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“Come with me, sweetie…”
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On February 17, 1974, just past midnight in Fort Worth, Texas, 12-year-old Jim Walker is jolted awake by the sound of screeching tires in his front yard. He sees Rodney McCoy, his sister Carla’s boyfriend, stumbling toward the Walkers front door—badly hurt and covered in blood. But, one thing is immediately clear: 17-year-old Carla is nowhere to be found. This night marks the beginning of Jim’s nearly half-century-long battle to get justice for his sister and finally take down a serial killer hiding in plain sight.
If you have any information concerning any of these unsolved cases, please contact the Fort Worth Police Department:
Fort Worth Police - Cold Cases: https://police.fortworthtexas.gov/Crime-Public-Info/Cold-Cases-Landing/Cold-Cases
Fort Worth Police - Tipline: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/coldcasetips
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Credits
Written, directed and edited by Alexandre Gendron
Edited by Hannah Alicbusan
Researched Bianca Yzabelle Tan
Voiceover by Will Akana
Produced by Salim Sader
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Sources
“The Last Dance.” Forensic Files II: Cable News Network, Inc., 2022.
“The Night He Turned Bad.” Evil Lives Here: Discovery Communications Inc., 2024
“After the Dance.” Dateline: NBCUniversal Media, LLC, 2023.
“Dance to Doom.” On the Case With Paula Zhan: Discovery, 2021.
“Glenn McCurley.” World’s Most Evil Killers: Woodcut Media LTD, 2024.
“High School Homicide.” The DNA of Murder With Paul Holes: Oxygen Media Productions, LLC, 2019.
“Carla’s Last Valentine.” Bloodline Detectives: Peninsula Television, 2022.
News Reports
Teen's 1974 Murder Changed the Way Cold Cases Are Solved, Inside Edition
Proposed ‘Carla Walker Act' could fund advanced DNA testing to solve cold cases, NBC
Suspect in 1974 murder of Carla Walker pleads guilty, gets life in prison, WFAA
The Promise Ring, Dateline NBC
Getty Images
Bill named in memory of North Texas teen Carla Walker would create funding to help solve other cold, WFAA, 2024
Glen McCurley Pleads Guilty During Trial To Murdering Carla Walker In Fort Worth In 1974, CBS Texas, 2021
Capital Murder Trial Underway in Carla Walker Cold Case, NBCDFW, 2021
Fort Worth police give update on officer-involved shooting, NBCDFW, 2024
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"I could be dead right now, there is no other way to put it"
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When 17 year old Ashley Reeves doesn’t arrive home before her curfew in April 2006, her mom knows something is wrong, especially after finding hundreds of incoming calls on her daughter’s phone records. No one knows where she could have gone, but the harassing caller would end up breaking the case entirely, and shed a whole new light on a neighborhood figure no one ever suspected, all while Ashley fights for her life, while her killer goes line dancing minutes after the murder.
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“Ain’t she purty?”
February 1, 2012 — it's a quiet night in Anchorage, Alaska, as 18-year-old Samantha Koenig finishes her shift at a coffee shop, waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up, when an unexpected customer barges in. Less than an hour later, Samantha's boyfriend arrives, but Samantha is nowhere to be found. In the weeks that follow, Samantha's father, James, leads the search to find his daughter, but what he uncovers is a sinister plot. Now, it is up to James to help put a stop to one of America's most disturbing serial killers, and get justice for his daughter.
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Written, directed & edited by Justin Chalifoux
Researched by Amanda Hein
Voiceover by Will Akana
Produced by Salim Sader
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Sources:
Documentaries:
“Ain't She Purty”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu)
“You’ve got your monster”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu)
“Because they’re mine”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu)
“Mask of sanity”, Wild Crime: Eleven Skulls, 2024 (ABC News/Hulu)
48 Hours: Tracking the Murders of Israel Keyes, 2020 (CBS Broadcasting Inc.)
“The Cross Country Killer: He Could Make People Disappear” - Part 1 & 2, Very Scary People, 2022 (Investigation Discovery)
Method of a Serial Killer, 2018 (Glass Entertainment Group/ Oxygen Network)
News clips:
Anchorage Police Department released to Anchorage Daily News
ABC Alaska
Fox News
CBS News
KHQ Local News
The Star Ledger
Alaska Public Media
CBS 11 News
NBC 5
Youtubers:
Viktoria Evans
Sotos
DoWhit Yourself
Podcast:
“The Israel Keyes Investigation” True Crime Bullsh**, 2018 (Studio BOTH/AND).
