There are crimes that shock us, crimes that puzzle us, crimes that stay with us forever.

And every now and then a crime comes along that's stranger than fiction.

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Welcome to What Crime Crime, The show where we dig into the most bizarre, baffling and twisted crimes in history, from unsolved mysteries to shocking confessions.

We're here to uncover the truth, one strange case at a time.

Tonight we're rolling the dice to try and solve one of the weirdest cases you'll ever hear about.

The Hillhouse murders, a deadly dinner party, Six suspects, and I'm what is wait staff?

A knife, a revolver, a lead pipe, a candlestick, a rope and a wrench, all in this house full of secrets.

Get ready, cry things.

Things are about to get whack.

It was a night none of them would ever forget.

A stormy evening in nineteen fifty four, a mysterious mansion in New England and a dinner party that would turn into a deadly game of secrets and lies.

Why is the carson?

It's frightened.

One by one they arrived with a mysterious invitations signed only by a friend.

Each guest carried a dark secret, and none of them knew what was waiting for them inside Hill House.

Inside the mansion, the preparations were underway.

Wadsworth, the butler had been tasked with overseeing the evening's events.

Evet the maid, danced around the house cleaning glassware, and Missus Hoe the cook quietly tended to the very unusual meal.

First to arrive Colonel Mustard, a decorated war hero, or so he claimed.

Behind the metals, Mustard had been selling warplane parts on the black market, making deals with the highest bidder, a man who'd profited from war, and tonight his secrets were about to catch up with them.

Next came Missus White, the Widow in Black.

She had buried five husbands, all of whom had died under mysterious circumstances.

The most famous was her husband, the Illusionist, who disappeared and never reappeared.

Missus Peacock, the wife of a US senator.

She was used to the finer things in life.

But what most people didn't know was that Missus Peacock had been accepting bribes from foreign governments, quietly lining her husband's pockets with dirty money.

Then there was mister Green.

He worked in Washington too, but the real secret he was hiding was his sexual orientation, something that, in nineteen fifty four, could ruin a man's life.

Last to arrive and together no less, were Missus Scarlett and Professor Plum.

Missus Scarlett, the DC madam, with a client list full of powerful men, had more than her fair share of secrets to protect senators, lobbyists, military officials.

Her secrets could topple governments, and as far as Professor Plum, he was a disgraced psychiatrist who'd had an affair with one of his patients.

The scandal had cost of his medical license, and tonight he was just as desperate to keep his past buried.

It just needs mister Bondy, what's your lit his secrets?

Oh?

Haven't you guessed he's the one who's black manning you.

Mister Bondy had gathered them together, but his plan wasn't just to expose them.

No, mister Body had something far more dangerous than mind kill Wadsworth the butler.

Wadsworth knew too much, and Body wanted to make sure he was silenced.

But what Body didn't know was that his plan was about to backfire in the deadliest way possible.

The only way to avoid finding yourselves on the front pages is for one of you to kill Watch Now instead of killing Wadsworth, one of the guests killed mister Body.

But who that was the question that would haunt the guests for the rest of the night.

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And speaking of secrets, the night was far from over for our guests at Hillhouse.

Mister Body as turns out wasn't the only victim.

The killer wasn't done, not by a long shot.

One by one, those connected to mister Body's blackmail scheme began to fall.

Who else is in the house?

First Missus Hoe the cook.

She wasn't just any servant.

She had once worked for Missus Peacock.

She knew all about the bribes, the corruption, and now she was silenced before she could talk.

Next the motorist.

He wasn't just a lost traveler.

He was Colonel Mustard's former driver, a man who had helped transport illegal shipments of warplane parts during the war.

But tonight the motorists passed caught up with him.

Then came the cop, a man on Missus Scarlett's hayroll.

For years, he'd been keeping her brothel in business by looking the other way.

But tonight he wasn't there for protection.

He was there for answers, and unfortunately he wouldn't get any.

Did this cop really think the suspicious fiends were just having a party?

And then e Vet the maid.

She wasn't just an innocent servant either.

She worked for Missus Scarlett too, gathering secrets and playing her own part in mister Boddy's blackmail scheme.

But Eve had seen too much, and the killer knew it.

And just when they thought it couldn't get any worse, the final victim arrived.

I are you singing telegrams?

But she wasn't just any young woman in a bell hop costume singing a song about being someone who sings a song.

She was the woman at the center of Professor Plum's scandalous affair, and with her death, the final piece of the puzzle fell into place.

But the killer was sloppy.

The gun is missing, gentlemen, turn out your pockets, Ladies, empty your purses.

Whoever has the gun is the murderer.

But depending on who you ask, the identity of the killer might change.

Some say it was missus Scarlett, desperate to protect her real business collecting government secrets.

That's how could have happened?

Or how about this?

Others say it was missus Peacock trying to cover up her bribes, or maybe what really happened was believed or not.

Everyone had a hand in the cries.

You were jealous that your husband was shooking her.

That that's why you killed him too.

Yes, yes, I did it, I kill give it.

I think her so much.

Flame plain flames on the side of my face, rep eating brets.

So it must have been mister Green who shot the scene telegram.

I didn't do it, and you'll just I'll just go on blackmailing us all of course, why not?

Well I'll tell you why not?

Good shock almost everyone?

So who really did it?

Who was the real murderer or murderers?

Unfortunately it seems we don't really have a clue.

But do you have a theory?

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And with that we conclude the story of the Hill House murders, one that will continue to intrigue, confuse, and entertain for years to come.

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