Among Monsters

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...

In this disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the cold, calculated evil of Leonard Lake — a former Marine turned survivalist who masterminded one of the most horrifying torture and murder operations in American history. Inspired by dystopian fiction and his own apocalyptic fantasies, Lake created Project Miranda, a sick plan to enslave women in a homemade bunker buried dee...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale reveals the disturbing true story of Karla Homolka, the woman who helped orchestrate some of Canada’s most horrific crimes — and then struck a deal to walk free. Alongside her husband, Paul Bernardo, Karla played a key role in the abduction, rape, and murder of three young girls — including her own sister. From Tammy Homolka’s staged acc...

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unearths the chilling story of Paul Bernardo, one of Canada’s most infamous serial killers. Beginning as the elusive Scarborough Rapist, Bernardo terrorized Toronto’s suburbs throughout the late 1980s. But when he met and married Karla Homolka, the violence escalated into something far more sinister. Together, Bernardo and Homolka abduc...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the disturbing case of Dana Sue Gray, one of the few female serial killers in American history. Between February and March of 1994, Gray brutally murdered elderly women across Southern California — not for revenge or passion, but to steal their credit cards and go shopping. A former nurse with a dark past and mounting debts, Dan...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale tells the harrowing true story of Amelia Dyer, the infamous “Baby Farmer” who murdered hundreds of infants during Victorian England’s darkest years. Masquerading as a caretaker and adoptive nurse, Dyer preyed on vulnerable, unwed mothers desperate to hide their shame. For a fee, she promised to care for their children — but instead, she...

In this unnerving episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the twisted story of Kristen Gilbert, a seemingly dedicated nurse at the Northampton VA Medical Center who quietly became one of America’s most chilling serial killers. Nicknamed the “Angel of Death,” Gilbert didn’t kill out of mercy or rage — she murdered patients to fabricate medical emergencies and play the hero on the hospit...

In this deeply disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unveils the horrific crimes of David Parker Ray, a seemingly average man from New Mexico who became one of America’s most sadistic serial predators. Known as “The Toy-Box Killer,” Ray constructed a homemade torture chamber in a soundproof trailer behind his home — a place where he abducted women, drugged them into submission, an...

In this deeply unsettling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the horrifying story of Mary Beth Tinning, the New York mother who buried nine of her own children over a 14-year span — and walked free after nearly every one. Between 1972 and 1985, child after child died mysteriously in her care, with causes ranging from “SIDS” to unexplained seizures… and no one questioned the patte...

In this horrifying episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the unimaginable crimes of Dean Corll, known to neighbors as The Candy Man — but remembered in history as one of America’s most sadistic serial killers. Between 1970 and 1973, Corll, along with two teenage accomplices, David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys in Houston, Texa...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the disturbing story of Elmer Wayne Henley, the teenage accomplice turned killer who helped Dean Corll — the infamous Candy Man — abduct, torture, and murder at least 28 young boys in Houston, Texas, during the early 1970s. Henley wasn’t just a witness. He was a recruiter, a handler, and at times, a participant in Corll’s unspea...

In this darkly immersive episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale walks listeners through the harrowing life and crimes of Roy Norris, one half of the infamous “Tool Box Killers.” Often overshadowed by his partner, Lawrence Bittaker, Norris’s role in one of America’s most sadistic serial killing duos is explored in full through vivid historical storytelling. From a broken childhood in 1940s Col...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale investigates the disturbing case of George Waterfield Russell Jr., also known as The Charmer Killer. In the early 1990s, Seattle’s nightlife was haunted by a smooth-talking man who claimed to be everything from a police officer to a secret agent — but behind his well-dressed façade was a cold-blooded killer with a taste for ritual and do...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the disturbing case of Wayne Williams, the man long suspected of being behind the Atlanta Child Murders — a string of over 25 unsolved killings that rocked the city between 1979 and 1981. Most of the victims were Black children and teens, their bodies found dumped in rivers, woods, and back alleys. Though Williams was only convi...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale dives into the horrifying double life of John Joubert, a seemingly model citizen—boy scout, honor student, and U.S. Air Force serviceman—who harbored a monstrous secret. Between 1982 and 1984, Joubert brutally abducted, tortured, and murdered young boys across Nebraska and Maine, including Danny Eberle, Christopher Walden, and Ricky Stet...