Serial Killers

Mon, 23 Oct

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

Mon, 16 Oct

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

Mon, 09 Oct

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

Mon, 02 Oct

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

Mon, 25 Sep

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

Mon, 18 Sep

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

Mon, 11 Sep

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

Mon, 04 Sep

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

Mon, 28 Aug

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

Mon, 21 Aug

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

Mon, 14 Aug

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

Mon, 07 Aug

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

Mon, 31 Jul

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

Mon, 24 Jul

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

Mon, 17 Jul

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

Mon, 10 Jul

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

Mon, 03 Jul

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

Mon, 26 Jun

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

Mon, 19 Jun

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

Mon, 12 Jun

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

Mon, 05 Jun

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

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 29 May

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

Thu, 25 May 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 22 May

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

Thu, 18 May 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 15 May

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

Thu, 11 May 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 08 May

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

Thu, 04 May 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 01 May

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

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 24 Apr

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

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 17 Apr

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

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 10 Apr

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

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 03 Apr

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

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 27 Mar

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

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 20 Mar

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

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 13 Mar

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

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 27 Feb

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

Mon, 20 Feb

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

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 06 Feb

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

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 30 Jan

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

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 23 Jan

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

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 16 Jan

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

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 09 Jan

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

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 02 Jan

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

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 26 Dec

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

Wed, 21 Dec

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

Wed, 21 Dec

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

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 05 Dec

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

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 28 Nov

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

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 31 Oct

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

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 24 Oct

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

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 17 Oct

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

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 10 Oct

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

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 03 Oct

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

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 26 Sep

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

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 19 Sep

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

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 12 Sep

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

Thu, 01 Sep 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 29 Aug

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

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 22 Aug

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

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 15 Aug

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

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 08 Aug

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

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 01 Aug

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

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 25 Jul

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

Fri, 22 Jul

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

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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