The Guilty Files

In this episode, we go beyond the sanitized headlines and Netflix documentaries to examine the Ted Bundy case you were never supposed to know about, including the suppressed files, the buried reports, and the institutional failures that allowed one of America's most prolific serial killers to operate for years longer than he ever should have.

We begin with Bundy's troubled origins at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, his violent grandfather Samuel Cowell, his grandmother's severe mental illness and electroconvulsive treatments, the family secret that made him believe his mother was his sister, and the chilling incident...

In this episode, we take an unflinching look at one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. Theodore Robert Bundy murdered at least thirty women across seven states during the 1970s, and his case forever changed how we understand the nature of predatory violence.

This is the complete story of Ted Bundy, from his troubled beginnings to his final moments in Florida's electric chair. We open on a summer afternoon at Lake Sammamish State Park in Washington State, where a handsome young man with his arm in a sling approached woman after woman, asking for help...

On September 20, 1988, nineteen-year-old Terra Leigh Calico set out on her morning bike ride along Highway 47 in Valencia County, New Mexico. She never came home. In the nearly 37 years since her disappearance, this case has become one of America's most haunting unsolved mysteries, defined by a chilling Polaroid photograph discovered in a Florida parking lot and decades of whispered accusations that have never led to justice. But the story most people know is only part of the truth. 

In this episode of The Redacted Report, we pull back the curtain on the facts that never made it into the o...

On 09/20/1988, 19-year-old Tara Leigh Calico left her home in Belen, New Mexico, for her daily bike ride along Highway 47. She never returned. Nearly four decades later, her disappearance remains one of the most haunting and controversial missing persons cases in American history.

This episode of The Guilty Files traces Tara’s life from her childhood and active years at Belen High School to her studies in psychology at the University of New Mexico–Valencia Campus. We examine the morning she vanished, including her final conversation with her mother and witness reports of a light-colored 1953 Ford pickup truck following clos...

On April 20th, 1999, two seniors walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and committed what was then the deadliest school shooting in American history. Thirteen innocent people lost their lives that day, and the images of terrified students fleeing with their hands raised became seared into America's collective memory. The mainstream narrative has been told countless times, dissected in documentaries, and dramatized in films.

But that narrative, the one carefully curated and presented to the public for over twenty five years, is incomplete. In some cases, it's outright false.In this episode of The Redacted Report, we...

April 20, 1999 changed everything we thought we understood about safety, about schools, and about the capacity for violence within our own communities. In this episode of The Guilty Files, we take a comprehensive and unflinching look at the Columbine High School massacre, cutting through decades of misinformation to separate fact from myth in one of the most misunderstood crimes in American history. Nearly everything the public believes about Columbine has been shaped by early media errors, cultural panic, and narratives that simply do not hold up under scrutiny. The so-called Trenchcoat Mafia was never a factor. 

The idea that E...

On September fifth, nineteen eighty two, twelve year old Johnny Gosch walked out of his West Des Moines home before dawn to deliver newspapers and vanished without a trace. His case changed America forever, leading to the first missing child on a milk carton and landmark legislation that transformed how we handle abducted children.

But the story most people know barely scratches the surface of what really happened.In this episode of The Redacted Report, we dig into the buried facts, the covered-up connections, and the questions that powerful people have spent four decades trying to silence.We...

On September 5, 1982, 12-year-old paperboy Johnny Gosch left his West Des Moines home before dawn to deliver the Des Moines Register—and never returned. His red wagon was found two blocks away, still loaded with undelivered papers. Witnesses reported Johnny speaking with a stocky man near a blue two-toned car, and another man seen trailing him moments later. Within minutes, Johnny vanished.

In this episode, we dig into one of America’s most chilling missing-child cases—and the fallout that changed the country. We reconstruct Johnny’s last morning, then unravel an investigation marked by early missteps and delays that fue...

This episode of The Redacted Report takes a hard, clear-eyed look at the Golden State Killer case, not by retelling the headlines everyone already knows, but by sitting in the uncomfortable spaces where the story actually lives.

We follow the arc from Joseph James DeAngelo’s earliest known crimes in 1974 through his arrest in 2018 and sentencing in 2020, with one chilling fact threaded through every phase: while California was being terrorized, DeAngelo was also an active-duty police officer. He wasn’t just hiding from law enforcement—he was learning how it worked from the inside, and that advantage shaped the wa...

In this week’s deep-dive, we’re taking you into a case that haunted California for decades and still sends a chill through anyone who reads the details. For more than ten years, a masked predator moved through neighborhoods like a ghost — breaking into homes, stalking families, and leaving devastation behind. The numbers alone are staggering: over a hundred burglaries, at least fifty sexual assaults, and thirteen confirmed murders. He slipped between counties and police departments, stayed a step ahead of massive task forces, and then — somehow — disappeared. Not into the shadows, but into ordinary suburban life, where he lived free for m...

