Category: True Crime

It’s been a decade since Jessi Hildebrandt has seen her aunt Jodi Hildebrandt and she says that the abuse the Franke children suffered is similar to want happened to her under Jodi’s care. Jodi Hildebrandt was arrested August 30 along with her business partner Ruby Franke for multiple counts of abusing Ruby’s four minor children (she has six in total.)

41-year-old Ruby Franke, who once ran a popular family YouTube channel called “8 Passengers,” is being charged with 6 counts of felony child abuse after one of her four minor children escaped from her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt’s home malnourished and injured. Both Ruby and Jodi have been arrested and charged. Now, Ruby’s the one accusing her children of abuse.

For a while over the past few weeks a TikToker named Ken Waks was showing up on a lot of “For You” pages with disturbing information: he was investigating a plethora of unsolved deaths in cities like Chicago, Austin, Boston, and beyond that he thought were all connected. Was he really onto something, or was he using the tragedy of others to promote an app?

It’s hard to imagine how some people are capable of unspeaking crimes. In the case of serial killer Wayne Adam Ford, his ex-wife Kelly Pletcher saw him as something other than human.

Kelly decided to sit down for an Evil Lives Here episode (Season 9, Episode 4) titled “He Pretends to Be Human” to describe what it was like to live with a killer.

Larry Harris’ belief in witchcraft and spells started when he was in high school. His intention for studying witchcraft was to control the world so he could get away with murder.

October 20, 1992 Phoenix, AR. 51-year-old Chuck Gold was dead from gunshot wounds. His wife, former Playboy Bunny Carole Gold, (53) discovered him called 911 to report his death. Unfortunately, she was the mastermind behind his untimely demise.

Six years after becoming a household name because he lost 245 lbs. by eating Subway sandwiches, Jared Fogle met the woman who would bring about his downfall: reporter Rochelle Herman-Walrond. What Rochelle heard Jared tell her over the years caused severe PTSD and she thinks she’ll continue processing it for the rest of her life.

The 1984 cold case of the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was finally solved after three decades. Tonight’s episode of Dateline explores how investigators finally cracked the case.