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Serial Killers: Crime Investigations

Serial Killers: Crime Investigations

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New investigations are released daily, Monday through Sunday, promptly at 7:00 PM. Each episode provides a comprehensive look at a new or revisited case, ensuring you always have fresh, compelling content.

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Episodes
  • The Dry Fuel Card: Why Someone Returned to Cynthia's Grave

    The Dry Fuel Card: Why Someone Returned to Cynthia's Grave
    Oct 25 2026
    The Dry Fuel Card: Why Someone Returned to Cynthia's Grave

    A dry fuel card found pressed to a woman's palm in a January drainage ditch defied four days of rain and set detectives on a trail that would unravel eight years and four murders. The laminated fleet card showed no water damage and had been processed by a handling agent who later appeared on truck-stop footage the night she vanished - who came back to place it, and why?

    In this episode, we tell the facts of Cynthia Bell's disappearance and the small, inexplicable evidence that focused the investigation on a fleet card and the person who last handled it. How did a deactivated commercial fuel card, logged by Robert Ward, end up dry in Cynthia's hand after days of rain, and what did that return mean for the case?

    Person: Cynthia Bell, age 38
    Date: January 8, 2009 (disappearance) and January 14, 2009 (body found)
    Location: drainage culvert near Bluebell Truck Stop, eleven miles from her workplace
    Cause of death: manual strangulation
    Handling Agent: Robert Ward, age 41

    - Cynthia worked front desk at Mercer Falls Physical Therapy for eleven years and arrived twelve minutes early to every shift.
    - Her dark green sedan was found locked at Bluebell Truck Stop on January 11 with her purse and a library book inside.
    - Her body, estimated to have been in the ditch since the night of January 8, was discovered on January 14 by a utility meter reader.
    - A laminated fleet fuel card, not belonging to Cynthia, was found pressed against her palm and showed no water damage despite four days of January rain.
    - The card was processed in its final cycle by Robert Ward, whose cab (number two) was filmed at the Bluebell fuel apron at 23:47 on January 8 and remained at the pump for 22 minutes.

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    22 mins
  • in maintenance closet accessible to user-group members

    in maintenance closet accessible to user-group members
    Oct 24 2026
    in maintenance closet accessible to user-group members

    A single black leather shoe tucked behind a shelving unit held a folded boarding pass dated December 4 - the Pelican Queen's exit scanner shows Amanda Carter boarded that night and never returned. How did a woman who left a book, her glasses, and a locked house simply vanish without a trace?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of small, verifiable details that linked Amanda Carter's disappearance to one man and to access points around the community hall, and we ask how those inconspicuous records and objects fit together to form a deliberate trail.

    Person: Amanda Carter
    Date: December 4 (boarding pass), December 5 (reported missing), December 11 (shoe found)
    Location: Merritt Landing (community hall, church storage room, municipal dock)
    Person: Keith West
    Agency: Cassin County Sheriff (Detective Duane Carlson)

    - Amanda Carter had lived in Merritt Landing for 19 years and chaired the Wednesday euchre club.
    - A folded Pelican Queen boarding pass dated December 4 was found inside a size eight black leather dress shoe behind a shelving unit.
    - Pelican Queen exit-scan records show Amanda Carter boarded at Merritt Landing on December 4 and recorded no exit.
    - Amanda's house showed no forced entry, her car was in the driveway, and her reading glasses rested beside an open library book.
    - Keith West, 47, a dock line handler and maintenance contractor for Cassin River Gaming, signed the community hall maintenance log once seven months earlier to retrieve a banner and had routine supply requisitions three weeks before Amanda disappeared.

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    18 mins
  • The Cairn and the Missing Shoe: How Paula Morris Vanished

    The Cairn and the Missing Shoe: How Paula Morris Vanished
    Oct 23 2026
    The Cairn and the Missing Shoe: How Paula Morris Vanished

    A single canvas sneaker, women’s size seven, laced and standing upright on three flat stones in a pine corridor led investigators to a shallow grave and a strangled woman found six to nine weeks after her last photograph; who left the shoe and where is the missing second shoe? The discovery unfolded in Harmon County on November 9, 2017, and revealed a pattern tied to a route Paula Morris once traveled - but what exactly connected that route to her death?

    In this episode, we tell the story of Paula Morris and the sequence of discoveries that followed a bystander's call, describing how the shoe, the burial site, and interviews with clinic staff shaped the inquiry and raised the unanswered question about the absent partner shoe.

    Person: Paula Morris
    Date: last confirmed photo September 21, 2017
    Location: Ridgeback Loop trail, Harmon County
    Event: shallow grave found November 9, 2017
    Cause: strangulation

    - The shoe was a single canvas sneaker, women's size seven, laced with the tongue neat and upright, placed on three stacked flat stones.
    - Paula was reported missing around September 23, 2017, after neighbors noticed her absence and her cat Biscuit's food bowl remained full.
    - Paula’s last confirmed image was a photograph of her cat dated Thursday, September 21, 2017.
    - The shallow grave was found about 300 yards from the county road connecting to Millhaven Road and contained Paula’s body buried in a pine stand.
    - Dental records confirmed Paula’s identity on November 13, 2017, after a dog walker named Wade Nelson and his vizsla found the shoe on November 9, 2017.

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    20 mins
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