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Christine Paolilla was an outsider at Clear Lake High School.  Looking different and lacking self-confidence, she was brutally teased and bullied. Christine was awkward, near-sighted, and she had alo…

Beth Lochtefeld was smart and hardworking.  By the time she reached her 40s, she had good friends, she had travelled the world, and she was professionally successful.  All that was missing was a part…

Robert and Benjamin Moore were best friends and brothers who spent most of their time together.  They were smart and good-looking and both were naturally funny.  In fact, it was rare to see either of…

When Joanne Witt was brutally murdered in her own home, she had been working as a civil engineer, supporting her daughter on her own.  Being a single mother to a rebellious young teen is not easy, bu…

Doug Benton was a welder living in Colbert, Georgia.  Considered a friendly and helpful neighbor, he was known for raising and selling exotic birds from his house, lifting weights, and riding a Harle…

A small town cop known as “GI Joe” is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogged investigator and his team set out to get justi…

Robin and Margaret Bain and three of their children were killed on June 20, 1994, in their New Zealand home. This was familicide; a mass murder where one member of the family killed the others. Ever …

On November 18, 2012, 13-year-old Dylan Redwine traveled from his mother Elaine’s house in Colorado Springs to visit his father Mark in Vallecito, Colorado for a court-ordered visit. According to Dyl…

The rural Oklahoma mobile home of Kathy and Danny Freeman went up in flames in the frigid early morning hours of December 30, 1999.  Kathy and Danny’s bodies were found inside, both killed by gunshot…

Nelson Hart was charged for the murders of his twin 3-year-old daughters, who died of drowning on August 4, 2002. He claimed that he had taken his girls, Karen and Krista, to the wharf at Little Harb…

Penny Scaggs had been married for 35 years when she sat down to play her piano on the evening of March 6, 1996.  Her husband, Roger, had just left the house after dinner to return to his office.  Nor…

When Noura Jackson was a child, her mother’s life revolved around her.  Noura’s parents had divorced when she was just a baby and she rarely saw her father, so the mother-daughter relationship was st…

The image of young married couple April and Justin Barber taking a moonlight walk on a warm Florida beach sounds ideal.  They were supposed to be celebrating their third wedding anniversary.  But wit…

Among the thousands of vacationers who traveled to Ocean City, Maryland, on Memorial Day weekend, 2002, were two couples whose lives intersected, with horrific results.  The first couple, Joshua Ward…

Early in the morning of March 1, 2008, two men entered the Caffey family home in rural Alba, Texas.  Terry Caffey and his wife Penny had been living a quiet, peaceful life in their modest country hom…

Mary Yoder was a beloved wife, mother, and chiropractor, apparently living her best life.  In 2015, she and her husband Bill, who ran their own chiropractic practice together, were planning on retiri…

It was a beautiful day on the California coastline when 20-year-old Deana Wild agreed to take a day trip to Big Sur with older couple Virginia and Billy Joe McGinnis.  This is a popular tourist spot,…

When 50-year-old multi-millionaire Bill McLaughlin answered 25-year-old Nanette Johnston’s classified ad back in 1991, he had no idea what he was getting himself into.  The ad was directed at “wealth…

When Jan Roseboro’s husband Michael found her unconscious and bleeding in their new swimming pool, there was no reason to suspect him of anything nefarious. Even though his 911 call was unusual, it w…

Hi! Since Dick and I are away this week, we decided to put out this ad-free TCB Premium episode from July, 2020, for all of our listeners!  This is just one of dozens of ad-free episodes available wi…