Episodes

In our third and final part on the missing and murdered women of Grand Rapids, Investigative Reporter Susan Samples from WOOD TV8 joins us again as we take a closer look at long-haul trucker Garry Artman. Artman was convicted of one of the Grand Rapids murders—the 1996 murder of Sharon Hammack—and linked by DNA to the killing of Dusty Schuck, who was from Maryland.

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In this bonus episode, Tiffany Link, Collections Curator for the Maine Historical Society and co-curator of the exhibition “Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940” joins the show. Tiffany discusses how the exhibition was developed and why the cases were chosen. We explore how crime reporting evolved from broadsides to newspapers to early photojournalism, and how the public’s relationship with crime has changed, and in some ways stayed the same.

Tiffany also talks about the artifact...

We continue our discussion about the women who went missing and were murdered in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the 1990s. All were connected to the Division Avenue area.

Part 1 of a 3-part series on the missing and murdered women in Grand Rapids, Michigan. All the women were connected to the Division Avenue area in the 1990s.

Our 4th and final part of profiling Bryan Kohberger.

In this follow-up episode, we revisit our analysis of Bryan Kohberger, considering recently released police reports and investigative documents.

Larry Harnisch, retired Los Angeles Times reporter and a leading subject-matter expert on the Black Dahlia case, joins the show to discuss his decades-long research into the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short.

In this episode, Dr. Paige Wilcoxson joins the show to discuss what true crime often gets wrong about forensic psychology.

We discuss the profile of the offender.

We discuss Elizabeth Short's victimology.

Part 1 of our analysis of the Black Dahlia case.

Dr. Ann Burgess joins the show to discuss her new book Expert Witness: The Weight of Our Testimony When Justice Hangs in the Balance.

I talk with Áine Cain and Kevin Greenlee, hosts of The Murder Sheet podcast and authors of Shadow of the Bridge: The Delphi Murders and the Dark Side of the American Heartland.

In this final episode of our coverage of the West Memphis Three case, we share our overall assessement.

We discuss the autopsies and victimologies of the three boys: Michael Moore, Steve Branch, and Christopher Byers.

Part 1 of our 3-part analysis of the West Memphis Three case.

In this episode, Alyssa and Michael McFarland, hosts of Tragedy: A True Crime Podcast, join the show to discuss the 2014 unsolved murder of Jody Kilgore in Crawfordville, Florida.

Geographic profiler Doug MacGregor joins the show to offer his observations on the Karina Holmer case.

We continue our analysis of the murder of Karina Holmer in Boston, Massachusetts.

An examination of the 1996 murder of Karina Holmer in Boston, Massacusetts.

Investigator Rita Curley from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Equal Opportunity Office joins the show. In addition to her role as an investigator, Rita draws on her background in law enforcement and her experience as a mother to a child with autism to train officers on recognizing and appropriately responding to individuals who may be neurodivergent.

We continue our discussion of the murders of four University of Idaho students: Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

We discuss the Idaho student murders.

In this episode of The Consult, I talk with Jill, host of Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast, a true crime book club in podcast format. Jill has a passion for digging into true crime stories through books, and she brings a thoughtful, well-researched approach to every case she covers.

We talk about how she chooses the books for her show, how our understanding of crime has changed over time, and how those shifts are reflected in the stories we read. We also discuss how true crime books can educate u...