In this deeply personal and explosive episode of The Redacted Report, Brian — a former Atlanta police officer with sixteen years on the job — breaks his silence about one of the most devastating and shameful incidents in modern APD history. On November 21, 2006, ninety-two-year-old Kathryn Johnston was shot and killed in her own home during a botched narcotics raid that ultimately exposed systemic corruption inside the Atlanta Police Department.

Brian goes beyond the early headlines and the department’s initial story — the one that falsely portrayed Johnston as a drug dealer who fired first — and lays out what really happened: a chain of...

This case is personal. It happened just months before I began my career with the Atlanta Police Department, and it shaped the way I understood the job, the institution, and the stakes of unchecked power. On November 21, 2006, three Atlanta Police Department narcotics officers executed a no-knock warrant at 933 Neal Street in northwest Atlanta—the home of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston. 

The warrant was built entirely on fabrication. Officers Jason Smith, Gregg Junnier, and Arthur Tesler claimed a confidential informant had bought crack cocaine from the residence earlier that day. No buy occurred. There was no dealer, no “Sam,” no surveil...

In this deep-dive episode of The Redacted Report, host Brian cuts through fifty years of myth, speculation, and misinformation surrounding America’s most infamous unidentified killer. This is the Zodiac story told without sensationalism—an investigation grounded in confirmed facts, disputed evidence, and the uncomfortable gray areas that have fueled decades of obsession.

Brian begins by laying out the difference between what investigators know, what they suspect, and what the Zodiac himself claimed. He revisits the confirmed attacks—from the 1968 Lake Herman Road murders to the killing of San Francisco cab driver Paul Stine—along with the crucial survivor...

In the summer of 1969, the San Francisco Chronicle received a letter that would ignite one of the most infamous investigations in American history. Inside was a chilling confession, a cryptic cipher, and the signature that would terrify the nation: a circle with a cross through it. T

 We trace every confirmed attack, beginning with the Lake Herman Road murders of teenage sweethearts David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen—an ambush that seemed random until the killer later claimed it as his own. From there, we follow the trail to Blue Rock Springs, where Darlene Ferrin was killed and Mic...

Tonight on The Redacted Report, we reopen the case file on one of America’s most infamous crimes—the 1966 massacre of eight student nurses in Chicago. The world knows the headline: one survivor, one killer, Richard Speck. But the real story didn’t make the newspapers, and it never made the documentaries.

That story begins here.We trace Speck’s path long before the murders, uncovering early psychiatric evaluations, head trauma, and behavioral red flags buried in government archives—warnings ignored until it was far too late. Records from Texas expose a trail of violence against women that mirror the...

On a sweltering July night in 1966, eight young student nurses gathered in their modest Chicago townhouse, studying, laughing, and planning for bright futures devoted to healing others. By dawn, all but one would be dead — victims of a crime so brutal and senseless that it forever changed how Americans understood violence, safety, and evil itself. In this powerful episode of The Guilty Files, we revisit one of the darkest nights in American history — the Richard Speck murders. 

We begin with Speck’s troubled childhood in rural Illinois, tracing his transformation from an abused and neglected boy into a violent...

In this episode of The Redacted Report, we reopen the case of Edmund Kemper, the so-called “Co-Ed Killer,” to expose the details that were buried in thousands of pages of police files, psychiatric evaluations, and trial transcripts.

This isn’t the version told in documentaries or dramatizations. This is the story of how a system failed, how warning signs were missed, and how one of California’s most intelligent predators learned to play both sides of the law .Ed Kemper wasn’t just hiding in plain sight — he was sitting at the bar with the very officers searching for him.  Duration: 01:07:00

In this gripping and deeply unsettling episode, we explore one of the most disturbing and well-documented cases in American criminal history — the story of Edmund Emil Kemper III, better known as The Co-Ed Killer. Between 1964 and 1973, Kemper brutally murdered ten people, including his grandparents and his own mother, leaving behind a trail of horror that still haunts true crime history. But this isn’t just another serial killer story. 

This is an examination of transformation — how a damaged child became a monster, how the system failed at every possible turn, and how a killer managed to hide in plain s...

For over thirty years, Wichita, Kansas lived in fear of a man who called himself BTK — Bind, Torture, Kill. He murdered ten people, including children, and then vanished for years at a time, taunting police and the press with letters that were as cruel as the crimes themselves.

 But the most disturbing part of this story isn’t just the brutality of his murders — it’s how Dennis Rader, the man behind BTK, managed to live a perfectly ordinary life right in plain sight. He was a husband. A father. A church council president.

A city complianc...

In this gripping episode of The Guilty Files Podcast, we go beyond the headlines and dive deep into one of America’s most haunting true crime stories — the life and legacy of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer. “Bind. Torture. Kill.” Three words that held an entire city hostage for more than three decades while a monster disguised himself as an ordinary man.

Dennis Rader wasn’t the drifter or loner that popular culture paints as a serial killer. He was a husband, a father, a Boy Scout leader, and the council president of his church. By day, he enforced c...

