By Renee Roberson
Author Leslie Rule worked alongside her mother Ann to learn the craft of writing and started out her career writing both fiction and non-fiction. Her latest book, “A Tangled Web,” shares an almost unbelievable tale of obsession, cyberstalking, and murder. Host Renee Roberson interviews Leslie about her research process and the behind-the-scenes details of the book.
Listen to interview here.
The four-part docuseries “Missing: Dead or Alive,” features cases that occurred between 2019 and 2021. The series provides a firsthand perspective from Vicki Raines, missing persons investigator...
The murder of New Jersey native Heather Stigliano has been featured in at least two different crime shows that focus on physical evidence collection. Forensic Files covered the story in 2008 in the...
Most true crime fans are familiar with the TV show “City Confidential.” The long-running show first aired in 1998 and continues today. It features real-life stories from a wide variety of...
On July 14, 2022, a South Carolina jury indicted Alex Murdaugh on double murder charges in the deaths of his wife Maggie, and youngest son, Paul. He pled not guilty. Jury selection began on January...
In the area I live in there’s a lake, also known as the largest man-made, freshwater lake in North Carolina. But before it became Lake Norman, the area was a village containing textile mills,...
When I was a teenager growing up in a small town about 20 minutes outside of Asheville, the Asheville Mall was my home away from home. I spent many weekends there wandering in and out of the stores...
Thirty-five years ago, a Durham woman called 911 in the pre-dawn hours to report that she’d accidentally shot her husband with a gun he was keeping underneath his pillow. While police thought it...
Madalina Cojocari’s story has been all over our local news, social media, national news, and it’s been a bit surreal to drive by the middle school a mile from my house and see news vans set up...
On December 10, 1997, newspapers across the country ran a syndicated article titled “A tree grows in North Carolina.” The article explained how the fragrant fraser fir trees, with their bluish...
Have you watched the HBO Max three-part documentary, "Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty?" Host Renee Roberson shares her thoughts on the case and the recent release. Listen to the episode here....
Brittanee Drexel’s story reached its final conclusion this past summer, and it left many who had been following it quite surprised. On May 16, 2022, the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office held a...
People die in accidents every day. Children lose their parents, partners lose their spouses and significant others. But when a person loses two or more spouses to tragic accidents, law enforcement...
Benevolent spirits that watch over university libraries and academic buildings. Specters looking for their lost loves. Motherly figures still caring for the students navigating new journeys away...
Several months ago, I received an e-mail from a listener asking me if I’d ever heard any stories of murder victims being left on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I couldn’t say I had at that point, so...
When 20-year-old Lue Cree Overcash Westmoreland retired for the evening at the home of her husband’s family on Jan. 19, 1937, no one expected the young bride of only two months would be murdered...
Christina Maria Matos Christina Maria Matos was just trying to help out a friend, but the generosity she was so well known for likely caused her death. Matos had just turned 20 and was living in an...
Did you know Mecklenburg County in North Carolina has a cold case featuring an unidentified deceased woman whose loved ones may be missing her? Investigators with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police...
She was young, beautiful, beguiling and liked to poison the guests at her boarding house in Charleston, S.C. with oleander tea. For centuries, legend had it that Lavinia Fisher was one of...
As a parent, it’s an unimaginable scenario. You send your children out to play in the front yard of your rural home in the country, and they are never seen again. Because you are poor with no...
Virginia Olson The University of North Carolina at Asheville will always have a special place in my heart, because it was at that small college that I came into my own as a journalist. The small...