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When David Cole disappeared, the people closest to him seemed to know very little about where he had gone. But as detectives looked deeper into the home he shared with his son and daughter-in-law, Brittany, the stories they told began to fall apart.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

Angela Craig falls seriously ill without warning, leaving doctors puzzled. Soon, investigators start to find troubling evidence connected to her husband, Jim Craig. Their discoveries make friends and family rethink what they believed about the couple. As the investigation continues, the case only gets more unusual.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

In Clackamas County, Oregon, a night of heavy drinking left behind more questions than answers. As suspicion and jealousy began to take hold, tensions escalated between two former coworkers. Five days later, one of them was shot to death, and the truth about what started it all remains a mystery.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

Thirty-three-year-old Jason Schaefer was delivering mail on a quiet afternoon in Longmont, Colorado, when bullets assaulted him. Witnesses saw a figure run from the mailboxes, covered in a hoodie and mask, and at first, the case seemed to point in one direction. But as detectives traced Jason’s final day, they uncovered a tangled web of jealousy, custody fights, family betrayal, and secrets hiding in plain sight, all surrounding a young father who never made it home from work.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

Jennifer Dulos, an upper-class mom of five, vanished from Connecticut on a spring morning in 2019. Two women, both from privilege, both connected to the same man, would find themselves on opposite sides of what came next. One walked away. The other stayed. As the investigation unfolded, a story emerged - one shaped by money, control, and the quiet ways power is used and abused.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

When 33-year-old Lashaun Keith’s body is discovered in a remote Michigan hay field, detectives have almost nothing to go on. There are no eyewitnesses and no clear suspects. All they find is a single glove. Sixteen months later, that glove points them to three men, each telling a different story about the same deadly night.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

In April of 2024, 25-year-old Megan Bodiford went missing. The search for answers would uncover a violent crime hidden in plain sight and reveal how the signs of danger were there all along.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

The British Club was a close circle of English expats in Fleming Island, Florida. They were friends who looked out for one another like family. So when 65-year-old Sue Mauldin suddenly vanished, they knew something was wrong. What followed was a desperate race by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office to track down a man hiding in plain sight and uncover what really happened to Sue.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

A quiet evening in Washington City, Utah, ended in gunfire inside the Bailey family home. Gail and Joseph Bailey were executed. Their son and daughter-in-law barely escaped through a window. What followed was a sprawling manhunt through the desert edge of St. George with drones, SWAT teams, and a suspect hiding in the weeds with a gun to her head.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

In Delray Beach, Florida, a routine traffic stop led police to a young man covered in blood. By the next morning, a body had been discovered. What followed was a tense interrogation — and a motive that felt disturbingly small compared to the violence it produced.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

13-year-old Madeline Soto vanishes on what should have been an ordinary school morning in Kissimmee, Florida. She’s dropped off just a block away, and nothing about it feels unusual. She walks off, heading toward school… and disappears. By the afternoon, panic sets in. Calls to 911 reveal a family scrambling for answers: rechecking routes, calling friends, waiting for help that isn’t coming fast enough. She never made it to class. No one saw her arrive. Beneath the family’s lies, it’s a race against the clock to find Maddie.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

On a cold April afternoon in Milwaukee, two men walking along the Lake Michigan shoreline make a gruesome discovery: a human leg tangled in the weeds below a bluff. Within days, more body parts start surfacing across the city, and even across state lines. The remains belong to 19-year-old college student Sade Robinson, a young woman with a promising future - cut short. Piece by piece, investigators put together the puzzle of Sade’s grisly demise and learn that not everyone is redeemable.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

In 2008, University of Wisconsin–Madison student Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her apartment in the middle of the day, and then the trail went cold. An unlikely informant leads the police to search for two mystery men, a theory that would steer the investigation for years. As time passed and leads fell apart, the case slowly faded from view. Twelve years later, detectives discovered the truth wasn’t buried; it had been right in front of them all along.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

When Virgil and Shirley Best were found dead in their home, investigators expected a familiar explanation. What followed instead was an investigation defined by uncertainty and a motive that challenged the idea that violence always comes from clear intent.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

In 2022, when 57-year-old Harold Allen was found dead in his Indiana home, the case was ruled natural. Nearly a year later, a brazen burglary and a string of buried messages bring detectives back to the same address and to Marsha Allen, the woman who said she loved him. What starts as a property crime becomes a chilling reexamination of Harold’s final days, as small-town routines, late-night deliveries, and a quiet house of secrets point to something far darker. No one is ready for where the evidence leads or what it costs.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

Beloved father and prominent attorney, Gary Farris, should have been safe on his own land. But in July 2018, he vanished from his family’s rural dream property, and a smoldering burn pile would unravel everything they thought they knew about their home, their marriage, and each other.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

In 2016, 22-year-old Cati Blauvelt was found stabbed to death in the basement of an abandoned house. The search for her killer would uncover a story of control, deception, and betrayal — and reveal how one man turned trust into a weapon.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

When 43-year-old Diane Holik was found dead inside her Austin home, homicide investigators were left with more questions than answers. Diane had no enemies. There was no apparent reason for anyone to want her dead. But as detectives dug deeper, they uncovered a web of obsession, deceit, and darkness that defied understanding and revealed a killer hiding in plain sight.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

In March 2015, ninety-four-year-old Marie Belcastro was found brutally murdered in her home on Cherry Street in Niles, Ohio. Adored by her family and neighbors, she was known for her humor, generosity, and the simple kindness she extended to those around her. But the violence that ended her life came from closer to home than anyone imagined, leaving her family and the community to wrestle with unsettling questions about trust, justice, and whether every life is worth saving.<br /><br /><br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com

Seventeen-year-old Collin Griffith called 911 in a panic, begging for help. Minutes later, deputies arrived to find his mother bleeding in the kitchen and Collin calm, almost detached. His story of self-defense unraveled quickly, leading investigators back to Oklahoma and exposing dark family secrets and a shocking history of violence.<br /><br />Get instant access to all episodes, including premium unreleased episodes, commercial-free at swordandscale.com