Episodios

  • Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre: Part Two

    Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre: Part Two
    Apr 9 2026
    The call hits the fire department like any other at first—just another line lighting up, another voice on the other end trying to get words out fast enough to keep up with what they’re seeing. Smoke at the bowling alley. That’s the message that gets through clean. Everything else comes in fragments. The dispatcher pins down the address, repeats it back, fingers already moving across the board, assigning units before the caller even finishes the second sentence. You’ve got engines rolling within seconds. Midday, traffic moving steady but not clogged, sirens cutting through it as the first trucks make their way toward the strip where the building sits. When they turn in, they see it. Smoke pushing out of the structure, not pouring out in a full column, but steady enough that you don’t have to guess what you’re dealing with. It’s coming from inside, finding its way out through whatever gaps it can. The front of the building is still intact. No broken windows, no collapse, nothing that suggests the place has already given up. Just that slow, persistent push of smoke that tells you something’s burning where it shouldn’t be...

    Sources:
    https://lascruces.gov/las-cruces-mass-shooting-unsolved-after-35-years/
    https://www.borderreport.com/regions/new-mexico/las-cruces-bowling-alley-massacre-still-unsolved-after-nearly-4-decades/
    https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/las-cruces-police-seek-new-leads-in-1990-mass-shooting-case
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Cruces_bowling_alley_massacre
    https://www.krwg.org/regional/2017-02-10/27-year-anniversary-of-las-cruces-bowling-alley-massacre?
    https://kfoxtv.com/news/crime-news/family-remembers-victim-of-bowling-alley-massacre-investigation-continues


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    Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate. Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind. Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.
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    25 m
  • The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

    The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre
    Apr 3 2026
    February 10th, 1990. Saturday morning in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The place is Las Cruces Bowl—nothing special from the outside. Low building, wide parking lot, the kind of spot people go to because they’ve been going there for years. Inside, it’s exactly what you’d expect. Long rows of lanes stretching out under fluorescent lights, the steady smell of oil and cleaner baked into the wood and carpet. Front counter off to one side where they handle shoes and payments. And behind that, a small office—tight, functional, where they keep the safe, the paperwork, the money from the night before. Mornings like that don’t carry much weight. You’re not dealing with a crowd yet. It’s just opening up—lights, registers, getting everything ready before the first customers drift in. The routine doesn’t change. Unlock the doors, count the cash, check the drawers, make sure nothing’s off from the previous night. It’s muscle memory more than anything. People move through it without thinking. There were seven people inside that morning. Employees getting the place ready, moving between the counter and the office, handling the same tasks they handled every weekend. A couple of kids were there too. That wasn’t unusual. Bowling alleys always had that overlap—work and family, people hanging around because they were part of the place, not just passing through it. Nobody’s on edge. Nobody’s watching the door or thinking about who might come through it. There’s no reason to...

    Sources:
    https://lascruces.gov/las-cruces-mass-shooting-unsolved-after-35-years/
    https://www.borderreport.com/regions/new-mexico/las-cruces-bowling-alley-massacre-still-unsolved-after-nearly-4-decades/
    https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/las-cruces-police-seek-new-leads-in-1990-mass-shooting-case
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Cruces_bowling_alley_massacre
    https://www.krwg.org/regional/2017-02-10/27-year-anniversary-of-las-cruces-bowling-alley-massacre?

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    Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate. Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind. Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.
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    26 m
  • The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Four (Conclusion)

    The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Four (Conclusion)
    Mar 27 2026
    Swabs were taken from areas where biological material might still exist, even if it was not visible. Fragments of fabric used for binding were collected and separated. Bullets recovered during autopsies were preserved and logged. Even debris from the burned room—pieces of flooring, charred material, residue—was stored when it could potentially contain trace evidence. For years, those items sat in storage. They were not forgotten, but they were not actively producing answers. The DNA testing available in the early 1990s required larger, cleaner samples than the yogurt shop scene could reliably provide. The fire had broken down much of the biological material, and what remained was often too degraded to generate a complete profile. Investigators could test, but the results were limited—partial readings, inconclusive comparisons, fragments that did not match anyone in available databases. That changed gradually. By the late 2000s and into the 2010s, forensic science had advanced in ways that directly addressed the kind of evidence preserved from the yogurt shop. Techniques for extracting DNA from degraded samples improved. Analysts were able to work with smaller quantities of biological material and reconstruct profiles from fragments that would previously have been unusable. The case file did not change, but the tools used to read it did. When investigators returned to the evidence, they approached it with a narrower focus. They were no longer looking for a full, clean profile that could immediately identify a suspect. They were looking for anything that could survive the conditions of the scene—anything that could be amplified, stabilized, and compared. From that process, a profile began to emerge...


    Sources:
    https://time.com/7321492/yogurt-shop-murders-suspect/
    https://people.com/austin-police-significant-breakthrough-murders-4-teen-girls-yogurt-shop-new-suspect-34-years-later-11820020?
    https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/archives-no-dna-match-yogurt-shop-case-21069666.php?
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/austin-yogurt-shop-murders
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-eugene-brashers

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    Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate. Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind. Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.
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    26 m
  • The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Three

    The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Three
    Mar 21 2026
    The verdicts held—for a time. Robert Springsteen IV had been sentenced to death in 2001. Michael Scott had been sentenced to life in prison in 2002. The prosecution had secured convictions in one of Austin’s most notorious unsolved cases. For several years, the outcome appeared settled. But the foundation of those convictions was never physical evidence. It was the confessions. As the appeals process began, defense attorneys focused on how those confessions had been obtained and how they had been used in court. They examined the transcripts. They reviewed the recordings. They compared what each defendant had said and how those statements had been introduced to the jury. A central issue emerged from that review. At trial, the prosecution had used each defendant’s confession to support the case against the other. Michael Scott’s statements referenced Robert Springsteen. Robert Springsteen’s statements referenced Michael Scott. Jurors heard both accounts as part of a single narrative of the crime. But Scott and Springsteen had been tried separately. Because of that, neither man had the opportunity to directly question the other about those statements in court. The issue reached the appellate courts as a constitutional question...