Book
Maureen Callahan, “American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century”, Viking, 2021
Other:
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigations
'Send her home': Father of abducted barista pleads for her return - Kyle Hopkins (DailyMotion)
Seeking Alaska’s Missing (S.A.M.) - Facebook
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“It was clear he had his eyes on her”
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A few days before Christmas, the Tiede family arrives at their family cabin in Utah, buried deep in the snowy woods, but as soon as they set foot in the house, they quickly realize that they are not alone.
The first day of their winter holiday would become infamously known as “The Utah Cabin Murders”, and during this disturbing invasion, sisters Linae & Tricia would quickly understand that the family needs each other, to survive.
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“I was just trying to protect my organs”
On the early morning of July 23rd, 2013 in South Boston, Alexandra Cruz is violently attacked on her way to the Dunkin' where she works, but the man disappears into the night before cops can catch him. Just a few hours later, another young woman, Amy Lord, is caught on multiple ATM cameras all across town, emptying her bank account—she is badly injured, and with a masked man, who’s carjacked her black SUV. News of the criminal's spree spreads fear throughout Boston, but college student Kayleigh Ballantyne is unaware of the looming threat and as she walks home alone that evening, she will come face to face with the South Boston Slasher. But what he doesn't know is that Kayleigh has been watching him too, ready to take him down and fight to get justice for all of his victims.
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Written, directed & edited by Alexandre Gendron
Researched by Tiffany Loxton
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
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Sources:
Facebook: Kayleigh Ballantyne
Facebook: Boston Police Department (Official)
Instagram: bpdbs (Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society)
Impact of Murder: I Speak for Amy, Discovery Communications LLC, 2019
Impact of Murder: Kayleigh’s Angel, Discovery Communications LLC, 2019
See No Evil: Watching Amy Lord, SNE 2 Productions Inc./Arrow International Media, 2015
South Boston Shocked That Police Could Have Stopped Murder of Amy Lord, GBH News, 2013
Boston Police continue investigation into Wilbraham native, Amy Lord's murder, WWLP-22 News, 2013
Person of interest in Amy Lord case hospitalized, WWLP-22 News, 2013
Boston Police to make an announcement on the Amy Lord murder case, WWLP-22 News, 2013
Wilbraham residents still coping with Amy Lord's death, WWLP-22 News, 2013
Edwin Allemany indicted for murder of Wilbraham native Amy Lord, WWLP-22 News, 2013
Mother of Amy Lord speaks about 'unimaginable' suffering at killer's sentencing, WCVB Channel 5 Boston, 2015
Woman recalls attack by Alemany in hours before Lord's death, WCVB Channel 5 Boston, 2015
BPD unit to probe unsolved homicides, WCVB Channel 5 Boston, 2019
Edwin Alemany Trial Verdict 06/08/15, Law&Crime Network, 2015
The Survival Story of Kayleigh Ballantyne (Massachusetts), Dark Down East, 2021
One person stabbed in South Boston, suspect arrested, NBC Boston, 2025
Haystack Calhoun vs. Buddy Rogers (04/14/1961). Chicago Film Archives presents "Wrestling from Chicago", 2014
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“And I remember thinking that I was staring into the eyes of the devil”
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On September 27, 1992, 19 year old Jennifer Asbenson accepts a ride from a stranger after missing her bus to work. When the man asks for her number, she gives him a fake one to be safe and forgets about it, unaware that she has just refused the advances of a deranged serial killer. At the end of her shift that morning, she does not make it back home. Jennifer escapes twice, yet no one believes what has happened to her, but 5 years later, his arrest would reveal the most shocking information.
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“He’s keeping me”
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March 20th, 1984: 19-year-old Linda Grober walks into a Tallahassee, Florida mall to buy a gift for her and her boyfriend's anniversary, but doesn't come home. She is victim #4. April 4, 1984: 16-year-old Tina Risico vanishes from a mall in Southern California, last being seen getting into the car of a strange man. She is victim #9. April 10th, 1984, Merrillville, Indiana: 16-year-old Dawn Wilt meets a friendly photographer at her local mall... and steps into a nightmare that could change everything. She is victim #10.
The FBI is continually one step behind this serial killer —better known as the Beauty Queen Killer— whose deadly spree across the country will force three women to fight to escape, stop one of the wildest manhunts in U.S. history, and see justice served for all the other victims.
