Among Monsters

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the disturbing tale of Ahmad Suradji, the infamous Indonesian shaman who murdered 42 women in a twisted quest for supernatural power. Operating for over a decade in North Sumatra, Suradji presented himself as a spiritual healer — a “dukun” who could cure illness, mend broken relationships, and bring prosperity. But behind the c...

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the twisted legacy of Moses Sithole — the infamous “ABC Killer” who terrorized South Africa between 1994 and 1995. With a disarming smile and a calm, trustworthy demeanor, Sithole lured desperate women under the guise of employment opportunities before leading them to remote locations where he raped and strangled them. Opera...

In this historically charged episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale takes you on a terrifying journey through the life and legacy of William Bonin — The Freeway Killer. Born into the post-World War II baby boom and forged in the trauma of an abusive childhood, Bonin's descent into one of California’s most vicious killing sprees unfolds against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia, Vietnam's psycho...

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale peels back the lace curtains of 1426 F Street in Sacramento, California—home to Dorothea Puente, the sweet, elderly landlady with a deadly secret. From the outside, she was charitable, Christian, and grandmotherly. But inside her Victorian boarding house, she was forging checks, drugging the elderly, and burying her victims in the b...

In this eerie and mysterious episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the chilling true story of Béla Kiss — the charming Hungarian bachelor who lured women through lonely hearts ads in the early 1900s… and preserved their corpses in metal drums. When World War I called him to the front, Kiss left behind a house of horrors: 24 bodies, pickled in alcohol, carefully stored like a collect...

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unveils the terrifying true story of Robert Hansen — the mild-mannered Anchorage baker who secretly became one of the most sadistic serial killers in American history. Between 1971 and 1983, Hansen lured women into his trap, flew them deep into the Alaskan wilderness, set them loose… and hunted them like animals. With 17 confirmed m...

In one of the darkest episodes of Among Monsters to date, host Damien Vale explores the harrowing life and crimes of Tsutomu Miyazaki — the "Otaku Murderer" who shocked Japan with a series of horrific child abductions and killings between 1988 and 1989. Born with physical deformities and consumed by isolation, Miyazaki descended into a twisted world of horror media, obsession, and violent fantasy....

In this explosive episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the chilling and contradictory life of Pedro Rodrigues Filho — better known as Pedrinho Matador, Brazil’s most notorious vigilante serial killer. Born into violence and shaped by vengeance, Pedro claimed to kill only criminals: rapists, murderers, drug dealers — even his own father. With over 100 murders to his name, 47 of them...

In this disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale delves into the horrific crimes of Joachim Kroll — the unassuming toilet cleaner who became one of Germany’s most grotesque serial killers. Dubbed The Ruhr Cannibal, Kroll brutally murdered at least 14 victims between 1955 and 1976, including children, young women, and the elderly. But he didn’t just kill—he consumed. With a slow, meth...

In this disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unearths the horrifying story of Robert Pickton, the Canadian pig farmer who turned his Port Coquitlam property into a slaughterhouse for the forgotten. From the 1980s to early 2000s, women—many Indigenous, poor, and sex workers from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside—vanished without a trace. Behind the façade of “Piggy’s Palace,” Pickton...

In this unnerving episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale reveals the chilling true story of Charles Edmund Cullen, a trusted nurse who used his position to silently murder dozens—possibly hundreds—of patients across nine hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Between 1988 and 2003, Cullen administered fatal doses of medications to unsuspecting patients while hiding behind a calm demeanor a...

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale tells the haunting true story of Pedro López — one of the most prolific and terrifying serial killers in recorded history. Nicknamed The Monster of the Andes, López claimed to have murdered over 300 young girls across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru during the 1970s and early 1980s. But what makes his case even more horrifying isn’t jus...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale pulls back the curtain on one of the most terrifying child predators in British history — Robert Black. Through an immersive historical narrative and cinematic storytelling, we follow Black from his bleak childhood in post-war Scotland to his chilling years as a roaming delivery driver who used his van as a vessel of horror. With a natio...

In this chilling installment of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the shocking true story of John Martin Scripps — a seemingly ordinary British traveler who used charm, knives, and stolen passports to dismember tourists across Asia in the mid-1990s. From his troubled childhood in postwar England to his gruesome crimes across Singapore and Thailand, Scripps carved a path of death masked beh...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the twisted, disturbing legacy of Arthur Shawcross — a man released from prison after killing children… only to become one of the most cold-blooded serial killers in upstate New York history. Known as The Genesee River Killer, Shawcross terrorized Rochester in the late 1980s, strangling and mutilating sex workers before leaving...

In this cold and calculating episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale tells the true story of Alexander Pichushkin — a man who turned the act of murder into a twisted game, aiming to kill 64 people, one for each square on a chessboard. Known as The Chessboard Killer, Pichushkin stalked his victims through Bitsa Park on the edge of Moscow between 2001 and 2006. His targets? The vulnerable and fo...

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unearths the chilling life of Carl Panzram — a man whose soul was soaked in hatred, violence, and unrelenting rage. From a tortured childhood in reform schools to a nomadic trail of murder and rape across continents, Panzram's confessions revealed a monstrous life fueled not by compulsion, but by absolute contempt for humanity. With ove...

In this historically grounded episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale chronicles the life, crimes, and consequences of Luis Alfredo Garavito, also known as La Bestia — The Beast — who stands as the most prolific serial killer in recorded history. Set against the backdrop of 1990s Colombia, a nation in crisis due to guerrilla warfare, drug cartels, and institutional breakdown, Garavito found fe...

In this deeply unnerving episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unpacks the twisted legacy of Rodney Alcala — a smooth-talking predator who smiled on national television while hiding a trail of blood and broken lives behind the lens of his camera. Known as The Dating Game Killer, Alcala blended into 1970s Hollywood with charm, intelligence, and a disarming wit. But underneath the smile was a...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale delves into the disturbed mind and crimes of Joseph Kallinger, a Philadelphia cobbler turned murderer who embarked on a horrifying crime spree across three states — with his 12-year-old son as his unwilling accomplice. Driven by hallucinations, delusions of divine command, and years of brutal childhood abuse, Kallinger believed he was ch...

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale delves into the twisted legacy of Clifford Olson, one of Canada’s most reviled serial killers — a man who preyed on children, manipulated the justice system, and turned grief into personal profit. Between 1980 and 1981, Olson lured at least 11 young victims to their deaths across British Columbia with offers of rides, jobs, and frie...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the terrifying legacy of Michel Fourniret, known across France and Belgium as L’Ogre des Ardennes — The Ogre of the Ardennes. With his wife and accomplice Monique Olivier, Fourniret lured, raped, and murdered young girls and women in a carefully orchestrated campaign of predation that spanned over two decades. Set against the qu...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the terrifying crimes of Sergey Golovkin, the soft-spoken agricultural expert who became one of Russia’s most sadistic serial killers — and the last man ever executed by the Russian state. Between 1986 and 1992, Golovkin abducted, tortured, and murdered at least 11 boys in and around Moscow, luring them with cigarettes, job offe...

In this disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale guides listeners through the calculated and sadistic crimes of Charles Ng, one of America’s most horrifying serial killers. Alongside his manipulative partner Leonard Lake, Ng helped build a remote torture chamber in the Sierra Nevada foothills — a place where human lives were extinguished in front of a rolling video camera. From his t...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale reveals the haunting story of Carl Eugene Watts, a man whose name remains obscure despite a suspected body count that rivals or surpasses the most infamous serial killers in history. Known as The Sunday Morning Slasher, Watts terrorized women across Michigan, Texas, and beyond, striking at random with terrifying precision — and leaving n...