Prey Tell

Ashley Schef

PREY TELL is a true crime podcast built on the conviction that the victim is the story. Not the predator. Every victim covered by this show was labeled prey by a world that failed them and reduced to a target, a file number, or a case that was easier to close than to pursue. This show returns victims to what they always were: human beings. Real people with names and histories that deserve to be told completely and without compromise. Each episode examines a case and hunts for the truth. New episodes release every week. You can subscribe now and find the show across social platforms @PreyTellPodcast. 

  1. há 4 dias

    Disappearance of Nancy Ng

    On October 19th, 2023, a group of ten people rented kayaks and paddleboards from a small outfitter on the shore. They're not experienced paddlers. They're a yoga group and most of them were strangers to each other just a week earlier. And they’re out for one more excursion before they fly home. Two of the women drift away from the rest of the group, out past where the guides can clearly see them. When the group paddles back to shore that afternoon, one of the two women who went out further doesn't come back to shore. Her name is Nancy Ng. She's twenty-nine years old. On that day in October, she went out onto the water and was never seen again. Nancy Ng's case remains classified by U.S. missing persons databases as open and unresolved. No charges have been filed against anyone in connection with her disappearance. The Guatemalan government remains the lead investigative agency, with the FBI continuing to assist.  If you have any information about what happened to Nancy Ng on October 19th, 2023 in Guatemala, you're asked to contact the Monterey Park Police Department directly at 626-573-1311. For a full list of source materials, please visit: www.preytellpodcast.com/episodes/disappearance-of-nancy-ng Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

  2. 9 de set.

    Von Richthofen Murders

    Every morning, something like four million vehicles move through São Paulo, Brazil on a highway system called the Rodoanel. Most of the drivers on it have never once heard the name of the man who helped engineer it. Manfred, the engineer, didn't live to see it finished. He was forty-nine years old. Married for two decades. Father of two. And on the night of October 31st, 2002, in his own home, in a quiet and gated neighborhood on the south side of São Paulo, he was beaten to death while he slept. His wife, Marísia, who was a psychiatrist was killed in the same room only minutes later. This story has been sensationalized in media headlines talking about the von Richthofen’s mansion, and a large inheritance that turned this into one of the most obsessively covered criminal cases in Brazilian history. Before I get to any of that, I want you to know who Manfred and Marísia von Richthofen were. Because for over twenty years, almost everything written about this case has been about their daughter.  For a full list of source materials, please visit: www.preytell.com/episodes/von-richthofen-murders Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

  3. 2 de set.

    Kidnapping & Trafficking of Joshlin Smith

    In 2024 a little girl named Joshlin Smith disappeared in South Africa. She was just six years old. As of the recording of this episode, she still hasn't been found. By the time her case reached trial, it had become one of the most closely watched criminal proceedings in recent South African history. Many people would go on to draw comparisons to Madeleine McCann's disappearance in Portugal (another case where a young child's vanishing gripped an entire country's attention for years).  Police would soon find out Joshlin’s wasn’t a tragic disappearance, it was human trafficking perpetrated by the people closest to Joshlin. For a full list of source materials, please visit: www.preytellpodcast.com/episodes/kidnapping-and-trafficking-of-joshlin-smith Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

  4. 26 de ago.

    Wrongful Conviction of Martin Tankleff

    On the morning of September 7th, 1988, a seventeen-year-old boy called 911 from a house on the Long Island Sound and said his parents had been attacked. Within hours, before Martin began to process what had happened to his parents, he was sitting in a police interrogation room, being told, over and over, that he was the one who did it. This is the story of Seymour and Arlene Tankleff. And it's the story of their son, Martin Tankleff, who lost both of them to a single act of violence in his own home. Then, in a set of horrifying circumstances, he lost the next eighteen years of his own life to a system that decided, almost immediately, that grief and guilt looked the same on a teenager's face. Instead of being known as Martin, he was known as inmate number 90T3844 for nearly two decades. For a full list of source materials, please visit: www.preytellpodcast.com/episodes/wrongful-conviction-of-martin-tankleff Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

  5. 19 de ago.