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Co-directed, edited & written by Maxime Desrochers
Co-directed, written & researched by Manon Lafosse
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
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Sources:
Documentaries
“A Model Killer” - The FBI Files: New Dominion Pictures, 1999
(Production in association with Discovery Channel)
“Spring break nightmare” - Disappeared: Discovery Communication LLC, 2011 (Production: Peacock Production for Investigation Discovery / Distribution: Sky Crime)
Mini-series
“9 Days of Terror“ - The Beauty Queen Killer: ABC News Inc., 2024
(Production Company AMPLE/Distribution Disney+/101 Studios/ ®Hulu)
News segment
The Snapshot Killer: Inside the Wanda Beach murders
7NEWS Spotlight, originally aired 10 June 2018
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Books
Connelly, Michael. Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers. Little, Brown and Company, 2006.
Byrne, Andrew. The Pretty Girl Killer: The Complete True Story of One of the World’s Most Horrifying Serial Killers Who Terrorised Both Australia and America. Penguin Random House Australia, 2019.
"Driven to Kill." Most Wanted, edited by the Editors of Time-Life Books, Time-Life Books, 2005.
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“He kissed me and threw me down the cubby hole”
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'Spaceplex' is 9 year old Katie Beers’ favorite spot, before she’s abducted at that same location in December 1992, just before her birthday. For 17 days, the investigators dig into the family’s lies, each more suspicious than the next, hoping to find the lost girl. Katie is trapped in the wall, but she still has her wits, which will eventually lead to justice against her kidnappers.
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“There’s a pyramid in the cow pasture”
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In 1986, Niki Lopez lives with her family at 717 Bushwick Avenue, home to a secretive group called the Nuwaubian Nation in the heart of Brooklyn–alarmingly, in 1993, the whole community vanishes without a trace. Nearly ten years later, on May 8th, 2002, over 200 federal agents prepare to storm a seemingly “ancient Egyptian” compound in rural Putnam County, Georgia. Inside, nearly 200 families live under the control of Nuwaubian Nation leader, Dwight “Malachi” York. In order to get justice for all the victims before it’s too late, it’s up to Niki to escape, confront her past, and expose the truth behind one of the darkest cases in American history.
Niki founded her organization “What’s Your Elephant”, which aims to empower individuals from all walks of life to use the arts to tell their stories: https://whatsyourelephant.org/
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Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rice
Researched by Bianca Yzabelle Tan
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
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Sources
The Nuwaubian Nation, How I Escaped My Cult: Freeform, 2025
United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, People Magazine Investigates: Cults: MMXVIII Discovery Communications LLC, 2018
Nuwaubian Nation, FOX5 Eyewitness News, 1998
Waco: The Inside Story, Frontline PBS, 2018
Mysteries Behind Closed Doors: The Dr. Malachi Z. York Case (The Untold Story), ImperialSevens, 2012
Open House visits to the Nuwaubian compound Tama-Re, Jay Humphrey, 2024
Getty Images
Instagram, Niki Lopez
The Waco Massacre: 30 Years On | DARK SIDE OF THE 90'S, VICE TV, 2023
Local Artist Shares Her “Elephant” to Help Empower Women, NBC 6 South Florida, 2019
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“I told myself: I’m not going down without a fight”
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On Friday the 13th, best friends Misty Cockerill and Tanya Smith are walking home from a high school party when they suddenly bump into a stranger, and things quickly go dark. While Misty wakes up in the hospital, investigators arrive at the crime scene and receive a disturbing phone call from a man claiming to be the attacker: time is running out almost as soon as the cat and mouse chase begins. This is what happened in Abbotsford, British Columbia, in 2002.
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“I just know it, there’s something wrong with my kids”
On November 11th 2010, cops enter Tina Hermann’s home after receiving a 911 call from her manager Valerie, who reported how unusual it was for her to miss a day’s work without telling anyone. The house is empty, and Tina and her entire family are gone: a suspicious scene reveals bloodstains, motor oil, a Walmart receipt, a missing car, but most shockingly, a woman-size shoe print leaving the home, meaning someone walked out of there, alive, and as the community begins to hunt for the missing family, time is running out for Sarah, who is now trapped in ‘the house of leaves.’
You can donate for Sarah’s ‘Healing Hearts Memorial Fund’ here:https://fairfieldcf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=1199
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“Are you comfortable now? I doubt it.”
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On March 20th, 1999, Cynthia meets up with her friend, never expecting she is minutes away from being abducted. When she wakes up, a chilling voice speaks to her – it's coming from a recording. As her tears dry up, the early memories of her tough childhood revive, and a voice in her heart tells her: escape.
