Crime House 24/7

In the summer of 1912, an entire family and two young overnight guests were murdered inside their home in Villisca, Iowa. Eight people, killed with an axe in their sleep, in one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in American history. In Part 1, Vanessa and forensic psychologist Dr. Tristin Engels trace what unfolded that night — the horror the community woke up to the next morning, the bizarre clues the killer left behind, and the two men whose names quickly surfaced as suspects: a wealthy business rival and a traveling minister who couldn't stop talking about the crime.
Please note: this episode contains descriptions of violence, sexual assault, and murder. Please listen with care.
Serial Killers and Murderous Minds is a Crime House Original, hosted by Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
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In November 2022, four University of Idaho students — Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin — were stabbed to death in their off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. Bryan Kohberger, a criminology PhD student, was arrested six weeks later. Last summer, he pleaded guilty to all four murders and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms. On Monday, July 27th, he filed a petition asking a judge to let him withdraw that plea and go to trial — claiming he was "convinced to falsely confess" and telling the New York Times that "actual innocence is my truth." Vanessa walks you through the case, the plea, and the long-shot petition that just reopened one of the country's most closely watched murder cases.
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On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39 years old. The killing triggered unrest in more than a hundred American cities and altered the course of the civil rights movement. Two months later, a small-time criminal named James Earl Ray was arrested in London and charged with the murder. He pleaded guilty, then almost immediately recanted, claiming he had been part of a larger conspiracy. King's own family eventually came to believe him. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes, Vanessa Richardson revisits the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the questions that have never gone away.
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On July 18th, U.S. Marshals arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami on a sealed warrant tied to a United Kingdom extradition request. The brothers — dual American-British citizens and two of the most-argued-about names on the internet — are facing 59 combined criminal charges in the UK, including rape, human trafficking, and offenses involving indecent images of a child. Separately, they've been indicted in Romania on trafficking and organized-crime charges dating back to 2023, with new charges added just this month. They deny all of the accusations. Vanessa walks you through four years of investigation across three countries, and the extradition fight that just began in Florida.
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This afternoon, Vanessa is bringing you an episode from another Crime House show: The Final Hours, hosted by Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole. Each week, they cover a different missing persons case, tracing the final moments before the disappearance. In this episode: the 2015 case of Asha Kreimer, who vanished from a café near Point Arena, California, while in the grip of a mental health crisis and was never seen again. To hear more, follow The Final Hours on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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