Crimery
CRIMERY is a long-form true crime podcast that goes beyond headlines to examine the people, psychology, and systems behind some of the most disturbing crimes in American history.
Each episode is built from original research, police records, court documents, and contemporary reporting — presented with narrative restraint and respect for victims and their families. CRIMERY focuses not just on what happened, but how it was allowed to happen, and why certain cases continue to haunt communities decades later.
From unsolved disappearances and cold cases to infamous crimes hidden behind public personas, CRIMERY strips away myth, rumor, and sensationalism to reveal uncomfortable truths — about power, violence, silence, and the cost of looking away.
This is not fast crime.
This is not speculation disguised as storytelling.
These are carefully constructed investigations into crimes that still matter.
Episodes
27 episodes
THE FORGOTTEN SERIAL KILLER: EDWARD SURRATT
In this episode of Crimery, Tim Novotney tells the terrifying story of Edward Arthur Surratt, a little-known serial killer from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, who terrorized Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and beyond i...
THE MORGAN PETERS MURDER: 9 STORIES IN A BIKER MAGAZINE
THE MORGAN PETERS MURDER: 9 STORIES IN A BIKER MAGAZINE AND A 47-YEAR COLD CASE In 1972, 29-year-old wrestler and gym equipment installer Morgan Peters Jr. vanished along the Pennsylvania Turnpike in rural Franklin County, Pe...
IN COLD BLOOD (PART 4): THE CORNER
IN COLD BLOOD PART 4: THE CORNER, THE EXECUTIONS, AND WHAT TRUMAN CAPOTE GOT WRONG In the final episode of Crimery’s four-part series on Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, host Jennifer Novotney takes you through the...
IN COLD BLOOD (PART 3): THE ANSWER
IN COLD BLOOD PART 3: THE ANSWER — PERRY SMITH’S CONFESSION, THE CLUTTER MURDERS, AND CAPOTE’S DARKEST CHAPTER In Part 3 of Crimery’s four-part In Cold Blood series, Jennifer Novotney takes you into the section Truma...
IN COLD BLOOD (PART 2): PERSONS UNKNOWN
IN COLD BLOOD (PART 2): PERSONS UNKNOWN — THE CLUTTER MURDERS, ALVIN DEWEY, AND THE HUNT FOR PERRY SMITH The Clutter family is dead. Holcomb, Kansas is in shock. And for 6 weeks, investigators have nothing: no suspects, no mo...
IN COLD BLOOD (PART 1): THE LAST TO SEE THEM ALIVE
In this special Crimery series opener, host Jennifer Novotney is back and takes you inside In Cold Blood — the true crime classic that changed American storytelling forever. This is Part 1: The Last to See Them Alive...
BUCKS COUNTY HORROR: THE PIG ROASTER MURDERS OF COSMO DINARDO
Four young men disappear in Bucks County, Pennsylvania after setting out to buy marijuana. What police called a drug deal gone wrong soon turns into one of the most disturbing true crime cases in Pennsylvania history.In thi...
KAREN READ: MURDER OR COVER-UP IN CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS
KAREN READ: MURDER OR COVER-UP IN CANTON, MASSACHUSETTSA Boston police officer is found face-down in the snow outside a fellow officer's home in Canton, Massachusetts. His name is John O'Keefe. He had been lying there for hours.
MAURA MURRAY DISAPPEARANCE: THE 7-MINUTE WINDOW
MAURA MURRAY DISAPPEARANCE: THE 7-MINUTE WINDOW, ROUTE 112 CRASH, WITNESS A’S SUV, AND THE FINGERPRINT MATCHOn February 9, 2004, 21-year-old UMass nursing student Maura Murray crashed her black Saturn sedan on a dark curve on Route 112 i...
THE NANCY GUTHRIE DISAPPEARANCE: TAKEN IN THE NIGHT
TAKEN IN THE NIGHT: THE NANCY GUTHRIE DISAPPEARANCE — MASKED INTRUDER, DOORBELL VIDEO, DNA GLOVE, AND THE $6M BITCOIN RANSOMOn January 31, 2026, at 1:47 a.m., the doorbell camera at an isolated desert home outside Tucson, Arizona ...
IDAHO 4 MURDERS: HOW BRYAN KOHBERGER WAS CAUGHT
On November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. In the days that followed, fear spread across the country as investigators searched for the person responsible.In this epi...
