West Virginia

James 'Whitey' Bulger was a Boston mob boss and FBI informant convicted of racketeering and 19 murders in 2013, later killed in prison in 2018.

Danny Casolaro, a journalist investigating a vast conspiracy he called 'the Octopus,' was found dead in a West Virginia motel bathtub in 1991 under circumstances disputed to this day.

The Riley Crossman case is a West Virginia homicide in which 15-year-old Riley Crossman was suffocated in her home in May 2019 by her mother's boyfriend, Andy J. McCauley Jr.

The podcast episode covers the murder of 16-year-old Skylar Neese, who in 2012 was lured out at night and brutally murdered by her two best friends in West Virginia.

Skylar Neese disappeared from her home in Star City, West Virginia, in July 2012. What appeared to be a typical missing persons case turned out to be a cold-blooded murder committed by her two closest friends. The case became one of the most shocking revelations in recent American true crime history.

On July 6, 2012, 16-year-old Skylar Neese of Morgantown, West Virginia, climbed out of her bedroom window and into a car with her two best friends — and was never seen alive again. A new Disney+ documentary series now reopens the case that shocked a nation.

Martha Stewart sold ImClone shares one day before the stock price collapsed, triggering a federal investigation that culminated in her 2004 conviction for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. After serving five months in federal prison, the American businesswoman orchestrated one of the most remarkable comebacks in modern business history.

On Christmas morning 1945, fire broke out at the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children vanished without a trace, their remains never found — and despite an official ruling of accident, the family always suspected arson.

Wondery's podcast series Young Charlie traces Charles Manson's transformation from his troubled childhood to his role orchestrating the savage murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others in August 1969. Hosted by Tracy Pattin and narrated by Stephen Lang, the show examines the formative events and psychological unraveling that created one of America's most infamous cult leaders.