Serial Killers

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

In early 2020, the story of Lori Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell, hit national news. They’...

Mon, 07 Apr 2025

Struggling with gambling and spiraling into debt, William Palmer turned to murder. This week, we con...

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

In 1855, Dr. William Palmer became one of the Victorian era’s most famous villains – a man who p...

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

In Texas, convicted murderer Ed Bell claimed he killed 11 girls between Houston and Galveston back i...

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

Edward Harold Bell was serving a 70-year prison sentence for murdering a man when he sent a letter t...

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

When a series of double-homicides struck Virginia in the late 1980s, authorities immediately suspect...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

Five missing people in five years. And that’s far from the only fact that aroused suspicion of a s...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

In the fall of 1994, a 13-year-old boy found a human skull in his backyard. Detectives later discove...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

In 1960, Sharon Kinne is a typical housewife raising two children in Kansas City. By 1964, she’s t...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous co...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous co...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

In 1907, George Soper located the cause of a typhoid outbreak in New York City: a cook named Mary Ma...

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

In the late 1800s, Mary Mallon was a cook for wealthy families in New York City. She thought her job...

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

Mary Bateman had been playing people for fools for years. The problem was, too many of her dissatisf...

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

Mary Bateman was an accomplished liar from a young age, and when she grew up, she started using that...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Isra...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Isra...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Isra...

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

We're continuing our holiday break, but you won't want to miss the episode we're highlighting this w...

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

Happy holidays, listeners! We're starting off our winter break by bringing you an episode from our c...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

You may have seen the movie and heard the musical, but do you know the secrets? As we take a break f...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

Three decades. Eleven states. Over 600 bodies. Across the United States, college-aged men have ended...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

In May 1999, Hong Kong police found the scattered remains of a young mother in a flat in the city’...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

Nancy Santomero and Vicki Durian hitchhiked from Arizona to West Virginia in the summer of 1980. The...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Say Candyman’s name five times in a mirror and you’ll summon his vengeful spirit, then he’ll s...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

If you’ve babysat, you’ve heard this tale: While her charges sleep, a babysitter receives harass...

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

In a remote area of York County, Pennsylvania, a two-story clapboard house stands in Rehmeyer’s Ho...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

According to the urban legends, Highway 666 is a paranormal hotspot in the remote American Southwest...

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

In August of 1989, 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik Menendez murdered their parents in Beverly ...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Jose Menendez pursued wealth at the expense of everything else in his life, including his relationsh...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

On September 13th, 1978, an episode of The Dating Game aired on network television featuring a man n...

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

Ted Kaczynski, the man better known to the world as the Unabomber, died in 2023. But his manifesto a...

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

There was no debate over whether Betty Lou Beets killed two of her husbands. But there was great con...

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

All she really wanted in life was freedom. But Betty Lou Beets wound up trapped in abusive marriage ...

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

We’re celebrating 500 episodes over at @serialkillerspodcast - come share your favorite episodes a...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

After 13 years as a Mafia hit man, he found himself in the crosshairs of the New Jersey Police. Ther...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

He killed over a hundred people before the police had even heard his name. So when the Mafia needed ...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

In August of 2018, Chris and Shanann Watts’ marriage ended in violent tragedy. The trauma left a f...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Chris and Shanann Watts seemed to have the picture-perfect life. But in reality, an extramarital aff...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

In 1978, Ann Wolbert Burgess was a psychiatric nurse, researcher, and professor at Boston College’...

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

Honolulu, on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu, is a quintessential paradise. In 1986, it was also the ...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

George Joseph Smith, the “London Bluebeard,” was said to have hypnotizing eyes that lured women ...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

When a Missouri real estate tycoon fell sick in 1909, he promised his family a large inheritance. Bu...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

By 1938, Philadelphia’s Bolber-Petrillo Murder Ring had collected an estimated $100,000 in insuran...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

In 1930s Philadelphia, self-styled “doctor” Morris Bolber claimed he could fix any ailment – e...

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

An Italian woman living in Rome during the 17th century sold black-market poison to women who wanted...

Mon, 27 May 2024

Serial killer or serial liar? Kelly Cochran is guilty of two homicides, which she blames on a pact s...

Mon, 20 May 2024

In 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was abducted from a car in Fort Worth, Texas. Days later, her body...

Mon, 13 May 2024

At 11, Mary Bell was on trial for not one, but two murders – during which she was often considered...

Mon, 06 May 2024

It’s 2004, and Sheila LaBarre has inherited wealth, a massive farm, and animals she adores. She ha...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

Sheila LaBarre’s childhood dreams weren’t out of the ordinary: get out of her small town, become...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

April 25 marks National DNA Day in the US, and if you’ve been following true crime stories for a w...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

In 1989, Kristen Gilbert started her nursing career at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northa...

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

In 1975, two young girls, Kate and Sheila Lyon, disappeared from the Wheaton Plaza Mall in Montgomer...

Mon, 01 Apr 2024

All Anthony Garcia ever wanted to be was a successful doctor.  When anyone got in his way, he attac...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

Israel Keyes died having only confessed to a handful of murders and crimes. Researchers and investig...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

Over the course of six months in 2012, Israel Keyes sits down with the FBI for a series of interview...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

In 2012, Israel Keyes is arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old barista. Pr...

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

On September 29, 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman took one Extra Strength Tylenol capsule to ease he...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

In July 2023, Rex Heuermann was arrested and charged with the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Bar...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

Olivia Hope and Ben Smart were partying with their friends on New Year’s Eve in the Marlborough So...

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

In October 1983, police found Gertrude McCabe dead inside her San Jose home: Who would murder an 88-...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

During a 1972 snowstorm, musical prodigy Lee Morgan and his band played a set at Slug’s Saloon in ...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

Sometimes violence comes from the people you least expect. ​Annie Elise, host of SERIALously and 1...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

Leading up to the Grammys, we’re covering one of history’s most infamous musicians: Charles Mans...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

Leading up to the Grammys, we’re covering one of history’s most infamous musicians: Charles Mans...

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

50 years ago to this day, Dennis Rader, aka BTK, killed four members of the Otero family. These murd...

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

A fire in the beautiful LaLaurie mansion reveals some ugly secrets. In this episode we recount the e...

Mon, 01 Jan 2024

Her New Orleans mansion is said to be haunted, but the truth behind the legend of Delphine LaLaurie ...

Mon, 25 Dec 2023

Happy holidays from all of us at Serial Killers! We will be back with a new episode in January. In t...

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

Happy holidays from all of us at Serial Killers! We will be back with a new episode in January. In t...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

After the fallout at the PNC Bank, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Bill Rothstein scrambled to cover th...

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

In order to deactivate the bomb, Brian’s co-conspirators set up an elaborate scavenger hunt around...

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

In August 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Wells strapped a collar bomb to his neck and chest and ente...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

After her sentencing, investigators and the American public thought the case of ‘Bloody Babs’ wa...

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

The case of Barbara Graham has mystified people for generations. She was convicted for the murder of...

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

Adolfo Constanzo may be known as the leader of The Narco Satanists cult, but equally deserving of th...

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

For Halloween, we’re presenting an urban legend about a terrifying Texas child-killer… and discu...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

In Hayward, California, in 1988, the unthinkable happened – 9-year-old Michaela Garecht was abduct...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

The true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon: Members of Osage Nation are being targe...

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

The true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon: In the early twentieth century, Oklahom...

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

In the early 2000s, a serial killer attacked at least six young women around Jacksonville, Florida. ...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

You may have heard of ‘boy moms’, but we promise you’ve never heard of one like Sante Kimes. I...

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

What would you steal if you knew you could get away with it? After years of robbery and fraud Sante ...

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

Sante Kimes grew up with very little, so after she moved in with millionaire real-estate investor Ke...

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

Rudy Bladel claimed he murdered his coworkers in an act of revenge — but most of his victims were ...

