Actor Nicholas Cage is well-known as an eccentric guy, and his many bizarre collections are a testament to that reputation. But in 2007, Cage bought a rare dinosaur skull that got him in trouble with the government of Mongolia. In this episode, we talk about his collections, the skull purchase, the A-List actor he outbid, and the unfortunate result…

This week, the baseball world mourned the passing of beloved Dodgers Pitcher, Fernando Valenzuela. In this rewind episode from February of 2022, we tell the sad story about Dodger Stadium, which starts with a piece about Valenzuela. Dodger Stadium seats 56,000. It’s the 3rd oldest, and the largest stadium in Major League Baseball. But the story of …

In May 2022, a night of celebration ended in tragedy when 23-year-old Alice Wood ran over her fiancé, Ryan Watson, in a jealous rage. The murder stunned Rode Heath and Cheshire. In this video, we look at both Alice Wood and Ryan Watson, the details of that night, then the trial. The video includes CCTV footage and body cam footage. #TrueCrime #Crim…

The shocking true crime story of Scarlet Blake, a transgender woman from Oxford, who captured headlines for her brutal acts of violence. In this documentary, we explore Blake's disturbing transformation from livestreaming the killing of a cat to the heinous murder of Jorge Martin Carreno, a vulnerable man who crossed her path on a fateful night. Un…

In this powerful and deeply personal interview, we sit down with Stephen Smith to discuss his harrowing journey chronicled in his gripping memoir, The Boy in the Cellar. Born in the early 1960s and locked away in a dark, confined cellar for the first thirteen years of his life, Slim's early life was marked by unimaginable cruelty and deprivation. A…

This sentence for this case has been appealed twice and it even went for retrial with the support of Justice For Women. It's factual that Emma Jayne Magson stabbed and killed James Knight. However, there is a huge part of this case that nobody will ever know, and that is where did it happen? That crucial bit of evidence would settle once and for al…

This True Crime case is ridiculous. Asta Juskauskiene started talking to prison inmates in Lithuania. As a result, she decided to divorce her husband so she could marry her bad boy toyboy. He's only been in the UK for 5 days when she organized for them both to have a medieval duel over her. However, the one who 'won' the duel got Asta's hand. -----…

Neomi Smith was 23 years old; she'd just settled into her independent life living in Angus/Aberdeen, Scotland, when she got with Keith Rizzo, but they would only be together for 6 weeks. Within those 6 weeks, Keith Rizzo was everything but the perfect boyfriend, but Neomi stayed with him because she was determined she could fix him. Until one night…

On Christmas Eve, the 14th of December 2017, Iuliana Tudos had worked a 10am to 5pm shift at the World's End pub in Camden, London. She went and met some friends at a pub. After 2 hours, Iuliana went home to pick up some things before going to a friend's house where she would spend Christmas Day. However, when Iuliana didn't show up, her friends wo…

In this case, we head to Oxfordshire, where the prosecution for 'Murder By Starvation' went to court for the first time in 100 years. Lynda Rickard and her husband were given a great opportunity. If they looked after James Anthony Sootheran and his mother, they would be paid £47,000 a year and get to live on the £1.8 million farm. Lynda took the op…

In this True Crime Case, we look at Quyen Nguyen. Quyen moved to the UK from Vietnam in 2010 to study business at a university in London. Seven years later, she was looking to rent a property when she met Stephen Unwin, who owned a property maintenance business. She didn't know that he was on license for murder, so she didn't expect anything untowa…

Aneta Zdun married Marcin Zdun in 2001, and together they had 3 children. Aneta trained in physiotherapy and came to England in 2008. Marcin and their only daughter (at the time), Nikoleta, joined her a few months later. Aneta got work as a physiotherapist and then, after a few more career jumps, she became a carer. She was a devoted mum to all her…

This True Crime Case takes us to Scotland. And I'll warn you: it's heart-breaking, horrendous, and when it seems that the worst has been done, the case just continues to get worse. In all, 3 people who did not know each other have been convicted for doing this to Amber Gibson. -------------- DISCLAIMER: This is a real, True Crime Case, so it's impo…

Between the year 2002 and the 19th August 2021, Erik Feld got 10 convictions for 18 offences. From just one incident, in 2012 he pleaded guilty to S-assault, battery, possession of an offensive weapon, and criminal damage. He went on to make shocking confessions to his psychiatrist but was eventually freed from prison. In hindsight, it was inevitab…

Short True Crime Case Unlike her sister Cassandra, Scott didn't manage to escape her drug-dominated upbringing. Growing up, she witnessed drug abuse and domestic violence; she then went on to abuse drugs and have violent outbursts. Her mum was the subject of many of these outbursts. Then disaster struck when she moved in with her mum in Longsight, …

In this True Crime Case, we look at Andrew Saunders of Cardiff, Wales. As with anyone else, he'd had rough times, but in all, he'd had a supportive and loving upbringing. However, when his girlfriend left him for another man, Andrew Saunders couldn't handle it. -------------- DISCLAIMER: This is a real, True Crime Case, so it's important that if yo…

