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🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast, bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries. Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases, we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates. 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts, we uncover the psychology of killers, forensic breakthroughs, police investigations, and courtroom drama—giving you the full story behind the headlines. From notorious cases to little-known crimes that deserve attention, we break down what really happened and why. If you're obsessed with true crime podcasts, criminal psychology, and investigative reporting, subscribe to True Crime Today on Apple Podcasts now! 🎧 New episodes daily.

  1. HOW TO LISTEN to PREMIUM PLUS AD-FREE, ADVANCE Episodes!

    Jan 22

    HOW TO LISTEN to PREMIUM PLUS AD-FREE, ADVANCE Episodes!

    How to Get Ad-Free, Advance Content from True Crime Today and Hidden Killers Podcasts Do you want to enjoy all the content from True Crime Today and Hidden Killers podcasts without ads and before everyone else? Here’s exactly how to do it: Subscribe to True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS on Apple Podcasts. Choose either a monthly or yearly subscription. Make sure you select True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS—this is the channel that gives you all the ad-free and advance content. Important: If you’re hearing ads, it means you’re not on the right channel. Double-check that you’ve subscribed to True Crime Today Premium Plus. Follow the True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS channel on Apple Podcasts. This is a separate channel where all the ad-free and early-access episodes are uploaded. Remember: Regular episodes with ads will still be available on the main channels. To get the ad-free and advance episodes, you must subscribe and follow the True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS channel. If you’re still getting ads, head over to the True Crime Today PREMIUM PLUS channel and ensure you’re subscribed there! Enjoy your exclusive content!

    1 min
  2. How Did Ted Bundy Starve Himself Down Twenty Pounds and Crawl Through a Jail Ceiling?

    1h ago

    How Did Ted Bundy Starve Himself Down Twenty Pounds and Crawl Through a Jail Ceiling?

    Ted Bundy was convicted of aggravated kidnapping in Utah in 1976. Bench trial. Judge Stewart Hanson. Sentenced to one to fifteen years. In October 1976, Colorado charged him with the murder of Caryn Campbell. He was extradited to Aspen in January 1977. As his own attorney, he received the legal courtesies the Sixth Amendment requires. Library access. No shackles. No handcuffs in the building. The Pitkin County Courthouse gave a murder defendant the run of the second floor. On June 7, 1977, he jumped from the library window. Twenty-five feet to an alley. Across the Roaring Fork River. Six days in the wilderness east of Aspen. A manhunt involving bloodhounds, helicopters, and roadblocks on Highway 82. Recaptured June 13 in a stolen Cadillac by Officer Gene Flatt. Transferred to the Garfield County Jail in Glenwood Springs. Over the following months, he stopped eating, lost more than twenty pounds, and widened a gap around the light fixture in his ceiling. On December 30, 1977 — New Year's weekend, skeleton staff — he crawled through the ceiling into the head jailer's empty apartment, dressed in civilian clothes, and walked out. Seventeen hours later, a guard found books under the blanket. Bundy's route: Glenwood Springs to Vail to Denver to Chicago to Ann Arbor to Atlanta to Tallahassee, Florida. Nine days. A stolen car. A plane. Two trains. Two buses. He arrived in a state that had no file on him. This is the third of five conversations in Ted Bundy: History's Hidden Killers. Two escapes. Two preventable failures. And the charge sheet that was too narrow to describe the man inside it. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #TedBundy #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #PrisonEscape #Aspen #Colorado #GlenwoodSprings #Fugitive #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast

    15 min
  3. The 'Walk the Dog' Letter Tells You Everything About How Kouri Richins' Brain Works

    3h ago

    The 'Walk the Dog' Letter Tells You Everything About How Kouri Richins' Brain Works

