The Cup That Cracked A 30-Year Murder Case: Mandy Stavik's Story When 18-year-old Amanda Stavik went for a Thanksgiving weekend jog in the tiny town of Acme, Washington, nobody expected her to vanish without a trace. What happened next would haunt this tight-knit community for three decades. This is the story of how a coworker's courage, a discarde…

Naval Academy Confession: The Murder That Shocked Texas Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who think they're perfect. In 1995, two teenage honor students had their entire lives mapped out - military careers, marriage, maybe even space travel. But when seventeen-year-old David Graham confessed to his girlfriend Diane Zamora that he'd h…

Robert Lee Yates: The Decorated Soldier Who Hunted Women for Sport You know that feeling when you find out your seemingly perfect neighbor has been living a completely different life? Robert Lee Yates took that concept and ran it straight into nightmare territory. This decorated Army helicopter pilot spent over two decades flying into combat zones,…

The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing: Four Girls Who Changed America Forever Four girls were getting ready for Youth Day at church on September 15, 1963, doing what kids do before big moments - checking their hair, smoothing their dresses, making sure they looked perfect. Denise McNair was 11 and loved poetry. Addie Mae Collins was 14 and sold he…

Patrick Crusius and the Conspiracy Theory That Inspired Mass Murder On August 3rd, 2019, a twenty-one-year-old drove 600 miles through the night to commit what would become the deadliest attack on Hispanic and Latino people in modern American history. But here's what makes this story so disturbing: Patrick Crusius looked like any other customer whe…

The Idaho Four: How a PhD Student Became a Quadruple Murderer You know how some stories stick with you long after you've heard them? This is one of those stories. Four college students in Moscow, Idaho, were living their normal, messy, beautiful young adult lives when everything changed in one night. Xana, Ethan, Maddie, and Kaylee weren't famous b…

The Sunday Morning Slasher: Carl Watts and the Deal That Almost Set Him Free Sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones who slip through every crack in the system. Carl Eugene Watts should have been stopped at fifteen when he first attacked a stranger. He should have been caught in college when a student was stabbed thirty-three times. He def…

From Disney to Death Row: The Oba Chandler Case That Shocked Florida When Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters took a wrong turn after their Disney vacation, they ended up in Tampa instead of heading home to Ohio. What should have been a simple request for directions turned into one of the most horrific crimes in Florida history. This is the s…

The Golden State Killer: When Evil Wore a Badge We all have that one neighbor who seems a little off, right? Maybe they're too quiet, maybe they mow their lawn at weird hours, maybe they wave just a little too enthusiastically. Well, Joseph James DeAngelo was that neighbor for decades, except his secret wasn't hoarding cats or playing music too lou…

The Catfish Killer: How a Snapchat Romance Led to Murder You know that feeling when you hear a story that makes you want to immediately check your teenager's phone? This is one of those episodes. We're talking about nineteen-year-old Denali Brehmer, who fell for a guy on Snapchat who promised her nine million dollars to kill her best friend. And be…

Philadelphia's Shoemaker Killer: How Joseph Kallinger Turned His Son Into a Murderer Sometimes the most disturbing true crime cases are the ones that show us exactly how monsters get made. Joseph Kallinger's story starts with a father who vanished when his son was four years old and ends with that same son terrorizing families across three states w…

The Brooklyn Vampire: How Albert Fish Became America's Boogeyman Some stories stick with you long after you hear them, and Albert Fish's case is one that refuses to let go. Born in 1870 into a family tree riddled with mental illness, Fish's early years were marked by abandonment, abuse, and the complete failure of every system meant to protect vuln…

Israel Keyes and the Kill Kits Still Buried Across America After his arrest, Israel Keyes started talking. He confessed to Samantha Koenig’s murder, then casually gave investigators the names of two more victims.He described how he traveled thousands of miles to kill strangers, how he planned every move, and how he buried evidence years before usin…

