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Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

Crime House

204 episodes

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds takes you deep into the psychology of history's most chilling murderers, from infamous serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy to ruthless cult leaders, deadly exes, and spree killers. Every Monday and Thursday, hosts Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels, a clinical and forensic psychologist, blend gripping true crime storytelling with expert analysis to uncover what drives people to kill. What fuels their darkness? How do their minds work? And most hauntingly, could they have been stopped?Serial Killers & Murderous Minds is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Follow us on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe to @crimehousestudios on YouTube and follow us @crimehouse on Instagram.

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  1. Lizzie Borden: Family Secrets and a Double Murder Pt. 1

    · 54 min · Episode 189

    On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found hacked to death in their Fall River, Massachusetts home... and suspicion fell almost immediately on Andrew's younger daughter, Lizzie. The household behind those…

  2. HAUNTED TAKEOVER: Hidden History | The JFK Assassination

    · 39 min · Bonus

    Something has crept into this feed…For Halloween, Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat has slipped through the walls to haunt your feed with an episode just for you. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was…

  3. Chris Watts: The Family Man Pt. 2

    · 59 min · Episode 188

    In August 2018, Chris Watts strangled his pregnant wife Shanann and drove his daughters Bella and CeCe to an oil field east of Frederick, Colorado, where he killed them and hid their bodies. He had been planning a new…

  4. Chris Watts: The Family Man Pt. 1

    · 51 min · Episode 187

    In August 2018, Shanann Watts, 15 weeks pregnant, vanished from her home in Frederick, Colorado, along with her two young daughters, Bella and CeCe. Her husband Chris had been living a secret life: conducting an…

  5. Introducing RedHanded: Mexico's Notorious 'Little Old Lady Killer’

    · 1 h 11 min · Bonus

    Today, we are sharing an episode from the award-winning true crime podcast RedHanded, hosted by Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire. RedHanded is the UK's #1 True Crime podcast, covering everything from high-profile…

  6. SERIAL KILLER: "The Vampire of Dusseldorf" Peter Kurten Pt. 2

    · 51 min · Episode 186

    By 1929, Peter Kürten had murdered at least eleven people across Düsseldorf, Germany, targeting women and children to satisfy a compulsion to see, hear, and taste blood. His reign of terror only ended when a surviving…

  7. SERIAL KILLER: "The Vampire of Dusseldorf" Peter Kurten Pt. 1

    · 46 min · Episode 185

    In 1920s Germany, Peter Kürten terrorized Düsseldorf in a killing spree that would earn him the name the Vampire of Düsseldorf. But his path to murder began decades earlier, rooted in a childhood of relentless abuse…

  8. SERIAL KILLER: The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 2

    · 47 min · Episode 184

    Between 1918 and 1919, a killer slipped into homes across Greater New Orleans under cover of night, attacking families with an axe and leaving investigators with few clues and no clear suspect. In a letter published by…

  9. SERIAL KILLER: The Axeman of New Orleans Pt. 1

    · 43 min · Episode 183

    In 1918, a killer began slipping into New Orleans homes under cover of darkness, attacking sleeping victims with an axe and vanishing without a trace. The attacks targeted the city's Italian immigrant grocers, leaving…

  10. Introducing WHAT THE FACT with Connor Tomlinson and Carter Roy, a new Rewind podcast!

    · 38 min · Bonus

    Fun fact: Did you know Jaws almost never existed because the shark kept sinking while filming? That is Connor Tomlinson just getting started. If that sounds fascinating, you are going to love Rewind Studios’ new…

  11. Katherine Knight: Australia's Most Disturbing Killer Pt. 2

    · 51 min · Episode 182

    On the night of February 29, 2000, Katherine Knight murdered her partner John Price at his home in Aberdeen, New South Wales... then committed acts so disturbing they had no precedent in Australian criminal history.…

