Kidnapping Episodes

True Crime Tuesday presents: Smile For The Cameras: Murder On A Movie Set w/Miranda Smith! Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pr...

True Crime Tuesday presents Depraved Obsession: Law Enforcement's Hunt for A Sadistic Serial Killer with Former Decorated Police Officer/Author, Rod Sadler ! What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer? During his nearly fifteen-year reign of terror, Ronald Lloyd Bailey’s depraved obsession with sexual sadism held communities across southeast Michigan in a shroud of fear. From the early 1970’s to the mid-1980’s, the former patient at one of Michigan’s foremost psychiatri...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago w/ John Borowski! On Today's TCT, Filmmaker John Borowski Talks about his new project, "The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago! An eight part miniseries, The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago (2024) is the first ever historical, comprehensive and chronological miniseries to study the life and crimes of the infamous serial killer. From his birth to the ongoing investigation of ide...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The Close-Up with Actor/Musician/Author, Pip Drysdale! Pip Drysdale has written books that have been praised as "electric", "Unexpected", "tension-soaked", and "serious addictive". But this new book, "The Close-Up", ups the ante! A struggling author discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty new novel. When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a wri...

True Crime Tuesday presents: The Baby Doll Serial Killer: John Eric Armstrong w/B.R. Bates and Gerald Cliff! He was unassuming, sweet, and friendly. “Saved” in church as a teen, he never caused trouble. In the Navy, they called him Opie. Though he was a big guy, he had a soft, boyish demeanor. “The boy next door,” said those who worked with and knew him. But John Eric Armstrong had a dark secret—hidden even from those closest to him. Prowling Detroit's well-known pocket of prostitution on his...

True Crime Tuesday Presents Echo Road with Authors Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh! On Today's TCT, we welcome in award winning authors, Kendra Elliot (Mercy Kilpatrick series) and Melinda Leigh (Bree Taggert Series) to talk about their latest amazing thriller that combines both characters into one story based on a real life case, Echo Road! Echo Road features a senator from Oregon who's daughter has gone missing.... feared that she has been kidnapped by one of his political enemies, the Senato...