The Secret Life of Israel Keyes: America’s Most Organized Killer Israel Keyes spent years living like a normal guy. He ran a construction business in Alaska, paid in cash, and took his daughter on cruises. But behind that routine was a system built for murder.He studied serial killers, mapped out his own methods, and buried kill kits across the cou…

The Taylor Schabusiness Case: Murder, Meth, and a Head in a Bucket On February 21, 2022, Shad Thyrion was killed in the basement of his mother’s house by someone he knew well. Taylor Schabusiness had a long history of drug use, recent run-ins with law enforcement, and a growing obsession with Jeffrey Dahmer. What happened that night was violent, in…

Bart Whitaker: The Son Who Staged a Hit on His Own Family Bart Whitaker had every advantage growing up. Private schools, expensive gifts, and parents who bent over backwards to give him the kind of life most people only read about. So when the family sat down to celebrate his college graduation over dinner and handed him a Rolex, no one expected wh…

Craig Price: The Teenager Who Terrified Rhode Island Craig Price looked like the kind of teenager you might ask to help you with your groceries. Quiet. Polite. A little awkward. But at thirteen, he stabbed his neighbor to death in one of the most brutal crimes Rhode Island had ever seen. And it did not stop there. Before he turned sixteen, Craig ki…

The Killers Who Bragged: Inside the Murder of Amy Robinson Amy Robinson was doing everything right. She got through high school, started building a life of her own, and found some freedom riding her bike to work every day. But on a February afternoon in 1998, that routine put her in the path of two men who saw her as a target, because of who she wa…

Donuts, Death, and the Devil: The True Story of the Chicago Ripper Crew Most people have never heard of the Chicago Ripper Crew, which is wild considering how brutal and bizarre this story actually is. It starts with a kid working at a donut shop and ends in an attic filled with severed body parts and something that loosely resembles a satanic shri…

The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: How a Cult Brought Terror to Japan In the mid-90s, a doomsday cult launched a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system during rush hour. But that attack wasn’t random. It was the result of years of planning, delusion, and violence led by a self-proclaimed messiah who went from acupuncture to apocalypse in one…

Lyda Southard: The Serial Widow Who Cooked with Arsenic Lyda Southard wanted a quiet life. She wanted a husband, a child, maybe a porch to sit on and watch things grow. What she left behind instead was a string of dead husbands, a trail of insurance payouts, and enough arsenic to make even the most optimistic pharmacist raise an eyebrow. In this ep…

The Incel Ideology: Roots and Radicalization This one’s not your usual 10 Minute Murder. It started as a blog I wrote for the site, and a lot of people asked to hear it out loud. So here we are. This is a more thoughtfully written piece than what I usually record... something I originally meant for reading, not necessarily narrating. But the topic …

Ruby Ridge Revisited: Fear, Firearms, and Family on the Edge The Weaver family retreated to Idaho hoping to protect their kids from a world they saw as collapsing. But their attempt to live off the grid pulled them into a web of suspicion tied to white supremacist groups, federal agents, and a neighbor’s feud. What began as a land dispute escalated…

Inside the Mind of Eugene Butler: Paranoia and Murder on the Farm Eugene Butler was a man who built a fortune on 480 acres of North Dakota farmland. On the surface, he was a hardworking, thrifty farmer who kept to himself. But beneath that quiet exterior, something darker was unfolding. As paranoia took hold, Eugene’s life spiraled into isolation a…

The True Story of The Bluebeard Killer Harry Powers lied to lonely women during one of the hardest times in American history and turned it into a full-blown system. While people were standing in breadlines and trying to keep their families fed, he was writing letters. Not looking for love—looking for leverage. He promised wealth, mansions, and stab…

Muscles, Marriage, and Murder: The Sally McNeil Story Sally McNeil was trained for war, but her real battles happened at home. A former Marine, mother of two, and competitive bodybuilder, Sally spent years trapped in a violent marriage with a man who had the muscles of a champion and the temper of a ticking time bomb. The abuse started early and go…