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

Harvey Miguel Robinson committed his first murder when he was just 17. As the son of a convicted mur...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

In 1969, a 23-year-old law student at the University of Michigan was found murdered in a cemetery ou...

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

Eliot Ness went to the grave in 1957 without ever convicting the Cleveland Torso Murderer. Decades l...

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

When a torso washed up on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in 1937, the police initially assumed a cr...

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

In the 1980s, after decades of snowballing violent impulses, Dayton Leroy Rogers began murdering wom...

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

After a repressive religious upbringing filled with abuse from his fundamentalist father, Dayton Ler...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

After a 7-month hiatus between 1918 and 1919, the Axeman jumped back into his killing spree. City of...

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

While the U.S. was wrapped up in the final days of World War I, New Orleans was facing an enemy righ...

Mon, 03 Jul 2023

By 1985, the Monster of Florence had claimed 16 lives—but authorities were no closer to catching t...

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

One of Italy’s most notorious serial killers has never (definitively) been identified. The mysteri...

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

In the so-called murder capital of the world, Terry Childs grew up in the shadows of infamous serial...

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

Following a string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the Zodiac Killer continues to write lett...

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

In the summer of 1969, newspapers in San Francisco began receiving coded letters from a man who woul...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

Some hitmen must walk the line between being a family man at home and a killer at work. But Greg Sca...

Mon, 29 May 2023

Starting in the 1950s, Greg Scarpa killed his way up the ladder to become the Colombo family's main ...

Thu, 25 May 2023

In 1982, while Richard Biegenwald was on a killing spree along the Jersey Shore, he also groomed a y...

Mon, 22 May 2023

Before he was even five years old, Richard Biegenwald was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After more t...

Thu, 18 May 2023

During his twenties, he spent his free time reading books about how to kill a human being. Naturally...

Mon, 15 May 2023

While many know his son, Oscar-nominated actor Woody Harrelson, Charles Harrelson spent most of his ...

Thu, 11 May 2023

After Robert Garrow committed his first murder, he retreated to Adirondack Park to hide in the wilde...

Mon, 08 May 2023

He grew up without any friends and suffered severe head injuries due to abuse from his parents. As R...

Thu, 04 May 2023

Hitmen need a certain level of detachment to do their job. They typically think of their victims as ...

Mon, 01 May 2023

There is an old saying that blood is thicker than water. But on Sept. 25, 1985, Gerald and Vera Wood...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

By the end of 1993, seven decomposed bodies had been pulled from Australia's Belanglo State Forest. ...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

The bodies of two missing backpackers were recovered from Australia’s Belanglo State Forest in 199...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

Being outside with nature is where he felt most comfortable. That’s why Gary Michael Hilton target...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

Out in nature, alone with only the trees for company, Gary Michael Hilton found a peace that always ...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

Philadelphia’s first Earth Day celebration made him a minor celebrity. When he met 25-year-old Hol...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

If you were in Philadelphia during the 1960s and interested in the counterculture movement, you prob...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023

By early July 1988, he had already tortured, mutilated, and killed two women. Police were stumped un...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

With fear of confrontation and anxiety about disappointing loved ones, Steven Brian Pennell pent up ...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

While she was a pediatric nurse at Bexar County Hospital, Genene Jones' colleagues were alarmed by h...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

She had experienced her share of tragedy, losing her father and a brother to cancer. That's why Gene...

Thu, 23 Mar 2023

His family says that a traumatic brain injury when he was 13 changed Peter Kudzinowski's behavior. B...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

Imagine knowing who a serial killer is for years but not having enough evidence to prove it. This is...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

With Mir Aimal Kansi safely back in Pakistan, the FBI had to try to find him and bring him home. Aft...

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

On the morning of January 25th, 1993, Mir Aimal Kansi carried out an assault on members of the CIA w...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023

Before he earned his nickname in prison, Manuel Pardo Jr was a corrupt cop in Florida during the 198...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Holed up in a cabin in Big Bear, California, Christopher Dorner was trapped. A perimeter of 40 offic...

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

In February 2013, a former police officer fired by the LAPD, had a score to settle. His name was Chr...

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

He found a way to fit into his new surroundings everywhere he moved. Terry Rasmussen would change hi...

Thu, 09 Feb 2023

In 2001 Robert Durst was posing as a woman, hiding from authorities in Galveston, Texas. He befriend...

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

Before he was the subject of HBO’s “The Jinx,” he was the son of a wealthy real estate develop...

Thu, 02 Feb 2023

He was bullied at school and abused by his mother. As an adult, he had violent fantasies of raping a...

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

By the time he aged out of the foster system, Vincent Johnson had already shown signs of being viole...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

No matter where Bill Suff lived, he was seen mainly by neighbors and co-workers as a helpful and hap...

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

It was the late 1960s when Bill Suff, the oldest of five children, was forced into a co-parenting ro...

Thu, 19 Jan 2023

In the weeks after their third murder, Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky disappear into the woods of ...

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

In the start of a new special series on Serial Killers, we’re delving into the minds of killers on...

Thu, 12 Jan 2023

In the 1980s, Richard Angelo was a Long Island native working as a nurse in the ICU. He’d found hi...

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

While the Stocking Strangler terrorized a Georgia suburb, another killer stalked military bases in t...

Thu, 05 Jan 2023

After a confession leads police down the wrong path, they establish the Strangling Task Force and re...

Mon, 02 Jan 2023

For several terrifying months in the 1970s, elderly women in a Georgia suburb were turning up dead o...

Thu, 29 Dec 2022

In 1946, the mysterious Phantom Killer who had terrorized the town of Texarkana for months disappear...

Mon, 26 Dec 2022

In 1946, the city of Texarkana was plagued by a series of attacks and murders on couples parked in t...

Wed, 21 Dec 2022

The spree continues into Christmas Day and beyond, during which the teen gang murders their third, f...

Wed, 21 Dec 2022

In the early hours of Christmas Eve 1992, a senseless murder in Dayton, Ohio, marks the beginning of...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022

Eddie’s crimes escalated in the ‘90s as he continued to dodge police. By 1996, he had attacked e...

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

Twenty years after the notorious Zodiac Killer terrorized San Francisco, someone else picked up thei...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022

Once back in the U.S., Maust serves time for manslaughter before regaining his freedom. He continues...

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

A volatile childhood and stints in a hospital psych ward set the stage for a violent killer who murd...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription…...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

With his caked-on makeup and pathological lies, Charles “Smitty” Schmid cut a distinctive figure...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre debuted in 1974, audiences had a visceral experience so frightenin...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

Premiering in 1991, The Silence of the Lambs was anything but your typical horror movie. While it ma...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

In 1996, a new horror movie with an innovative twist would reinvigorate the slasher genre. But behin...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

Andrei’s murders don’t go unnoticed. A pattern emerges: young victims, bodies mutilated, left in...

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

In the USSR, an engineer hid a secret he was deeply ashamed of — his inability to have sex with wo...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

In the late 1950s, a Los Angeles native started a crime spree that would stretch into the ‘80s. Jo...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. A theory emerged: What if the Mad Poisoner was...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

If Roger Arnold wasn’t behind the murders, who was? Police turn their focus to a new suspect: a di...

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

Forty years ago, cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules led to the deaths of seven people all around the Chi...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

In 1972, Schaefer was the newly appointed Deputy Sheriff of Martin County. He used his badge to gain...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Obsessed with moral power and control, Gerard Schaefer was a police officer in Florida who targeted ...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

In April 1892, the man authorities now realized was Frederick Deeming was on trial for the murder of...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

In March 1892, investigators in Australia were looking for an Englishman named Albert Williams who h...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

What kind of person confesses to multiple heinous crimes — while innocent? Gerald Stano did just t...

