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Unfinished Business
EPISODE 27 The serial killers classified ads stopped. The girls died. The pattern no one ever saw — until now For six months we made one promise: every victim of Christopher Wilder would be remembered. Every one would be given a voice. In this final episode, we keep that promise — and we bring news that changes everything we thought we knew about how long he killed, and how many. The official count stopped at nine. By the end of this episode, you will understand why we believ


Ending the Silence
Episode 26 The official count stopped at nine. These are the women the world was never meant to remember. Mindy and her father Mindy was four years old the day her mother dropped her at daycare and walked away into the crowd. She cried and cried. A teacher told her she was just throwing a tantrum. She wasn't. Somehow, even at four, she knew. Her mother, Terry Walden, never came to pick her up. Christopher Wilder had taken her. Forty years later, Mindy is the only one who stil


The Wrong Benchmark
Why Christopher Wilder does not measure against Bundy — he measures past him By Regan Hunt Ted Bundy Christopher Wilder For half a century, Ted Bundy has been the bar, the figure against whom every serious offender is measured: the charming, intelligent predator who hid in plain sight. Measured against him, Christopher Bernard Wilder does not merely reach that bar. On dimension after dimension, he clears it. The closer I l


Murder & Mystery at the Mall - The Missing Pt III
EPISODE 25 Two Girls Named Mary: The Mall Murders Hiding in Plain Sight Mary Opitz She left a bag of pretzels on the roof of her mother's car. That was the last trace of her. It was January 1981, at the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, Florida. Seventeen-year-old Mary Opitz had spent the afternoon shopping with her mother, Nancy, and her older brother Chris, hunting for a birthday present for a family friend. Mary got tired. Mary took the shopping from her mother, said she'd wait a


Death Row Confession - The Missing Part II
The Death Row confession that puts serial killer Christopher Wilder on a par with Ted Bundy


The Missing
Episode 23 They Laughed at Him and Lived. She Believed Him and Died. Two young mothers were running a yard sale on a summer morning in 1983 when a black sports car pulled up. The man who stepped out had a camera around his neck and gold chains glinting at his collar. He was charming, well-dressed, smooth. He told them they could be models. They laughed at him. That laughter saved their lives. The man was Christopher Wilder — and in just nine months, his face would appear on t


Secrets from the Grave
EPISODE 22 The Woman No One Has Ever Claimed Ellery Jane Doe We don't know what she was thinking when she wrote it. We don't know if her hand was steady or shaking. We only know that whoever killed her was careful — careful enough to strip away everything that could ever identify her. Her name. Her papers. Anything that might have told the world who she was. But he missed the scrap of paper in her pocket. For forty-three years, that note has been the only thing she left behin


The Friday the Thirteenth Reckoning
The day of reckoning for one of America's very worst serial killers


The Mystery of Tina Risico & The Stunning Courage of Dawnette Wilt
Two sixteen year old girls and one serial killer. What they each do to stay alive and survive has divided the world for over forty years.


The Mystery of Tina Risico
Sixteen-year-old Tina Risico spent nine terrifying days travelling across America with a serial killer on a murderous rampage - and survived to tell her story.


Fight Like Your Life Depends On It
A special studio based episode of Catching Evil with three remarkable women: all true-crime experts through experince.


Ellery Jane Doe: The Greatest Mystery of All - Part 1
You could help solve one of America's greatest cold case murder mysteries today.


Episode 15: DADDY'S GIRL
The story of serial killer victim Michelle Korfman, who went to a modelling competition alone and never came home.


Episode 14: A Serial Killers' Playground
She Had Cowboy Boots, Big Dreams and a Ski Trip Planned. Then Serial Killer Christopher Wilder Pulled a Gun On Her. This is Sheryl's story Sheryl Bonaventura dreamed of a career in modelling. I t was supposed to be the beginning of spring break. Eighteen-year-old Sheryl Bonaventura had spent the night at her best friend Krystal's house, the two of them staying up late, talking and laughing and planning their trip to Aspen. All Sheryl had to do the next morning was swing by Me


Episode 13: HOW I SURVIVED THE SERIAL KILLER CHRISTOPHER WILDER
She Asked One Question That Changed Everything. Now She's Coming For Justice. T wo years ago, Kristine was sitting on a porch reading a newspaper article when her world quietly fell apart. It wasn't the abduction that did it. She'd lived with that for thirty years. It was the moment she read about unidentified bodies found near land in western Palm Beach County and recognised a name attached to it. Christopher Wilder. Her Christopher Wilder. She went to bed that night and th


Episode 12: A SERIAL KILLER'S LITTLE BLACK BOOK
The Little Black Book That Could Unlock Australia's Darkest Secret How Catching Evil is doing what decades of policing failed to do Jan was pestered by serial killer Christopher Wilder to go to Wanda Beach with him just days before the murders of two schoolgirls there S he was fifteen years old, shy, and shopping for work clothes with her girlfriend in a Sydney department store two weeks before Christmas, 1964. A good-looking blond boy kept finding her among the clothing rack


Episode 11: BREAKING THE SILENCE
Kristine was serial killer Christopher Wilder's youngest victim


Episode 10: A PRETTY YOUNG BRIDE DISAPPEARS
The heartbreaking story of the new bride who kissed her husband goodbye and vanished.


Episode 9: DON'T GET IN THE CAR
Inside the mind of serial killer Christopher Wilder


Episode Eight: I Miss My Mom
Christopher Wilder stole her mother, her childhood, and even the sound of her voice. He couldn't steal what came next. A daughter who lost her mother to a killer. A son whose father became one. And the love that found them both. Terry Walden, 23, on her wedding day In Episode 8 of Catching Evil, a daughter speaks out for the first time in forty years, a mother's stolen voice is finally heard — and a stunning revelation changes everything. She was four years old the day the wo
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