    "Walk the Dog!!" written across the top of a six-page letter found hidden in Kouri Richins' jail cell. Inside: instructions for coaching her brother's testimony. The defense she should never have scripted.But the letter itself isn't the most revealing piece. The "fictional novel" defense is. Because when Kouri was confronted on a recorded jail call, she didn't pause. She didn't stumble. She produced a complete alternative explanation instantly — fictional novel, Mexican prison setting, Crest Whitestrips smuggled in by her attorney — like an immune system generating antibodies on contact with a pathogen.This episode traces the psychological reflex that drove every post-arrest behavior: the letters, the calls, the fired attorneys, the message to an admirer about "exposing" the prosecution and the judge and the Richins family. Not strategy. Compulsion. A narrative machine that can't be turned off because the narrative IS the self. When story-production stops, the identity collapses. So it runs. From a jail cell. On recorded lines. No matter the cost. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #KouriRichins #EricRichins #KouriRichinsTrial #Psychology #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers #FentanylPoisoning #SummitCounty #TrueCrimeCommunity #Justice ———

    15 min
  4. The Crash: What a Defense Attorney Sees When He Looks at the Mackenzie Shirilla Prosecution

    5h ago

    The Crash: What a Defense Attorney Sees When He Looks at the Mackenzie Shirilla Prosecution

    A prosecutor called it a "mission of death." A judge agreed. But a criminal defense attorney who has spent his career on the other side of cases like this says the Mackenzie Shirilla prosecution has vulnerabilities that should have been exposed at trial — and weren't, because the defense never mounted the challenge the evidence demanded. Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution relied on surveillance footage, black box data, selected text messages, and a prior incident on I-71. The defense accepted a bench trial with one judge and no jury, then failed to meaningfully challenge the prosecution's interpretation of any of it. Bob Motta, criminal defense attorney and host of Defense Diaries, breaks down what he would have done differently at every stage. The surveillance footage shows a car — in cross-examination, you force the detective to admit it doesn't show the driver's face, hands, or consciousness. The black box data is consistent with premeditation, but you bring your own expert to demonstrate it's equally consistent with loss of consciousness. The ninety-three thousand texts were curated for maximum damage — you introduce the mundane final messages to show the jury that the prosecution told half the story. And the I-71 incident that anchored the prior-calculation argument has a competing account that the defense inexplicably left on the table. The prosecution won. The question is whether the charge matched the evidence or whether a compelling story did the work that proof couldn't. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TheCrashNetflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Justice

    15 min
  5. The Crash: Every Way Mackenzie Shirilla's Defense Team Let Her Down

    7h ago

    The Crash: Every Way Mackenzie Shirilla's Defense Team Let Her Down

    The defense raised a medical condition. Never proved it. Had competing evidence that contradicted the prosecution's key witness. Never introduced it. Filed the post-conviction petition with the one expert who might have changed everything. Filed it one day late. At every critical moment in the Mackenzie Shirilla case, the defense failed — and a seventeen-year-old is serving fifteen years to life because of it. Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the crash in Strongsville, Ohio that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution built a narrative around surveillance footage, black box data, and threatening text messages. The defense had tools to challenge that narrative — a diagnosed medical condition, a neurologist's expert opinion, text messages that directly contradicted the prosecution's version of a key prior incident. None of it was effectively used. The POTS diagnosis was mentioned at trial but never supported with expert testimony. The post-conviction petition containing a neurologist's conclusion that the evidence was consistent with a medical episode was rejected because it arrived twenty-four hours past Ohio's filing deadline — not because it was wrong. The I-71 incident the prosecution called a rehearsal had a competing account the defense never surfaced. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta examines every failure in this defense and asks the hardest question: if Mackenzie Shirilla's own legal team had done its job, would she be in prison right now? The answer matters — because ineffective assistance of counsel isn't just a legal term. It's a life sentence imposed by the people who were supposed to prevent one. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TheCrashNetflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #BobMotta #DefenseDiaries #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Justice

    29 min
  6. What Happens Inside Nancy Guthrie's 41 Missing Minutes?

    17h ago

    What Happens Inside Nancy Guthrie's 41 Missing Minutes?

