Serial Killers

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios
True Crime History Education
en
Get a rare glimpse into the minds and methods of sadistic murderers. From notorious names like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy to lesser-known killers like “Death House Landlady” Dorothea Puente, what turns a regular person into a predator? Serial Killers is a Spotify Original. New episodes Mondays.

Episodes (50)

Lust Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer

Lust Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer

September 01, 2025 39m
Jeffrey Dahmer seemed quiet, even unassuming. But beneath the surface was a man consumed by violent desire. He didn’t kill out of anger—he killed to satisfy a fantasy. Every detail was deliberate,...
Mission Killer: "Real Life Dexter" Manny Pardo

Mission Killer: "Real Life Dexter" Manny Pardo

August 25, 2025 31m
This Florida cop dedicated his life to fighting crime. But in his mind, the only way to truly clean up the streets, was to become a killer himself. So Manuel “Manny” Pardo killed nine people. And even...
Visionary Killer: Joe Kallinger

Visionary Killer: Joe Kallinger

August 18, 2025 30m
The visionary killer blames their crimes on an external force – an apparition who commands them to kill. In Joseph Kallinger’s case, multiple entities urging him to commit arson… and then, to kill...
Power and Control Killer: Ted Bundy

Power and Control Killer: Ted Bundy

August 11, 2025 41m
Ted Bundy was calculated, composed, even charming. But behind the polished exterior was a predator obsessed with control. He used manipulation, deceit, and dominance to gain total power over his...
The Idaho Four Pt. 2 (with Kayna Whitworth)

The Idaho Four Pt. 2 (with Kayna Whitworth)

August 04, 2025 44m
In 2022, Six weeks after the murders of the Idaho Four, Bryan Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania. Fast forward to July of 2025, when just weeks before his trial was set to begin, he pleaded...
The Idaho Four Pt. 1 (with J. Reuben Appelman)

The Idaho Four Pt. 1 (with J. Reuben Appelman)

July 28, 2025 34m
In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four students at the University of Idaho were murdered in their off-campus home. The shocking brutality of the murders garnered media attention while...
The Hook Man

The Hook Man

July 21, 2025 38m
The Hook Man is an urban legend dating back to the 1950s. The terrifying story tells of a killer with a hook for a hand who preys on young couples parked in lovers’ lanes. The legend found new life in...
The Postcard Killer: J. Frank Hickey

The Postcard Killer: J. Frank Hickey

July 14, 2025 34m
After a young boy vanished in 1911, police received mysterious postcards. The horrifying allegations and broad inconsistencies led them to believe the notes were a hoax – until it was too late. With...
Phone Call From a Serial Killer: Larry Gene Bell

Phone Call From a Serial Killer: Larry Gene Bell

July 07, 2025 33m
May, 1985. Two days before her high school graduation, Shari Faye Smith was abducted from her parents’ driveway in broad daylight. Her kidnapper taunted Shari’s family by phone for days, calling in...
The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 2

The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 2

June 30, 2025 35m
Ervil LeBaron, the prophet of a Fundamentalist LDS sect in Mexico, has grasped power after being released from prison for orchestrating his brother’s murder. Now, Ervil has a list of names of those...
The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 1

The Killer Prophet: Ervil LeBaron Pt. 1

June 23, 2025 33m
In the 1920s, the LeBaron family settles in Mexico to practice their own sect of Mormonism. They establish a settlement, open a church, and work the farms. But after the family patriarch dies, the...
The Red Barn Murder

The Red Barn Murder

June 16, 2025 33m
Happy solstice, listeners! Join our guest host this week, Sapphire Sandalo, for a summertime tale of betrayal, murder, and the bizarre journey of a criminal corpse.

It's 1827, and the Marten family...
Zodiac or Bundy? The Unsolved Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

Zodiac or Bundy? The Unsolved Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

June 09, 2025 35m
In the 1970s, at least seven young women and girls go missing around Santa Rosa, California. Seven are found dead, and one remains unidentified. Several killers, including the Zodiac and Ted Bundy,...
The Taco Bell Strangler: Henry Louis Wallace

The Taco Bell Strangler: Henry Louis Wallace

June 02, 2025 30m
His modus operandi is shocking: years before he strangled his victims, Henry Louis Wallace befriended them. By and large, they were his coworkers at Bojangles and Taco Bell. But under interrogation,...
The Shapeshifting Fugitive: Franklin Delano Floyd

The Shapeshifting Fugitive: Franklin Delano Floyd

May 26, 2025 34m
A missing woman in Florida leads police to a fugitive who’s been on the run for 17 years. But that’s just the beginning. Franklin Delano Floyd not only becomes a suspect in that case, but he’s then...
A Body in the Cellar: Hawley Harvey Crippen

A Body in the Cellar: Hawley Harvey Crippen

May 19, 2025 32m
When a boneless torso possibly belonging to a woman named Cora Turner is found in the cellar of a London home, the culprit seems almost obvious. Her husband, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, seems to have...
"The Freeway Phantom": D.C.'s First Serial Killer?

