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  1. 18H AGO

    The High Priest of New Castle: Frank Costal and the Kadunce Ritual Murders

    The High Priest of New Castle: Frank Costal and the Kadunce Ritual Murders On July 11, 1978, Kathy Kadunce, age 25, and her four-year-old daughter Dawn were found stabbed to death inside their New Castle, Pennsylvania home in what investigators would eventually classify as a ritualistic homicide connected to a Satanic cult operating in Lawrence County. The cold case investigation sat dormant for three years before a convicted serial killer named Michael Atkinson provided testimony pointing to Frank Costal Jr., a self-styled occult high priest who maintained a following of alienated young men, as the architect of the killings. Frank Costal spent his entire adult life building himself into something impossible to ignore. He started as a carnival freak show performer, eventually returned to New Castle, filled an apartment with black curtains and plastic skulls, and built enough psychological authority over his followers that grown adults were afraid to cross him. When Kathy Kadunce discovered drugs in her house and flushed them, the consequences were unthinkable. This is the story of a traumatized child who grew into something genuinely terrifying, and the family who paid the price for it. #SatanicPanic #PennsylvaniaMurder #KadunceMurders #FrankCostal #ColdCase #OccultMurder 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime?  Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139

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    13 min

  2. 2D AGO

    Missing in Cleveland: The True Story of the Seymour Avenue Abductions

    Missing in Cleveland: The True Story of the Seymour Avenue Abductions In 2002, Michelle Knight became the first victim in a kidnapping investigation that would span eleven years in Cleveland, Ohio, as Ariel Castro abducted three women and held them captive at 2207 Seymour Avenue in one of the most significant missing persons failures in American criminal history. Detectives failed to connect the disappearances of victims Amanda Berry in 2003 and Gina DeJesus in 2004, leaving three open cases while the suspect drove a school bus, played bass in local bands, and attended vigils for the very girl he had locked in his house, before a 937-count conviction in 2013. Ariel Castro spent years consoling a grieving mother at community events, handing out her missing daughter's flyers, and standing at candlelight vigils on her behalf. Three women survived more than a decade of captivity through an extraordinary bond forged with each other and with a child born inside that house, and when they finally walked out on May 6, 2013, they didn't stop moving. This is a story about what people are capable of, the absolute worst of it and the most astonishing of it. #ArielCastro #ClevelandKidnapping #MichelleKnight #AmandaBerry #GinaDeJesus #TrueCrime #MissingPersons 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime?  Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139

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    14 min

  3. MAR 12

    The Zombie Hunter Murders: Phoenix's Most Haunting Cold Case Finally Solved

    The Zombie Hunter Murders: Phoenix's Most Haunting Cold Case Finally Solved In November 1992, Angela Brosso, age 21, was murdered and decapitated on a Phoenix, Arizona canal path on the eve of her 22nd birthday. Ten months later, 17-year-old Melanie Bernas was found in the same canal system, staged in clothing that didn't belong to her. For 22 years, the Phoenix Canal Murders stood as one of Arizona's most haunting cold cases until forensic genealogy and a glass of water at a Chili's finally put a name to the killer: Bryan Patrick Miller. What makes this one so hard to shake is the life Miller built around himself while living inside the very community he terrorized. He was a local character, a self-styled "Zombie Hunter" with a custom car, a prop gun impressive enough to land in an airport exhibit, and a regular spot at Phoenix festivals where he posed for photos with actual police officers on the weekends. Behind that persona was a man with a childhood that reads like a case study in how to manufacture a predator, a handwritten murder blueprint discovered when he was 16, and a legal system that let him walk free in 2002 when the evidence said something very different. #PhoenixCanalMurders #BryanPatrickMiller #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #ForensicGenealogy #PhoenixSerialKiller #AngelaBrosso 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime?  Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139

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    14 min

  4. MAR 10

    Operation Misty: The Undercover Sting That Caught a Serial Killer

    Operation Misty: The Undercover Sting That Caught a Serial Killer In October 1997, the body of Samantha Class, a 29-year-old mother of three, was discovered partially submerged in the muddy foreshore of the River Humber near North Ferriby, England. DNA evidence pointed directly at suspect Gary Arthur Allen, but in a 2000 trial at Sheffield Crown Court, Allen walked free. Twenty-one years later, in 2018, Alena Grlakova, a 38-year-old mother of four from Slovakia, vanished from Rotherham. Her body was found months later in a nearby stream, strangled and discarded just like Samantha had been. What followed was one of the most elaborate undercover police operations in British history, a two-year deep-cover sting involving seven officers building a fake criminal world around one man. Gary Allen's own mouth finally did what twenty-four years of investigations couldn't. This is a story about what happens when the system sees a monster coming from miles away and still can't stop him in time, and about two women whose families never stopped waiting for answers. #TrueCrime #GaryAllen #HumberMurders #SamanthaClass #AlenaGrlakova #OperationMisty #DoubleJeopardy 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime?  Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139

