3. Botham Jean

The killing of 13-year-old Tristan Brübach is one of the most famous murders in Germany. Someone killed Tristan in the middle of the day near a busy train station in the city of Frankfurt. Although good clues have been obtained about the suspect, the case is still unsolved.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A man, woman and small baby are murdered in the summer of 1990 when an unknown person breaks into the family's home next to a forest in Vols, a hamlet near Kirkkonummi, 35 km west of Helsinki. Despite the remote location and no witnesses, the lead investigator believes that the crime can be solved and the perpetrator caught.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The two young Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Höglin wrote many letters and postcards from their trip to their friends and family in the late 1980s. But one day they wanted to go hiking in the New Zealand wilderness and that’s when the correspondence dried up.Whether the right perpetrator was held responsible was considered questionable when Urban's body was discovered some time after the trial.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bill, Bridget and Caleb Harrison were a well-loved family in Pitch Pine Crescent in Mississauga, Canada. When Bill died mysteriously at home due to illness, no one but Bridget suspected anything bad. But a year later, a second death occurred in the house. Now others also started to become suspicious.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1976, the residents of the small town of Circleville in the US state of Ohio found ghostly letters in their mailboxes for the first time. The writer threatened to reveal their greatest secrets. He also made it clear that he knew things about the recipients' lives that they did not want to make public. The letters influenced the lives of many people and were probably the reason for at least one death. Who wrote them, however, was never found out.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chantelle, Leela, Simon and Tony lived in a house in the small Australian town of Nannup. Some locals knew that the head of the family, Simon, was the leader of a religious group, but few were aware of what kind of cult it was.  When the entire family disappeared without trace in 2007, wild theories were put forward. Had they committed collective suicide? Or had the four actually travelled to Brazil to do charity work, as they had told some people?Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Casey Anthony became known as the "most hated mother in America" in 2008 after the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter Caylee in Florida. The second part of this case is about the discovery of the body, the trial and the aftermath of Caylee's death.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Casey Anthony became known as the "most hated mother in America" in 2008 after the disappearance of her three-year-old daughter Caylee in Florida. The first part of the case deals with the life story of the family members, Casey's bizarre lies, and the details of Caylee's disappearance.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave Krupa's brief relationship with Cari Farver ended rather abruptly. After that, however, he suddenly started receiving threatening and abusive messages and emails from her. Again and again, he also felt stalked and watched. Soon the insults even extended to Dave's ex-partner Liz and other women Dave chatted with on dating apps and Facebook. The police found the case strange and could not imagine that Cari was the actual stalker.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Botham Jean was sitting on the sofa in his apartment with an ice cream and watching sports when he was shot. The shooter was police officer Amber Guyger. She had entered the wrong apartment after work, found Botham on the sofa and mistook him for a burglar.Produced by: PodsterHost: Lanie HobbsSound design: Gustav W. LethCover art: Johanne Rode Axelberg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.