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CrimeryIDAHO 4 MURDERS: HOW BRYAN KOHBERGER WAS CAUGHTSend a textOn November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. In the days that followed, fear spread across the country as investigators searched for the person responsible.In this episode of Crimery: True Crime Uncovered, we break down how one overlooked mistake—a knife sheath left behind at the crime scene—became the key that unraveled the entire case against Bryan Kohberger.Using court filings, the probable cause affidavit, digital evidence, and investigative records, we trace how law enforcement connected DNA, phone data...
2026-02-1338 min
CrimeryTHE SUSAN REINERT MURDER: HOW A TEACHER PROGRAMMED A KILLING (PART 2)Send us a textSeptember 18, 1992: the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns Jay C. Smith’s conviction—and bars a retrial for prosecutorial misconduct so extreme the court says trying him again would violate double jeopardy. After 13 years in prison—seven on death row—Smith walks free. Meanwhile, William Bradfield remains locked up on three consecutive life sentences.And the children—Karen Reinert (11) and Michael Reinert (10)—are still missing.In Part 2, the case shifts from a murder investigation into a system-level collapse: hidden evidence, jailhouse testimony, courtroom strategy, and the constitutional ruling that ended the Commonwealth...
2026-02-0638 min
CrimeryTHE SUSAN REINERT MURDER: HOW A TEACHER PROGRAMMED A KILLING (PART 1)Send us a textIn June 1979, a teacher’s body was found in the trunk of a car in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Susan Reinert had been drugged, beaten, and suffocated. Her two children—Karen, 11, and Michael, 10—were gone.They have never been found.This is the story of William Bradfield—a charismatic English teacher who inspired devotion, loyalty, and obedience from everyone around him. For months before Susan’s murder, Bradfield told friends exactly what was going to happen. He named the victim. He named the killer. And when it finally did happen, he already...
2026-01-3043 min
CrimeryTHE HUMAN MASK: THE LANDLORD WHO PLAYED GODSend us a textWeatherly/Freeland, Pennsylvania. 2016. A house fire at 234 Third Street looks like simple insurance fraud… until federal agents start pulling at one landlord’s life and uncover something far worse.Roberto Torner—a convicted felon turned “King of Weatherly”—ran a Pepto-Bismol-pink boarding house called The Cottage Hotel, collecting vulnerable tenants the way he collected distressed properties. Inside that world, fear was currency. Loyalty was demanded. And one man’s disappearance cracked the whole thing open.That man was Jose “Pepe” Herran—a Cuban immigran...
2026-01-2350 min
CrimeryWHO KILLED JONATHAN BALESTER? MURDER FOR PROFIT IN SHAVERTOWNSend us a textIt’s an ordinary Thursday night in Shavertown, Pennsylvania — until a family member walks through an unlocked door and finds the lights on… a ceiling fan still spinning… and a trail of blood cutting through the house like a roadmap of violence.At the end of that trail is 56-year-old Jonathan Balester, stabbed repeatedly in the back inside his own home. No forced entry. No robbery. Just brutal, personal violence in a quiet neighborhood where residents said “nothing ever happens.”Jonathan wasn’t just a name in a case file. H...
2026-01-1647 min
CrimeryTHE PITTSBURGH BORGIA: THE ANGEL OF DEATH NEXT DOORSend us a textVictorian Pittsburgh trusted her with the sick.Martha Grinder was the woman neighbors called when illness crept into their homes — the quiet caregiver who brought soup, tea, clean linens, and patience. She sat through long nights at the bedside, whispering comfort, holding hands, earning a reputation as the perfect Victorian woman.And then people died.In this episode of CRIMERY: True Crime Uncovered, we examine one of the earliest and most disturbing “angel of death” cases in American history. Through court testimony, contemporary reporting, and forens...
2026-01-0945 min
CrimeryTHE UNICORN KILLER: THE HUNT FOR JUSTICE (PART TWO)Send us a textEighteen months after Holly Maddux was murdered, her killer walked free on bail — and vanished into Europe.In Part Two of The Unicorn Killer, the story shifts from the crime itself to the longest and most relentless manhunt most people have never heard of. As Ira Einhorn disappears across borders, changing names and building a new life abroad, Holly’s father, Fred Maddux, makes a promise at her grave: he will bring her killer home — no matter how long it takes.What follows is an eighteen-year pursuit across continents, courtr...
