True Crime Case Ledger

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered seventeen men and boys — most of them Black or Southeast Asian, most from Milwaukee's gay community. This episode traces his psychological development from a withdrawn Ohio childhood through his first murder at eighteen, a nine-year gap, and the systematic killing that followed. At its moral center is the night of May 27, 1991, when Milwaukee police returned a naked, drugged, fourteen-year-old boy to Dahmer's apartment — and four more men died before Tracy Edwards finally escaped and ended it.

In the spring of 1946, a masked attacker struck four times in and around Texarkana — the twin border city split down the middle by the Texas-Arkansas state line. Five people died. Three survived. The killer was never caught. He became known as the Phantom Killer, and eighty years later, the case remains one of postwar America's most haunting unsolved crimes.

For twelve years, a killer and rapist moved through the quiet neighborhoods of California — undetected, methodical, and living a double life as a police officer. This is the story of Joseph James DeAngelo, responsible for at least 13 murders and 50 sexual assaults across three separate crime series, and the 44-year investigation that finally brought him down — through a science that didn't exist when his first victim screamed into the dark.