Hi, crime junkies. I'm Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today is one that I actually found in our own backyard, like actually steps away from where we're recording right now. I had never heard of it, but I do not know how because it's one of the weirdest, twistiest, bizarre cases that I have come across. One with questions that still people will have, but there is

no family around to ask the questions anymore. So it's up to us crime junkies to ask,

Who killed Malvina Cruts?

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I'm It's a brisk Wednesday afternoon on January 29, 1958, when Charles Crutz pulls up to his home in the Meridian Kessler neighborhood in

Indianapolis right around 5 p.m. after like a typical day of work. And when he pulls up,

he's a little taken aback because his wife's 1950s Buick isn't around. So he walks into his house

and sees his 10-year-old son, Charles, sitting on the couch watching television, and he says,

Hey, buddy. Charles goes by Buddy, by television. And he says, hey, buddy. Charles goes by

Buddy, by the way. He says, buddy, where's your mom? And Buddy says, well, I think she's out delivering

newspapers. I came home from school today for lunch, and she told me that she was going to take care of my

route. And I don't know if that's like a normal thing for her to offer to do or even if getting to go home on your lunch is a normal thing.

Like wasn't when I was a kid.

Again, 58 though.

But Buddy makes it sound like their lunchtime combo was routine.

Except there was something weird about it.

He tells his dad that the entire conversation that they had about this paper route, even his mom telling him,

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