Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...Or Did She?

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks… The popular schoolyard rhyme has withstood the test of time, despite it getting a few details wrong. Over 130 year

Secret Agent Scam: The Lies, Lives, and Wives of Will Jordan

For nearly twenty years, a charming con man poses as a globe-trotting CIA operative, seducing women and draining their savings in the name of “classified missions”—until

Chicago's Shocking Sausage Vat Murder

The wife of the “sausage king of Chicago” disappears without a trace…until police search a suspicious vat in the basement of his factory, fueling rumors of exactly how he

Sarah Jo Pender: The Female Charles Manson?

Branded "the female Charles Manson" for a double murder she claims she didn't commit, a young woman executes a daring prison escape to reclaim her life—only to find that

Crownless: Heist at the Louvre

In broad daylight at the world’s most prestigious museum, a disguised team of thieves breached Musée du Louvre in just seven minutes, made off with eight priceless pieces

The Gucci Murder

When the glamorous wife of the Gucci heir faces losing her fortune and status, she trades champagne for vengeance—proving that in the world of high fashion, nothing is mo

The Young Hippies Who Hijacked a Plane

In 1972, two young hippies hijack a commercial airplane in a wild attempt to free a famous political activist from jail, setting off one of the strangest, most idealistic

The Greek Robin Hood Who Kidnapped Billionaires and Escaped Prison in a Helicopter

In the craggy peaks of Greece, a modern outlaw proves that you can rob a bank, kidnap a billionaire, and still be the most beloved man in the mountains. This is the story

Stanley Alpert, the Kidnapping Victim Who Outsmarted his Captors

Kidnapped on his 38th birthday by criminals who think every federal prosecutor is secretly wealthy, a calm-under-pressure lawyer survives a chaotic 25-hour ordeal—part ho

Abby Catt: Born to Rob

After their mother’s death and years living under a controlling father, two Texas teens are pulled into their dad’s string of bank robberies—turning a broken family into

Barefoot Bandit: The Teen Felon Who Became a Folk Hero

A teenage runaway becomes a folk hero and a nationwide fugitive as he steals planes, boats, and cars—often barefoot—turning a two-year crime spree into one of the most un

Hunter Moore: The Undoing of the Internet's Most Hated Man

A notorious internet troll builds a revenge-porn empire that terrorizes thousands—until a determined mother launches a relentless campaign to bring him down and dismantle

Gareth Williams: The Spy in the Bag

When a brilliant intelligence officer from MI6 is discovered dead inside a padlocked duffel bag in his London flat, investigators face an impossible crime scene—no signs

Hellish Nell, the Last Witch of Scotland

To some, Helen Duncan is a powerful medium who bridges the realms of the living and the dead. To others, she's a dangerous con artist blending deception and stolen top-se

The Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road: Anatomy of a Darknet Killer

A libertarian idealist known only as “The Dread Pirate Roberts” builds the Silk Road—an anonymous online black market that explodes into a billion-dollar empire—until the

The Missing Candy Heiress and the Chicago Horse Mafia

In 1977, candy heiress Helen Brach – one of the richest women in America – vanishes. Detectives consider the many people who might have wanted to get their hands on her m

Murder on the Galapagos? Island Utopia Spirals into Death and Disappearances

A 19th-century island experiment founded by two nature-loving Germans goes from Gilligan's Island to Lord of the Flies when an entitled and eccentric heiress moves in. S

The Oesterreich Murder: Secrets in the Attic

When a lonely Milwaukee housewife lives a double life, her secret world spirals into a decade of deception — culminating in a deadly confrontation, a staged burglary, and

The Molly Watson Case: Bride-to-Be Murdered Right Before Her Wedding

Molly Watson had waited seven long years for her happily-ever-after wedding with her boyfriend, Jim. Then, less than 48 hours before they were supposed to walk down the a

Heaven's Gate: Rehearsing for the Apocalypse

A charismatic leader convinces his devoted followers that salvation awaits aboard an alien spacecraft trailing a comet—leading the Heaven’s Gate cult to a tragic, otherwo