The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 1
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
Edward Harold Bell was serving a 70-year prison sentence for murdering a man when he sent a letter t...
Hunting a Serial Killer: The Colonial Parkway Murders
Mon, 10 Mar 2025
When a series of double-homicides struck Virginia in the late 1980s, authorities immediately suspect...
The Lewis Clark Valley Murders
Mon, 03 Mar 2025
Five missing people in five years. And that’s far from the only fact that aroused suspicion of a s...
The 10,000 Bones at Fox Hollow Farm
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
In the fall of 1994, a 13-year-old boy found a human skull in his backyard. Detectives later discove...
“La Pistolera” Sharon Kinne
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
In 1960, Sharon Kinne is a typical housewife raising two children in Kansas City. By 1964, she’s t...
Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Kidnappers" - Wanda Barzee and Brian David Mitchell
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous co...
Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Gangsters" - Kathryn and "Machine Gun" Kelly
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous co...
The Legacy of Typhoid Mary Pt. 2
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
In 1907, George Soper located the cause of a typhoid outbreak in New York City: a cook named Mary Ma...
The Legacy of Typhoid Mary Pt. 1
Mon, 20 Jan 2025
In the late 1800s, Mary Mallon was a cook for wealthy families in New York City. She thought her job...
The Yorkshire Killer Witch Pt. 2
Mon, 13 Jan 2025
Mary Bateman had been playing people for fools for years. The problem was, too many of her dissatisf...
The Yorkshire Killer Witch Pt. 1
Mon, 06 Jan 2025
Mary Bateman was an accomplished liar from a young age, and when she grew up, she started using that...
Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 3
Mon, 30 Dec 2024
As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Isra...
Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 2
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Isra...
Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 1
Mon, 16 Dec 2024
As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Isra...
Holiday Break: "The Grim Reaper" - Nate Boone Craft
Mon, 09 Dec 2024
We're continuing our holiday break, but you won't want to miss the episode we're highlighting this w...
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer
Mon, 02 Dec 2024
Happy holidays, listeners! We're starting off our winter break by bringing you an episode from our c...
Holiday Break: What’s Hiding in the Wizard of Oz?
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...
The Smiley Face Murder Theory (with Murder Sheet)
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
Three decades. Eleven states. Over 600 bodies. Across the United States, college-aged men have ended...
The Hello Kitty Killers
Mon, 11 Nov 2024
In May 1999, Hong Kong police found the scattered remains of a young mother in a flat in the city’...
The Rainbow Murders: The Serial Killer Theory
Mon, 04 Nov 2024
Nancy Santomero and Vicki Durian hitchhiked from Arizona to West Virginia in the summer of 1980. The...
True Urban Legends: Candyman, with Ashley Flowers
Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Say Candyman’s name five times in a mirror and you’ll summon his vengeful spirit, then he’ll s...
True Urban Legends: The Babysitter & The Man Upstairs, with Annie Elise
Mon, 21 Oct 2024
If you’ve babysat, you’ve heard this tale: While her charges sleep, a babysitter receives harass...
True Urban Legends: The Hex Hollow "Witch" Murder, with Kaelyn Moore
Mon, 14 Oct 2024
In a remote area of York County, Pennsylvania, a two-story clapboard house stands in Rehmeyer’s Ho...
True Urban Legends: The Demon Trucker of Highway 666
Mon, 07 Oct 2024
According to the urban legends, Highway 666 is a paranormal hotspot in the remote American Southwest...
The Menendez Brothers Pt. 2
Mon, 30 Sep 2024
In August of 1989, 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik Menendez murdered their parents in Beverly ...
The Menendez Brothers Pt. 1
Mon, 23 Sep 2024
Jose Menendez pursued wealth at the expense of everything else in his life, including his relationsh...
“The Dating Game Killer” Rodney Alcala
Mon, 16 Sep 2024
On September 13th, 1978, an episode of The Dating Game aired on network television featuring a man n...
Fallout: The Unabomber’s Crimes and Manifesto (with Candice DeLong)
Mon, 09 Sep 2024
Ted Kaczynski, the man better known to the world as the Unabomber, died in 2023. But his manifesto a...
“The Black Widow” Betty Lou Beets Pt. 2
Mon, 02 Sep 2024
There was no debate over whether Betty Lou Beets killed two of her husbands. But there was great con...
“The Black Widow” Betty Lou Beets Pt. 1
Mon, 26 Aug 2024
All she really wanted in life was freedom. But Betty Lou Beets wound up trapped in abusive marriage ...
Albert Fish and the Electric Chair [500th Episode Special!]
Mon, 19 Aug 2024
We’re celebrating 500 episodes over at @serialkillerspodcast - come share your favorite episodes a...
“The Iceman” Richard Kuklinski Pt. 2
Mon, 12 Aug 2024
After 13 years as a Mafia hit man, he found himself in the crosshairs of the New Jersey Police. Ther...
“The Iceman” Richard Kuklinski Pt. 1
Mon, 05 Aug 2024
He killed over a hundred people before the police had even heard his name. So when the Mafia needed ...
The Watts Family Murders Pt. 2
Mon, 29 Jul 2024
In August of 2018, Chris and Shanann Watts’ marriage ended in violent tragedy. The trauma left a f...
The Watts Family Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Chris and Shanann Watts seemed to have the picture-perfect life. But in reality, an extramarital aff...
The Nurse Behind the FBI’s Mindhunters (with Dr. Ann Burgess)
Mon, 15 Jul 2024
In 1978, Ann Wolbert Burgess was a psychiatric nurse, researcher, and professor at Boston College’...
The Honolulu Strangler
Mon, 08 Jul 2024
Honolulu, on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu, is a quintessential paradise. In 1986, it was also the ...
“The Brides in the Bath Killer” George Joseph Smith
Mon, 01 Jul 2024
George Joseph Smith, the “London Bluebeard,” was said to have hypnotizing eyes that lured women ...
“The Lethal In-Law” Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde
Mon, 24 Jun 2024
When a Missouri real estate tycoon fell sick in 1909, he promised his family a large inheritance. Bu...
The Bolber-Petrillo Murder Ring Pt. 2
Mon, 17 Jun 2024
By 1938, Philadelphia’s Bolber-Petrillo Murder Ring had collected an estimated $100,000 in insuran...
The Bolber-Petrillo Murder Ring Pt. 1
Mon, 10 Jun 2024
In 1930s Philadelphia, self-styled “doctor” Morris Bolber claimed he could fix any ailment – e...
Giulia Tofana (with Women and Crime)
Mon, 03 Jun 2024
An Italian woman living in Rome during the 17th century sold black-market poison to women who wanted...
The Wedding Vow Murder Pact Killers
Mon, 27 May 2024
Serial killer or serial liar? Kelly Cochran is guilty of two homicides, which she blames on a pact s...
Was Carla Walker Murdered by a Serial Killer?
Mon, 20 May 2024
In 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was abducted from a car in Fort Worth, Texas. Days later, her body...
Mary Bell: England’s Youngest Female Killer
Mon, 13 May 2024
At 11, Mary Bell was on trial for not one, but two murders – during which she was often considered...
“The Avenging Angel” Sheila LaBarre Pt. 2
Mon, 06 May 2024
It’s 2004, and Sheila LaBarre has inherited wealth, a massive farm, and animals she adores. She ha...
“The Avenging Angel” Sheila LaBarre Pt. 1
Mon, 29 Apr 2024
Sheila LaBarre’s childhood dreams weren’t out of the ordinary: get out of her small town, become...
National DNA Day: The First Murder Conviction
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...
“Killer Nurse” Kristen Gilbert
Mon, 15 Apr 2024
In 1989, Kristen Gilbert started her nursing career at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northa...
The Murder of the Lyon Sisters
Mon, 08 Apr 2024
In 1975, two young girls, Kate and Sheila Lyon, disappeared from the Wheaton Plaza Mall in Montgomer...
“The Revenge Doctor” Anthony Garcia
Mon, 01 Apr 2024
All Anthony Garcia ever wanted to be was a successful doctor. When anyone got in his way, he attac...
Israel Keyes Pt. 3 (with Josh Hallmark)
Mon, 25 Mar 2024
Israel Keyes died having only confessed to a handful of murders and crimes. Researchers and investig...
Israel Keyes Pt. 2 (with Josh Hallmark)
Mon, 18 Mar 2024
Over the course of six months in 2012, Israel Keyes sits down with the FBI for a series of interview...
Israel Keyes Pt. 1 (with Josh Hallmark)
Mon, 11 Mar 2024
In 2012, Israel Keyes is arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old barista. Pr...
The Tylenol Murders (with Brad Edwards)
Mon, 04 Mar 2024
On September 29, 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman took one Extra Strength Tylenol capsule to ease he...
Long Island Serial Killer: The Gilgo Beach Murders (with Robert Kolker)
Mon, 26 Feb 2024
In July 2023, Rex Heuermann was arrested and charged with the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Bar...
Murder in Marlborough Sounds
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
Olivia Hope and Ben Smart were partying with their friends on New Year’s Eve in the Marlborough So...
Who Killed Gertrude McCabe?
Mon, 19 Feb 2024
In October 1983, police found Gertrude McCabe dead inside her San Jose home: Who would murder an 88-...
The Morgans: A Fatal Love
Mon, 12 Feb 2024
During a 1972 snowstorm, musical prodigy Lee Morgan and his band played a set at Slug’s Saloon in ...
Deadly Exes: Domestic Violence Awareness (with Annie Elise)
Mon, 05 Feb 2024
Sometimes violence comes from the people you least expect. Annie Elise, host of SERIALously and 1...
Charles Manson Pt. 2
Mon, 29 Jan 2024
Leading up to the Grammys, we’re covering one of history’s most infamous musicians: Charles Mans...
Charles Manson Pt. 1
Mon, 22 Jan 2024
Leading up to the Grammys, we’re covering one of history’s most infamous musicians: Charles Mans...
BTK's First Victims: The Otero Family Murders
Mon, 15 Jan 2024
50 years ago to this day, Dennis Rader, aka BTK, killed four members of the Otero family. These murd...
The Killer in the Mansion Pt. 2
Mon, 08 Jan 2024
A fire in the beautiful LaLaurie mansion reveals some ugly secrets. In this episode we recount the e...
The Killer in the Mansion Pt. 1
Mon, 01 Jan 2024
Her New Orleans mansion is said to be haunted, but the truth behind the legend of Delphine LaLaurie ...
BEST OF 2023: "The Buried Bodies Killer" Robert Garrow Pt. 2
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...
BEST OF 2023: "The Buried Bodies Killer" Robert Garrow Pt. 1
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...
The Pizza Bomber Pt. 3: The Mastermind
Mon, 11 Dec 2023
After the fallout at the PNC Bank, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong and Bill Rothstein scrambled to cover th...
The Pizza Bomber Pt. 2: The Murder
Mon, 04 Dec 2023
In order to deactivate the bomb, Brian’s co-conspirators set up an elaborate scavenger hunt around...
The Pizza Bomber Pt. 1: The Robbery
Mon, 27 Nov 2023
In August 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Wells strapped a collar bomb to his neck and chest and ente...
Bloody Babs Pt. 2
Mon, 20 Nov 2023
After her sentencing, investigators and the American public thought the case of ‘Bloody Babs’ wa...
Bloody Babs Pt. 1
Mon, 13 Nov 2023
The case of Barbara Graham has mystified people for generations. She was convicted for the murder of...
Blood Magic Killer
Mon, 06 Nov 2023
Adolfo Constanzo may be known as the leader of The Narco Satanists cult, but equally deserving of th...
The Candy Lady
Mon, 30 Oct 2023
For Halloween, we’re presenting an urban legend about a terrifying Texas child-killer… and discu...
The Abduction of Michaela Garecht
Mon, 23 Oct 2023
In Hayward, California, in 1988, the unthinkable happened – 9-year-old Michaela Garecht was abduct...
