Crime Scene: True crime stories and investigations
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Crime Scene: True crime stories and investigations
True crime stories investigated one at a time. Crime Scene takes in-depth looks at murders, both solved and unsolved, and the process of investigating, litigating and living life after those crimes.
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'Shots fired:' Listen as cops respond to toddler's death
Scanner traffic on the day of two-year-old Gabriella's death reveals how police responded to the initial call, finding the toddler unresponsive and de...
5 top criminal justice misconceptions
Movies and television shows have been lying to us about criminal justice. Historical criminologist Fritz Umbach details the five top criminal justice...
The mass murder and animal cruelty connection
The connection between animal cruelty and murder is now a commonly accepted fact. The FBI began tracking animal cruelty cases in 2016, but that might...
Paying the price of police work
What is the cost of a life spent in law enforcement? Not the salary and benefits, but the physical and mental toll being a cop takes on members of the...
Brothers in trauma: Police officers and PTSD
Three cops, all friends, and all survivors of devastating injuries. But it's not the physical pain but the emotional challenges they have to overcome....
The case of the cannibal school teacher
In 1979, Albert Fentress abducted, abused, mutilated, murdered and then ate parts of an 18-year-old boy. But before he did all that he wrote a movie s...
UPDATE: Female serial killers
A quick update on last week's episode - I asked developmental psychologist Sasha Reid to talk a bit about why there are so few female serial killers,...
Recipe for a serial killer
Could you create a serial killer? Or, perhaps more importantly, could you "fix" a potential serial killer before he becomes the monster? In this episo...
UPDATE: How to get a confession
In this short update, we hear how former NYPD homicide detective Jim Davis got Sunset Bay Jr. to confess to the rape and murder of Roberta Fort. If yo...
The rape and murder of Roberta Fort
In 1975, the body of Roberta Fort was found in a pool of blood. Follow along with the original lead detective on the case as he walks through the inve...
BONUS: Race, racism and serial murder
We want to believe that all murders are created equal. We'd like to think that, in 2017, the response to one tragedy will be the same as the response...
The typical serial killer: How preconceived ideas let murderers go free
In the latest episode of Crime Scene, we try to untangle preconceived ideas around serial murder, using the science of statistics to delve into the ha...
Inside the mind of sexual serial killers
Police still don't know the identity of Robert Shulman's second victim, found mutilated behind a Yonkers pizza place 25 years ago. In this episode, Cr...
Belton Lee Brims and the cinema of prison escape
The story of how Belton Lee Brims murdered two people is how this story begins. His capture — and later re-capture — has become the stuff of local lor...
'Two legs sticking out of a garbage bag' - Update
State Police have released the 1987 transcript of a call to authorities in New Mexico detailing the location of a dead body on Interstate 95. This is...