    McStay Family Murders

    This episode covers one of the more haunting missing persons cases in recent California history. It’s a case that took years to be classified as a homicide, and it raises hard questions about what happens when investigators commit to the wrong theory early, and don't let go of it.  The McStay Family disappeared on February 4th, 2010. Their bodies were eventually found in the Mojave Desert in 2013. The public ran rampant with speculation and wild theories. But the reason for the family’s murder was much closer to home. For a full list of source materials, please visit: www.preytellpodcast.com/episodes/mcstay-family-murders Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

  6. 12 de ago.

    Murder of Brian Stidham

    On October 5th, 2004, at just after 11 o’clock at night, a cleaning crew finished up and headed out into the parking lot of the medical office building they were cleaning in Tucson, Arizona. They noticed a car that had been sitting in the parking lot for hours with the engine off and the lights off.  Inside was David Brian Stidham. Everyone who loved him called him Brian. He was 37-years-old, and less than an hour earlier he was standing in front of a room full of medical students at the University of Arizona teaching them about pediatric eye care. Today's episode is dark, but this isn't really a story about a murder, a hitman, a stabbing, or even really about the man who ordered the murder. This is a story about what happens when the people whose entire job it is to protect the public fail to do exactly that. Think doctors bound by an oath, and prosecutors bound by the law.  For a full list of source materials, please visit: www.preytellpodcast.com/episodes/murder-of-brian-stidham Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

  7. 5 de ago.

    Disappearance of Heaven Desiree McGee & Ja'Niyah McMichael

    Two girls. Two different states. Two families who reported them missing quickly, called every hotline, stood in front of every camera that would point their way, and yet as of the day I'm recording this, neither one has come home. I usually give you one case per episode. Today, I'm doing something different. I'm giving you two. Not because they're connected. They’re not connected as far as anyone knows. We’re talking different states, different years, and different circumstances. I'm putting them in the same episode because neither one has gotten the coverage they deserve. The first case is a twenty-one-year-old woman named Heaven Desiree McGee, who disappeared from Stockton, California, in January of 2025. The FBI reportedly believes she's a victim of human trafficking.  The other case is a thirteen-year-old girl named Ja'Niyah McMichael, who disappeared from Gary, Indiana, in August of 2024. Investigators believe she may be the victim of foul play. For a full list of source materials, please visit: https://preytellpodcast.com/episodes/disappearance-of-heaven-desiree-mcgee For a full list of source materials, please visit: https://preytellpodcast.com/episodes/disappearance-of-janiyah-mcmichael Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

  8. 29 de jul.

    Murder of Christina Yuna Lee

    It's just after 4 a.m. on February 13th, 2022, in New York City's Chinatown. Most of the neighborhood is fast asleep. Somewhere on Chrystie Street, a young woman gets out of a cab. She's only three minutes from her apartment door. She has no idea that a man has been watching her. And she certainly has no idea that he's about to follow her through the front door of her building, up six flights of stairs, and into her apartment.  Less than two hours later, Christina Yuna Lee was pronounced dead. For a full list of source materials, please visit: https://preytellpodcast.com/episodes/murder-of-christina-yuna-lee Connect with Prey Tell Podcast on social media and stay up-to-date on the latest case updates. Instagram: @PreyTellPodcastTikTok: @PreyTellPodcastYouTube: @PreyTellPodcastX: @PreyTellPodcastFacebook: @PreyTellPodcastFor more information on the podcast or to suggest a case, visit: www.preytellpodcast.com

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PREY TELL is a true crime podcast built on the conviction that the victim is the story. Not the predator. Every victim covered by this show was labeled prey by a world that failed them and reduced to a target, a file number, or a case that was easier to close than to pursue. This show returns victims to what they always were: human beings. Real people with names and histories that deserve to be told completely and without compromise. Each episode examines a case and hunts for the truth. New episodes release every week. You can subscribe now and find the show across social platforms @PreyTellPodcast. 

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  • Criado por
    Ashley Schef
  • Anos de atividade
    2026
  • Episódios
    16
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Prey Tell
  • Site do podcast
    Prey Tell

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