History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

At 16, Anneliese Michel was a thoughtful, intelligent and beautiful young lady..and then things went terribly wrong. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Between 1990 and 1996, a total of seven young backpackers were murdered in Australia. This is the story of Australian serial killer Ivan Milat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On December 28,1956 Barbara Grimes, 15 and her sister Patricia 13 ,went to the movies a few blocks from their Chicago home. They never came home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Since 1969, at least twenty one girls have either disappeared or have been found murdered along Highway 16 in British Columbia, Canada. This 450 miles stretch of road has become known to the locals as "The Highway of Tears". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Actor Bob Crane was the star of the hit T.V. series "Hogan's Heros" in the late 1960s. A very likable man, Crane also had a darkside.  In June 1978, Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his apartment, a murder that remains officially unsolved. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard T. Chase became known as "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he killed 6 people, drank their blood and cannibalized their remains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the early 1990s, the bodies of young women started turning up on the streets of Dallas, Texas. They all had one thing in common, their eyeballs had been removed.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Since 2007, in the small town of Bridgend,Wales, 146 young people have hanged themselves and nobody seems to knows why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Austin, Texas in 1864, over the course of one year, a madman brutally murdered 6 women, a man and an eleven year old child in their homes. Then with the whole city in a frenzy, the murders ended as mysteriously as they began. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On June 13, 1977 three young girl scouts, ages 8 to 10, were brutually murdered in their tent the first night of camp. The crime remains unsolved to this day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By age 8, Anissa Jones was a cultural icon starring on one of the most popular shows on television.  By age 18, she was an unemployed, high school drop out and dead from a drug overdose. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leonard Lake and Charles Ng were a pair of serial killers who were responsible for as many as 25 murders in the 1980s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On March 30, 1975, a very meek and mild mannered, James Ruppert killed his mother, brother, sister-in-law and eight nieces and nephews at an Easter Sunday dinner in Hamilton, Ohio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was a serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder, and dismemberment of seventeen young men in the 1980s and early 1990s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Christmas day 1929, a beloved family man Charles Lawson murdered his wife and seven children before taking his own life. To this day, no one knows why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Marie Hahn was a female serial killer and in 1938 became the first woman ever to be executed in The Ohio electric chair after it was confirmed that she murdered at least five men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pearl Bryan was a 22-year-old pregnant woman from Greencastle, Indiana who was found decapitated in Fort Thomas, Kentucky in 1896. Her head is still missing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Larry Bader had it all. A good career, a beautiful wife, three children and another child on the way. On May 15,1957 the Akron, Ohio native went on a short fishing trip. He never returned. This is where the story gets weird.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robert Andrew "Bob" Berdella  was a serial killer in Kansas City, Missouri who raped, tortured, and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Wesley Hardin was one of the most notorious gunfighters and prolific killers to come out of the Old West.  Hardin is believed to have murdered 42 men during his lifetime.  Hardin killed one man in his sleep just because he was snoring too loud.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Perhaps the most evil man ever to live in the U.K., Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap, rape, sexual assault and murder of four girls aged between 5 and 11 in a series of killings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Winfield, Kansas was a quest, peaceful town at the turn on the 20th Century. It was right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. On the evening of August 13, 1903 the townspeople gathered near the gazebo in the city park to listen to a brass band and sip on freshly squeezed lemonade.  Those gathered there had no way of knowing they were about to witness the first mass shooting incident in our nation's...

The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders were a series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Santa Rosa,California in 1972 and 1973. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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