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ABC News has launched the true crime podcast The Snare, diving into a brutal murder in a small Idaho town, a contested false confession, and one mother's relentless pursuit of justice.

ABC Audio and the iconic newsmagazine 20/20 have joined forces on a new six-part true crime podcast series exploring the murder of a beloved doctor in a remote American town. The series launched July 29, 2025.

In September 2016, a kidnapped woman escaped from a house in Ashland, Ohio, and called 911 using her captor's phone. That call led to the arrest of Shawn Grate, a serial killer who murdered five women across northern Ohio between 2006 and 2016. Now, a six-part podcast series from 20/20 and ABC Audio is uncovering the full story of his crimes and capture.

When a woman's desperate 911 call led to the rescue of a kidnapping victim in rural Ohio in 2016, it triggered an investigation that would unravel a five-victim serial murder case. A detective's 33-hour interrogation became the pivotal moment that transformed a local crime into a regional manhunt.

Just after midnight on October 2, 2012, two masked gunmen burst into a Newport Beach home, kidnapped a medical marijuana dispensary owner and his female companion, and drove them to the Mojave Desert where one victim endured savage torture. The case would spark a sprawling investigation detailed in the new ABC podcast 'Devil in the Desert.'

On November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a 28-year-old laboratory technician at Kerr-McGee's nuclear facility in Oklahoma, died when her car veered off the highway near Crescent. She was driving to meet a New York Times journalist with evidence of safety violations. Five decades later, her death remains controversial.