Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 4

When the sun finally rose, he methodically availed himself of the dead's belongings, precisely as he always did, but for the first time, he could not...

Ted Bundy - Part 3

Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 3

She fought him off when she could, her arms straining against his weight, her breath hitching as she prayed for him to collapse into a drunken stupor....

Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 2

He’d deliberately pick fights with men leaving the tavern, a predator stalking his prey. Experience had honed his dangerous edge; he was now a skilled...

Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 1

The room fell silent, the other patrons—hard men with scarred hands and wary eyes—sensing the storm about to break.Dutch rose slowly, his shadow swall...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 10

Within three hours of beginning the search, investigators found a three-ring notebook. Investigator Sachtleben later said of his findings, and I quote...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 9

The lead agent called out to Ted, asking for help with a property line. Ted, wary, peered from the doorway, his frame gaunt from years of isolation. T...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 8

The blast site was a slaughterhouse: blood on the walls, metal quills in the plaster, the air thick with the smell of explosives. Murray’s remains wer...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 7

Smoke billowed through the house as Susan ran outside, shouting for help. Their elder daughter, alerted by her mother’s cries, also sought assistance....

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 6

Ted grappled with his own contradictions: “As you know, I have no respect for law or morality. Why have I never committed any crime? (of course, I’m n...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 5

The Unabomber’s evolution was chilling. His early bombs, crude concoctions of smokeless powder and match heads, were child’s play compared to this. Th...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 4

The homemade green cylindrical box perched atop a can on the floor was studded with dials and gauges, or so the instructor said later. Angelakos saw w...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 3

ATF experts analyzed the scattered remains: a nine-inch-long, one-inch-wide pipe encased in a wooden box, secured with nails, rubber bands, screws, ep...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 2

Griffin would put the blame for our environmental problems on excessive individual freedoms. Actually, most of the problems are direct or indirect res...

Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 1

They are then escorted into the gas chamber, often under heavy security, and secured to a chair with restraints around their wrists, ankles, waist, an...

Tsutomu Miyazaki | The Little Girl Murderer

Tsutomu Miyazaki liked to taunt the parents of his victims with chillingly silent phone calls or postcards containing gloating messages. He left a box...

Herbert Mullin - Part 5

Mullin didn’t fit the killer mold. This clean-cut ex-flower-child looked more like he’d stumble over a peace rally than a murder scene. Cops might’ve...

Herbert Mullin - Part 4

The blade sliced her open, her flesh separating with a cold precision, skin and fat sliding apart as if they’d been primed to rupture all along. Blood...

Herbert Mullin - Part 3

The police approached the Mullin family home, their knocks echoing like the tolling of a death knell through the silent house, surrounded by uncollect...

Herbert Mullin - Part 2

Herb began experimenting with drugs, initially using marijuana to soothe his anxiety. However, he soon recognized its impact on his intellectual sharp...

Herbert Mullin - Part 1

He had to offer Her blood, much like the ancient cultures did, recognizing Her under various guises of gods and goddesses but understanding that sacri...

Charles Manson - Part 10

When we dive into the dark saga of the Manson Family, the names Sharon Tate, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca often dominate the narrative. Yet, the shadow...

Charles Manson - Part 9

Deciphering Charles Manson's words is always challenging, but this particular note is less obscure than his usual communications. "Gold" was his nickn...

Charles Manson - Part 8

Through a combination of deception and coercion, they elicited a confession from Atkins, who admitted to holding Hinman while Beausoleil inflicted the...

Charles Manson - Part 7

The streets of Oakland became their battlefield. In 1967, Huey Newton, the party's charismatic leader, spilled blood in a fatal confrontation with a p...

Charles Manson - Part 6

Hinman was tortured over three days before he was killed. Beausoleil admitted to stabbing Hinman twice in the chest. The Manson family reportedly used...

Charles Manson - Part 5

In this gripping episode we dive into the chilling saga of Charles Manson as we explore the final chapters of his life and the aftermath of his notori...

Charles Manson - Part 4

Police burst into his bedroom and led him to the bloody bodies of Frokowski and Abigail Folger, lying on the lawn, and Steven Parent, slumped over the...

Charles Manson - Part 3

In this 3rd series of Charles Manson we discuss the chilling court defense that portrayed Charles Manson not just as a killer, but as a master manipul...

Charles Manson - Part 2

In February 1951, sixteen-year-old Manson embarked on another escape, this time with two companions. Their stolen car crossed state lines, a federal o...

Charles Manson - Part 1

Come with me to explore Charles Manson, the notorious Manson Family and their leader. It begins with the gruesome murders on August 8, 1969, at Sharon...

Lorenzo Gilyard - The Kansas City Strangler

Step into the shadows of Kansas City with our latest podcast episode, as we uncover the chilling saga of Lorenzo Gilyard, the Kansas City Strangler. F...

Joel Rifkin | Joel the Ripper - Part 3

After a brief encounter, she followed him to a grimy rented room where they had sex. What transpired next is a chilling portrait of violence. When Rif...

Joel Rifkin | Joel the Ripper - Part 2

In March 1989, Rifkin made a life-altering decision to kill, targeting a young woman named Susie from Manhattan’s East Village. This episode unravels...

Joel Rifkin | Joel the Ripper - Part 1

The stench hit them first in the cluttered garage. A wheelbarrow overflowed with a crimson tide – human blood, thick and viscous. A pair of women’s pa...

John Gerard Shaefer | Butcher of Blind Creek - Part 6

In this gripping episode of The Serial Killer Podcast we dive into the chilling tale of Gerard John Schaefer, a former police officer turned serial ki...

John Gerard Shaefer | Butcher of Blind Creek - Part 5

The torture the girls were subjected to have been difficult to ascertain. The details probably fit with Schafer’s own writings, detailed in previous e...

John Gerard Shaefer | Butcher of Blind Creek - Part 4

The 27th of September, 1972. A date etched in blood on the Florida calendar. Georgia Jessup, a wisp of a girl with dreams far exceeding her sixteen ye...

John Gerard Shaefer | Butcher of Blind Creek - Part 3

He took pleasure in the kill, not the bounty it provided. Songbirds, their sweet melodies silenced with a single, brutal crack. Land crabs, scuttled a...

John Gerard Shaefer | Butcher of Blind Creek - Part 2

Fair warning, the content is graphic and disturbing. I quote: “She was expecting dinner but instead was driven down a deserted road. She was asked to...