On June 5, 2003, state police arrived at a house on six wooded acres in Kingston Township, Pennsylvania, with a sealed search warrant. The man who lived there, Hugo Selenski, read it and told them, “You’re looking for bodies? Go ahead. Dig up the yard.” He even offered them his shovels. Within hours, investigators had
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Spoiler note: This post covers both parts of our episode, including how the case was solved. If you want to experience it the way Laura did, listen to both episodes first. In September 2010, a 55-year-old Louisiana landman was found dead on the floor of his Beaumont, Texas hotel room. There was no sign of
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Companion post to our two-part Crime Clueless episode series On the morning of December 16, 2000, Denise Williams watched her husband leave their home on Centennial Oaks Circle in Tallahassee, Florida. It was 3am. He was headed to Lake Seminole — a sprawling reservoir straddling the Georgia-Florida line — to duck hunt before dawn,
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A Crime Clueless companion piece It’s just before noon on a Sunday in December 2009. In a retirement community outside Las Vegas — the kind of place where every lawn is the same shade of green and nothing ever happens — a security camera catches a white Chevy Cavalier pulling up to the end of
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In October 2008, an aspiring Edmonton filmmaker built a real-life “kill room” modeled on a television serial killer — then used it twice. One man escaped. One man didn’t. This is the full story of Mark Twitchell, the case that became known across Canada and internationally as the “Dexter Killer” murder. Who Is Mark Twitchell?
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On April 15, 2005, Centre County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Ray Gricar took a half-day off work, called his girlfriend to say he was going for a drive, and was never seen again. Twenty years later, despite an FBI investigation, a laptop pulled from a river, a connection to the Jerry Sandusky scandal, and a theory
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For decades, the domestic violence movement has run on a familiar script: the abuser is bad, the survivor should leave, and the system’s job is to punish after the fact. It’s a script that’s shaped everything from police response to funding priorities to the questions we, as a culture, instinctively ask when we hear about
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Two weeks before Stacy Hunsucker died, a South Carolina nurse named Lana Clayton was arrested for poisoning her husband with eye drops. The case dominated regional headlines across the Charlotte area for weeks. Thirty miles away, in Mount Holly, North Carolina, a flight paramedic named Josh Hunsucker was reportedly watching. On September 23, 2018, Stacy
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In May of 2016, a woman walked into the York County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina to report something strange. She told deputies she’d been struggling to load a crossbow downstairs, carried it up to the bedroom where her husband was sleeping, and it had “accidentally” gone off — striking him in the back of
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They were married over 60 years. Then, over one quiet weekend in May 2014, Russell and Shirley Dermond were killed inside the gated Georgia lake community they’d called home for over a decade. His body was found decapitated in his own garage. Hers was found ten days later, weighted down at the bottom of the
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