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At the height of his career, comedian Dane Cook was one of the biggest names in American stand-up. His tours were selling out, his comedy albums were breaking records, and millions of dollars were flowing into his business. But behind the scenes, someone he trusted was stealing his fortune. That person was his own half-brother. Darryl McCauley wasn't just family. He was Dane Cook's business manager, the man responsible for overseeing his finances. While Cook was performing to sold-out audiences, McCauley was secretly diverting millions of dollars into his own accounts. By the time the scheme was uncovered, the losses had reached approximately $12 million. How did McCauley manage to steal so much money without being discovered? Where did the money go? And what happened when Cook finally realised that the person handling his fortune had been betraying him for years? In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines the extraordinary financial crime behind the documentary Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story. We follow Cook's rise to fame, the family relationship that gave McCauley access to his finances, the suspicious transactions that exposed the scheme and the criminal investigation that followed. We also examine the involvement of McCauley's wife, Erika, the court proceedings that resulted in prison sentences, and the $12 million restitution order that left Cook facing a difficult question: would he ever recover the money? It is a story of extraordinary success, financial deception and a family relationship destroyed by betrayal. How could someone steal millions from their own brother? And is there still money that has never been recovered? Join Erica Voss as we investigate the true story behind Dane Cook's missing millions. What do you think was the greatest betrayal in this case — the money stolen or the trust that was broken? Share your thoughts in the comments. For ad-free episodes and exclusive content, subscribe to our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/truecrimenow Support True Crime Now:https://www.gofundme.com/TrueCrimeNow Subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeNowTV Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/truecrimenow_/ Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seven men were dead. Aileen Wuornos was under arrest. But the most controversial chapters of her story were still to come. In Part One, we followed Wuornos from a deeply troubled childhood to the highways of Florida, where a series of killings between 1989 and 1990 brought her to the attention of investigators. Now, in Part Two of this True Crime Now special, we examine the confessions, the evidence, the courtroom battles and the extraordinary final years of one of America's most notorious female serial killers. How did investigators build their case against Wuornos? Why did she insist that the men she killed had threatened or attacked her? And how did her account change as she faced the possibility of execution? Across this concluding investigation, we explore the role of Tyria Moore, the trial surrounding the murder of Richard Mallory, the competing interpretations of Wuornos's actions and the documentaries that brought her story to an international audience. We also examine her years on death row, her increasingly troubling public appearances and the circumstances surrounding her execution in Florida in October 2002. Was Aileen Wuornos a serial killer driven by violence, a woman shaped by years of trauma, or a more complicated figure than either description allows? Join Erica Voss for the conclusion of Aileen Wuornos: Seven Men Dead — Serial Killer or Survivor? What do you make of Wuornos's changing accounts of the killings? Share your thoughts in the comments. For ad-free episodes and exclusive content, subscribe to our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/truecrimenow Support True Crime Now:https://www.gofundme.com/TrueCrimeNow Subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeNowTV Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/truecrimenow_/ Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global #AileenWuornos #TrueCrime #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeNow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seven men dead. One woman accused of killing them. And a question that continues to divide opinion decades later: was Aileen Wuornos a calculated serial killer, or a woman who believed she was fighting for her life? Between 1989 and 1990, a series of men were killed along Florida's highways. As investigators began connecting the cases, their attention turned to Aileen Wuornos, a woman whose life had been marked by abandonment, instability and years of prostitution. But how did her life reach this point? In Part One of this two-part True Crime Now special, we trace Wuornos's troubled childhood, her years living on the road, her relationship with Tyria Moore and the killing of Richard Mallory, the first known victim. Across four in-depth chapters, we examine the circumstances surrounding the deaths, the emerging police investigation and Wuornos's claims that she acted in self-defence. Was there more to the story than the headlines suggested? Part Two continues with the confessions, the trial, the documentaries and the final years of Aileen Wuornos's life. What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments. For ad-free episodes and exclusive content, subscribe to our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/truecrimenow Support True Crime Now:https://www.gofundme.com/TrueCrimeNow Subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeNowTV Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/truecrimenow_/ Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global #AileenWuornos #TrueCrime #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeNow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On April 27, 2024, 30-year-old