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
15 episodes
THE TEACHER’S CULT: HOW WILLIAM BRADFIELD PROGRAMMED A MURDER (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...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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43:17
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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50:05
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....
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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47:29
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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45:54
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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47:47
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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49:45
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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44:35
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—...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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36:34
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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38:55
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. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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41:33
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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34:51
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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34:50
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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39:09
MICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVE
MICHAEL KERKOWSKI & TAMMY FASSETT: THE BACKYARD GRAVEA trusted small-town pharmacist vanishes with his girlfriend and a year later investigators dig into a Kingston Township backyard and uncover a nightmare: multiple shallow...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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