Among Monsters

Canada's Highway of Tears: A Corridor of Unsolved Murders Join Damien Vale on "Among Monsters Podcast" as he explores the chilling and long-unsolved cases of the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia, Canada. For decades, numerous Indigenous women and girls have disappeared or been murdered along Highway 16, raising the terrifying possibility of multiple unknown killers. Delve into the ind...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale takes you deep into the twisted world of Gerard Schaefer, a former Florida deputy sheriff who transformed his badge into a hunting license. Born in 1946, Schaefer's path from a troubled childhood to becoming one of America’s most sadistic predators is a tale of darkness hiding in plain sight. Discover how this lawman became a monster, ta...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters , host Damien Vale unravels the chilling tale of Helen Patricia Moore—a woman whose quiet demeanor and gentle touch masked something truly sinister. Working as a nurse’s aide, Moore was entrusted with the care of vulnerable elderly patients. To the outside world, she appeared nurturing and compassionate. But behind closed doors, a disturbing pattern began...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters , host Damien Vale delves into the terrifying life of Bryan Jones—a sadistic predator who wore a mask of charm while preying on the innocent. Born in rural Arkansas and raised in an environment steeped in neglect and emotional abandonment, Jones developed a disturbing obsession with control, fear, and suffering. Beginning in the late 1980s, women started...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters , host Damien Vale uncovers the disturbing life of Charles Terry—a manipulative drifter whose friendly smile masked a chilling, violent soul. Born in 1930s Maine, Terry’s early years were marked by instability and abuse, setting the stage for a lifetime of cruelty and calculated murder. By the 1960s, he wandered the Pacific Northwest, charming unsuspectin...

In this harrowing 26-minute episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the disturbing case of Takahiro Shiraishi, a Japanese serial killer who exploited social media to lure vulnerable individuals to their deaths. Between August and October 2017, Shiraishi used Twitter to contact people expressing suicidal thoughts, inviting them to his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, under the g...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the chilling case of Velma Barfield — a Southern church-going woman whose soft voice and gentle smile concealed a trail of poison, lies, and murder. Known as the first woman in the United States to be executed after the 1976 death penalty reinstatement, Barfield’s crimes stunned the nation. By lacing food and drinks with arsenic...

On this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale peels back the layers of a murderer who defied all expectations. Dana Sue Gray wasn’t your typical serial killer — she was a nurse, a caregiver, and a seemingly compassionate woman living in Southern California. But beneath her calm demeanor lurked a deadly obsession with wealth, beauty, and revenge. Between February and March of 1994, G...

In this bone-chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale dissects the life and legacy of Andrei Chikatilo, the infamous Butcher of Rostov, who murdered, mutilated, and cannibalized over 50 victims in the shadows of the crumbling Soviet Union. Against the backdrop of post-Stalin famine, Cold War paranoia, and a regime that denied the very existence of serial killers, Chikatilo hunted with...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the deeply unsettling case of Donald Harvey — a trusted hospital orderly who used his access to patients not to heal, but to kill. Known as The Angel of Death, Harvey claimed the lives of between 70 and 100 victims across Kentucky and Ohio hospitals from 1970 to 1987. By poisoning IV bags, suffocating patients, and tampering wit...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale takes you back to 19th-century New England to unravel the twisted legacy of Jane Toppan—better known as Jolly Jane. Behind her cheerful smile and nurse’s uniform was a mind consumed by obsession, sadism, and a fatal thirst for control. Toppan, born Honora Kelley, was orphaned, renamed, and molded into a seemingly devoted caregiver. But u...

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...