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Written, directed & edited by Justin Chalifoux
Researched by Tianyi Zhang
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
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“Where was Daddy, Eric?”
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On August 13th, 1986, in the quiet suburbs of Austin, Texas, 3-year-old Eric Morton is found wandering outside alone. When a neighbor recognizes the boy and brings him back home, he makes a terrifying discovery: Eric’s mother, Christine, has been murdered. Detectives, and the District Attorney quickly hone in on Michael Morton, Eric’s father and Christine’s husband, as their prime suspect, but several key pieces of evidence are missing and the police aren’t revealing the full story. It will take 25 years, and determined lawyer John Raley, to unlock the hidden memories of a scared little boy, free a wrongfully convicted man, and finally catch Christine’s real killer.
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Written, directed & edited by Justin Chalifoux
Researched by Tiffany Loxton
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
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Getty Images
Detective Diaries: Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Breaklight Pictures & The Content Group, 2021
60 Minutes: Evidence of Innocence: The Case of Michael Morton, CBS News, 2012
An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story, Glass House Productions, 2013
Michael Morton Interview, Austin American-Statesman, 2014
Morton to be released, KXAN News, 2011
Anderson gets 10 days in jail, community service, KXAN News, 2013
Mark Norwood found guilty of 2nd murder, sentenced to life, KXAN News, 2016
Ex-prosecutor Ken Anderson Jailed 3 Days for Misconduct in Sending Innocent Man to 25 Yrs in Prison, Fox7, 2013
Michael Morton Freed in Texas, innocenceproject, 2011
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"If you guys think I'm a suspect, I have a problem with that"
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February 24th 1986 is a typical, sunny Monday in Van Nuys, California—until John Ruetten comes home after work to a terrifying discovery: his wife of 3 months, Sherri Rasmussen, is lying unresponsive on the floor of their condo. As cops question John, he seems genuinely distraught by Sherri's death—but cops don't realize there's something he's not telling them. After John’s failed polygraph, they discover that Sherri was being stalked in the weeks leading up to her murder, and this stalker was determined to cover their tracks. As the case goes cold, Sherri's father, Nels Rasmussen, begins piecing together clues, kicking off a 20 year fight to expose what really happened to Sherri, and get justice before it's too late.
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Credits:
Written, directed & edited by Alexandre Gendron
Researched by Amanda Hein
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
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Sources:
Getty Images
48 Hours: One of Their Own, CBS, 2010
20/20: The Killer Down the Hall, ABC, 2024
Dateline: Detective Story, NBC, 2019
The Real Murders of Los Angeles: Once Bitten, 44 Blue Productions, 2023
Snapped: Stephanie Lazarus, Jupiter Entertainment, 2012
Stephanie Lazarus - Full Length Police Interrogation Video, Red Circle Interrogations and Confessions, 2020
Top 5 Most Disturbing Details About The Stephanie Lazarus Case, Grunge, 2025
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“I bet you didn’t think it was gonna turn out like this"
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February 4th, 2007 – it’s a quiet Super Bowl Sunday in Abilene, Texas, where Charity Lee Bennett is working a busy shift at the local bar, but at around midnight, cops arrive at the bar, demanding to speak with Charity. Just hours earlier, a 911 dispatcher received a frantic call from her 13 year old son Paris, saying he just found his younger sister Ella, covered in blood – with the babysitter nowhere to be found. As Charity rushes back home to her kids, she has no idea that she will be thrown into the most unthinkable and disturbing betrayal: what really happened to Ella that night, and what does Paris have to do with it?
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Charity has written a book, "How Now, Butterfly?" which is a memoir about her personal grief & healing journey: https://www.amazon.ca/How-Now-Butterfly-Survival-Transformation/dp/1948239647
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Credits:
Written, directed & edited by Matthew Rice
Researched by Bianca Yzabelle Tan
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader-
Sources:
Getty Images
The Family I Had, Motto Pictures, 2017
Inside Evil with Chris Cuomo: Murder in the Family, CNN, 2019
Charity Lee Interview, Solminod, 2012
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"Oh... he's still alive?"
July 31st 1995, Baraboo police department receives a 911 call in which a teenager calmly claims he is trapped in a house and has both his legs fractured. Little do they know, the caller, 13 year old Thad Phillips, is two hours away from death due to internal bleeding, in the house of a school mate. After two days of torment and two failed escapes, he becomes the only survivor in the hand of the notorious teen serial killer Bonebreaker, carrying the key to solving another mysterious “accidental” death from a year ago.
