NEW INTERVIEW: With Larry Woodcock, grandfather of JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan. In 2023, Lori Vallow-Daybell was found guilty for the murders of her children JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan and in her fifth husbands first wife Tammy Daybell. Host Matt Johnson was in the courtroom just feet away from Lori during her trial and heads to Idaho to cover the murder trial of her husband Chad Daybell. This episode explores the case against Doomsday Prophet Chad Daybell, behind the scenes of Lori Vallow's...

CASE DEEP DIVE: The Long Island Serial Killer Case investigation The case of the Long Island Serial Killer went unsolved for more than a decade. In December 2010 near Gilgo Beach on Ocean Drive, a shocking discovery - the badly decomposed bodies of four women were found, each wrapped in burlap. Victims: Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy, Amber Costello and Maureen Brainard-Barnes would become known as the Gilgo Four. The case first started as a missing persons case of 24 year old Shannon...

IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS: Murder victim’s wife Kirsten and his brother Adam. On February 16, 2022 father of four Jared Bridegan had dropped off his older children at his ex wife's home in the Sanctuary neighborhood of Jacksonville Beach Florida. Jared and the kids had gone to dinner for a daddy date night. Jared called his wife Kirsten to say: "I love you and will be home soon" and started driving home to St. Augustine from his ex wife's house. His toddler daughter Bexley was in the back seat of...

NEW INTERVIEW: Murder victim’s daughter Madison McGhee. On July 11, 2002 John Cornelius McGhee, known as JC McGhee was shot and killed in the doorway of his Ohio home. No arrests have been made in the case and now his daughter Madison McGhee is on a mission to solve the case. Madison tells host Matt Johnson that she was only 6 years old when the murder happened. Police called it a home invasion "Gone Wrong". Madison says her father had a history selling drugs in his younger days and was...

NEW INTERVIEW: FBI Supervisory Crime Analyst Christie Palazzolo. The FBI calls Samuel Little the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. The Killer confessed to 93 murders before his death, and crime analysts believe his confessions are credible. Police have been able to verify more than 60 confessions, with many still pending. Little says he strangled his victims between 1970 and 2005. Many of his victims’ deaths were ruled overdoses, accidental or undetermined. Some bodies have never...

True Crime DEADLINE returns for Season V with host Matt Johnson in 2023. Matt is a 2X EMMY award winning journalist who dusts off his reporter notebooks to bring you his first hand account of covering notorious crimes and lesser known cases over his career. This season covers the Trial of Doomsday Prophet Chad Daybell, The Murder of father Jared Bridegan, the unsolved cases of Serial Killer Samuel Little and the Unsolved murder case of JC McGhee. Episodes include exclusive interviews with...

NEW INTERVIEW: With Kerri Rawson, daughter of Dennis Rader known as the BTK Serial Killer.  Which stands for “Bind, Torture, Kill” a nickname he gave himself during a cat-and-mouse game with press and police. Rader is now the “Prime Suspect” in the 1976 disappearance of Cynthia Kinney, a16-year-old cheerleader who was last seen at a laundromat in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. And the murder of 22-year-old Shawna Beth Garber, whose body was discovered in December 1990 in Mcdonald County, Missouri. An...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: With a witness to the murder of college student Jody LeCornu. Plus an interview with her twin sister Jenny Carrieri who is on a mission to solve the cold case murder. Jody was a student at Towson University in Baltimore Maryland when she was murdered in cold blood on March 2, 1996. Today her identical twin sister Jenny Carrieri is ramping up the investigation to find her sisters killer. On that Saturday morning, the 23-year-old had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend...

NEW INTERVIEW: With Doomsday Cult Mom's Cousin Megan Eyden. Lori Vallow-Daybell was found guilty in the murders of her children JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan and in her fifth husbands first wife Tammy Daybell. Host Matt Johnson was in the courtroom just feet away from Lori during the trial. This episode explores the case against cult mom, behind the scenes of the trial and dives into Lori's family life with an interview with Lori's cousin. Podcast WEBSITE (Case...

LOST INTERVIEW: Sister of murdered actress Sharon Tate Speaking Out over fear of Manson Followers being released from prison. Matt Johnson opens the TRUE CRIME VAULT for his interview with Debra Tate. (Note: It’s an older interview but fascinating with lesser known facts. Including: Tate smuggled herself into the L.A. County jail and looked Charles Manson in the eyes after he was arrested.) In July 2023, Manson Family Cult follower Leslie Van Houten was released from state prison in Corona...