  12. Katherine Knight: Australia's Most Disturbing Killer Pt. 1

    · 56 min · Episode 181

    In February 2000, Katherine Knight committed one of the most disturbing murders in Australian history... but the path to that night began decades earlier in a rural New South Wales household defined by violence,…

  13. Jean-Claude Romand: Lies that Led to Murder Pt. 2

    · 58 min · Episode 180

    In January 1993, Jean-Claude Romand murdered his wife Florence, his children Caroline and Antoine, and his parents Aime and Anne-Marie to prevent them from learning he had never graduated medical school and had spent…

  14. Jean-Claude Romand: Lies that Led to Murder Pt. 1

    · 51 min · Episode 179

    For nearly two decades, Jean-Claude Romand convinced his family, friends, and colleagues that he was a respected World Health Organization researcher...while spending his days in cafes and rest stops, swindling loved…

  15. Mark Winger: When the American Dream Turned Deadly Pt. 2

    · 47 min · Episode 178

    In August 1995, Mark Winger beat his wife Donnah to death in their Springfield, Illinois home and shot an innocent man, Roger Harrington, to frame him for the crime... then walked free for six years. When his affair…

  16. Mark Winger: When the American Dream Turned Deadly Pt. 1

    · 40 min · Episode 177

    In 1995, Mark Winger appeared to have it all: a stable career, an adoring wife named Donnah, and a newly adopted daughter in Springfield, Illinois. But beneath the surface, Mark was carrying on a secret affair and…

  17. Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder Pt. 2

    · 57 min · Episode 176

    In the 2010s, Omaha man Dave Kroupa was terrorized by thousands of harassing messages, acts of vandalism, and arson, all seemingly from a woman named Cari Farver, who had vanished without a trace. What Dave didn't know…

  18. Liz Golyar: Obsession, Stalking, and Murder Pt. 1

    · 52 min · Episode 175

    In 2012, Omaha mechanic Dave Kroupa met Liz Golyar on a dating app... a connection that would spiral into years of relentless stalking, arson, and murder. And when Dave began seeing Cari Farver, she vanished overnight,…

  19. SERIAL KILLER: "The Backpacker Murderer" Ivan Milat Pt. 2

    · 46 min · Episode 174

    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ivan Milat lured at least seven young backpackers into Belanglo State Forest in Australia, where he stabbed, shot, and buried them in isolation he believed would protect him forever.…

  20. SERIAL KILLER: "The Backpacker Murderer" Ivan Milat Pt. 1

    · 45 min · Episode 173

    Ivan Milat grew up in a volatile Sydney household surrounded by weapons, abuse, and fourteen siblings. By his teens, he was already hurting animals, and allegedly... people. After a series of robberies, a sexual…

  21. Campus Crimes: The Murder of Patrick Dennehy

    · 32 min · Bonus

    The fourth and final episode of Campus Crimes examines the 2003 murder of Baylor basketball player Patrick Dennehy, who was shot and killed by his own teammate... but the crime that followed may have been even colder.…

  22. Shelly Michael: Nurse, Wife, and Killer Pt. 2

    · 50 min · Episode 172

    In November 2005, Morgantown, West Virginia, pediatric nurse practitioner Shelly Michael injected her sleeping husband Jimmy with a surgical paralytic, then set their home ablaze to conceal the crime. What…

  23. Shelly Michael: Nurse, Wife, and Killer Pt. 1

    · 50 min · Episode 171

    In Morgantown, West Virginia, pediatric nurse practitioner Shelly Michael appeared to have built the perfect life: a successful career, a beautiful home, and a blended family. But beneath that polished surface, she was…

  24. Campus Crimes: The Murder of Betsy Aardsma

    · 36 min · Bonus

    The third episode of Campus Crimes follows the events of the Friday after Thanksgiving 1969, when 22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma was stabbed through the heart in the basement stacks of Penn State's Pattee…

