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Norway in the 1990s was to Black Metal what Seattle was to Grunge. These guys took the fear and lack of respect for the dead (and the living for that matter) to the next level. Their concerts were frightening, but their fans loved it. To become recognised as a movement, the Norwegian ‘Black Circle’ decided it was time to take the terror off the stage and into society. When the two leaders of the B...

Jenelle Potter was socially awkward and sickly. At the age of 30, she was still living with her parents who controlled every aspect of her life. When she met a well-liked young man, called Bill Payne, she fell head over heels in love. But the feeling was not mutual. When Bill met Billie-Jean Hayworth, he realised that he was ready to settle down with her. A jealous Jenelle could not handle it. Whe...

At a New Year’s Eve party in Narsaq, Southern Greenland, local teen, Abel Klemmensen opened fire, killing seven people and injuring his own brother. It was the worst mass murder ever committed in Greenland. What possessed this seemingly laid-back young man to terrorize his hometown? For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron of the podcast? Visit our page at Pat...

Every November and December, thousands of letters addressed to Santa are sent to North Pole, Alaska. Boxes full of letters are then sent to North Pole Middle School, where it is included in the 6th Grade curriculum: North Pole’s 11 and 12-year-olds are nominated as Santa’s little helpers and reply to all the letters on Santa’s behalf. But in April 2006, the peace in this snow globe of a town was s...

John Martin Scripps was a petty thief, turned drug smuggler, turned cold-blooded murder. He would befriend fellow passengers on long-haul flights, share a taxi and check into the same hotel at the destination. He then bludgeoned his travel acquaintances to death before expertly dismembering their bodies and disposing of the body parts. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to...

For 18 years, Jean-Claude Romand pretended to be something he was not: a well-qualified doctor, a loving husband, a doting father. As things started to unravel, he could not bear the thought that everyone in his life would find out that he was a fraud. He took extreme measures in an attempt to keep his secret safe. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron of t...

Armin Meiwes posted on an online forum called Cannibal Café to find someone to devour. And someone responded. After castrating his willing participant and eating his genitalia together, he killed him. But was it murder if the victim consented to the whole thing? For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron of the podcast? Visit our page at Patreon For a full list...

After a day’s work, Rodney Marks was an Australian astrophysicist, Rodney Marks, became violently ill. 24 hours later he was dead. But due to the harsh weather conditions, it would be six months before his body could be transported to New Zealand for a post-mortem examination. Results showed that Rodney had died from methanol poisoning. On the base were 49 other people, trapped in the winter cold....

Church-going family man, Colin Howell, started an illicit affair with Hazel Buchanan, a married woman who attended the same church. In order to be together, they did the unthinkable. The secret of their crime remained between them for 17 years. If Colin Howell did not come forward, would they have gotten away with it? For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron o...

Three women vanished from the Northern Italian town of Correggio within the space of a year. Locals looked at a local shopkeeper and fortune teller Leonarda Cianciulli for answers. When they uncovered the truth behind the disappearances, the story caused a ripple throughout the world. Not only did this mother of four murder her friends, but she also used their remains and made them into soap and c...

Russian serial killer, Alexander Pichushkin killed 48, but possibly as many as 60 people between 1992 and 2006. He initially said that his aim was to kill 64 people, one for every square on a chessboard. Later he recanted his statement, saying that, had he not been caught, he would have carried on killing indefinitely. Had he filled all the squares on one board with victims, he would simply have g...

In celebration of Halloween, this week’s episode is somewhat darker than our usual ones. Adolfo Constanzo, also known as El Padrino (or the Godfather), was the leader of a cult who believed that Black Magic would shield their drug cartel from being busted. Adolfo encouraged human sacrifice and countless people fell victim to the cult, later dubbed as Narcosatanists. When American medical student,...

The story of Danny Lugo and his gang of greedy bodybuilders continues. We learn the fate of the man they kidnapped and extorted: Miami businessman, Marc Schiller. After taking over all of Marc’s assets, they set their sights on the super-wealthy Frank Griga. In a fumbled attempt to repeat what they had done to Marc Schiller, the gang’s plan backfired and things went terribly wrong. Just when you t...

