 grams of mushrooms tucked into her shirt. What investigators foun...
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May 18, 2026 • 31 mins
Burlap and Blueprints: The Gilgo Beach Serial Murders
Rex Heuermann was a Long Island architect with a wife, two kids, and a client list that included American Airlines and Nike. He was also a serial killer who murdered at least eight women and kept notes on it like a construction project. The Gilgo Beach case is terrifying on its own. The reason it took thirty years to solve runs straight through a corrupt police department...
Rex Heuermann was a Long Island architect with a wife, two kids, and a client list that included American Airlines and Nike. He was also a serial killer who murdered at least eight women and kept notes on it like a construction project. The Gilgo Beach case is terrifying on its own. The reason it took thirty years to solve runs straight through a corrupt police department...
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May 11, 2026 • 28 mins
Don King: The Story Behind the Hair, the Hype, and the Homicide
Before he was the man with the electric hair screaming "Only in America," Donald King was a numbers kingpin in Cleveland who killed two men and beat the system both times. This episode goes deep into the forgotten murders, the backroom judicial deals, the mob wars, and the extraordinary political connections that turned a convicted killer into one of the most po...
Before he was the man with the electric hair screaming "Only in America," Donald King was a numbers kingpin in Cleveland who killed two men and beat the system both times. This episode goes deep into the forgotten murders, the backroom judicial deals, the mob wars, and the extraordinary political connections that turned a convicted killer into one of the most po...
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May 4, 2026 • 27 mins
The Game That Never Ends: Chuck Dederich and the Synanon Cult
What started as a miracle on a Santa Monica beach became one of the most dangerous cults in American history. In 1958, a sober alcoholic named Chuck Dederich gathered a handful of heroin addicts in a small storefront and built something the medical establishment refused to: a community where broken people could get clean. It worked. LIFE magazine called it a tunne...
What started as a miracle on a Santa Monica beach became one of the most dangerous cults in American history. In 1958, a sober alcoholic named Chuck Dederich gathered a handful of heroin addicts in a small storefront and built something the medical establishment refused to: a community where broken people could get clean. It worked. LIFE magazine called it a tunne...
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April 27, 2026 • 28 mins
Corn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy Floyd
He robbed banks during the Great Depression, destroyed mortgage papers so regular people wouldn't lose their farms, and handed out cash to strangers on the side of the road. The FBI called him Public Enemy Number One. The people of Oklahoma called him a hero. Pretty Boy Floyd was one of the most complicated criminals in American history, and the story of his life...
He robbed banks during the Great Depression, destroyed mortgage papers so regular people wouldn't lose their farms, and handed out cash to strangers on the side of the road. The FBI called him Public Enemy Number One. The people of Oklahoma called him a hero. Pretty Boy Floyd was one of the most complicated criminals in American history, and the story of his life...
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April 20, 2026 • 34 mins
Grape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Jim Jones started with a dream that sounded reasonable. Racial equality. Communal living. Taking care of people the government forgot. In post-war Indiana, that message resonated. By the mid-1970s, the Peoples Temple had thousands of followers, serious political clout in San Francisco, and the ear of some of California's most powerful politicians.Then on N...
Jim Jones started with a dream that sounded reasonable. Racial equality. Communal living. Taking care of people the government forgot. In post-war Indiana, that message resonated. By the mid-1970s, the Peoples Temple had thousands of followers, serious political clout in San Francisco, and the ear of some of California's most powerful politicians.Then on N...
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April 13, 2026 • 23 mins
The Boy They Called Pee Wee: A Serial Killer's Origin Story
He weighed four pounds at birth, grew up without knowing his own name, and died in South Carolina's electric chair claiming he'd killed over a hundred people. Donald Henry Gaskins, nicknamed "Pee Wee" almost from his first breath, became one of the most prolific and disturbing serial killers in American history. This episode goes much deeper than the crimes themselv...
He weighed four pounds at birth, grew up without knowing his own name, and died in South Carolina's electric chair claiming he'd killed over a hundred people. Donald Henry Gaskins, nicknamed "Pee Wee" almost from his first breath, became one of the most prolific and disturbing serial killers in American history. This episode goes much deeper than the crimes themselv...
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April 6, 2026 • 30 mins
The Man Who Stole Trust: Inside the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme
Bernie Madoff stole sixty-five billion dollars. Not from banks. Not from governments. From his closest friends, from Holocaust survivors, from widows living off retirement savings, and from the Jewish philanthropic community he publicly championed for decades. He did it all while serving as chairman of the national stock exchange and advising the very regulators ...
Bernie Madoff stole sixty-five billion dollars. Not from banks. Not from governments. From his closest friends, from Holocaust survivors, from widows living off retirement savings, and from the Jewish philanthropic community he publicly championed for decades. He did it all while serving as chairman of the national stock exchange and advising the very regulators ...
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March 29, 2026 • 26 mins
Robin Hood Hills: The West Memphis Three Story
In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenagers were convicted. Eighteen years later, those three men walked free, as convicted murderers who pled guilty and say they didn't do it. And the DNA evidence? It pointed somewhere else entirely. This is the full story of the West Memphis Three, and honest answer: we still don't know exactly w...
In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenagers were convicted. Eighteen years later, those three men walked free, as convicted murderers who pled guilty and say they didn't do it. And the DNA evidence? It pointed somewhere else entirely. This is the full story of the West Memphis Three, and honest answer: we still don't know exactly w...
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March 9, 2026 • 35 mins
JonBenét: The Family, the Secrets, and the Case That Broke America
On the morning after Christmas 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her six-year-old daughter missing. By that afternoon, JonBenét was found murdered in the basement of their own home. Nearly thirty years later, nobody has been charged. In this deep dive, we go beyond the tabloid headlines and pageant photos to examine who the Ramseys really were, what the...
On the morning after Christmas 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her six-year-old daughter missing. By that afternoon, JonBenét was found murdered in the basement of their own home. Nearly thirty years later, nobody has been charged. In this deep dive, we go beyond the tabloid headlines and pageant photos to examine who the Ramseys really were, what the...
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