DEADLY INTENT

In 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was brutally murdered with a golf club in the exclusive Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. When police questioned her neighbor, Michael Skakel, something chilling happened: he had a perfect alibi ready before anyone even asked for one. This episode examines the psychological evidence that may have been more damning than any physical proof—how an...

DEADLY INTENT - Episode 24: Fred & Rose West - Love, Marriage, and Murder as a Lifestyle February 24th, 1994. Police arrive at 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester with shovels and a search warrant, looking for one missing teenager. What they uncover is one of Britain's most horrific serial killing operations—a marriage built entirely around murder. Fred and Rose West didn't stumble into violence....

Robert Pickton wasn’t invisible. He was accurate . From 1995 to 2001, 49 women vanished from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, many Indigenous, many surviving the margins of poverty, addiction, and the sex trade. Their disappearances were minimized, misclassified, or ignored. Meanwhile, a pig farmer 30 kilometers outside the city quietly built a predatory system perfectly aligned with society’s apath...

In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. Within weeks, three teenagers were arrested and convicted based on a false confession and community hysteria about satanic ritual abuse. But what if the real killer has been hiding in plain sight for thirty years? Join host Carman as we dive deep into the criminal psychology behind one of America's most notorious...

THE COVINA CHRISTMAS MASSACRE: When Santa Came to Kill On Christmas Eve 2008, what should have been a joyful family gathering in Covina, California, became one of the most horrific mass murders in American history. When 8-year-old Katrina opened the door to greet Santa Claus, she had no idea she was face-to-face with a killer who would destroy her entire extended family in a matter of minutes. Bru...

On Christmas Eve 1945, five Sodder family members vanished when their West Virginia home burned down, but no remains were ever found, and disturbing evidence suggests kidnapping rather than tragedy. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EKrpt5r8ZU1aqKJRFcf9k?si=beaoa70NQUi_LjeT4n_wjA  🎙️ **EXPLORE MORE SPINE-CHILLING CONTENT:** 🔮 Freaky Folklore: https://www.eeriecast.com/podcasts/freaky-folklor...

BREAKING: Jack the Ripper SOLVED? New DNA Evidence Points to Aaron Kosminski After 137 Years For over a century, Jack the Ripper's identity remained one of history's greatest mysteries. Five women brutally murdered in Victorian London's Whitechapel district. A killer who vanished into the fog. Countless suspects, endless theories, but no definitive answers. Until now. In this explosive episode of...

On December 19, 1959, Christine's brother Daniel made a horrifying discovery that would haunt him forever—his sister, her husband Cliff, and their two young children had been brutally murdered in their rural Florida farmhouse. Christmas presents lay wrapped in the attic, never to be opened. Holiday carols the children had been learning would never be sung. The Walker family murders shocked the pea...

Send us a text In November 1959, the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas was shattered when four members of the respected Clutter family were brutally murdered in their own home. Herbert Clutter, a prosperous wheat farmer, his wife Bonnie, and their teenage children Nancy and Kenyon became victims of two ex-convicts chasing a prison rumor about a safe full of cash that never existed. This i...

Send us a text DEADLY INTENT - Season 1, Episode 16 "The Perfect Family Lie - Chris Watts" In August 2018, a security camera captured the last moments of what appeared to be the perfect American family. Chris Watts—devoted father, loving husband, the man neighbors trusted—walked calmly to his truck carrying a red gas can. Behind him, his pregnant wife Shanann and daughters Bella and CeCe...

Send us a text If you’ve just discovered Deadly Intent … welcome. I'm Carman Carrion — a researcher, writer, and the creator of podcasts like Freaky Folklore and Destination Terror . But here — on Deadly Intent — we explore a different kind of darkness. Not the monsters of myth… but the real ones. The ones that walk among us. This show is about why people kill . Not just what they did — but what l...

Send us a text This episode examines the systematic torture and murder of at least 17 women by Robert Hansen, a mild-mannered baker who transformed into one of Alaska's most notorious serial killers between 1973-1983. Hansen hunted women like wild game in the Alaskan wilderness, combining his skills as a pilot and hunter with a deep psychological need for control and revenge against those he...