Part 1. The story of Danny Lugo and his gang of bodybuilders was made famous by the movie Pain & Gain, starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson. The movie highlighted the absurdity of the gang’s kidnapping plot against Miami businessman, Marc Schiller. The movie was a comedy, but the true story behind it was far more sinister. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to sup...

Despite multiple similarities in the murders of the two victims, authorities have not been able to link the two cases together. One has been solved, one remains unsolved. In this episode, we look at the murders of two Dutch citizens, Harry Ro and Antoinette Bont in 1995. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to support the show? Visit our Patreon Page For a full list of resou...

She is known as the Coffee Killer. Jessica Wongso, is an Indonesian born Australian resident who poisoned her best friend by lacing her coffee with cyanide. All of this happened in broad daylight, in an upmarket café in Jakarta. The whole act was caught on CCTV camera, yet, Jessica denied guilt. How did their friendship turn so sour, that Jessica decided Mirna Salihin deserved to die? For pictures...

It was June the 2nd 1994, a summer’s evening in Kirkwall, Orkney. Waiter, 26-year-old Bangladeshi national, Shamol Mahmood, clocked in for his second shift that season. Little did he know, that this would be his last night alive. As Shamol was serving his customers, a masked gunman walked into the restaurant, pointed a pistol at his head and shot him point-blank. It would take more than a decade t...

It was 1989 and the scenic area of New Brunswick’s Miramichi was under siege. Elderly people were brutalized, raped and murdered. Once buzzing with locals and holiday makers, the streets in The Miramichi were quiet. People were simply too scared to go out. They barricaded themselves into their homes. The quiet streets were dotted with police checkpoints and black-suited members of the RCMP Emergen...

It was a cool Wednesday morning in the peaceful New Zealand city of Palmerston North in August 2000. Glen Weggery arrived at his sister’s house, but no one came to answer the door. As he walked inside, he saw his seven-year-old niece lying on the floor. Her blood-soaked hair covered her face and her head was in an unusual position. Glen immediately knew from the horrific scene that Amber was no lo...

After vacationing with friends in the beach resort of Varna in Bulgaria, Lars Mittank arrived at the airport, ready to return home to Germany. CCTV cameras show that Lars walked around the check-in area aimlessly. He seemed calm and relaxed, just like any other traveller, waiting to board his flight. Hours later, Lars was seen running out of the airport. He left all his things: his phone, his bags...

Tokyo, 1992. The mysterious death of a young Australian woman working as a hostess in Japan goes unsolved. Eight years later, a young British woman disappears under similarly mysterious circumstances. All eyes turn to wealthy Japanese playboy, Joji Obara – a man who had no known friends and refused to ever have his photo taken. He was eventually dubbed: The Beast with a Human Face. This is a sordi...

When police arrested 75-year-old Alice Uden at her home, nobody could believe that she was a criminal. There had to be a mistake… How could this grandmother be guilty of any crime other than overcooking a Sunday roast? Her husband, 71-year-old Gerald wasn't home at the time, but when he arrived, police arrested him too. And NOT for the same crime. They were masters at keeping their darkest secrets...

When father of two, 47-year-old Kevin Lee, did not come home for dinner on Good Friday, 29 March 2013, his wife Cristina knew that he was in trouble. Kevin was a creature of habit. Every night he would come home, have his dinner, watch television with his wife and kids. What she didn’t know, is that Kevin’s burnt-out, light blue Ford Mondeo was about to be found. Passers-by reported the burning ca...

In March 2005, college student Inge Lotz was brutally murdered in her apartment in Stellenbosch, South Africa. When she was discovered, she was seated upright on her sofa where she had been paging through a magazine. There was a copious amount of blood covering her head and face and she was almost unrecognizable. At first, it looked as though she had committed suicide. But Inge had been bludgeoned...

In the dead of night, husband and wife, Manfred and Marisia von Richthofen were beaten to death in their bed while they were sleeping. Their teenage children, Andreas and Suzane von Richthofen discovered their parents’ bludgeoned bodies. What happened at this home on Rua Zacarias de Goís? In a single night, Suzane and Andreas von Richthofen were orphaned. Who would want to hurt this family? For pi...