Cosmic Crimes

In the 1890s, Chicago's booming South Side became the backdrop for one of the most infamous criminal legends in American history. H. H. Holmes, born Herman Webster Mudgett, cultivated the persona of a polite, educated businessman while quietly engineering a web of fraud, manipulation, and murder. Though newspapers later sensationalized his so-called "Murder Castle," the truth is more unsettling. H...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Anchorage, Alaska, was stalked by a predator hiding in plain sight. Robert Hansen, a quiet baker, devoted father, and seemingly ordinary member of the community, was secretly hunting women in the wilderness, kidnapping them, assaulting them, and releasing them into the remote woods before tracking them like game. For years, his crimes went unnoticed, protected by his...

In the 1970s, a wave of disappearances swept through the Pacific Northwest as Ted Bundy, seemingly intelligent, ambitious, and disarmingly charming, lived a double life that concealed one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. To friends and colleagues, he was a law student with political aspirations; to investigators, he became the elusive predator responsible for a multistate t...

In 2009, a Florida family gathered for what should have been a warm, ordinary Thanksgiving, until the night erupted into one of the most devastating family massacres in modern true-crime history. Paul Michael Merhige, long described as the "golden child" with a quiet brilliance and a history of untreated mental illness, arrived at his relatives' home in Jupiter with a calculated plan he had concea...

In the winter of 1957, the rural town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, was thrust into national horror when investigators stepped inside the farmhouse of Ed Gein, only to uncover a nightmarish collection of human remains turned into masks, clothing, and household décor. Gein, a reclusive handyman shaped by an obsessive devotion to his mother and a lifetime of isolation, blurred the line between grief, de...

On a December night in 1991, four teenage girls were found bound, gagged, and burned inside an Austin yogurt shop, a crime so brutal it stunned the nation. For years, police pursued a tangled investigation that led to false confessions, overturned convictions, and lingering doubt. Decades later, advances in DNA testing would upend everything, pointing not to the four accused young men, but to an u...

In September 2004, London was gripped by a wave of seemingly random violence that left four people dead and two others severely injured. The attacker, 24-year-old Daniel Gonzalez, moved through the city like a horror-film villain come to life, mask on, knives drawn, and an obsession with becoming a "famous serial killer." Diagnosed with schizophrenia years earlier, Gonzalez had cycled through psyc...

Behind the lace curtains of a modest Sacramento boarding house, Dorothea Puente cultivated the image of a kind grandmotherly caretaker. But in reality, she was orchestrating one of California's most chilling murder-for-profit schemes. Throughout the 1980s, Puente preyed on the vulnerable, elderly and disabled tenants who trusted her with their lives, while secretly cashing their benefit checks and...

Between 1978 and 1990, fear gripped the Soviet Union as one of the most prolific serial killers in history hunted in plain sight. Andrei Chikatilo, a quiet family man and schoolteacher on the surface, was hiding a horrifying secret. Over more than a decade, he murdered and mutilated at least 52 women and children, leaving behind a trail of terror that baffled authorities for years. In this episode...

On April 16, 2007, the quiet campus of Virginia Tech was shattered when Seung-Hui Cho carried out one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. Armed with two handguns and a history of red flags, Cho killed 32 people before turning the gun on himself. In this episode, we walk through the haunting timeline of that day, explore the years of warning signs, from school interventions to mental h...

He looked like the all-American success story; a former football star drafted by the Green Bay Packers. But behind the athlete persona was a violent predator. Between 1979 and 1981, Randall Woodfield terrorized the Pacific Northwest, committing a spree of robberies, sexual assualts and murders along the I-5 corridor. In this episode, we trace the path from proimising young athlete to cold-blooded...

In 2016, Sherri Papini vanished while jogging near her Northern California home. For 22 days, the country searched, and when she reappeared, bruised and chained, she claimed she'd been abducted by two Hispanic women. But years later, the truth unraveled...the whole thing was staged. In this episode, we walk through the bizarre hoax that fooled the FBI, fueled a media storm, and left a community sh...

In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was abducted while walking to her school bus stop in broad daylight. For the next 18 years, she was hidden in a backyard compound, held captive by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, and forced to live a life no child should ever endure. In this episode, we follow the harrowing timeline of Jaycee's kidnapping, the disturbing psychological manipulation she endured, and...

