Cardinal Crimes
Cardinal Crimes is a true crime podcast that explores cold and unsolved cases, criminal behavior, and crime prevention.
The host, Becca, is a former Intelligence Analyst interested in the "why" behind crime, the systems that shape it, and the ways we can prevent it.
Episodes
50 episodes
INSANITY PLEA: Andrea Yates
In June of 2001, the world was stunned when news broke that a Texas mother had drowned her five children. Photos of Andrea Yates, her children, and what many considered to be a “picture-perfect family” were plastered across the media, with ever...
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MURDERED: Connie Ruddy
In 1997, Connie Ruddy disappeared from her home without a trace. Two years later, her jawbone was discovered miles away, confirming her death but offering few clues about what happened to her. For almost three decades, her case seemed cold. Unt...
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SUSPICIOUS DEATH: Ellen Greenberg
If you want to support the Greenberg's through donations to their legal fund, or through signing petitions to reopen her case please see the website below:https://www.justicefore...
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UPDATE: Keara Coshow
On July 12, 1979, a fire at the Hill Top Motel in Red Oak, Iowa, claimed the life of 3-year-old Keara Coshow. Despite known suspicions of child abuse from Keara's stepmother, Karen, and Keara being nearly blind from an injury many suspect was i...
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PART 6: Raymundo Esparza, Where the Investigation Stands, and Theories
One name that you will almost certainly find while researching the 1980 murders of Rose Burkert, Roger Atkison, and William Kyle, and the 1970 murder of Jack McDonald is Raymundo Esparza. In this episode, we talk about how he is con...
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NEWS: A Potential Mass Shooting Averted in Atlanta
In today's quick bonus episode, we break down what we know about the recent case of a mass shooting averted at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. This could have been a devastating tragedy, but it was stopped thanks to a family...
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PART 5: The 1970 Murder of Jack McDonald
In October of 1970, a maid at the Travel Inn in Meridian, Mississippi discovered the body of 23-year-old Jack McDonald. He had been murdered by multiple blows to the head with an ax or hatchet-like instrument. The investigation into...
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NEWS: Heist at the Louvre, The Perfect Neighbor, and the Netflix series giving me the ICK.
Today we have a bonus episode coming to you from my car! There are a few developing crime related stories I wanted to talk about, including the Louvre heist. Then, I have thoughts on a few documentaries and Netflix series. I talk about Death in...
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PART 4: The 1980 Murder of William Kyle
On Wednesday, June 25, 1980, workers at the Sheraton Motor Inn in Galesburg, Illinois, found the body of William Kyle, a lumber salesman, brutally murdered in his hotel room.To this day, Kyle’s murder remains unsolved, but the crime scen...
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PART 3: The 1980 Murder of Rose Burkert & Roger Atkison, Initial Suspects
The brutal 1980 murders of Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison have puzzled investigators for decades. While suspicion has often fallen on people close to the couple, the list of potential suspects has grown far beyond their inner circle.In t...
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PART 2: The 1980 Murder of Rose Burkert & Roger Atkison, The Investigation
On September 12, 1980, Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison were brutally murdered at a Holiday Inn in Williamsburg, Iowa. To this day, this case remains unsolved. In part one, we went through the crime scene in detail. Today, in part two...
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PART 1: The 1980 Murder of Rose Burkert & Roger Atkison, The Crime Scene
On September 13, 1980, a housekeeper at the Holiday Inn in Williamsburg, Iowa, discovered a horrifying scene: Rose Burkert and Roger Atkison had been brutally murdered in their hotel room bed. More than four decades later, their case remains un...
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REVISIT: Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, Domestic Violence Homicide Risk Factors, the Violence Against Women Act, Abuser Interventions
This week, we’re revisiting a past episode with freshly cleaned-up audio before diving into a brand-new cold case next week. This particular interview is one I’m especially proud of. It was such an honor to speak with someone with such knowledg...
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MURDERED: Laura Van Wyhe
Laura Van Wyhe spent the evening of Friday, October 25, 1996 celebrating her recent 21st birthday with family and friends. Hours later, around 2 a.m. on Saturday, October 26, 1996, she was found critically injured along Highway 136 near Kahoka,...
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MURDERED AND MISSING: Bill and Kay Wood, Part 2
On July 30, 2011, a massive fire destroyed the home of Bill and Kay Wood. One victim was found in the rubble, and testing would later confirm the remains were those of Bill. An autopsy revealed he had been shot several times before the fire. Ka...
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MURDERED AND MISSING: Bill and Kay Wood, Part 1
On July 30, 2011, firefighters rushed to a massive late-night blaze in Norwalk, Iowa. When the flames were finally extinguished, the charred remains of 79-year-old Bill Wood were discovered inside. His wife, Kay, was missing, and the couple’s t...
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MISSING: Crystal Arensdorf
In the early morning hours of July 4, 2001, Crystal Arensdorf vanished after being out at a bar in Dubuque, Iowa with friends. After countless searches, interviews, and months of investigating, there was no sign of the 20-year-old. In fact, no ...
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INTERVIEW: Frank Figliuzzi, Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers, Sex Trafficking, and Solutions
In 2004, an analyst from the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation discovered a pattern of murdered women dumped along the Interstate 40 corridor in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Her work eventually led to the creation of the FBI’s Hig...
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Season 1
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MURDERED: Tammy Zywicki
Tammy Zywicki was last seen on Sunday, August 23, 1992, on her way back to college in Grinnell, Iowa. When her parents didn’t receive word that she’d arrived safely, and later learned her vehicle had been abandoned along I-80, they reported her...
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MURDERED: Lyric Cook-Morrissey & Elizabeth Collins, Part Two
Almost a year after the abduction of Lyric Cook-Morrissey and Elizabeth Collins from Evansdale, Iowa, two more young girls would be abducted from a town just under two hours away. On May 20, 2013, 15-year-old Kathlynn Shephard and 12-year-old D...
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MURDERED: Lyric Cook-Morrissey & Elizabeth Collins, Part One
On July 13, 2012, ten-year-old Lyric Cook-Morrissey and eight-year-old Elizabeth Collins went for a bike ride in the quiet town of Evansdale, Iowa and never came home. Their bicycles and a purse were found abandoned, sparking a massive search e...
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NEWS: Brian Kohberger's Plea, Jodi Huisentruit Doc, and a Sentencing in the Breonna Taylor Case
In this bonus episode (possibly a recurring segment, we'll see), we’re digging into some of the biggest headlines in the crime space. First, we break down Brian Kohberger’s early July plea in the University of Idaho murders and explore how repo...
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Episode 28
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MISSING: Marc Allen
In the final part of our series on the “milk carton kids,” we turn our focus to Marc Allen, a 13-year-old who disappeared in 1986 under circumstances somewhat similar to that of Johnny Gosch and Eugene Martin. Though Marc’s face never appeared ...
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