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate: Nebraska’s Deadly Crime Duo Charles Starkweather wasn’t your average small-town kid, and his crime spree wasn’t your average headline. Dragging along Caril Ann Fugate, barely a teenager herself, this pair tore through 1950s Nebraska in a brutal blur nobody saw coming. Was Caril just a scared kid caught in …

Inside the Toy Box: The David Parker Ray Story In a small New Mexico town with a name that sounds like a game show, a nightmare was unfolding behind closed doors. David Parker Ray wasn’t your average maintenance man—he built a torture chamber he called the “Toy Box,” where vulnerable women were trapped, tormented, and left to disappear. This episod…

Convict Leasing, Lynch Mobs, and the Killing of Mary Turner In May of 1918, a white plantation owner in Georgia was killed by a Black laborer he had beaten and abused. What followed wasn’t a trial or investigation… it was a mob. A violent, racist mob that left 13 people dead, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child. This episode walks throu…

When Trust Becomes a Weapon: The Lisa Knoefel Case Lisa Knoefel was asleep in her own bed when everything unraveled. Her foster daughter, Sabrina Zunich, was standing over her with a knife… and it wasn’t random, or sudden, or some spur-of-the-moment break. This had been planned. Encouraged. Groomed. And the person behind it wasn’t just a bystander.…

Viral to Violent: The Nasim Aghdam Story In 2018, Nasim Najafi Aghdam walked into YouTube headquarters with a loaded gun and a personal vendetta. But this story doesn’t start with violence—it starts with viral vegan videos, fitness content, and a YouTube channel that once brought her internet fame. Nasim believed the platform was silencing her. Cen…

Who Was the Skid Row Stabber? In 1978, someone started targeting the most vulnerable people in Los Angeles—men living on the streets of Skid Row. Over the course of a year, eleven of them were stabbed to death. The press called the killer the “Skid Row Stabber,” but despite witness accounts, a creepy bathroom confession, and a guy named Luther who …

The Making of Ted Bundy: Secrets, Shame, and Silence Before the headlines. Before the manhunt. Before the courtroom smirks and the fan mail from strangers—Ted Bundy was just a kid with a fake name and a made-up family. In this episode, we’re not talking about what he did. We’re talking about who he was before anyone knew what he was capable of.From…

Delivering Death: The Leaflet Lane Murders A man dressed like a FedEx driver knocked on the door of a quiet Texas home. But he wasn’t delivering a package. He was there to deliver payback. Ronald Lee Haskell had a long and ugly history of violence, and on this day, it all came to a head. What followed was a targeted, calculated attack on an entire …

Suitcase in the Pond: The Sandra Cantu Case Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu left her house on a Friday afternoon to play with friends. She never made it home. What followed was a frantic search, a community gripped by fear, and a discovery that would shake even the most seasoned investigators. But what makes this case especially disturbing isn’t just w…

Susan Monica: The Pig Farmer Killer of Oregon Susan Monica built a life most people wouldn’t sign up for. Alone on 20 acres in rural Oregon, she raised pigs, ran a construction business, and kept mostly to herself. But when a handyman disappeared—and a severed leg turned up in her pond—investigators uncovered a story that kept getting stranger. In …

Kelly Tinyes and the Basement Horror the Courts Almost Missed On the night before her fourteenth birthday, Kelly Tinyes got a phone call that pulled her out of her house—and straight into danger. Hours later, her body was found in a neighbor’s basement, hidden under piles of trash. What followed was a conviction built on brand-new DNA technology, a…

The Untold Story of Julia Bulette: Survival, Scandal, and Silver Rush Secrets Julia Bulette didn’t come to Virginia City to become a legend. She came for the same reason everyone else did — to survive. But where most people blended into the dust and desperation, Julia stood out. She fought fires. She nursed the sick. She built a life in a town that…