The Osage Murders Pt. 2
Mon, 16 Oct 2023
The true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon: Members of Osage Nation are being targe...
The Osage Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 09 Oct 2023
The true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon: In the early twentieth century, Oklahom...
The Jacksonville Strangler
Mon, 02 Oct 2023
In the early 2000s, a serial killer attacked at least six young women around Jacksonville, Florida. ...
Sante Kimes Pt. 3
Mon, 25 Sep 2023
You may have heard of ‘boy moms’, but we promise you’ve never heard of one like Sante Kimes. I...
Sante Kimes Pt. 2
Mon, 18 Sep 2023
What would you steal if you knew you could get away with it? After years of robbery and fraud Sante ...
Sante Kimes Pt. 1
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
Sante Kimes grew up with very little, so after she moved in with millionaire real-estate investor Ke...
The Railway Revenge Killer
Mon, 04 Sep 2023
Rudy Bladel claimed he murdered his coworkers in an act of revenge — but most of his victims were ...
Harvey Miguel Robinson
Mon, 28 Aug 2023
Harvey Miguel Robinson committed his first murder when he was just 17. As the son of a convicted mur...
Who Killed Jane Mixer?
Mon, 21 Aug 2023
In 1969, a 23-year-old law student at the University of Michigan was found murdered in a cemetery ou...
The Cleveland Torso Murders Pt. 2
Mon, 14 Aug 2023
Eliot Ness went to the grave in 1957 without ever convicting the Cleveland Torso Murderer. Decades l...
The Cleveland Torso Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 07 Aug 2023
When a torso washed up on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in 1937, the police initially assumed a cr...
"The Molalla Forest Murderer" Dayton Leroy Rogers Pt. 2
Mon, 31 Jul 2023
In the 1980s, after decades of snowballing violent impulses, Dayton Leroy Rogers began murdering wom...
"The Molalla Forest Murderer" Dayton Leroy Rogers Pt. 1
Mon, 24 Jul 2023
After a repressive religious upbringing filled with abuse from his fundamentalist father, Dayton Ler...
The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 2
Mon, 17 Jul 2023
After a 7-month hiatus between 1918 and 1919, the Axeman jumped back into his killing spree. City of...
The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 1
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...
The Monster of Florence Pt. 2
Mon, 03 Jul 2023
By 1985, the Monster of Florence had claimed 16 lives—but authorities were no closer to catching t...
The Monster of Florence Pt. 1
Mon, 26 Jun 2023
One of Italy’s most notorious serial killers has never (definitively) been identified. The mysteri...
Terry Childs
Mon, 19 Jun 2023
In the so-called murder capital of the world, Terry Childs grew up in the shadows of infamous serial...
Cracking the Code: The Zodiac Pt. 2
Mon, 12 Jun 2023
Following a string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the Zodiac Killer continues to write lett...
Cracking the Code: The Zodiac Pt. 1
Mon, 05 Jun 2023
In the summer of 1969, newspapers in San Francisco began receiving coded letters from a man who woul...
“The Grim Reaper” Gregory Scarpa Pt. 2
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...
“The Grim Reaper” Gregory Scarpa Pt. 1
Mon, 29 May 2023
Starting in the 1950s, Greg Scarpa killed his way up the ladder to become the Colombo family's main ...
“The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer” Richard Biegenwald Pt. 2
Thu, 25 May 2023
In 1982, while Richard Biegenwald was on a killing spree along the Jersey Shore, he also groomed a y...
“The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer” Richard Biegenwald Pt. 1
Mon, 22 May 2023
Before he was even five years old, Richard Biegenwald was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After more t...
Mafia Madman: Thomas Pitera
Thu, 18 May 2023
During his twenties, he spent his free time reading books about how to kill a human being. Naturally...
Judge Killer: Charles Harrelson
Mon, 15 May 2023
While many know his son, Oscar-nominated actor Woody Harrelson, Charles Harrelson spent most of his ...
"The Buried Bodies Killer" Robert Garrow Pt. 2
Thu, 11 May 2023
After Robert Garrow committed his first murder, he retreated to Adirondack Park to hide in the wilde...
"The Buried Bodies Killer" Robert Garrow Pt. 1
Mon, 08 May 2023
He grew up without any friends and suffered severe head injuries due to abuse from his parents. As R...
The Killer Brothers Pt. 2
Thu, 04 May 2023
Hitmen need a certain level of detachment to do their job. They typically think of their victims as ...
The Killer Brothers Pt. 1
Mon, 01 May 2023
There is an old saying that blood is thicker than water. But on Sept. 25, 1985, Gerald and Vera Wood...
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 2
Thu, 27 Apr 2023
By the end of 1993, seven decomposed bodies had been pulled from Australia's Belanglo State Forest. ...
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 24 Apr 2023
The bodies of two missing backpackers were recovered from Australia’s Belanglo State Forest in 199...
“The National Forest Serial Killer” Gary Michael Hilton Pt. 2
Thu, 20 Apr 2023
Being outside with nature is where he felt most comfortable. That’s why Gary Michael Hilton target...
“The National Forest Serial Killer” Gary Michael Hilton Pt. 1
Mon, 17 Apr 2023
Out in nature, alone with only the trees for company, Gary Michael Hilton found a peace that always ...
“The Unicorn Killer” Ira Einhorn Pt. 2
Thu, 13 Apr 2023
Philadelphia’s first Earth Day celebration made him a minor celebrity. When he met 25-year-old Hol...
"The Unicorn Killer" Ira Einhorn Pt. 1
Mon, 10 Apr 2023
If you were in Philadelphia during the 1960s and interested in the counterculture movement, you prob...
"The Route 40 Killer" Steven Brian Pennell Pt. 2
Thu, 06 Apr 2023
By early July 1988, he had already tortured, mutilated, and killed two women. Police were stumped un...
"The Route 40 Killer" Steven Brian Pennell Pt. 1
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
With fear of confrontation and anxiety about disappointing loved ones, Steven Brian Pennell pent up ...
“The PICU Killer” Genene Jones Pt. 2
Thu, 30 Mar 2023
While she was a pediatric nurse at Bexar County Hospital, Genene Jones' colleagues were alarmed by h...
“The PICU Killer” Genene Jones Pt. 1
Mon, 27 Mar 2023
She had experienced her share of tragedy, losing her father and a brother to cancer. That's why Gene...
“The Pennsylvania Passion Slayer" Peter Kudzinowski
Thu, 23 Mar 2023
His family says that a traumatic brain injury when he was 13 changed Peter Kudzinowski's behavior. B...
Cold Cases: The Family Court Killer (with Vanessa!)
Mon, 20 Mar 2023
Imagine knowing who a serial killer is for years but not having enough evidence to prove it. This is...
“CIA Shooter” Mir Aimal Kansi Pt. 2
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...
“CIA Shooter” Mir Aimal Kansi Pt. 1
Mon, 13 Mar 2023
On the morning of January 25th, 1993, Mir Aimal Kansi carried out an assault on members of the CIA w...
“Death Row Romeo” Manuel Pardo
Thu, 09 Mar 2023
Before he earned his nickname in prison, Manuel Pardo Jr was a corrupt cop in Florida during the 198...
“Killer Ex-Cop” Christopher Dorner Pt. 2
Thu, 02 Mar 2023
Holed up in a cabin in Big Bear, California, Christopher Dorner was trapped. A perimeter of 40 offic...
“Killer Ex-Cop” Christopher Dorner Pt. 1
Mon, 27 Feb 2023
In February 2013, a former police officer fired by the LAPD, had a score to settle. His name was Chr...
“The Chameleon Killer” Terry Peder Rasmussen
Mon, 20 Feb 2023
He found a way to fit into his new surroundings everywhere he moved. Terry Rasmussen would change hi...
Robert Durst Pt. 2: “That’s It, You’re Caught”
Thu, 09 Feb 2023
In 2001 Robert Durst was posing as a woman, hiding from authorities in Galveston, Texas. He befriend...
Robert Durst Pt. 1: “Bridge, Dig, Boat, Shovel”
Mon, 06 Feb 2023
Before he was the subject of HBO’s “The Jinx,” he was the son of a wealthy real estate develop...
Carroll Cole
Thu, 02 Feb 2023
He was bullied at school and abused by his mother. As an adult, he had violent fantasies of raping a...
"The Brooklyn Strangler" Vincent Johnson
Mon, 30 Jan 2023
By the time he aged out of the foster system, Vincent Johnson had already shown signs of being viole...
"The Lake Elsinore Killer" William Suff Pt. 2
Thu, 26 Jan 2023
No matter where Bill Suff lived, he was seen mainly by neighbors and co-workers as a helpful and hap...
"The Lake Elsinore Killer" William Suff Pt. 1
Mon, 23 Jan 2023
It was the late 1960s when Bill Suff, the oldest of five children, was forced into a co-parenting ro...
The B.C. Spree Killers Pt. 2
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
In the weeks after their third murder, Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky disappear into the woods of ...
The B.C. Spree Killers Pt. 1
Mon, 16 Jan 2023
In the start of a new special series on Serial Killers, we’re delving into the minds of killers on...
“The Angel of Death” Richard Angelo
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...
"Chairman of the Forces of Evil" William Henry Hance
Mon, 09 Jan 2023
While the Stocking Strangler terrorized a Georgia suburb, another killer stalked military bases in t...
"The Stocking Strangler" Carlton Gary Pt. 2
Thu, 05 Jan 2023
After a confession leads police down the wrong path, they establish the Strangling Task Force and re...
"The Stocking Strangler" Carlton Gary Pt. 1
Mon, 02 Jan 2023
For several terrifying months in the 1970s, elderly women in a Georgia suburb were turning up dead o...
Best of 2022: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders Pt. 2
Thu, 29 Dec 2022
In 1946, the mysterious Phantom Killer who had terrorized the town of Texarkana for months disappear...
Best of 2022: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 26 Dec 2022
In 1946, the city of Texarkana was plagued by a series of attacks and murders on couples parked in t...
The Dayton Christmas Killings Pt. 2
Wed, 21 Dec 2022
The spree continues into Christmas Day and beyond, during which the teen gang murders their third, f...
The Dayton Christmas Killings Pt. 1
Wed, 21 Dec 2022
In the early hours of Christmas Eve 1992, a senseless murder in Dayton, Ohio, marks the beginning of...
"The New York Zodiac Killer" Heriberto Seda Pt. 2
Thu, 08 Dec 2022
Eddie’s crimes escalated in the ‘90s as he continued to dodge police. By 1996, he had attacked e...
"The New York Zodiac Killer" Heriberto Seda Pt. 1
Mon, 05 Dec 2022
Twenty years after the notorious Zodiac Killer terrorized San Francisco, someone else picked up thei...
"Crazy Dave" David Edward Maust Pt. 2
Thu, 01 Dec 2022
Once back in the U.S., Maust serves time for manslaughter before regaining his freedom. He continues...
"Crazy Dave" David Edward Maust Pt. 1
Mon, 28 Nov 2022
A volatile childhood and stints in a hospital psych ward set the stage for a violent killer who murd...
Thanksgiving Special: Just Add Arsenic
Tue, 22 Nov 2022
Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription…...
"The Pied Piper of Tucson” Charles Howard Schmid
Thu, 03 Nov 2022
With his caked-on makeup and pathological lies, Charles “Smitty” Schmid cut a distinctive figure...
“Leatherface” from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Mon, 31 Oct 2022
When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre debuted in 1974, audiences had a visceral experience so frightenin...
“Buffalo Bill” from The Silence of the Lambs
Thu, 27 Oct 2022
Premiering in 1991, The Silence of the Lambs was anything but your typical horror movie. While it ma...
“Ghostface” from Scream
Mon, 24 Oct 2022
In 1996, a new horror movie with an innovative twist would reinvigorate the slasher genre. But behin...
