Episodes

The Brooklyn Vampire: How Albert Fish Became America's Boogeyman Some stories stick with you long after you hear them, and Albert Fish's case is one that refuses to let go. Born in 1870 into a family tree riddled with mental illness, Fish's early...

Israel Keyes and the Kill Kits Still Buried Across America After his arrest, Israel Keyes started talking. He confessed to Samantha Koenig’s murder, then casually gave investigators the names of two more victims.He described how he traveled thousands...

The Secret Life of Israel Keyes: America’s Most Organized Killer Israel Keyes spent years living like a normal guy. He ran a construction business in Alaska, paid in cash, and took his daughter on cruises. But behind that routine was a system built...

The Taylor Schabusiness Case: Murder, Meth, and a Head in a Bucket On February 21, 2022, Shad Thyrion was killed in the basement of his mother’s house by someone he knew well. Taylor Schabusiness had a long history of drug use, recent run-ins with...

Bart Whitaker: The Son Who Staged a Hit on His Own Family Bart Whitaker had every advantage growing up. Private schools, expensive gifts, and parents who bent over backwards to give him the kind of life most people only read about. So when the family...

Craig Price: The Teenager Who Terrified Rhode Island Craig Price looked like the kind of teenager you might ask to help you with your groceries. Quiet. Polite. A little awkward. But at thirteen, he stabbed his neighbor to death in one of the most...

The Killers Who Bragged: Inside the Murder of Amy Robinson Amy Robinson was doing everything right. She got through high school, started building a life of her own, and found some freedom riding her bike to work every day. But on a February afternoon...

Donuts, Death, and the Devil: The True Story of the Chicago Ripper Crew Most people have never heard of the Chicago Ripper Crew, which is wild considering how brutal and bizarre this story actually is. It starts with a kid working at a donut shop and...

The Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack: How a Cult Brought Terror to Japan In the mid-90s, a doomsday cult launched a deadly chemical attack on the Tokyo subway system during rush hour. But that attack wasn’t random. It was the result of years of planning,...

Lyda Southard: The Serial Widow Who Cooked with Arsenic Lyda Southard wanted a quiet life. She wanted a husband, a child, maybe a porch to sit on and watch things grow. What she left behind instead was a string of dead husbands, a trail of insurance...

The Incel Ideology: Roots and Radicalization This one’s not your usual 10 Minute Murder. It started as a blog I wrote for the site, and a lot of people asked to hear it out loud. So here we are. This is a more thoughtfully written piece than what I...

Ruby Ridge Revisited: Fear, Firearms, and Family on the Edge The Weaver family retreated to Idaho hoping to protect their kids from a world they saw as collapsing. But their attempt to live off the grid pulled them into a web of suspicion tied to...

Inside the Mind of Eugene Butler: Paranoia and Murder on the Farm Eugene Butler was a man who built a fortune on 480 acres of North Dakota farmland. On the surface, he was a hardworking, thrifty farmer who kept to himself. But beneath that quiet...

The True Story of The Bluebeard Killer Harry Powers lied to lonely women during one of the hardest times in American history and turned it into a full-blown system. While people were standing in breadlines and trying to keep their families fed, he...

Muscles, Marriage, and Murder: The Sally McNeil Story Sally McNeil was trained for war, but her real battles happened at home. A former Marine, mother of two, and competitive bodybuilder, Sally spent years trapped in a violent marriage with a man who...

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate: Nebraska’s Deadly Crime Duo Charles Starkweather wasn’t your average small-town kid, and his crime spree wasn’t your average headline. Dragging along Caril Ann Fugate, barely a teenager herself, this pair...

Inside the Toy Box: The David Parker Ray Story In a small New Mexico town with a name that sounds like a game show, a nightmare was unfolding behind closed doors. David Parker Ray wasn’t your average maintenance man—he built a torture chamber he...

Convict Leasing, Lynch Mobs, and the Killing of Mary Turner In May of 1918, a white plantation owner in Georgia was killed by a Black laborer he had beaten and abused. What followed wasn’t a trial or investigation… it was a mob. A violent, racist mob...

When Trust Becomes a Weapon: The Lisa Knoefel Case Lisa Knoefel was asleep in her own bed when everything unraveled. Her foster daughter, Sabrina Zunich, was standing over her with a knife… and it wasn’t random, or sudden, or some spur-of-the-moment...

Viral to Violent: The Nasim Aghdam Story In 2018, Nasim Najafi Aghdam walked into YouTube headquarters with a loaded gun and a personal vendetta. But this story doesn’t start with violence—it starts with viral vegan videos, fitness content, and a...

Who Was the Skid Row Stabber? In 1978, someone started targeting the most vulnerable people in Los Angeles—men living on the streets of Skid Row. Over the course of a year, eleven of them were stabbed to death. The press called the killer the “Skid...

The Making of Ted Bundy: Secrets, Shame, and Silence Before the headlines. Before the manhunt. Before the courtroom smirks and the fan mail from strangers—Ted Bundy was just a kid with a fake name and a made-up family. In this episode, we’re not...

Delivering Death: The Leaflet Lane Murders A man dressed like a FedEx driver knocked on the door of a quiet Texas home. But he wasn’t delivering a package. He was there to deliver payback. Ronald Lee Haskell had a long and ugly history of violence,...

Suitcase in the Pond: The Sandra Cantu Case Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu left her house on a Friday afternoon to play with friends. She never made it home. What followed was a frantic search, a community gripped by fear, and a discovery that would...