The Murder of Inez Phillips The beloved, elderly widow of a Texas Oil Baron is murdered in her home with a butcher knife to the heart. It’s a real-life murder mystery that ends with a bad man on Death Row. But why did he do it? What did he hope to find? And who is Stormy Summers, the femme fatale at the heart of the tale?   The tragic, brutal murder of Inez Phillips shocked the community of Gladewater, Texas and the yearlong hunt for her killer captivated the attention of the public. Now, on a brand new episode of This Week in Murder, hear all the fascinating details and draw your own con ..read more

Deverrie Schiller was a beautiful, ambitious young woman with her entire life ahead of her. She had nerve, spunk, dreams, ambition and a whole lot of love in her heart. And all of that was taken from her when she was strangled to death on a Saturday night in California City’s Central Park. Dev had fought back. She fought back hard. She'd always been a fighter. But that night, it wasn't enough. Now, four years later, the question remains: Who killed Deverrie Schiller... AND WHY?   Though multiple detectives have worked the case – all arriving at the same shocking conclusion – a lethal com ..read more

In the summer of 1984, beautiful 15-year-old California high school cheerleader Kirsten Costas is murdered on the street where she lives by a mysterious, knife-wielding assailant – a killer who appears to be another teenage girl!   Why would anyone murder one of the most popular girls at school? How did the killer know when and where to target their prey? And who, among all the girls in town, could be the shadowy killer that murdered young Kirsten?   It’s a terrifying, heartbreaking high school murder mystery... And now, on a brand-new episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, hear the whole s ..read more

In the summer of 1970 and in the shadow of the Manson murders, a two-day Southern California crime spree leads to the horrific killing of two young Innocents. Jerry Carlin was about to be a dad. Florence Brown was a beautiful young mother and a teacher for children with special needs. Neither deserved their terrible fate at the hands of the deranged killers known as THE SONS OF SATAN.   A shocking story that’s been buried by the sands of time, the murders of the madman Steven Craig Hurd and his bloodthirsty followers offer a harrowing peek into the tragic descent of 1960s counterculture i ..read more

“Something terrible has happened…”   Early one Sunday morning, a young wife and mother from the Ozarks rises from her bed to help her husband get ready for work. That’s when she finds him on their living room floor, collapsed in a pool of blood – his skull shattered. Trapped in a living nightmare that she cannot understand, Belynda Goff is arrested, charged and convicted for the brutal but mysterious murder of her husband – a man who died with secrets that may yet explain his horrible fate. But there’s just one problem: She swears she didn’t do it. A real-life Arkansas murder mystery, T ..read more

Just a small-town girl from Oregon, Illinois, Angela Crowley dreamed of escaping the midwest for the beaches and luxury of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. How was she to know that just four months into her Sunshine State adventure, a deranged killer would turn her dreams into a nightmare? Strangled on a riverbank with her own gym pants around her neck, Angie’s Memorial Day Weekend murder almost went unsolved. Now, on a brand-new episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, hear the whole shocking story, including details of the bizarre confession that ended any mystery as to who killed the former cheerleader ..read more

Just a 14-year-old kid in Louisville, Kentucky, never hurt a soul… KILLED WITH A LOUISVILLE SLUGGER. One big swing to the head, that’s all it took. It’s a terrible, tragic murder that never had to happen – and to this day the killers can’t get their story straight! Was this homicide the work of a father & son tag-team, or did one man's guilt drive him to take the blame for the sins of his progeny? It's a modern murder mystery that screams to be unpacked. If that’s not enough, this week’s INCREDIBLE NEW EPISODE features two new stories RIPPED from the headlines: A CORONAVIRUS MURDER in the ..read more

On April 7, 1986, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis, 19-year-old Trisha Meredith brings a basket full of dirty clothes to her apartment building’s laundry room.    But, when her boyfriend comes to find her thirty minutes later, Trisha is dead – stuffed into a supply closet with 23 stab wounds; her throat slashed.    Despite multiple suspects, to this day, the crime remains unsolved.   Now, on a TERRIFYING NEW episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER… Who are the suspects in this real-life murder mystery? Why have no arrests been made in the case? And what will it t ..read more

William “Junior” Pierce is America’s most forgotten serial killer. Convicted in the early 1970s of killing nine men and women in an eight-month long killing spree through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, Pierce was sentenced to 880 years in prison.   We first met Pierce in episode #6, when we investigated the rape and murder of 13-year-old Peg Cuttino – a crime that Pierce was convicted of. What we learned, was that Pierce was a petty criminal who was tortured into confessing to a crime that he likely did not commit.   Now, for an even closer look at the facts behind this ..read more

The week before Christmas, in 1971, thirteen-year-old Peg Cuttino was kidnapped and murdered in rural Sumter County, South Carolina. Her murder would go unsolved, for months, until the arrest of a serial killer, responsible for the deaths of eight other men and women during a seven-month killing spree. On a brand new, very special episode of THIS WEEK IN MURDER, we investigate the tragic deaths of Peg Cuttino and every other victim of the man we've dubbed America's Most Forgotten Serial Killer. But what if almost everything we do know about the case, is a lie? What if Peg Cuttino's real kill ..read more