26-year-old "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd killed her two best friends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she stuffed both of them into trunks and loaded them on a train to Los Angeles. What the press assumed was a simple case of jealousy only got messier with each new version of the story Winnie told.
Sources for this episode include:

The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd by Jana Bommersbach The Arizona Memory Project

“Ruthless: A Long-Lost Confession Letter May Finally Tell the Real Story of Winnie Ruth Judd” by Robrt L. Pela (Phoenix New Times)

“'Trunk Murderess': Shocking new info about notorious Phoenix murders” by Meredith G. White (Arizona Republic)
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When McDonald’s ran its beloved 1990s Monopoly sweepstakes, Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson had one job: Protect the game pieces. Instead, he used his position as Head of Security to rig the game. For years. To the tune of over $24 million in cash and prizes.

Sources for this episode include:
"How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions." by Jeff Maysh The Daily Beast, July 29, 2018.

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When two members of the same family contract a mysterious illness, evidence points toward one lethal commonality: the manipulative matriarch, Audrey Marie Hilley. But once she’s caught, she escapes, evading capture for years by turning her life into a soap opera.

Sources for this episode include:

Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax by Philip E. Ginsburg
Hilley v. State
AP News Archives

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A boisterous entertainer and wannabe opera singer disappears from her London home. Before detectives find human remains in the basement, her mild-mannered husband flees across the Atlantic with his lover, in disguise.
Sources for this episode include:

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases by John Emsley

Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold“Was Dr Crippen innocent of his wife's murder?” (BBC)
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In 1980s Los Angeles, a charismatic prep-school hustler builds the Billionaire Boys Club—part investment syndicate, part illusion—until a high-stakes con, a missing mogul, and a pair of brutal murders expose how greed, privilege, and cocaine turned a fantasy of wealth into a deadly spiral.

Sources for this episode include:

Billionaire Boys Club (HBO)

“The True Story of the Billionaire Boys Club” (Esquire)

“Notorious founder of the Billionaire Boys Club wants parole.” (LA Times)

“Fast Cars, Armani Suits, Pretty Women: How the 'Billionaire Boys Club' Led to Murder” (People)

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A small Connecticut town witnesses its first murder ever. The culprit is an unlikely, quiet teenager who swears he was not in control of his own body. His supporters, however, think they know exactly what drove the young man to kill his victim: a case of demonic possession.

Sources for this episode include:

The Devil in Connecticut by Ed Brittle, Ed Warren, and Lorraine Warren
Lynn Darling’s reporting for The Washington Post

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How do you smuggle a convicted killer out of a maximum-security prison? Apparently, you just need a cardboard box, some packing tape, and a dog trainer nobody suspects.

Sources for this episode include:

Living With Conviction by Toby Dorr
Breakout (Dateline NBC)

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Dave thought he'd met his dream girl in Cari, but after she mysteriously breaks up with him and vanishes, Dave endures years of cruel text messages and emails.

Sources for this episode include:

A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisting Path to Justice by Leslie Rule
Lover, Stalker, Killer Directed by Sam Hobkinson (Netflix)
20/20, “Tangled Web”

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A Chicago respiratory therapist is brutally murdered in her apartment. Did her ghost solve her own case?

Sources for this episode include:
Teresita: The Voice from the Grave by John O’Brien and Edward Baumann
“A Chicago Murder Solved By a Ghost” (Chicago Tribune)
“Voice from grave names murderer, begs vengeance” (Boston Globe)

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One FBI agent called it the most bizarre kidnapping case ever investigated by the Bureau: In 1968, an escaped convict and his new girlfriend bury their hostage alive in an underground chamber.

Sources for this episode include:

83 Hours Till Dawn written by Gene Miller, in collaboration with Barbara Jane Mackle

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A seemingly heartbroken newlywed becomes the face of a shocking murder-for-hire plot—caught on tape before the crime can even happen. But as the trial unfolds, the real mystery isn’t what she planned, it’s how far reality can bend when everyone knows the cameras are watching.

Sources for this episode include:
Murder for Hire, "Crocodile Tears" (S1, E11 - 2019)
Cnapped, "Dalia Dippolito (S8, E10 - 2012)
"Murder Plots, Bumbling Cops, and Con Men: When Reality TV Goes Wrong" (VICE)
"Florida Woman Dalia Dippolito Uses Reality TV Defense in Murder for Hire Trial" (ABC News)
"Wife Accused in Plot to Kill Husband Speaks While on House Arrest" (ABC News, Interview)

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