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

After a childhood of being bullied and living with a well below-average IQ, Gerald Stano's need to c...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022

Although he had developed a sense of discipline in the military, a traumatic brain injury and deep-r...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

In 1979, Wayne Adam Ford was looking for a fresh start. He arrived at boot camp for the U.S. Marine ...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

Elizabeth Short’s gruesome murder is the LAPD’s most infamous unsolved case. But there’s one p...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

In 1940s Hollywood, a 22-year-old aspiring actress is found mutilated and drained of blood. Her body...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

Henry Busch had a love-hate relationship with maternal figures. Perhaps it was because he lacked one...

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

Throughout 1989 and 1990, elderly women in Sydney were being preyed upon. But because investigators ...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022

He started by stealing and shoplifting as a teenager in the UK. When he was 24, John Wayne Glover mo...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

As an overweight Black kid growing up in a white suburb, Kendall Francois dealt with his fair share ...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

As he got older, Sean Vincent Gillis's impulses got darker. He committed murder, necrophilic rape, a...

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

As a kid, Sean Vincent Gillis would visit his grandmother's funeral home and sleep in the empty coff...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

For years, people had been disappearing along the Osage Mission Trail. Between their odd behavior an...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

In Kansas during the 1800s, people who traveled along the Osage Mission Trail began to disappear. An...

Fri, 22 Jul 2022

In 2005, the disappearance of 22-year-old Tamara Chipman changed everything. Her case brought enough...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

Every once in a while, authorities would catch an extraordinary break: In 1985, a tip led to a man r...

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

Gloria Moody was 27 years old and the mother of two young children when she was found dead in Willia...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

He was a cannibal, a necrophiliac, and even kept his victims' dismembered body parts carefully prese...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

He kidnapped, raped, and murdered more than 30 women. There's a belief that Ted Bundy got away with ...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

The "Killer Clown" likely contributed to people's fears of makeup-wearing jesters. But the truth is,...

Mon, 04 Jul 2022

It’s been five years since the Serial Killers podcast debuted, and to celebrate the anniversary, w...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

Even while on the lam, Gary Ray Bowles continued to kill. The FBI posted flyers in gay communities n...

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

At age 13, he had his first violent outburst. It was a sign of things to come for Gary Ray Bowles, w...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

After four horrific murders, a joint task force was no closer to identifying the Last Call Killer. B...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

Before he became a cardiac surgical nurse, Richard Rogers killed his grad school roommate and got aw...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

He was the picture of rehabilitation. After serving 13 years in prison, Mark Goudeau re-entered soci...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

When the relationship with his live-in boyfriend deteriorated, Donald Harvey took it out on the pati...

Thu, 09 Jun 2022

After settling into the gay community of Cincinnati, Donald Harvey did his best to live a normal lif...

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

He didn’t have control of much growing up in rural Kentucky. His family was poor. His uncle sexual...

Thu, 02 Jun 2022

After years of dead ends and roadblocks, detectives finally tracked down the old man they believed w...

Mon, 30 May 2022

When a family acquaintance offered to take 10-year-old Grace Budd to his niece’s birthday party, t...

Thu, 26 May 2022

Fritz Honka was a German serial killer who shared drinks with his victims at his local bar before ki...

Mon, 23 May 2022

Los Angeles in the ‘70s was a dangerous place to be. The city was menaced by multiple serial kille...

Thu, 19 May 2022

In March of 1991, after the murder of three sex workers in four months, Dallas investigators only ha...

Mon, 16 May 2022

As a child, Charles Albright developed a penchant for eyes while learning taxidermy. But his most da...

Thu, 12 May 2022

Two families in mid 20th century America became tragic tales of recurring Sudden Infant Death Syndro...

Mon, 09 May 2022

There's a common belief that all mothers are inherently good. But these two women have something to ...

Thu, 05 May 2022

John Christie felt alive and in control after his first murder. It's no surprise that he would want ...

Mon, 02 May 2022

John Christie wasn’t good at very much. Not relationships. Not even petty crime. But one evening i...

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

Thomas Dillon had a degree, a good job, a house, and a family. But what he wanted more than anything...

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

He lured young models into his home with promises of fame in true detective magazines. But once they...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

Every time Timothy Krajcir felt the urge to kill, he would find a target and then fasten a blue band...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

Believing he had been reformed, the parole board released 31-year-old Timothy Krajcir from prison in...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022

For over a year, Robin Gecht had been leading his own satanic cult composed of three of his own work...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022

Robin Gecht lived his public life like a model citizen. He operated his construction company, played...

Thu, 24 Mar 2022

After committing his first three murders, Joseph's struggle with schizophrenia persisted. He couldn'...

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

Two years before he embarked on a killing spree in Buffalo and New York City, Joseph G. Christopher’...

Thu, 17 Mar 2022

Thanks to an unsuspecting benefactor, Duncan gets a fresh start in North Dakota. But his blog entrie...

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

A teenage sex offender carried out horrific crimes against young boys in Washington in the late 1970...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

In the 1970s, after abusing his children and getting away with it, Joseph Kallinger enlists his son ...

Mon, 07 Mar 2022

The adopted son of cobblers began having hallucinations as early as 15 years old. They were harmless...

Thu, 03 Mar 2022

After years of charming women into getting engaged to him, Henri Désiré Landru had perfected his s...

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

In France, a con man charmed women into getting engaged before robbing them and taking them to his c...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022

Numerous childhood traumas led Tsutomu Miyazaki to create a monstrous character in his head named "R...

Mon, 21 Feb 2022

In 2010 a serial killer terrorized an area of Philadelphia known as the Badlands. Police swabbed hun...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022

Mack Ray Edwards was proud of his career as a heavy machine operator. It made him important on const...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

When Veronica Compton met Kenneth Bianchi, she was working on a play about serial killers. She inter...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022

Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog went from hunting animals to preying on humans. Even as they gre...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog grew up in the California countryside, hunting for deer and elk....

Thu, 03 Feb 2022

At a young age, Mikhail Popkov developed a deeply misogynistic view of the world. As an adult, he us...

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Police had taken Roger Kibbe into custody numerous times but never had enough evidence to arrest him...

Thu, 27 Jan 2022

After killing his first victim, Roger Kibbe decided to keep a low profile. But years later, his urge...

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

Roger Kibbe spent most of his adolescence filled with rage. And while he had a long list of arrests ...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

In 1946, the mysterious Phantom Killer who had terrorized the town of Texarkana for months disappear...

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

In 1946, the city of Texarkana was plagued by a series of attacks and murders on couples parked in t...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

As a child in the ‘80s, Matthew Macon was thrust into a world of chaos and turmoil. From a young a...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk were insecure children, scared of the world around them. As teenag...

Thu, 06 Jan 2022

Glennon Engleman had claimed two lives during his insurance fraud schemes and escaped police detecti...

Mon, 03 Jan 2022

Glennon Engleman seemed like your average neighborhood dentist, but he was harboring a dark secret. ...

Thu, 16 Dec 2021

He got a taste for killing while he was a soldier. But when the conflict between Iran and neighborin...

Mon, 13 Dec 2021

In the early 1900s, a man lured his victims with lonely hearts ads, drained their blood, and stored ...

Thu, 09 Dec 2021

Like many serial killers who get caught, Michael Bruce Ross became more reckless — attacking teena...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021

After experiencing severe emotional abuse as a child in the ‘60s, Michael Bruce Ross got a fresh s...

Thu, 02 Dec 2021

In the early 1980s, Larry Eyler haunted the highways of the Midwest, leaving the gay communities of ...

Mon, 29 Nov 2021

In the 1970s, Larry Eyler seemed like your regular, easy-going guy. Behind closed doors, he was anyt...

Thu, 18 Nov 2021

After serving his first prison sentence, Graham Young entered the world again, ready to start poison...

Mon, 15 Nov 2021

Graham Young always had an obsessive personality, but when his father bought him a chemistry kit, it...

