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S1E26 Computer. End program.
In 2014, twelve-year-olds Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser stabbed their friend Payton Leutner nineteen times in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their motive: proving their loyalty to Slender Man, a fictional…
S1E25 Profiles in Murder
The Link Between Quantico, Hannibal Lecter, and Deep Space Nine Trace the evolution of criminal profiling from its gritty origins in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit to its transformation…
S1E24 The Star Wars Guy
In Oshawa, Ontario, everyone knew Ken Chopee as “the Star Wars guy.” A lifelong collector of memorabilia, comics, and film artifacts, his identity was built around a galaxy far, far away — until his…
S1E21 Jack the Ripper Was an Alien (According to Star Trek)
Jack the Ripper is history’s most famous unsolved murder case. Five victims. Ten weeks. Zero arrests. But in the 1967 Star Trek episode “Wolf in the Fold,” written by Psycho novelist Robert Bloch,…
S1E22 Vanguard’s Dystopia: NXIVM’s Sci-Fi Nightmare
What does Isaac Asimov’s Second Foundation have to do with one of the most notorious cults in American history? More than you’d think. Keith Raniere — the self-styled “Vanguard” behind NXIVM —…
S1E21 From the Enterprise to Oz: Fandom Goes to Court
A Star Trek superfan rescues an iconic shuttlecraft from ruin — then gives it away. But his next legendary acquisition, a Wicked Witch hat from The Wizard of Oz, leads somewhere far more complicated:…
Clickbait, Culture, and Captain Kirk
How Star Trek turns nothing into news When a man was arrested in Clearwater, Florida for lewd conduct at a bus stop, it should have been a forgettable local story. Instead, it made national…
S1E19 The Ticonderoga Tour Guide
A fatal trust, a hidden life, and a case that shook a fandom. Thomas Krider, known as TJ Greene, was a tour guide at the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, New York, where…
“I Didn’t Like the Way He Looked at Me”
“Why did you kill him?” “No reason. I didn’t like the way he looked at me.” It’s the kind of confession that stops an interrogation cold. No jealousy. No rage. No self-defense. Just…
S1E17 JonBenét Ramsey Murder: The Starbase Cipher
Four mysterious letters appear at the bottom of a ransom note left at the scene of one of America’s most infamous unsolved murders: S.B.T.C. Nobody knows what they mean. Religious symbolism? A…
S1E15 Not Your Standard Stick-Up
In February 2009, a would-be robber walked into a Colorado Springs 7-Eleven wielding a bat’leth, a Klingon sword from Star Trek: The Next Generation. No injuries. No arrests. Just a surreal police…
S1E14 A Foundation for Terror
What happens when a story about saving humanity becomes an instruction manual for destroying it? In Japan, a cult found its answers in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. Credits:This episode of “The Prime…
S1E14 In the Orbit of a Murder
On Star Trek: Voyager, and now on Starfleet Academy, Robert Picardo’s portrayal of the Emergency Medical Hologram, or EMH, embodied ethics, compassion, and the hope that technology at its best could…
S1E13 Heaven’s Gate
Content note: Suicide In March of 1997, the Hale-Bopp comet lit up the night sky — the brightest comet visible in decades. For most of us, it was a wonder of nature. But for one small group in…
S1E12 Happy New Year! So say we all!
This week: A special preview episode from Let’s Talk About Treks, a weekly Star Trek podcast hosted by the enigmatic Earl Grey and jaQ` Darino (aka David Moody). Their tagline is “an episodic…
S1E11 A Holmes for the holidays
A stolen jewel, a Christmas goose, and the galaxy’s most logical half-Vulcan walk into a mystery… and somehow the trail leads straight to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This holiday special unpacks…
S1E10 The Zodiac Killer’s strange Star Trek connection
In 1968, Star Trek tried to save its sinking ratings by casting celebrity lawyer Melvin Belli as a glowing space ghost. A year later, the Zodiac Killer demanded to speak with that same lawyer live on…
S1E9 The Impersonation of Brian Bonsall
He once played a child caught between identities on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Years later, Brian Bonsall learned someone had stolen his real one—copying his tattoos, adopting his persona, and…
S1E8 Star Trek star makes cyberstalking history
In 2001, Jeri Ryan — then rising to fame as Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager — became the center of one of America’s first cyberstalking convictions. What began as hundreds of explicit and bizarre…
S1E7 Trek 365: Thanksgiving Special Preview
Happy Thanksgiving! Instead of a new true crime, strange coincidence or cultural controversy this week, we’re pausing to give thanks to one of the inspirations behind The Prime Detective. This…
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The Prime Detective has published 27 episodes since September 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Society & Culture.
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