"The Freeway Phantom": D.C.'s First Serial Killer?

May 12, 2025 32m
“...catch me if you can!” Police find those words written on a note left in a jacket draped over a murder victim’s body. They believe the message comes from a serial killer targeting young women in...
Operation Trace: The Missing Women of Ireland's Vanishing Triangle

Operation Trace: The Missing Women of Ireland's Vanishing Triangle

May 05, 2025 27m
The eighty miles surrounding Dublin, Ireland, hold a chilling mystery. Between 1993 and 1998, at least six women disappeared in the area, and their cases remain unsolved. Police investigations have...
Serial Killers

Golden Years Killers Pt. 2

April 28, 2025 32m
After getting away with murder in LA, retirees Helen and Olga scheme to kill again. But when an unlikely party sniffs out their crimes, the friends turn on each other.

Keep up with us on Instagram...
Serial Killers

Golden Years Killers Pt. 1

April 21, 2025 27m
No one batted an eye at the two women who became fast friends at an LA gym in the 1990s – until years later, when it came out that they’d teamed up for a plot to kill men down on their luck.

Keep up...
Serial Killers

The Doomsday Murders: Lori and Chad Daybell

April 14, 2025 39m
In early 2020, the story of Lori Daybell and her new husband, Chad Daybell, hit national news. They’d seemingly fled to Hawaii while two of Lori’s children were missing, leaving a wake of mysterious...
Serial Killers

The Rugeley Poisoner Pt. 2

April 07, 2025 33m
Struggling with gambling and spiraling into debt, William Palmer turned to murder. This week, we continue analyzing the deaths Palmer was accused of, and how the scheming doctor was finally...
Serial Killers

The Rugeley Poisoner Pt. 1

March 31, 2025 35m
In 1855, Dr. William Palmer became one of the Victorian era’s most famous villains – a man who poisoned his own friends and family. But with limited evidence and only one conviction, was Palmer really...
Serial Killers

The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 2

March 24, 2025 33m
In Texas, convicted murderer Ed Bell claimed he killed 11 girls between Houston and Galveston back in the 1970s. Reporter Lise Olsen and detective Fred Paige investigated those claims and uncovered...
Serial Killers

The Eleven Who Went to Heaven: The Case Against Ed Bell Pt. 1

March 17, 2025 32m
Edward Harold Bell was serving a 70-year prison sentence for murdering a man when he sent a letter to Houston reporter Lise Olsen. He told her he’d also killed 11 girls in and around the Interstate-45...
Serial Killers

Hunting a Serial Killer: The Colonial Parkway Murders

March 10, 2025 42m
When a series of double-homicides struck Virginia in the late 1980s, authorities immediately suspected a serial killer. But it took 35 years – and random chance – to find the missing link.

Keep up...
Serial Killers

The Lewis Clark Valley Murders

March 03, 2025 38m
Five missing people in five years. And that’s far from the only fact that aroused suspicion of a serial killer operating along the Idaho-Washington border in the early 1980s. While some victims have...
Serial Killers

The 10,000 Bones at Fox Hollow Farm

February 24, 2025 35m
In the fall of 1994, a 13-year-old boy found a human skull in his backyard. Detectives later discovered thousands more bones scattered about his family's estate, a property known as Fox Hollow Farm....
Serial Killers

“La Pistolera” Sharon Kinne

February 17, 2025 47m
In 1960, Sharon Kinne is a typical housewife raising two children in Kansas City. By 1964, she’s the subject of an investigation into the deaths of three people… and an international fugitive.

Keep...
Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Kidnappers" - Wanda Barzee and Brian David Mitchell

Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Kidnappers" - Wanda Barzee and Brian David Mitchell

February 10, 2025 1h 15m
For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous couples in true crime history.

All Wanda Barzee wanted in life was for someone to take care of her, and...
Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Gangsters"  - Kathryn and "Machine Gun" Kelly

Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Gangsters" - Kathryn and "Machine Gun" Kelly

February 03, 2025 1h 21m
For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous couples in true crime history.

Kathryn Kelly was running schemes long before she ever met her notorious...
Serial Killers

The Legacy of Typhoid Mary Pt. 2

January 27, 2025 34m
In 1907, George Soper located the cause of a typhoid outbreak in New York City: a cook named Mary Mallon. Mary didn’t know it, but each and every meal she cooked carried a small chance for her clients...
Serial Killers

The Legacy of Typhoid Mary Pt. 1

January 20, 2025 32m
In the late 1800s, Mary Mallon was a cook for wealthy families in New York City. She thought her job was going well; her clients seemed pleased and she had a reputation as an exceptional chef. But...
Serial Killers

The Yorkshire Killer Witch Pt. 2

January 13, 2025 36m
Mary Bateman had been playing people for fools for years. The problem was, too many of her dissatisfied customers stuck around to complain about her trickery. Her solution? Murder.