Thu, 11 Nov 2021

In 1981, Wayne Williams was a 23-year-old with aspirations of putting together the next Jackson 5. B...

Mon, 08 Nov 2021

In the late 1970s, a killer stalked the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, abducting and murdering young B...

Thu, 04 Nov 2021

Todd Kohlhepp’s behavior was growing increasingly erratic. In the real world, he made unsettling c...

Mon, 01 Nov 2021

At 15, Todd Kohlhepp raped his 14-year-old neighbor, and 17 years later, he committed mass murder in...

Thu, 28 Oct 2021

Benjamin Pedro Gonzales lived in a fantasy world. He’d imagine entire relationships that didn’t ...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021

Joe Metheny tended to exaggerate and lie about his own life, but if half the atrocities he confessed...

Thu, 21 Oct 2021

When Harvey Carignan’s murder conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, he no longer fa...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021

After developing a reputation in the armed forces as a hulking, scowling figure with abnormally stro...

Thu, 14 Oct 2021

After 14 years behind bars, Arthur Shawcross struggled to settle into civilian life. He moved from t...

Mon, 11 Oct 2021

Arthur Shawcross was always a little "off." As a boy, he was unsympathetic and violent, exploding wi...

Thu, 07 Oct 2021

Derrick's fixation with stalking, raping, and murdering women leads him to the University of Louisia...

Mon, 04 Oct 2021

Ever since he was a little boy in the ‘70s, Derrick Todd Lee liked to peep. He would stare through...

Thu, 30 Sep 2021

Love makes us say and do the strangest things. For Turner, it made him jealous, paranoid, and extrem...

Mon, 27 Sep 2021

When Chester D. Turner moved to the City of Angels, it wasn’t by choice. In fact, Turner pretty mu...

Thu, 23 Sep 2021

In this chilling conclusion to our Working Late series, we're diving into the frightening world of m...

Mon, 20 Sep 2021

In our continuing exploration of the most popular jobs for serial killers, we're taking a deep dive ...

Thu, 16 Sep 2021

The number of psychopaths who hold positions with "CEO" in the title would alarm you… even if it w...

Mon, 13 Sep 2021

At the halfway point of this Working Late series, we want to look at the people whose work is often ...

Thu, 09 Sep 2021

You pass them every day in the car, truck drivers hauling things from one end of the country to the ...

Mon, 06 Sep 2021

This is the first episode in our Working Late series, where we'll be taking deep dives into the most...

Thu, 02 Sep 2021

By the end of summer, 2000, Joshua Wade had murdered at least one woman, and possibly many more. Des...

Mon, 30 Aug 2021

In 1993, a 13-year-old boy was sent to live with his father in Alaska, where he grew into one of the...

Thu, 26 Aug 2021

As an adult, Cary Stayner finally turned his darkest fantasies into reality. Using TV crime shows as...

Mon, 23 Aug 2021

As a troubled teen in the ‘70s, Cary Stayner experienced violent fantasies and compulsions, as wel...

Thu, 19 Aug 2021

Timothy Joseph McGhee joined the Toonerville Rifa Gang as a boy, and quickly rose through the ranks....

Mon, 16 Aug 2021

Carl Großmann’s entire life was marked with an obsession with sexual dominance. As a young man, h...

Thu, 12 Aug 2021

After spending much of his early life as a devoted career criminal, Ed Edwards emerged from prison w...

Mon, 09 Aug 2021

Beginning with a traumatic childhood is a common origin story among serial killers. But not every ch...

Thu, 05 Aug 2021

By the summer of 1984, Leonard Lake finished construction on his fallout shelter. There, Lake and hi...

Mon, 02 Aug 2021

Fearing a nuclear apocalypse was imminent, survivalists Leonard Lake and Charles Ng dreamed of build...

Thu, 29 Jul 2021

After he killed his friend Cherie in 1980, Randy Woodfield was a clear suspect in the murder — but...

Mon, 26 Jul 2021

He was a star football player in the early 1970s. A talented athlete with every chance for boundless...

Thu, 22 Jul 2021

After his first three murders, Kenneth McDuff was quickly apprehended and brought to trial. But whil...

Mon, 19 Jul 2021

Kenneth Allen McDuff led a charmed life. He was an angelic child. At least, that's what his doting m...

Thu, 15 Jul 2021

As a long-haul trucker, Eckert realized his job afforded him the perfect conditions to kill. And cla...

Mon, 12 Jul 2021

From a young age, Volker Eckert displayed a strange fascination with women’s hair. His fetish led ...

Thu, 08 Jul 2021

Some serial killers’ reigns of terror are cut mercifully short, due to careless mistakes or carefu...

Mon, 05 Jul 2021

John Joseph Joubert was plagued by disturbing daydreams, along with a horrifying urge to hurt little...

Thu, 01 Jul 2021

Having graduated from brutal assaults to murders, Paul Ogorzow felt untouchable as he rode the rails...

Mon, 28 Jun 2021

Coming of age alongside Adolf Hitler's political rise, Paul Ogorzow took his cue from the Nazi party...

Thu, 24 Jun 2021

There are few criminals so reviled as a child killer. David Elliot Penton was one of them. His crime...

Mon, 21 Jun 2021

A lifelong drifter and con man, Roy Melanson charmed and manipulated his way into his victims’ liv...

Thu, 17 Jun 2021

Avoiding capture as Amherst’s terrifying “Bike Path Rapist” emboldened Sanchez to commit his f...

Mon, 14 Jun 2021

An elusive rapist stalked areas around Buffalo, New York, for decades beginning in the late 1970s. W...

Thu, 10 Jun 2021

Harry Powers lived a life shrouded in mystery, so tracing his origins is difficult. But here's what ...

Mon, 07 Jun 2021

In 1973, 7-year-old Susie Jaeger fell asleep in a tent with her siblings while on a camping trip wit...

Thu, 03 Jun 2021

By 1999, Sells had murdered men, women and children in multiple states, and showed no signs of slowi...

Mon, 31 May 2021

For over 20 years, Tommy Lynn Sells hitchhiked across the U.S., killing indiscriminately and without...

Thu, 27 May 2021

By the beginning of 2011, Bruce McArthur had killed and dismembered two men, hiding their bodies in ...

Mon, 24 May 2021

For most of his life, Bruce McArthur led an unremarkable existence. But in the 1990s, he split from ...

Thu, 20 May 2021

After amassing wealth and influence as a spiritual advisor in the 1980s, Adolfo Constanzo set his si...

Mon, 17 May 2021

Schooled in the darkest corners of his family’s Afro-Carribean religion, Adolfo Constanzo decided ...

Thu, 13 May 2021

By 1828, Burke and Hare’s scheme of murdering people and selling their bodies was making them rich...

Mon, 10 May 2021

When a tenant at their boarding house died in 1827, William Burke and William Hare found a way to ma...

Thu, 06 May 2021

Having moved from break-ins to aggressive sexual assault, David Russell Williams carefully planned h...

Mon, 03 May 2021

As an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, David Russell Williams had a spotless record for decades...

Thu, 29 Apr 2021

After his first murder in San Francisco, Richard Ramirez headed back to Los Angeles to begin a killi...

Mon, 26 Apr 2021

A troubled relationship with his father, his religion, and the demonic visions he saw during seizure...

Thu, 22 Apr 2021

Organized and meticulous, Timothy Wilson Spencer evaded suspicion until a detective began connecting...

Mon, 19 Apr 2021

Growing up in Arlington, Virginia in the 1960s, Timothy Wilson Spencer displayed an alarming interes...

Thu, 15 Apr 2021

Born in 1935, Florencio Fernández grew up in a region of Argentina nicknamed the “fortress of fol...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021

Salvator Perrone’s early life in the 1950s is a murky mystery, but by the time he was in his 60s, ...

Thu, 08 Apr 2021

By the 1980s, Ted Kaczynski had set off several bombs, causing only minor injuries — but for him, ...