30 Year Retrospective: “The Red Ripper” Andrei Chikatilo Pt. 1
Thu, 20 Oct 2022
Andrei’s murders don’t go unnoticed. A pattern emerges: young victims, bodies mutilated, left in...
30 Year Retrospective: “The Red Ripper” Andrei Chikatilo Pt. 1
Mon, 17 Oct 2022
In the USSR, an engineer hid a secret he was deeply ashamed of — his inability to have sex with wo...
"The Southland Strangler" John Floyd Thomas Jr.
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
In the late 1950s, a Los Angeles native started a crime spree that would stretch into the ‘80s. Jo...
The Chicago Tylenol Murders Pt. 3
Mon, 10 Oct 2022
By 2011, the FBI was ready to reexamine the evidence. A theory emerged: What if the Mad Poisoner was...
The Chicago Tylenol Murders Pt. 2
Thu, 06 Oct 2022
If Roger Arnold wasn’t behind the murders, who was? Police turn their focus to a new suspect: a di...
The Chicago Tylenol Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 03 Oct 2022
Forty years ago, cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules led to the deaths of seven people all around the Chi...
“The Killer Cop” Gerard John Schaefer Pt. 2
Thu, 29 Sep 2022
In 1972, Schaefer was the newly appointed Deputy Sheriff of Martin County. He used his badge to gain...
"The Killer Cop" Gerard John Schaefer Pt. 1
Mon, 26 Sep 2022
Obsessed with moral power and control, Gerard Schaefer was a police officer in Florida who targeted ...
“Australia’s Jack the Ripper” Frederick Bailey Deeming Pt. 2
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
In April 1892, the man authorities now realized was Frederick Deeming was on trial for the murder of...
“Australia’s Jack the Ripper” Frederick Bailey Deeming Pt. 1
Mon, 19 Sep 2022
In March 1892, investigators in Australia were looking for an Englishman named Albert Williams who h...
“Serial Confessor” Gerald Stano Pt. 2
Thu, 15 Sep 2022
What kind of person confesses to multiple heinous crimes — while innocent? Gerald Stano did just t...
“Serial Confessor” Gerald Stano Pt. 1
Mon, 12 Sep 2022
After a childhood of being bullied and living with a well below-average IQ, Gerald Stano's need to c...
“The Long-Haul Killer” Wayne Adam Ford Pt. 2
Thu, 01 Sep 2022
Although he had developed a sense of discipline in the military, a traumatic brain injury and deep-r...
“The Long-Haul Killer” Wayne Adam Ford Pt. 1
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 ...
The Black Dahlia Murder Pt. 2
Thu, 25 Aug 2022
Elizabeth Short’s gruesome murder is the LAPD’s most infamous unsolved case. But there’s one p...
The Black Dahlia Murder Pt. 1
Mon, 22 Aug 2022
In 1940s Hollywood, a 22-year-old aspiring actress is found mutilated and drained of blood. Her body...
"The Psycho Strangler" Henry Busch
Thu, 18 Aug 2022
Henry Busch had a love-hate relationship with maternal figures. Perhaps it was because he lacked one...
"The Granny Killer" John Wayne Glover Pt. 2
Mon, 15 Aug 2022
Throughout 1989 and 1990, elderly women in Sydney were being preyed upon. But because investigators ...
"The Granny Killer" John Wayne Glover Pt. 1
Thu, 11 Aug 2022
He started by stealing and shoplifting as a teenager in the UK. When he was 24, John Wayne Glover mo...
"The Poughkeepsie Killer" Kendall Francois
Mon, 08 Aug 2022
As an overweight Black kid growing up in a white suburb, Kendall Francois dealt with his fair share ...
"The Other Baton Rouge Killer" Sean Vincent Gillis, Pt. 2
Thu, 04 Aug 2022
As he got older, Sean Vincent Gillis's impulses got darker. He committed murder, necrophilic rape, a...
"The Other Baton Rouge Killer" Sean Vincent Gillis Pt. 1
Mon, 01 Aug 2022
As a kid, Sean Vincent Gillis would visit his grandmother's funeral home and sleep in the empty coff...
The Bloody Benders Pt. 2
Thu, 28 Jul 2022
For years, people had been disappearing along the Osage Mission Trail. Between their odd behavior an...
The Bloody Benders Pt. 1
Mon, 25 Jul 2022
In Kansas during the 1800s, people who traveled along the Osage Mission Trail began to disappear. An...
Highway of Tears Pt. 3: The Way Forward
Fri, 22 Jul 2022
In 2005, the disappearance of 22-year-old Tamara Chipman changed everything. Her case brought enough...
Highway of Tears Pt. 2: More Missing and Murdered
Thu, 21 Jul 2022
Every once in a while, authorities would catch an extraordinary break: In 1985, a tip led to a man r...
Highway of Tears Pt. 1: It Starts With One
Mon, 18 Jul 2022
Gloria Moody was 27 years old and the mother of two young children when she was found dead in Willia...
The Serial ‘70s: Jeffrey Dahmer
Thu, 14 Jul 2022
He was a cannibal, a necrophiliac, and even kept his victims' dismembered body parts carefully prese...
The Serial ‘70s: Ted Bundy
Mon, 11 Jul 2022
He kidnapped, raped, and murdered more than 30 women. There's a belief that Ted Bundy got away with ...
The Serial ‘70s: John Wayne Gacy
Thu, 07 Jul 2022
The "Killer Clown" likely contributed to people's fears of makeup-wearing jesters. But the truth is,...
The Serial ‘70s: Edmund Kemper
Mon, 04 Jul 2022
It’s been five years since the Serial Killers podcast debuted, and to celebrate the anniversary, w...
“I-95 Killer” Gary Ray Bowles Pt. 2
Thu, 30 Jun 2022
Even while on the lam, Gary Ray Bowles continued to kill. The FBI posted flyers in gay communities n...
“I-95 Killer” Gary Ray Bowles Pt. 1
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...
"Last Call Killer" Richard Rogers Pt. 2
Thu, 23 Jun 2022
After four horrific murders, a joint task force was no closer to identifying the Last Call Killer. B...
"Last Call Killer" Richard Rogers Pt. 1
Mon, 20 Jun 2022
Before he became a cardiac surgical nurse, Richard Rogers killed his grad school roommate and got aw...
"The Baseline Killer" Mark Goudeau
Thu, 16 Jun 2022
He was the picture of rehabilitation. After serving 13 years in prison, Mark Goudeau re-entered soci...
“Angel of Death” Donald Harvey Pt. 3
Mon, 13 Jun 2022
When the relationship with his live-in boyfriend deteriorated, Donald Harvey took it out on the pati...
“Angel of Death” Donald Harvey Pt. 2
Thu, 09 Jun 2022
After settling into the gay community of Cincinnati, Donald Harvey did his best to live a normal lif...
“Angel of Death” Donald Harvey Pt. 1
Mon, 06 Jun 2022
He didn’t have control of much growing up in rural Kentucky. His family was poor. His uncle sexual...
Solved Murders: The Murder of Grace Budd Pt. 2 (with Greg and Vanessa!)
Thu, 02 Jun 2022
After years of dead ends and roadblocks, detectives finally tracked down the old man they believed w...
Solved Murders: The Murder of Grace Budd Pt. 1 (with Greg and Vanessa!)
Mon, 30 May 2022
When a family acquaintance offered to take 10-year-old Grace Budd to his niece’s birthday party, t...
"The St. Pauli Ripper" Fritz Honka
Thu, 26 May 2022
Fritz Honka was a German serial killer who shared drinks with his victims at his local bar before ki...
The Skid Row Stabber
Mon, 23 May 2022
Los Angeles in the ‘70s was a dangerous place to be. The city was menaced by multiple serial kille...
“The Eyeball Killer” Charles Albright Pt. 2
Thu, 19 May 2022
In March of 1991, after the murder of three sex workers in four months, Dallas investigators only ha...
“The Eyeball Killer” Charles Albright Pt. 1
Mon, 16 May 2022
As a child, Charles Albright developed a penchant for eyes while learning taxidermy. But his most da...
Murderous Moms: Marie Noe & Waneta Hoyt
Thu, 12 May 2022
Two families in mid 20th century America became tragic tales of recurring Sudden Infant Death Syndro...
Murderous Moms: Amelia Dyer & Mary Ann Cotton
Mon, 09 May 2022
There's a common belief that all mothers are inherently good. But these two women have something to ...
"The Monster of Rillington Place" John Reginald Christie Pt. 2
Thu, 05 May 2022
John Christie felt alive and in control after his first murder. It's no surprise that he would want ...
"The Monster of Rillington Place" John Reginald Christie Pt. 1
Mon, 02 May 2022
John Christie wasn’t good at very much. Not relationships. Not even petty crime. But one evening i...
“The Outdoorsman Sniper” Thomas Dillon
Thu, 28 Apr 2022
Thomas Dillon had a degree, a good job, a house, and a family. But what he wanted more than anything...
“The Glamour Girl Slayer” Harvey Glatman
Mon, 25 Apr 2022
He lured young models into his home with promises of fame in true detective magazines. But once they...
“The Boogeyman in the Blue Bandana” Timothy Krajcir Pt. 2
Thu, 14 Apr 2022
Every time Timothy Krajcir felt the urge to kill, he would find a target and then fasten a blue band...
“The Boogeyman in the Blue Bandana” Timothy Krajcir Pt. 1
Mon, 11 Apr 2022
Believing he had been reformed, the parole board released 31-year-old Timothy Krajcir from prison in...
The Chicago Rippers Pt. 2
Thu, 07 Apr 2022
For over a year, Robin Gecht had been leading his own satanic cult composed of three of his own work...
The Chicago Rippers Pt. 1
Mon, 04 Apr 2022
Robin Gecht lived his public life like a model citizen. He operated his construction company, played...
“.22 Caliber Killer” Joseph G. Christopher Pt. 2
Thu, 24 Mar 2022
After committing his first three murders, Joseph's struggle with schizophrenia persisted. He couldn'...
“.22 Caliber Killer” Joseph G. Christopher Pt. 1
Mon, 21 Mar 2022
Two years before he embarked on a killing spree in Buffalo and New York City, Joseph G. Christopher’...
“Jazzi Jet” Joseph Edward Duncan Pt. 2
Thu, 17 Mar 2022
Thanks to an unsuspecting benefactor, Duncan gets a fresh start in North Dakota. But his blog entrie...
“Jazzi Jet” Joseph Edward Duncan Pt. 1
Mon, 14 Mar 2022
A teenage sex offender carried out horrific crimes against young boys in Washington in the late 1970...
“The Shoemaker” Joseph Kallinger Pt. 2
Thu, 10 Mar 2022
In the 1970s, after abusing his children and getting away with it, Joseph Kallinger enlists his son ...
"The Shoemaker” Joseph Kallinger Pt. 1
Mon, 07 Mar 2022
The adopted son of cobblers began having hallucinations as early as 15 years old. They were harmless...
"The Bluebeard of Gambais" Henri Désiré Landru Pt. 2
Thu, 03 Mar 2022
After years of charming women into getting engaged to him, Henri Désiré Landru had perfected his s...
"The Bluebeard of Gambais" Henri Désiré Landru Pt. 1
Mon, 28 Feb 2022
In France, a con man charmed women into getting engaged before robbing them and taking them to his c...
"The Little Girl Murderer" Tsutomu Miyazaki
Thu, 24 Feb 2022
Numerous childhood traumas led Tsutomu Miyazaki to create a monstrous character in his head named "R...
"The Kensington Strangler" Antonio Rodriguez
Mon, 21 Feb 2022
In 2010 a serial killer terrorized an area of Philadelphia known as the Badlands. Police swabbed hun...
"The Caltrans Construction Killer" Mack Ray Edwards
Thu, 17 Feb 2022
Mack Ray Edwards was proud of his career as a heavy machine operator. It made him important on const...
