Cold Case Murder Mysteries

Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological excursion through the baffling, unsolved disappearance of Timmothy Pitzen, in addition to the shocking suicide of his mother, Amy Fry Pitzen, in May 2011.  

Join host Ryan Kraus for a deep dive into the harrowing psychology lurking beneath the motivations of 10-year-old child killers Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who abducted, tortured, and murdered 2-year-old James Bulger. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. For 10% off your first month, go to betterhelp.com/ccmm .

On the evening of April 22, 1974, a small group of armed men entered a home audio store in Ogden, UT called the Hi-Fi Shop with the intention of stealing its inventory. By the time they left, three people were dead, and two more suffered life-threatening injuries, leaving the survivors to tell a nearly unspeakable tale about the torture and suffering that occurred within those walls. 

Join host Ryan Kraus for a strange trip through the harrowing psychological narrative lurking beneath the events leading to the death of 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp at the hands of her 26-year-old boyfriend, Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. For 10% off your first month, go to betterhelp.com/ccmm . 

We all have unrealized monsters lurking in the abyss of our emotional lives, locked behind an invisible barrier, banging on the glass to break through to the other side. And sometimes they do. Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to a limited series examining Frank Darabont's 2007 horror film, The Mist, which is based upon Stephen King's novella of the same name. In this episode, we'll do a com...

Join host Ryan Kraus for this introductory episode in a limited series examining our political and evolutionary systems through the conduit of Frank Darabont's 2007 horror film, The Mist, which is based upon Stephen King's novella of the same name. *Please note: The film itself will be analyzed in Part 2. Part 1 is a roadmap for the fascinating concepts we'll explore.*

Join host Ryan Kraus for part 3 of the Ryan Shtuka series as we conclude our in-depth psychological assessment of what really happened that fateful night the young man disappeared.

Join Ryan Kraus for part 2 of a limited series examining the baffling disappearance of 20-year-old Ryan Shtuka.

Join host Ryan Kraus for part 1 of the mysterious, unsolved disappearance of Ryan Shtuka, who vanished leaving a party near Sun Peaks resort in BC, Canada on the night of February 17, 2018. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. For 10% off your first order, go to betterhelp.com/ccmm .

Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to the Tyler Davis series as we switch gears from the factual timeline and endeavor to assemble the harrowing psychological narrative lurking beneath the circumstances leading to his mysterious disappearance. This podcast is sponsored by Microdose Gummies. For free shipping and 30% off your first order, visit microdose.com  and enter code CCMM.

Join host Ryan Kraus for an examination of the baffling, unsolved disappearance of 29-year-old Tyler Davis in Columbus, OH. In part 1, we retrace the events leading to the moment this young man seems to vanish into thin air, and ask what drove him to flee. This podcast is sponsored by Microdose Gummies from Lumi Labs. For 30% off your first order, visit microdose.com and enter code CCMM.

Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to a limited series examining the evolutionary implications of the Mindhunter pilot episode, in which we unlock the door to the next dimension of criminal behavioral analysis, and peer into the darkness of the abyss. 

Holden Ford sets off on his journey to become the Mindhunter and enlighten his audience about criminal psychology, but his progress comes to a screeching halt when faced with a terrifying, unavoidable question staring back at him in the classroom: How do I get my audience to feel empathy for Charles Manson? This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Special offer for Cold Case Murder Mysteries liste...

Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological breakdown of the Mindhunter pilot episode. Part 2 of a limited series. A time comes when we meet our shadow face to face. The monster. When we do, we rise above that darkness into the light or descend into the abyss below. Either way, we’re always becoming something. What will you become?

Join host Ryan Kraus for this introductory episode in a trilogy examining the hit crime series, Mindhunter, where we'll first descend into the basement of reality to uncover the driving force behind the show's revolutionary criminal psychology. What was its origin? Where do we go from here?

Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to this limited series examining the terrifying “Scream” murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart in Pocatello, ID on September 22, 2006. This podcast is sponsored by Better Help. Special offer for Cold Case Murder Mysteries listeners: 10% off your first month at https://www.betterhelp.com/ccmm .  

Pocatello, ID. September 22, 2006. 16-year-old high school student Cassie Jo Stoddart is house-sitting for family members who don’t want to leave their new dream home unoccupied while they’re away. She has a couple of friends come over to watch a movie, along with her boyfriend. Soon enough, the friends leave, followed by her boyfriend, and that’s when the nightmare begins. Cassie would be terrori...

Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion of an intriguing journey into the psychology present in Amy Bradley’s final moments before her baffling disappearance while vacationing aboard Rhapsody of the Seas cruise liner in March 1998. Where did Amy go?

Join host Ryan Kraus for the first installment in a two-part series examining the baffling disappearance of 23-year-old Amy Bradley, who vanished into thin air while on a Caribbean cruise with her family in March 1998.

Join host Ryan Kraus for the conclusion to the Delphi Murders series covering the psychological narrative present in the deaths of Libby German and Abby Williams. Where will the case go from here? Will it ever be solved? 

In October 1978, horror movie audiences were introduced to a new killer, Michael Myers, who dressed in blue with his collar up, carried a knife, and covered his face with a white mask. In February 2017, an eerily familiar figure appeared on the Monon High Bridge in Delphi, IN, a killer dressed in blue with his collar up, one who was carrying a knife, and seemingly had some sort of white scarf or m...

Why did law enforcement try to implore empathy from the suspect by mentioning The Shack at the 2019 Delphi press conference? Who is the mystery man they’re addressing? They said he could be in the room. Was he?

Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating psychological breakdown of the events leading up to the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams in Delphi, IN on February 13, 2017.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a structural breakdown of Bridge Guy. Who is the evil man in the video?

Join host Ryan Kraus for an intriguing journey deep into the evil mind of the mysterious man who took the young lives of Libby German and Abby Williams on February 13, 2017, including the hidden meaning behind that bone-chilling command: "down the hill".