True Crimecast

In the early morning hours of March 22, 2014, 31-year-old Keveen Quintanilla decided to try his luck with 22-year-old bartender Ashleigh Cullen as she closed up the Curry Up Now restaurant in San Mateo, California. He flirted, told her he wanted to hang out, and confidently handed her his phone number. There was just one massive oversight on his part: he was in the middle of burglarizing her workplace.

On April 13, 2026, 28-year-old Kacy Claassen walked into Westchester Square Academy in the Bronx and successfully enrolled as a 16-year-old. For 14 days, she attended high school classes until Principal Marques Rich used Facebook to uncover her true identity. This episode explores the bizarre incident, clarifying that there was no predatory intent, but rather an alleged scheme to commit public assistance fraud.

On the afternoon of Christmas Eve 1991, 23-year-old Dana Ireland was brutally attacked while riding her bicycle on the Big Island of Hawaii. What followed was a decades-long saga of coerced confessions, jailhouse informants, and a staggering miscarriage of justice that sent innocent men to prison while the real killer walked free. This episode breaks down the tragic murder, the flawed investigation that convicted the Schweitzer brothers and Frank Pauline despite DNA exclusions, and the eventual 2024 discovery of the true suspect.

On the morning of Thursday, June 4, 2026, the Kentucky State Police issued a "be on the lookout" alert that left local residents scratching their heads: a red-tailed kangaroo was loose in Madison County. Spotted bouncing through the Gibson Bay area between Berea and Richmond, the unusual runaway immediately grabbed headlines across the state.

In January 2018, the wealthy gated community of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, woke up to a baffling tragedy. Alan Abrahamson, a 71-year-old businessman, was found dead in a field with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. But the scene was entirely devoid of a firearm, shell casings, or any signs of a struggle. If it was a murder, it was a ghost who pulled the trigger.