The Hillside Strangler’s Copycat Girlfriend
Mon, 14 Feb 2022
When Veronica Compton met Kenneth Bianchi, she was working on a play about serial killers. She inter...
Speed Freak Killers Pt. 2
Thu, 10 Feb 2022
Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog went from hunting animals to preying on humans. Even as they gre...
Speed Freak Killers Pt. 1
Mon, 07 Feb 2022
Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog grew up in the California countryside, hunting for deer and elk....
"The Werewolf" Mikhail Popkov
Thu, 03 Feb 2022
At a young age, Mikhail Popkov developed a deeply misogynistic view of the world. As an adult, he us...
"The I-5 Strangler" Roger Reece Kibbe Pt. 3
Mon, 31 Jan 2022
Police had taken Roger Kibbe into custody numerous times but never had enough evidence to arrest him...
"The I-5 Strangler" Roger Reece Kibbe Pt. 2
Thu, 27 Jan 2022
After killing his first victim, Roger Kibbe decided to keep a low profile. But years later, his urge...
"The I-5 Strangler" Roger Reece Kibbe Pt. 1
Mon, 24 Jan 2022
Roger Kibbe spent most of his adolescence filled with rage. And while he had a long list of arrests ...
Texarkana Moonlight Murders Pt. 2
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
In 1946, the mysterious Phantom Killer who had terrorized the town of Texarkana for months disappear...
Texarkana Moonlight Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 17 Jan 2022
In 1946, the city of Texarkana was plagued by a series of attacks and murders on couples parked in t...
Matthew “Chilly” Macon
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...
The Dnipropetrovsk Maniacs
Mon, 10 Jan 2022
Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk were insecure children, scared of the world around them. As teenag...
"The Southside Dentist" Glennon Engleman Pt. 2
Thu, 06 Jan 2022
Glennon Engleman had claimed two lives during his insurance fraud schemes and escaped police detecti...
"The Southside Dentist" Glennon Engleman Pt. 1
Mon, 03 Jan 2022
Glennon Engleman seemed like your average neighborhood dentist, but he was harboring a dark secret. ...
“The Spider” Saeed Hanaei
Thu, 16 Dec 2021
He got a taste for killing while he was a soldier. But when the conflict between Iran and neighborin...
“The Hungarian Vampire” Béla Kiss
Mon, 13 Dec 2021
In the early 1900s, a man lured his victims with lonely hearts ads, drained their blood, and stored ...
“The Roadside Strangler” Michael Bruce Ross Pt. 2
Thu, 09 Dec 2021
Like many serial killers who get caught, Michael Bruce Ross became more reckless — attacking teena...
“The Roadside Strangler” Michael Bruce Ross Pt. 1
Mon, 06 Dec 2021
After experiencing severe emotional abuse as a child in the ‘60s, Michael Bruce Ross got a fresh s...
“The Midwest Highway Murderer” Larry Eyler Pt. 2
Thu, 02 Dec 2021
In the early 1980s, Larry Eyler haunted the highways of the Midwest, leaving the gay communities of ...
“The Midwest Highway Murderer” Larry Eyler Pt. 1
Mon, 29 Nov 2021
In the 1970s, Larry Eyler seemed like your regular, easy-going guy. Behind closed doors, he was anyt...
“The Teacup Poisoner” Graham Frederick Young Pt. 2
Thu, 18 Nov 2021
After serving his first prison sentence, Graham Young entered the world again, ready to start poison...
“The Teacup Poisoner” Graham Frederick Young Pt. 1
Mon, 15 Nov 2021
Graham Young always had an obsessive personality, but when his father bought him a chemistry kit, it...
The Atlanta Child Murders Pt. 2
Thu, 11 Nov 2021
In 1981, Wayne Williams was a 23-year-old with aspirations of putting together the next Jackson 5. B...
The Atlanta Child Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 08 Nov 2021
In the late 1970s, a killer stalked the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, abducting and murdering young B...
“The Amazon Review Killer” Todd Kohlhepp Pt. 2
Thu, 04 Nov 2021
Todd Kohlhepp’s behavior was growing increasingly erratic. In the real world, he made unsettling c...
“The Amazon Review Killer” Todd Kohlhepp Pt. 1
Mon, 01 Nov 2021
At 15, Todd Kohlhepp raped his 14-year-old neighbor, and 17 years later, he committed mass murder in...
“The Savage” Benjamin Pedro Gonzales
Thu, 28 Oct 2021
Benjamin Pedro Gonzales lived in a fantasy world. He’d imagine entire relationships that didn’t ...
“The Cannibal” Joe Metheny
Mon, 25 Oct 2021
Joe Metheny tended to exaggerate and lie about his own life, but if half the atrocities he confessed...
“Harv the Hammer” Harvey Carignan Pt. 2
Thu, 21 Oct 2021
When Harvey Carignan’s murder conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, he no longer fa...
“Harv the Hammer” Harvey Carignan Pt. 1
Mon, 18 Oct 2021
After developing a reputation in the armed forces as a hulking, scowling figure with abnormally stro...
“Genesee River Killer” Arthur Shawcross Pt. 2
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
After 14 years behind bars, Arthur Shawcross struggled to settle into civilian life. He moved from t...
“Genesee River Killer” Arthur Shawcross Pt. 1
Mon, 11 Oct 2021
Arthur Shawcross was always a little "off." As a boy, he was unsympathetic and violent, exploding wi...
“The Baton Rouge Serial Killer” Derrick Todd Lee Pt. 2
Thu, 07 Oct 2021
Derrick's fixation with stalking, raping, and murdering women leads him to the University of Louisia...
“The Baton Rouge Serial Killer” Derrick Todd Lee Pt. 1
Mon, 04 Oct 2021
Ever since he was a little boy in the ‘70s, Derrick Todd Lee liked to peep. He would stare through...
“The Southside Slayer” Chester D. Turner Pt. 2
Thu, 30 Sep 2021
Love makes us say and do the strangest things. For Turner, it made him jealous, paranoid, and extrem...
“The Southside Slayer” Chester D. Turner Pt. 1
Mon, 27 Sep 2021
When Chester D. Turner moved to the City of Angels, it wasn’t by choice. In fact, Turner pretty mu...
Working Late Pt. 6: Medical Professionals
Thu, 23 Sep 2021
In this chilling conclusion to our Working Late series, we're diving into the frightening world of m...
Working Late Pt. 5: Military
Mon, 20 Sep 2021
In our continuing exploration of the most popular jobs for serial killers, we're taking a deep dive ...
Working Late Pt. 4: Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs
Thu, 16 Sep 2021
The number of psychopaths who hold positions with "CEO" in the title would alarm you… even if it w...
Working Late Pt. 3: Laborers
Mon, 13 Sep 2021
At the halfway point of this Working Late series, we want to look at the people whose work is often ...
Working Late Pt. 2: Truck Drivers
Thu, 09 Sep 2021
You pass them every day in the car, truck drivers hauling things from one end of the country to the ...
Working Late Pt. 1: Police
Mon, 06 Sep 2021
This is the first episode in our Working Late series, where we'll be taking deep dives into the most...
Joshua Wade Pt. 2
Thu, 02 Sep 2021
By the end of summer, 2000, Joshua Wade had murdered at least one woman, and possibly many more. Des...
Joshua Wade Pt. 1
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...
“The Yosemite Murderer” Cary Stayner Pt. 2
Thu, 26 Aug 2021
As an adult, Cary Stayner finally turned his darkest fantasies into reality. Using TV crime shows as...
“The Yosemite Murderer” Cary Stayner Pt. 1
Mon, 23 Aug 2021
As a troubled teen in the ‘70s, Cary Stayner experienced violent fantasies and compulsions, as wel...
“The Monster of Atwater Village” Timothy Joseph McGhee
Thu, 19 Aug 2021
Timothy Joseph McGhee joined the Toonerville Rifa Gang as a boy, and quickly rose through the ranks....
“The Berlin Butcher” Carl Großmann
Mon, 16 Aug 2021
Carl Großmann’s entire life was marked with an obsession with sexual dominance. As a young man, h...
“The Sweetheart Murderer” Edward Wayne Edwards Pt. 2
Thu, 12 Aug 2021
After spending much of his early life as a devoted career criminal, Ed Edwards emerged from prison w...
“The Sweetheart Murderer” Edward Wayne Edwards Pt. 1
Mon, 09 Aug 2021
Beginning with a traumatic childhood is a common origin story among serial killers. But not every ch...
“Killing Team” Leonard Lake and Charles Ng Pt. 2
Thu, 05 Aug 2021
By the summer of 1984, Leonard Lake finished construction on his fallout shelter. There, Lake and hi...
“Killing Team” Leonard Lake and Charles Ng Pt. 1
Mon, 02 Aug 2021
Fearing a nuclear apocalypse was imminent, survivalists Leonard Lake and Charles Ng dreamed of build...
“I-5 Killer” Randy Woodfield Pt. 2
Thu, 29 Jul 2021
After he killed his friend Cherie in 1980, Randy Woodfield was a clear suspect in the murder — but...
“I-5 Killer” Randy Woodfield Pt. 1
Mon, 26 Jul 2021
He was a star football player in the early 1970s. A talented athlete with every chance for boundless...
“The Broomstick Murderer” Kenneth McDuff Pt. 2
Thu, 22 Jul 2021
After his first three murders, Kenneth McDuff was quickly apprehended and brought to trial. But whil...
“The Broomstick Murderer” Kenneth McDuff Pt. 1
Mon, 19 Jul 2021
Kenneth Allen McDuff led a charmed life. He was an angelic child. At least, that's what his doting m...
“Serial Strangler” Volker Eckert Pt. 2
Thu, 15 Jul 2021
As a long-haul trucker, Eckert realized his job afforded him the perfect conditions to kill. And cla...
“Serial Strangler” Volker Eckert Pt. 1
Mon, 12 Jul 2021
From a young age, Volker Eckert displayed a strange fascination with women’s hair. His fetish led ...
"The Monster of the Andes" Pedro Alonso López
Thu, 08 Jul 2021
Some serial killers’ reigns of terror are cut mercifully short, due to careless mistakes or carefu...
"The Woodford Slasher" John Joseph Joubert
Mon, 05 Jul 2021
John Joseph Joubert was plagued by disturbing daydreams, along with a horrifying urge to hurt little...
“The S-Bahn Murderer of Berlin” Paul Ogorzow Pt. 2
Thu, 01 Jul 2021
Having graduated from brutal assaults to murders, Paul Ogorzow felt untouchable as he rode the rails...
“The S-Bahn Murderer of Berlin” Paul Ogorzow Pt. 1
Mon, 28 Jun 2021
Coming of age alongside Adolf Hitler's political rise, Paul Ogorzow took his cue from the Nazi party...
“The Bogey Man” David Elliot Penton
Thu, 24 Jun 2021
There are few criminals so reviled as a child killer. David Elliot Penton was one of them. His crime...
“Smooth-Talking Killer“ Roy Melanson
Mon, 21 Jun 2021
A lifelong drifter and con man, Roy Melanson charmed and manipulated his way into his victims’ liv...
“The Bike Path Killer” Altemio Sanchez Pt. 2
Thu, 17 Jun 2021
Avoiding capture as Amherst’s terrifying “Bike Path Rapist” emboldened Sanchez to commit his f...
“The Bike Path Killer” Altemio Sanchez Pt. 1
Mon, 14 Jun 2021
An elusive rapist stalked areas around Buffalo, New York, for decades beginning in the late 1970s. W...
“The Quiet Dell Killer” Harry Powers
Thu, 10 Jun 2021
Harry Powers lived a life shrouded in mystery, so tracing his origins is difficult. But here's what ...
“Montana Child Murderer” David Meirhofer
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...
“The Cross-Country Killer” Tommy Lynn Sells Pt. 2
Thu, 03 Jun 2021
By 1999, Sells had murdered men, women and children in multiple states, and showed no signs of slowi...