Credits:
MA:
A World Of Plucking - Frank Schlimbach -
PRO:
BMISuspensful Mind - SynergyMusicUA - ASSET ID: # 1113983
ANW:
Something In The Shadow - Luke Richards
Pathogen - Dan Skinner & Adam Skinner
Track And Trace - James Copperthwaite & Jonathan Buchanan
Damaged - David TObbin, Jeff Meegan, Jason Pedder & Ashley Barnes
Case Remains Open - Pete Masitti & John Andrew BarrowHidden Case - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd
Mystery Case - Igor Dvorkin & Ellie KiddHostage Situation - Luke Richards
In Case Of Emergency - Mark Petrie & Brandon Yingho Lau
Shadow Of A Memory - Mark PetrieFinal Conclusion - Mark Petrie"
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"I wasn't gonna let him win"
It’s December 27th, 2021, and young police officer Ashley Ferris reluctantly accepts an overtime shift— not knowing that this decision will change her life forever. That night, a supposed "Alpha" male & manosphere podcaster known as Lyndon McLeod begins his terrifying revenge spree in downtown Denver, acting out his murderous hit list hidden in the pages of his novel, "Sanction". In the dark winter night, no one knows where he will strike next, nor how to stop his rampage...Unless Ashley, who feels she has nothing to lose, can find the dangerous gunman and put a stop to his reign of terror, at any cost.
Ashley’s non-profit, A Fighting Chance:
https://www.afightingchanceltd.com/
Alicia Cardenas: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-Cardenas-family?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
Jimmy Maldonado:
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Sarah Steck:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sarahs-family-with-this-tragedy
Danny Scofield: https://www.gofundme.com/f/danny-dano-blair-scofield?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unknown&utm_campaign=comms_drx8+danny-dano-blair-scofield
Ashley Ferris https://www.gofundme.com/f/qfugzz-help-our-friends-recovery?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unknown&utm_campaign=comms_drx8+qfugzz-help-our-friends-recovery
Alyssa:
https://www.groundingdown.com/alyssa-gunn-maldonado-fund
Credits:
Written, directed & edited by Alexandre Gendron
Researched by Manon Lafosse
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Sources:
“Control, Alt, Delete”. Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders: Warner Bros Discovery Inc. 2023. (Talos Films / Investigation Discovery)
Podcasts:
“Behind the Badge: A Story of Hope with Ashley Ferris”. From Survivor to Thriver: Erik Da Rosa and Marc Fernandes, 2023.
“Stay in the fight”. The muster room: Eric Potts and Austin Glickman / Joseph Ryder, 2023.
“Courage, Hope and Resilience” The Danny and Park Novels Good News Podcast, 2024.
“Denver's Tumultuous Tattoo History, In Alicia Cardenas's Own Words”. City Cast Denver, 2025.
“Alicia Cardenas, Denver, CO Full Length” The Nature Of Refuge. 2018.
Denver 7 - ABC
Fox 31
9News
CBS Colorado
KCAL News
CBS News
DW News
CBS Miami
NBC News
BBC
ABC News
HLN
Inside Edition
ABC 7
BBC 3
Scripps News
CNN
Sky News
ABC News in depth
NBC New-York
KGTV
Others (YouTube. Podcasts, TV & Articles)
The Glitch Global
The M Pod
The LiverKing
How To Beast talks
Real Talk with Zuby - boogiebutters
Logocentrifugal 74
Thiccoq Productions
Alpha Intellect
Warhorse, Lyndon McLeod, 2021
Andrew Tate's Best Quotes, KingTok, 2022
Masculinity Motivational Advice, The Glitch Global, 2024
The Disturbing Downfall Of The Liver King, Kavos, 2025
FreshAndFit's Double Standards For Women, Annamarie Forcino, 2021
Andrew Tate vs Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, 2022
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“Not guilty lads!”
On December 10, 1987, a man bursts out of the Brighton court room to inform the gathered crowd: his brother, Russell Bishop, has just been found not guilty of the double murder of two 9-year-old girls. There is just one problem: the jury has made a terrible mistake. Letting Bishop walk free will put an entire community in grave danger—and he would have gotten away if it wasn’t for a courageous 7 year-old who will step up to avenge the infamous Babes in the Wood murders.
