Truer Crime Podcast
1) Tamla Horsford
From 1920 to 1940, no Black people lived in Forsyth County, Georgia. None. But by the time Tamla Horsford moved there with her family, a lot had changed. Or so it seemed, until Tamla was found dead in...Show More
2) Jennifer Kirk + Sue Sue Norton Part 2
Two years after Jennifer Kirk was found dead on former mayor Clement Richards Sr.’s property, another woman was discovered at that same address: 30-year-old Susanna “Sue Sue” Norton, who was in a rela...Show More
3) Jennifer Kirk Part 1
In the small town of Kotzebue, Alaska, police responded to a call at the mayor’s property and found 25-year-old Jennifer Kirk dead, a rifle beside her and a bullet wound under her chin. Within days, h...Show More
4) Natalee Holloway Part 2
Within days of Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, her mother suspected Joran van der Sloot was involved. What she couldn’t have known was just how much, and for how long, Joran would manipulate the tru...Show More
5) Natalee Holloway Part 1
Eighteen-year-old Natalee Holloway vanished during a senior trip to Aruba, a disappearance that captured international attention and reshaped the island overnight. Her family fought for answers with a...Show More
6) Next on Truer Crime: The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
In May 2005, eighteen-year-old girl Natalee Holloway vanished in Aruba and became the center of a media storm that spiraled far beyond the island. Beneath the headlines was a family desperate for answ...Show More
7) Behind the Footprint: Reporting Jeanie Childs’ Story
In this bonus episode, I sit down with investigative reporter Jennifer Mayerle, the journalist behind the WCCO documentary Footprint to Murder. Jennifer spent years following Jeanie Childs’ case, buil...Show More
8) Jeanie Childs Part 2
For more than 25 years, Jeanie’s case stayed unsolved. Investigators had fragments—a DNA profile appearing across key items, a set of bloody footprints—but not a name. Then, a new technology entered t...Show More
9) Jeanie Childs Part 1
In the Summer of 1993, a leak in a south Minneapolis high-rise led a caretaker to a horrifying discovery: 35-year-old Jeanie Childs, murdered inside her apartment. On the floor beside her, a haunting ...Show More
10) Next on Truer Crime: Murder In Minneapolis
In 1993, Jeanie Childs was murdered in her Minneapolis apartment — a brutal crime that haunted her mother for decades. When genetic genealogy finally named a suspect twenty-five years later, it brough...Show More