“The Cross-Country Killer” Tommy Lynn Sells Pt. 1
Mon, 31 May 2021
For over 20 years, Tommy Lynn Sells hitchhiked across the U.S., killing indiscriminately and without...
"Mall Santa" Bruce McArthur Pt. 2
Thu, 27 May 2021
By the beginning of 2011, Bruce McArthur had killed and dismembered two men, hiding their bodies in ...
"Mall Santa" Bruce McArthur Pt. 1
Mon, 24 May 2021
For most of his life, Bruce McArthur led an unremarkable existence. But in the 1990s, he split from ...
“The Narcosatanist” Adolfo Constanzo Pt. 2
Thu, 20 May 2021
After amassing wealth and influence as a spiritual advisor in the 1980s, Adolfo Constanzo set his si...
“The Narcosatanist” Adolfo Constanzo Pt. 1
Mon, 17 May 2021
Schooled in the darkest corners of his family’s Afro-Carribean religion, Adolfo Constanzo decided ...
“The Anatomy Murderers” Burke and Hare Pt. 2
Thu, 13 May 2021
By 1828, Burke and Hare’s scheme of murdering people and selling their bodies was making them rich...
“The Anatomy Murderers” Burke and Hare Pt. 1
Mon, 10 May 2021
When a tenant at their boarding house died in 1827, William Burke and William Hare found a way to ma...
“The Tweed Creeper” David Russell Williams Pt. 2
Thu, 06 May 2021
Having moved from break-ins to aggressive sexual assault, David Russell Williams carefully planned h...
“The Tweed Creeper” David Russell Williams Pt. 1
Mon, 03 May 2021
As an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, David Russell Williams had a spotless record for decades...
“The Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez Pt. 2
Thu, 29 Apr 2021
After his first murder in San Francisco, Richard Ramirez headed back to Los Angeles to begin a killi...
“The Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez Pt. 1
Mon, 26 Apr 2021
A troubled relationship with his father, his religion, and the demonic visions he saw during seizure...
“South Side Strangler” Timothy Wilson Spencer Pt. 2
Thu, 22 Apr 2021
Organized and meticulous, Timothy Wilson Spencer evaded suspicion until a detective began connecting...
“South Side Strangler” Timothy Wilson Spencer Pt. 1
Mon, 19 Apr 2021
Growing up in Arlington, Virginia in the 1960s, Timothy Wilson Spencer displayed an alarming interes...
“The Vampire in the Window” Florencio Fernández
Thu, 15 Apr 2021
Born in 1935, Florencio Fernández grew up in a region of Argentina nicknamed the “fortress of fol...
“Son of Sal” Salvatore Perrone
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, ...
“The Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski Pt. 2
Thu, 08 Apr 2021
By the 1980s, Ted Kaczynski had set off several bombs, causing only minor injuries — but for him, ...
“The Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski Pt. 1
Mon, 05 Apr 2021
Spotting his genius at a young age, Ted Kaczynski’s parents pushed their son to academic excellenc...
“The Madman of Marshall Street” Gary M. Heidnik Pt. 2
Thu, 01 Apr 2021
By Thanksgiving 1986, Gary Heidnik had captured a woman and locked her in his basement, where he int...
“The Madman of Marshall Street” Gary M. Heidnik Pt. 1
Mon, 29 Mar 2021
Estranged from his family, Gary Heidnik’s behavior grew more and more troubling as he grew older. ...
“The Lipstick Killer” William George Heirens Pt. 2
Thu, 25 Mar 2021
When a six-year-old girl was brutally murdered in Chicago in 1945, the public and the press demanded...
“The Lipstick Killer” William George Heirens Pt. 1
Mon, 22 Mar 2021
Growing up in a family that didn’t have a lot of money, William Heirens turned to burglary to ease...
“Earthquake Killer” Herbert Mullin Pt. 2
Thu, 18 Mar 2021
Herbert Mullin believed he was saving the world. After all, God had told him that murdering people w...
“Earthquake Killer” Herbert Mullin Pt. 1
Mon, 15 Mar 2021
Throughout his childhood in the 1950s and ‘60s, Herbert Mullin's life seemed decidedly idyllic. Bu...
“The Kansas City Butcher” Robert Berdella Pt. 2
Thu, 11 Mar 2021
Having killed and dismembered his first victim, Robert Bordella was anxious to take another person c...
“The Kansas City Butcher” Robert Berdella Pt. 1
Mon, 08 Mar 2021
Inspired by a 1965 horror film called The Collector, Robert Berdella harbored dark fantasies about a...
“The Snowtown Murders” Pt. 2
Thu, 04 Mar 2021
In November 1997, John Bunting claimed his sixth victim, and successfully passed it off as a suicide...
“The Snowtown Murders” Pt. 1
Mon, 01 Mar 2021
Arriving in South Australia in the 1980s, John Bunting surrounded himself with people he could easil...
“The Suitcase Killer” Steven Zelich Pt. 2
Thu, 25 Feb 2021
After his first murder, Steven Zelich couldn't bear to let go of his victim, and kept her body close...
“The Suitcase Killer” Steven Zelich Pt. 1
Mon, 22 Feb 2021
Once a police officer who loved the authority and respect his position brought him, Steven Zelich's ...
Killer Couples Pt. 4: Ray Fernandez and Martha Beck
Thu, 18 Feb 2021
Once a promising intelligence officer, Ray Fernandez transformed into a career conman, swindling lon...
Killer Couples Pt. 3: Gerald and Charlene Gallego
Mon, 15 Feb 2021
If love makes you do something evil, does that make you evil, too? In the late 1970s, Gerald Gallego...
Killer Couples Pt. 2: Alton Coleman and Debra Brown
Thu, 11 Feb 2021
Following a whirlwind romance, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown embarked on a violent rampage that turn...
Killer Couples Pt. 1: Ray and Faye Copeland
Mon, 08 Feb 2021
They say that “love is a many-splendored thing.” But for Ray and Faye Copeland, it was a thing o...
“The Monster of Florence” Pt. 2
Thu, 04 Feb 2021
By 1985, the Monster of Florence had claimed 16 lives. Unfortunately, authorities were no closer to ...
“The Monster of Florence” Pt. 1
Mon, 01 Feb 2021
One of Italy’s most notorious serial killers has never (definitively) been identified. The mysteri...
“The Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance Pt. 2
Thu, 28 Jan 2021
By 1984, Nance had revamped his reputation and settled into a comfortable routine in his hometown. B...
“The Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance Pt. 1
Mon, 25 Jan 2021
As a teenager, Wayne Nance developed an interest in Satanism that may have led to his first murder. ...
"The Boozing Barber" Gilbert Paul Jordan Pt. 2
Thu, 21 Jan 2021
His victims’ deaths were often ruled “unnatural and accidental,” leaving Gilbert Paul Jordan f...
"The Boozing Barber" Gilbert Paul Jordan Pt. 1
Mon, 18 Jan 2021
An alcoholic from his teenage years onward, Gilbert Paul Jordan spent his young adulthood in 1950s V...
"The Railroad Killer" Ángel Maturino Reséndiz Pt. 2
Thu, 14 Jan 2021
By the 1990s, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz was a seasoned murderer using America’s extensive railroad...
"The Railroad Killer" Ángel Maturino Reséndiz Pt. 1
Mon, 11 Jan 2021
After years of incarceration, rejection, and failure, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz's most violent impul...
“The Beauty Queen Killer” Christopher Wilder Pt. 2
Thu, 07 Jan 2021
In 1984, Wilder went on a weeks-long killing spree across the U.S., abducting, raping and murdering ...
“The Beauty Queen Killer” Christopher Wilder Pt. 1
Mon, 04 Jan 2021
Posing as a modeling agent in the 1980s, Wilder lured young girls and women to secluded places where...
“The Butcher Baker” Robert Hansen Pt. 2
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
By day, Robert Hansen was a devoted husband, devout Christian, and respected member of the Anchorage...
“The Butcher Baker” Robert Hansen Pt. 1
Mon, 14 Dec 2020
Bullied from a young age, Robert Hansen’s resentment toward the people in his hometown manifested ...
“The Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson Pt. 2
Thu, 10 Dec 2020
After his first murder, Keith Jesperson felt unstoppable, and went on something of a killing spree. ...
“The Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson Pt. 1
Mon, 07 Dec 2020
Always shy and a little curious, Keith Jesperson lived a troubled childhood. Beaten by his father, a...
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 2
Thu, 03 Dec 2020
By the end of 1993, seven decomposed bodies had been pulled from Australia's Belanglo State Forest. ...
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 1
Mon, 30 Nov 2020
The bodies of two missing backpackers were recovered from Australia’s Belanglo State Forest in 199...
“The Chessboard Killer” Alexander Pichushkin Pt. 2
Thu, 19 Nov 2020
After killing dozens of people and getting away with it, Alexander Pichushkin got bored with his rou...
“The Chessboard Killer” Alexander Pichushkin Pt. 1
Mon, 16 Nov 2020
One of Russia’s most prolific serial killers was an avid chess player. First introduced to the pas...
“The Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright Pt. 2
Thu, 12 Nov 2020
In the final few months of 2006, Ipswich was shaken by the strangling deaths of several sex workers....
“The Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright Pt. 1
Mon, 09 Nov 2020
He was an unassuming man whose Jekyll and Hyde personality obscured increasingly violent tendencies....
“The Nurse Killer” Richard Benjamin Speck
Thu, 05 Nov 2020
It was called the crime of the century: In 1966, Richard Speck drifted into Chicago, and unleashed a...
“The Weepy-Voice Killer” Paul Michael Stephani
Mon, 02 Nov 2020
In the early 1980s, emergency services in St. Paul, Minnesota began receiving odd calls from a distr...
“The Vampire of Düsseldorf” Peter Kürten Pt. 2
Thu, 29 Oct 2020
Throughout his shocking rampage that left dozens of people injured or dead, the newly dubbed “Vamp...
“The Vampire of Düsseldorf” Peter Kürten Pt. 1
Mon, 26 Oct 2020
Unfulfilled by bestiality, a young Peter Kürten turned to murder — and discovered his body’s re...
“The Starvation Doctor” Linda Hazzard Pt. 2
Thu, 22 Oct 2020
When British heiresses Dora and Claire Williamson reached out to Linda Hazzard, she might have thoug...
“The Starvation Doctor” Linda Hazzard Pt. 1
Mon, 19 Oct 2020
In the early 1900s, Linda Hazzard marketed herself as a doctor, and claimed that she could cure any ...
“The Hippie Trail Killer” Charles Sobhraj Pt. 2
Thu, 15 Oct 2020
After spending years in and out of prison, Charles “The Serpent” Sobhraj was determined to make ...
“The Hippie Trail Killer” Charles Sobhraj Pt. 1
Mon, 12 Oct 2020
Growing up in Vietnam, India and France in the 1940s and ‘50s, Charles Sobhraj never truly fit in ...
Satanic Panic Pt. 5
Sun, 11 Oct 2020
In the years since the Satanic Panic, it's become obvious that the crimes people were accused of nev...
Satanic Panic Pt. 4
Sat, 10 Oct 2020
Emboldened by power- and money-hungry conmen, Evangelical doomsdayers set the stage for an epic show...
Satanic Panic Pt. 3
Fri, 09 Oct 2020
From Adolfo Costanzo and the Narcosatanists to the gruesome Chicago Rippers, these horrific groups s...
Satanic Panic Pt. 2
Thu, 08 Oct 2020
In the 1980s, “Satanic Panic” was a mass hysteria that consumed communities and ruined lives—a...
Satanic Panic Pt. 1
Mon, 05 Oct 2020
In the 1980s, “Satanic Panic” was a mass hysteria that consumed communities and ruined lives—a...
“The Hillside Stranglers” Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. Pt. 2
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 ...
“The Hillside Stranglers” Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. Pt. 1
Mon, 28 Sep 2020
These killer cousins terrorized Los Angeles in the late ‘70s. Despite very different upbringings, ...
