After decades of allegations against R. Kelly, prompted by outrage after the explosive documentary series SURVIVING R. KELLY, aired on Lifetime, the authorities renewed their interest in him. Now, at 52-years-old, R. Kelly is in custody facing a stack of federal and state charges including sexual assault, obstruction of justice, and child pornography. In January Lifetime aired a follow-up series, SURVIVING R. KELLY PART II: THE RECKONING, a five-part documentary, that looked at the toll taken on the women who came forward, and provided some new details about R. Kelly’s life and his treatment of women. Tricia Griffith speaks with Sudi Khospropur who served as the showrunner and Co-Executive Producer on SURVIVING R. KELLY PART II: THE RECKONING.

The Bear Brook murders refer to four female victims. In 1985,

two bodies were discovered in a steel drum inside Bear Brook State Park and two more bodies were found in 2000 also inside a steel drum. The bodies went unidentified for years, until an amateur sleuth looked into the case and cracked a real-life murder mystery. Rebekah heath is a librarian from Simsbury, Connecticut and an amateur sleuth.

On this edition of Websleuths Radio Podcast, we welcome our favorite true crime reporter Leigh Egan from Crimeonline.com who gives us the latest
updates on several high profile cases, including the murder of Paighton Houston. Police had a suspect in custody, a 50-year-old convicted Alabama sex offender named Fredrick Hampton, but they let him go due to a lack of evidence. Now they want to charge him with “abuse of a corpse,” but they can’t find him. Leigh gives us the latest. Anthony Todt confessed to killing his family along with their dog, but why and what was his “noticeable smell” all about? Finally, Leigh updates us on the tragic case of Heidi Broussard. Heidi was murdered allegedly by a childhood friend for her baby. Are we any closer to finding out the truth about what happened to Magen Fieramusca?

Mark Sievers was sentenced to death recently for hiring his best friend to kill his wife Dr. Teresa Sievers. In part one and part two we interview Mark Sievers’s friend, Carrie Kain. When Carrie was a teenager she dated Mark’s best friend Wayne Wright who is believed to have killed Teresa with a hammer. For seven months, Carrie reported her hundreds of conversations with Mark to the police and wore a wire when she met with him in person. Carrie has been through a harrowing experience and could not say a word until now. Listen as Carrie comes forward to discuss the case and she does not hold back!!!

Mark Sievers was sentenced to death recently for hiring his best friend to kill his wife Dr. Teresa Sievers. In part one and part two we interview Mark Sievers’s friend, Carrie Kain. When Carrie was a teenager she dated Mark’s best friend Wayne Wright who is believed to have killed Teresa with a hammer. For seven months, Carrie reported her hundreds of conversations with Mark to the police and wore a wire when she met with him in person. Carrie has been through a harrowing experience and could not say a word until now. Listen as Carrie comes forward to discuss the case and she does not hold back!!!

Tricia Griffith, owner of Websleuths.com, discusses new developments in the murder case of 33-year-old Heidi Broussard and the abduction of her weeks old baby, Margo, with Leigh Egan, a journalist and editor of Nancy Grace’s CRIME ONLINE, and Sheryl McCollum, a crime analyst, founder and director of the non-profit Cold Case Investigative Research Institute based in Atlanta, Georgia.

One of the most talked about cases on Websleuths.com is the mysterious and suspicious death of Rebecca Zahau. Tricia Griffith speaks with Rebecca’s brother-in-law Doug Loehner about new developments with the case.

Tricia Griffith speaks with Websleuths member Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project about a series of 51 unsolved murders of women in Chicago.

The Murder Accountability Project, a nonprofit group, used Thomas Hargrove’s algorithm to map 51 unsolved strangulation cases that took place on the west and south sides of Chicago between 2001 and 2018. The 51 murders have striking similarities: all the victims were women, most of the victims were discovered outside in a public place, 76 percent were African American, and 75 percent of the crimes had a “clear sexual component.” Can an algorithm catch a serial killer?

Tricia interviews Heather Tiffany Robinson, who as a baby was abducted, then adopted out by serial killer John Robinson—a man later convicted of killing her mother and several other women.

Tricia Griffith interviews Ben Mihm, a a retired homicide detective turned crime scene cleaner, to learn more about what it’s like cleaning up crime scenes, finding evidence that’s left behind and uncovering other strange things.