Keep up with us on...
Serial Killers

The Yorkshire Killer Witch Pt. 1

January 06, 2025 38m
Mary Bateman was an accomplished liar from a young age, and when she grew up, she started using that talent as a way of making money. Passing herself off as a witch, she tricked paranoid and gullible...
Serial Killers

Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 3

December 30, 2024 40m
As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Israel Keyes.

Israel Keyes died having only confessed to a handful of murders and crimes. Researchers...
Serial Killers

Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 2

December 23, 2024 45m
As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Israel Keyes.

Over the course of six months in 2012, Israel Keyes sits down with the FBI for a series...
Serial Killers

Best of 2024: Israel Keyes Pt. 1

December 16, 2024 37m
As our Best of 2024 selection, we're featuring our three-part series on notorious serial killer Israel Keyes.

In 2012, Israel Keyes is arrested and charged with kidnapping and killing an 18-year-old...
Holiday Break: "The Grim Reaper" - Nate Boone Craft

Holiday Break: "The Grim Reaper" - Nate Boone Craft

December 09, 2024 1h 17m
We're continuing our holiday break, but you won't want to miss the episode we're highlighting this week. In this episode, our friends at Murder in America sit down and for an interview with a man who...
Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

Holiday Break: How a Nuclear Lab Helped Catch a Serial Killer

December 02, 2024 51m
Happy holidays, listeners! We're starting off our winter break by bringing you an episode from our colleagues at Science Vs about how a notorious murder case was solved with help from an unlikely...
Holiday Break: What’s Hiding in the Wizard of Oz?

Holiday Break: What’s Hiding in the Wizard of Oz?

November 25, 2024 37m
You may have seen the movie and heard the musical, but do you know the secrets? As we take a break from our regular programming for the holidays, we’re revisiting one of the most influential films of...
Serial Killers

The Smiley Face Murder Theory (with Murder Sheet)

November 18, 2024 48m
Three decades. Eleven states. Over 600 bodies. Across the United States, college-aged men have ended up dead in rivers, lakes, and ponds. The deaths have been ruled accidental drownings, but a team of...
Serial Killers

The Hello Kitty Killers

November 11, 2024 29m
In May 1999, Hong Kong police found the scattered remains of a young mother in a flat in the city’s Kowloon district. The crime scene was like nothing anyone had seen before: unimaginable brutality...
Serial Killers

The Rainbow Murders: The Serial Killer Theory

November 04, 2024 45m
Nancy Santomero and Vicki Durian hitchhiked from Arizona to West Virginia in the summer of 1980. They planned to attend the Rainbow Gathering, an annual event where like-minded, free spirits could...
Serial Killers

True Urban Legends: Candyman, with Ashley Flowers

October 28, 2024 32m
Say Candyman’s name five times in a mirror and you’ll summon his vengeful spirit, then he’ll slaughter you with his hook. That’s how the urban legend goes anyway. It was directly inspired by a short...
Serial Killers

True Urban Legends: The Babysitter & The Man Upstairs, with Annie Elise

October 21, 2024 42m
If you’ve babysat, you’ve heard this tale: While her charges sleep, a babysitter receives harassing phone calls telling her to “check the children”. But this urban legend has disturbing real-life...
Serial Killers

True Urban Legends: The Hex Hollow "Witch" Murder, with Kaelyn Moore

October 14, 2024 43m
In a remote area of York County, Pennsylvania, a two-story clapboard house stands in Rehmeyer’s Hollow, aka “Hex Hollow” – where some say the spirit of Nelson Rehmeyer still resides.

Perhaps that’s...
Serial Killers

True Urban Legends: The Demon Trucker of Highway 666

October 07, 2024 36m
According to the urban legends, Highway 666 is a paranormal hotspot in the remote American Southwest. The “Devil’s Highway” is cursed by ghostly hitchhikers, UFOs, and the homicidal “demon trucker”...
Serial Killers

The Menendez Brothers Pt. 2

September 30, 2024 42m
In August of 1989, 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik Menendez murdered their parents in Beverly Hills after years of abuse. Afterward, they attempted to cover it up, but their stories quickly...
Serial Killers

The Menendez Brothers Pt. 1

September 23, 2024 39m
Jose Menendez pursued wealth at the expense of everything else in his life, including his relationship with his family. He abused his wife Kitty, and his sons, Lyle and Erik, until tension in the...

About this Podcast

Copyright
868329
Language
en
Categories
True Crime, History, Education