“The San Francisco Witch Killers” Michael and Suzan Carson Pt. 2
Thu, 24 Sep 2020
After their first brutal murder, Suzan and Michael Carson fled San Francisco, intent on continuing t...
“The San Francisco Witch Killers” Michael and Suzan Carson Pt. 1
Mon, 21 Sep 2020
They set out to murder witches in the early 1980s, moving up and down the coast of the Pacific North...
“The Ken and Barbie Killers” Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka Pt. 2
Thu, 17 Sep 2020
On the outside, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo appeared to be a perfect couple—but they held a da...
“The Ken and Barbie Killers” Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka Pt. 1
Mon, 14 Sep 2020
When Paul Bernardo met his bride-to-be Karla Homolka in October 1987, he had already raped his first...
“Hannibal the Cannibal” Robert John Maudsley Pt. 2
Thu, 10 Sep 2020
By torturing and killing his fellow inmate, Robert Maudsley won his escape from Broadmoor Mental Hos...
“Hannibal the Cannibal” Robert John Maudsley Pt. 1
Mon, 07 Sep 2020
Abused by his parents from a young age, Robert Maudsley spent his childhood bouncing around orphanag...
“Night Caller” Eric Edgar Cooke Pt. 2
Thu, 03 Sep 2020
In 1959, Eric Cooke committed his first murder in the sleepy city of Perth, Australia. And, having g...
“Night Caller” Eric Edgar Cooke Pt. 1
Mon, 31 Aug 2020
Born in 1931 to a caring mother and alcoholic father, Eric Edgar Cooke had a turbulent home life. Hi...
“Double-O Swango” Joseph Swango Pt. 2
Thu, 27 Aug 2020
While Joseph Swango’s patients died at alarming rates, few people seemed capable of connecting the...
“Double-O Swango” Joseph Swango Pt. 1
Mon, 24 Aug 2020
As a teenager in the ‘70s, Joseph Swango had an intense fascination with the macabre, even keeping...
“Damsel of Death” Aileen Wuornos Pt. 2
Thu, 20 Aug 2020
In the late ‘80s, Aileen trolled the highways outside of Daytona, Florida looking for johns. But t...
“Damsel of Death” Aileen Wuornos Pt. 1
Mon, 17 Aug 2020
More abused than loved, Aileen Wuornos suffered through her childhood in 1960s Michigan. She became ...
“Programmed to Kill” Charlie Brandt Pt. 2
Thu, 13 Aug 2020
For decades, it seemed like Charlie Brandt's first murder was a shocking, unexplainable anomoly—so...
“Programmed to Kill” Charlie Brandt Pt. 1
Mon, 10 Aug 2020
In January 1971, 13-year-old Charlie Brandt retrieved his father's gun and committed a shocking murd...
“The Sunday Morning Slasher” Coral Eugene Watts Pt. 2
Thu, 06 Aug 2020
By the early 1980s, Watts had stabbed three women to death. As police closed in on him, setting up t...
“The Sunday Morning Slasher” Coral Eugene Watts Pt. 1
Mon, 03 Aug 2020
Unable to contain his dark fantasies and suppressed rage, Coral Eugene Watts targeted women in Michi...
“The Racist Killer” Joseph Paul Franklin Pt. 2
Thu, 30 Jul 2020
Still desperate to ignite a race war in the United States, Joseph Paul Franklin sought more prominen...
“The Racist Killer” Joseph Paul Franklin Pt. 1
Mon, 27 Jul 2020
He studied Mein Kampf. Changed his name. And joined white supremacist groups across the country. Fue...
“The Torso Killer” Richard Francis Cottingham Pt. 2
Thu, 23 Jul 2020
In 1977, Cottingham was married with three kids, two secret girlfriends, and an itch for abusing sex...
“The Torso Killer” Richard Francis Cottingham Pt. 1
Mon, 20 Jul 2020
He had an idyllic childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, but as Richard Francis Cottingham grew, he bega...
“The Toolbox Killers” Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris Pt. 2
Thu, 16 Jul 2020
In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris sexually assaulted and murdered five teenage girls. For mo...
“The Toolbox Killers” Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris Pt. 1
Mon, 13 Jul 2020
They each lived lonely lives, bouncing from jail to jail until a chance meeting in California brough...
“The ABC Killer” Moses Sithole
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...
“The Chicago Abductor” Brian Dugan
Mon, 06 Jul 2020
In the early ‘70s, a teenaged Dugan had an encounter with one of the most notorious serial killers...
“Milwaukee North Side Strangler” Walter E. Ellis
Thu, 02 Jul 2020
In his youth, Walter Ellis was prone to fits of physical violence. But as he grew older, he took on ...
“The Hitchhiker Killer” Thor Nis Christiansen
Mon, 29 Jun 2020
Growing up in the California town of Solvang, Thor Nis Christiansen was the quiet son of Danish immi...
“A Chaotic Life” Andrew Urdiales
Thu, 25 Jun 2020
He endured extreme childhood abuse, served in the Marines, and was eventually diagnosed with schizop...
“Crazy Charlie” Charles Ray Hatcher
Mon, 22 Jun 2020
He spent his life trying to escape jails, mental hospitals, and his urge to kill. From 1961 to 1982,...
“The Boy Torturer of Boston” Pt. 2: Jesse Pomeroy
Thu, 18 Jun 2020
Sent to a reform school for the remainder of his childhood, Jesse Pomeroy, and his distraught mother...
“The Boy Torturer of Boston” Pt. 1: Jesse Pomeroy
Mon, 15 Jun 2020
Born in 1859 with a cleft palate, Jesse Pomeroy's father looked upon his son as weak, and brutally a...
“Hannibal Lecter of Sweden” Sture Bergwall
Thu, 11 Jun 2020
He claimed to be Sweden's first serial killer. Throughout the 1990s, Sture Bergwall made shocking co...
“Warwick Slasher” Craig Price
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...
“Doctor Satan” Pt. 2: Marcel Petiot
Thu, 04 Jun 2020
In 1942, Marcel Petiot's fake escape network, Fly-Tox, was operating at full steam. He took his vict...
“Doctor Satan” Pt. 1: Marcel Petiot
Mon, 01 Jun 2020
Since childhood, Marcel Petiot flaunted a disregard for the rules. As a doctor, he used his charm an...
“The Acid Bath Murderer” Pt. 2: John George Haigh
Thu, 28 May 2020
His first murder in 1944 had gone exactly as planned: the body had dissolved in acid, and he was sur...
“The Acid Bath Murderer” Pt. 1: John George Haigh
Mon, 25 May 2020
Born in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century, John George Haigh rebelled against ...
“The Cleveland Strangler” Pt. 2: Anthony Sowell
Thu, 21 May 2020
As his living conditions deteriorated in the late 2000's, so did Anthony Sowell’s state of mind. I...
“The Cleveland Strangler” Pt. 1: Anthony Sowell
Mon, 18 May 2020
Plagued by addiction, Anthony Sowell killed 11 women between May 2007 and September of 2009. As his ...
“The Slave Master” Pt. 2: John Edward Robinson
Thu, 14 May 2020
By 1984, after a lifetime spent breaking the law and facing few consequences, John Edward Robinson h...
“The Slave Master” Pt. 1: John Edward Robinson
Mon, 11 May 2020
As a child growing up in Illinois in the 1940s and ‘50s, John Edward Robinson was obsessed with fi...
“The Meanest Man in America” Pt. 2: Donald Henry Gaskins
Thu, 07 May 2020
In the late 1960s, Donald Henry Gaskins found himself consumed by a ravenous rage. He began stalking...
“The Meanest Man in America” Pt. 1: Donald Henry Gaskins
Mon, 04 May 2020
Between 1953 and 1982, Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins murdered at least 14 people, and claimed t...
“The Gainesville Ripper” Pt. 2: Danny Rolling
Thu, 30 Apr 2020
In 1989, Danny Rolling had already gotten away with a shocking triple murder. As he tried to stay ah...
“The Gainesville Ripper” Pt. 1: Danny Rolling
Mon, 27 Apr 2020
It's likely that an abusive, loveless upbringing in the 1960s and ‘70s shaped Danny Rolling’s tr...
“The Scorecard Killer” Pt. 2: Randy Steven Kraft
Thu, 23 Apr 2020
We are thrilled to bring you a brand new episode of Serial Killers today and for the foreseeable fut...
“The Scorecard Killer” Pt. 1: Randy Steven Kraft
Mon, 20 Apr 2020
We are thrilled to bring you a brand new episode of Serial Killers today and for the foreseeable fut...
“The Most Prolific” Pt. 2: Samuel Little
Thu, 09 Apr 2020
By the 1990s, he had spent twenty years murdering dozens of women across the United States. Decades ...
“The Most Prolific” Pt. 1: Samuel Little
Mon, 06 Apr 2020
In 2018, he was serving a life sentence for the murders of three women in California—when he confe...
The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 2
Thu, 02 Apr 2020
After a 7-month hiatus between 1918 and 1919, the Axeman jumped back into his killing spree. City of...
The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 1
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...
“The Golden State Killer” Pt. 2: Joseph DeAngelo
Thu, 19 Mar 2020
As Joseph James DeAngelo's crimes escalated from robbery to murder during the 1980s, he terrified th...
“The Golden State Killer” Pt. 1: Joseph DeAngelo
Mon, 16 Mar 2020
His crimes earned him the moniker of the “Visalia Ransacker” and the “East Area Rapist.” But...
“The Boxcar Killer” Robert Joseph Silvera Jr.
Thu, 12 Mar 2020
He was a freight hopper who rode the rails of the western United States for over a decade. Robert Jo...
False Confessions: Henry Lee Lucas
Mon, 09 Mar 2020
In the mid-1980s, serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confessed to nearly 600 murders. While most of those...
“The Lust Killer” Pt. 2: Jerry Brudos
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...
“The Lust Killer” Pt 1: Jerry Brudos
Mon, 02 Mar 2020
He developed an obsession with women's clothing from a young age—a fetish which would eventually t...
The Zodiac Killer Pt. 2
Thu, 27 Feb 2020
Following the string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the masked man known as the Zodiac Kill...
The Zodiac Killer Pt. 1
Mon, 24 Feb 2020
In the summer of 1969, newspapers in San Francisco began receiving coded letters from a man who woul...
“H.H. Holmes” Pt. 2: Herman Webster Mudgett
Thu, 20 Feb 2020
Between 1891 and 1895, H.H. Holmes embarked on a vicious killing spree across the United States, ter...
“H.H. Holmes” Pt. 1: Herman Webster Mudgett
Mon, 17 Feb 2020
He was the master of the infamous “Murder Mansion,” and often cited as America’s first serial ...
“The Campus Killer” Pt. 2: Ted Bundy
Thu, 13 Feb 2020
In 1974, Ted Bundy embarked on a murderous roadtrip across America committing dozens of murders from...
“The Campus Killer” Pt. 1: Ted Bundy
Mon, 10 Feb 2020
He’s one of the most notorious serial killers of the 20th century, murdering dozens of young women...
“The Lambeth Poisoner” Thomas Neill Cream
Mon, 03 Feb 2020
In the late 1800s, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was the go-to doctor for Chicago's Red Light District. The...
“The Classified Ad Rapist” Pt. 2: Bobby Joe Long
Mon, 27 Jan 2020
In 1984, Bobby Joe Long terrorized Tampa—sexually assaulting and murdering women with alarming fre...
“The Classified Ad Rapist” Pt. 1: Bobby Joe Long
Mon, 20 Jan 2020
Bobby Joe Long was responsible for the murder of at least 9 Tampa women. Born in 1953, his early lif...
“The Gorilla Man” Pt. 2: Earle Leonard Nelson
Mon, 13 Jan 2020
From 1926-1928, Earle Nelson would roam across North America strangling unsuspecting land ladies. By...
