Subscribe to Forensic Tales so you don’t miss an episode! On January 26, 2013, 21-year-old Elisa Lam rode an Amtrak train to Los Angeles. She dreamt her entire life of visiting LA-LA land. She dreamt of new friends, a happier life, and maybe even love.  Her chance finally arrived. She somehow convinced her protective parents…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! In May 2006, 52-year-old American Micki Kanesaki was reported missing while on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea just off Italy’s coast. Lonnie Kocontes, her ex-husband, sweet-talked her into a romantic getaway, to fix their broken relationship. Micki trusted Lonnie, and after a…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! On October 12th, 2012, 28-year-old Ryan Poston, a successful attorney from Kentucky was found dead, shot 6 times in his condo. He’d been shot to death by his girlfriend Shayna Hubers. According to Shayna, she wasn’t some sort of cold-blooded killer. She said she…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! *Warning: This post contains graphic images.   On the morning of March 12th, 2011, the opening employee to the Lululemon store in Bethesda, Maryland, walked into a bloodbath. Inside the store, 2 of her coworkers were found bound and gagged. One of employees, 30-year-old…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! In 2005, Kimberly Long was convicted of second degree in the 2003 murder of her boyfriend, Oswaldo “Ozzy” Conde. She was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for Ozzy’s murder. On October 6, 2003, Kimberly returned home and discovered Ozzy had been…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! Bryce Laspisa went missing from the Castaic, California area on August 30, 2013. At just 19-years old, this Sierra College student was driving from Chico to his parent’s home in Laguna Niguel, CA. He last spoke to his mom around 2:00 a.m. when he…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! In 1999, Fan Man-Yee, was abducted, tortured, and ultimately murdered in an apartment in Hong Kong after stealing money from her drug dealer and pimp. She was tortured by three man for over a month before she died. After the three men killed her,…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! On September 13, 2006, the Newport Beach Police Department in southern California received a call that there was a dead body floating in the harbor. The female victim had 52 stab wounds across her body, including a knife found still plunged into one of…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales podcast so you don’t miss an episode! Lisa Nowak is a former U.S. Navy Captain and NASA astronaut. She seemed to have it all. She was a wife, mother of 3 young children, and had a successful career. Until February 2007. In February 2007, Lisa drove over 900 miles from Houston,…

Subscribe to Forensic Tales so you don’t miss a episode! On July 15, 2008, 2-year-old Caylee Anthony from Orlando, Florida was reported missing by her grandmother, Cindy Anthony who had not been seen in 31 days. Cindy told police that Caylee’s mother, Casey Anthony provided varied explanations regarding Caylee’s whereabouts. Casey told police her daughter…