True Crime with Kimbyr

Kimbyrleigha
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Every true crime case involves real people and real lives that are cut short. True Crime with Kimbyr seeks to honor the victims of these unfathomable crimes by bringing facts to the forefront and sharing their stories with dignity and grace. An acclaimed storyteller on both her namesake and DARKLIVITY shows, Kimbyrleigha brings empathy and sensitivity to the world of true crime, conducting in-depth research and approaching each case with the care they deserve.

  1. 10h ago

    She Was Walking Alone on Halloween Then Her Texts Stopped | Taylor Van Diest

    My Halloween Series has begun! The names of these series are chosen by the community every year & I reveal a special intro for each one. This one I the Festival of Fears! Our second case is The Taylor Van Diest case out of Canada. On Halloween night in 2011, 18-year-old Taylor Van Diest left her home in the small, close-knit town of Armstrong, British Columbia, dressed as a zombie and buzzing with excitement, and she was meeting up with friends for one last Halloween before they all grew up. It was a short, familiar walk she'd made countless times. She never arrived. As Taylor made her way through the dark, her phone lit up with texts between her and a friend; they were ordinary, happy messages about the night ahead. And then, one message changed everything. Taylor wrote that she thought she was "being creeped" - meaning that someone was following her in the dark. It would be the last anyone ever heard from her. In this episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, we trace the full Taylor Van Diest case: the vibrant young woman she was, the chilling final messages she sent, and the relentless investigation that refused to let her killer stay hidden. 🚧 Don't forget to check out my other True Crime Show: DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

  2. 5d ago

    A Psychic, a Warning, and a Halloween That Changed Everything | Stephanie Parze

    My Halloween Series has begun! The name of these series are chosen by the community every year & I reveal a special intro for each one. Our first case is one that really affected me. What happened to Stephanie, and what her poor family went through, still makes me tear up when I think about it today. Stephanie Parze was a vibrant 25-year-old makeup artist and social media influencer from Freehold Township, known for her warmth, creativity, and fierce love for her family. On the night before Halloween in 2019, Stephanie went out with her mom and relatives for a girls' night, a show featuring a well-known psychic. The family came home together. Stephanie headed to her own place just minutes away. And then… nothing. When her car and phone were found at the house the next morning, but Stephanie was nowhere to be seen, her family knew immediately that something was horribly wrong, she would never leave without her phone, and never go silent on the people she loved. What followed was an agonizing search that would grip all of New Jersey, as her devoted parents refused to stop until they found her. In this episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, we trace the full Stephanie Parze case: the bright young woman she was, the chilling night she vanished, and a father's relentless fight to bring his daughter home. 🚧 Don't forget to check out my other True Crime Show: DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE ⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

  3. Sep 28

    Killer Bound 4 Girls in Back Room - Then Tried to Burn It All Away | Yogurt Shop Murders

    PART THREE - The final Installment of my three-part series. PART ONE: ⁠HERE⁠ PART TWO: ⁠HERE⁠ On a Friday night in December 1991, four teenage girls planned a sleepover. Two of them were working the closing shift at a shop in a strip mall in north Austin, Texas. The other two, 15 and 13, had spent the evening at the mall a few blocks away and were waiting for a ride home from a big sister. Just before midnight, a patrol officer driving past saw flames.What happened inside that shop became one of the most infamous unsolved cases in American history. This episode covers all of it. Who these women and girls actually were, what happened that night, how the investigation went so badly wrong, and the forensic work decades later that finally answered a question four families had been asking for thirty-four years. Watch Parts One and Two first — everything connects. 🚧 Don't forget to check out my other True Crime Show: DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE ⁠⁠⁠ 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

  4. Sep 24

    Killer Left Her Dead in the Bathtub - Message on the Mirror Made No Sense | Jenny Zitricki

    PART TWO of a THREE-PART Series - WATCH PART ONE: HERE DNA 🧬 database: https://www.gedmatch.com/ On a Friday morning in April of 1990, a woman in Greenville, South Carolina didn't show up for work. Nobody had heard from her in almost thirty-six hours. When maintenance finally opened her apartment door, water was still running in the tub and it had overflowed into the apt. Her name was Genevieve, but everyone called her Jenny. She was twenty-eight years old, originally from Youngstown, Ohio, and she had moved to South Carolina less than two years earlier and built an entire life there from scratch. Her case went cold.However in Part ONE we found out that sixteen years later, and six hundred miles away, investigators in Portageville, Missouri, finally developed a full DNA profile in the 1998 murders of 38-year-old Sherri Scherer and her 12-year-old daughter Megan, who were killed inside their own farmhouse in a forty-minute window while the rest of the family was stuck behind a truck blocking the only road home.Missouri had spent eight years with evidence they couldn't use. When they finally entered that profile into the national database, it came back to an apartment in South Carolina. Two unsolved cases became one unsolved case. And there was still no name. 🚧 Don't forget to check out my other True Crime Show: DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE ⁠⁠ 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

  5. Sep 21

    Killer Was In and Out in 30 Minutes - Left Behind Disturbing Scene | Scherer Family

