Obscure murder cases, close detail, and unfiltered sister banter.
They Will Kill is a true crime show from sisters Courtney Eck and Sadie, built around lesser-known cases such as the murders of Julia Rawson, Zebb Quinn and Sandra Cantù. The facts come in steady, specific narration, the reactions come raw, and the talk often strays into personal stories and running jokes.
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They Will Kill is a true crime podcast from sisters Courtney Eck and Sadie, and it mostly covers murder cases away from the most familiar headlines. A run of titles shows the range: 'The Atrocious Murder of Julia Rawson', 'The Terrible Murder of Sandra Cantù', 'The Recently Solved Murder of Zebb Quinn' and 'The Murder of Katy Harris and Survival of Krystal Surles'. Each case is told in close, orderly detail. In the Julia Rawson episode, that detail includes detectives finding CCTV footage of a man named Nathan taking a couch to the local dump, a door that had been unscrewed so it would not buzz, and a search along the canals that found no sign of her. The Ruth Cruger episode is just as careful. It tracks a neighbour's account of a man named Cochi coming up from his basement around midnight, dirty and nervous, and his later flight back to Italy. That episode also follows Mary Grace Humiston, billed in its title as 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes'. She was a former U.S. District Attorney who went looking herself and hired private investigator Julius J. Krohn, known as the man who could not be bribed. The show does not keep a straight face for long. The narration is measured, but the reactions are blunt and unfiltered, and they can swing from horror to laughter within a line. When the record has gaps, the sisters say so. In the Zebb Quinn episode, one of them asks how police could search a suspect's home in a separate case but apparently not in Zebb's, then admits the information is not available. Personal life comes into the cases too. The Sandra Cantù episode turns into a conversation about the trust one host instinctively places in other mothers and in the neighbours who look after her children. Not every episode is a murder. In 'Tool of the Devil?? The Fascinating History of the Ouija Board', one sister says the boards terrify her, and the other calls herself the more skeptical of the two while agreeing that a board would fill a house with demons. Then they argue over which of them still lived in a shared house when things there turned bad. That sibling back-and-forth runs through the show. Sign-offs sprawl, too. They wander into running jokes, including a mock threat to retroactively sue someone as a fetus and a half-joking promise to send an episode's proceeds to Flint, Michigan, before ending in a stack of goodbyes and repeated declarations of love. The back catalog is sizable, so a new listener has plenty to choose from. The Ruth Cruger episode is a good first listen for the case-telling side, since an investigator sits at its centre. The Ouija board episode shows how far the sisters will wander from the case file. Either way, the mix holds: specific, careful case work surrounded by two sisters who clearly enjoy each other's company.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants lesser-known murder cases told in real detail but likes them delivered by two sisters who swear, digress and laugh between the grim parts.
What sets it apart: The case narration is careful and specific, down to CCTV footage and who was seen leaving a basement around midnight, while the talk around it is loose sisterly banter full of personal memories and very affectionate sign-offs. It also makes room for detours like the history of the Ouija board, with at least one sister openly scared of the things.
They Will Kill is a true crime podcast hosted by sisters, Courtney and Sadie Eck. They will bring you well-researched, strange, and lesser known true crime cases each week.
Courtney and Sadie ask the 'wait, whose mother?' question just when you need them to.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A funny, uneasy look at Ouija boards, demonic warnings, and the blame people attach to them.
The Ouija board lands as both a supposed doorway to demons and a useful place to put blame. The hosts trace that tension through religious pushback, board burnings, Catholic.com calling it far from harmless, and Pat Robertson's 2011 warning that demons could reach people through…
A quiet door, a discarded couch, and a wasteland search shape a devastating account of Julia Rawson's murder.
The episode finds its force in the grim contrast between ordinary apartment details and the wasteland search that follows. It tracks CCTV of Nathan disposing of a couch, Tracy's explanation that a door had been unscrewed so its buzzing hinge would not be heard, and police…
Mary Grace Humiston traces Ruth Cruger's disappearance through uneasy clues leading back to a motorcycle shop cellar.
Mary Grace Humiston's pursuit of Ruth Cruger's disappearance builds its pull from the details around Cochi: the flight to Italy, neighbors describing him as dirty and nervous, and a teenage girl's frightening moment in the cellar beneath his motorcycle shop.
A disturbing true crime episode about Sandra Cantu and the fragility of everyday trust.
Sandra Cantu's case is framed around a fear that feels especially hard to shake: danger emerging from ordinary trust. The episode follows the discovery of Sandra's remains near an irrigation pond, then moves through the reported tip from a former Marine and his wife, who said…
A grim They Will Kill case shaped by Sells, confession, and unresolved true-crime uncertainty.