In 1993, Lorena Bobbitt grabbed a kitchen knife, severed her husband's penis, and tossed it out the window of her car, and suddenly, their names were everywhere. But behind the tabloid frenzy was a brutal story of alleged abuse, control, and a woman pushed to her breaking point. In this episode, we revisit the explosive timeline, the media circus that mocked Lorena's trauma, and the courtroom chao...

In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus home. The case shocked the nation, and for weeks, there were no suspects, no murder weapon, and no answers. But the trail eventually led to Bryan Kohberger, a criminology PhD student with a chilling interest in the psychology of murder. In this episode, we follow the invest...

On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys unleashed unimaginable violence at Columbine High School, leaving 13 victims dead and the country in shock. But behind the trench coats and violence were two very different minds. Eric Harris, an Aries Sun with a Scorpio Rising and Cancer Moon, was volatile, vengeful, and dangerously charismatic. Dylan Klebold, born under a Virgo Sun, Pisces Rising, and Aquarius...

In 2019, 17-year-old Bianca Devins was murdered by a man she barely knew...someone who mistook access for intimacy. Brandon Andrew Clark, a man she had recently met online, became fixated on her. After a night out at a concert, he attacked and killed her in a jealous rage, then posted graphic photos of her body online. In this episode, we follow the digital breadcrumbs of obsession and entitlement...

Ivan Jerome Hill, infamously known as the 60 Freeway Killer, terrorized Southern California by targeting sex workers and marginalized women in the '90s. With an Aries Sun and a Virgo Moon, Hill's chart reveals a disturbing blend of impulsive aggression and calculated control. But it's his overwhelming number of cardinal placements that really stand out, hinting at a relentless drive to dominate, i...

In 2008, 2-year-old Caylee Anthony was reported missing, not by her mother, but by her grandmother. What followed was a jaw-dropping investigation full of deception, a car trunk that reeked of death, and a media firestorm that turned Casey Anthony into the most hated woman in America. In this episode, we explore the fantasy world Casey seemed to live in, the murky circumstances surrounding Caylee'...

He was a seemingly mild-mannered husband, father, and businessman...but behind the screen, John Edward Robinson was luring women online, manipulating them with fake job offers and BDSM contracts, and ultimately murdering them. Dubbed "the Internet's first serial killer," Robinson used early chatrooms and dating sites to hunt for victims long before digital crimes were common. In this episode, we w...

On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot outside his New York apartment by Mark David Chapman, a fan who'd asked for an autograph just hours earlier, then calmly sat reading The Catcher in the Rye until police arrived. In this episode, we trace the timeline of fixation, unravel how Chapman's Taurus Sun, Scorpio Rising, and Capricorn Moon brewed a cocktail of stubborn obsession, secret intensity,...

She was a 19-year-old college student and heiress to a media empire, until she was kidnapped by a radical political group. Two months later, she was robbing a bank with them, caught on camera holding an assault rifle. In this episode, we dig into the timeline, the kidnapping and what her birthchart reveals about rebellion, detachment, and identity in crisis. SHOW NOTES: Connect with us across stre...

A quiet architect with a wife, kids, and a Long Island home... or so it seemed. Rex Heuermann, the man now accused in the Gilgo Beach serial killings, lived a double life filled with burner phones, disturbing searches, and pizza crust DNA. In this episode, we dig into the timeline, the investigation, and what his Virgo Sun  and Virgo Rising reveal about the control, routine, and secrecy that defin...

Before he became one of the most infamous domestic terrorists in U.S. history, Ted Kaczynski was a child prodigy with a Gemini Sun and an IQ of 167. But behind the genius was a fractured psyche shaped by isolation, rejection, and government-sanctioned psychological torture at Harvard. In this episode, we unpack the man behind the manifesto, his descent into violence, and what his birth chart revea...

What started as a seemingly normal Tinder date ended in tragedy. In this episode, we cover the case of Jesse Kempson, the Capricorn with a Venus in Scorpio whose charm masked something much darker. When British backpacker Grace Millane vanished in New Zealand, the investigation uncovered a chilling trail of manipulation, misogyny, and murder. We break down the red flags, the trial, and what his ch...