THE SUSAN REINERT MURDER: HOW A TEACHER PROGRAMMED A KILLING (PART 2)
September 18, 1992: the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns Jay C. Smith’s conviction—and bars a retrial for prosecutorial misconduct so extreme the court says trying him again would violate double jeopardy. After 13 years in prison—seven on d...
THE SUSAN REINERT MURDER: HOW A TEACHER PROGRAMMED A KILLING (PART 1)
In June 1979, a teacher’s body was found in the trunk of a car in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Susan Reinert had been drugged, beaten, and suffocated. Her two children—Karen, 11, and Michael, 10—were gone.They have never been found...
THE HUMAN MASK: THE LANDLORD WHO PLAYED GOD
Weatherly/Freeland, Pennsylvania. 2016. A house fire at 234 Third Street looks like simple insurance fraud… until federal agents start pulling at one landlord’s life and uncover something far worse.Roberto Torner—a...
WHO KILLED JONATHAN BALESTER? MURDER FOR PROFIT IN SHAVERTOWN
It’s an ordinary Thursday night in Shavertown, Pennsylvania — until a family member walks through an unlocked door and finds the lights on… a ceiling fan still spinning… and a trail of blood cutting through the house like a roadmap of violence....
THE PITTSBURGH BORGIA: THE ANGEL OF DEATH NEXT DOOR
Victorian Pittsburgh trusted her with the sick.Martha Grinder was the woman neighbors called when illness crept into their homes — the quiet caregiver who brought soup, tea, clean linens, and patience. She sat through long nights at the ...
THE UNICORN KILLER: THE HUNT FOR JUSTICE (PART TWO)
Eighteen months after Holly Maddux was murdered, her killer walked free on bail — and vanished into Europe.In Part Two of The Unicorn Killer, the story shifts from the crime itself to the longest and most relentless manhunt most...
THE UNICORN KILLER: INSIDE IRA EINHORN (PART ONE)
For years, Ira Einhorn was celebrated as a visionary.He called himself The Unicorn — a peace activist, environmental prophet, and counterculture icon with powerful friends and devoted followers. He spoke about consciousness, lov...
WHO TOOK CHERRIE MAHAN?: THE BUS STOP ABDUCTION
On February 22, 1985, in rural Winfield Township, Pennsylvania, eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan stepped off her school bus at 4:10 p.m. She had only 150 feet to walk home.She never made it.Witnesses reported two suspicious vehicles n...
WHO KILLED BETSY AARDSMA?: SILENCE IN THE STACKS
On November 28, 1969—the quiet day after Thanksgiving—a 22-year-old Penn State graduate student walked into Pattee Library to retrieve one final source for a research paper.She never walked out.Betsy Ruth Aardsma was stabbed once—...
THE IMPOSSIBLE GRAVE OF SUSAN CERRITELLI: BURIED IN FIRE
A 26-year-old woman vanishes from Long Pond, PA on May 11, 1983. Her husband waits 72 hours to call police. Fifteen years later, two separate accounts surface—one claiming her remains were dumped off Seaside Heights, another pointing to a shaft...
THE DISAPPEARANCES OF JENNIFER BARZILOSKI & PHYLICIA THOMAS: THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Eighteen-year-old Jennifer Barziloski walks out into a warm June night in 2001 and never makes it home. Three years later, her closest friend, 22-year-old Phylicia Thomas—the one who wouldn’t stop asking what happened to Jennifer—vanishes too. ...
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOLENE LAKEY: ONE BLOCK FROM HOME
An 11-year-old leaves Mercy Hospital in Scranton with a stuffed animal for her mom and starts the short walk home—broad daylight, one block to go. Witnesses see a girl matching Michelle “Jolene” Lakey get into a light yellow car n...
THE MURDER OF AIDEN PAIZ: CUL-DE-SAC AMBUSH
A well-liked Pleasant Valley freshman drives to a secluded cul-de-sac for a $120 marijuana sale—and meets three teens who never planned to pay. Within minutes, 15-year-old Aiden Paiz is shot with an AR-15, his friend is wounded, and the ...
THE MURDER OF DAVID MCENTIRE: PARANOIA IN THE POCONOS
A devoted father and small-town carpenter walks out of his Polk Township home one October afternoon—and never returns. His blue work van is found wiped clean. His bank accounts go quiet. For years, rumors swirl. Then a drunk shoplifter starts t...