Mon, 05 Apr 2021

Spotting his genius at a young age, Ted Kaczynski’s parents pushed their son to academic excellenc...

Thu, 01 Apr 2021

By Thanksgiving 1986, Gary Heidnik had captured a woman and locked her in his basement, where he int...

Mon, 29 Mar 2021

Estranged from his family, Gary Heidnik’s behavior grew more and more troubling as he grew older. ...

Thu, 25 Mar 2021

When a six-year-old girl was brutally murdered in Chicago in 1945, the public and the press demanded...

Mon, 22 Mar 2021

Growing up in a family that didn’t have a lot of money, William Heirens turned to burglary to ease...

Thu, 18 Mar 2021

Herbert Mullin believed he was saving the world. After all, God had told him that murdering people w...

Mon, 15 Mar 2021

Throughout his childhood in the 1950s and ‘60s, Herbert Mullin's life seemed decidedly idyllic. Bu...

Thu, 11 Mar 2021

Having killed and dismembered his first victim, Robert Bordella was anxious to take another person c...

Mon, 08 Mar 2021

Inspired by a 1965 horror film called The Collector, Robert Berdella harbored dark fantasies about a...

Thu, 04 Mar 2021

In November 1997, John Bunting claimed his sixth victim, and successfully passed it off as a suicide...

Mon, 01 Mar 2021

Arriving in South Australia in the 1980s, John Bunting surrounded himself with people he could easil...

Thu, 25 Feb 2021

After his first murder, Steven Zelich couldn't bear to let go of his victim, and kept her body close...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021

Once a police officer who loved the authority and respect his position brought him, Steven Zelich's ...

Thu, 18 Feb 2021

Once a promising intelligence officer, Ray Fernandez transformed into a career conman, swindling lon...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021

If love makes you do something evil, does that make you evil, too? In the late 1970s, Gerald Gallego...

Thu, 11 Feb 2021

Following a whirlwind romance, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown embarked on a violent rampage that turn...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021

They say that “love is a many-splendored thing.” But for Ray and Faye Copeland, it was a thing o...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021

By 1985, the Monster of Florence had claimed 16 lives. Unfortunately, authorities were no closer to ...

Mon, 01 Feb 2021

One of Italy’s most notorious serial killers has never (definitively) been identified. The mysteri...

Thu, 28 Jan 2021

By 1984, Nance had revamped his reputation and settled into a comfortable routine in his hometown. B...

Mon, 25 Jan 2021

As a teenager, Wayne Nance developed an interest in Satanism that may have led to his first murder. ...

Thu, 21 Jan 2021

His victims’ deaths were often ruled “unnatural and accidental,” leaving Gilbert Paul Jordan f...

Mon, 18 Jan 2021

An alcoholic from his teenage years onward, Gilbert Paul Jordan spent his young adulthood in 1950s V...

Thu, 14 Jan 2021

By the 1990s, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz was a seasoned murderer using America’s extensive railroad...

Mon, 11 Jan 2021

After years of incarceration, rejection, and failure, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz's most violent impul...

Thu, 07 Jan 2021

In 1984, Wilder went on a weeks-long killing spree across the U.S., abducting, raping and murdering ...

Mon, 04 Jan 2021

Posing as a modeling agent in the 1980s, Wilder lured young girls and women to secluded places where...

Thu, 17 Dec 2020

By day, Robert Hansen was a devoted husband, devout Christian, and respected member of the Anchorage...

Mon, 14 Dec 2020

Bullied from a young age, Robert Hansen’s resentment toward the people in his hometown manifested ...

Thu, 10 Dec 2020

After his first murder, Keith Jesperson felt unstoppable, and went on something of a killing spree. ...

Mon, 07 Dec 2020

Always shy and a little curious, Keith Jesperson lived a troubled childhood. Beaten by his father, a...

Thu, 03 Dec 2020

By the end of 1993, seven decomposed bodies had been pulled from Australia's Belanglo State Forest. ...

Mon, 30 Nov 2020

The bodies of two missing backpackers were recovered from Australia’s Belanglo State Forest in 199...

Thu, 19 Nov 2020

After killing dozens of people and getting away with it, Alexander Pichushkin got bored with his rou...

Mon, 16 Nov 2020

One of Russia’s most prolific serial killers was an avid chess player. First introduced to the pas...

Thu, 12 Nov 2020

In the final few months of 2006, Ipswich was shaken by the strangling deaths of several sex workers....

Mon, 09 Nov 2020

He was an unassuming man whose Jekyll and Hyde personality obscured increasingly violent tendencies....

Thu, 05 Nov 2020

It was called the crime of the century: In 1966, Richard Speck drifted into Chicago, and unleashed a...

Mon, 02 Nov 2020

In the early 1980s, emergency services in St. Paul, Minnesota began receiving odd calls from a distr...

Thu, 29 Oct 2020

Throughout his shocking rampage that left dozens of people injured or dead, the newly dubbed “Vamp...

Mon, 26 Oct 2020

Unfulfilled by bestiality, a young Peter Kürten turned to murder — and discovered his body’s re...

Thu, 22 Oct 2020

When British heiresses Dora and Claire Williamson reached out to Linda Hazzard, she might have thoug...

Mon, 19 Oct 2020

In the early 1900s, Linda Hazzard marketed herself as a doctor, and claimed that she could cure any ...

Thu, 15 Oct 2020

After spending years in and out of prison, Charles “The Serpent” Sobhraj was determined to make ...

Mon, 12 Oct 2020

Growing up in Vietnam, India and France in the 1940s and ‘50s, Charles Sobhraj never truly fit in ...

Sun, 11 Oct 2020

In the years since the Satanic Panic, it's become obvious that the crimes people were accused of nev...

Sat, 10 Oct 2020

Emboldened by power- and money-hungry conmen, Evangelical doomsdayers set the stage for an epic show...

Fri, 09 Oct 2020

From Adolfo Costanzo and the Narcosatanists to the gruesome Chicago Rippers, these horrific groups s...

Thu, 08 Oct 2020

In the 1980s, “Satanic Panic” was a mass hysteria that consumed communities and ruined lives—a...

Mon, 05 Oct 2020

In the 1980s, “Satanic Panic” was a mass hysteria that consumed communities and ruined lives—a...

Thu, 01 Oct 2020

In the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was on high alert, so 43-year-old Angelo Buono Jr. and 26-year-old ...

Mon, 28 Sep 2020

These killer cousins terrorized Los Angeles in the late ‘70s. Despite very different upbringings, ...

Thu, 24 Sep 2020

After their first brutal murder, Suzan and Michael Carson fled San Francisco, intent on continuing t...

Mon, 21 Sep 2020

They set out to murder witches in the early 1980s, moving up and down the coast of the Pacific North...

Thu, 17 Sep 2020

On the outside, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo appeared to be a perfect couple—but they held a da...

Mon, 14 Sep 2020

When Paul Bernardo met his bride-to-be Karla Homolka in October 1987, he had already raped his first...

Thu, 10 Sep 2020

By torturing and killing his fellow inmate, Robert Maudsley won his escape from Broadmoor Mental Hos...

Mon, 07 Sep 2020

Abused by his parents from a young age, Robert Maudsley spent his childhood bouncing around orphanag...

Thu, 03 Sep 2020

In 1959, Eric Cooke committed his first murder in the sleepy city of Perth, Australia. And, having g...

Mon, 31 Aug 2020

Born in 1931 to a caring mother and alcoholic father, Eric Edgar Cooke had a turbulent home life. Hi...

Thu, 27 Aug 2020

While Joseph Swango’s patients died at alarming rates, few people seemed capable of connecting the...

Mon, 24 Aug 2020

As a teenager in the ‘70s, Joseph Swango had an intense fascination with the macabre, even keeping...

