True Crime: Untold Cases
Everyone knows the headline-grabbing cases, but what about the mysteries that slipped through the cracks? True Crime: Untold Cases uncovers the forgotten files, overlooked evidence, and untold stories that time almost buried. Each week, we dive deep into cases that deserve a second look - from unexplained disappearances and mysterious tech crimes to unsolved murders that flew under the radar. These aren’t the cases you’ve heard a hundred times before. These are the stories that got lost in the shadows, waiting to be brought into the light.
Episodes

2 hours ago
2 hours ago
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and injured 3 others in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area during a three-week period in October 2002. This episode details the chronology of shootings, the investigation process, the modified Chevrolet Caprice used as a mobile sniper's nest, the tarot card message ("Dear Policeman, I am God"), and other communications with police.

5 days ago
5 days ago
Heather Elvis, a 20-year-old woman from Myrtle Beach, vanished in 2013. Her disappearance led to a media frenzy and widespread speculation when evidence later suggested a tangled web of infidelity, possible organized crime involvement, and questionable law enforcement leads.

Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
A controversial theory posits that a serial killer—or possibly a network of killers—was responsible for the mysterious drowning deaths of several college-aged men in the Midwest. Proponents point to unusual similarities in the circumstances of these deaths and the appearance of smiley face graffiti near some crime scenes.

Monday Mar 17, 2025
Monday Mar 17, 2025
Dozens of bodies—primarily of young women—have been discovered along the Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.

Saturday Mar 15, 2025
Saturday Mar 15, 2025
Twelve-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted at knifepoint from her Petaluma, California, bedroom during a sleepover on October 1, 1993. Richard Allen Davis took Polly into the night, sparking a massive manhunt. Her remains were found two months later, and Davis was eventually convicted. The case received intense national media coverage.

Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery driver Brian Wells robbed a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania, with a bomb locked to his neck. He claimed he was forced to commit the heist under duress. The bomb detonated during a police standoff, killing him. Investigators uncovered a web of conspirators allegedly led by Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. The group orchestrated an elaborate scavenger-hunt-like plot, sending Wells on a route to collect clues that would supposedly unlock the device.

Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Susan Powell disappeared from her West Valley City home on December 6, 2009. Her husband, Josh Powell, claimed he took their young sons on a midnight camping trip in freezing weather—an alibi that raised suspicion. When Josh later lost custody of the children, he killed himself and both boys in a murder-suicide house explosion. Susan’s body has never been found.

Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
On May 28, 1980, Dorothy Jane Scott vanished from a hospital parking lot in Anaheim, California, after accompanying a coworker to the emergency room. Dorothy had been receiving bizarre, threatening phone calls from an unknown male stalker for months. Her remains were discovered four years later; the killer was never identified.

Saturday Mar 08, 2025
Saturday Mar 08, 2025
On January 15, 1947, the body of Elizabeth Short, later nicknamed the “Black Dahlia,” was found in a vacant Los Angeles lot. She had been brutally mutilated and bisected at the waist. Despite widespread media coverage and a flood of tips, her killer was never definitively identified. Various suspects have been proposed over the decades, including medical professionals and people in Short’s social circle.

Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Wednesday Mar 05, 2025
Between 1972 and 1973, at least seven young women (most of them teenagers) were abducted and murdered while hitchhiking in or around Santa Rosa, California. The victims’ bodies were found in rural, wooded areas of Sonoma County. The killings drew comparisons to other West Coast serial offenders, but no single suspect was definitively identified or charged.