When a beloved pastor is murdered in his own home, a community is roiled by the secrets his death brings to the surface.

When a three-year-old girl seemingly vanishes from rural West Virginia in 2011, answers don’t come quickly.

When a 27-year-old woman is found deceased in the third row of a minivan out at a park in Kansas City, Missouri, it’s not clear what transpired.

When a young man goes missing the day after visiting his newborn son in the hospital, everyone has questions.

Each time the system returned Raul Meza Jr. to the streets, he left devastation and destruction in his wake.

When 4-year-old Marjorie West went missing on Mother’s Day in 1938, it became a media sensation and set off a search for answers that has continued for over 85 years.

When a woman’s body is discovered floating in the Nation River in the Ontario, Canada village of Casselman, it sets off one of Canada’s most enduring mysteries.

When a young nurse is kidnapped and brutally murdered, a psychic appears to know more than she should while the LAPD hunts for the killers.

When the bodies of several young men, all strangled to death, begin to turn up in the neighboring areas of New Orleans, the hunt is on for a serial killer.

When authorities in Missouri get a tip from the FBI about a missing woman, nothing could have prepared them for the gruesome discoveries they’d make.

Crime Junkie Life Rule #1: You never really know anyone, not ever.

A scandalous double-murder in post-Civil War Indianapolis captures the attention of the news media, as well as the public imagination writ large… especially when it forces citizens to confront the many faulty assumptions built into the deeply entrenched – and deeply antiquated – gender norms that had always been taken for granted as true.