Crime Show

When the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan needed legal representation, he found an ally in the most unlikely of places — a volunteer attorney from the NAACP

A family in suburban Ohio finds themselves the target of one of the strangest crimes in the state's history.

When John Quinney was ten years old, he helped get his father convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison. But a lot has happened in the three decades since he got on the witness stand. In this update episode, we take you inside the courtroom as John recants his testimony and tries to get his dad exonerated.

After 22 years, John comes face to face with his father Melvin.

More than a decade after the first allegations of satanic ritual abuse in California, the Satanic Panic was mostly snuffed out. The nation began to move on. But the children at the heart of it were just beginning to reckon with their past.

In the summer of 1991, Melvin Quinney was put on trial. The prime witness against him: his own son, John.

How nine-year-old John Quinney became a believer.

In California, you can run but you can’t hide.

A movement meant to protect children goes catastrophically wrong.

We trace the roots of the Satanic Panic back to a strange Canadian memoir, Michelle Remembers.

In 1989, nine-year-old John Quinney accused his father Melvin of being a satanic cult leader and abusing him in satanic rituals. His father vehemently denied the charges. It was a case that tore their family apart. But what none of them knew was that they were just one of dozens of families going through the same nightmare.

In pre-Roe America, a movement for necessary healthcare was born in the underground.

Journalist Connie Walker has spent the past decade investigating the impact of crimes committed against Indigenous people. This year, Connie’s investigation brought her closer to home: to a trauma that has been rippling through her family for decades. This is the first chapter of that investigation. To hear the rest of the series, listen to Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's.

A police sketch artist reveals how she turns your fuzzy memory into a sharp drawing. Sketch artist Kelly Lawson from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation walks us through the process. Thanks to Gary Wells, Gil Zamora, and caller Lex.

In the 1970s, the Supreme Court decided that failing to provide prisoners with necessary medical care could rise to the level of cruel and unusual punishment. But, as one Texas prison reporter discovered in 2017, what constitutes “necessary medical care” is open to interpretation.

A small mystery in a small community leads us into a world of online sleuths and vigilante justice.

All around the world, museums are filled with stolen artifacts. A man named Mwazulu Diyabanza is doing something about it.

There is a locked door in Don Miller's basement museum. If anyone asks, he says it is just a storage closet. It is not just a storage closet.

Handcuffs, sting operations, and felony charges – welcome to the world of catching babies without a license.

It took years for Joe Watson to build the life he'd always dreamed of: a good career and a happy relationship. It took just months for him to tear it all down.

The story of Francesca's birth was something of family lore: a sudden death, an unexplained illness, and a casket crashing to the floor. But hiding in plain sight was an even stranger family story that no one wanted to talk about.

Inside Jennifer Weiss, a war has been brewing since she was four years old. But none of us would know about it were it not for this one choice she made three decades later.

Every Crime Show story starts with a pitch. But, for one reason or another, not every pitch turns into a Crime Show story. This week the whole team sits down with Emma to talk about their favorite pitches that never got made.

*Rebroadcast of an episode we ran in April with an updated ending* After a man is threatened by a telephone scammer, he spends the next several years tracking down the person responsible. In the process, he uncovers a massive criminal syndicate operating in plain sight.

In 2012, a sleepy bedroom community experienced their first murder in almost 40 years. Police quickly figured out who committed the crime, but struggled to explain why he’d done it.

At first, the house on Beryl Road seemed unremarkable -- just a typical suburban home in Northern Virginia. Then, a young couple moved in and started experiencing strange, ghostly phenomena.

There comes a time in everyone's life when you realize that your parents are two people: who they are with you, and who they are with the world. For Steve Barnes, that happened one day while he was reading the newspaper.

One night, a 911 center in Olympia, Washington, was flooded with incoming calls. Something horrible had happened: there had been an attack. But the attack was on the center itself.

A man wakes up at a shopping mall in Cincinnati, but claims to have no idea how he got there. He says he doesn’t even know his own name. As doctors and detectives search to uncover his identity, they discover an unexpected clue: The man’s amnesia may have been caused by a terrible attack.

When teenager Hillary Transue made a MySpace page poking fun at her vice principal, she never imagined it would land her in a juvenile detention facility—and that to get out, she would need to expose a corruption scheme that ran to the highest echelons of the state's judicial system.

In 1978, in Austin, Texas, something happened in Mr. Grayson’s eighth-grade English class that shocked the 21 students present, and reverberated forward into their adult lives. Forty years later they reunited to piece together what happened. Read Robert Draper’s Texas Monthly article here.

A helter skelter ride through London’s criminal underworld, blood-stained MMA gyms, an audacious bank robbery, and a manhunt that spanned continents. Part 2 of 2.

A helter skelter ride through London’s criminal underworld, blood-stained MMA gyms, an audacious bank robbery, and a manhunt that spanned continents. Part 1 of 2.

Martha Wash was flipping through TV channels when, to her complete surprise, she happened upon a familiar voice: her own – coming out of the mouth of someone else. Problem was: stealing her voice wasn’t a crime.

A social worker doesn’t hear from a client that she had placed at a boarding house. When she investigates, she discovers that her client isn’t the only one who is missing.

A social worker doesn’t hear from a client that she had placed at a boarding house. When she investigates, she discovers that her client isn’t the only one who is missing.

A small town in Minnesota has an identity crisis: Should they embrace their beautiful lakes for tourism, or Judy Garland, the troubled movie star who was born there? When a big crime hits their small town, the decision is no longer theirs.

After a man is threatened by a telephone scammer, he spends the next several years tracking down the person responsible. In the process, he uncovers a massive criminal syndicate operating in plain sight.

After a fire blazes through her home and kills her baby, a mother struggles to pick up the pieces of her life. Six years later, investigators show up with some shocking news.

The stories are true and the topic is crime. But it's really about people — the survivors, victims, perpetrators — in their own words, telling the stories of a crime, and the unexpected impact it’s had on their lives. Launches March 23rd.