The producers of The Curious Case of Natalia Grace have six different weird and disturbing tales lined up for Investigation Discovery, and the docuseries The Curious Case Of… will delve into each, beginning on Monday (January 13) night time at 10/9c.
These are “a number of the most surprising true crime instances and unbelievable scandals,” in response to the community, which provides that The Curious Case Of… will “go inside these real-life instances exposing weird secrets and techniques, shattered lives, and twisted motives.”
Guiding us by way of the sordid sagas is Beth Karas, the previous New York Metropolis assistant district legal professional who served as a authorized analyst within the Natalia Grace sequence. “Led by Karas, along with her in depth authorized experience and perception, every gripping story will uncover deceit, greed, and manipulation and provide key entry to surprising, firsthand accounts — proving the reality is rather more chilling than fiction,” ID says.
Right here’s what we already know concerning the instances coated by all six episodes…
“Bam Margera” (January 13)
The sequence premiere particulars the sobriety journey of Jackass star Bam Margera amid a battle between BJ Courville, a lawyer and YouTuber desirous about Margera’s case, and Lima Jevremovic, a tech entrepreneur who turned Margera’s authorized guardian.
A New Jersey Regulation Journal article from 2022 gives extra context, reporting that Courville had been sued for allegedly utilizing YouTube to disparage Jevremovic’s guardianship of Margera. The go well with claims Courville accused Jevremovic of utilizing the guardianship to co-opt Margera’s belongings. On-line authorized data, nevertheless, point out the go well with has been dismissed.
“The Woman Who Died Twice” (January 20)
This episode revisits the case of Mary Day, beforehand chronicled on CBS Information’ 48 Hours. Day, who allegedly grew up with an abusive stepfather, disappeared from her residence in Seaside, California, in 1981, at age 13. In 2002, police in Phoenix, Arizona, discovered a lady they stated was Mary Day throughout a routine site visitors cease.
The DNA was a match, however her organic sisters had doubts that this “Phoenix Mary” was really their sibling. Plus, a police crew utilizing cadaver canine discovered a younger lady’s shoe buried within the household’s former yard, and retired murder detective Mark Clark couldn’t shake his hunch that Phoenix Mary, who died in 2017, was an impostor, per 48 Hours.
“The Orphan Impostor” (February 3)
A person named Nicholas Rossi faked his personal dying in 2020 and traveled to Scotland to flee rape prices in Utah’s Salt Lake County and Utah County. However he was busted on the Glasgow hospital the place he was receiving therapy for COVID-19 after staff acknowledged his tattoos from Interpol photos, in response to BBC Scotland Information. Rossi then claimed that he was really an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight, that he had by no means been to the USA, and that he’d been framed by somebody who gave him the tattoos whereas he was unconscious within the hospital.
Rossi, whose authorized title is Nicholas Alahverdian, was extradited to the USA in January 2024, and he’s scheduled to face trials for the Salt Lake County and Utah County instances this 12 months, in response to KTVX.
“The Funeral House of Horrors” (February 10)
The following episode particulars the case of Jon and Carie Hallford, the co-owners of Return to Nature Funeral House in Penrose, Colorado. The Hallfords pleaded responsible to corpse abuse prices in November 2024 after prosecutors alleged they saved our bodies in a constructing with out electrical energy and gave clients dry concrete as a substitute of cremated stays, as CBS Colorado stories.
After the Fremont County Sheriff’s Workplace fielded stories from neighbors who had seen a foul odor, investigators discovered 190 improperly saved our bodies within the constructing. Court docket paperwork alleged that the Hallfords used clients’ funds and authorities loans to pay for luxurious gadgets, beauty procedures, and holidays.
“The Doomsday Cat Cult” (February 17)
Ex-followers of the purported prophet Sheryl Ruthven declare that her group — which operated a nonprofit cat shelter operation referred to as Eva’s Eden in Washington after which Tennessee — was an abusive cult and that Ruthven professed to be a reincarnated Mary Magdalene who would create a brand new Eden after an upcoming apocalypse, as Nashville Scene reported in 2016. (Eva’s Eden denied the claims on the time.)
Caring for cats, typically by the dozen, was a requirement in Ruthven’s group, since Ruthven instructed followers that cats carried the 144,000 souls talked about within the bible’s E book of Revelation and that these souls would rescue Ruthven’s devoted within the post-apocalypse world.
“Jodi Hildebrandt” (February 24)
“Therapist Jodi Hildebrandt’s campaign in opposition to masturbation drives a wedge between {couples} in disaster,” Investigation Discovery says in a synopsis of the Curious Case Of… season finale. “She kinds a darkish alliance with Mormon mommy vlogger Ruby Franke, however a horrifying 911 name exposes the depths of their weird beliefs.”
When Franke was charged with 4 felony counts of kid abuse and was sentenced to at least one to fifteen years of jail time for every depend, Hildebrand obtained the identical prices and sentence, in response to USA At this time. Hildebrand, Franke’s enterprise companion, is the previous medical psychological well being counselor behind a counseling enterprise referred to as ConneXions Classroom, which has spurred cult allegations for its excessive parenting strategies, the newspaper provides.
The Curious Case Of…, Collection Premiere, Monday, January 13, at 10/9c, Investigation Discovery