  25. SERIAL KILLER: The Monster of Florence Pt. 2 with Alexis Linkletter from Crimes of Reddit

    · 1 h 06 min · Episode 170

    For this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined again by Alexis Linkletter, co-hose of Crime House's newest show Crimes of Reddit. Between 1968 and 1985, a killer known as the Monster of Florence murdered eight…

  26. SERIAL KILLER: The Monster of Florence Pt. 1 with Alexis Linkletter from Crimes of Reddit

    · 53 min · Episode 169

    For this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined by Alexis Linkletter, co-hose of Crime House's newest show Crimes of Reddit. In 1968, a young couple was shot dead in the Italian countryside while their six-year-old…

  27. Campus Crimes: Death in the Ivory Tower

    · 35 min · Bonus

    On February 12, 2010, biology professor Amy Bishop opened fire on her colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, killing three and wounding three more after being denied tenure. But investigators quickly…

  28. Joji Obara: Thirty Years of Hidden Crimes in Japan Pt. 2

    · 48 min · Episode 168

    In July 2000, 21-year-old British hostess Lucie Blackman vanished after a date with a man she knew only as Mr. Kowa. In reality, he Joji Obara, a serial predator who had drugged and assaulted over 200 women across…

  29. Joji Obara: Thirty Years of Hidden Crimes in Japan Pt. 1

    · 52 min · Episode 167

    Vanessa and Dr. Engels get into the case of Japanese serial rapist Joji Obara, who for thirty years, drugged and assaulted hundreds of women across Japan, documenting his crimes in chilling detail. Hiding behind false…

  30. Campus Crimes: The Murder of Jane Stanford

    · 37 min · Bonus

    In the first of our four-part limited series "Campus Crimes," Vanessa breaks down the 1905 murder of Jane Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University, who was poisoned to death in a Honolulu hotel room. A coroner's…

  31. SERIAL KILLER: Israel Keyes Pt. 2

    · 49 min · Episode 166

    In June 2011, Israel Keyes abducted and murdered Bill and Lorraine Currier from their home in Essex, Vermont, a crime that went unsolved for years. Months later, he targeted 18-year-old barista Samantha Koenig near his…

  32. SERIAL KILLER: Israel Keyes Pt. 1

    · 44 min · Episode 165

    Israel Keyes spent years methodically preparing for murder: burying weapon caches across the country, committing crimes far from home, and maintaining a quiet family life to avoid suspicion. Born into a white…

  33. The Villisca Axe Murders: Eight Victims, No Answers Pt. 2

    · 43 min · Episode 164

    Investigators spent years chasing suspects in the Villisca Axe Murders, including a traveling minister, a suspected serial killer, and an alleged hitman, yet every lead collapsed before trial. A coerced confession, two…

  34. The Villisca Axe Murders: Eight Victims, No Answers Pt. 1

    · 43 min · Episode 163

    In June 1912, eight people were bludgeoned with an axe in a Villisca, Iowa home while they slept. The killer left behind a staged scene filled with bizarre clues but no clear identity, plunging a tight-knit community…

  35. SERIAL KILLER: Ed Kemper Pt. 2 with Andrea Gunning of Betrayal Weekly

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 162

    Once again, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined by Andrea Gunning of "Betrayal Weekly" to discuss the crimes of Ed Kemper. In early 1973, Kemper murdered UC Santa Cruz students Rosalind Thorpe and Alice Liu following a…

  36. SERIAL KILLER: Ed Kemper Pt. 1 with Andrea Gunning of Betrayal Weekly

    · 50 min · Episode 161

    Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined by Andrea Gunning of "Betrayal Weekly" to discus the crimes of Ed Kemper, who murdered at least six young women who accepted rides from him while hitchhiking in the 1970s. But the…

  37. The D.C. Snipers: Murder Manipulation and a Lost Boy Pt. 2

    · 40 min · Episode 160

    In the fall of 2002, John Muhammad and his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo killed nearly 20 people across the mid-Atlantic and southern United States, paralyzing the nation with fear. Until a trail of careless…

