Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer: A True Crime Podcast

William Darrell Lindsey is a lesser known serial killer from Florida. But he definitely is a heavy hitter. And, a sadistic one as well. He was another woman hater who fixated on sex workers. His biological parents were killed in a car accident when he was 3 months old. He survived, but likely suffered a head injury. He was adopted by a family, where the mother was an extremely ultra religious sadi...

Author, Willis Morgan was in the Sears in Hollywood, FL on July 27, 1981, where he had a disturbing encounter with a strange and creepy man. He watched the man go into Sears, and to the toy department. Later that day, when the news reported that a young boy, Adam Walsh had been abducted, Willis knew it had to be that guy who did it. The police began their "investigation" and were intent...

Keith Hunter Jesperson aka The Happy Face Killer was a Canadian born US Serial killer. He was a long haul truck driver, and used that occupation as a cover for his hobby. He had an abusive father, who he blamed for his issues. He would taunt the police and media with detailed letters about his murders. He ultimately turned himself in when he knew the jig was up, but not before killing at least 8 w...

Jerry Brudos had issues. Born to a mother who made it known that she hated him because he wasn't born a girl, he never stood a chance. He started with his shoe obsession at 5 years old innocently enough, but his mothers reaction to it, combined with losing the only 2 people who cared about him in a matter of months, his obsession escalated. He began stealing shoes, and before too long, his obs...

Tonight, we're discussing the Troubled Teen Industry documentary on Cinemax, Tortured Teens Inc. No guest for this Features episode, so Todd filled in. We've covered TTI several times before, but this is the first time we've covered a documentary on it. The other 2 docs that have been made focused mostly on one location. This one focuses on several, with several different survivors. Ch...

Tonight, we’re doing a cult! A lesser known cult that had its roots in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. A cult that had its own troubled teen industry camps set up to reprogram people...mostly kids who didn’t tow the line of the doctrine. Sam Fife, and The Movement of God cult started in the early 1970s. It hit its peak in the late 70s, and ran strong into the 2000s, where it mostly fizzled out. Thi...

Tonight, we’re going to Charlottesville, VA to cover a lesser known dumbass named Jesse Matthew, aka The Back To School Killer. This hulk of a man was a serial rapist, and very likely a serial killer too. He has been convicted of 2 murders, and 3 rapes, but he is suspected in MANY more. And, he got away with it for a while, until he graduated with honors from the BTK school of laying low. He liter...

William Darrell Lindsey is a lesser known serial killer from Florida. But he definitely is a heavy hitter. He was another woman hater who fixated on sex workers. His biological parents were killed in a car accident when he was 3 months old. He survived, but likely suffered a head injury. He was adopted by a family, where the mother was an extremely ultra religious sadist who beat him relentlessly....

Tonight, we’re heading to Texas! We’re covering a lesser known serial killer. Faryion Wardrip got away with murder and rape for a long time. He was a hardcore drunk and a druggie, and he was baked when he killed people. He was convicted and sent to prison for one murder, and then was stupidly released. But, he had cleaned up, and he moved away, started living legit. Except, he had killed 4 other p...

Ricky Kasso, aka The Acid Kingwas a troubled teenager, who had a rough childhood, and got into drugs. Big time. This story takes place n Northport, on Long Island, NY in 1984. It was a case that fueled the Satanic Panic because he ran with a group of kids who used Satan as a way to scare people. Although Ricky in his drug riddled mind thought Satan was talking to him. A friend of his stole some dr...

Join us for this interview with Mack Maloney, author of the crazy and addicting book, 'How To Dump A Body at Sea and Not Get Caught'This book tells the story of Al Ferrari, a man who is the living embodiment of making lemonade when life hands you lemons. Al has lived the most insane life you've ever heard of. He's battled pirates. He's survived a shipwreck. He even became the b...

Aubrey Gold was born in a small Bible Belt town in Alabama. She was a rebel with a wild streak. As soon as she turned 18, she was on her way to Las Vegas to realize her dreams of becoming a porn star and achieving fame and fortune. It didn’t go as planned. After 2 short years of working as much as she could, and being jerked around by shady agents, she had only made $50k TOTAL, before any and all...

