Episodes

MURDERED: Marty Anderson

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

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Hugues de la Plaza

When a 36-year-old man is found stabbed to death in his apartment, it’s just the beginning of a locked room mystery that has his family convinced he was murdered, but the police convinced it might be something far stranger…

INFAMOUS: Jacob & Nancy Jane Young

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.

PRECEDENT: Kitty Genovese

Kitty Genovese has become infamous as the woman who was ignored by her neighbors as she was being murdered.

PRECEDENT: Henry Alford

Sometimes we see our legal system as black or white.

BWBRSA: Sextortion

Two harrowing stories – those of Asia Anderson and Walker Montgomery – illustrate how the rising digital threat of sextortion can impact anyone and forever change lives.

EXPERT ON: Safety from Online Sex Abuse

Join Brit and the founder of Safety from Online Sex Abuse (SOSA), Roo Powell, and learn about the incredible work SOSA is doing, how to stay safe online, and how any Crime Junkie parents can best support their children against the monsters of the internet.