Serial Killers

Mon, 18 Jul

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

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 11 Jul

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

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

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

Mon, 04 Jul

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

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 27 Jun

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

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 20 Jun

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

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 13 Jun

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

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 06 Jun

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

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 30 May

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

Thu, 26 May 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 23 May

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

Thu, 19 May 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 16 May

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

Thu, 12 May 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 09 May

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

Thu, 05 May 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 02 May

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

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

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

Mon, 25 Apr

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

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 11 Apr

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

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

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

Mon, 04 Apr

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

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 21 Mar

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

Thu, 17 Mar 2022 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 14 Mar

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

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 07 Mar

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

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 28 Feb

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

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 21 Feb

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

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 14 Feb

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

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 07 Feb

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

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 31 Jan

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

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 24 Jan

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

Thu, 20 Jan 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, 17 Jan

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

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 10 Jan

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

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 03 Jan

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

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 13 Dec

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

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 06 Dec

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

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 29 Nov

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

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 15 Nov

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

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 08 Nov

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

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 01 Nov

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

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 25 Oct

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

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 18 Oct

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

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 11 Oct

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

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 04 Oct

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

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 27 Sep

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

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 20 Sep

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

Thu, 16 Sep 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 13 Sep

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

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 06 Sep

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

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 30 Aug

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

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 23 Aug

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

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 16 Aug

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

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 09 Aug

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

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 02 Aug

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

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 26 Jul

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

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 19 Jul

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

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 12 Jul

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

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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

Mon, 05 Jul

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

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 07:01:00 -0000

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