On July 10, 2016, DNC staffer Seth Rich, 27, was shot in Washington, D.C. Police called it a robbery, but nothing was taken. The case is still unsolved.

Herb Baumeister was a suburban Indianapolis family man, but thousands of bone fragments were found on his 18-acre estate, Fox Hollow Farm. Told softly.

On June 9, 1912, eight people were killed with an axe in the Moore home in Villisca, Iowa. I revisit the Villisca axe murders, recorded at a live Iowa show.

Is Garth Brooks a serial killer? A gentle, cozy look at the internet's long-running joke from the Your Mom's House podcast, Chris Gaines and all.

A special holiday bonus: a darkly festive true crime parody of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, with shadowy figures coming down the chimney. Sleep tight.

In 1979, Michelle Martinko, 18, was killed in a Cedar Rapids mall parking lot. Four decades later, DNA and genetic genealogy finally solved the cold case.

On Christmas Eve 1945, fire destroyed the Sodder home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children vanished, and no remains were ever found. Told softly.

On Thanksgiving night 2013, two Seattle plumbers spent 13 hours stealing over $648,000 in rare wine, only to be undone by a tow truck. A cozy heist story.

A cozy, atmospheric holiday thriller, 100% original crime fiction, with a resourceful heroine and empty, glittering mansions. A fictional bedtime story.

In 1888, a killer stalked the fog-choked alleys of Whitechapel. We walk those streets again, meet the five women, and ask: who was Jack the Ripper?

Thanksgiving 2012, Little Falls, Minnesota. Byron Smith waited in his dark basement, and two teens, Haile Kifer and Nicholas Brady, came in. Told softly.

In the quiet town of Aberdeen, Australia, miner John Price trusted the wrong person. Katherine Knight and the crime that shocked a nation. Told gently.

In September 1937, Chicago greeting-card tycoon Charles Ross was kidnapped for a $50,000 ransom, starting one of the FBI's biggest manhunts. Told softly.

On a snowy Pennsylvania estate, heir John du Pont shot an Olympic wrestling champion. The strange world of Foxcatcher Farm, told calmly for bedtime.

The rise and fall of Jeffrey Epstein, from Brooklyn to a private island to a federal jail cell, and the questions that still linger. Told softly for sleep.

Two rusted barrels in the woods of Allenstown, New Hampshire held a secret that took 40 years to unravel. The Bear Brook murders and the Chameleon Killer.

Behind bars, Son of Sam David Berkowitz told an inmate a ritual killing was coming. On Halloween 1981, two people were killed in New York. Told softly.

Halloween night, 1981, in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Platzman were killed in a ransacked apartment. Who did it, and why?

On a foggy autumn night in 1922 in New Jersey, a rector and a choir singer were found beneath a crabapple tree among love letters. The Lovers Lane murders.

Ed Gein, the Butcher of Plainfield, went from a hard childhood in rural Wisconsin to the discoveries that inspired Psycho. Told in a soothing, eerie voice.