Wichita, Kansas was a terrifying place for many women in 1977, as the serial killer, BTK, was using Wichita as his hunting grounds. So when middle-aged telephone company secretary, Ruth Finley, received a strange phone call on a night when she was alone in her home, police were convinced she would be BTK’s next victim.  It was just the beginning of a long campaign of terror that Ruth would endure. 

In 1871, the town of Brighton, England was rocked by a mysterious rash of poisonings. Some townspeople fell horrifically ill from a nearby chocolate shop. And one tragic day, a 4-year-old boy died after eating a small box of chocolates. No one knew why or how….was it just bad food? Or was it something more nefarious? Surprising to the police, a series of private love letters would crack the case wide open and expose 'The Chocolate Cream Killer' 

At 18 years old, Conrad Roy sought therapy for severe depression and anxiety. Much to his family’s relief, he seemed much improved in only a few months. So it was a horrifying shock to those who loved him when he was found dead in his truck from carbon monoxide poisoning. Originally ruled a suicide, Conrad’s death took a murderous turn when police uncovered the text message conversation on his phone…

In the fall of 1989, 10 year old Amy Mihalijevic went missing after getting a call from an unknown man on the family phone. Her bike was at school, but she never came home. Though a national search was launched to bring Amy home, her case remains unsolved 34 years later.

In 1931, William Wallace left his Anfield flat in Liverpool to follow up on a strange phone call he’d received at his chess club. But when he returned, he found his wife, Julia, dead in their front parlor. After phoning the police, William would find himself as their number one suspect. But did he kill his elderly wife? We follow William step by step on this fateful day. Was the mysterious phone call he received just a ruse to throw police off the scent? We unpack William’s trial and eventual fate, and explore an alternate suspect. 

Bashir Kouchacji was living the American Dream when he opened a restaurant in Washington DC. But before the paint on the walls was dry, his dream turned into a nightmare. Over the course of a decade, thousands of threatening phone calls were made to his restaurant, inciting a paranoia that would send him past the brink of insanity.

In 2003, social media revolutionized the way teenagers could connect in online spaces. And for teens who may not have had friends at school, MySpace and Facebook were ways to make friends outside the neighborhood. But for thirteen-year-old Megan Meier, her budding online relationship went from innocent to deadly in the nation’s first documented case of cyberbullying.

In the small town of Nucla, Colorado, autobody shop Dale Williams took a call at his shop in 1999 for a stranded vehicle. He left in his truck and was never heard from again. What happened to Dale? And would he ever be found? We unpack this long-cold case and look at brand new evidence.