True Crime Case In this True Crime case, we look at Corinna Smith. She was 21 years old when she married Michael Baines. Despite the fact Michael was 22 years older than Corinna, they shared a happy life. They each had children from previous relationships, and they had 1 child together. Then, after 31 years of being happily married, it all changed …

True Crime Documentary For this week's True Crime case, we're heading to Silkstone Common, Barnsley, England. After inheriting some money, Scott and his mum, Carol, bought some land. It didn't take long before they were aggravated by local resident Gary Dean. Gary was autistic and had a great love for running; the issue was, he loved to run through…

True Crime Case In this True Crime Case: Carrie had a fairly decent start to life. She'd been to university and qualified as a teacher, she'd gotten married and had children, but in her 20's, Carrie got into financial difficulties and thought that she found alcohol. As alcohol tore through her life, she got arrested countless times. Then she met St…

True Crime Case In this True Crime Case, we look at Dionne Timms-Williams, a teenager who was, by all accounts, a lovely child! Dionne started to hang around with the wrong crowd after her parents' divorce. However, on the night she killed Doctor Gary Jenkins, she wasn't with that crowd. In fact, she'd only just met the people she was with! Despite…

True Crime Case This case was beginning to look like a riddle… and then the murderer (Attila Ban) was found in the most unexpected place. Attila Ban had quite a crush on Tibor Vass. Tibor was 11 years younger than him and straight, so he didn't have a chance. That didn't stop Attila from getting jealous of his girlfriends and friends though. Then o…

David Browning was described as the 'epitome of urban normality'. He'd led a normal and stable life, having been married for 24 years and raising 2 grown-up children. Then his normal, stable life was massively jolted by the unexpected loss of his father. David fell into the dark, confusing hole of depression, and other than his wife, there was one …

This week's True Crime Case is the one of Trash Streamer Stas Reeflay Trash streams, which are prominently a Russian thing, are where the viewers pay the streamer to do awful stuff; you could say they're dares… but they're paying you. This stuff usually consists of being horrible to someone else, humiliating them, hitting them, and whatever else. S…

Police Officer Timothy Brehmer Killed His Mistress of 10 Years in Car Park | True Crime Case in UK True Crime Case: In 2020, Timothy Keith Brehmer was a 41-year-old police officer. He'd been married to his wife for about 14 years, and they had a child together. However, he'd been having an on-and-off affair for 10 of their 14 years of marriage with…

In this Short UK-based True Crime Case Documentary, we cover 21-year-old Ionut-Valentin Boboc and 45-year-old Iacob-Bebe Chers. They're both Romanian nationals, and by September 2021, they'd been living and working in Bristol for some time. Although they'd left the abattoir where they worked butchering pigs, their days of mutilation weren't over. -…

In this short true crime case documentary: Poppy Devey Waterhouse was born in London and raised in Somerset. She seemed like any other child, but inside was something wonderful. She was a genius in the making. She even got moved up a year in school, which just doesn't happen. It was while she was studying Mathematics at Nottingham University that s…

I have to warn you, this True Crime Case Documentary is a heartbreaker. Seriously, go forth with caution; it is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Since before Fiona Anderson's first child was born, Child Services were on her back. After fighting them for 4 years, nobody realised how it would end. -------------- DISCLAIMER - This is a real, UK Tr…

I don't know about you, but I've certainly heard about women who have ex-partners that threaten anybody that could potentially be that woman's new partner. And that's really not right, nor is it fair. I mean, just imagine finally being free of an abusive controlling partner, but then every time you talk to another man, even if it's just as friends,…

In this True Crime Case Documentary: Police Officer Julia James was off duty walking her dog when Callum Wheeler murdered her in the most brutal way without reason. He didn't even know who she was. 21-year-old Callum Wheeler hadn't had a job since he left school at 15. He had no interests and no friends; he would later be described as a "complete a…

On the 19th of December 2000, 30-year-old PC Jon Odell, of Kent Police, was out on duty, doing routine speed checks on Shottendane Road in Margate, Kent. He was working with 6 other officers. It was on that day that Wayne Rule decided to speed up and swerve the police. Instead, he hit PC Odell. In turn, he served 5 years of a 9-year sentence. When …

Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were celebrating one of their birthdays when they were attacked. But they had absolutely no reason to be attacked. They were just two women, enjoying life together. They had no idea who their attacker was. Not only was he a stranger to them, but after 1 a.m. in the morning, in a dark park, during a partial lockdown, …

Gracie Elizabeth Spinks was born on 19 October 1997 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. After leaving college, she qualified and worked as a lifeguard and swimming instructor at Queen's Park Leisure Centre in Chesterfield. However, due to what was happening around the world in 2020 and 2021, she got furloughed. With no work to do, she got a job a…

52-year-old Andrew Innes is something different. Despite lockdown restrictions, on the 18th of February, he picked up Bennylyn Burke and her daughter from Bristol and took them back, 440 miles to his home in Dundee. Unbeknownst to them, only one of them would survive. Almost 4 weeks after they arrived at his home, the police found Bennylyn and her …

