True Crime Blueprint

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True Crime Blueprint takes you on a deep dive into the cases that changed how we understand murder, serial killers, and justice itself. From infamous names to crimes forgotten by time, each episode breaks down the facts, the evidence, and the real people behind the headlines.

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August 17 · 18 min
An Unspeakable Orgy Of Violence: Denver's 1984 Hammer Murders
An Unspeakable Orgy Of Violence: Denver's 1984 Hammer Murders In January 1984, a stranger walked into four homes in the Denver suburbs over twelve days and used a hammer. Patricia Smith, a 50-year-old interior designer who had just started her own...
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August 10 · 22 min
The Harold Shipman Story: Inside the Mind of Dr. Death
The Harold Shipman Story: Inside the Mind of Dr. Death Harold Shipman was a family doctor in Hyde, a mill town outside Manchester, and for more than twenty years he was the most trusted man in it. He did house calls when nobody else did. He knew your...
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August 3 · 22 min
Stinky Piggy: The Robert Pickton Story
Stinky Piggy: The Robert Pickton Story He grew up smelling like the animals he was raised alongside, teased at school for it, attached to a mother who cared more about her pigs than her sons' hygiene. Decades later, Robert Pickton would become the...
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July 20 · 24 min
Married Into A House Of Predators: The Susan Cox Powell Case
Married Into A House Of Predators: The Susan Cox Powell Case In December 2009, Susan Cox Powell vanished from her home in West Valley City, Utah, leaving behind her purse, her wallet, and two young sons who would later tell investigators things no...
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July 13 · 20 min
Eight Bodies in Plain Sight: The Poughkeepsie Serial Killer
Eight Bodies in Plain Sight: The Poughkeepsie Serial Killer A quiet street two blocks from Vassar College. A family living inside a house that smelled bad enough to gag people on the sidewalk. And a father who spent two years sitting in rooms just...
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June 29 · 20 min
How the State Built a Killer: The Robert Alton Harris Case
How the State Built a Killer: The Robert Alton Harris Case On July 5th, 1978, sixteen-year-old best friends John Mayeski and Michael Baker were abducted from a Mira Mesa parking lot in San Diego, California, and murdered near Miramar Lake by Robert...
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June 22 · 21 min
The Gray Man of New York: The Albert Fish Story
The Gray Man of New York: The Albert Fish Story Albert Fish was 64 years old when Detective William King caught him in December of 1934. He looked like somebody’s grandfather. He had murdered ten-year-old Grace Budd in 1928 at an abandoned house...
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June 16 · 24 min
Lies, a Fake Belly, and a Murder
Lies, a Fake Belly, and a Murder In October 2020, Taylor Rene Parker drove to a small town in East Texas with a silicone belly under her shirt and a scalpel in her bag. By the end of that morning, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock was dead and her...
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June 8 · 25 min
Going Postal in Goleta: The Jennifer San Marco Story
Going Postal in Goleta: The Jennifer San Marco Story On a January night, a former mail clerk drove from a small New Mexico town back to the Santa Barbara processing center she'd been quietly retired from a couple years earlier for being too sick to...
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June 1 · 24 min
The Plastic Coffin: Greed, Twins, and the Legacy of Sean Dugas
The Plastic Coffin: Greed, Twins, and the Legacy of Sean Dugas In August 2012, Sean Dugas, a well-loved former crime reporter and avid Magic: The Gathering collector in Pensacola, Florida, was beaten to death with a hammer by a pair of identical twin...
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May 25 · 28 min
Mackenzie Shirilla and the Crash That Became a Murder Case
Mackenzie Shirilla and the Crash That Became a Murder Case In the early morning hours of July 31, 2022, a black Toyota Camry rocketed down a dead-end industrial road in Strongsville, Ohio at 97 miles per hour and buried itself into a brick wall. Two...
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May 18 · 31 min
Burlap and Blueprints: The Gilgo Beach Serial Murders
Burlap and Blueprints: The Gilgo Beach Serial Murders Rex Heuermann was a Long Island architect with a wife, two kids, and a client list that included American Airlines and Nike. He was also a serial killer who murdered at least eight women and kept...
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May 11 · 28 min
Don King: The Story Behind the Hair, the Hype, and the Homicide
Don King: The Story Behind the Hair, the Hype, and the Homicide Before he was the man with the electric hair screaming "Only in America," Donald King was a numbers kingpin in Cleveland who killed two men and beat the system both times. This episode...
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May 4 · 27 min
The Game That Never Ends: Chuck Dederich and the Synanon Cult
The Game That Never Ends: Chuck Dederich and the Synanon Cult What started as a miracle on a Santa Monica beach became one of the most dangerous cults in American history. In 1958, a sober alcoholic named Chuck Dederich gathered a handful of heroin...
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April 27 · 28 min
Corn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy Floyd
Corn Liquor and a Nickname He Hated: The Real Pretty Boy Floyd He robbed banks during the Great Depression, destroyed mortgage papers so regular people wouldn't lose their farms, and handed out cash to strangers on the side of the road. The FBI...
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April 20 · 34 min
Grape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Grape Flavored Massacre: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown Jim Jones started with a dream that sounded reasonable. Racial equality. Communal living. Taking care of people the government forgot. In post-war Indiana, that message resonated....
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April 13 · 23 min
The Boy They Called Pee Wee: A Serial Killer's Origin Story
The Boy They Called Pee Wee: A Serial Killer's Origin Story He weighed four pounds at birth, grew up without knowing his own name, and died in South Carolina's electric chair claiming he'd killed over a hundred people. Donald Henry Gaskins, nicknamed...
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April 6 · 30 min
The Man Who Stole Trust: Inside the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme
The Man Who Stole Trust: Inside the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme Bernie Madoff stole sixty-five billion dollars. Not from banks. Not from governments. From his closest friends, from Holocaust survivors, from widows living off retirement savings, and...
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March 29 · 26 min
Robin Hood Hills: The West Memphis Three Story
Robin Hood Hills: The West Memphis Three Story In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenagers were convicted. Eighteen years later, those three men walked free, as convicted murderers who pled guilty and...
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March 9 · 35 min
JonBenét: The Family, the Secrets, and the Case That Broke America
JonBenét: The Family, the Secrets, and the Case That Broke America On the morning after Christmas 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her six-year-old daughter missing. By that afternoon, JonBenét was found murdered in the basement of their own...
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