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Over thirteen years, one man married four women under four different identities, restructured each of their estates within months of the wedding, then watched each marriage end in death. Individually, every case looked like tragedy. Together, they revealed one of the most patient and calculated marriage-fraud killing patterns British investigators had ever pieced together.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

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A missing limo driver. A trusted neighbour. And a cover-up so brazen that police stood in her kitchen while his remains boiled on the stove. This episode traces the collision of financial desperation, untreated trauma, and violence that ended James Schaefer's life and the mistake that finally unraveled it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

A toxicologist. A secret addiction. A husband who saved her once before — and paid for it with his life.Kristen Rossum worked inside a county lab full of the most dangerous drugs in America. When her husband Gregory was found dead on their bedroom floor, staged to look like a suicide, investigators had to answer a chilling question: had the woman trained to detect poison just used her own expertise to commit murder?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

He worked night shifts because no one was watching. For 16 years, across 10 hospitals, colleagues flagged him — and every time, he was let go quietly instead of reported. No investigation. No warning to the next hospital. Just a clean resignation letter and a new badge somewhere else.This is the story of the nurse investigators believe may have killed as many as 400 patients — and the one nurse who finally wore a wire to stop him.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

A successful businesswoman. A husband who wanted control. And seven minutes that changed everything. Paula Ortega built a party-planning empire from her family's Ecuadorian business and brought joy to thousands of celebrations. When her marriage soured after her father's death, her husband Christian saw an opportunity — and when Paula refused to hand over the company, he orchestrated her murder in cold blood.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

Four months into their marriage, Sarah Widmer drowned in her own bathtub — but the bathroom investigators found was completely dry. No spilled water, no wet towels, nothing that matched her husband Ryan's account of pulling her from the tub and performing CPR. What followed was three trials, dueling medical experts, a discredited confession claim, a denied request for DNA testing, and a conviction built without any established motive. Over fifteen years later, Ryan Widmer remains in prison, still fighting his conviction.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

Dr. Thomas Burchard spent over four decades as a respected child psychiatrist, known for treating families for free when they couldn't afford care. That generosity brought him into contact with Kelsey Turner, a former Playboy and Maxim model and single mother, whose daughter he agreed to treat in 2016.What started with a single $300 gift became nearly three years of manufactured emergencies, escalating financial demands, and eventually blackmail — until Dr. Burchard tried to cut Kelsey off for good. In March 2019, his body was found beaten and abandoned in the Nevada desert.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

On January 6th, 2007, University of Tennessee students Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom disappeared from a Knoxville parking garage on their way to a friend's birthday party. Their families sensed immediately that something was wrong. Police followed standard procedure and asked them to wait 24 hours before opening a missing persons case.Those hours proved devastating. This episode covers who Channon and Christopher were, the five people ultimately convicted in connection with their deaths, how the investigation came together in a matter of days once it began, the courtroom fight over how the victims were portrayed, and the sentencing battles — including a 2011 judicial scandal that reopened every case — that followed for over a decade.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support

Elizabeth Vasquez gave her only daughter everything — a private education, plastic surgery, endless second chances. In return, that daughter helped plan her murder. On January 25th, 2010, Elita Vasquez let her boyfriend and a hired accomplice into her mother's home, tortured her for bank codes, and smothered her with a pillow — all for a multi-million dollar inheritance. This is the full story of greed, entitlement, and one of the coldest family betrayals we've ever covered.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support.Become a supporter to this podcast https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/black-crime-file--6945625/support