Cold cases kept in public view.
Catch my Killer is a sober true-crime series centered on cold cases, missing people, and families still pushing for answers. Its episodes pair plainspoken narration with long interviews, tracing disputed timelines, overlooked leads, and the human cost of cases that stalled.
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Catch my Killer treats cold cases as unfinished civic business. The show focuses on unresolved homicides, suspicious disappearances, and families who are still pressing for a credible answer. Mark’s style is steady and utilitarian. He introduces each case with the basic record: a name, a place, a date, and the official account as it is known. Then the episode slows down. Parents, siblings, daughters, and relatives describe what they remember, what they were told, and what still does not add up. The result is true crime shaped less by suspense than by persistence. Von Mason Walker’s father disputes an accidental-shooting ruling after listening to 911 calls and reviewing a thin police report. Donna Mullen’s daughter describes a disappearance tied to a motorcycle trip, unanswered questions, and decades without a body. William Balfour Sr.’s family wonders why a retired grandfather was beaten to death and left by the roadside. Cory Schroeder’s sister recounts claims of a confession, missing remains, and frustration over what was never put in writing. Michael Smith’s mother challenges a police interpretation of surveillance after he vanished. Cornelis "Casey" Bokslag’s family works through searches, missing belongings, and the possibility that none of the leading theories fully explains his disappearance. The show also reaches into older, culturally specific cases, including David "Stringbean" Akeman and Estelle, where music history sits beside violence and loss. Episodes are often emotional, but they remain grounded in names, timelines, departments, reports, searches, and tip lines. There is little polish for its own sake. The power comes from hearing relatives try to keep a case from fading into background noise. Catch my Killer is best for listeners who want direct, victim-centered true crime with real-world calls for information.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who prefer family testimony, case timelines, and unresolved questions over dramatized storytelling. It especially suits people interested in lesser-covered homicides and missing-person cases.
What sets it apart: The show’s center of gravity is the surviving family member or case advocate, not a detached narrator. Episodes regularly close with specific tip contacts, rewards, and case-page details, keeping the focus on action as well as remembrance.
At any given time in the world, there are thousands of unsolved murders. Most of them will never be solved. The first 48 hours of a homicide are the most crucial to an investigation. Eventually, leads dry up, witnesses become less cooperative, and cases go cold (unsolved). Meanwhile, detectives continue receiving new homicide cases which push older ones to the back. After a case goes cold, it quickly becomes yesterday’s news. The public and the media will forget about the crime and move onto the next crime story. But do you know who won’t forget about a cold case? The victim’s family and friends. They won’t forget because their case is more than a case file or news story. The victims were so…
A cold case becomes personal when Mark hands you the microphone alongside families still demanding answers.
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A father's search for records presses against an accidental-shooting ruling in a Columbus case still marked by doubt.
Von Mason Walker's family does not accept the Columbus police finding that his fatal 2015 shooting was accidental, and that refusal gives the episode its charge.
A victim-centered account of William Balfour Sr.'s unsolved killing keeps grief, doubt, and accountability in view.
William Balfour Sr.'s murder is handled as a family tragedy shaped by one unanswered question: who beat the 70-year-old retired grandfather and left him by the side of the road in Muncie, Indiana?
A measured look at Stringbean's modest life and fame before the homicide that ended it.
The story takes its weight from the lives it stops to hold in view. David "Stringbean" Aikman, the Kentucky country musician and Grand Ole Opry figure known for old-fashioned banjo playing, comes through as more than the victim at the center of a homicide case.
A missing-person case unfolds through family persistence, disputed testimony, and years without answers.
Catch My Killer follows the disappearance of Corey Schrader, known as Stretch, after a friend dropped him at a local store on May 21, 2019. The case is carried through his sister Cherish's account, including an alleged confession from someone she says was connected to a…
A family's search gives shape to a disappearance shadowed by a disputed bicycle report.
Michael Smith's disappearance comes down to a tight span of time: a stop at his mother's workplace, a departure captured on surveillance, and a disputed account of a man on a bicycle.
A careful family portrait grounds the search for Michael Smith as the case waits for resolution.
Michael Smith's disappearance is introduced through the last ordinary details his family can point to: a difficult morning after he was terminated from Whole Hog Cafe, a visit to his mother at her banking job on June 7, 2022, and then silence.
A Utah disappearance stays unresolved after searches by foot, horseback, helicopter, drone, and volunteers.
The disappearance of 29-year-old Utah man Cornelius "Casey" Boxlog is framed through his final known ATM withdrawal and the personal items that never turned up: his cell phone, pistol, wallet, license plate, and a keyhanger with pictures of Robert's late father, who died in…
New England cold cases, carefully told.
Folklore, cryptids, and cautious wonder.
One reads the case notes, one hears them fresh.
Catch My Killer's Episode 192: VonMason Walker (Part 1 of 2) centers on the October 16, 2015 shooting death of Von Mason Walker in Columbus, Ohio, which police ruled an accidental shooting.
["Catch My Killer follows William Balfour Sr., a 70-year-old Muncie grandfather beaten to death on July 2, 2019.", "Consuela Balfour says William left home after a female family friend asked for a ride, and his 2001 Lincoln was later found cordoned off by police at Blaine and Centennial with his body outside it.", "The family says a witness reported that the woman returned upset, had blood on her clothing, and said she had just murdered someone before leaving town on a Greyhound bus.", "Mark also reads federal findings about former Muncie officer Chase Winkle, which the family says helps explain why they distrust the Muncie Police Department."]
Catch My Killer covers the November 10, 1973 murders of David 'Stringbean' Aikman and Estelle Aikman after a Grand Ole Opry performance.
Catch My Killer focuses on Corey "Stretch" Schrader, a Bauxite, Arkansas man who vanished on Friday, May 21, 2019, just one day before his 45th birthday.
Catch My Killer follows the disappearance of Michael Everett Smith, a 38-year-old Little Rock man last seen on June 7, 2022, after losing his job at Whole Hog Cafe on Cantrell Road and visiting his mother at her bank on Rebsamen Park Road.
Little Rock, Arkansas true-crime podcast Catch My Killer profiles the disappearance of 38-year-old Michael Smith, last seen June 7, 2022, after visiting his mother Sherry Smith Riggins at her bank job.
The concluding half of Catch My Killer's two-part story follows Salt Lake City-area Marine Corps veteran Cornelius "Casey" Bokslag, 29, who vanished June 6, 2022 after withdrawing $100 from a Wells Fargo ATM.
The first half of Catch My Killer's profile of Cornelius "Casey" Bokslag traces his path from a Dutch immigrant child in Sandy, Utah to a U.S.
In the conclusion to Catch My Killer's two-part story on Teresa Lynn Morris, her daughter Danica Hovey tells host Mark that the man her family suspects of killing her mother later married another woman also named Teresa, on top of a documented history of beating Teresa Morris badly enough to break bones in her face.
Host Mark opens Part 1 of a two-part Catch My Killer episode on Teresa Lynn Morris, a 21-year-old Phoenix City, Alabama mother of four who disappeared on April 2, 1994, and was found dead behind a Piggly Wiggly in Ladonia 26 days later, her killing unsolved for nearly 30 years.
The host introduces a cold case about a 15-year-old girl who vanished in 1980 after leaving an ice cream store with three boys.
The host interviews the father of a murdered soldier to provide an update on the unsolved homicide case.
The episode covers the unsolved 1987 murder of Alana Laney Gwinner, a college student from Fairfield, Ohio.
A daughter recounts her father's life and disappearance in 1988, setting up a cold case investigation.