Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Ed Gein Pt. 1
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the twisted mind of Ed Gein, whose gruesome killings inspired horror movies Pyscho, The T...
Halloween Special: The Candy Lady
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Halloween this year we are bringing back one of your favorites, an urban legend about a terrifyi...
Halloween Special: The 'Scream' Killer
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Halloween this year we are bringing back one of your favorites. In 1996, a new horror movie with...
The Smiley Face Murder Theory
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired on November 18, 2024. Across the U.S., college-aged men have been found dea...
The Doomsday Murders
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired on April 14, 2025. The sordid story of Chad and Lori Daybell hit national n...
Albert Fish
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired on August 19, 2024. He’s been called many names: the Boogeyman, the Thril...
Jolly Jane Toppan (And an Announcement!)
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode first aired on January 15, 2018. On the outside, Jane Toppan seemed like a loving nurse...
Profit Killer: Dorothea Puente
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She dressed like a grandmother, lied about her age, and acted like a guardian angel… while secretl...
Thrill Killer: Richard Biegenwald
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Biegenwald didn’t have a consistent method or a clear motive. He killed out of impulse—s...
Lust Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeffrey Dahmer seemed quiet, even unassuming. But beneath the surface was a man consumed by violent ...
Mission Killer: "Real Life Dexter" Manny Pardo
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Florida cop dedicated his life to fighting crime. But in his mind, the only way to truly clean ...
Visionary Killer: Joe Kallinger
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The visionary killer blames their crimes on an external force – an apparition who commands them to...
Power and Control Killer: Ted Bundy
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ted Bundy was calculated, composed, even charming. But behind the polished exterior was a predator o...
The Idaho Four Pt. 2 (with Kayna Whitworth)
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, Six weeks after the murders of the Idaho Four, Bryan Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania...
The Idaho Four Pt. 1 (with J. Reuben Appelman)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four students at the University of Idaho were murde...
The Hook Man
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Hook Man is an urban legend dating back to the 1950s. The terrifying story tells of a killer wit...
The Postcard Killer: J. Frank Hickey
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a young boy vanished in 1911, police received mysterious postcards. The horrifying allegations...
Phone Call From a Serial Killer: Larry Gene Bell
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
May, 1985. Two days before her high school graduation, Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her parent...
The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 2
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Ervil LeBaron, the prophet of a Fundamentalist LDS sect in Mexico, has grasped power after being rel...
The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 1
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the 1920s, the LeBaron family settles in Mexico to practice their own sect of Mormonism. They est...
The Red Barn Murder
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Happy solstice, listeners! Join our guest host this week, Sapphire Sandalo, for a summertime tale of...
Zodiac or Bundy? The Unsolved Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the 1970s, at least seven young women and girls go missing around Santa Rosa, California. Seven a...
The Taco Bell Strangler: Henry Louis Wallace
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
His modus operandi is shocking: years before he strangled his victims, Henry Louis Wallace befriende...
The Shapeshifting Fugitive: Franklin Delano Floyd
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
A missing woman in Florida leads police to a fugitive who’s been on the run for 17 years. But that...
A Body in the Cellar: Hawley Harvey Crippen
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When a boneless torso possibly belonging to a woman named Cora Turner is found in the cellar of a Lo...
"The Freeway Phantom": D.C.'s First Serial Killer?
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
“...catch me if you can!” Police find those words written on a note left in a jacket draped over...
Operation Trace: The Missing Women of Ireland's Vanishing Triangle
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The eighty miles surrounding Dublin, Ireland, hold a chilling mystery. Between 1993 and 1998, at lea...
Golden Years Killers Pt. 2
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After getting away with murder in LA, retirees Helen and Olga scheme to kill again. But when an unli...
Golden Years Killers Pt. 1
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
No one batted an eye at the two women who became fast friends at an LA gym in the 1990s – until ye...
The Doomsday Murders: Lori and Chad Daybell
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In early 2020, the story of Lori Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell, hit national news. They’...
