Episodes

For decades after she was mysteriously murdered and left on the side of a busy interstate, she was known only as Orange Socks Doe. But after years of investigations, law enforcement learns that her case may be even more complicated than they first thought.

When a young man vanishes in a small resort town, the question is: does someone know something, or does no one know anything?

Two notorious murder cases stay ice cold for decades, until a mysterious clue helps bring a killer to justice.

When a 38-year-old woman leaves her home - and a violent marriage - without saying goodbye, her two adult daughters suspect her husband. By the time police take interest in the file and begin investigating, years have passed and the case is cold.  If you have any information regarding the disappearance and possible homicide of Mary Badaracco please contact the Connecticut State Police Western District Major Crime Squad at #800-376-1554 or email WDIST.MCS.Sec@po.state.ct.us

A young woman’s shocking murder forces residents to question the very people who are supposed to keep them safe. If you have any information about the murder of Lisa Au, please call the Honolulu Police Department at 808-529-3111, or you can go online and submit your tips anonymously at www.honolulucrimestoppers.org.

Police in Cleveland enter a home in Mount Pleasant to arrest a man on sexual assault charges. But they don’t find their suspect. And what they do find sends an already struggling community into chaos.

A teenage girl finds community online, but her family believes she also found something much more sinister. If you have any information about the disappearance of Alicia Navarro, please call the Glendale Police Department at (623) 930-3000. You can go to www.AntiPredatorProject.org to make a tax-deductible donation or you can buy something from their clothing line at www.getapparel.org with all of the profits going directly to the organization.

Una joven encuentra una comunidad en línea, pero su familia cree que ella se encontró con algo más siniestro. Si usted tiene información sobre la desaparición de Alicia Navarro, por favor llame al Departamento de la Policía de Glendale al (623) 930-3000. Si desea hacer una donación deducible de impuestos, puede visitar la página de www.AntiPredatorProject.org. O también, puede comprar mercancía en www.GetApparel.org. Todas las ganancias irán directamente a la organización.

Tommy Zeigler was sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, her parents, and a customer at his Winter Garden, Florida furniture store in 1976. He’s still on death row today - 45 years later. But did he do it? And could DNA evidence exonerate him?

Audiochuck’s founder and CEO, Ashley Flowers, has founded a new non-profit called Season of Justice. Season of Justice (SOJ) is dedicated to providing funding to law enforcement agencies and families to help solve cold cases. SOJ provides grants to law enforcement for advanced DNA analysis solutions, such as forensic genealogy and next-generation sequencing. The organization also awards grants to families to support awareness campaigns, search teams and other initiatives that can assist in pushing their cold cases forward. SOJ’s goal is to provide financial resources for both law enforcement and families in order to bring closure to those impacted by unsolved violent crimes. Though Season of Justice is completely separate from audiochuck, it’s because of Crime Junkie listeners that we have been able to fund the organization so far. Every time you’ve ordered merch, signed up for the fan club or just listened to one of our ads on Crime Junkie we have donated to SOJ. Because of you we ha…

A family’s brutal murder rocks a tiny California town and leaves behind too many unanswered questions.

When 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places disappears after a night with friends in Hardin, Montana, her family and friends hold their breath waiting for answers. As the months pass, the story that starts to emerge is one so inconceivable, it will have you wondering: what exactly is going on in Big Horn County?

For years, the LGBTQ community in Toronto, Canada worried there was a serial killer targeting men in the city’s Church and Wellesley neighborhood. Police disagreed and downplayed their concerns -- and all the while, more men vanished into thin air. But the truth, when it was finally revealed, showed just how complicated a relationship still exists between Toronto Police and the LGBTQ community.

The Pan Family seemed to have it all until a shocking home invasion upended their lives in the most vicious way imaginable.

In 2001, a young man vanished without a trace and more than 20 years later the only thing law enforcement is sure of is that someone in Skidmore, Missouri knows something.  If you have any information about the disappearance of Branson Perry, please contact the Community United Effort Center 24-hour tip line at 910-232-1687, the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office at 660-582-7451, or the Missouri State Highway Patrol Hotline at 1-800-525-5555.

Two teenage girls in love are forced to endure an unimaginable trauma that rocks their south Texas town.

A summer joyride turns deadly when three men are viciously gunned down in the hills of southern Tennessee.

A Catholic priest is found savagely beaten to death in an Odessa, TX motel room in 1981. A man confessed to the crime -- but instead of closing the case, people are still left wondering: Was justice served in the murder of Father Patrick Ryan?

A Tokyo family is slaughtered in their home, leaving behind a brutal and baffling mystery.

A little girl vanishes from her bedroom in the middle of the night only to be found brutally murdered, forcing her community to recognize that the worst really IS possible. If you have any information about the murder of Rosie Tapia, please call the Salt Lake City police department at 801-799-3455.

A woman leaves her sister’s home one April day in 1998 and never returns. But she doesn’t vanish into thin air, because over the next several years, there are sightings, phone calls, even physical signs that she might be out there somewhere.  If you have any information about Diane Augat’s disappearance, contact Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873-TIPS. May is Mental Health Month. Please take care of yours.  The National Alliance on Mental Illness HelpLine  Open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. ET 1-800-950-6264  info@nami.org.  National Suicide Prevention Hotline Open 24/7 By phone: 1-800-273-8255 (1-800-273-TALK)  By text: send HELLO to 741741 Special thanks to Dr. Claire O’Donovan, MB, FRCPC for speaking to our team about bipolar disorder and to our friend Sarah who shared her personal story with us.

In 1989 the small town of Lakeville, Indiana was rocked by the massacre of a pastor and his family. The pastor's only surviving son was ultimately convicted of this infamous crime but there is more to this twisted story than has ever been told before. On April 29th, 2021 (the 32nd anniversary of the crime) the audiochuck original podcast CounterClock will be releasing 20 episodes on this case to binge! Listen and determine for yourself if Jeff Pelley is guilty and right where he should be, serving a life sentence in prison. OR... if a pastor's secret past caught up to him and his son was wrongfully convicted for the crime.

A beautiful young woman's brutal murder at the height of Midwestern summer shatters her community's sense of safety forever and exposes a monster hiding right there in plain sight.  Please join us in supporting www.justiceforsierah.org

When two women are violently murdered five years apart and half a world away, advocates look for a way to call attention to the serious and growing issue of femicide in Turkey. The campaign takes off -- but while it gains momentum, it loses its original meaning. This is the real story behind the viral #ChallengeAccepted campaign that flooded your Insta feed in the summer of 2020.