2026-01-0247 min
CrimeryTHE UNICORN KILLER: INSIDE IRA EINHORN (PART ONE)Send us a textFor years, Ira Einhorn was celebrated as a visionary.He called himself The Unicorn — a peace activist, environmental prophet, and counterculture icon with powerful friends and devoted followers. He spoke about consciousness, love, and the future of humanity. People believed him.Then, in March of 1979, police opened a padlocked closet in his Philadelphia apartment.Inside was a steamer trunk. Inside that trunk was the body of Holly Maddux.In Part One of this two-part Crimery series, we peel back the mythology surrounding Ira...
2025-12-2649 min
CrimeryWHO TOOK CHERRIE MAHAN?: THE BUS STOP ABDUCTIONSend us a textOn February 22, 1985, in rural Winfield Township, Pennsylvania, eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan stepped off her school bus at 4:10 p.m. She had only 150 feet to walk home.She never made it.Witnesses reported two suspicious vehicles near the stop—a bright blue van with a painted skier mural and a small blue car. In the snow, investigators found tire marks… but no footprints leading up Cherrie’s driveway.The case became one of Pennsylvania’s most haunting child disappearances—fueling nationwide awareness when Cherrie was chosen as the first missing ch...
2025-12-1944 min
CrimeryWHO KILLED BETSY AARDSMA?: SILENCE IN THE STACKSSend us a textOn November 28, 1969—the quiet day after Thanksgiving—a 22-year-old Penn State graduate student walked into Pattee Library to retrieve one final source for a research paper.She never walked out.Betsy Ruth Aardsma was stabbed once—cleanly, precisely—between the shelves of the basement stacks. No scream. No visible blood. Students and staff believed she had collapsed from a medical emergency and unknowingly wiped away crucial evidence while trying to save her life.By the time doctors discovered the wound, the killer had already left the building—possibly a...
2025-12-1236 min
CrimeryTHE IMPOSSIBLE GRAVE OF SUSAN CERRITELLI: BURIED IN FIRESend us a textA 26-year-old woman vanishes from Long Pond, PA on May 11, 1983. Her husband waits 72 hours to call police. Fifteen years later, two separate accounts surface—one claiming her remains were dumped off Seaside Heights, another pointing to a shaft in Centralia, the ghost town that’s been burning underground since 1962. If investigators are right, Susan Cerritelli rests in a place no one can safely search—an impossible grave.In this episode, we trace the timeline, the red flags, and why “no-body” cases are so hard to prosecute—then confront the grim reality of Centralia...
2025-12-0538 min
CrimeryTHE DISAPPEARANCES OF JENNIFER BARZILOSKI & PHYLICIA THOMAS: THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCHSend us a textEighteen-year-old Jennifer Barziloski walks out into a warm June night in 2001 and never makes it home. Three years later, her closest friend, 22-year-old Phylicia Thomas—the one who wouldn’t stop asking what happened to Jennifer—vanishes too. One skull is found along an ATV trail years later; the other woman is still missing. The same names, the same party talk, the same rural pocket of Luzerne County keep surfacing. Coincidence—or a pattern everyone’s been too afraid to say out loud?In this episode, we trace parallel timelines, pressure-test statements...
2025-11-2841 min
CrimeryTHE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOLENE LAKEY: ONE BLOCK FROM HOMESend us a textAn 11-year-old leaves Mercy Hospital in Scranton with a stuffed animal for her mom and starts the short walk home—broad daylight, one block to go. Witnesses see a girl matching Michelle “Jolene” Lakey get into a light yellow car near North Washington Ave. She is never seen again.This episode of CRIMERY traces the chilling threads that still haunt Northeast PA: the three-day ransom call that named Nay Aug Park, the unexplained purse found on Jolene’s dresser, and years of scrutiny around a...