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    13 min

  5. MAR 5

    The Wrong Mother: How Julie Rea Was Convicted of Killing Her Own Son

    The Wrong Mother: How Julie Rea Was Convicted of Killing Her Own Son In October 1997, ten-year-old Joel Kirkpatrick was stabbed to death in his bed in Lawrenceville, Illinois, in a homicide investigation that would expose the catastrophic consequences of tunnel vision policing, junk forensic science, and the weight a single courtroom assumption can carry. His mother, Julie Rea, a PhD student in educational psychology, was convicted and sentenced to 65 years in prison despite no physical evidence connecting her to her son's death. What followed was nearly a decade of wrongful imprisonment, a true crime author who happened to catch the right television segment at the right moment, and a serial killer sitting on death row in Texas who turned out to be the only person willing to tell the truth. This case has a custody battle weaponized as motive, a nomadic predator with a body count stretching across the country, and a confession that cracked open a case the state of Illinois had tried to seal forever. Joel deserved better. So did his mom. And the way justice finally arrived for this family is one of the most remarkable stories you will ever hear. #TrueCrime #WrongfulConviction #JulieRea #TommyLynnSells #InnocenceProject #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime?  Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139

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    13 min

  6. MAR 3

    Sheila and Clay Fletcher: The Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die

    Sheila and Clay Fletcher: The Parents Who Let Their Daughter Die On January 3, 2022, first responders entered a home in Slaughter, Louisiana, and discovered 36-year-old Lacey Fletcher deceased, the victim of years of catastrophic neglect committed by her parents, Sheila and Clay Fletcher. The investigation resulted in second-degree murder charges, a surprising plea deal, and a sentencing that ignited national outrage about vulnerable adult protections, caregiver accountability, and the failures of community oversight. What makes this case almost impossible to process is that Sheila Fletcher was a town alderman and court clerk, someone literally employed to uphold justice, while her daughter was vanishing in the next room. This is the story of how a family's obsession with reputation can override every human instinct, how a tight-knit community can look the other way for fifteen years, and how a woman who once played high school volleyball ended up merging with a piece of furniture. This one is going to stay with you. #LaceyFletcher #TrueCrime #LouisianaTrueCrime #MurderByNeglect #SlaughterLouisiana #TrueCrimePodcast #VulnerableAdults 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime?  Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139

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    13 min
  7. True Crime Blueprint - Building a Murder Business: HH Holmes and the Industrialization of Death

    FEB 28

    True Crime Blueprint - Building a Murder Business: HH Holmes and the Industrialization of Death

    This is a sample from an episode of a new podcast called True Crime Blueprint. It's still hosted and created by me, Joe. But it's longer and more of a deep dive into selected and curated cases.  To follow and subscribe, go here: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139 

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    10 min

  8. FEB 26

    The Shadow of the Adirondacks: Robert Garrow and the Lawyers Who Kept His Deadly Secrets

    The Shadow of the Adirondacks: Robert Garrow and the Lawyers Who Kept His Deadly Secrets In the summer of 1973, serial killer Robert Garrow launched an 18-day murder spree through New York's Adirondack wilderness, triggering the largest manhunt in state history and leaving investigators with a map marked with 26 red dots and far too few answers. The homicide investigation surrounding victims Alicia Hauck, Daniel Porter, Susan Petz, and Philip Domblewski eventually led to a courtroom revelation that cracked American legal ethics wide open. Two defense attorneys knew where the bodies were buried and said nothing for five months, while grieving families begged publicly for any information at all. This is a story about a man forged in poverty and institutional failure, a wilderness that became his hunting ground, and the impossible weight of a professional oath when honoring it means doing something that feels profoundly wrong as a human being. #RobertGarrow #AdirondackKiller #TrueCrime #BuriedBodiesCase #SerialKiller #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime?  Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139

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