Keith Hunter Jesperson wanted the world to know his name.
He wanted the spotlight, the ink, the infamy—so badly that when his first murder was pinned on someone else, he couldn’t stand it. That’s when the crude smiley faces started showing up on letters to police and the media, signed by the man who would become known as the Happy Face Killer.

But in this ReWired episode, we dig beneath the sensational headlines and handwritten taunts to ask the bigger questions: What makes someone so desperate for recognition that they risk everything just to be see...

In this week’s Uncovered episode, Brian dives into the chilling case of Keith Hunter Jesperson—better known as the Happy Face Killer.Jesperson was a long-haul trucker with a deadly double life, using the open road to mask a cross-country killing spree in the early 1990s.

While police and the public remained unaware, Jesperson began anonymously confessing to his crimes—signing his letters with a chilling smiley face.

But this is more than just a story of a murderer on the move. It's a cautionary tale of missteps in criminal justice, a media frenzy that target...

In this haunting episode of The Guilty Files: Rewired, Dani pulls back the layers of the infamous Clutter family murders—not just to revisit the crime, but to reimagine the emotional and psychological shockwave it left behind.This isn’t a retelling of the facts—that’s already been done.

Instead, Dani dives deep into the psyche of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the two drifters whose fractured paths led them to one brutal night in Holcomb, Kansas. What made them tick? How did childhood trauma, cycles of poverty, and a hunger for significance culminate in the cold-blooded executio...

In this episode of The Guilty Files: True Crime Uncovered, Brian takes us back to the heartland of America—Holcomb, Kansas—where one of the most chilling and senseless mass murders in U.S. history occurred. On the night of November 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were brutally murdered in their own home, sending shockwaves through a tight-knit farming community and eventually capturing the nation’s attention.

Brian lays out the cold, hard facts of the case—from the meticulous planning by ex-convicts Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, to the terrifying final hours of Herbert, Bonnie, Nancy, and Keny...

In this gripping ReWired episode, Dani peels back the layers of Randy Steven Kraft’s chilling legacy as the Scorecard Killer. With a twisted ledger of cryptic notations and a pattern of meticulously targeted victims, Kraft wasn’t just killing—he was keeping score.

This isn’t about gore for gore’s sake. It’s about decoding power, control, and the dark psychology that drives a killer to turn murder into a methodical game.Dani challenges listeners to look beyond the headlines and into the structured chaos of Kraft’s mind. What does his scorecard truly reveal about the way he vie...

In this chilling installment of The Guilty Files Uncovered, Brian dives deep into the twisted psyche of one of America’s most meticulous and methodical serial killers—Randy Kraft, the man known as the Scorecard Killer.

With a body count that may exceed 60, Kraft’s trail of terror left Southern California and beyond scarred by brutal, calculated murders—each victim a tragic entry on a cryptic and haunting “scorecard” list found in Kraft’s car upon arrest.

Brian peels back the layers of Kraft’s double life—a seemingly clean-cut computer consultant by day, and sadistic predator by night...

Brian approaches the case like a detective on a cold trail: revisiting the timeline, scrutinizing law enforcement’s shifting strategy, and examining what’s been revealed—and what’s been redacted. Dani peels back the emotional and psychological layers, exploring trauma, fear, and how this case embedded itself in the soul of an entire community.

From the chilling Snapchat video to the strange behavior of the suspect now in custody, we go beyond the known facts and push into the uncomfortable space between justice and uncertainty. This isn’t just about who did it. It’s about how it happened...

Two young girls. A quiet Indiana trail. A haunting video.
And the three chilling words:
“Guys… down the hill.”In this week’s ReWired episode, Dani takes the reigns and rips the veil off one of the most disturbing and heavily speculated true crime cases of our time — the Delphi Murders.

We know the names: Abby Williams and Libby German.
We’ve seen the sketch. We’ve heard the voice.
But have we really understood the story?🔥 In this immersive and brutally honest deep-dive, Dani dissects more than just the facts — we tear into the why, the how, a...

On February 13, 2017, two best friends went for a walk on the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana.
By the next day, their bodies were found — and a haunting mystery began.In this Uncovered episode, Brian delivers a methodical, fact-based breakdown of one of the most heartbreaking and puzzling cases in recent true crime history: the murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German.No speculation. No conspiracy. Just the timeline, the evidence, and the roadblocks that have made this case linger for more than half a decade in the public eye.

🔎 In this episode, Brian covers:
A det...

When charm turns lethal and lies wear a thousand faces, how do you stop a killer hiding in plain sight?In this co-hosted episode of The Guilty Files: Revisited, Brian and Dani peel back the layers of one of the most disturbing cases to hit the American South: the case of Jeremy Bryan Jones. A drifter with a gift for manipulation and a trail of stolen identities, Jones moved through states like a ghost—leaving behind a path of devastation, shattered families, and unanswered questions.

Brian brings the procedural heat, diving into the investigative missteps, multi-jurisdictional chaos, and re...

He was charming. He was convincing. And for more than a decade, Jeremy Bryan Jones was a shapeshifter moving through the Deep South—stealing names, slipping past suspicion, and leaving behind only victims and lies.In this week’s ReWired episode, Dani pulls back the curtain on the illusion, dismantling the mythology of a drifter who turned murder into a method of survival.

This isn’t just a retelling of Jones’s crimes—it’s a confrontation with the systems, the psychology, and the societal blind spots that allowed a predator to keep moving, even as bodies piled up in his wa...

In this gripping episode of The Guilty Files: Uncovered, Brian unpacks the chilling story of Jeremy Bryan Jones—a charismatic drifter who used charm, stolen identities, and the cracks in the system to hide in plain sight across the American South. For over a decade, Jones drifted from state to state under the name John Paul Chapman, manipulating those around him, passing background checks, and leaving behind a trail of violence that went undetected for far too long.

But in September 2004, a natural disaster set in motion a series of events that would finally expose the predator beneath th...

In this week's Revisited episode, Brian and Dani pull no punches as they dive into the chilling case of Gary Michael Hilton—the so-called “National Forest Serial Killer.” With his string of murders stretching across state lines and spanning years, Hilton’s case exposes glaring gaps in communication between law enforcement jurisdictions and raises disturbing questions about how someone so unstable could fly under the radar for so long.

Brian brings a procedural breakdown of the timeline, the forensic fumbles, and the legal aftermath, while Dani takes us deep into the psychological shadows—unpacking Hilton’s erratic behaviors, emotional de...

In this emotionally charged episode of The Guilty Files: Revisited, Brian and Dani take on one of the most haunting and high-profile true crime cases of the last decade: the disappearance and murder of Gabby Petito.From the outside, Gabby’s story looked like a dream life shared through van-life vlogs and Instagram-perfect snapshots. But as Brian and Dani dig deeper into the case file, they expose the far more disturbing truth beneath the curated lens of social media.

What begins as a chronological walk-through of Gabby and Brian Laundrie’s cross-country trip quickly turns into a sobering exam...

This week on The Guilty Files, things look a little different—but don’t worry, we haven’t lost the plot (just maybe our minds). In this raw and unfiltered bonus episode, Brian and Dani pull back the curtain and get real about the chaos, curveballs, and caffeine it takes to keep this podcast alive. With life throwing punches and production delays piling up, they’re hitting pause on the usual case deep dives to share a heartfelt update, a few behind-the-scenes laughs, and some truly wild stories from their past lives in law enforcement.

From Dani’s unforgetta...

What makes a man vanish into the woods—only to return as a predator? In this week's ReWired, Dani ventures into the haunted trailheads of the human psyche to unpack the chilling case of Gary Michael Hilton, a drifter-turned-serial killer whose victims were hikers, wanderers, and lovers of the wild. But this isn’t just a rehash of his crimes—it’s an excavation. We peel back the camouflage of Hilton’s mind to explore:
Why the wilderness became both his refuge and his hunting groundHow psychological detachment and transient identity fueled his violenceWhether a different intervention—or system—might have sto...

In this episode of The Guilty Files: Uncovered, Brian pulls back the curtain on one of the most chilling and calculated serial killers to ever stalk America’s wilderness—Gary Michael Hilton.Known as “The National Forest Killer,” Hilton used the vast, unguarded expanses of America's public lands as his personal hunting ground. Between 2007 and 2008, Hilton committed a series of brutal murders across Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida, targeting hikers, campers, and outdoor enthusiasts who thought they were safe in nature’s solitude.

Brian walks listeners through Hilton’s disturbing background, unraveling how a drifter with a manipulative charm and a...

Just a quick heads-up: this week’s Revisited episode on the Gabby Petito case is delayed — Dani’s feeling under the weather and couldn’t join for the recording. We’re giving him time to rest and bounce back, and we’ll drop the episode as soon as he’s back in action.

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In this Rewired episode, Dani peels back the layers of one of the most haunting and highly publicized true crime cases of our time — the murder of Gabby Petito. The story was everywhere. Viral hashtags. 24-hour news cycles. Social media sleuths dissecting every second of footage. But behind the public obsession lies a deeply human story of control, power imbalance, emotional abuse, and the dangerous dynamics that often hide in plain sight. Dani takes us beyond the headlines and police reports, unpacking the psychological threads woven into Gabby and Brian’s relationship. 


From the disturbing behaviors captured on bo...

In this episode, Brian takes you inside one of the most heartbreaking and widely followed true crime cases of the last decade — the murder of Gabby Petito. What began as a young couple’s dream road trip across America spiraled into a national media firestorm, ending with tragedy, unanswered questions, and a haunting search for justice.

Brian strips away the headlines and viral headlines to walk through the factual timeline: the cross-country van life adventure, the disturbing police bodycam footage from Moab, Utah, the troubling behavioral red flags from Brian Laundrie, and the frantic search that captivated millions. He e...

In this episode of The Guilty Files: Revisited, Brian and Dani pull back the heavy velvet curtain on one of the South's most chilling and misunderstood cases: The Corpsewood Manor Murders.Set deep in the remote woods of Georgia, the brutal killings of Dr. Charles Scudder and Joseph Odom in 1982 were far more than a simple robbery gone wrong.

Brian uses his law enforcement and investigative background to walk us through the crime scene, the suspects, and the tragic chain of events that led two killers to this secluded sanctuary. Meanwhile, Dani peels back the layers of fear...

What happens when freedom becomes a threat... and fantasy meets a gun barrel?In this haunting ReWired episode, Dani steps beyond the factual ruins of The Corpsewood Manor Murders and into the dark psychological maze left behind.

Dr. Charles Scudder and Joseph Odom weren't just victims of a brutal double homicide in the isolated woods of Georgia — they were scapegoats of a society that feared what it couldn’t understand.But was this really about Satanism? Or sex? Or stolen money?


Or... was it about a slow-simmering cocktail of paranoia, repressed desire, and desperate identity?🔍 This ep...

Tucked deep in the woods of northern Georgia, the stone ruins of Corpsewood Manor still whisper secrets—of ambition, isolation, and brutality. In this week's Uncovered episode, host and former law enforcement officer Brian peels back the layers of one of the South’s most chilling and misunderstood double homicides.This isn’t just a story about murder.
It’s about fear. Judgment. And the fatal consequences of standing out in a place that demands conformity.

🔍 In This Episode:
The story of Dr. Charles Scudder, a former Loyola University professor, and his partner Joseph Odom, who built a sec...

“He was interviewed nine times. Survivors named him. And still, he kept killing.”This week on The Guilty Files: ReVisited, Brian and Dani return to one of the most infamous failures in criminal investigation history—the Yorkshire Ripper case. But this isn’t a retelling. It’s a reckoning.From the fog-soaked streets of 1970s Yorkshire to the modern courtroom of public opinion, this co-hosted episode pulls no punches.

Brian dissects the procedural breakdowns, institutional ego, and flawed profiling that allowed Peter Sutcliffe to evade capture—even after survivors identified him by name. Dani peels back the psychological and sociolog...

This week on The Guilty Files: Rewired, Dani peels back the crime scene tape and walks us through the psychological, systemic, and social failures that enabled one of the UK’s most infamous serial killers: Peter Sutcliffe — better known as the Yorkshire Ripper.

But this isn’t your average rehash. We go beyond the headlines and get uncomfortably close to the structures that allowed Sutcliffe to remain undetected for years: a police force paralyzed by bias, a media machine obsessed with labeling victims, and a society far too comfortable drawing lines between “innocent” and “fallen” women. Dani challenges the morality b...

In this week’s Uncovered episode, Brian takes you deep into the chilling history of one of Britain’s most infamous serial killers: Peter Sutcliffe, better known as the Yorkshire Ripper. From 1975 to 1980, Sutcliffe terrorized Northern England with a string of brutal murders that left entire communities gripped with fear.

 But this episode isn’t just about the crimes—it's about the systemic failures, missed opportunities, and the cultural landscape that allowed a killer to slip through the cracks time and time again.Brian unpacks the timeline of Sutcliffe’s violent spree, dissecting the official investigations, the missteps by law enfo...

In this emotionally charged and unflinchingly honest episode of The Guilty Files: Revisited, Brian and Dani return to one of the darkest chapters in modern Australian history — the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre.

While Brian dissects the historical failures, institutional missteps, and security oversights that allowed such a tragedy to unfold, Dani brings his psychological and sociological lens to the human cost — not only of the event itself but of the mythmaking, media frenzy, and political aftershocks that followed.

Together, they challenge the prevailing narratives, question the moral panic that shaped legislation, and dig deep into the public’s comp...

What if we told you that the Port Arthur Massacre wasn’t just a tragedy—but a blueprint? In this week’s ReWired episode, host Dani steps into the psychological wreckage and bureaucratic blind spots surrounding one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. Building on Brian’s factual breakdown in The Guilty Files: Uncovered, this episode doesn’t just revisit April 28th, 1996—it reimagines the fault lines that led there. Across nine speculative acts, Dani dissects the cracks in the system, the red flags that never escalated, and the moments where intervention could have changed everything. With sociolo...

On April 28th, 1996, the peaceful seascape of Port Arthur, Tasmania, became the site of the worst mass shooting in Australia’s history.

 In this week’s Uncovered episode, Brian walks us through the chilling timeline of the Port Arthur Massacre—44 minutes that left 35 people dead and 23 wounded. With a methodical breakdown of the shooter’s movements, the weapons used, and the immediate law enforcement response, Brian lays out the cold, hard facts of a case that shocked the world and forever changed Australia’s gun laws.

From the haunting lead-up to the attack to the manhunt and eventua...

In this co-hosted Revisited episode of The Guilty Files, Brian and Dani come together to dissect the complex, haunting case of Madeleine Beth McCann — the three-year-old who vanished from a Portuguese resort in 2007 and became the center of one of the most globally scrutinized missing persons cases in modern history.

This week, the gloves come off as Brian brings his signature precision and procedural insight to the table, while Dani challenges the dominant narratives through psychological and sociological lenses. Together, they revisit the facts, theories, media frenzy, and institutional failures that continue to cloud the case nearly two de...

Seventeen years.
One missing child.
A thousand headlines.
And still—no answers. But what if the real story isn’t the one we were told? In this bold, fictionalized follow-up to The Guilty Files: Uncovered, host Dani peels back the layers of the Madeleine McCann case—not to rewrite the facts, but to rewire how we think about them. Using her background in law enforcement, psychology, and sociology, Dani walks listeners through nine dramatized acts that reimagine what might have happened that night in Praia da Luz. From a tourist who saw something but said nothin...

In this episode of The Guilty Files: True Crime Uncovered, Brian strips away the speculation and focuses on the known facts surrounding one of the most haunting missing persons cases of our time: the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine Beth McCann.

On the evening of May 3rd, 2007, while on a family vacation in Praia da Luz, Portugal, Madeleine vanished from her holiday apartment as her parents dined nearby. What followed was a global media storm, a controversial investigation, and years of theories, suspects, and heartbreak. Brian methodically walks through the timeline of events, key witness statements, investigative missteps, and...

The Guilty Files: Revisited — Green River Killer: The Monster We Missed🎙️

 Hosted by Dani & Brian
🕵️‍♂️ One case. Two perspectives. One very uncomfortable truth.In this co-hosted Revisited episode, Dani and Brian sit down to unpack the case of Gary Ridgway—the Green River Killer—not just as a timeline of horror, but as a systemic failure decades in the making. While Brian brings the procedural and forensic lens of a seasoned investigator, Dani gets candid about the psychological and sociological rot hiding beneath the surface of this case—and the institution.💥 The gloves come off as we talk:
How Ridgway’s “in...

The Green River Killer: Rewired 🎙️ Hosted by Dani, a former Atlanta cop with a background in psychology and sociology, this episode rewires one of the darkest case files in true crime history: Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.

 In this fictionalized follow-up to Brian’s factual Uncovered episode, Dani rips open the seams of the known timeline and threads in 11 haunting "what ifs"—each rooted in real investigative gaps, psychological truths, and the sociological failures that let Ridgway kill for decades. From Bundy’s manipulative chess match with law enforcement, to attorney-client privilege silencing a potential...

🎧 The Guilty Files: Uncovered – The Green River Killer" He didn’t just stalk his victims… he hunted them. And for nearly two decades, no one could stop him."

In this Uncovered episode of The Guilty Files, host Brian King-Sharp strips away the rumors, myths, and media frenzy to deliver the cold, hard facts of one of America’s most prolific serial killers: Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.This case is not about a single horrifying moment—it’s about years of calculated brutality. Brian takes us back to the early 1980s, when the first bodies surfaced along the banks of Wa...

🎙️ The Guilty Files: Revisited – “The Toy Box Killer: Closing the Case”

In this gripping final installment of The Guilty Files trilogy on David Parker Ray — the man infamously known as The Toy Box Killer — hosts Brian and Dani reunite behind the mic to unpack the psychological carnage, lingering mysteries, and unanswered questions that still haunt this case. After Brian laid out the harrowing facts in Uncovered and Dani pushed the boundaries of possibility in ReWired, this Revisited episode dives headfirst into the messy, uncomfortable gray areas in between. Why was David Parker Ray never convicted of a single murder, despite...

🎙️ The Guilty Files: True Crime ReWired
Inside the Toy Box—Then Tear It Apart What happens when you take one of the darkest, most depraved serial predator cases in American history… and dig even deeper? In this episode of The Guilty Files: True Crime ReWired, Dani takes the cold, hard facts laid out in Brian’s Uncovered episode on David Parker Ray—the so-called Toy Box Killer—and throws them into the psychological pressure cooker. The result? A bold, speculative journey into what might have been. Told in ten hauntingly imaginative act...

In today’s chilling episode of Uncovered, host Brian walks us into the dark and deranged world of one of the most horrifying criminals in American history — David Parker Ray, better known as The Toy Box Killer.This is not the stuff of urban legends or late-night horror stories. This is real. And it’s worse than you think.Operating out of a soundproof trailer in the New Mexico desert, David Parker Ray is believed to have tortured and possibly murdered dozens of women — though to this day, not a single body has been found. Inside his so-called “toy box,” authorities...

This week on Revisited, Brian and Dani sit down to do what they do best — push each other, question everything, and dig into the case that still haunts anyone who's looked at it twice: the West Memphis Three.Three little boys murdered in 1993.

Three teenagers convicted in a rush of fear, moral panic, and bad police work. But two decades later, those convictions unraveled — and now, the lines between guilt, innocence, and justice are blurrier than ever.Brian brings the cold facts. Dani brings the bigger picture.

Together, they pull the case apart — from Jessie Misskelley’s confes...

You know the story.
Or at least, you think you do. The brutal murders of three young boys in West Memphis.
The rushed arrest of three teenagers labeled monsters.
The media circus.
The outrage.
The so-called justice. But what if the truth was never as clear as it seemed? In this episode of The Guilty Files: True Crime ReWired, I'm not just retelling the facts you heard in Uncovered — I’m breaking them apart.
We’ll walk through hidden confessions, lost evidence, compromised juries, and the quiet institutional failures that still echo today.
We’ll...

In this episode of The Guilty Files Uncovered, Brian steps into dangerous territory — the West Memphis Three. But this isn’t your typical Uncovered case. Here, the facts tell one story, but the deeper truth refuses to stay quiet.In 1993, three young boys — Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers — were found brutally murdered in a muddy ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas. It was a crime that stunned the town and shocked the nation. Within weeks, three teenagers — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley — were arrested. They were different. They listened to heavy metal. They wore black. 

In the eyes o...

Welcome back to The Guilty Files: True Crime Revisited—where the case is never closed and the conversation always goes deeper.This week, we’re bringing it all to the table: facts, fiction, and the messy, uncomfortable gray space in between. After Monday’s clinical breakdown of Israel Keyes in Uncovered with Brian, and Wednesday’s psychological spelunking through the shadows of his mind in Rewired with Dani, we’re back together—ready to cross-examine the case that still leaves investigators, psychologists, and anyone with a pulse reeling.In this episode, we’re connecting dots Keyes didn’t want connected.We’re tackling t...

Welcome back to The Guilty Files: True Crime Rewired, the show where the facts get flipped, the script gets bent, and the shadows whisper their own truths. I’m Dani—your resident chaos theorist and former cop turned armchair psychologist—and tonight, we’re opening the vault on one of the most terrifying minds to ever slip through the cracks of justice: Israel Keyes.

Now if you haven’t listened to Brian’s Uncovered episode from Monday, go back. Seriously. Hit pause. You need the facts before you walk into the fog with me.Because once we’re in here? It’s...

In this episode of Uncovered, Brian takes a deep dive into one of the most chilling and elusive serial killers in American history: Israel Keyes. Unlike most killers, Keyes didn’t fit a mold. He had no consistent victim type, no clear geographical pattern, and no obvious motive—just a methodical obsession with control, secrecy, and chaos. He traveled across the U.S., burying kill kits years in advance, and waited patiently for the right moment to strike. The result? A trail of victims with no obvious connection and a case that baffled investigators for years.Brian explores:
Keyes' care...

In this Revisited episode, Brian and Dani come face-to-face with one of the most polarizing cases in true crime history—Aileen Wuornos.Brian returns to the table with the case file: seven murders, a pattern of escalating violence, and a woman on death row who claimed she was fighting for her life.
Dani brings his psychological lens back into the mix, raising questions that make the facts a little harder to sit with—and a lot harder to dismiss.Was Aileen Wuornos a serial killer in the classic sense? Or a product of a system that chewed her up long...

In this episode of Rewired, Dani steps into the mind of one of the most infamous female serial killers in American history—Aileen Wuornos. We’ve all heard the headlines: sex worker, serial killer, executed in 2002. But beneath the label of “monster” lies a complicated history of trauma, survival, and rage. This isn’t a justification. It’s an investigation—into how someone becomes what society fears most.

Dani pulls apart the timeline, dissecting Aileen’s early life, the abuse she endured, and the systemic failures that followed her like a shadow. He challenges the one-dimensional narrative and asks: Was Aileen...

In this Uncovered episode, Brian strips the Aileen Wuornos case down to its raw core. No theories. No dramatics. Just the timeline, the evidence, and the cold, hard facts. He walks you through each murder, each arrest, and each piece of testimony that led to Aileen’s conviction—and ultimately, her execution.From her troubled upbringing to the forensic evidence that nailed her, Brian lays out the entire case in stark detail. It's a sobering, straightforward breakdown of one of America's most infamous female serial killers.🧠 Don’t miss what’s next:
Wednesday: Dani takes the mic for his Rewired epi...

In this special Revisited episode, Dani and Brian sit down together to take one more long, hard look at the Peterson case—and trust us, there’s still plenty to talk about.They’ve each walked you through The Staircase Murder—Brian with the facts, Dani with the fiction—but now it’s time to compare notes. What still doesn’t add up? What theories do they actually agree on? And what did they each uncover that made them pause?


From the blood evidence to the retrial, from the infamous owl theory to Kathleen’s last known moments, Dani an...

Welcome back to The Guilty Files: True Crime Rewired. I’m Dani—your host, storyteller, and former Atlanta cop with a love for twisting true crime into new angles. On Monday, Brian gave you the straight facts of the Michael Peterson case—Kathleen’s death, the blood, the conviction, and that infamous staircase. Tonight, I’m taking you deeper, into the “what ifs” that haunt this case. We start with the case file recap, then open a fictional drawer filled with Kathleen’s secret diaries. What might she have seen coming? From there, we imagine what modern forensics could uncover, reimagine a jury...

On a quiet night in December 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her Durham, North Carolina home. Her husband, Michael Peterson, said she fell. Prosecutors said she was murdered. What followed was a years-long legal battle and one of the most heavily dissected cases in modern true crime.In this episode of True Crime Uncovered, Brian lays out the facts—step by step. No distractions, no dramatics. Just the evidence, the investigation, and the questions that still follow the case to this day.What’s inside:
The 911 call and what first responders sawBloodstain patt...

We’ve laid out the timeline. We’ve stepped into the story. Now, it’s time to talk about what really happened—and why it was allowed to go on for so long.In this final episode on John Wayne Gacy, Brian and Dani sit down to unpack the case from every angle. What were the warning signs? Why weren’t they taken seriously? And how did someone like Gacy, with a criminal record and a growing number of red flags, keep slipping through the cracks?In this conversation:
The missed opportunities that let Gacy keep killingHow law enforcement failed the...

John Wayne Gacy wasn’t a shadowy figure hiding in plain sight—he was front and center. A man people trusted. Smiled at. Hired. And somehow, even as boys kept disappearing, no one thought to look closer—until it was too late.In this Rewired episode, Dani reapproaches the case from the ground level—bringing you into the lives of those who were affected, and the moments that slipped past unnoticed. This isn’t a recap—it’s a human look at the fear, the silence, and the systems that failed to see what was right in front of them.In this episod...

He was a local contractor. A community volunteer. He dressed as a clown for children’s parties. And all the while, John Wayne Gacy was hiding something unthinkable beneath his home.In this episode of True Crime Uncovered, Brian opens the case file on one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. Between 1972 and 1978, Gacy murdered 33 young men and boys—and for years, no one suspected a thing.This episode breaks down:
Gacy’s background and how he gained trustThe first missing persons reports and overlooked red flagsThe police investigation that slowly closed inThe shocking discovery under...

You’ve heard what happened. You’ve felt what it might’ve been like. Now it’s time to talk about what it all means.In this episode, Brian and Dani sit down to revisit the case of Jeffrey Dahmer—looking beyond the headlines and deep into the failures, patterns, and consequences that still echo today.Together, they explore:
How Dahmer slipped through the cracks again and againThe role race, class, and police negligence played in who was ignoredThe impact on the Milwaukee community, then and nowAnd the lingering questions that still don’t have easy answersThis isn’t about retellin...

The headlines told you he was a monster. But what did it feel like to be anywhere near Jeffrey Dahmer? In this Rewired episode, Dani brings a different lens to the case—shifting from the crime scene to the human experience. Using real details as the foundation, she builds a story that steps into the lives impacted: the overlooked victims, the neighbors who sensed something was off, and the people who tried to speak up but weren’t heard.In this episode, you’ll hear:
The quiet terror of a young man realizing he might not make it outA neighb...

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 young men and boys—crimes marked by brutality, manipulation, and chilling intent. But what made him one of the most infamous serial killers in modern history wasn’t just what he did. It was how long he got away with it.In this episode of True Crime Uncovered, Brian strips the case down to the hard facts—no dramatics, no speculation. Just the timeline, the victims, the missed warnings, and the evidence that finally brought Dahmer’s crimes to light.
You’ll hear:
The early warning signs and first known attacksHow Dahmer evaded suspicion...

We’ve told the story. We’ve stepped inside it. Now, we pull it all apart.In True Crime Revisited, co-hosts Brian King-Sharp and Dani come together to break down The Atlanta Child Murders—examining what we know, what we think we know, and what still doesn’t sit right.This isn’t about reaching for shock value. It’s about asking the hard questions:
Did the arrest of Wayne Williams really close the case?Why were so many murders linked—and should they have been?What role did public pressure and politics play in the investigation?And most importantly, w...

We’re in the middle of our deep dive into The Atlanta Child Murders, and this time, we’re shifting the lens. In True Crime Rewired, host Dani brings you closer to the heart of the case—not with timelines or transcripts, but with an immersive retelling that captures the emotion, the fear, and the weight of what really happened.What was it like to live through it? To wait for answers that never came? To feel the city unravel with every new name on the list? This episode takes you inside:
A mother’s quiet dread when her child do...

It started with one child gone missing. Then another. And another. Between 1979 and 1981, Atlanta was gripped by fear as dozens of Black children, teens, and young adults were abducted and murdered.This week on The Guilty Files, we open the case file on The Atlanta Child Murders—one of the most haunting investigations in U.S. history. In this episode,  Brian takes you through:
A precise timeline of the murders and disappearancesVictim profiles and investigative roadblocksThe arrest and trial of Wayne WilliamsThe facts behind the controversy: did the police really solve this case?No frills. No wild theories. Just the...

We know that there are thousands of true crime podcasts — but none like this.In this debut episode of The Guilty Files, former Atlanta police officers Brian and Dani pull back the curtain on a brand-new approach to true crime storytelling. Every case we cover gets the full treatment: three episodes, three perspectives, one case file at a time. Here’s how it works:
Mondays: Brian delivers the cold, hard facts — the timeline, the evidence, the who, what, when, and how.Wednesdays: Dani breaks it wide open. With degrees in sociology and psychology, he dives deep into the mind behind...