The Rugeley Poisoner Pt. 2
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Struggling with gambling and spiraling into debt, William Palmer turned to murder. This week, we con...
The Rugeley Poisoner Pt. 1
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1855, Dr. William Palmer became one of the Victorian era’s most famous villains – a man who p...
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Texas, convicted murderer Ed Bell claimed he killed 11 girls between Houston and Galveston back i...
The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 1
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
When a series of double-homicides struck Virginia in the late 1980s, authorities immediately suspect...
The Lewis Clark Valley Murders
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the fall of 1994, a 13-year-old boy found a human skull in his backyard. Detectives later discove...
“La Pistolera” Sharon Kinne
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Mary Bateman had been playing people for fools for years. The problem was, too many of her dissatisf...
The Yorkshire Killer Witch Pt. 1
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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?
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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)
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Three decades. Eleven states. Over 600 bodies. Across the United States, college-aged men have ended...
The Hello Kitty Killers
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Nancy Santomero and Vicki Durian hitchhiked from Arizona to West Virginia in the summer of 1980. The...
True Urban Legends: Candyman, with Ashley Flowers
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
According to the urban legends, Highway 666 is a paranormal hotspot in the remote American Southwest...
The Menendez Brothers Pt. 2
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In August of 1989, 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik Menendez murdered their parents in Beverly ...
The Menendez Brothers Pt. 1
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Jose Menendez pursued wealth at the expense of everything else in his life, including his relationsh...
“The Dating Game Killer” Rodney Alcala
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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)
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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!]
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We’re celebrating 500 episodes over at @serialkillerspodcast - come share your favorite episodes a...
“The Iceman” Richard Kuklinski Pt. 2
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In August of 2018, Chris and Shanann Watts’ marriage ended in violent tragedy. The trauma left a f...
The Watts Family Murders Pt. 1
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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)
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1978, Ann Wolbert Burgess was a psychiatric nurse, researcher, and professor at Boston College’...
The Honolulu Strangler
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
George Joseph Smith, the “London Bluebeard,” was said to have hypnotizing eyes that lured women ...
“The Lethal In-Law” Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
By 1938, Philadelphia’s Bolber-Petrillo Murder Ring had collected an estimated $100,000 in insuran...
The Bolber-Petrillo Murder Ring Pt. 1
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1930s Philadelphia, self-styled “doctor” Morris Bolber claimed he could fix any ailment – e...
Giulia Tofana (with Women and Crime)
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
An Italian woman living in Rome during the 17th century sold black-market poison to women who wanted...
The Wedding Vow Murder Pact Killers
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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?
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1989, Kristen Gilbert started her nursing career at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northa...
The Murder of the Lyon Sisters
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 1975, two young girls, Kate and Sheila Lyon, disappeared from the Wheaton Plaza Mall in Montgomer...
“The Revenge Doctor” Anthony Garcia
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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)
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Israel Keyes died having only confessed to a handful of murders and crimes. Researchers and investig...
Israel Keyes Pt. 2 (with Josh Hallmark)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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)
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In 2012, Israel Keyes is arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old barista. Pr...
The Tylenol Murders (with Brad Edwards)
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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)
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In July 2023, Rex Heuermann was arrested and charged with the murders of Megan Waterman, Melissa Bar...
Murder in Marlborough Sounds
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Olivia Hope and Ben Smart were partying with their friends on New Year’s Eve in the Marlborough So...
Who Killed Gertrude McCabe?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In October 1983, police found Gertrude McCabe dead inside her San Jose home: Who would murder an 88-...
The Morgans: A Fatal Love
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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)
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Sometimes violence comes from the people you least expect. Annie Elise, host of SERIALously and 1...
Charles Manson Pt. 2
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Leading up to the Grammys, we’re covering one of history’s most infamous musicians: Charles Mans...
Charles Manson Pt. 1
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
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
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Happy holidays from all of us at Serial Killers! We will be back with a new episode in January. In t...