Send us a text In 1991, police discovered seventeen dismembered bodies in Jeffrey Dahmer's Milwaukee apartment. But the murders were just the beginning of a psychological horror that defied comprehension. For thirteen years, Dahmer had been pursuing something far more disturbing than killing - he was trying to build a world where no one could ever leave him again. Join host Carman Carrion as...

Send us a text On Halloween night 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O'Bryan died from cyanide-laced candy given to him by the one person who should have protected him—his own father. This wasn't a random act of violence or an urban legend come to life. It was calculated murder dressed up as Halloween tragedy, and it changed how America celebrates October 31st forever.  Listen at: https://carm...

Send us a text 🎧 An Entire Town Knows What Happened to Crystal Rogers — But Won’t Say. Here’s Why. When 35-year-old mother of five Crystal Rogers vanished from Bardstown, Kentucky, her disappearance seemed like a tragic mystery. But what followed exposed something far darker: a chilling pattern of unsolved murders, corruption, and silence in a town of just 13,000 people. Her car was found abandon...

Send us a text Season 1, Episode 11 – Deadly Intent This episode examines Albert Fish, a serial killer whose intent went beyond murder—he weaponized his victims' suffering through calculated psychological torture, sending horrific confession letters to families and fundamentally changing how America thinks about child safety and stranger danger. Through the lens of criminal intent, host Carma...

Send us a text Deadly Intent – Season 1, Episode 10   Imagine dying of tuberculosis at 22, your body laid to rest in a mausoleum by your grieving family. Now imagine that your death wasn't the end---that a man who claimed to love you stole your body, took it home, and spent seven years replacing your decomposing flesh with wire, wax, and silk, dressing you in your wedding gown, and sleeping b...

Send us a text Deadly Intent, Season 1, Episode 9 Imagine searching desperately for your missing daughter while your neighbor—someone you've known for years—offers sympathy and support. Now imagine discovering that same neighbor murdered your child and watched you grieve. This is exactly what happened to the Reade family in 1963, when their 16-year-old daughter Pauline disappeared after accep...

Send us a text Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of domestic violence, mental health crises, bizarre murder methods, and detailed descriptions of crime scenes involving gaming equipment. The case also involves discussions of delusion and psychological breaks from reality. Listener discretion is advised. Season 1, Episode 8: “Game Over” In April 2013, Fort Lauderdale police respond...

Send us a text DEADLY INTENT: The Boy in the Box Season 1, Episode 7 In this haunting episode, host Carman Carrion delves into the tragic and enduring mystery of Joseph Augustus Zarelli, known for over 65 years as "America's Unknown Child" or "The Boy in the Box." The case began in 1957 with the discovery of a small boy's body in a cardboard box in Philadelphia's...

Send us a text DEADLY INTENT, Season 1, Episode 6: When Control Becomes Murder On Easter Sunday 1990, what should have been a routine custody visit in Coldwater, Michigan turned into a nightmare that would haunt multiple families forever. Dennis DePue, a seemingly ordinary property assessor, brutally murdered his ex-wife Marilynn—a beloved high school guidance counselor—in front of their three chi...

Send us a text Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen was everything a Victorian gentleman should be—soft-spoken, well-dressed, impeccably polite. His neighbors in Camden Road, North London, knew him as a devoted husband who doted on his flamboyant wife Cora. So when he appeared wearing her diamond brooch and giving away her expensive furs after claiming she'd died suddenly in America, suspicions began to...

Send us a text Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of home invasion murders, violence against families, and detailed descriptions of crime scenes. The case also involves ethnic targeting and historical prejudice. Listener discretion is advised.   https://carmancarrion.buzzsprout.com   #AxemanOfNewOrleans #JazzNightSurvival #UnsolvedMysteries1919 #NewOrleansNoir #DeadlyIntent #TrueCr...

Send us a text Deadly Intent Episode 3: The Criminology Student - When Theory Becomes Practice In November 2022, four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their off-campus home in what prosecutors called a "fifteen-minute blitz." The killer wasn't a stranger lurking in the shadows—he was Bryan Kohberger, a PhD criminology student who had spent months studying his victims and usin...

Send us a text Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of child abuse, torture, and murder. The case involves extreme physical and psychological abuse of a disabled child, including descriptions of starvation, hypothermia, and torture methods. Listener discretion is strongly advised.  "For months, fifteen-year-old Timothy Ferguson lived in a basement closet that reeked of...