Crimes of Passion

Parcast

The podcast where true love meets true crime.

  • 47 minutes 12 seconds
    Date Night Ends in Murder Mystery

    Professional cyclist Anna Moriah “Mo” Wilson was staying at a friend’s Texas apartment before a race in May 2022. After going swimming and to dinner with fellow cyclist Colin Strickland, he dropped her off—minutes before she was found fatally shot later that night. What really happened to Mo Wilson on that tragic night? Watch free, only on Spotify.

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    6 March 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    College Student Vanishes After Night with Sketchy Fiancé

    In August 2011, 21-year-old Katelyn Markham vanished just days before her birthday. Her fiancé, John Carter, called 911 to report her missing less than 24 hours after she was last seen. Instead of preparing for a celebration, Markham’s loved ones launched an urgent search—but found no trace of her. Over the next decade, investigators repeatedly questioned Carter, scrutinizing inconsistencies in his account as they worked to uncover the truth. This episode of Crimes of Passion, Sierra Gillespie takes a closer look at the evidence, the interviews, and the long road to answers.

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    27 February 2026, 11:00 pm
  • 45 minutes 2 seconds
    Ballerina's Marriage Ends in Murder After Divorce Filing

    A Florida man frantically called 911 after his neighbor rushed to his home on a late Sunday night. Ashley Benefield told him she shot her husband, Doug Benefield, during an argument while they were packing her things to move to Maryland. Doug had recently filed for divorce after a four-year marriage seemingly crumbled. Weeks after the shooting, Ashley was charged with Doug's murder but claimed self-defense.

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    20 February 2026, 10:00 pm
  • 36 minutes 18 seconds
    Teen Love Triangle Turns Deadly: The Betrayal of DJ Grant

    A Florida teen vanished in October 2021 shortly after he began talking to a girl from his high school in Miramar. Eighteen-year-old Dwight "DJ" Grant never came home after he went to hang out with one of his classmates Christie Parisien. Two days later investigators found the body of Grant in the bushes behind an apartment complex. Police soon set their sights on Parisien and two of Grant's other classmates Andre Clements and Jaslyn Smith.


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    13 February 2026, 10:12 pm
  • 41 minutes 11 seconds
    The Murder of Laci Peterson Pt. 2

    In our final episode, we take a look back at the trial against Scott Peterson, the moment Amber Frey took the stand, and what’s happened in the case in the two decades since Laci Peterson and her unborn son Conner first went missing. 

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    28 December 2022, 8:01 am
  • 43 minutes 51 seconds
    The Murder of Laci Peterson Pt. 1

    On Christmas Eve twenty years ago, a pregnant woman vanished from her Modesto, California, neighborhood. Relentless media coverage pulled at every thread in her case — most notably, her husband’s strange behavior. Decades since her body, and the body of her unborn son, were found in the San Francisco Bay, we’re still asking: Did Scott Peterson kill his wife? 

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    21 December 2022, 8:01 am
  • 33 minutes 25 seconds
    Brenda Delgado Pt. 2

    By September 2015, Brenda has masterminded a murder. She secures multiple accomplices and a solid alibi. But Brenda’s plan isn’t as airtight as she thinks. As investigators close in, a murder-for-hire leads to an international manhunt. 

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    14 December 2022, 8:01 am
  • 33 minutes 49 seconds
    Brenda Delgado Pt. 1

    When the man of her dreams broke up with her — twice — Brenda Delgado turned to cyberstalking and staging “chance” run-ins to keep him in her life. But she couldn’t stop him from moving on. When Ricky Paniagua started dating another woman, Brenda began plotting a murder.

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    7 December 2022, 8:01 am
  • 42 minutes 38 seconds
    "The Cheerleader Murder" Bernadette Protti

    Fifteen-year-old Kirsten Costas was popular, athletic, and a cheerleader. She was everything fellow classmate Bernadette Protti wanted to be. And when Bernadette couldn’t get the attention she wanted from Kirsten, she killed her.

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    30 November 2022, 8:01 am
  • 40 minutes 41 seconds
    Thanksgiving Special: Just Add Arsenic

    Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription… and weapon of choice wielded by killers everywhere from Alabama to ancient Rome. Brine your turkey, knead your dough, and listen to our Thanksgiving Special on the regime-changing, assassination-aiding King of Poisons.

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    22 November 2022, 8:01 am
  • 40 minutes 4 seconds
    "The Flower of the Andes" Blanca Errázuriz

    When they met in 1911, she was a teenage beauty from a wealthy Chilean family, and he was an American businessman twice her age who dazzled her. But while Blanca Errázuriz was known as “the flower of the Andes,” Jack de Saulles had a more sordid reputation — and it would wind up costing him everything. 

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    16 November 2022, 8:01 am
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