Tell Me The Crime
One tells the crime. One hears it for the first time. Tell Me The Crime is a weekly true crime podcast where real-time reactions meet careful storytelling and the psychology behind the case.
Episodes
In February 1986, 29-year-old nursing director Sherri Rasmussen was found beaten and shot inside the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband, John. The LAPD decided that she had interrupted a burglary.
But Sherri’s parents believed the crime was personal. Before her death, she had been confronted by a woman with a complicated history with John, someone who had slept with him while he was engaged to Sherri....
Just after Christmas 2011, Russ Faria came home from a game night with friends and found his wife, Betsy, dead inside their Missouri home.
Police quickly decided that Russ had killed her. But four people said he had been with them that evening. Receipts, phone records, and surveillance footage supported his alibi. Meanwhile, the last person known to have seen Betsy alive had recently become the beneficiary of her $15...
A young woman is found dying on the side of a highway after an apparent hit-and-run. But when police try to identify her, they uncover something far stranger: multiple names, a mysterious past, and a life shaped by secrets that began when she was just a child.
In this episode of Tell Me the Crime, Feb tells John the story of Suzanne Sevakis, a woman whose true identity remained hidden for decades, and the disturbing ...
On December 7, 2009, Susan Powell vanished from her Utah home. Her purse, wallet, identification, and other belongings were still inside, but Susan, her husband Josh, and their two young sons were gone.
Josh returned hours later with an extraordinary explanation: he had taken the boys camping after midnight in the freezing desert while Susan slept at home. Then one of the children made a troubling comment about who h...
In today’s episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana about a man in Florida who spent nearly $200,000, mostly stolen from his family, on a webcam performer in Bulgaria whom he believed truly loved him.
His family protected him, paid for treatment, and gave him one final chance. Then they contacted her themselves to expose his lies.
Within weeks, all three were dead - and Grant Amato had disappeared.
Peter Porco was attacked in his bed with an axe. Despite catastrophic injuries, he got up, went downstairs, completed parts of his morning routine, and collapsed near the front door. His wife, Joan, was found alive upstairs.
In this episode, John tells Febriana the case of Christopher Porco, the 21-year-old accused of murdering his father and attempting to kill his mother. Police said Joan initially identified Christ...
Nineteen-year-old Ashley Wadsworth travelled from British Columbia to England to spend time with Jack Sepple, a man she had built a relationship with online. At first, it looked like a romantic adventure: sightseeing, smiling photos, and the excitement of finally being together in person.
But behind the pictures, the relationship became controlling and dangerous. Ashley decided she wanted to return home to Canada. Be...
In this episode of TMTC, John tells Febriana about Rachel Barber who was 15 years old and training full-time at a performing arts school in Melbourne when she told her boyfriend she had a job after class.
An old female friend was going to pay her a lot of money. Rachel didn’t say the woman’s name. Then she never came home.
In this episode, we cover the murder of Rachel Barber and the case against Caroline ...
Today's episode is one of the strangest and most unsettling cases we've covered so far: a woman who wrote a children's grief book after her husband's death, then was later convicted of murdering him.
Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, a Utah mother and real estate investor whose husband, Eric Richins, died from a lethal dose of fentanyl in 2022. At first, Kouri publicly presented herself as a grieving wid...
In 1983, Diane Downs drove to an Oregon hospital with her three children shot in the car. She said a stranger had attacked them on a rural road.
But her story quickly started to fall apart.
This week, we cover the Diane Downs case: the strange hospital arrival, her relationship with Robert “Nick” Knickerbocker, the children she may have seen as obstacles, and the daughter who survived long enough to tell t...
A mother is killed inside her own home. A father is shot and left for dead. Their daughter is upstairs, tied up, calling 911.
At first, it looks like a home invasion. But then the father wakes up, and the story starts falling apart.
In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we cover the Jennifer Pan case: the fake grades, fake university, fake work, hidden relationship, staged home invasion, and years of lies that led to ...
In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the disturbing case of Jean-Claude Romand, the French man who spent nearly eighteen years pretending to be a doctor and researcher connected to the World Health Organization.
His wife believed him. His children believed him. His parents, friends, and even people who trusted him with money believed him. But there was no real medical career, no WHO job, and no normal wor...
In this episode of Tell Me The Crime, we examine the devastating case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001. There was never any question that Andrea committed the act. The question was whether she was legally sane when she did it.
This case forces a difficult conversation about postpartum psychosis, religious delusions, criminal responsibility, and how the legal system should respon...
Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy’s case is one of the most disturbing we’ve covered.
It is about a teenage girl convincing her boyfriend to kill himself. But not just that. According to what Michelle later told a friend, when Conrad got scared and tried to back out, she told him to get back in.
This episode looks at the texts, the pressure, the promise, and the messages Michelle sent to friends before Conrad...
A family of four was murdered inside their Tokyo home.
Then the killer stayed.
He left behind blood.
Clothes.
A knife.
Fingerprints.
DNA.
Clues everywhere.
But more than twenty years later…
no name.
No arrest.
No answer.
This is the Setagaya Family Murder.
A neighbor asks for help. A veteran says yes. And within hours, two people are dead.
In this episode, we cover the murders of Sam Herr and Julie Kibuishi, a case involving trust, money, staged evidence, and a plan that briefly made one victim look like the killer.
Daniel Wozniak was days away from his wedding when Sam disappeared and Julie was found dead in Sam’s apartment. What looked at first like one story qu...
Her name was Laci Peterson.
She was eight months pregnant with a baby boy named Conner.
By the end of the day, her dog would be found wandering alone.
Her house would be empty.
And her husband would have a story that would raise more questions than answers.
Within days, the case would become a national obsession.
Because what looked like an ordinary holiday morning…
would unravel into something much ...
Travis Alexander’s friends knew something was wrong.
Not “murder” wrong.
But wrong.
She showed up unannounced.
She seemed to know things she should not know.
She inserted herself into his life even after the relationship was over.
Then Travis missed a trip.
His friends went to his house.
And they found him in the shower.
Stabbed more than 27 times
His throat cut.
Shot in the head.
And the woman eve...
He left to clear his head.
Just a short trip to a waterfall trail near Mount Salak.
A few hours passed.
Then he came home.
But when he walked through the door—
his family was already mourning him.
Because to them…
he had been gone for three months.
A woman goes out for a run… and disappears.
When her husband finds her phone, it’s lying on the ground.
With earbuds and hair stuck in them.
Three weeks later, she’s found on the side of the road.
Bruised. Beaten. Even Branded.
There's a chain around her waist… and a story about being kidnapped.
But the DNA evidence....tells a different story.
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