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True Crime Arizona
Arizona’s Family journalists Briana Whitney and Serjio Hernandez take a deep dive into both unsolved and solved cases around Arizona — retracing steps, uncovering new evidence, and revealing new theories from those involved in the investigations.
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The stunning arrest in the teen camping murders
In late May 2025, Phoenix teenagers Pandora Kjolsrud and Evan Clark were innocently camping at Mount Ord, an area of the Tonto National Forest in Ariz...
The Charlie Kirk Assassination: Investigation & Impact
The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has shaken the American political landscape. In this special crossover episode between True Cr...
High-profile Phoenix cold case cracked after murder suspects identified
On New Year's Eve 2021, Ben Anderson abruptly cancelled brunch with a friend then disappeared. His friends found his car in a Phoenix hotel parking ga...
Menendez Brothers Denied Parole
In highly-anticipated parole hearings, infamous brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez were both up for parole last week after being resentenced for the 1989...
The 5th Grade Murder Plot
A group of 5th graders in Surprise, AZ hatched a detailed plan to murder their fellow classmate and cover their tracks. Thankfully, they were caught b...
The End of Lori Vallow Daybell
Lori Vallow Daybell is sentenced for her Arizona crimes after the death of her husband and attempted shooting of her niece’s ex-husband. But before se...
Former detective learns fate for wife’s murder
In June 2025, former domestic violence detective John Byrd finally learned how long he will spend behind bars in Arizona for the murder of his wife, E...
Confessed Pastor Killer Speaks
In a chilling jailhouse interview, suspect Adam Sheafe details how and why he killed and crucified beloved New River, AZ pastor Bill Schonemann. Sheaf...
Inmate Confessions: His Prison Killings
He’s notorious for causing one of the longest prison standoffs in U.S. history, and now Ricky Wassenaar is a confessed killer. In April 2025, three in...
The Crime Junkie interview
It’s the number one true crime podcast in the world – Crime Junkie hosts Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat give True Crime Arizona’s Briana Whitney an ex...
Lori Vallow Daybell: After the Verdict
Lori Vallow Daybell was found guilty of conspiring to murder her 4th husband, Charles Vallow. What came in the moments and days after the verdict was...
The Lori Vallow Daybell Trial: Week 2 and Verdict Watch
Another wild week in court with an unexpected ending. True Crime correspondent Briana Whitney and True Crime Arizona photographer Shane Egan have been...
Lori Vallow Daybell Trial Week 1
Spirits, zombies, text messages, and gunshots. True crime correspondent Briana Whitney and Arizona’s Family reporter Zach Prelutsky break down and ana...
The jailhouse interview with Lori Vallow Daybell
Just days before her high-profile trial is set to begin in Phoenix, so-called “Doomsday Mom” Lori Vallow Daybell sat down for an interview with True C...
The declassified JFK assassination files
For the first time, the public has access to nearly all of the once classified files in the John F. Kennedy assassination, after President Trump order...
A Thwarted Pride Parade Terror Plot & A Teen's Radicalization
A mother's discovery on her son's phone launched an investigation that discovered a terror plot against the Pride Parade in Phoenix. Guest hosts Morg...
Widow of Tucson’s first serial killer reveals all
In 1965, Charles Schmid became infamously known around the nation as “The Pied Piper of Tucson” after being arrested for the murders of three vanished...
Gabby Petito’s parents tell all before Netflix release
All four of Gabby Petito’s parents—both biological and step—sat down with True Crime Arizona ahead of the Netflix docuseries release on the case. They...
TV sports anchor almost on high-profile jury
It was an unexpected role reversal! Briana sits down with Mark McClune, the sports director and anchor at 3TV and CBS 5. Why? Because Mark was almost...
The Stalking Murders
It’s a case that involves GPS tracking devices, cryptic messages, and a plan to flee the country. After the State of Arizona files their intent to see...
A New Cold Case Era
For the first time, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office has a new cold case unit that’s starting their work with 5 unsolved cases. Who killed these...
Fall of the new FLDS prophet
In the wake of infamous FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs locked up in prison, a new leader emerged: Samuel Bateman. Bateman started his own offshoot of the p...
The Christmas Eve murders and an attorney’s secret struggle
What happened during the 2023 Christmas Eve murders inside a Central Phoenix home was largely a mystery until now, though the public knew the killer w...
The Teen Killer Trial
The Teen Killer Trial
In February 2019, a 14-year-old stabbed his aunt to death during a family reunion in Arizona. He was charged as an adult w...
Unsolved murder of the Yellow Pages heiress
In 1979, a young woman from Ohio was found shot dead near the Hoover Dam. With a renewed search to find her killer, True Crime Arizona dives into the...
A Detective’s Confession: I Killed My Wife
On July 31st 2024, Elizabeth Byrd’s longtime best friend knew something was wrong when Liz didn’t show up for their workout class. After calling polic...
SPYKILLER FINALE: The Killer’s Words
The True Crime Arizona team heads out to the Arizona desert where Ginger and Christina’s remains were found, and the detectives in the case reveal whe...
SPYKILLER PART 5: Faking Insanity
After detectives positively identify the other Jane Doe victim, detectives sit face to face with an incarcerated John Flowers in Reno, Nevada, where h...
SPYKILLER PART 4: Identifying Jane Doe
When Ginger Rios’ remains are discovered in the Arizona desert, so are the remains of another unidentified girl. For years nobody knew who the Jane Do...
SPYKILLER PART 3: Bodies in the Desert
Detectives find the remains of Ginger Rios in the Arizona desert and make another horrific discovery while there: Another girl was dead and buried in...
SPYKILLER PART 2: A Bizarre Confession
A new teenage employee of the Vegas spy shop is asked to do bizarre tasks while the owner, John Flowers, heads to his Phoenix, AZ spy shop. Meanwhile,...
SPYKILLER PART 1: The Spy Shop Disappearance
In April 1997, a young woman named Ginger Rios visits the Spycraft store in Las Vegas while her husband waits outside. When she seemingly vanishes aft...
Backpage: The Tragic Story of the Founders of the Phoenix New Times
Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey made millions, publishing cutting-edge journalism in alternative weekly newspapers across the country. Larkin and Lacey w...
Stolen Innocence: Child Brides of the New FLDS Cult Prophet
The four-part television series "Stolen Innocence" explores the manipulation and abuse of the FLDS cult that led to the new self-proclaimed prophet Sa...
The Phoenix Hotel Murder
As the 4th of July turned to the early morning hours of the 5th, Phoenix Police got a call to the ritzy Renaissance hotel in downtown Phoenix after a...
The Phoenix woman found dead next to her alleged stalker
On July 1st, 2024, 25-year-old Doris Aguilar went missing in Phoenix after leaving for the store. A week later, her car was found abandoned in a mall...
The Flagstaff Murder of Kelly Paduchowski
On June 30th, 2024, Kelly Paduchowski was reported missing by the Flagstaff Police Department after her family said she never came back from a run and...
30-year-old Scottsdale cold case solved
On July 29, 1994, 21-year-old Angela Maher was killed in a crash while going to pick up her friend from Old Town Scottsdale as the designated driver....
A Husband and Wife Vanish with Fugitive Ties
In March 2020, as the world was shutting down at the beginning of the pandemic, Sandee Hines disappeared from her Mesa, Arizona home. But she didn’t j...
The Chad Daybell “Doomsday Prophet” Murder Trial
For nearly two months, the Idaho man known as the “Doomsday Prophet,” Chad Daybell, faced witness after witness as he stood on trial for the murder of...