    Sources:
    https://time.com/7321492/yogurt-shop-murders-suspect/
    https://people.com/austin-police-significant-breakthrough-murders-4-teen-girls-yogurt-shop-new-suspect-34-years-later-11820020?
    https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/archives-no-dna-match-yogurt-shop-case-21069666.php?
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/austin-yogurt-shop-murders
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-eugene-brashers

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    32 m
  • The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Two

    The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders: Part Two
    Mar 6 2026
    Like nearly everyone who had grown up in Austin at the time, Springsteen remembered the crime clearly. The murders had dominated local news for weeks. The photographs of the four girls had appeared on television and in newspapers. The story had been discussed in schools, homes, and workplaces across the city...

    Sources:
    https://time.com/7321492/yogurt-shop-murders-suspect/
    https://people.com/austin-police-significant-breakthrough-murders-4-teen-girls-yogurt-shop-new-suspect-34-years-later-11820020?
    https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/archives-no-dna-match-yogurt-shop-case-21069666.php?
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/austin-yogurt-shop-murders
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-eugene-brashers

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    Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate. Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind. Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.
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    30 m
  • The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders

    The Austin, Texas Yogurt Shop Murders
    Feb 27 2026
    On the night of December 6, 1991, the Northcross shopping center in Austin, Texas was closing down the way it always did. The parking lot lights hummed. The storefronts dimmed one by one. Cars pulled out in slow arcs, headlights sweeping across brick and glass before turning toward Burnet Road. Inside the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt!” shop, the lights were still on...

    Sources:
    https://time.com/7321492/yogurt-shop-murders-suspect/
    https://people.com/austin-police-significant-breakthrough-murders-4-teen-girls-yogurt-shop-new-suspect-34-years-later-11820020?
    https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/archives-no-dna-match-yogurt-shop-case-21069666.php?
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/austin-yogurt-shop-murders
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-eugene-brashers


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    25 m
  • The McStay Family Murders: Part Five (Conclusion)

    The McStay Family Murders: Part Five (Conclusion)
    Feb 19 2026
    The courtroom in San Bernardino was built for volume meaning physical space, not raised voices. High ceilings. Pale walls. Wood benches polished by decades of restless hands. By the time opening statements began, it held a different kind of pressure — not noise, but compression. Reporters filled the rear rows. Family members took seats in clusters that did not intermingle. The defendant sat at the defense table in a suit that fit correctly, hands folded, posture still. The state went first...

    Sources:
    https://coronadotimes.com/event/down-to-the-bone-caitlin-rother-and-the-mcstay-family-murders/
    https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/judge-unseals-court-records-in-mcstay-murder-case/509-5297be95-2f41-4ce7-931e-8c3dc98e0918
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/mcstay-family-murders
    https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/missing-mcstay-family-cross-mexico/story?id=10042816
    https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/mcstay-family-murder-trial-charles-merritt-closing-arguments-jury/159073/
    https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mcstay-family-deaths-20190120-story.html
    https://www.sbsun.com/2019/03/11/key-prosecution-evidence-flopped-in-mcstay-family-murder-case-defense-contends/
    https://www.sbsun.com/2019/03/11/key-prosecution-evidence-flopped-in-mcstay-family-murder-case-defense-contends/
    https://abc7.com/post/mcstay-murders-merritt-attorneys-poke-holes-in-timeline/5190475/
    https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/01/justice/mcstay-case-five-questions
    https://press.wbd.com/us/media-release/investigation-discovery/go-inside-controversial-and-shocking-trial-charles-chase-merritt-mcstay-family

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    49 m
  • The McStay Family Murders: Part Four

    The McStay Family Murders: Part Four
    Feb 13 2026
    It started with the calendar. February 4, 2010. Detectives rebuilt the day again, not from the perspective of web traffic or corporate filings, but from physical movement. Joseph’s schedule. His meetings. His calls. His last confirmed face-to-face interactions...Almost four years after the Joseph and his family were murdered, authorities finally arrest their alleged killer...

    Sources:
    https://coronadotimes.com/event/down-to-the-bone-caitlin-rother-and-the-mcstay-family-murders/
    https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/judge-unseals-court-records-in-mcstay-murder-case/509-5297be95-2f41-4ce7-931e-8c3dc98e0918
    https://allthatsinteresting.com/mcstay-family-murders
    https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/missing-mcstay-family-cross-mexico/story?id=10042816
    https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/mcstay-family-murder-trial-charles-merritt-closing-arguments-jury/159073/
    https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mcstay-family-deaths-20190120-story.html
    https://www.sbsun.com/2019/03/11/key-prosecution-evidence-flopped-in-mcstay-family-murder-case-defense-contends/
    https://www.sbsun.com/2019/03/11/key-prosecution-evidence-flopped-in-mcstay-family-murder-case-defense-contends/
    https://abc7.com/post/mcstay-murders-merritt-attorneys-poke-holes-in-timeline/5190475/
    https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/01/justice/mcstay-case-five-questions
    https://press.wbd.com/us/media-release/investigation-discovery/go-inside-controversial-and-shocking-trial-charles-chase-merritt-mcstay-family

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    Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate. Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind. Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.
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    35 m