Murderzine – True Crime Stories

She was the sweetest woman in 1950s Macon, Georgia—a glamorous and beloved restaurant owner known for her Southern charm. But behind the warm smile and welcoming hugs, Anjette Lyles harbored a dark secret. After burying two husbands, a mother-in-law, and finally her own nine-year-old daughter, the town’s sympathy curdled into suspicion. A horrifying pattern emerged,…

Neal Falls is a suspected serial killer. When a West Virginia woman named Heather opened her door for an online client, she was met with a gun and a chilling ultimatum: “Live or die.” Her desperate fight for survival ended with her attacker dead on her kitchen floor. But when police opened his car trunk,…

He was the “King of Greenwich Village,” a Jazz Age poet as famous for his scandalous life as his brilliant verse. So how did he end up shot to death on the floor of a squalid New York City rooming house? This documentary unravels the tragic and shocking story of Maxwell Bodenheim, a literary icon…

On October 23, 1981, 19-year-old Millicent Elaine Wilson, a sophomore at Florida A&M University, was found murdered in her dorm room at Cropper Hall. Hours before the Orange Blossom Classic football game, students learned that a promising life had been taken in a brutal crime that shocked Tallahassee. Investigators soon focused on Clifford Walker, a…

What drives a man to leave a trail of violence and despair across the West Coast? In this true-crime story, we unravel the case of Dean Phillip Carter—a charming TV cameraman turned serial predator—whose path of destruction left five women brutally murdered in just five days. Don’t miss this deep dive into one of the…

Rolando Marcelo, a Yale graduate, was on his way to becoming a quintessential American success story. On Memorial Day of 1989 all that changed when he stabbed 4 people, including 2 family members, to death in a matter of minutes. Rolando had seemingly snapped. Was illness and depression to blame or was it something more…

In 1981 the body of Joan Wetherall was found in a lake in rural Illinois. The investigation would eventually lead to John Paul Phillips as the culprit. Was Joan his only victim or could he be tied to other cases?

Father Francis Craven was a man of God with many secrets. After he was beaten to death and burned in the woods of Alabama in early 1989, some of those secrets came out.