Jealousy, Journals, and Justice: The Horwitz Family Murder Lanny Horwitz built a life most people would envy—real estate success, international travel, the dream house in Boca Raton. But what he couldn’t seem to quit was his high school sweetheart. After two marriages, two divorces, and one seriously tangled family dynamic, Lanny and Donna found th…

The Incel Killer: Elliot Rodger and the Isla Vista Attack Elliot Rodger wasn’t just angry. He was deeply entitled, profoundly isolated, and convinced that the world owed him something—specifically, attention, sex, and validation. Raised around wealth, fame, and red carpets, he still couldn’t figure out how to talk to people, especially women. And i…

Andrea Yates: The Case That Shook the Country Andrea Yates was a nurse, a valedictorian, and a mother of five. She was also in and out of psychiatric hospitals, diagnosed with postpartum psychosis and severe depression. Her doctors warned against more pregnancies. Her husband ignored it. And in 2001, after years of spiraling mental health and barel…

Fame, Black Magic, and Murder: The Mona Fandey Story Before she was tied to one of Malaysia’s most disturbing murder cases, Mona Fandey was just trying to be a star. She had the stage name, the album, the wardrobe, and a husband willing to bet everything on her big break. But when her pop career stalled out, Mona pivoted—from wannabe celebrity to s…

Duty To Warn: The Case Every Therapist Learns About Therapy is supposed to be a safe space. You talk, they listen, and everything stays in the room. But what happens when someone crosses the line from intrusive thoughts to actual plans to hurt someone? In this episode of 10 Minute Murder, we’re digging into the 1969 case that forced the legal syste…

How Arthur Gary Bishop Fooled a Community Arthur Gary Bishop looked like someone you could trust. He was a straight-A student, an Eagle Scout, a missionary, and a respected member of his church community. But under all that was someone no one saw coming, and far too many people never questioned. This episode tracks how Bishop used different names, …

Myrtle Beach Mystery: The Search for Brittanee Drexel Seventeen-year-old Brittanee Drexel wanted what so many teenagers crave… freedom, a little independence, and a chance to feel grown. What started as a secret Spring Break trip to Myrtle Beach in 2009 quickly spiraled into a mystery that haunted her family and baffled investigators for over a dec…

Jesse James Hollywood: The Killer Who Inspired Alpha Dog Jesse James Hollywood had a name straight out of a movie, and eventually, it became one. The crime at the center of this story inspired the 2006 film Alpha Dog, but the real-life version is even more disturbing. In this episode, we break down how a well-off kid from the San Fernando Valley we…

When TikTok Beef Turns Deadly: The Durhams vs. The Lathams Zachary Latham wasn’t famous—but he wanted to be. So he picked a fight with his neighbors, filmed it, and posted it to TikTok. Over and over. Until one of them ended up dead. In this episode, we break down the chain of events that turned a teenage grudge into a fatal stabbing. A neighborhoo…

Stand Your Ground or Hunt Your Target? The Trayvon Martin Case In 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin left home to grab a snack from 7-Eleven. He never made it back. A two-minute encounter with George Zimmerman—a neighborhood watch volunteer with a history of bad decisions—ended with Trayvon dead, Zimmerman claiming self-defense, and the country split…

Six Murders, No Answers: What Happened at Hinterkaifeck? In 1922, the Gruber family’s remote Bavarian farm became the scene of one of the most unsettling murder cases in history. Six people—including two children—were brutally killed, but the real horror? Their murderer didn’t leave. For days, they lived in the house, ate the food, and even tended …

The True Story of Kelly Bates: A Case That Can’t Be Forgotten James Smith looked ordinary. Clean-cut, middle-aged, a non-drinker, non-smoker—just another man in 1980s Manchester who seemed put together. But behind closed doors, he was anything but. What started as domestic abuse escalated into something far worse, as he preyed on younger and younge…