The Casual Criminalist

A respected headmistress, a powerful lover, and a shattered psyche collide—jealousy, manipulation, and drugs spiral into the shocking killing of America’s famous diet doctor that gripped a nation and courtroom.

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A disturbing true-crime documentary recounting Junko Furuta’s abduction and murder, exposing shocking failures of justice, human cruelty, and the enduring legacy of one of Japan’s most infamous criminal cases ever.

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From Emmett Till to the Central Park Five, explore America’s shocking miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, and system failures that destroyed lives—and what they reveal about power, race, and truth.

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In this flashback episode, we are in the late 1970s where the Hillside Strangler had been captured, and two men now awaited trail. But one of them, Kenneth Bianchi, had a plan for escaping a life sentence - fake a Hillside Strangler attack, complete with DNA. Enter Veronica Compton, Bianchi's own Harley Quinn. Firmly under Bianchi's spell, she would go on to attempt to kill another woman before being caught by the police and ruining Bianchi's plans.

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The disturbing true story of Luka Magnotta—how internet fame, obsession, and ignored warnings led to one of Canada’s shocking crimes, told through the online hunt that tried to stop him.

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