True Crime DEADLINE Matt Johnson

NEW INTERVIEW: With Larry Woodcock, grandfather of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan.In 2023, Lori Vallow-Daybell was found guilty for the murders of her children JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan and in her fifth husbands first wife Tammy Daybell.Host Matt Johnson was in the courtroom just feet away from Lori during her trial and heads to Idaho to cover the murder trial of her husband Chad Daybell. This episode explores the case against Doomsday Prophet Chad Daybell, behind the scenes of Lori Vallow's trial a...

CASE DEEP DIVE: The Long Island Serial Killer Case investigationThe case of the Long Island Serial Killer went unsolved for more than a decade. In December 2010 near Gilgo Beach on Ocean Drive, a shocking discovery - the badly decomposed bodies of four women were found, each wrapped in burlap.Victims: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello and Maureen Brainard-Barnes would become known as the Gilgo Four.The case first started as a missing persons case of 24 year old Shannon Gilber...

IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS: Murder victim’s wife Kirsten and his brother Adam.On February 16, 2022 father of four Jared Bridegan had dropped off his older children at his ex wife's home in the Sanctuary neighborhood of Jacksonville Beach Florida. Jared and the kids had gone to dinner for a daddy date night.Jared called his wife Kirsten to say: "I love you and will be home soon" and started driving home to St. Augustine from his ex wife's house. His toddler daughter Bexley was in the back seat of his...

NEW INTERVIEW: Murder victim’s daughter Madison McGhee.On July 11, 2002 John Cornelius McGhee, known as JC McGhee was shot and killed in the doorway of his Ohio home. No arrests have been made in the case and now his daughter Madison McGhee is on a mission to solve the case.Madison tells host Matt Johnson that she was only 6 years old when the murder happened.Police called it a home invasion "Gone Wrong". Madison says her father had a history selling drugs in his younger days and was also a p...

NEW INTERVIEW: FBI Supervisory Crime Analyst Christie Palazzolo.The FBI calls Samuel Little the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history.The Killer confessed to 93 murders before his death, and crime analysts believe his confessions are credible. Police have been able to verify more than 60 confessions, with many still pending.Little says he strangled his victims between 1970 and 2005. Many of his victims’ deaths were ruled overdoses, accidental or undetermined. Some bodies have never been...

True Crime DEADLINE returns for Season V with host Matt Johnson in 2023.Matt is a 2X EMMY award winning journalist who dusts off his reporter notebooks to bring you his first hand account of covering notorious crimes and lesser known cases over his career.This season covers the Trial of Doomsday Prophet Chad Daybell, The Murder of father Jared Bridegan, the unsolved cases of Serial Killer Samuel Little and the Unsolved murder case of JC McGhee.Episodes include exclusive interviews with family...