This They Will Kill episode follows a grim true-crime case involving Sells, with his statements to police shaping a story of confession, doubt, and a broad field of suspected harm.
Australian crime, remembered close up.
Sharp true crime around a very dark fire.
True crime with side-eye and velocity.
They Will Kill examines Peter Keller's hidden Camp Keller bunker, which he built near North Bend, Washington, while living with Lynette Rocha and their daughter Kayleen.
They Will Kill examines the 2008 South African school attack involving 18-year-old Mornay Harmse, who arrived with four swords, a throwing knife, and a homemade Slipknot mask.
They Will Kill examines the 2016 death of 47-year-old Rita Mays, who called her husband from the trunk of her car after reporting an attack near Interstate 15.
They Will Kill examines Felix Vail's relationships with Sharon Hensley, Mary, Annette, and other women through family testimony, police records, and Jerry Mitchell's reporting.
They Will Kill examines the December 11, 1992 disappearance of 20-year-old Arnold Archambault and 19-year-old Ruby Bruyere after their car crashed near Lake Andes, South Dakota.
They Will Kill examines the 2009 murders of Lisa Phan, Melanie Zao, Pauline Zao, and four-year-old Cody in Conover, North Carolina.
Sisters Courtney and Sadie Eck introduce a true crime episode about the murder of Lisa Marie Gray, with a trigger warning for rape.
The hosts introduce a detailed account of the 2006 West Nickel Mines Amish school shooting, promising a well-researched and emotional story.
This episode details the 2008 murder of Meredith Emerson, a young woman who went missing while hiking on Blood Mountain in Georgia.
The hosts announce a temporary break due to a health issue and share a personal conversation about exhaustion before resuming their true crime content.
They Will Kill examines the May 14, 1985 murder of 78-year-old Ruth Pelkey by four teenagers in Gary, Indiana.
They Will Kill examines the 2019 murder of Julia Rawson, a 42-year-old Dudley artist, pagan-shop owner, and widely remembered friend.
They Will Kill traces the Ouija board from 1891 advertisements promising answers about the past, present, and future to its later reputation as a demonic object.
They Will Kill examines the May 2019 murder of 42-year-old Julia Rawson in Dudley, England, using friends’ descriptions of her as an artistic, outspoken, affectionate “larger-than-life” figure.
Ruth Kruger, 18, vanished in Harlem on February 13, 1917 after leaving home to get her ice skates sharpened, and police initially treated the case like a runaway.
They Will Kill examines the March 27, 2009 disappearance of eight-year-old Sandra Cantu from Orchard Estates Mobile Park in Tracy, California.
They Will Kill examines the 1999 Del Rio, Texas attack on 10-year-old Crystal Searles and the murder of her best friend, Kayleen “Katie” Harris.
They Will Kill examines the disappearance and murder of Zeb Quinn, an 18-year-old Walmart electronics employee from outside Asheville, North Carolina.
They Will Kill recounts how University of South Carolina student Margaret McFadden-Harritt joined Joel Poulsen on a 1974 Appalachian Trail trip after he planned to hike the 2,200-mile route.
They Will Kill hosts Courtney Eck and Zadie Eck examine the 1978 murder of three-year-old Bethany Elena Clark and the Church of God in Christ through the Holy Spirit Incorporated.
They Will Kill examines the 2001 disappearance of six-year-old Haley Zaga during a hike in Arkansas’s Buffalo National River Wilderness.
They Will Kill examines the November 2012 disappearance of Sage Smith, a transgender woman from Charlottesville, Virginia, whose family reported her missing after she failed to return from a planned meeting with Eric McFadden.
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They Will Kill covers the kidnapping and murder of 11-year-old Ashlyn Mike in Shiprock, New Mexico, after a man in a red van abducted Ashlyn and her 9-year-old brother Ian on May 2, 2016.
They Will Kill examines the unresolved murder of Tamara Greene, a Detroit dancer and nursing student who was killed in 2003 after reportedly encountering influential men, including Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
They Will Kill examines the disappearances of seven-year-old Zianna Fairchild and eight-year-old Mitzi Sanchez in Vallejo, California.
They Will Kill examines the 1977 Kline Falls axe attack on Yale freshmen Terry Jentz and her roommate Shana during an 80-day, 4,200-mile bicycle trip across 10 states.
They Will Kill’s “American Monster, Felix Vail Part 2” follows Sharon Hensley’s relationship with Felix Vail, including her 1967 move to San Francisco, grape-only diet, and disappearance after reported plans to travel to South America.
They Will Kill begins a two-part account of Felix Vail, a 41-year-old carpenter who pursued 15-year-old Annette Craver after seeing her at a Houston garage sale.
They Will Kill examines the 1996 disappearance of 10-year-old Zachary Ramsey while he walked less than half a mile from his Great Falls, Montana, home to school.
They Will Kill’s Sadie Eck recounts how Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge allegedly sold donated cadaver parts beginning in 2018.
They Will Kill examines the 2003 murder of Dawn Rossignol, a Colby College biology student from Medway, Maine, who left for a 9 a.m.
They Will Kill examines the suspicious death of 21-year-old Tori Bethel, who was found dead in her El Dorado, Kansas apartment on October 7, 2022.
They Will Kill examines the murders of Cheryl Dunlap and married hikers John “Jack” and Irene Bryant, cases connected to Gary Hilton after Meredith Emerson disappeared on Georgia's Blood Mountain in January 2008.
They Will Kill reconstructs Meredith Emerson's disappearance after she took her dog Ella hiking on Blood Mountain in northern Georgia on January 1, 2008.
They Will Kill examines the October 2, 2006 West Nickel Mines Amish school shooting in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where Charles Carl Roberts IV entered a one-room schoolhouse and targeted female students.
They Will Kill hosts Sadie Eck and Courtney Eck recount the 2000 disappearance and murder of 16-year-old Lisa Marie Gray in Dorsey, Mississippi.
They Will Kill examines the July 5, 2021 murder of 58-year-old Todd Stout, whose body was found under a bridge in Fort Collins, Colorado.
They Will Kill examines the April 22, 2016 killing of eight members of the Roden family in Piketon, Ohio, where children in two homes survived unharmed.
They Will Kill examines the 1985 murder of 78-year-old Ruth Pelkey by 15-year-old Paula Cooper and three other teenagers in Gary, Indiana.
They Will Kill examines Seung-nam Kwon Lesowski’s abuse of Victoria and Christine inside their 11-room home in Aurora, Illinois.
They Will Kill examines the kidnapping and murder of Carol and Reggie Sumner, Charleston childhood sweethearts who reunited after 38 years apart.
They Will Kill revisits the 1992 attempted murder of 37-year-old Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa, New York, after 17-year-old Amy Fisher arrived at her home and shot her in the face.
They Will Kill examines the September 6, 2016 disappearance and death of 47-year-old Rita Mays during a drive from Helena to Great Falls, Montana.
They Will Kill examines Peter Keller’s secret construction of Camp Keller, a camouflaged two-story bunker in Washington’s forest stocked with supplies, a generator, and a proposed virus laboratory.
They Will Kill examines the Copeland killings, beginning with an August 20, 1989 anonymous call alleging that Ray and Faye Copeland used transient farmhands to commit cattle-auction check fraud.
They Will Kill examines Jim Aune’s life as a rhetoric professor, husband to Miriam, and father of two sons with severe autism.
Sadie and Courtney Eck recount the murders of Kitty Genovese and Annie Mae Johnson, focusing on how the public account of Genovese's death diverged from witness evidence.
They Will Kill examines the July 2021 disappearance of Bart and Krista Halderson from Windsor, Wisconsin, after Chandler Halderson said they had gone to their northern cabin.
They Will Kill examines the February 2, 1985 attack on Burlingame High School students Janine Grinzel and Laurie McKenna at California’s 46,050-square-foot Carolin’s Chateau.
They Will Kill examines the disappearance and killing of Anne-Marie Fahey, a Delaware scheduler born in 1966 who worked for Governor Tom Carper.
They Will Kill examines the January 30, 2008 murder of Latrice Curtis, whose body was found beside I-540 after David Jones called 911 at 7:12 a.m.
They Will Kill examines the 2008 South African school attack involving Mornay Harmse, who brought four swords and a throwing knife to school after discussing violence with friends.
They Will Kill: Part 2- The Gallaudet University Murders follows the investigation into Ben Varner's stabbing after Thomas Minch is suspected in both Varner's and Eric Plunkett's deaths.
They Will Kill, hosted by sisters Courtney Eck and Sadie Eck, examines the 2000 murders of Gallaudet University students Eric Plunkett and Ben Varner in Washington, D.C.
They Will Kill examines the 2001 murder of Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt, who was found beaten and strangled outside the newspaper after working until approximately 2 a.m.
They Will Kill examines the 2012 Houston attack on Jim and Sandra Melgar, a couple preparing for their 32nd wedding anniversary.
Courtney and Deli examine the 2009 murders of Brian Zao's wife Lisa and children Melanie, Pauline, and Cody in Conover, North Carolina.
They Will Kill examines the August 15, 2010 death of 49-year-old Diane Kine in Seminole, Florida, after her son Kevin and husband Bill each called 911 accusing the other.
They Will Kill examines the 2016 disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Nicole Lovell in Blacksburg, Virginia, after her mother Tammy finds her bedroom blocked and empty.