    Between 1:47 a.m. and 2:28 a.m. on the morning of February 1, somebody walked up to an 84-year-old woman's house in the Catalina Foothills of Tucson, got inside, and got her out. Nancy Guthrie's doorbell camera disconnected at 1:47. Her pacemaker app disconnected at 2:28. Forty-one minutes. That is the entire window. Four months later, nobody outside the investigation can fill it in. This True Crime Today episode walks through the full Nancy Guthrie timeline, beginning to now. The blood on her front porch. The medication she left behind. The doorbell camera that was screwed off the wall. The doorbell footage the FBI released on February 10 — the masked man, the Walmart-brand Ozark Trail backpack, the clump of weeds covering the lens. The reward that climbed from $50,000 to $100,000 to $1 million. The FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team deployed to Tucson and then pulled back to Phoenix. The 30,000-plus tips. The recall campaign against Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. The Arizona Republic report on the sheriff's resume. The Pima County Board of Supervisors vote compelling testimony under oath. The FBI Director on a national podcast confirming, in his words, that the local sheriff's department did not initially cooperate as expected — and Nanos's public dispute of that characterization. The contaminated gloves. The mixed DNA still under analysis. And the 41 minutes at the center of all of it — that nobody, not the family, not the agencies, not the millions of people who have watched this case from the moment Nancy's name first hit the news, can yet account for. The full timeline. Every piece. Beginning to now. SOCIAL LINKS:Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod LEGAL DISCLAIMER:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS: #NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #TrueCrimeToday #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #PimaCounty #Tucson #FBI #ColdCase #FindNancyGuthrie

    21 min
  7. The Crash: Is the Mackenzie Shirilla Case Really as Clear as Everyone Thinks?

    19h ago

    The Crash: Is the Mackenzie Shirilla Case Really as Clear as Everyone Thinks?

    Everyone who watches Netflix's The Crash picks a side. Guilty or railroaded. Monster or misunderstood teenager. Premeditated killer or reckless kid in over her head. The documentary gives you enough to feel certain either way — and that's exactly the problem, because the evidence doesn't support certainty in either direction. Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for driving her car into a building in Strongsville, Ohio at nearly a hundred miles per hour, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan. She was seventeen. The prosecution argued intent. The defense argued medical emergency. A judge with no jury agreed with the prosecution. And the one expert who might have complicated that decision was never heard because of a missed deadline. Robin Dreeke, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Program, sits down for a three-part conversation that covers the full scope of this case. He examines Mackenzie's documented behavior and asks whether personality constitutes evidence of murder. He picks apart the investigation and asks whether the methodology supports the charge. And he confronts the human layer — the memory claims, the grief-driven certainty, the competing narratives, and the confirmation bias that may have shaped how every decision in this case was made. The evidence exists. The footage is real. The data is real. The texts are real. But evidence and proof are different things, and a conviction for premeditated murder requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. This conversation asks whether that standard was actually met — or whether a powerful story about a difficult girl made everyone feel like it was. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TheCrashNetflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #RobinDreeke #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Netflix #Justice

    1h 2m
  8. Why Wasn't Murdaugh's Housekeeper Asked About Everything She Saw That Morning?

    21h ago

    Why Wasn't Murdaugh's Housekeeper Asked About Everything She Saw That Morning?

    You want to know what went wrong in the first Murdaugh trial? Forget the jury tampering for a second. Forget Becky Hill. Look at the allocation of time. The state spent twelve and a half hours on financial crimes. They gave Blanca Simpson three hours.Blanca is the person who knew that household's daily patterns better than anyone. She knew how Maggie left her things. She knew where the towels went. She knew what the morning routine looked like and what it didn't look like. When she walked into that house the morning after the murders, her eyes caught things that a crime scene unit would have no frame of reference for. Not forensic anomalies. Domestic ones. The kind of details that only land when someone says: that's not how she did it.The Supreme Court's guidance for the retrial essentially forces prosecutors to rebalance the case. Less financial testimony. Which means more weight falls on the physical evidence, the timeline, and the behavioral details. And that's Blanca's territory.In this interview, Blanca goes past her trial testimony for the first time. She talks about what prosecutors didn't ask. What she noticed that morning that she's been carrying for five years without anyone in the legal system asking about it. She explains the moment Alex tried to rewrite the shirt story and what his approach to that conversation told her about how he operated. And she confronts what happens when the most important crime scene in South Carolina true crime history no longer exists.Part 2 of a three-part True Crime Today exclusive. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #AlexMurdaugh #BlancaSimpson #MurdaughRetrial #MurdaughEvidence #MaggieMurdaugh #Moselle #MurdaughTrial #PaulMurdaugh #SouthCarolina #HiddenKillers

    25 min
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