To support Rachael’s ongoing healing journey: https://www.gofundme.com/f/rachael-russell-bishop-survivor-
Credits:
Written, directed and edited by Justin Chalifoux
Researched by Manon Lafosse
Voiceover by William Akana
Produced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Sources:
“The girl who caught a killer”, Sky UK Limited, 2025 (Plimsoll Productions, part of ITV’s Studios / Sky Documentaries)
“Babes in the Wood”. Faces of Evil, Woodcut Media, Crime + Investigation 2024
“The Babes in the Wood killer”. Faking it, Tears of a crime. Discovery Corporate Services Limited, 2024. (Woodcut Media, Crime + Investigation)
“Russell Bishop”. Britain Most Evil’s Killer. Woodcut Media Productions (part of Anthology group), 2020 (Sky, Woodcut media LTD)
“Babes in the wood” Trevor McDonald Documentary, Atticus Pictures, 2019
“The babes in the wood murders”, Once upon a crime. IWC Media Limited and Motion Content Group Limited, 2021
“The babes in the wood murders”, The Prosecutors. Gold Star Productions Ltd, 2018 (BBC Open University partnership)
October 1986, UK Crime Watch, BBC
Woman’s Hour Podcast, Weekend Woman's Hour: Rachael Watts, Dr Rosemary Coogan, Part-time Work, Failing the 11 Plus, 2022, BBC Studios
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“Jeannette, if you can hear us, know that we’re looking for you”
June 8th 2003, in the city of San Jose, a ‘Little Caesars’ staff member receives a pizza order from a young girl, unaware that the caller is actually 9 year old Jeannette Tamayo, who has been missing for 3 days. Held captive in a small room in his house, her kidnapper brings back the food with a nasty smile: she knows that this could be her last dinner before he “gets rid of her tonight.” The memory of watching CSI with her brother flashes back to her mind — she is determined to fight until the last moment, so she grabs the pizza box, and becomes her own detective.
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“It was like a vacation for her”
On September 6, 2006, 14 year old Elizabeth Shoaf was kidnapped by a man who claimed to be a police officer. Handcuffed, and “arrested”, she is taken deep into the woods where she discovers a secret underground bunker. For ten days, investigators look everywhere for the missing teen, without any clues, until Elizabeth is able to outsmart her captor, and her mom receives a shocking text message from Elizabeth herself.
Credits:
MA:
A World Of Plucking - Frank Schlimbach -
PRO: BMI
Born In Blood - Frequently Asked Music - ASSET ID: # 1163463
ANW:
Catacombs - Dan Skinner & Adam Skinner
Pathogen - Dan Skinner & Adam Skinner
Track And Trace - James Copperthwaite & Jonathan Buchanan
Damaged - David Tobbin, Jeff Meegan, Jason Pedder & Ashley Barnes
Case Remains Open - Pete Masitti & John Andrew Barrow
Hidden Case - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd
Vital Signs - Dave James, Dan Skinner & Adam Skinner
Hostage Situation - Luke RichardsIn Case Of Emergency - Mark Petrie & Brandon Yingho Lau
Shadow Of A Memory - Mark Petrie
Final Conclusion - Mark Petrie
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"If I were to break into the basement floor, what will I hit? "
To learn more about Collier on YouTube, check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@collierlandry/featuredFor any other information, check out this link: https://campsite.to/collierlandry
On the New Year’s Eve of 1989, 11 year old Collier Landry wakes up to a loud thud coming from his parents' bedroom, and it becomes the night his mother Noreen disappears forever. All of his family seem to have no doubts that she ran away after a fight with her husband, but only Collier knows that his mom would never leave him behind. As Dr John Boyle refuses to discuss his wife’s disappearance, detective David Messmore builds a secret bond with the child who insists his mom was murdered. Together, they discover Dr. Boyle’s hidden girlfriend and an astonishing secret buried under the doctor’s new mansion’s floor.
Credits:Written, edited & directed by Alexandre GendronResearched by Tianyi ZhangVoiceover by William AkanaProduced by Alexandra Salois & Salim Sader
Sources:Cabin Creek Films: A Murder in MansfieldCollier Landry: Moving Past Murder PodcastCollier Landry: Moving Past Trauma PodcastForensic Files, S5 EP12: Foundation of LiesLaw & Crime: CopTales PodcastAndrew Gold: On the Edge, Collier LandryRichard Source: Cabin Creek Panel DiscussionRichard Source: Surviving a Murder in MansfieldTed: TedX Mansfield, Collier LandryMBW Alter: Mansfield Drone FootageGetty Images
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These are such heart breaking stories. Great podcast thou!