true crime

Friday marks four weeks since the hunt for Gabby Petito’s then-fiance Brian Laundrie began. Which begs the question: How long could he actually survive in the elements on his own? Laundrie’s parents reported him missing to police in North Port, Florida, on Sept. 17, a few days after he went on a hike at the Carlton Reserve, a sprawling...

When notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was on death row, he sat down for several interviews with FBI profiler Bill Hagmaier, portrayed by Elijah Wood in the film “No Man of God.” Bundy later left his possessions to Hagmaier and considered him his best friend, though the feeling probably wasn’t mutual, Wood says.

Four people were brutally murdered on July 1, 1981 – and the case is still unsolved. Author and “Bosch” creator Michael Connelly covers the Los Angeles “Wonderland Murders” in a new Audible podcast dropping on the 40th anniversary of the gruesome case.

In the true crime podcast “Killer Role,” Dateline NBC’s Keith Morrison examines the case of Tucker Reed, an Oregon actress accused of killing her uncle before playing a killer in an indie horror movie.

On the podcast O.C. Swingers, host Justine Harman breaks down the story of Dr. Grant Robicheaux, a California surgeon, and his partner Cerissa Riley, who were charged with drugging and sexually assaulting women they met in bars. The case is still stuck in the courts.

Netflix’s “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel” examines the case of Elisa Lam, a Canadian tourist whose body was found in the hotel’s water tank in 2013.

The host of the investigative true crime podcast “Evil by Design” has been on the trail of allegations against fashion mogul Peter Nygard for 10 years. In December, Nygard was arrested on charges of forced sex trafficking and trafficking of minors, among others. Host Timothy Sawa joined LX News to talk about his decade-long efforts to shed light on these allegations.

Fact is often stranger than fiction. Investigative reporter Michelle Shephard said that old saying has been proven true as she has explored the CIA’s MKUltra program that conducted brainwashing experiments in the 1950s and 60s for her new CBC true-crime podcast “Brainwashed.”

The story of a killer con man who pretended to be Clark Rockefeller, heir to the famous oil dynasty, is just one of the cases uncovered in the new true crime podcast “Red Collar.” Host Catherine Townsend joined LX News to discuss these cases of white collar criminals-turned-murderers.

A bizarre cult founded by multi-level marketing guru Keith Raniere and involving actress Allison Mack is the focus of the true crime podcast “Escaping NXIVM.” Josh Bloch, the producer of the series, joined LX News to explain the origins of the podcast and his relationship with Sarah Edmondson, a friend who escaped the cult after being branded and became a...

The hit podcast series, “Dr. Death” examined the story of Dallas neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch who was sentenced to life in prison after killing two of his patients and maiming dozens more on the operating table. Attorney Kay Van Wey, who represented some of the patients’ families, talked to LX News about the importance of highlighting the problem of unethical and...

“Invisible Choir” is shedding light on crimes against Native Americans that often don’t get the attention they deserve. NBCLX welcomed the founder of the true-crime podcast, Michael Ojibway, to talk about a shocking case of murder and fetal abduction featured in one of the episodes.

It was a story made in tabloid heaven. In the early 1990s, Donald Trump’s then-girlfriend Marla Maples was at the center of a bizarre crime when her obsessed publicist, Chuck Jones, was arrested for stealing more than 60 pairs of her shoes. The prosecutor on that case, Kevin Hynes, has a new podcast “Heeled” in which he dives into the...

After being laid off from her job in May due to COVID-19, Maggie Burgess used her love of true crime to start her own weekly podcast called “Dark as Hell,” which revisits mysterious cases like the Baltimore murder of Catholic religious sister Cathy Cesnik who went missing in November 1969.

Former homicide detective turned television producer Pete Carrillo dishes on his new true crime series “Journey to Justice.”

Ravi Somaiya’s nonfiction work “The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld” investigates the 1961 death of diplomat and United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who was found after his plane crashed with an ace of spades playing card draped over his body.

Producer from podcast True Crime Bullsh**, Josh Hallmark, joins us for a conversation about serial killers Kelly Cochran and Israel Keyes. He shares how his own family tragedy got him interested in researching and producing true crime.

NBCLX storyteller Isa Gutiérrez examines the psychology behind this guilty pleasure – and what it says about our real-life fears.