Thu, 20 Aug 2020

In the late ‘80s, Aileen trolled the highways outside of Daytona, Florida looking for johns. But t...

Mon, 17 Aug 2020

More abused than loved, Aileen Wuornos suffered through her childhood in 1960s Michigan. She became ...

Thu, 13 Aug 2020

For decades, it seemed like Charlie Brandt's first murder was a shocking, unexplainable anomoly—so...

Mon, 10 Aug 2020

In January 1971, 13-year-old Charlie Brandt retrieved his father's gun and committed a shocking murd...

Thu, 06 Aug 2020

By the early 1980s, Watts had stabbed three women to death. As police closed in on him, setting up t...

Mon, 03 Aug 2020

Unable to contain his dark fantasies and suppressed rage, Coral Eugene Watts targeted women in Michi...

Thu, 30 Jul 2020

Still desperate to ignite a race war in the United States, Joseph Paul Franklin sought more prominen...

Mon, 27 Jul 2020

He studied Mein Kampf. Changed his name. And joined white supremacist groups across the country. Fue...

Thu, 23 Jul 2020

In 1977, Cottingham was married with three kids, two secret girlfriends, and an itch for abusing sex...

Mon, 20 Jul 2020

He had an idyllic childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, but as Richard Francis Cottingham grew, he bega...

Thu, 16 Jul 2020

In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris sexually assaulted and murdered five teenage girls. For mo...

Mon, 13 Jul 2020

They each lived lonely lives, bouncing from jail to jail until a chance meeting in California brough...

Thu, 09 Jul 2020

At a young age, Moses Sithole was abandoned by his mother, forcing him to go in and out of a traumat...

Mon, 06 Jul 2020

In the early ‘70s, a teenaged Dugan had an encounter with one of the most notorious serial killers...

Thu, 02 Jul 2020

In his youth, Walter Ellis was prone to fits of physical violence. But as he grew older, he took on ...

Mon, 29 Jun 2020

Growing up in the California town of Solvang, Thor Nis Christiansen was the quiet son of Danish immi...

Thu, 25 Jun 2020

He endured extreme childhood abuse, served in the Marines, and was eventually diagnosed with schizop...

Mon, 22 Jun 2020

He spent his life trying to escape jails, mental hospitals, and his urge to kill. From 1961 to 1982,...

Thu, 18 Jun 2020

Sent to a reform school for the remainder of his childhood, Jesse Pomeroy, and his distraught mother...

Mon, 15 Jun 2020

Born in 1859 with a cleft palate, Jesse Pomeroy's father looked upon his son as weak, and brutally a...

Thu, 11 Jun 2020

He claimed to be Sweden's first serial killer. Throughout the 1990s, Sture Bergwall made shocking co...

Mon, 08 Jun 2020

Growing up as one of the few black kids in Warwick, Rhode Island was not easy. By the time Craig Pri...

Thu, 04 Jun 2020

In 1942, Marcel Petiot's fake escape network, Fly-Tox, was operating at full steam. He took his vict...

Mon, 01 Jun 2020

Since childhood, Marcel Petiot flaunted a disregard for the rules. As a doctor, he used his charm an...

Thu, 28 May 2020

His first murder in 1944 had gone exactly as planned: the body had dissolved in acid, and he was sur...

Mon, 25 May 2020

Born in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century, John George Haigh rebelled against ...

Thu, 21 May 2020

As his living conditions deteriorated in the late 2000's, so did Anthony Sowell’s state of mind. I...

Mon, 18 May 2020

Plagued by addiction, Anthony Sowell killed 11 women between May 2007 and September of 2009. As his ...

Thu, 14 May 2020

By 1984, after a lifetime spent breaking the law and facing few consequences, John Edward Robinson h...

Mon, 11 May 2020

As a child growing up in Illinois in the 1940s and ‘50s, John Edward Robinson was obsessed with fi...

Thu, 07 May 2020

In the late 1960s, Donald Henry Gaskins found himself consumed by a ravenous rage. He began stalking...

Mon, 04 May 2020

Between 1953 and 1982, Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins murdered at least 14 people, and claimed t...

Thu, 30 Apr 2020

In 1989, Danny Rolling had already gotten away with a shocking triple murder. As he tried to stay ah...

Mon, 27 Apr 2020

It's likely that an abusive, loveless upbringing in the 1960s and ‘70s shaped Danny Rolling’s tr...

Thu, 23 Apr 2020

We are thrilled to bring you a brand new episode of Serial Killers today and for the foreseeable fut...

Mon, 20 Apr 2020

We are thrilled to bring you a brand new episode of Serial Killers today and for the foreseeable fut...

Thu, 09 Apr 2020

By the 1990s, he had spent twenty years murdering dozens of women across the United States. Decades ...

Mon, 06 Apr 2020

In 2018, he was serving a life sentence for the murders of three women in California—when he confe...

Thu, 02 Apr 2020

After a 7-month hiatus between 1918 and 1919, the Axeman jumped back into his killing spree. City of...

Mon, 30 Mar 2020

While the U.S. was wrapped up in the final days of World War I, New Orleans was facing an enemy righ...

Thu, 19 Mar 2020

As Joseph James DeAngelo's crimes escalated from robbery to murder during the 1980s, he terrified th...

Mon, 16 Mar 2020

His crimes earned him the moniker of the “Visalia Ransacker” and the “East Area Rapist.” But...

Thu, 12 Mar 2020

He was a freight hopper who rode the rails of the western United States for over a decade. Robert Jo...

Mon, 09 Mar 2020

In the mid-1980s, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to nearly 600 murders. While most of those...

Thu, 05 Mar 2020

In many ways, Jerry Brudos wasn't in it for the kill—he was in it for the body. Between 1968 and 1...

Mon, 02 Mar 2020

He developed an obsession with women's clothing from a young age—a fetish which would eventually t...

Thu, 27 Feb 2020

Following the string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the masked man known as the Zodiac Kill...

Mon, 24 Feb 2020

In the summer of 1969, newspapers in San Francisco began receiving coded letters from a man who woul...

Thu, 20 Feb 2020

Between 1891 and 1895, H.H. Holmes embarked on a vicious killing spree across the United States, ter...

Mon, 17 Feb 2020

He was the master of the infamous “Murder Mansion,” and often cited as America’s first serial ...

Thu, 13 Feb 2020

In 1974, Ted Bundy embarked on a murderous roadtrip across America committing dozens of murders from...

Mon, 10 Feb 2020

He’s one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century, murdering dozens of young women...

Mon, 03 Feb 2020

In the late 1800s, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was the go-to doctor for Chicago's Red Light District. The...

Mon, 27 Jan 2020

In 1984, Bobby Joe Long terrorized Tampa—sexually assaulting and murdering women with alarming fre...

Mon, 20 Jan 2020

Bobby Joe Long was responsible for the murder of at least 9 Tampa women. Born in 1953, his early lif...

Mon, 13 Jan 2020

From 1926-1928, Earle Nelson would roam across North America strangling unsuspecting land ladies. By...

Mon, 06 Jan 2020

Reputed to have abnormally long arms and unusually large hands, Earle Leonard Nelson roamed the Unit...

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

While on probation after an early release from prison in March of 1990, Jeffrey Dahmer continued his...

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

It was a murderous rampage that could have possibly been prevented. Although Jeffrey Dahmer failed n...

Mon, 23 Dec 2019

He was one of the most infamous serial killers of the 20th century, murdering 17 young men between 1...

Mon, 16 Dec 2019

At least 10 people lost their lives at the hands of David Joseph Carpenter between 1979 and 1981. Hi...

Mon, 09 Dec 2019

Archibald Hall carried out his murderous rampage across the U.K. in 1977 and 1978, killing five peop...

Mon, 02 Dec 2019

Obsessed with breaking into the upper crust of society, Archibald Hall would go to any lengths to do...