  38. The D.C. Snipers: Murder Manipulation and a Lost Boy Pt. 1

    · 50 min · Episode 159

    In the early 2000s, John Allen Muhammad and 16-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Washington D.C. metropolitan area in a killing spree that left nearly 20 people dead, all to conceal Muhammad's true target: his…

  39. SERIAL KILLER: The Midnight Assassin Pt. 2

    · 45 min · Episode 158

    Despite a year of killings, the Austin police made no credible arrests in the Midnight Assassin investigation, and two innocent husbands were prosecuted while a key suspect died without ever facing trial. The case…

  40. SERIAL KILLER: The Midnight Assassin Pt. 1

    · 46 min · Episode 157

    In 1884, a brutal killer began targeting Black female domestic servants in Austin, Texas, attacking victims in their sleep and vanishing without a trace. With no forensic tools and deep racial prejudice shaping the…

  41. SERIAL KILLER: The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run Pt. 2

    · 44 min · Episode 156

    Despite years of investigation, the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run remained elusive. One promising suspect, slipped through the police's grasp, and an innocent man may have died in custody for a crime he didn't commit.…

  42. SERIAL KILLER: The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run Pt. 1

    · 49 min · Episode 155

    In 1930s Cleveland, a killer known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run preyed on the vulnerable as the city struggled through the Great Depression. Victims were found dismembered and decapitated across the city, their…

  43. Andrea Yates: The Mother Who Went Too Far Pt. 2

    · 50 min · Episode 154

    On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five young children in the bathtub of her Houston home, convinced she was saving their souls from eternal damnation. A devout mother battling postpartum psychosis and major…

  44. Andrea Yates: The Mother Who Went Too Far Pt. 1

    · 54 min · Episode 153

    On the surface, Andrea Yates was a former valedictorian, nurse, and a devout mother of five from Clear Lake, Texas. But deep down, Andrea was consumed by religious guilt, postpartum psychosis, and the manipulative…

  45. SERIAL KILLER: "The Candy Man" Dean Corll Pt. 2

    · 46 min · Episode 152

    In 1970s Houston, serial killer Dean Corll murdered at least 28 teenage boys with the help of two young accomplices he groomed and manipulated. When Corll turned on 17-year-old Wayne Henley and threatened to kill his…

  46. SERIAL KILLER: "The Candy Man" Dean Corll Pt. 1

    · 49 min · Episode 151

    In early 1970s Houston, Texas, businessman Dean Corll used free candy, a party-ready apartment, and a carefully cultivated reputation as a community pillar to lure teenage boys to their deaths. But behind his friendly…

  47. Joe Ball: The Alligator Man of Elmendorf Pt. 2

    · 42 min · Episode 150

    After killing at least two women in his orbit, Joe Ball seemingly got away clean. But when the rumors in town caught up to him.. Joe did something nobody expected. After he was gone, his gator pit and a trail of…

  48. Joe Ball: The Alligator Man of Elmendorf Pt.1

    · 42 min · Episode 149

    In 1930s Elmendorf, Texas, tavern owner Joe Ball built a reputation for wild alligator feedings and a revolving door of female employees who kept disappearing without explanation. Reportedly a descendant of notorious…

  49. SERIAL KILLER: Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski Pt. 2

    · 41 min · Episode 148

    By the early 1980s, Richard Kuklinski had supposedly killed dozens of men for the New York Mafia. And with his boss Roy DeMeo dead, he was operating entirely on his own terms. But when ATF agent Dominick Polifrone…

  50. SERIAL KILLER: Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski Pt. 1

    · 42 min · Episode 147

    Richard Kuklinski grew up in the violent housing projects of Jersey City, New Jersey, where abuse at home and relentless bullying on the streets hardened him into a killer before he turned 15. By his mid-twenties, he…

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