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Untold Motives
New Jan 07, 2026 1h 14m EXPLICIT

Untold Motives

On today’s episode, Kate and Paul head to post WWI Liverpool, where a husband returns home to find his wife murdered. After a very involved crime scene investigation and a drama...

Turn Back the Page: The Three Emmas
Dec 31, 2025 51 min EXPLICIT

Turn Back the Page: The Three Emmas

In this week's episode, Paul and Kate head to 1914 San Antonio, Texas where a wealthy man's wife has an accident and becomes bedridden. After hiring nurses and caregivers, a mur...

Turn Back the Page: The Christmas Mystery 
Dec 24, 2025 1h 2m EXPLICIT

Turn Back the Page: The Christmas Mystery 

On today’s episode, Paul and Kate take us to 1945 West Virginia where a family of 12 is awoken on Christmas Eve by a fire in their home. An investigation of the scene ...

Till Death
Dec 17, 2025 54 min EXPLICIT

Till Death

In this week’s episode, Paul and Kate head to 1956 Southern California where a home invasion leads to a suspicious death. When a sequence of atypical fatalities f...

Out Cold PT 2
Dec 10, 2025 59 min EXPLICIT

Out Cold PT 2

In this concluding episode of a two-parter, Kate and Paul return to Siberia to analyze the mysterious deaths of a group of experienced hikers. With hundreds of theories about this ca...

Out Cold PT 1
Dec 03, 2025 1h 6m EXPLICIT

Out Cold PT 1

In this week's episode, the first part of a two-parter, Paul and Kate head to frigid 1959 Russia where a team of adventuring students goes missing while their tent is left in shambles. But as inves...

The Lady of the Dunes
Nov 19, 2025 1h 2m EXPLICIT

The Lady of the Dunes

On today’s episode, Kate and Paul travel to 1974 Cape Cod, Massachusetts where a body is discovered but unidentified. The case becomes well known and documented as more suspects and victims become ...

Dead Weight PT 2
Nov 12, 2025 58 min EXPLICIT

Dead Weight PT 2

In this concluding half of a two-parter, Paul and Kate return to an investigation started by the discovery of two bodies in 1931 Los Angeles. After a suspect is apprehended, a harrowing investigati...

Dead Weight PT 1
Nov 05, 2025 1h 4m EXPLICIT

Dead Weight PT 1

On today’s episode, the first of a two-parter, Kate and Paul head to a train station in 1931 Los Angeles where a steamer trunk has attracted attention because of its odor. When the trunk is opened,...

Buried Bones Halloween Special: The Black Dahlia
Oct 31, 2025 1h 38m EXPLICIT

Buried Bones Halloween Special: The Black Dahlia

In their first ever LIVE-episode, Paul and Kate take to the high seas to discuss the infamous case of The Black Dahlia, the 1947 murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short that remains unsolved to this ...

Horrors on the Homestead
Oct 29, 2025 1h 9m EXPLICIT

Horrors on the Homestead

In this week's episode Kate and Paul travel back to 1871 Kansas where a family goes missing out in the settled plains of the Old West. After a few possibly related crime scenes are discovered,...

Last Rites
Oct 22, 2025 1h 5m EXPLICIT

Last Rites

On today’s episode, Paul and Kate travel to 1921 Alabama where a Catholic priest is shot while sitting on the porch of a local courthouse. The ensuing investigation and trial become historic in the...

The Machete Murderer PT 2
Oct 15, 2025 1h 0m EXPLICIT

The Machete Murderer PT 2

In this second part of a two-part episode, Kate and Paul head back to Yuba City, California in the early 1970s to follow up with an investigation of over 25 dead bodies all found in a rural area. W...

The Machete Murderer PT 1
Oct 08, 2025 1h 1m EXPLICIT

The Machete Murderer PT 1

In this week's episode, Paul and Kate head to 1971 Yuba City, California where a body is found in an orchard. After another body is found nearby, a larger search is initiated and yields enough resu...

Into the Woods
Oct 01, 2025 1h 13m EXPLICIT

Into the Woods

On today’s episode, Kate and Paul travel to 1843 Rhode Island where the richest man in town is found dead out in the woods. After investigating who could possibly benefit from the death and some cl...

Unusual Suspect
Sep 24, 2025 1h 6m EXPLICIT

Unusual Suspect

In this week's episode Paul and Kate head to late 1800s Massachusetts where a husband returns home to find his wife slain.  Through some thorough investigating a suspect is brought to court. B...

Blood on the Cobblestones PT 2
Sep 17, 2025 56 min EXPLICIT

Blood on the Cobblestones PT 2

In this week's conclusion of an infamous two-parter, Paul and Kate return to Boston in the 1960s as the murders continue but the investigation doesn't seem to be uncovering any leads. Who will ulti...

Blood on the Cobblestones PT 1
Sep 10, 2025 1h 10m EXPLICIT

Blood on the Cobblestones PT 1

On today’s episode, Kate and Paul head to Boston, Massachusetts in 1962 for the first part of a two-parter. Our hosts begin to survey the evidence as a series of women have been found… strangl...

Northern Skies
Sep 03, 2025 1h 9m EXPLICIT

Northern Skies

On today’s episode, Paul and Kate head north of the border to Montreal, Quebec in 1949, where a plane heading to Quebec City goes down shortly after take-off. Investigators use the technology of th...

Murder on the Range PT 2
Aug 27, 2025 51 min EXPLICIT

Murder on the Range PT 2

In this week’s conclusion of a two-parter, Kate and Paul return to Gold Rush era Colorado where a lone survivor of a series of related attacks helps galvanize the apprehension of a possible offende...