Mon, 25 Nov 2019

On Christmas Eve 1885, Austin, Texas was again the site of multiple, grisly slayings. Only this time...

Mon, 18 Nov 2019

In 1884, Austin, Texas was shaken to its core when one of America's first serial killers committed a...

Mon, 11 Nov 2019

Between 2007 and 2016, Elizabeth Wettlaufer killed elderly residents of the long-term care home wher...

Mon, 04 Nov 2019

Born in Canada in 1967, Elizabeth Wettlaufer struggled to accept her sexuality due to her deeply rel...

Mon, 28 Oct 2019

In early 1994, Dana Sue Gray went on a month-long rampage that claimed the lives of several elderly ...

Mon, 21 Oct 2019

Growing up in Southern California in the 50s and 60s, Dana Sue Gray developed a troubling childhood ...

Mon, 14 Oct 2019

1977 proved to be a turning point for 27-year-old Richard Chase. Killing dogs and rabbits for their ...

Mon, 07 Oct 2019

He was a strange child—messy, disorganized and prone to random outbursts. As Richard Chase neared ...

Mon, 30 Sep 2019

In 1946, British ex-pilot Neville Heath had lost everything. His wife left him and he had been dismi...

Mon, 23 Sep 2019

Born on June 6th, 1917, Neville Heath would grow up to be one of the most devious killers England ha...

Mon, 16 Sep 2019

In the early 1970s, Jack Unterweger was sentenced to an Austrian prison for life after he murdered a...

Mon, 09 Sep 2019

In the early 1970s, Jack Unterweger was sentenced to an Austrian prison for life after he murdered a...

Mon, 02 Sep 2019

With the start of the 1980s, British serial killer Dennis Nilsen was just hitting his stride. His tw...

Mon, 26 Aug 2019

A hot meal, a stiff drink, or simple companionship. These are the tools Dennis Nilsen would use to l...

Mon, 19 Aug 2019

Five years into her killing spree, a team of financial detectives started to catch wind of Anna Mari...

Mon, 12 Aug 2019

In 1932, at the age of 26, Anna Marie Hahn came up with a morbid get rich quick scheme...murder. The...

Mon, 05 Aug 2019

By 1986, David Parker Ray was 46 years old, and had been abducting, raping, torturing, and killing w...

Mon, 29 Jul 2019

Born on November 1st, 1939, David Parker Ray would grow up to be one of the most sadistic serial kil...

Tue, 23 Jul 2019

Following the string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the masked man known as the Zodiac Kill...

Mon, 22 Jul 2019

In the summer of 1969, newspapers in Northern California began receiving coded letters from a person...

Mon, 15 Jul 2019

At first, many gay men in 1970s San Francisco were dazzled by a handsome young artist who drew their...

Mon, 08 Jul 2019

Ronald Dominique didn't feel any remorse as he dumped his twenty-third victim in the Louisiana swamp...

Mon, 01 Jul 2019

He never caught a break growing up. He was mercilessly bullied, and no romantic prospects ever gave ...

Mon, 24 Jun 2019

Just before he strangled a victim, Joel Rifkin could hear laughter ringing in his ears. The sounds o...

Mon, 17 Jun 2019

When relentless high school bullies started dunking Joel’s head in urine-filled toilets, and throw...

Mon, 10 Jun 2019

In the early 90s, vulnerable women around Vancouver were disappearing at an alarming rate, but the a...

Mon, 03 Jun 2019

This Canadian grew up on a pig farm in the 1970s, so slaughtering livestock became second nature. Hi...

Mon, 27 May 2019

After his candy store closed in 1968, Dean Corll needed a new way to bring in young victims from the...

Mon, 20 May 2019

In 1962 he took over the family candy shop outside of Houston and was only too happy to give away tr...

Mon, 13 May 2019

After successfully murdering four women in Eastern Michigan without a whiff of suspicion in 1969, Jo...

Mon, 06 May 2019

By 1967, he seemed to be a well-adjusted college student in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But the real reason...

Mon, 29 Apr 2019

By 1996, he settled down in a small village in Ukraine with his girlfriend, and was a loving father-...

Mon, 22 Apr 2019

He wanted to be remembered. He had spent a life cast aside and forgotten by his parents, siblings an...

Mon, 15 Apr 2019

Eliot Ness went to the grave in 1957 without ever convicting the Cleveland Torso Murderer. Decades l...

Mon, 08 Apr 2019

When a torso washed up on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in 1937, the police initially assumed a cr...

Mon, 01 Apr 2019

In early 2009, when Christine Ross set out on her morning walk in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the last ...

Mon, 25 Mar 2019

In this special crossover episode with Sami from Female Criminals, we find out that Amelia Dyer’s ...

Mon, 18 Mar 2019

Cunning, smart, ruthless, Amelia Dyer began a baby-farming business in 19th century England. Poverty...

Mon, 11 Mar 2019

It seemed as though no one would be able to save Sanford from his uncle. Sanford had lived with him ...

Mon, 04 Mar 2019

This Serial Killers and Hostage crossover covers Gordon Stewart Northcott, who held his nephew capti...

Mon, 25 Feb 2019

In 1996, he was honorably discharged from active duty in the U.S. Army. Yates would resume serving h...

Mon, 18 Feb 2019

He lived a seemingly normal life. A father of five children and army veteran, Robert Lee Yates, was ...

Mon, 11 Feb 2019

Sent to his first mental institution at the age of 17, Fritz Haarmann had a troubled childhood full ...

Mon, 04 Feb 2019

He didn't just love to kill his victims; Fritz Haarmann liked to bite into their Adam's apples and t...

Mon, 28 Jan 2019

After suffering multiple miscarriages, she begins to see her children less as a blessing and more of...

Mon, 21 Jan 2019

She was determined to pull herself out of poverty, but the path towards financial freedom meant murd...

Mon, 14 Jan 2019

In the summer of 2005, innocent people were being gunned down in the streets of Phoenix, Arizona wit...

Mon, 07 Jan 2019

In an instant, Dale Hauser's family was gone. He was left broken, isolated, and enraged. In 2005, hi...

Mon, 31 Dec 2018

Working as a photographer, he obsessively documented his crimes. Naso’s journals included more tha...

Mon, 17 Dec 2018

A routine home inspection in 2010 uncovers heinous crimes committed by Joseph Naso. Dating back to t...

Mon, 10 Dec 2018

Many of the details surrounding the murder of 16 women in Long Island remain a mystery, the only con...

Mon, 03 Dec 2018

Ten bodies were found on Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in Long Island in 2010 all linked to one per...

Mon, 26 Nov 2018

Edmund Kemper despised his mother so much, he tried to destroy everything she had ever loved. As Edm...

Mon, 19 Nov 2018

Verbally abused and psychologically tortured by his mother, young Edmund Kemper's mind turned toward...

Mon, 12 Nov 2018

Can detective Stuart Clifton find enough evidence to lock up the serial killer known as the, “Ange...

Mon, 05 Nov 2018

A sweet and loving pediatric nurse was secretly torturing and murdering children at a England hospit...

Mon, 29 Oct 2018

A man hungry for murder, and other things… The Cannibal Kid invites you to his famous BBQ, but thi...

Mon, 22 Oct 2018

He was either one of the most prolific killers of all time, or a compliant interviewee taken advanta...

Mon, 15 Oct 2018

A chance meeting with child killer Gary Marcoux inspired Olson Jr. to commit his own string of murde...

Mon, 08 Oct 2018

After his release from prison, Olson Jr. would go on a vicious killing spree and ultimately be convi...

Mon, 01 Oct 2018

What if you picked out a book at the library and found a taunting note to police from a serial kille...

Mon, 24 Sep 2018

By all accounts, he was a loving family man, Scoutmaster, and church leader. None of his family memb...

Mon, 17 Sep 2018

Fred and Rose each came from abusive homes and each showed signs of being abusive as they became adu...