Shaye Groves is 'one of us' true crime enthusiasts. She is also, by her own account, a Goth and a Pagan. The media has focused on her choice of style, particularly her bedroom design, where she hung serial killer drawings she'd bought online. In July 2022, after a night of drugs and alcohol, she killed her boyfriend, but with Shaye, nothing is ever…

Lab worker Ross McCullam was a 30-year-old laboratory assistant at Ibstock Brick. Living with his parents on Windsor Close, in Coalville, Leicester, he'd recently started to form a relationship with Megan Newborough. Megan was a 23-year-old who worked in the Human Resources department for the same company and lived with her parents in Nuneaton. The…

We all have annoyances, right? Most of us have or had neighbours that are really annoying. Sometimes one neighbour is just really mardy and gets annoyed way too easily, while other neighbours are actually really annoying and have no thought or concern about anybody other than themselves. Well, in this case, the apparently annoying neighbour is 41-y…

This is an absolutely crazy true crime case. This man, Mark Brown, would have become a serial killer if he hadn't been caught when he had. I'm absolutely sure of that. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if he already is. He even described himself as a psychopath with a conscience. The police originally got onto his case because on Saturday, 13 Novemb…

Christina Rowe first met Charles Byrne in December 2019 on the Tinder dating app. They started dating and even lived together for 6 months. However, in February 2021, Charles was living elsewhere, and his paranoid schizophrenia had become too much to handle. This true crime case is based in Worcester, UK, and it is both shocking and horrific. In th…

This story actually involves two true crime cases. Ultimately, it's about Dawn Lewis, a yoga teacher who tried to get away with murder. The issue is her story of how she murdered Glenn Richards in self-defense was almost believable. She was the one who called 999, confessing to her murder. The police call tape and the police cam footage from the ar…

On 25 March 2021, Donovan Miller phoned the police and told them that the day before he had murdered and raped his grandmother. 78-year-old Phyllis Grant was a regular churchgoer and described as a matriarch of the community. One neighbor said: "She was very involved in the community. She was always saying hi and always tending to her roses and her…

A lot of people compare Jason Marshall to Stephen Port. It's easy to see why; both men killed other gay men that they'd met to have a sexual encounter with. But there are some very big differences. First of all, the Grindr Killer (Stephen Port) used the LGBTQ dating app Grindr to find victims, while the Badoo Killer, obviously used the Badoo dating…

On 22 April 2022, Katie Kenyon's children apparently received texts from her. But there was something not quite right about these messages. She'd said she'd gone away to work on herself. One text read: "This is the bravest thing I’ve ever had to do, I need to find some peace and sort my mind out. So with the 6k Andy gave me to pay the debt off, I'm…

In this True Crime Case: Jemma Mitchell is an Australian-born English former osteopath. Mee Kuen Chong (known as Deborah Chong) was a widow from Kuala Lumpur. Both living in England and both devout Christians. Jemma has been 'helping to heal' Mee Kuen Chong of her paranoid schizophrenia. All was going well until Jemma and her mum had been let down …

This True Crime Case Documentary is a 50 shades of grey defense case. The victim is a millionaire heiress from North Yorkshire, England. Her name was Anna Florence Reed; she was 22 years old. She met the not-so-pleasant Marc Schatzle while she was touring the world. He was doing a great job at spending her money until just 12 weeks later when she d…

This true crime case is so out there. It's tragic, disturbing, and disgusting… It takes place in Scotland and if you stay till the end there is a recent update. It's a house of horrors story, in which a disabled 46-year-old mum was made to feel frightened and isolated in her own home for years… it truly is horrifying. UPDATE On Monday, 28 November,…

Not long before 9:30 on the night of Tuesday, 13 December 2016, three female students were out for a Christmas meal when they found 25-year-old Hayley Wall on the streets, bleeding and disorientated. Initially, Hayley told them that she had fallen over, but then she said she'd been hit by her partner. She also told the girls that her partner had wa…

On Boxing Day 2013, Douglas was rushed into the hospital. According to his wife, while in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, Douglas turned to her and muttered, "Goodbye, I done it and I don't want to be here anymore." There were also printed pieces of paper that she passed to the paramedics, essentially a do-not-resuscitate declaration. In …

Darren and Leanne McKie had been married for 13 years. Darren was a full-time police inspector, and Leanne was a part-time police officer working on the Sexual Assault Unit. Both worked for Greater Manchester Police. They were living the high life and all was well. With their three children, new home, and a recent holiday, it seemed like they had t…

Tracey Wilkinson was a wonderful, kind, and generous woman. She'd had her troubles in life, but in 2017 she was doing great. She had a family with a bright future and she was very active volunteering in the community. However, in 2016, she came across a young, inbred, homeless orphan. At a really low point in his life, Tracey and her family took hi…

Daizsa Laye Bausby was born on 23 Sep 1997 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA. On Monday, 21 March 2016, at 12:14 in the afternoon, Kansas City Missouri police officers were dispatched to a dead body at the 4 Acres Motel, Room #253, in Kansas City. The body was that of Daizsa Bausby. This is a true crime story that involves murder, rape,…