28 – Lou Pearlman
This boy band mogul had it all – fame, fortune, success, and respect. Greed slowly unraveled the threads of his life and revealed that every business he built was based on a con.
27 – Hadden Clark
Michelle Dorr and Laura Houghteling’s lives were cut incredibly short because they happened to cross the path of Hadden Clark.
26 – When Our Secrets Intersect With DNA
Many of us have a past that is fairly benign. Some people have a past littered with atrocious crimes that they concealed for decades. Today we talk about four stories where genetic genealogy revealed long-held secret crimes.
25 – Father Ryan Erickson
Sometimes willful disbelief is a protective mechanism that gets people through a difficult time in life. In this case, it was a dangerous choice made by those in power that allowed a priest to harm a community.
24 – Michael Mastromarino
A former dentist changed careers and opened a business that supplied human biological products to tissue banks. Disease screens, family consent, and proper refrigeration of cadavers are all steps he decided to omit.
23 – Eddie Tipton
What happens when a lottery employee has just enough computer network security knowledge to be dangerous?
22 – Rachel Timmerman
19-year-old Rachel Timmerman was set to testify against the man who raped her when she mysteriously disappeared. Around that time, four other people vanished as well. The one thing they all had in common was they came into contact with Marvin Gabrion.
21 – The Wichita Massacre
The Carr brothers committed a spree of random and violent crimes that forever altered the lives of 7 individuals. This was one of the most tragic events in Wichita, Kansas history.
20 – Yeardley Love
Yeardley was a University of Virginia student-athlete on the cusp of college graduation. She was close with her mother and sister, and was the heart and soul of the UVA lacrosse team. After she broke up with her boyfriend, he ended her life. The signs of abuse were there but people who orbited the couple lacked the tools to provide help.