Do you ever listen to a true crime podcast and think, “that’s not quite right…?” Same. Crime stories are hard to ignore and even harder to forget. But the thing is... they’re stories. And getting a story right is all about how you tell it. Truer Crime talks about real people— murdered, missing, misled — with more nuance, more context, and more questions. Hosted by Celisia Stanton. Season 3 out now!
Welcome to Season Seven of Nobody Should Believe Me. Andrea revisits the case of Maya Kowalski—the story at the center of the Netflix film Take Care of Maya–and the family’s high-profile lawsuit against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. What became widely framed as a story about “medical kidnapping” began when hospital staff reported suspected medical child abuse after Maya arrived with a history of extreme ketamine treatments.
How did a case of horrific abuse become a story about evil doctors kidnapping children?
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23 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Relisha Rudd & The Fight for Missing People of Color
In this bonus episode of Truer Crime, we return to the disappearance of eight-year-old Relisha Rudd.
In 2014, Relisha vanished from a Washington, D.C. homeless shelter. She was not officially reported missing for eighteen days. More than a decade later, she has never been found.
I’m joined by Derrica Wilson and Natalie Wilson, co-founders of the Black and Missing Foundation, to discuss their two-part YouTube docuseries, The Vanishing of Relisha Rudd: A Cold Case Re-examined, and the broader patterns that shape cases like hers.
We talk about media disparities, reporting delays, public alert systems that aren’t always activated, and what it means to advocate for missing people of color inside systems that don’t respond equally.
To learn more about the Black and Missing Foundation or watch the docuseries:
bamfi.org
hwb5k.org
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19 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Celisia Introduces High Strange S2
Celisia introduces the second season of High Strange, which explores firsthand accounts and credible witnesses to examine unexplained phenomena and challenge official explanations.
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