In December 2019, extended family called the Osceola County Sheriff's and requested a wellbeing check on Anthony, Megan, Alek, Tyler and Zoe Todt. Text messages from the family became stranger to understand and fewer until one day the stopped entirely. Meanwhile, federal authorities in Connecticut are trying to locate Anthony-- a warrant has been issued for his arrest. What followed was one of the most heartbreaking and gruesome crimes of the decade-- all lost in the 2020 news cycle.

Join former police officer Kendra and dispatcher Jon as they tell you everything you need to know about this maddening tragedy.

California: 1974. In Visalia, a string of bizarre sexually charged burglaries. Later in Sacramento, a man enters homes with a flashlight, ransacks homes a sexually assaults women. Next, the suspect holds men captive while perpetrating these terrible crimes. In Santa Barbara, a string of shooting and blunt force murders commences down the coast, ending in Orange County in 1986 and the case goes cold. It was not until 2001 that DNA compiled into the CODIS database of DNA profiles linked all these crimes together. They had all been committed by the same man, possibly the most prolific criminal in American history. Police departments from across the Golden State unite for the first time, sharing information like never before, and a profile of the suspect begins to develop. After years of failing to get an exact DNA match, California investigators resort to a most uncommon tactic to find the killer before he can die a free man.

BTK (Bind Torture Kill) established himself as one of the most infamous in American serial killer history. But does he deserve to be "ranked" with Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, or Zodiac? In this episode a former police officer and current 911 dispatcher talk about how Dennis Rader was a below average loser, how he merely emulated those other insane serial killers, and managed to deceive all around him for 30 years in which he killed 10 or more people. Whether or not he deserves it, his paraphilia and sexual sadism make him one of the most disgusting human beings on the planet. If you are in doubt, Dennis will tell you all about it.

In 2021, Brian Cohee, 19, attacked and ended the life of Warren Barnes. Cohee attempted to dispose of remains by placing them in the trunk of his car and trying to drive the vehicle into the Colorado River. Police spotted him, extricated him from the water, but then his parents started snooping in the car and his bedroom closet for the evidence of what they had long suspected. That Brian was a ticking time bomb of homicidal brutality, but even they bought more than they bargained for.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from a served prison sentence on December 28th after a conviction of second degree murder of her mother. Since her birth, Gypsy Rose had been used as a free meal ticket, and abused for her attempts at having her own life. Listen to the shocking story that could only have ended in someone's death-- and see if you would have done the same thing in her place.

Kendra the former police officer and Jon the 911 dispatcher talk true crime from the side of the law.

Before Christmas 2013, a farmhouse in rural Canada burned to the ground with the bodies of three family members inside. Outside, the surviving member of the Klaus family, who had lost everything, but had everything to gain in their deaths. Jason Klaus conspired with Joshua Frank to kill his family-- but why? The story of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating this murder is a story for the ages: the tactics they used aren't even legal in the United States.

A civil suit has been filed against her father Justin DiPietro-- but what bearing does that have on criminal charges? An understandably outraged community demands the police take action without understanding the constraints placed on police by the Constitution.

Hear true crime from the people who work on the inside.

Ayla Reynolds, a toddler from Waterville, Maine disappeared from her father's home during the night of December 16, 2011. She was put to bed at 8pm, but was not there in the morning. The case was the largest criminal investigation in Maine's history-- and one of the largest missing children cases ever. Circumstances and forensic evidence suggest her father Justin may be responsible for her death, but her mother's dubious behavior before and after the incident have made the case thus far un-prosecutable in court.

To this day her status and whereabouts are unknown.