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A 22-year-old man finishes his shift at a factory and walks out to his truck.

Someone is waiting for him.

He's shot three times, and for days, nobody knows why.

Eventually, detectives uncover a love triangle involving two coworkers and a young woman neither of them has ever met.

But when police finally track down the woman, they discover that the entire story is built on a lie.

And one of the people involved never knew it.

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In 2008, an aspiring filmmaker in Edmonton was working on a horror movie about a man who is lured to a garage and killed. Not long after, a real man disappeared after being directed to that very same garage.

When police began investigating, they discovered that the similarities didn’t end there. There was another man, another encounter - and a disturbing story hidden on the filmmaker’s computer.

So how much of this was fiction, and how much had actually happened?

This is Tell Me the Crime.

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A man is waiting inside a woman’s bedroom with a hammer.

He’s been sent there to kill her.

But about fourteen minutes later, only one of them is still alive.

And it isn’t the hitman.

In this episode, John tells Febriana the case of Susan Kuhnhausen, a woman who fought back against the man hired to murder her and survived a plot that led directly back to her estranged husband.

Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses attempted murder, domestic violence, and graphic violence.

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Imagine a pizza delivery driver walks into a bank with a bomb locked around his neck.

He says he has been forced into a bizarre scavenger hunt: rob the bank, follow a series of handwritten instructions, and complete each step before the bomb’s timer runs out.

But as investigators try to understand who had built the device and why, the story becomes much more complicated. Evidence begins pointing toward a group of people connected by money, murder, and an elaborate plan that may not have unfolded the way anyone intended.

Today on Tell Me The Crime Episode 31, Febriana tells John the story of Brian Wells.

Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses murder, explosives, and death.

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When Mark Winger finds his wife being brutally attacked inside their home, he shoots and kills her attacker. Police quickly view him as a grieving husband who tried to save his wife, and the case appears straightforward.

But one small piece of evidence suggests the supposed killer may have been invited there. Years later, a secret affair and a witness with a disturbing story force investigators to reconsider everything they thought they knew about the crime scene.

John tells Febriana the case of Donnah Winger and Roger Harrington.

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Imagine someone you love suddenly sells his business, leaves everything behind, and starts traveling the world.

You keep getting emails from him - from South America, India, Africa - and everything seems fine.

Except you never hear his voice. You never see a new photo.

And months later, you discover the truth:
he was never traveling at all.
He had been dead the entire time.

On today's episode of Tell Me The Crime, Febriana tells John about the murder of Chris Smith.

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John tells Feb the story of Diane Whipple, an elite athlete and college lacrosse coach killed just outside her San Francisco apartment by her neighbors' dogs. What initially looked like a horrific animal attack soon exposed months of ignored warnings, a bizarre connection to an imprisoned gang member, and a question rarely asked in a courtroom: when does refusing to recognize a danger become murder?

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In February 1986, 29-year-old nursing director Sherri Rasmussen was found beaten and shot inside the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband, John. The LAPD decided that she had interrupted a burglary.

But Sherri’s parents believed the crime was personal. Before her death, she had been confronted by a woman with a complicated history with John, someone who had slept with him while he was engaged to Sherri. She was also an LAPD officer.

For more than twenty years, the case remained unsolved. Then a cold-case investigation finally reconsidered the possibility police had dismissed.

In this episode of Tell Me the Crime, John tells Feb how the investigation eventually turned toward Stephanie Lazarus. They discuss jealousy, sexual betrayal, Stephanie’s relationship with John after the murder, and whether police failed to recognize a suspect because she was one of their own.

Listener discretion is advised. This episode discusses stalking, intimate-partner violence, murder, and institutional failures within law enforcement.

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