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In February 1986, 29-year-old nursing director Sherri Rasmussen was found beaten and shot inside the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband, John. The LAPD decided that she had interrupted a burglary.

But Sherri’s parents believed the crime was personal. Before her death, she had been confronted by a woman with a complicated history with John, someone who had slept with him while he was engaged to Sherri. She was also an LAPD officer.

For more than twenty years, the case remained unsolved. Then a cold-case investigation finally reconsidered the possibility police had dismissed.

Just after Christmas 2011, Russ Faria came home from a game night with friends and found his wife, Betsy, dead inside their Missouri home.

Police quickly decided that Russ had killed her, even though four people placed him elsewhere and receipts, phone records, and surveillance footage supported his alibi.

Russ was convicted anyway. Years later, another death made the failures in Betsy’s investigation much harder to dismiss.

A young woman is found dying on the side of a highway after an apparent hit-and-run. But when police try to identify her, they uncover something far stranger: multiple names, a mysterious past, and a life shaped by secrets that began when she was just a child.

In this episode of Tell Me the Crime, Feb tells John the story of Suzanne Sevakis, a woman whose true identity remained hidden for decades, and the disturbing circumstances that explain why.

Susan Powell vanished from her Utah home in December 2009, leaving behind her purse, wallet, identification, and everything she would normally take with her.

Her husband, Josh, returned hours later with their two young sons and an extraordinary explanation: he had taken the boys camping after midnight in freezing weather while Susan slept at home.

Then Susan’s phone was found in the family minivan, one son said she had gone with them, and investigators discovered the warning she had hidden in case something happened to her.

Grant Amato was an unemployed former nurse in Florida when he became convinced that a webcam performer in Bulgaria truly loved him.

To preserve the relationship and the successful identity he created online, he spent nearly $200,000, much of it stolen from the family that kept rescuing him.

When they exposed the truth, paid for treatment, and gave him one final chance, his mother, father, and closest brother were killed—and Grant disappeared.

Peter Porco was attacked in bed with an axe, yet somehow got up and moved through parts of his morning routine before collapsing and dying. His wife, Joan, survived the attack upstairs.

Police said Joan identified their 21-year-old son, Christopher, as the attacker with a nod. But after recovering, she said she remembered nothing and became his strongest defender.

Investigators then built a circumstantial case around a yellow Jeep, toll records, the family alarm code, financial lies, and a father preparing to expose alleged forgery.

Ashley Wadsworth was 19 when she travelled from British Columbia to England to meet Jack Sepple, a man she had built a relationship with online.

At first, it looked like a romantic adventure: sightseeing, smiling photos, and finally being together in person.

But the relationship became controlling and dangerous. Ashley decided to return home to Canada. Before she could leave, Sepple killed her.

Rachel Barber was 15 when she told her boyfriend she had a job after class.

An old female friend was going to pay her a lot of money.

Then she vanished, and police found clothing, handwritten plans, and a fake identity.

Febriana tells John the case of Kouri Richins, the Utah grief-book author convicted of murdering her husband, Eric, with fentanyl.

At first, she appeared to be a widow helping her children process their father's death.

But investigators found financial pressure, life-insurance disputes, forged documents, and a prior poisoning attempt behind the public grief.

This is the case of Diane Downs, a mother who drove to an Oregon hospital with her three children shot in the car.

She said a stranger attacked them on a dark rural road.

But the story did not fit, and her surviving daughter would later say there was no stranger.

This is the case of Jennifer Pan, whose mother was killed and whose father was left for dead inside their home.

At first, it looked like a home invasion.

Then the father survived, and the story behind the 911 call began to fall apart.

A man spends nearly eighteen years pretending to be a doctor connected to the World Health Organization.

His wife believes him. His children believe him. His parents, friends, and even people who trusted him with money believe him.

But there is no real medical career, no WHO job, and no normal workday.

When the lie finally starts to collapse, Jean-Claude Romand does not confess. He kills almost everyone who believed in him.

A mother calls 911 from her own home.

Inside, police find all five of her children dead in the bathtub.

She admits she did it.

But the real question was not whether Andrea Yates killed them.

It was whether her mind had completely broken before she did.

This is one of the most disturbing and messed up cases we’ve ever covered.

It is about a teenage girl convincing her boyfriend to kill himself.

And not just failing to stop him.

When he got scared and tried to back out, she told him to keep going.

But the more you look at the details, the worse it gets, because there are moments where it looks like his death had become a story she was already telling before it even happened.

A family of four was murdered inside their Tokyo home.

Then the killer stayed.

Clues everywhere.

But more than twenty years later… no name, no arrest, no answer.

A neighbor asks for help.

A veteran says yes.

And within hours, two people are dead.

Her name was Laci Peterson.

She was eight months pregnant with a baby boy named Conner.

By the end of the day, her dog would be found wandering alone.

Travis Alexander’s friends knew something was wrong.

Then Travis missed a trip.

And the woman everyone had already been worried about started telling stories.

He left to clear his head.

Just a short trip to a waterfall trail near Mount Salak.

When he came home, his family said he had been gone for three months.

A woman goes out for a run… and disappears.

When her husband finds her phone, it’s lying on the ground.

Three weeks later, she’s found on the side of the road.

But the DNA evidence tells a different story.

She arrived in Los Angeles alone.

Nothing seemed out of place.

Until it did.

And then—she vanished.

She got into the car willingly.

At first, everything felt normal. Familiar. Safe.

He lived a completely normal life.

Husband. Father. Church member. Nothing about him stood out.

An 8-year-old girl vanishes in Bali, Indonesia.

Not from a crowded street—but from inside her own home.

A brutal murder.

A confession that seemed to settle everything.

A man is found dead on a beach.

No identification. No clear cause of death.

It started with footprints in the snow.

They led to the house—but never came back out.