“The Gorilla Man” Pt. 1: Earle Leonard Nelson
Mon, 06 Jan 2020
Reputed to have abnormally long arms and unusually large hands, Earle Leonard Nelson roamed the Unit...
Jeffrey Dahmer Special Pt. 3
Mon, 23 Dec 2019
While on probation after an early release from prison in March of 1990, Jeffrey Dahmer continued his...
Jeffrey Dahmer Special Pt. 2
Mon, 23 Dec 2019
It was a murderous rampage that could have possibly been prevented. Although Jeffrey Dahmer failed n...
Jeffrey Dahmer Special Pt. 1
Mon, 23 Dec 2019
He was one of the most infamous serial killers of the 20th century, murdering 17 young men between 1...
David Joseph Carpenter
Mon, 16 Dec 2019
At least 10 people lost their lives at the hands of David Joseph Carpenter between 1979 and 1981. Hi...
Archibald Thomson Hall Pt. 2
Mon, 09 Dec 2019
Archibald Hall carried out his murderous rampage across the U.K. in 1977 and 1978, killing five peop...
Archibald Thomson Hall Pt. 1
Mon, 02 Dec 2019
Obsessed with breaking into the upper crust of society, Archibald Hall would go to any lengths to do...
The Servant Girl Annihilator Pt. 2
Mon, 25 Nov 2019
On Christmas Eve 1885, Austin, Texas was again the site of multiple, grisly slayings. Only this time...
The Servant Girl Annihilator Pt. 1
Mon, 18 Nov 2019
In 1884, Austin, Texas was shaken to its core when one of America's first serial killers committed a...
Elizabeth Wettlaufer Pt. 2
Mon, 11 Nov 2019
Between 2007 and 2016, Elizabeth Wettlaufer killed elderly residents of the long-term care home wher...
Elizabeth Wettlaufer Pt. 1
Mon, 04 Nov 2019
Born in Canada in 1967, Elizabeth Wettlaufer struggled to accept her sexuality due to her deeply rel...
Dana Sue Gray Pt. 2
Mon, 28 Oct 2019
In early 1994, Dana Sue Gray went on a month-long rampage that claimed the lives of several elderly ...
Dana Sue Gray Pt. 1
Mon, 21 Oct 2019
Growing up in Southern California in the 50s and 60s, Dana Sue Gray developed a troubling childhood ...
“The Vampire of Sacramento” Pt. 2: Richard Trenton Chase
Mon, 14 Oct 2019
1977 proved to be a turning point for 27-year-old Richard Chase. Killing dogs and rabbits for their ...
“The Vampire of Sacramento” Pt. 1: Richard Trenton Chase
Mon, 07 Oct 2019
He was a strange child—messy, disorganized and prone to random outbursts. As Richard Chase neared ...
“The Lady Killer” Pt. 2 - Neville Heath
Mon, 30 Sep 2019
In 1946, British ex-pilot Neville Heath had lost everything. His wife left him and he had been dismi...
“The Lady Killer” - Neville Heath
Mon, 23 Sep 2019
Born on June 6th, 1917, Neville Heath would grow up to be one of the most devious killers England ha...
“The Vienna Strangler” Pt. 2 - Jack Unterweger
Mon, 16 Sep 2019
In the early 1970s, Jack Unterweger was sentenced to an Austrian prison for life after he murdered a...
“The Vienna Strangler” - Jack Unterweger
Mon, 09 Sep 2019
In the early 1970s, Jack Unterweger was sentenced to an Austrian prison for life after he murdered a...
“The Kindly Killer” Pt. 2 - Dennis Nilsen
Mon, 02 Sep 2019
With the start of the 1980s, British serial killer Dennis Nilsen was just hitting his stride. His tw...
“The Kindly Killer” - Dennis Nilsen
Mon, 26 Aug 2019
A hot meal, a stiff drink, or simple companionship. These are the tools Dennis Nilsen would use to l...
“Arsenic Anna” Pt. 2 - Anna Marie Hahn
Mon, 19 Aug 2019
Five years into her killing spree, a team of financial detectives started to catch wind of Anna Mari...
“Arsenic Anna” - Anna Marie Hahn
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...
“The Toy-Box Killer” Pt. 2 - David Parker Ray
Mon, 05 Aug 2019
By 1986, David Parker Ray was 46 years old, and had been abducting, raping, torturing, and killing w...
“The Toy-Box Killer” - David Parker Ray
Mon, 29 Jul 2019
Born on November 1st, 1939, David Parker Ray would grow up to be one of the most sadistic serial kil...
Unexplained Mysteries: The Zodiac Killer Pt. 2 (with Greg and Vanessa!)
Tue, 23 Jul 2019
Following the string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the masked man known as the Zodiac Kill...
Unexplained Mysteries: The Zodiac Killer Pt. 1 (with Greg and Vanessa!)
Mon, 22 Jul 2019
In the summer of 1969, newspapers in Northern California began receiving coded letters from a person...
“The Doodler” - San Francisco’s Unknown Serial Slayer
Mon, 15 Jul 2019
At first, many gay men in 1970s San Francisco were dazzled by a handsome young artist who drew their...
“The Bayou Serial Killer” Pt. 2 - Ronald Joseph Dominique
Mon, 08 Jul 2019
Ronald Dominique didn't feel any remorse as he dumped his twenty-third victim in the Louisiana swamp...
“The Bayou Serial Killer” - Ronald Joseph Dominique
Mon, 01 Jul 2019
He never caught a break growing up. He was mercilessly bullied, and no romantic prospects ever gave ...
“Joel the Ripper” Pt. 2 - Joel Rifkin
Mon, 24 Jun 2019
Just before he strangled a victim, Joel Rifkin could hear laughter ringing in his ears. The sounds o...
“Joel the Ripper” - Joel Rifkin
Mon, 17 Jun 2019
When relentless high school bullies started dunking Joel’s head in urine-filled toilets, and throw...
“The Pig Farmer” Pt. 2 - Robert "Willie" Pickton
Mon, 10 Jun 2019
In the early 90s, vulnerable women around Vancouver were disappearing at an alarming rate, but the a...
“The Pig Farmer” - Robert "Willie" Pickton
Mon, 03 Jun 2019
This Canadian grew up on a pig farm in the 1970s, so slaughtering livestock became second nature. Hi...
“Candy Man” Pt. 2 - Dean Arnold Corll
Mon, 27 May 2019
After his candy store closed in 1968, Dean Corll needed a new way to bring in young victims from the...
“Candy Man” - Dean Arnold Corll
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...
“The Ypsilanti Ripper” Pt. 2 - John Norman Collins
Mon, 13 May 2019
After successfully murdering four women in Eastern Michigan without a whiff of suspicion in 1969, Jo...
“The Ypsilanti Ripper” - John Norman Collins
Mon, 06 May 2019
By 1967, he seemed to be a well-adjusted college student in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But the real reason...
“Terminator” Pt. 2 - Anatoly Onoprienko
Mon, 29 Apr 2019
By 1996, he settled down in a small village in Ukraine with his girlfriend, and was a loving father-...
“Terminator” - Anatoly Onoprienko
Mon, 22 Apr 2019
He wanted to be remembered. He had spent a life cast aside and forgotten by his parents, siblings an...
“Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run” Pt. 2 - The Cleveland Torso Murders
Mon, 15 Apr 2019
Eliot Ness went to the grave in 1957 without ever convicting the Cleveland Torso Murderer. Decades l...
“Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run” - The Cleveland Torso Murders
Mon, 08 Apr 2019
When a torso washed up on the banks of the Cuyahoga River in 1937, the police initially assumed a cr...
“The Bone Collector” - The West Mesa Murders
Mon, 01 Apr 2019
In early 2009, when Christine Ross set out on her morning walk in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the last ...
"Ogress of Reading" Pt. 2 - Amelia Dyer
Mon, 25 Mar 2019
In this special crossover episode with Sami from Female Criminals, we find out that Amelia Dyer’s ...
"Ogress of Reading" - Amelia Dyer
Mon, 18 Mar 2019
Cunning, smart, ruthless, Amelia Dyer began a baby-farming business in 19th century England. Poverty...
“The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders” Pt. 2 - Gordon Stewart Northcott
Mon, 11 Mar 2019
It seemed as though no one would be able to save Sanford from his uncle. Sanford had lived with him ...
“The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders” - Gordon Stewart Northcott
Mon, 04 Mar 2019
This Serial Killers and Hostage crossover covers Gordon Stewart Northcott, who held his nephew capti...
"The Spokane Serial Killer" Pt. 2 - Robert Lee Yates Jr.
Mon, 25 Feb 2019
In 1996, he was honorably discharged from active duty in the U.S. Army. Yates would resume serving h...
"The Spokane Serial Killer" - Robert Lee Yates Jr.
Mon, 18 Feb 2019
He lived a seemingly normal life. A father of five children and army veteran, Robert Lee Yates, was ...
“The Butcher of Hanover” Pt. 2 - Fritz Haarmann
Mon, 11 Feb 2019
Sent to his first mental institution at the age of 17, Fritz Haarmann had a troubled childhood full ...
“The Butcher of Hanover” - Fritz Haarmann
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...
“Lady Rotten” Pt. 2 - Mary Ann Cotton
Mon, 28 Jan 2019
After suffering multiple miscarriages, she begins to see her children less as a blessing and more of...
“Lady Rotten” - Mary Ann Cotton
Mon, 21 Jan 2019
She was determined to pull herself out of poverty, but the path towards financial freedom meant murd...
“Phoenix Serial Shooters” Pt. 2 - Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman
Mon, 14 Jan 2019
In the summer of 2005, innocent people were being gunned down in the streets of Phoenix, Arizona wit...
“Phoenix Serial Shooters” - Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman
Mon, 07 Jan 2019
In an instant, Dale Hauser's family was gone. He was left broken, isolated, and enraged. In 2005, hi...
“The Double Initial Murders” Pt. 2 - Joseph Naso
Mon, 31 Dec 2018
Working as a photographer, he obsessively documented his crimes. Naso’s journals included more tha...
“The Double Initial Murders” - Joseph Naso
Mon, 17 Dec 2018
A routine home inspection in 2010 uncovers heinous crimes committed by Joseph Naso. Dating back to t...
“The Craigslist Ripper” Pt. 2 - The Long Island Serial Killer
Mon, 10 Dec 2018
Many of the details surrounding the murder of 16 women in Long Island remain a mystery, the only con...
“The Craigslist Ripper” - The Long Island Serial Killer
Mon, 03 Dec 2018
Ten bodies were found on Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in Long Island in 2010 all linked to one per...
“The Co-Ed Killer” Pt. 2 - Edmund Kemper
Mon, 26 Nov 2018
Edmund Kemper despised his mother so much, he tried to destroy everything she had ever loved. As Edm...
“The Co-Ed Killer” - Edmund Kemper
Mon, 19 Nov 2018
Verbally abused and psychologically tortured by his mother, young Edmund Kemper's mind turned toward...
“Killer Caregiver” Pt. 2 - Beverley Allitt
Mon, 12 Nov 2018
Can detective Stuart Clifton find enough evidence to lock up the serial killer known as the, “Ange...
“Killer Caregiver” - Beverley Allitt
Mon, 05 Nov 2018
A sweet and loving pediatric nurse was secretly torturing and murdering children at a England hospit...
“The Jacksonville Cannibal” Pt. 2 - Ottis Toole
Mon, 29 Oct 2018
A man hungry for murder, and other things… The Cannibal Kid invites you to his famous BBQ, but thi...
“The Jacksonville Cannibal” - Ottis Toole
Mon, 22 Oct 2018
He was either one of the most prolific killers of all time, or a compliant interviewee taken advanta...
“The Beast of British Columbia” Pt. 2 - Clifford Robert Olson Jr.
Mon, 15 Oct 2018
A chance meeting with child killer Gary Marcoux inspired Olson Jr. to commit his own string of murde...
