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AFTER THE CRIME

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Every crime has its own story. At After the crime, we tell crime stories filled with drama, surprises, and compelling storytelling. Let us take you into a world full of mysteries and intrigue.

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  • Yesterday · 39 min

    Found on Page 41: The 9-Year Secret of Hannah Bennett

    On a gray October afternoon in 2001, 6-year-old Hannah Bennett vanished without a trace while walking just four blocks home from her Ohio elementary school. For nine agonizing years, her case lay cold as her family grieved an empty bedroom—until a...

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  • Yesterday · 39 min

    The Bones in the Farmhouse Wall: The 32-Year Lie

    In October 1988, 17-year-old Laura Hartman vanished from a quiet Ohio country road, leaving her blue bicycle leaning against a farm fence line. For over three decades, her grieving mother baked a birthday pie every year while the town blamed a silent...

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  • Tuesday · 56 min

    The Stolen Backpack Match: How DNA Caught Daniel Clay

    On Halloween night in 2014, 22-year-old Chelsea Bruck stepped into a massive rural Michigan party wearing a handmade Poison Ivy costume—and vanished without a trace after losing her phone and trying to find a ride home. For six agonizing months, her...

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  • August 29 · 31 min

    No Trial for the Priest: The Chilling Confession of Lavine

    In April 1972, the body of 13-year-old alter boy Daniel 'Danny' Croto was discovered along the banks of the Chicopee River in Massachusetts, bearing signs of brutal blunt force trauma. For nearly five decades, a dark cloud of suspicion hovered over a...

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  • August 22 · 31 min

    The Innocent Man Case: The 1982 Murder of Debbie Carter

    In December 1982, 21-year-old waitress Debbie Carter was found brutally murdered inside her Ada, Oklahoma apartment, leaving behind a staged crime scene filled with cryptic messages written in ketchup and nail polish. For 11 long years, the small-town...

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  • August 19 · 50 min

    Buried Near His Victim: The Shocking Truth of John Ray Hoff

    On a cold March afternoon in 1959, 9-year-old Campfire Girl Candy Rogers stepped out of her Spokane home carrying seven small boxes of mints—and vanished into thin air, leaving a terrified community searching for answers. Sixteen days later, her body...

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  • August 18 · 35 min

    The Soccer Alibi: How Raven Abaroa Almost Got Away With Murder

    On an April night in 2005, 25-year-old mother and former university soccer star Janet Abaroa was found stabbed to death inside her North Carolina home, while her 6-month-old infant slept unharmed in the next room. Her husband, Raven, claimed he...

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  • August 16 · 55 min

    The Coffee Cup DNA: Solving the 1987 Murders of Tanya & Jay

    In November 1987, 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her 20-year-old boyfriend Jay Cook left Vancouver Island for a routine overnight trip to Seattle—only to vanish into the dark roads of the Pacific Northwest. Days later, their bodies were...

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  • August 10 · 32 min

    Zachary Anderson: The Trusted Houseguest Who Killed Elena Erdle

    On a quiet August night in 2016, 5-year-old Elena Erdle was tucked safely into bed with her favorite Elsa blanket in her small-town Watkins, Minnesota home. By morning, she was gone—along with her father's pickup truck and Zachary Anderson, a trusted...

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  • August 9 · 33 min

    The Atari Trap: The 1981 Kidnapping of 6-Year-Old Adam Walsh

    On a July morning in 1981, six-year-old Adam Walsh begged his mother to let him watch older boys play an Atari video game inside a crowded Sears store at the Hollywood Mall in Florida. In a matter of minutes, an untrained security guard ejected the...

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  • August 7 · 36 min

    Coley McCraney: The Preacher Exposed by DNA After 20 Years

    On a summer night in 1999, 17-year-old best friends J.B. Beasley and Tracy Howlett got lost in Ozark, Alabama, stopping at a gas station to call home and ask for directions. They never made it back; the next afternoon, their abandoned car was...

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  • August 6 · 42 min

    Dennis Nilsen: The London Necrophile Serial Killer

    Between 1978 and 1983, quiet civil servant Dennis Nilsen preyed upon vulnerable young men and boys across London, luring them to his flats before committing a series of chilling murders and horrific acts of necrophilia. Known as the Muswell Hill...

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  • August 2 · 59 min

    Hidden in the Water Tank: How a Neighbor Killed Kali Poulton

    On a warm May evening in 1994, four-year-old Kali Anne Poulton rode her pink and white Big Wheel outside her Rochester, New York apartment, promising her mother she wouldn't leave the sidewalk. Within 20 minutes, Kali vanished without a trace, leaving...

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  • July 30 · 35 min

    A Blood Sugar of 21: How a Ponzi Scheme Ended in Murder

    When 38-year-old youth coach Michael Cochran collapsed on his West Virginia kitchen floor in February 2019, his wife Natalie—a trusted pharmacist and certified diabetes specialist—calmly told worried visitors that he 'just needed to sleep it off.'...

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  • July 28 · 29 min

    The Teacher's Scandal: How a Husband's Obsession Turned Fatal

    When high school English teacher Sarah Mitchell finds her reputation destroyed overnight by a viral rumor claiming an affair with a student, her already possessive husband, Mark, spirals into a dangerous, paranoid obsession. As a seasoned detective...

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  • July 24 · 46 min

    Deadly Obsessions: 2 Betrayals That Ended in Murder

    What happens when the people expected to protect and love us become the masterminds behind our worst nightmares? In this haunting double-feature episode, we examine two devastating true crime cases where jealousy, control, and deception ended in...

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  • July 23 · 36 min

    The Scalding Bath: The Horrific Murder of Gabby Barrett

    On New Year's Day 2018, while the rest of the world celebrated new beginnings, first responders in Sumpter Township, Michigan, walked into a nightmare that would haunt them forever. Four-year-old Gabby Barrett was found lifeless on a bathroom floor,...

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  • July 22 · 46 min

    The "Taken Care Of" Text: The Murder of Hailey Dunn

    For eleven agonizing years, the quiet West Texas town of Colorado City was haunted by a single question: What happened to 13-year-old cheerleader Hailey Dunn after she walked out of her home on a cold December afternoon in 2010? Beneath the public...

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  • July 21 · 37 min

    Behind the Counter: The Impossible Vanishing of Deborah Poe

    On a quiet February night in 1990, 26-year-old aspiring dancer Deborah Jean Poe was working her usual graveyard shift at an Orlando Circle K—a job she took to buy her dream home and start a new life. But within a terrifying 45-minute window, Deborah...

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