Mon, 10 Sep 2018

Fred and Rose each came from abusive homes and each showed signs of being abusive as they became adu...

Mon, 03 Sep 2018

From the years 1969 to 1981, a serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper freely roamed the streets...

Mon, 27 Aug 2018

Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe claimed he was directed by voices of God to kill innocent women. Natur...

Tue, 21 Aug 2018

Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California. She had perfected a technique of tak...

Tue, 21 Aug 2018

This is a crossover special with the hosts of Serial Killers and Female Criminals. Dorothea Puente ...

Tue, 14 Aug 2018

From summer of 1976 through summer of 1977, David Berkowitz went on a year long killing spree that t...

Tue, 07 Aug 2018

Plagued by the voices of monsters and demons since adolescence, serial killer David Berkowitz set ov...

Tue, 31 Jul 2018

Like many serial killers, Maury Travis became over-confident. In the summer of 2002, after reading a...

Tue, 24 Jul 2018

There was no evidence in Maury Travis’ childhood of arson or animal abuse, often seen as early war...

Tue, 17 Jul 2018

Amy Archer-Gilligan owned and operated a home for elderly residents in Windsor, Connecticut, but fel...

Tue, 10 Jul 2018

Amy Archer-Gilligan opened a nursing home in Connecticut in 1907. By portraying herself as a kind an...

Tue, 03 Jul 2018

In the summer of 1980, Carol Bundy helped Douglas Clark sexually assault a young girl and murder ove...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018

After years of abuse as a child at the hands of her parents, Carol Bundy suffered through the same f...

Tue, 19 Jun 2018

Luis Alfredo Garavito raped, tortured, and killed well over 100 children. Find out how he lured away...

Tue, 12 Jun 2018

Luis Garavito was born in Colombia in 1957 to an abusive, alcoholic father and a time of civil unres...

Tue, 22 May 2018

Henry Lee Lucas served only 10 years for killing his abusive mother. After being released early due ...

Tue, 15 May 2018

Henry Lee Lucas, is one of history’s greatest liars. After his arrest in the 1980s, Lucas claimed ...

Tue, 08 May 2018

Carl Panzram didn't start out a murderer. He started with smaller crimes like robbery and arson and ...

Tue, 01 May 2018

Even as a child, Carl Panzram often found himself in trouble. He spent his teenage years either home...

Tue, 24 Apr 2018

After his girlfriend Maria was murdered by gang members, Pedro Rodrigues Filho made it his mission t...

Tue, 17 Apr 2018

After being admitted to Bridgewater State Hospital, Albert DeSalvo began confiding in other patients...

Tue, 03 Apr 2018

There’s a special sense of security within our own homes. But from 1962 to 1964, Albert DeSalvo to...

Tue, 27 Mar 2018

After luring in victims using a false sense of security, Patrick Wayne Kearney earned his title as “...

Tue, 20 Mar 2018

Patrick Wayne Kearney was born in Los Angeles, California in 1939. As a child, he was tormented rele...

Tue, 13 Mar 2018

Many people innocently dream of having super powers. But Ahmad Suradji’s dreams led him to become ...

Tue, 06 Mar 2018

In 1986, Ahmad Suradji had dreamed of becoming a mystic healer in his community. But this dream also...

Mon, 26 Feb 2018

During his 25-year medical career, Harold Shipman rose to be a respectable family doctor who treated...

Mon, 19 Feb 2018

What happens when a doctor, someone we should trust, becomes a killer? Harold Shipman, later known a...

Mon, 12 Feb 2018

Elizabeth Bathory was a cruel, widowed noblewoman who earned the title “The Blood Countess” from...

Mon, 05 Feb 2018

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, young peasant girls who went to the Castle Cachtice were ...

Mon, 29 Jan 2018

After murdering two women, robbing graves, and decorating his home with human body parts, Ed Gein fo...

Mon, 22 Jan 2018

We explore the twisted mind of Ed Gein, whose gruesome killings inspired horror movies Pyscho, The T...

Mon, 15 Jan 2018

After a childhood filled with abuse, poverty, and shame, Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley), left her ...

Mon, 08 Jan 2018

We continue to look into the conflicted identity of John Wayne Gacy, who terrorized Chicago in the 1...

Mon, 25 Dec 2017

John Wayne Gacy, or the “Killer Clown,” was named the worst serial killer in the United States a...

Mon, 18 Dec 2017

Ian Brady & Myra Hindley shared a deep, dark passion for murder that led to the death of multiple ch...

Mon, 11 Dec 2017

When Myra Hindley, an ambitious, yet violent, young woman met Ian Brady, an unemotional man with a t...

Mon, 04 Dec 2017

After William Bonin took the life of his first victim, his killings only escalated in frequency and ...

Mon, 27 Nov 2017

William Bonin drove California’s freeways, picking up hitchhiking men and boys and driving them to...

Mon, 20 Nov 2017

Andrei Chikatilo killed with increasing frequency over twelve years. Greg and Vanessa explain how th...

Mon, 13 Nov 2017

One of the most prolific serial killers ever to live, Andrei Chikatilo murdered 53 people between 19...

Fri, 10 Nov 2017

He was never caught. So why did Jack the Ripper stop killing? In the finale, Greg, Vanessa, Carter, ...

Thu, 09 Nov 2017

One of the first serial killers to write letters to the authorities, Jack the Ripper’s mail was me...

Tue, 07 Nov 2017

He's the world's most famous killer. But how could a series of crimes committed in a few weeks in 18...

Mon, 06 Nov 2017

In the case of the Lethal Lovers, Gwen Graham was charged with five murders, and Cathy Wood charged ...

Mon, 30 Oct 2017

After meeting at Alpine Manor in Michigan, nurses’ aides Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood began a romant...

Mon, 23 Oct 2017

Bible John left gruesomely specific crime scenes. This week, Greg and Vanessa scrutinize this killer...

Mon, 16 Oct 2017

Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom was meant to be a place for people to dance and enjoy themselves. In...

Mon, 09 Oct 2017

Charles Cullen was one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. As a nurse, he went from...

Mon, 02 Oct 2017

Nurses are trained to save lives. But this nurse killed. Charles Cullen overdosed his elderly patien...

Mon, 25 Sep 2017

A fire rages at black widow Belle Gunness's murder farm, where her many victims lie buried below her...

Mon, 18 Sep 2017

Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness was one of America's deadliest black widows. Suitors answering her...

Mon, 11 Sep 2017

What makes someone evil? And how evil is Gary Ridgway, serial killer and necrophiliac? Greg and Vane...

Mon, 04 Sep 2017

Struggling with a low IQ, Gary Ridgway always wanted to be the best at just one thing. That one thin...

Mon, 28 Aug 2017

Behind the cheerful demeanor of a sweet southern grandma, lurked a vicious killer. Nannie Doss poiso...

Mon, 21 Aug 2017

“The Giggling Granny”, Nannie Doss’ home cooked meals were served with a side of poison. Was s...

Mon, 14 Aug 2017

Lonnie Franklin Jr. offered rides to Los Angeles women, only to kill them, photograph them, and leav...

Mon, 07 Aug 2017

He targeted and killed multiple women in the 1980’s; then mysteriously disappeared. Fourteen years...

Mon, 31 Jul 2017

A lust killer who dreamed to be known as an outlaw, Paul John Knowles sought infamy. He was so despe...

Mon, 24 Jul 2017

He had no pattern. No victim type. No consistent MO. And he killed across the country. Nicknamed the...

Mon, 17 Jul 2017

“The Boogey Man”, AKA Albert Fish, attacked over 100 children, many of them unidentified. A trau...

Mon, 10 Jul 2017

Every Monday we take a psychological and entertaining approach to provide a rare glimpse into the mi...

Mon, 10 Jul 2017

Albert Fish preyed on young children in the early 1900s, molesting, murdering, and even cannibalizin...