    THIS IS PART ONE OF A THREE-PART SERIES - Watch part two: HERE Hello everyone, I'm going to be in London for the next two weeks at CrimeCon UK, so I prepared a three-part series for you to watch while I am away. THIS is the first installment. On Saturday, March 28, 1998, a mother and daughter living on a farm with their family in Portageville, Missouri, were found dead in their home. This was a farm town of about 3,300 people where nobody locked their doors because out there, whoever came up your driveway was somebody you knew or somebody who needed help.In this episode, we go through the case from the beginning. Who Sherri and Megan were, what that town was like in 1998, everything investigators found, and why a case with this much evidence went nowhere for years. This is Part One. 🚧 Don't forget to check out my other True Crime Show: DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE ⁠ 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

  6. Sep 17

    A Fire, an Abandoned Car, and a Map to Nowhere | The Megan Sharpton Case

    Today's True Crime story involves Megan Sharpton, a 24-year-old nursing student who was about to graduate. She was planning on coming to her mother's house for dinner one night AFTER she went to an in-person interview for a new job she was considered for. She left but never came back. Clues left behind led investigators in so many different directions; it was truly a very mysterious murder and NOT what anyone expected. 🚧 Don't forget to check out my other True Crime Show: DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

    A Fire, an Abandoned Car, and a Map to Nowhere | The Megan Sharpton Case

  7. Sep 14

    Teen Runs Out of Gas and Never Makes it Home | Casey Crowder

    In the early morning hours of August 27, 2006, 17-year-old Casey Crowder, a bright, happy high school senior, was driving home along a quiet stretch of Highway 65 near the small town of Dumas. And then her car ran out of gas. Stranded and alone on a dark rural highway just before dawn, Casey did the sensible thing: she picked up her phone and called for help. It's the kind of ordinary bad-luck moment that happens to almost everyone. But Casey never made it home. When her family realized she was missing and her abandoned car was found by the roadside, a desperate search began, and the answers, when they finally came, would haunt this small Arkansas community for years. In this episode of True Crime with Kimbyr, we trace the full Casey Crowder case: the girl she was, the ordinary night that turned into every parent's worst nightmare, and the long road to justice for a family that has never stopped fighting for her. 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

    Teen Runs Out of Gas and Never Makes it Home | Casey Crowder

  8. Sep 10

    High School Student Found Dead Inside Cemetery in Rural Ohio | Jessica Keen

    📣 WANT MORE TRUE CRIME? Check out my other podcast, DARKLIVITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE This case is heartbreaking. Whenever a young person has their life cut short, it's not easy to talk about. Jessica was a sophomore in high school; she was JUST starting her life. She was a gifted singer, played several musical instruments, loved cheerleading, and had just started dating her first boyfriend. Many of us can relate to Jessica in a lot of ways. That's why this one is hard to hear. She had no idea what was about to happen. What investigators pieced together about Jessica's final moments is as heartbreaking as it is chilling. The evidence told a story of a young girl who fought with everything she had who ran, who hid, who came agonizingly close to reaching safety. But for all the clues left behind in that cemetery, one answer stayed out of reach. The prime suspect was cleared. The leads dried up. And Jessica's case went cold for years, leaving a devastated family waiting for a truth that seemed like it might never come. 🔎 COME FIND ME: Personal IG https://www.instagram.com/kimbyrleigha/ 🚧 True Crime IG: https://www.instagram.com/truecrimewithkimbyr 🔗 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/KimbyrleighaYouTube/ 📥 Sponsorship Inquiries: contact@tablerock.com 🚨 This video is for educational purposes & documentary purposes ONLY. All info is gathered ONLINE from multiple sources, and though each case is thoroughly researched, not all info is always 100% valid. Please do your own research. 👩🏻‍🎓 ABOUT ME: I'm Kimbyrleigha; thanks in advance for reading this. I think it's important to know someone's background and education because it helps explain how they view situations and why they may hold a particular point of view. I hold a bachelor's degree in Psychology and Sociology. I graduated from law school in 2010 and have a Juris Doctor (law degree). I'm also currently in school studying Medicolegal Investigation. COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: I do my best to ensure that everything in these videos complies with the legal Fair Use Standards. I never intend to violate anyone’s copyright. If you own the rights to something that was unintentionally used in this video and would like it removed, addressed, or licensed for a fee, please reach out to me first, and I will get back to you ASAP. Darklivity@jackpotsyndicate.com

    High School Student Found Dead Inside Cemetery in Rural Ohio | Jessica Keen
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Every true crime case involves real people and real lives that are cut short. True Crime with Kimbyr seeks to honor the victims of these unfathomable crimes by bringing facts to the forefront and sharing their stories with dignity and grace. An acclaimed storyteller on both her namesake and DARKLIVITY shows, Kimbyrleigha brings empathy and sensitivity to the world of true crime, conducting in-depth research and approaching each case with the care they deserve.

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  • Creator
    Kimbyrleigha
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    369
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Kimbyrleigha
  • Show Website
    True Crime with Kimbyr

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