Maryland's Most Notorious Murders

Maryland's Most Notorious Murders

Episode One - Child Killers Adan Canela, Parlicarpio Espinoza & Unsolved Destiny Harrison

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Sept. 17, 2026

Season THIRTEEN (MOST MEMORABLE UNSOLVED MURDERS) Episode 2 Francis "Danny" Crocetti & (UNSOLVED) Mary Lee Gericke and Victoria Gericke

This episode profiles the unsolved murder of 14-year-old Francis "Danny" Crocetti who was found on March 28, 1975, stabbed to death with an icepick, near a stream behind a home on Melbourne Road in the Yale Heights community of southwest Baltimore. This episode also profiles the unsolved arson murders of 30-year-old Mary Lee Gericke and her daughter, 8-year-old Victoria Gericke, who died from burns and smoke inhalation on May 24, 1992, from a fire that was deliberately set in the 1400 block o
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Sept. 17, 2026

Season THIRTEEN (MOST MEMORABLE UNSOLVED MURDERS) Episode 1 Devin DeLante Cook & (UNSOLVED) Susana Thatcher

This episode profiles the unsolved murder of 20-year-old Devin DeLante Cook, a well-known lacrosse player, who was shot in the 4700 block of Wilern Avenue on July 31, 2014, in the Park Heights neighborhood of northwest Baltimore. This episode also profiles the unsolved murder of 52-year-old Susana Thatcher, who was found murdered in the area of Norris Lane and Trappe Road in Dundalk, on December 8, 1978.
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June 1, 2026

Season TWELVE (WITNESS INTIMIDATION/LIFE INSURANCE MOTIVE MURDERS) Episode 10 Pastor Kevin Jerome Pushia & (UNSOLVED) Donna Lee Dustin

This episode profiles the life insurance motive murder of 37-year -old Lemuel Wallace, a blind a developmentally challenged man, who was shot and killed on February 4, 2009. Lemuel's murder was orchestrated by 33-year-old Pastor Kevin Jerome Pushia. This episode also profiles the unsolved murder of 17-year-old Donna Lee Dustin who was found in a wooded footpath area off of Meyer Station Road in Odenton on November 17, 1973. Donna was found nude and had been beaten and sexually assaulted.
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April 21, 2026

Season TWELVE (WITNESS INTIMIDATION/LIFE INSURANCE MOTIVE MURDERS) Episode 9 Geraldine Brown Parrish & (UNSOLVED) Alva Jean Parris

This episode profiles the murders orchestrated and planned by female serial murderer 68-year-old-Geraldine Brown Parrish who was convicted of planning the murders of four men between 1985 and 1987. The men were killed strictly for their life insurance benefits. This episode also profiles the unsolved homicide of 9-year-old Alva Jean Parris, who was found beaten and burned with lye, in a shallow grave, near an abandoned farmhouse in Essex, on June 15, 1960.
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March 2, 2026

Season TWELVE (WITNESS INTIMIDATION / LIFE INSURANCE MOTIVE MURDERS) Episode 8 Stephen Michael Cooke, Jr. & (UNSOLVED) Deborah Ann Brooks

This episode profiles the various crimes committed by Stephen Michael Cooke, Jr., including orchestrating the murder of his girlfriend, 24-year-old Heidi Louise Bernadzikowski for her life insurance benefits on April 20, 2000, and also the solicitation to intimidate a witness for his co-defendant, while awaiting trial, fourteen years later. This episode also profiles the unsolved stabbing murder of 17-year-old Deborah Ann Brooks, who was found beaten and stabbed in a wooded area off of Sharpe
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March 2, 2026

Season TWELVE (WITNESS INTIMIDATION/LIFE INSURANCE MOTIVE MURDERS) Episode 7 Melvin Ford & (UNSOLVED) Leann Faulk

This episode profiles the shooting murder of 35-year-old Melvin Ford, who was murdered on October 27, 2017, in the 500 block of East 26th Street. Melvin, a witness to an earlier shooting, had been planning to testify as a witness for that case but was killed ten days before trial was scheduled to begin. This episode also profiles the unsolved murder of 21-year-old Leann Faulk. Leann was last seen on Saturday, November 16, 1985, leaving her boyfriend's parent's home in Oxon Hill. Leann's body

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