Human Monsters

"Cymbeline" suffered the traumas of emotional, physical and sexual abuse for years while married to her first husband. The consequences continue to affect her to this day, but she is a strong woman and has managed to find happiness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Shanda Sharer was like many 12-year-olds. She was keen on dating and she blossomed as she discovered all its passions. She didn't bargain on becoming part of a lesbian love triangle that left her in a body bag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A few samples of what you can expect from full episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gertrude Baniszewski was the foster mother from Hell, and unfortunately Sylvia Likens became a victim of her wrath at a time when she was most in need of compassion. Please contribute to my Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/humanmonsters/human-monsters-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Refusing To Die: The Story of Laura Parsons. In 1983, Laura Parsons was abducted by three men in Dallas, Texas. She was gang-raped, beaten, shot and left for dead. Her health and relationships were impacted, but not her will to survive and overcome. She is a strong and courageous woman. Her story deserves to be heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Four savage murders. One unlikely suspect. How could such a normal, well-adjusted young man get wrapped up in something so heinous?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of the crime that left an innocent 8-year-old girl dead and left a nation outraged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Chase emerged from his descent into madness a blood-thirsty, ruthless and sadistic serial killer. Even hardened cops and criminals were mortified by the mess he made of his victims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Serial killer and rapist Rodney Alcala appeared on the match-making show "The Dating Game". He played his own version of the game in real-life. Unfortunately for his victims, the penalties for losing were rape, torture and death.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did your parents chain you to your bed? Starve you? Put you in a cage? Raise you in a house so filthy it made you sick? Emotionally, physically and sexually abuse you? I hope not. Unfortunately, the children of David and Louise Turpin suffered this fate in their parental home. It's a tragic story, but thankfully it has a happy ending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dennis Rader, aka The BTK Killer or BTK Strangler, terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas for thirty years. He killed 10 people, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of how strange and sinister he is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In some cases, their words are as chilling as their deeds. Sometimes funnier. Sound designer: Dennis Painter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unfortunately for the children of the Colt family, little was bequeathed to them but a multigenerational legacy of sexual abuse and recessive traits. LISTENER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED: contains detailed descriptions of the sexual abuse of children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The story of how Richard Speck gave himself permission to murder eight nurses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rape, mutilation, murder, mental illness and more: your tax dollars at work. WARNING: This episode promises to be the sickest, most nauseating of them all. DO NOT listen to it less than a half hour after a meal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These characters in this piece are about as psychotic as many of the people profiled in the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Pickton was as dirty as he smelled. But nobody would have guessed that it wasn't just livestock he slaughtered on his farm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hurtcore is a genre of child pornography that most pedophiles consider too extreme. It consists of the wanton rape, torture and sometimes even murder of a child. WARNING: This is the darkest and most disturbing episode of this podcast. It describes activities that involve the torture and sexual abuse of children. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega...

For years David Parker Ray took BDSM a little too far. There's kink and then there's torture. Did he really commit murder, as many have suggested? You be the judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Apparently these fundamentalist Christians have forgotten Christ's message about the importance of forgiveness and loving your fellow man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If the worst thing about the ways canines are treated in Asia is that they're eaten, this episode would not have been recorded. WARNING: Contains information involving the torture of animals. Listener discretion is advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Bernardo's reign of terror in Southern Ontario, Canada left in his wake three dead sex slaves and a list of rape victims that is rumoured to exceed 20. He is Canada's most hated man and a candidate for entry in the Misogynist Hall of Fame.  Featuring an interview with journalist Barry Brown, who covered Bernardo's trial. WARNING: Contains coarse language, mature subject matter and the graphic...

Imagine being sentenced to life in prison or an early death for a crime you didn't commit. The subjects of this episode know that experience all too well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From sexual abuse to financial exploitation, caregivers sometimes only give those in their care a reason to die. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices