File 187 True Crime Podcast

Case 4: The Slavemaster

Before dating apps, before social media, there was a man who hunted through a modem.
John Edward Robinson known online as Slavemaster. He used contracts, kindness, and the illusion of consent to trap women seeking connection.
What police found on his farm wasn’t just murder… it was an archive.
This is the chilling, fully-solved true story of how trust became a weapon and how the internet learned its first hard lesson.

Case 3: The Widow-maker. Merry Xmas

A few days after Christmas, a quiet Midwestern town wakes up to a nightmare.
A wife is found dead.
A husband calls 911 in panic.
And a friend steps forward… smiling.
What follows is a true crime story so twisted it feels scripted  but every word is real.
 
The Widowmaker is the chilling case of Pam Hupp, a woman who didn’t look like a monster, didn’t act like a killer, and didn’t run when the blood was spilled. Instead, she stayed close. She testified. She lied. And for years, she got away with it.
 
This episode of File 187 peels back the layers of deception, wrongful conviction, and calculated murder  revealing how the justice system failed, how an innocent man lost years of his life, and how a killer nearly walked free by hiding in plain sight.
 
This isn’t just a true crime podcast.
It’s cinema for your mind.
 
 Put the lights down.
 Sit back.
 And maybe don’t trust the friend offering you a ride home.
 
File 187: The Widowmaker
Executive Producer: Joe McReynolds
Narrated by Dan Kewley
 
 

Case 2: Satan’s Carnival - A Halloween True Crime Event

File 187: Satan’s Carnival peels back the panic, the headlines, and the faith-fueled fear that gripped a Midwestern town convinced the Devil came to visit on Halloween week.
A traveling carnival rolls into the quiet farm town of Auburn, Indiana lights, music, and strangers promising a weekend of fun.
By the time the Ferris wheel stops turning, a young waitress has vanished, and what’s left behind in a muddy field looks more like a ritual than a robbery.
 
 

Case 1: Buried in God’s Country

In God’s Country
Two women vanish on the backroads of rural Oklahoma — a place where church steeples pierce the sky and secrets fester in the soil. What begins as a simple trip to pick up children spirals into a nightmare of cult ties, family betrayals, and a community bound by silence. In God’s Country unravels the haunting story of faith turned weapon, where loyalty is tested, lives are shattered, and the truth hides in plain sight.