Generation Why: True Crime

With the authorities having decided that the children died in the fire, George and Jennie Sodder hire private investigators to help them figure out the truth of what happened, wher...

On Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family, consisting of George, Jennie and 9 of their 10 children, awoke in the middle of the night to flames engulfing their house. Not everybody m...

February 16, 2025. Shots and screams filled the early morning in a Tamarac, FL, neighborhood as Mary Gingles fled her home after her father, David Ponzer, was shot. Her soon-to-be ...

August 22nd, 2001. The FBI arrested eight individuals as part of a conspiracy to steal millions in prize funds from the McDonald’s Monopoly sweepstakes. The mastermind of this cons...

May 31, 2000. Bloomington, Indiana. A 19 year-old Indiana University student disappeared while riding her bike on the morning of May 31st, 2000. Despite searches, no sign of Jill w...

Las Cruces, New Mexico. On a quiet February morning in 1990, a bowling alley in Las Cruces, New Mexico, became the site of one of the state’s most brutal unsolved crimes. 911 dispa...

February 10th, 1999. Scarborough, Maine. Hours after Ashley Ouellette called her mother from a friend’s house, where she was supposed to be spending the night, her body was found i...

A musician's home is raided, resulting in property damage and missing cash. He responded by making music videos and songs about the officers, which resulted in a civil trial no one...

April 16th, 1993. Sugar Hill, Georgia. Emogene Thompson was found dead inside her vehicle. Investigators soon learned that a police car was seen at the crime scene on the night of ...

December 13th, 2020. Lulling, Texas. Texas State University student Jason Landry went missing while driving home for the holiday break. Jason was involved in a single-vehicle accid...

September 4th, 2023. Terral, Oklahoma. 19-year-old Noah Presgrove was found dead on the side of the highway after a night of partying with friends. From the beginning, his death ap...

If you haven't listened to part one then this episode isn't going to make a lot of sense. Go back and listen to the first ep. We covered the details of Dan Markel's murder and the ...