Killer Stuffed His House With Leaves, Kept Kidnapped Girl on Bed of Leaves

This episode details the disturbing 2010 crimes of Matthew Hoffman, an Ohio man who murdered three people and kidnapped a young girl. The narrative focuses on the bizarre botanical obsession found inside Hoffman’s home, where rooms were filled with piles of leaves and walls were lined with over a hundred bags of foliage. Investigators discovered a thirteen-year-old survivor held captive on a makeshift leaf bed in the basement while the remains of the deceased were hidden inside a hollow tree. The sources describe the investigative process, including how surveillance footage linked Hoffman to the scene and the subsequent discovery of hi...