Cold Case Murder Mysteries

Doubleheader episode: Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating journey through the psychological and evolutionary implications of the triple homicide in Pinyon Pines, CA, on September 17, 2006, followed by a special presentation about psychological abuse.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a comprehensive psychological evaluation of the mysterious, unsolved disappearance of Robert Hoagland in July 2013.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological journey through the crime scene of the December 30, 2000 Mizayawa Family Murders in the Setagaya ward of Tokyo, Japan.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating psychological journey through the events leading up to the December 2000 disappearance of Trevor Deely in Dublin, Ireland.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological examination of the power of transformation present in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead.

Join host Ryan Kraus for in-depth analysis of the 1982 film E.T.

Join me for the inaugural episode of STORY with Ryan Kraus as we take a fascinating excursion into the evolutionary architecture of the 2013 sci-fi thriller GRAVITY.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a comprehensive psychological exploration of the unsolved murder of Faith Hedgepeth.

49-year-old Kelli Peters was a dedicated PTA mom who volunteered at her daughter's elementary school in Irvine, CA. One day in February 2011, shortly after arriving at the school for work, she received a call asking her to come to the main office. Fearing a family emergency, she was shocked to find a police officer who wanted to check her sobriety and search her car for drugs. Apparently, someone called 911 to report her erratic driving. That person also witnessed her placing a large bag that seemingly contained drugs behind the driver's seat. Defiant but cooperative, Kelli underwent a sobriety test and allowed a search of her car. The officer found the drugs, yet she swore they weren't hers. But the cop had heard it all before. If they weren't hers, he asked, whose were they? Kelli was silent a moment, as though peering back upon the past, and then spoke. It was just a name: Jill Easter. Join host Ryan Kraus for a social and evolutionary exploration of the power of transcendence to understand how one locked

Join host Ryan Kraus for an evolutionary exploration of the mysterious events surrounding the unsolved vanishing of 19-year-old Logan Schiendelman on May 19, 2016.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating psychological exploration of the baffling disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating evolutionary excursion into the warped mind of serial killer Wayne Williams, the primary suspect in the mysterious Atlanta Child Murders that haunted America from 1979 - 1981.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a comprehensive psychological analysis of the Oakland County Child Killer.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a compelling journey into the tortured mind of infamous 2017 Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, whose murderous rampage ended abruptly in suicide, and subsequently left a stunned, silent nation without answers to the most important question one could ask: why?

In late 1982, a nurse from Richmond, BC, Canada started receiving calls from a mysterious man who would increasingly terrorize and stalk her over the course of the next 7 years in what amounted to nearly 100 encounters between the two of them. During this time, the police made every attempt possible to apprehend the culprit through extensive surveillance, but were never able to identify the presence of an outside party in these incidents. Accordingly, the situation continued to get worse, and Cindy eventually disappeared, only to be discovered dead two weeks later lying in the grass outside of an abandoned house. To this day, however, the nature of her fate remains a mystery, and the stalker's identity is unknown. Was it suicide… or murder? Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating exploration of the human psyche in an effort to bring the truth to light.

On the night of September 12, 1982, 21-year-old Kristina Nelson and her 18-year-old stepsister Jacqueline “Brandy” Miller left Kristina’s Lewiston, ID apartment on foot, heading out to do laundry and buy groceries. A note was found at the residence informing Kristina’s boyfriend to make himself at home because they’d be right back. They never returned. Later that same evening, only blocks away, 35-year-old janitor and set painter Stephen Pearsall was dropped off by his girlfriend at the Civic Theater, where he’d been working earlier in the night. He decided to return to do laundry and practice his clarinet. Once the door closed, though, he was never seen again. Authorities initially believed Stephen Pearsall might have abducted the young women, but it’s soon revealed another man was in the theater too. Intrigued by the possibility he might have been involved in Stephen’s disappearance, law enforcement investigated his whereabouts that night, only to learn that Kristina and Brandy would have crossed his path a

Join host Ryan Kraus for a very special episode as we delve deep into the darkest recesses of the human mind to uncover the truth about who we are. First is an extensive, in-depth discussion of the evolutionary trajectory of humanity, from the battlefield to the movie theater to creation of new universes. Following that, we’ll enter the weird, wacky, and strange mind of tomb raider Carl Tanzler, who preserved a dead young woman as his corpse bride in order to accommodate an irreconcilable emotional ailment that prevented him from being able to distinguish purpose in his work and passion in his love life, leading him to shortcut technology in search of a solution. But what resulted was an abomination of nature.

On the morning of June 26, 1981, 22-year-old college student Kristin David disappeared during a solo bike ride from Moscow, ID to Lewiston, ID. Despite numerous searches over the course of the next week, no trace of Kristin was found. But to the horror of the local community, her dismembered body was discovered in the Snake river on July 4, 1981, wrapped in newspapers that were stuffed inside trash bags. Join host Ryan Kraus for a strange psychological journey into the mind of a killer in an effort to bring his identity to light.

On the afternoon of April 28, 1979, 12-year-old Christina White disappeared after leaving a friend's home on her bike in the town of Asotin, WA. While no one could have known it then, this would be the first of at least five unsolved disappearances and murders from 1979 - 1982 that would haunt the surrounding community to this day. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological journey through the evolutionary logistics of the crime in an effort to unveil the perpetrator's identity.

Join host Ryan Kraus for an in-depth psychological examination of the infamous wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five.