Mica Miller was found dead in a North Carolina state park, miles from the South Carolina church community where she had once been a pastor's wife. Authorities ruled her death a suicide. But as details of her troubled marriage to pastor John-Paul Miller emerged, the case attracted national attention and raised troubling questions about alleged surveillance, harassment and coercive control. Why had Mica been trying to separate from her husband? What did her family and friends know about the relationship? And what would investigators uncover after her death? In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines Mica's life, the circumstances surrounding her death, the allegations against her husband and the federal criminal case that followed. We separate official findings from allegations, examine the evidence behind the headlines and explore how a marriage that appeared respectable from the outside became the centre of a national true-crime investigation. Was Mica Miller's story a tragedy that could have been prevented? Share your thoughts in the comments. For ad-free episodes and exclusive content, subscribe to our Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/truecrimenow Support True Crime Now:https://www.gofundme.com/TrueCrimeNow Subscribe on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeNowTV Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/truecrimenow_/ Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A fake pregnancy. An elaborate web of lies. And a desperate plan that would end in the deaths of a young mother and her baby. Texas. October 9, 2020. Twenty-one-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock is eight months pregnant, preparing to welcome her second daughter. But someone close to her is hiding a shocking secret. Taylor Rene Parker has spent months convincing her boyfriend, friends and family that she's expecting a baby. There's a nursery. Ultrasound photographs. Even a gender-reveal celebration. But Taylor isn't pregnant. She never was. And as her supposed due date approaches, her carefully constructed deception takes a devastating turn. Reagan is murdered inside her home. Her unborn daughter, Braxlynn, is taken and later dies. Hours later, a traffic stop exposes a story almost too extraordinary to believe. In November 2022, Taylor Parker is sentenced to death for capital murder. In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines the fake pregnancy, the calculated deception, the evidence that exposed Parker's crimes and the courtroom battle that led to her death sentence. How far was Taylor Parker prepared to go to keep her biggest lie alive? SUPPORT TRUE CRIME NOW Support the podcast on GoFundMe FOLLOW TRUE CRIME NOW YouTube: True Crime Now TV Instagram: @truecrimenow_ PRODUCTION CREDITS Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A body discovered in pieces. A killer caught on CCTV. And a dead man whose family continued receiving messages from his phone. Greater Manchester, England. April 2024. Human remains are discovered in woodland at Kersal Dale, Salford. Police have no idea who the victim is. Then detectives uncover chilling CCTV footage of a man carrying a heavy bag into the woods, emerging minutes later without it. The victim is identified as sixty-seven-year-old Stuart Everett. His housemate, Marcin Majerkiewicz, becomes the prime suspect. But investigators uncover an extraordinary deception. For weeks after Stuart's death, someone has been sending WhatsApp messages to his family, arranging birthday cards and pretending he is still alive. In March 2025, Majerkiewicz is convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines the murder, the CCTV breakthrough, the forensic evidence and the elaborate cover-up that finally unravelled. How did detectives piece together a murder that someone had gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal? SUPPORT TRUE CRIME NOW Support the podcast on GoFundMe FOLLOW TRUE CRIME NOW YouTube: True Crime Now TV Instagram: @truecrimenow_ PRODUCTION CREDITS Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She was taken from her bedroom in the middle of the night. Her younger sister witnessed everything. For nine months, America searched for Elizabeth Smart, unaware that her captor had once worked at the family home. Salt Lake City, Utah. June 5, 2002. Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart disappears from her bedroom while her family sleeps. Her younger sister, Mary Katherine, witnesses the abduction but is too frightened to intervene. Within hours, a massive search begins. Police, volunteers and the FBI follow hundreds of leads as Elizabeth's photograph appears on television screens across America. But the investigation takes a devastating turn when attention focuses on the wrong man. Meanwhile, Elizabeth is being held by Brian David Mitchell, a self-proclaimed religious prophet, and his wife, Wanda Barzee. For nine months, they keep her under their control, moving between Utah and California, sometimes taking her into public places without anyone realising who she is. Then, an extraordinary breakthrough. Mary Katherine remembers a familiar voice. A former handyman. A man known as Immanuel. On March 12, 2003, police spot three people walking through Sandy, Utah. One of them is Elizabeth Smart. In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines the night Elizabeth disappeared, the nine months she spent in captivity, the investigative failures and breakthroughs that eventually brought her home, and the criminal proceedings that followed. We uncover how Mitchell managed to evade detection, why crucial clues were initially overlooked, and how a fourteen-year-old girl survived an ordeal that captivated the world. How could Elizabeth remain missing for nine months while sometimes appearing in public? And what finally led investigators to the man responsible? SUPPORT TRUE CRIME NOW Support the podcast: https://www.gofundme.com/TrueCrimeNow FOLLOW TRUE CRIME NOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeNowTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimenow_/ PRODUCTION CREDITS Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A bitter divorce. A wealthy Florida family. A carefully planned execution. What began as a custody dispute would become one of America's most extraordinary murder-for-hire investigations. Tallahassee, Florida. July 18, 2014. Forty-one-year-old law professor Dan Markel is shot in the garage of his home. He dies the following day, leaving behind two young sons and a devastated family. At first, investigators struggle to identify who wanted him dead. But attention soon turns towards Dan's contentious divorce from Wendi Adelson and a custody battle that had divided two families. What follows is an extraordinary investigation involving hired killers, secret payments, FBI surveillance, undercover operations and years of intercepted telephone conversations. Detectives gradually uncover a conspiracy stretching from Tallahassee to Miami, involving members of the wealthy Adelson family. The investigation leads to five convictions. In November 2023, Dan's former brother-in-law, Charlie Adelson, is convicted of arranging the murder. Then, in September 2025, his mother, Donna Adelson, is found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy and solicitation. Both receive life sentences. In July 2026, an appeals court upholds Charlie Adelson's conviction, while Donna continues to challenge hers. In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines Dan Markel's murder, the bitter family dispute that preceded it, the extraordinary FBI operation that exposed the conspiracy, and the courtroom evidence that brought five people to justice. We follow the money, the wiretaps and the testimony that eventually revealed who arranged Dan's killing. How did a dispute over two children become a murder-for-hire conspiracy? And how did investigators unravel a plot that took more than a decade to expose fully? SUPPORT TRUE CRIME NOW Support the podcast: GoFundMe FOLLOW TRUE CRIME NOW YouTube: True Crime Now TV Instagram: @truecrimenow_ PRODUCTION CREDITS Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She vanished without a trace. Her husband claimed she had walked away. Three years later, investigators discovered her body hidden inside a sealed industrial tank on the family property. Michigan. April 2021. Fifty-two-year-old Dee Ann Warner disappears from her home in Lenawee County, leaving behind five children, a successful farming business and a family desperate for answers. Her husband, Dale Warner, maintains that she left voluntarily. But Dee's family is convinced something terrible has happened. As investigators examine the couple's troubled marriage, financial disagreements and the events surrounding Dee's disappearance, suspicion increasingly falls on Dale. For years, there is no body. Then, in August 2024, investigators make an extraordinary discovery. Inside a large industrial ammonia tank on the Warner property, sealed and welded shut, they find Dee Ann's remains. The discovery transforms a missing-person investigation into a murder case with devastating physical evidence. In March 2026, Dale Warner is convicted of second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. Two months later, he receives consecutive prison sentences totalling a maximum of seventy years. In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines Dee Ann Warner's disappearance, the marriage and financial disputes that became central to the case, the remarkable discovery that ended a three-year search, and the courtroom evidence that led to her husband's conviction. How did Dee Ann remain hidden on her own family's property for more than three years? And what finally brought the truth to light? SUPPORT TRUE CRIME NOW Support the podcast: https://www.gofundme.com/TrueCrimeNow FOLLOW TRUE CRIME NOW YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TrueCrimeNowTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimenow_/ PRODUCTION CREDITS Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ted Bundy was executed in 1989. Thirty-seven years later, DNA evidence has connected him to two murders that remained officially unsolved for more than half a century. Utah. October 1974. Seventeen-year-old Melissa Ann Smith disappears. Nine days later, her body is discovered in a wooded area. Just weeks later, another seventeen-year-old, Laura Ann Aime, vanishes after leaving a Halloween party. Her body is discovered the following month. For decades, investigators suspect one of America's most notorious serial killers: Ted Bundy. But suspicion is not enough to close either case. In April 2026, advances in forensic DNA analysis finally confirm Bundy's responsibility for Laura's murder. Then, on October 27, 2026, exactly fifty-two years after Melissa's body was discovered, authorities announce another breakthrough. DNA evidence has helped investigators establish that Bundy was also responsible for her death. In this four-chapter investigation, True Crime Now examines Ted Bundy's criminal history, the murders that terrorised America during the 1970s, his dramatic escapes, trials and execution, and the extraordinary forensic discoveries that continue to reveal new information about his crimes. We explore how investigators recovered DNA from evidence preserved for decades, how modern profiling techniques connected the two murders, and the difference between conventional DNA analysis, familial DNA searching and investigative genetic genealogy. With other disappearances still under investigation, one question remains. More than thirty-seven years after Ted Bundy's execution, how many secrets could the evidence still reveal? SUPPORT TRUE CRIME NOW Support the podcast on GoFundMe FOLLOW TRUE CRIME NOW YouTube: True Crime Now TV Instagram: @truecrimenow_ PRODUCTION CREDITS Narrated by Erica VossExecutive Producer: Lee MannProduced by Audio Bleach Global Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices