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Crime Incident

Crime Incident

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Crime Incident is a true crime podcast about murder investigations and the evidence they actually rest on.

Each Crime Incident episode rebuilds one case from the record: the police investigation as it really unfolded, the forensic evidence and the DNA that held up, the witness testimony that quietly fell apart, and what a jury finally decided. Some cases end in a verdict. Others end in an appeal, an exoneration, or a case file that has stayed open for forty years.

The catalog runs from famous murder trials to disappearances almost nobody covered. A missing person hunted as a suspect while his own body lay one floor above the crime scene. A killer caught by an embossed emblem on an envelope. A confession that arrived decades too late. A DNA profile matched to a phantom who never existed. Murders closed by forensic genetic genealogy, and murders where detectives are still asking for tips today.

Three rules hold in every Crime Incident episode. Confirmed evidence and disputed claims are never blurred together, and you are always told which is which. Victims are treated as people, not as plot devices. And when a case is still unsolved, you get its exact legal status, the reward if there is one, and the number to call.

Crime Incident is true crime for people who want the case file, not the rumor.

Crime Incident. The record, told straight.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
Episodes
  • Her Car Drove Away Without Her: The Dorothy Jane Scott Case

    Her Car Drove Away Without Her: The Dorothy Jane Scott Case
    26 Oct 2026
    Her Car Drove Away Without Her: The Dorothy Jane Scott Case

    On May 28, 1980, Dorothy Jane Scott, a 32-year-old single mother, drove a coworker with a black widow spider bite to the UCI Medical Center in Orange, California. Shortly after midnight she walked out to get her car, and minutes later her white Toyota came speeding past her waiting coworkers, high beams blinding them, driver unseen. She was never seen alive again. Who had been calling her at work for months, reciting her own days back to her? Why did the man who confessed to a newspaper editor know about the spider bite and her scarf when neither had been made public? And who kept calling her mother for four years after she vanished?

    In this episode, we follow the Dorothy Jane Scott case from the anonymous calls that alternated between love and death threats, through the dead rose on her windshield and the karate lessons she started a week before she was taken, to the burning car in a Santa Ana alley, the June 1980 newsroom call ("I killed her. I killed Dorothy Scott."), and the construction site in Anaheim Hills where her remains surfaced in 1984 beside a turquoise ring and a watch stopped at 12:30.

    Person: Dorothy Jane Scott, 32, secretary and single mother
    Date: Disappeared shortly after midnight, May 29, 1980
    Location: Orange, Santa Ana and Anaheim, California
    Case: Stalking, abduction and murder; remains found August 6, 1984
    Legal status: Unsolved; no arrests in 46 years, open cold case with the Orange County Sheriff's Department

    - Months of stalking calls a decade before stalking was a crime
    - The hospital trip nobody planned and the fork it creates: followed, or known
    - The confessor who knew unpublished details, and the contradiction Pam Head exposed
    - Four years of untraceable calls to a grieving mother
    - The theories, each with an owner, and the suspect never named

    The Dorothy Jane Scott case remains one of America's most chilling unsolved stalking murders, and the voice she almost recognized has never been identified.

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    20 min
  • Her Children Vanished. Police Studied Her Makeup: The Alice Crimmins Case

    Her Children Vanished. Police Studied Her Makeup: The Alice Crimmins Case
    25 Oct 2026
    Her Children Vanished. Police Studied Her Makeup: The Alice Crimmins Case

    On July 14, 1965, Alice Crimmins opened her children's bedroom door in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, and found two empty beds. Her daughter Missy, 4, was found strangled in a vacant lot that same afternoon; her son Eddie Jr., 5, was found five days later, so decomposed that no cause of death was ever determined. Why did the lead detective judge the mother's clothes and makeup before any evidence existed? Why did police drop the father as a suspect over a refused polygraph? And how did three years of wiretaps, tails, and bugged motel rooms produce two convictions without a single piece of physical evidence?

    In this episode, we follow the Alice Crimmins case from a first-floor apartment on 72nd Drive through one of the longest surveillance operations ever aimed at a private citizen in New York, the recruited informant boyfriend, the anonymous 2 a.m. window witness, two trials, and the appeals ladder that dismantled almost everything the juries decided. This is the story of a prosecution built on a woman's private life instead of proof, and of two children the case forgot.

    Person: Alice Marie "Missy" Crimmins, 4, and Edmund "Eddie" Crimmins Jr., 5; their mother Alice Crimmins, 26
    Date: July 14, 1965
    Location: Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York
    Case: Double child death; strangulation confirmed only for Missy
    Legal status: Only one conviction survived, first-degree manslaughter for Missy, reinstated in 1975; the murder conviction for Eddie Jr. was dismissed in 1973 for insufficient evidence; Alice was paroled in 1977 and later vanished into private life

    - The custody fight, the Family Court inspection scheduled for the day the children vanished
    - Detective Piering's instant judgment and the polygraph that narrowed the case
    - Sophie Earomirski, Joseph Rorech, and two witnesses with documented credibility problems
    - The prosecutor's comment on her silence that overturned a conviction
    - The hitchhiker affidavit that was never disproven or credited

    Sixty years later, the killings of Missy and Eddie Crimmins remain essentially unsolved.

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    19 min
  • She Never Owned a Typewriter: The Lonely Hearts Killers

    She Never Owned a Typewriter: The Lonely Hearts Killers
    23 Oct 2026
    She Never Owned a Typewriter: The Lonely Hearts Killers

    In postwar America, lonely hearts clubs sold lists of widows to anyone with a stamp, and Raymond Fernandez read those lists as a catalog of victims. With Martha Beck posing as his devoted sister, he courted women by mail, drained their savings, and vanished. Then, in January 1949, the con stopped being a con. Why did a typed letter signed "Janet L. Fay" instantly tell her family she was dead? And how did a woman who joined the scheme as a jealous facade end up holding the hammer?

    In this episode, we take apart the romance fraud machine of the Lonely Hearts Killers letter by letter: the ads, the "Charles Martin" persona laced with religion, the fake sister down the hall, and the cement floors poured over Janet Fay in Queens and over Delphine and Rainelle Downing in a Michigan basement. We follow the family detectives who spotted the typewriter lie, the neighbors whose welfare check ended the spree, Governor Dewey's phone calls that moved two confessed killers from a state with no death penalty into the reach of the electric chair, and a 44-day Bronx trial that doubled as a tabloid circus, including the documented press cruelty toward Martha Beck's body.

    People: Raymond Fernandez, 36, and Martha Beck, 30, the "Lonely Hearts Killers"
    Victims: Janet Fay, 66, Albany, NY; Delphine Downing and daughter Rainelle, Byron Center, MI; Jane Thompson (Spain, 1947, unresolved)
    Dates: Spree 1947 to 1949; trial summer 1949
    Location: Albany and Valley Stream, NY; Grand Rapids, MI
    Legal status: Convicted of Janet Fay's murder only; both executed at Sing Sing on March 8, 1951; the 17 to 20 victim figure remains unproven suspicion

    - How the lonely hearts con worked, step by step
    - The night in Valley Stream when the "sister" became a killer
    - The extradition deal built around an electric chair
    - One lawyer for two defendants who each blamed the other
    - The Honeymoon Killers and the case's long life on film

    The Lonely Hearts Killers turned love letters into a weapon, and the mailbox was the real crime scene.

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    20 min
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