“The Beast of British Columbia” - Clifford Robert Olson Jr.
Mon, 08 Oct 2018
After his release from prison, Olson Jr. would go on a vicious killing spree and ultimately be convi...
“BTK Killer” Pt. 2 - Dennis Rader
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...
“BTK Killer” - Dennis Rader
Mon, 24 Sep 2018
By all accounts, he was a loving family man, Scoutmaster, and church leader. None of his family memb...
“House of Horrors” Pt. 2 - Fred and Rose West
Mon, 17 Sep 2018
Fred and Rose each came from abusive homes and each showed signs of being abusive as they became adu...
“House of Horrors” - Fred and Rose West
Mon, 10 Sep 2018
Fred and Rose each came from abusive homes and each showed signs of being abusive as they became adu...
“The Yorkshire Ripper” Pt. 2 - Peter Sutcliffe
Mon, 03 Sep 2018
From the years 1969 to 1981, a serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper freely roamed the streets...
“The Yorkshire Ripper” - Peter Sutcliffe
Mon, 27 Aug 2018
Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe claimed he was directed by voices of God to kill innocent women. Natur...
“The Death House Landlady” Pt. 2 - Dorothea Puente
Tue, 21 Aug 2018
Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in Sacramento, California. She had perfected a technique of tak...
“The Death House Landlady” Pt. 1 - Dorothea Puente
Tue, 21 Aug 2018
This is a crossover special with the hosts of Serial Killers and Female Criminals. Dorothea Puente ...
“Son of Sam” Pt. 2 - David Berkowitz
Tue, 14 Aug 2018
From summer of 1976 through summer of 1977, David Berkowitz went on a year long killing spree that t...
“Son of Sam” - David Berkowitz
Tue, 07 Aug 2018
Plagued by the voices of monsters and demons since adolescence, serial killer David Berkowitz set ov...
“The Video Strangler” Pt. 2 - Maury Travis
Tue, 31 Jul 2018
Like many serial killers, Maury Travis became over-confident. In the summer of 2002, after reading a...
“The Video Strangler” - Maury Travis
Tue, 24 Jul 2018
There was no evidence in Maury Travis’ childhood of arson or animal abuse, often seen as early war...
“The Murder Factory” Pt. 2 - Amy Archer-Gilligan
Tue, 17 Jul 2018
Amy Archer-Gilligan owned and operated a home for elderly residents in Windsor, Connecticut, but fel...
“The Murder Factory” - Amy Archer-Gilligan
Tue, 10 Jul 2018
Amy Archer-Gilligan opened a nursing home in Connecticut in 1907. By portraying herself as a kind an...
“The Sunset Strip Killer” Pt. 2 - Carol Bundy
Tue, 03 Jul 2018
In the summer of 1980, Carol Bundy helped Douglas Clark sexually assault a young girl and murder ove...
“The Sunset Strip Killer” - Carol Bundy
Tue, 26 Jun 2018
After years of abuse as a child at the hands of her parents, Carol Bundy suffered through the same f...
“The Beast” Pt. 2 - Luis Garavito
Tue, 19 Jun 2018
Luis Alfredo Garavito raped, tortured, and killed well over 100 children. Find out how he lured away...
“The Beast” - Luis Garavito
Tue, 12 Jun 2018
Luis Garavito was born in Colombia in 1957 to an abusive, alcoholic father and a time of civil unres...
“The Confession Killer” Pt. 2 - Henry Lee Lucas
Tue, 22 May 2018
Henry Lee Lucas served only 10 years for killing his abusive mother. After being released early due ...
“The Confession Killer” - Henry Lee Lucas
Tue, 15 May 2018
Henry Lee Lucas, is one of history’s greatest liars. After his arrest in the 1980s, Lucas claimed ...
Carl Panzram Pt. 2
Tue, 08 May 2018
Carl Panzram didn't start out a murderer. He started with smaller crimes like robbery and arson and ...
Carl Panzram
Tue, 01 May 2018
Even as a child, Carl Panzram often found himself in trouble. He spent his teenage years either home...
“Killer Petey” - Pedro Rodrigues Filho
Tue, 24 Apr 2018
After his girlfriend Maria was murdered by gang members, Pedro Rodrigues Filho made it his mission t...
“The Boston Strangler” Pt. 2 - Albert DeSalvo
Tue, 17 Apr 2018
After being admitted to Bridgewater State Hospital, Albert DeSalvo began confiding in other patients...
“The Boston Strangler” - Albert DeSalvo
Tue, 03 Apr 2018
There’s a special sense of security within our own homes. But from 1962 to 1964, Albert DeSalvo to...
“The Trash Bag Killer” Pt. 2 - Patrick Wayne Kearney
Tue, 27 Mar 2018
After luring in victims using a false sense of security, Patrick Wayne Kearney earned his title as “...
“The Trash Bag Killer” - Patrick Wayne Kearney
Tue, 20 Mar 2018
Patrick Wayne Kearney was born in Los Angeles, California in 1939. As a child, he was tormented rele...
“The Sorcerer” Pt. 2 - Ahmad Suradji
Tue, 13 Mar 2018
Many people innocently dream of having super powers. But Ahmad Suradji’s dreams led him to become ...
“The Sorcerer” - Ahmad Suradji
Tue, 06 Mar 2018
In 1986, Ahmad Suradji had dreamed of becoming a mystic healer in his community. But this dream also...
“Dr. Death” Pt. 2 - Harold Shipman
Mon, 26 Feb 2018
During his 25-year medical career, Harold Shipman rose to be a respectable family doctor who treated...
“Dr. Death” - Harold Shipman
Mon, 19 Feb 2018
What happens when a doctor, someone we should trust, becomes a killer? Harold Shipman, later known a...
“The Blood Countess” Pt. 2 - Elizabeth Bathory
Mon, 12 Feb 2018
Elizabeth Bathory was a cruel, widowed noblewoman who earned the title “The Blood Countess” from...
“The Blood Countess” - Elizabeth Bathory
Mon, 05 Feb 2018
In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, young peasant girls who went to the Castle Cachtice were ...
“The Butcher of Plainfield” Pt. 2 - Ed Gein
Mon, 29 Jan 2018
After murdering two women, robbing graves, and decorating his home with human body parts, Ed Gein fo...
“The Butcher of Plainfield” - Ed Gein
Mon, 22 Jan 2018
We explore the twisted mind of Ed Gein, whose gruesome killings inspired horror movies Pyscho, The T...
“Jolly Jane” - Jane Toppan
Mon, 15 Jan 2018
After a childhood filled with abuse, poverty, and shame, Jane Toppan (born Honora Kelley), left her ...
“The Killer Clown” Pt. 2 - John Wayne Gacy
Mon, 08 Jan 2018
We continue to look into the conflicted identity of John Wayne Gacy, who terrorized Chicago in the 1...
“The Killer Clown” - John Wayne Gacy
Mon, 25 Dec 2017
John Wayne Gacy, or the “Killer Clown,” was named the worst serial killer in the United States a...
“The Moors Murderers” Pt. 2 - Ian Brady & Myra Hindley
Mon, 18 Dec 2017
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley shared a deep, dark passion for murder that led to the death of multiple ch...
“The Moors Murderers” - Ian Brady & Myra Hindley
Mon, 11 Dec 2017
When Myra Hindley, an ambitious, yet violent, young woman met Ian Brady, an unemotional man with a t...
“The Freeway Killer” Pt. 2 - William Bonin
Mon, 04 Dec 2017
After William Bonin took the life of his first victim, his killings only escalated in frequency and ...
“The Freeway Killer” - William Bonin
Mon, 27 Nov 2017
William Bonin drove California’s freeways, picking up hitchhiking men and boys and driving them to...
“The Butcher of Rostov” Pt. 2 - Andrei Chikatilo
Mon, 20 Nov 2017
Andrei Chikatilo killed with increasing frequency over twelve years. Greg and Vanessa explain how th...
“The Butcher of Rostov” - Andrei Chikatilo
Mon, 13 Nov 2017
One of the most prolific serial killers ever to live, Andrei Chikatilo murdered 53 people between 19...
Jack the Ripper Special - Pt. 3
Fri, 10 Nov 2017
He was never caught. So why did Jack the Ripper stop killing? In the finale, Greg, Vanessa, Carter, ...
Jack the Ripper Special - Pt. 2
Thu, 09 Nov 2017
One of the first serial killers to write letters to the authorities, Jack the Ripper’s mail was me...
Jack the Ripper Special - Pt. 1
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...
“The Lethal Lovers” Pt. 2 - Gwen Graham & Cathy Wood
Mon, 06 Nov 2017
In the case of the Lethal Lovers, Gwen Graham was charged with five murders, and Cathy Wood charged ...
“The Lethal Lovers” - Gwen Graham & Cathy Wood
Mon, 30 Oct 2017
After meeting at Alpine Manor in Michigan, nurses’ aides Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood began a romant...
"Bible John" Pt. 2
Mon, 23 Oct 2017
Bible John left gruesomely specific crime scenes. This week, Greg and Vanessa scrutinize this killer...
"Bible John"
Mon, 16 Oct 2017
Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom was meant to be a place for people to dance and enjoy themselves. In...
“The Angel of Death” Pt. 2 - Charles Cullen
Mon, 09 Oct 2017
Charles Cullen was one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. As a nurse, he went from...
“The Angel of Death” - Charles Cullen
Mon, 02 Oct 2017
Nurses are trained to save lives. But this nurse killed. Charles Cullen overdosed his elderly patien...
“The Midwest Black Widow” Pt. 2 - Belle Gunness
Mon, 25 Sep 2017
A fire rages at black widow Belle Gunness's murder farm, where her many victims lie buried below her...
“The Midwest Black Widow” - Belle Gunness
Mon, 18 Sep 2017
Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness was one of America's deadliest black widows. Suitors answering her...
"The Green River Killer" Pt. 2 - Gary Ridgway
Mon, 11 Sep 2017
What makes someone evil? And how evil is Gary Ridgway, serial killer and necrophiliac? Greg and Vane...
"The Green River Killer" - Gary Ridgway
Mon, 04 Sep 2017
Struggling with a low IQ, Gary Ridgway always wanted to be the best at just one thing. That one thin...
“The Giggling Granny” Pt. 2 - Nannie Doss
Mon, 28 Aug 2017
Behind the cheerful demeanor of a sweet southern grandma, lurked a vicious killer. Nannie Doss poiso...
“The Giggling Granny” – Nannie Doss
Mon, 21 Aug 2017
“The Giggling Granny”, Nannie Doss’ home cooked meals were served with a side of poison. Was s...
"The Grim Sleeper" Pt 2. - Lonnie Franklin Jr.
Mon, 14 Aug 2017
Lonnie Franklin Jr. offered rides to Los Angeles women, only to kill them, photograph them, and leav...
"The Grim Sleeper" - Lonnie Franklin Jr.
Mon, 07 Aug 2017
He targeted and killed multiple women in the 1980’s; then mysteriously disappeared. Fourteen years...
“The Casanova Killer” Pt. 2 – Paul John Knowles
Mon, 31 Jul 2017
A lust killer who dreamed to be known as an outlaw, Paul John Knowles sought infamy. He was so despe...
“The Casanova Killer” - Paul John Knowles
Mon, 24 Jul 2017
He had no pattern. No victim type. No consistent MO. And he killed across the country. Nicknamed the...
“The Werewolf of Wysteria” Pt. 2 - Albert Fish
Mon, 17 Jul 2017
“The Boogey Man”, AKA Albert Fish, attacked over 100 children, many of them unidentified. A trau...
Welcome Trailer
Mon, 10 Jul 2017
Every Monday we take a psychological and entertaining approach to provide a rare glimpse into the mi...
“The Werewolf of Wysteria” - Albert Fish
Mon, 10 Jul 2017
Albert Fish preyed on young children in the early 1900s, molesting, murdering, and even cannibalizin...