NEW DETAILS in the Murder of Tamara Tucker. Her boyfriend Eric Newman has been convicted of killing her during her birthday trip onboard a Carnival Elation cruise ship.  Years earlier, Robert McGill killed his wife on the Carnival Elation after drinking heavily. He said a  scorpion inside the tequila bottle possessed him to kill. 55 year old McGill was celebrating his birthday with his wife of five years Shirley, and some friends on the Carnival Elation cruise to Mexico from San...

True Crime DEADLINE returns for Season IV with host Matt Johnson in 2023. Matt is an EMMY award winning journalist who dusts off his reporter notebooks to bring you his first hand account of covering notorious crimes and lesser known cases over his career. This season covers the Trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, The Long Island Serial Killer Case, Dennis Rader AKA the BTK Serial Killer, Manson Murders and the Unsolved murder case of college student Jody LeCornu. Episodes include exclusive...

NEW INTERVIEW with Sherry Ballard, mother of Missing Mother of five Crystal Rogers. On July 5, 2015, Crystal Rogers was reported missing by her mother, after she had not been seen or heard from since the evening of July 3, 2015. The same day Rogers was reported missing, her car was found abandoned with a flat tire at mile marker 14 on the Bluegrass Parkway in Bardstown, Kentucky. Rogers' keys, phone, and purse were still inside her red Chevrolet Impala. Rogers is not known to go anywhere...

EXCLUSIVE - Sister of John Wayne Gacy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history emails host Matt Johnson. (name) Her emails include MIND BLOWING allegations that her brother didn't act alone when he lured and murdered dozens of young men and boys in the 1970's. Gacy was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys. Recently more John Doe victims have been identified through familial DNA. Remains of 26 victims were found in the crawl space under Gacy's home just outside...

SHOCKING NEW DETAILS in the death of newly engaged, mother of two Jen Myers in Wheat Ridge Colorado. On March 30, 2018 the mom of two decided to go to a neighborhood bar and day-drink. She posted happy pictures on social media and was dancing at the bar. Shortly after arriving witnesses say she became extremely intoxicated. A older man at the bar offered to give Jen a ride home. Jen was later found dead inside his home with a gunshot wound to her head/face. In this Episode host Matt...

NEW DEVELOPMENTS in the Murder of Molly Bish.  New DNA samples have been collected in the case from key "Persons of Interest" and some of Molly's belongings have been returned to her sister Heather. Sister of Molly, Heather Bish sits down with host Matt Johnson for a NEW INTERVIEW to talk about the case, how her family learned of Molly's abduction, missed steps in the initial investigation and what she is doing to help solve the case and other unresolved cases using familial DNA. On June...

NEW INTERVIEW with JULIE MURRAY, the sister of missing nursing Student, Maura Murray.  Murray disappeared on the evening of February 9, 2004, after a car crash on Rt. 112 in Haverhill, NH. She was spotted by an elderly couple across the street and she spoke with a Bus Driver who lived on the remote street, after the crash. When police arrived her car was locked, there were no footprints in the snow and the 21-year-old UMass Amherst student was missing without a trace. Recently the FBI...

True Crime DEADLINE returns for Season III with host Matt Johnson in February 2022. Matt is an EMMY award winning journalist who dusts off his reporter notebooks to bring you his first hand account of covering notorious crimes and lesser known cases over his career. This season kicks off with several exclusive interviews connected to Missing Maura Murray, Crystal Rogers, Molly Bish and letters from the sister of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy. Please subscribe, rate the podcast and write a...

NEW SHOCKING DETAILS: Daughter of the 'San Francisco Witch Killer' Jenn Carson, speaks out about her father and stepmother's murder spree across California.

A young college student mysteriously disappeared after being found naked and bloody on a stranger's doorstep.

NEW DETAILS: Interview with Mother of Stacy McCall, one of the Springfield Three Missing women

On January 26, 2011 Ellen Rae Greengerg was found dead in her Philadelphia apartment with multiple stab wounds.She suffered from 20 stab wounds, including ten to her back & neck, there were bruises all over her body an her dead body was positioned...

NEW INTERVIEW with Kelsie German, sister of 13 year old Libby German. Libby was killed with her best friend Abby Williams in what is now referred to as the unsolved Delphi murders in Indiana.

NEW INTERVIEW: with Katie's mother who is fighting for DNA testing of all violent crime offenders