18-year-old Melissa Drexler attended high school in New Jersey where she was impregnated by her boyfriend in 1997. Ignoring her stomach cramps, Drexler arrived at her school’s Prom and gave birth to her son in a bathroom stall. The miraculous moment turned into murder when the teen suffocated the child, wrapping him in a plastic bag and discarding her baby in the trash. Drexler returned to the dance floor as if nothing happened, blaming the blood trail on her period. It's not until janitors discovered the deceased baby in the dumpster that Drexler was finally discovered for the killer she is. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to www.reelz.com/podcasts/
A wealthy gay woman lusts over a young college girl and lavishes her with the finer things in life. The unrequited love leads to excess, drugs, and a twisted love triangle with a man who would do anything for sex and money – which, of course, includes murder. New episodes of Sex Lies & Murder drop each Wednesday. Like what you hear and want more real crime and mystery? Go to reelz.com/get-reelz/
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. This childhood rhyme was based on a real-life murder that was turned into a great movie, The Legend of Lizzie Borden. So great that when one fan, James Cushing, finds an axe, he thinks it is destiny to follow Elizabeth Montgomery’s portrayal and become Lizzie. Walking the streets of a Seattle suburb at night, no one is safe as he searches for the perfect victim. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/
On the morning of February 29th, 2012, Davy Jones the idolized front man of the 60’s pop phenomenon, The Monkees, died. He had been performing just days before and showed no signs of illness. A working-class kid from Manchester, England, Davy won international fame when, at 19 years-old, he was cast in the wacky TV show about a failing pop band named The Monkees. His sudden death from cardiac failure came completely out of the blue. In this podcast, world-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter uses Davy’s autopsy and medical examiner’s report to uncover what really killed Davy Jones at just 66 years old. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/
From All-American to convicted murderer, Aaron Hernandez’ early career success as tight end for the New England Patriots was shockingly overshadowed by his violent life as a killer. Hernandez’ temper seemed to get the best of him in situations, and he was charged with the first-degree murder of friend Odin Lloyd and also indicted in connection with two drive-by murders in 2012. Without the possibility of parole on his life sentence, Hernandez ultimately saw no way out from it all and tragically took his own life in prison in 2017. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to www.reelz.com/podcasts/
Laura and Craig Stelmasek are living the quintessential all- American life until their family hits a financial rough patch. Police receive a tip of a suspicious van at the Phoenix Arizona airport parking lot, leading them to the Stelmasek residence. They arrive to find a 16 year old girl home alone and both of her parents missing. What they discover inside the van is something they never anticipated. Investigators must follow a trail of clues that start with the abandoned van and ultimately lead them to a cold blooded killer. New episodes of Sex Lies & Murder drop each Wednesday. Like what you hear and want more real crime and mystery? Go to reelz.com/get-reelz/
In a scene right out of the crime-comedy Heathers, three high school best friends become mortal enemies in a plot to kill the “cool kids.” Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/
Dennis Wilson was the golden boy drummer for the Beach Boys. His good looks, energetic attitude and musical prowess made him one of the great drummers of rock and roll. True his band’s ident ity, he was also an avid surfer. But the Beach Boys drummer was also an avid drinker and on December 28, 1983, after a day of alcohol-use, Wilson dove into LA’s Marina Del Rey harbor and drowned in less than 15 feet of water. Byt what really happened? Forensic Pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter examines Dennis's autopsy report to dispel the rumors and reveal the real cause of the drummer's tragic and untimely death at the age of 39. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/
For three weeks in 2002, the streets of D.C. were terrorized as two men, 17 year-old Lee Boyd Malvo and 42 year-old John Muhammad, hunted random civilians in broad daylight with a rifle. The sniper attacks made national news and Americans became fearful that they could be the next victims. After training to be a marksman in the military, Muhammad recruited the help of friend Malvo to shoot 17 people from the trunk of his car. Malvo was given multiple life sentences and Muhammed was executed by lethal injection. Like what you hear and want more true crime and mystery? Go to https://www.reelz.com/podcasts/
Nathan and Michelle Paet are high school sweethearts who marry and start a family together. Nathan fights in the Iraq war and is lucky enough to return home where he works at the Nellis Air Force base in Las Vegas, NV. Unfortunately he finds out that returning home might be an even more dangerous battlefield than the one he just survived. New episodes of Sex Lies & Murder drop each Wednesday. Like what you hear and want more real crime and mystery? Go to reelz.com/get-reelz/