When Timothy Jones Jr. was stopped by police in Mississippi in 2014, his five children were missing. Days later, investigators learned the horrifying truth: he had murdered all five of them and dumped their bodies in the woods in Alabama.

This episode breaks down the full story, from the custody battle and early warning signs to the murders, the investigation, and the trial that exposed the full horror of what happened. It is one of the most horrifying child murder cases in recent history, a chilling story of rage, control, and vengeance that destroyed an entire family.

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• https://wpde.com/news/local/closing-arguments-06-03-2019
• https://www.abccolumbia.com/2019/06/04/jury-finds-timothy-jones-jr-guilty-of-murdering-his-five-children/
• https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/toledo/ap-top-news/2019/06/04/dad-guilty-of-killing-5-kids-faces-possible-death-sentencE
• https://whdh.com/news/jury-deliberating-again-in-trial-of-dad-in-deaths-of-5-kids/
• https://www.abccolumbia.com/2019/06/13/recap-on-timothy-jones-trial-from-first-day-testimony-to-death-penalty-sentence/
• https://wach.com/news/local/timothy-jones-jr-sentenced-to-death-so-what-comes-next
• https://www.fox4news.com/news/jury-agrees-on-death-penalty-for-sc-father-convicted-of-killing-his-5-children
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• https://www.abccolumbia.com/2019/06/11/ex-wife-of-timothy-jones-jr-calls-on-jury-to-spare-his-life/
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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdHF1jAisO0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM828kSGjqMListener Supported

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In 2012, a 21 year old Kenyan woman named Agnes Wanjiru went out for a night in a small town shaped by the presence of a foreign military base - and never came home.

In this episode, we trace Agnes’s last known hours, the uneasy power dynamics of the British troops stationed in Kenya, and the long trail of missed chances that followed. Sometimes the most terrifying mystery isn’t who did it, it’s how so many people knew about it, and did nothing to stop it.

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• itv.com/news/2025-11-07/british-soldier-appears-in-court-over-murder-of-agnes-wanjiru-in-kenya
• itv.com/news/2025-10-15/niece-of-murdered-kenyan-woman-calls-for-british-soldiers-extradition
• theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/07/former-british-soldier-robert-purkiss-accused-of-murdering-kenyan-woman-agnes-wanjiru-appears-in-court
• theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/21/british-soldier-accused-of-murdering-kenyan-woman-agnes-wanjiru-named
• theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/22/british-ex-soldier-denies-meeting-kenyan-woman-agnes-wanjiru-alleged-murder
• theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/16/agnes-wanjiru-niece-urges-labour-extradite-ex-soldier-kenya
• theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/24/uk-defence-minister-faces-call-for-inquiry-into-2012-killing-of-kenyan-woman
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They spent their life savings to save a boy from a harsh Ukrainian orphanage, then one night, everything inside their quiet Florida home went violently wrong.

In this episode, I unravel the story of Robbie and Jennifer Tower, the son they adopted as a teen, the unsettling red flags leading up to a bloody crime scene, and the courtroom showdown that left everyone questioning how well we can ever truly know the children we bring into our homes.

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• forgave-him-for-everything-adoptee-from-ukraine-allegedly-murdered-loving-parents-after-troubled-history-of-violence/
• https://www.courttv.com/news/fl-v-dima-tower-troubled-orphan-murder-trial/
• https://www.courttv.com/news/dima-tower-admits-to-brutal-murder-of-adoptive-parents-in-chilling-testimony/
• https://www.courttv.com/title/eyewitness-defendant-dima-tower-had-blood-on-his-hands/
• https://www.courttv.com/title/neighbor-i-heard-banging-and-screaming-for-help-made-911-call/
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• https://robersonfh.com/obituary/jennifer-christine-tower/
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• https://open.spotify.com/show/5uzx4TEFdqTLhBvycXYLDm
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/43679042799/posts/10160307474627800/

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