What we know about all 6 cases in the new ID document series

The producers of The Strange Case of Natalia Grace has six other bizarre and disturbing stories lined up for Investigation Discovery and the documentaries The Strange Case of… will delve into each one, starting Monday (January 13) evening at 10/9c.

These are “some of the most shocking true crime cases and unbelievable scandals,” according to the network, which adds that The Strange Case of… will “go inside these real-life cases and reveal bizarre secrets, broken lives and twisted motives.”

Beth Karas, the former New York City assistant district attorney who served as a legal analyst in the Natalia Grace series. “Led by Karas, with her extensive legal expertise and insight, each gripping story will expose deception, greed and manipulation and provide key access to shocking, first-hand accounts – proving that truth is far more chilling than fiction,” says ID.

Here’s what we already know about the cases covered in all six episodes…

“Bam Margera” (January 13)

The series premiere describes the sobriety journey Jackass star Bam Margera amid a conflict between BJ Courville, a lawyer and YouTuber interested in Margera’s case, and Lima Jevremovic, a tech entrepreneur who became Margera’s legal guardian.

ONE New Jersey Law Journal article from 2022 provides more context, reporting that Courville had been sued for allegedly using YouTube to disparage Jevremovic’s guardianship of Margera. The suit claims Courville accused Jevremovic of using the guardianship to co-opt Margera’s assets. However, online legal records indicate the case has been dismissed.

“The Girl Who Died Twice” (January 20)

This episode repeats the case of Mary Day, which has been chronicled before CBS News’ 48 hours. Day, who reportedly grew up with an abusive stepfather, disappeared from her home in Seaside, California, in 1981, at the age of 13. In 2002, police in Phoenix, Arizona, found a woman they said was Mary Day during a routine traffic stop.

The DNA was a match, but her biological sisters had doubts that this “Phoenix Mary” was actually their sibling. Additionally, a police team using cadaver dogs found a young girl’s shoe buried in the family’s former backyard, and retired homicide detective Mark Clark couldn’t shake his hunch that Phoenix Mary, who died in 2017, was an imposter, per 48 hours.

“The Orphan Impostor” (February 3)

A man named Nicholas Rossi faked his own death in 2020 and traveled to Scotland to escape rape charges in Utah’s Salt Lake County and Utah County. But he was bussed to hospital in Glasgow, where he was receiving treatment for COVID-19, after staff recognized his tattoos from Interpol images, according to BBC Scotland News. Rossi then claimed that he was actually an Irish orphan named Arthur Knight, that he had never been to the United States, and that he had been framed by someone who gave him the tattoos while he was unconscious in the hospital.

Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, was extradited to the United States in January 2024 and is scheduled to stand trial in the Salt Lake County and Utah County cases this year, according to KTVX.

“Funeral Home of Horrors” (February 10)

The next episode details the case of Jon and Carie Hallford, co-owners of Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colorado. The Hallfords pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges in November 2024 after prosecutors alleged they stored bodies in a building without electricity and gave customers dry concrete instead of cremated remains, which CBS Colorado reports.

After the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office fielded reports from neighbors who had noticed a foul smell, investigators found 190 improperly stored bodies in the building. Court documents claimed the Hallfords used customer payments and government loans to pay for luxury items, cosmetic procedures and holidays.

“The Doomsday Cat Cult” (February 17)

Ex-followers of alleged prophet Sheryl Ruthven allege that her organization — which ran a nonprofit cat shelter operation called Eva’s Eden in Washington and then Tennessee — was a violent cult and that Ruthven professed to be a reincarnated Mary Magdalene who would create a new Eden after a coming apocalypse, which Nashville scene reported in 2016. (Eva’s Eden denied the claims at the time.)

Caring for cats, sometimes by the dozen, was a requirement in Ruthven’s organization, since Ruthven told followers that cats carried the 144,000 souls mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Revelation, and that these souls would save Ruthven’s believers in the post-apocalypse world.

“Jodi Hildebrandt” (February 24)

“Therapist Jodi Hildebrandt’s crusade against masturbation drives a wedge between couples in crisis,” says Investigation Discovery in a synopsis of Interesting case of… end of season. “She forms a dark alliance with Mormon mom vlogger Ruby Franke, but a harrowing 911 call reveals the depth of their bizarre beliefs.”

When Franke was charged with four serious cases of child abuse and was sentenced to one to 15 years in prison for each charge, Hildebrand received the same charges and punishment, according to USA today. Hildebrand, Franke’s business partner, is the former clinical mental health counselor behind a counseling business called ConneXions Classroom, which has spurred cult accusations for its extreme parenting methods, the paper adds.

The Strange Case of…Series premiere, Monday 13 January at 10/9c, Investigation Discovery