2025-11-2134 min
CrimeryTHE MURDER OF AIDEN PAIZ: CUL-DE-SAC AMBUSHSend us a textA well-liked Pleasant Valley freshman drives to a secluded cul-de-sac for a $120 marijuana sale—and meets three teens who never planned to pay. Within minutes, 15-year-old Aiden Paiz is shot with an AR-15, his friend is wounded, and the killers scatter into the Poconos night. It will take Pennsylvania State Police less than a day to crack the case—built on a brave survivor’s account, confessions, recovered weapons, and a pattern of “drug rips” plaguing rural Monroe County.In this episode of CRIMERY, host Jennifer Novotney
2025-11-1434 min
CrimeryTHE MURDER OF DAVID MCENTIRE: PARANOIA IN THE POCONOSSend us a textA devoted father and small-town carpenter walks out of his Polk Township home one October afternoon—and never returns. His blue work van is found wiped clean. His bank accounts go quiet. For years, rumors swirl. Then a drunk shoplifter starts talking about a crack house in the woods, a hammer, a rifle, and a basement “injection” meant to end a man’s life. What follows is a decade-long path to justice without a body—built on confessions, forensics that survived a bleach-and-paint scrub, and the unraveling of a rural drug underworld in the Pocono...
2025-11-0739 min
CrimeryMICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVESend us a textMICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVEA trusted small-town pharmacist vanishes with his girlfriend and a year later investigators dig into a Kingston Township backyard and uncover a nightmare: multiple shallow graves, including Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett, strangled with plastic ties and buried one atop the other. The tip that cracks the case? An unexpected confession from burglar Paul Weakley that leads police straight to Hugo Selenski’s property—and to a truth more brutal than rumor ever imagined. In this episode of CRIMERY, w...
2025-10-3144 min
CrimeryCrimery PreviewSend us a textThis is a preview of things to come. Support the showCRIMERY Tip line & inquiries: crimerypod@gmail.com If you found this episode valuable, follow, rate, and review in your podcast app it really helps others find the show. Legal: Everyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Content may include descriptions of violence. Listener discretion advised. ©2025 CRIMERY. All rights reserved.
2025-09-1600 min
Cascadia Crime & CryptidsEpisode 12: The Suspicious Disappearance of Heather Leann CameronDevoted mother of 4, Heather Leann Cameron (Haller), went missing after repeated distress calls to 911 about 20min outside of Redding, CA in August of 2012 while in the company of her ex boyfriend, Daniel Lusby. Heather is still missing today, nearly 10 years later. What happened to Heather Leann Cameron? Sources https://charleyproject.org/case/heather-leann-cameron https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2017/10/30/still-seeking-answers-tribal-member-heather-cameron-has-been-missing-for-five-years/ https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForHeatherCameronHaller/ https://twitter.com/heathercameronh https://coreysobell.medium.com/48-hours-what-happened-to-heather-cameron-and-cort-jones-838b6e1e8c40 https://www.truecasefiles.com/2019/08/the-disappearance-of-heather-cameron.html https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ca-heather-cameron-28-redding-18-aug-2012.235822/ https://www.opb.org/ar...
2022-02-0749 minCascadia Crime & CryptidsEpisode 12: The Suspicious Disappearance of Heather Leann CameronDevoted mother of 4, Heather Leann Cameron (Haller), went missing after repeated distress calls to 911 about 20min outside of Redding, CA in August of 2012 while in the company of her ex boyfriend, Daniel Lusby. Heather is still missing today, nearly 10 years later. What happened to Heather Leann Cameron? Sources https://charleyproject.org/case/heather-leann-cameron https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2017/10/30/still-seeking-answers-tribal-member-heather-cameron-has-been-missing-for-five-years/ https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForHeatherCameronHaller/ https://twitter.com/heathercameronh https://coreysobell.medium.com/48-hours-what-happened-to-heather-cameron-and-cort-jones-838b6e1e8c40 https://www.truecasefiles.com/2019/08/the-disappearance-of-heather-cameron.html https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ca-heather-cameron-28-redding-18-aug-2012.235822/ https://www.opb.org/ar...
2022-02-0749 min