Bill sat in on Mental Illness Theater , and Mark tells us about the botched dress rehearsal for the invasion of Normandy.

This was originally a Patreon episode. David and Sarah of the Macabre Emporium Podcast came on when Bill didn't have a cohost. And, they literally took over the episode. We had alot of fun!

Ever heard of the NorCal Rapist, Roy Charles Waller? Not many people have, including our guest, Matthew Brockmeyer from the Murder Coaster Podcast. Why? Because he isn’t a serial killer, as far as the law is concerned. But, Bill has his suspicions, which he goes over in the episode. Beginning in the early 90s, a very cunning rapist would stalk and rape women all over Northern California. He had a...

In World War 1, the Germans perfected chemical weapons by using a bastardized version of the Haber-Bosch fertilization process that revolutionized how food was mass produced worldwide. Its still used today. It was developed by German chemist, Fritz Haber. But, when the war broke out, he found a way to weaponize it, and chemical weapons were born. Fritz Haber was dubbed the Father of Chemical Warfa...

NOTE: Bill mistakenly says that BTK killed the Otero Family in 1978. It was 1974. Brain fart! There have been some recent developments on the Willie Pickton and BTK cases. We discuss them, and we are joined by Matthew Brockmeyer from Murder Coaster. Definitely check Murder Coaster out! Instagram Twitter(X) Facebook YouTube Website #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeComedy #TrueCrimeComedyPodca...

Tonight, we cover “The other” Baton Rouge serial killer, Sean Gillis. And, like we were for Derrick Todd Lee, The Baton Rouge serial killer, we are once again joined by Jody Plauche. Sean was a momma’s boy from the minute he was born until he was arrested for murder, and he probably still is. This gave him a mindset that everyone owed him. He began his murder spree later in life than most serial k...

NOT A NEW EPISODE! I changed the name to Features, and it saved it to the top of the feed. Welcome back, Nora Ashleigh! She was our guest on episode 73 and 74, where she told the extremely tragic, yet ultimately inspiring story of her experience in the clutches of the Troubled Teen Industry. In this episode, we discuss the TTI itself, and it was a very enlightening and empowering episode. There&#3...

Tonight, we wrap up not only the Canada Binge, but the Willie Pickton saga as well. In this episode, we talk about how and why he was arrested, his bizarre behavior during interrogation, and the undercover officer who got him to talk in the holding cell. We also discuss the blatant ineptitude of the judge who presided over Willie’s trial, his conviction, and who may or may not have been accomplice...

Tonight, we’re bringing you part 3 of our Willie Pickton series. And, there will be a part 4, and we haven’t ruled out a part 5. But, the action gets into high gear in this episode. We talk about Willie’s close calls, the Vancouver Police Department’s total incompetent laziness, as well as people who were feeding Willie sex workers. We also talk about the outcry and backlash that came from all of...

People have been asking about the music on the show, so I decided to make an episode where I talk about and play every episode that’s been on Crimes Killers Cults and Beer. There are 8, and you’ll hear them in their entirety, including the CKCB theme. Want to hear more? There are a lot more songs. Check em’ out! Or just search Bill Selby on whatever platform you use. (Apple link is coming.) Spotif...

Tonight, we dive into Willie Pickton Part 2. We discuss more missing women, and the Vancouver PD’s lack of caring about them. We talk about the RCMP assembling their own version of the Behavioral Science Unit, and how that plan failed. We also discuss 2 people who encountered with Willie Pickton, and lived to tell the tale. We also talk about the infamous bar that Dave Pickton built called Piggy’s...

Tonight, we start a 3 part series that will wrap up our 6 case Canada Binge, with part one of Willie Pickton, a sick Canadian pig farmer who confessed to killing 49 sex workers, and was also suspected of selling human meat along with the pork that his farm produced, as well as disposing some of it at a rendering plant, that meant that human flesh was in various products that use processed food. In...

Continuing the Canada Binge, we have another collab. Krys and Jess from Moms, Wine, and True Crime join us. They're also from Canada. They're a really good new podcast that I hope will be around for a long time, and we had a blast recording this. Jennifer Pan was a 24 year old college student, whose overbearing father made her decide that her only option was to kill him. This after she lie...