Murder Phone

William Bonin didn't work alone.  In this episode, host Tony Ciaglia pulls back the curtain on the men who rode beside The Freeway Killer, and introduces a new name: seventeen-year-old William Pugh, who survived his first encounter with Bonin by pure luck, then made the incomprehensible decision to come back.  That choice would cost fifteen-year-old Harry Todd Turner, Victim 16 everything.  T...

William Bonin. The Freeway Killer. The winter of 1979 is about to get a lot darker. In this episode, Tony Ciaglia ,The Serial Killer Whisperer,  and his father Al walk you through the brutal final weeks of 1979 and into the blood-soaked opening days of 1980, as Bonin accelerates his killing with terrifying speed. Victims 8 through 13 — Frank Dennis Fox, John Kilpatrick, Mike McDonald, Charles Mira...

The freeway never sleeps in Southern California and neither did William Bonin.  This week, Tony and Al pull back the curtain on the Freeway Killer and the Murder Van that became a rolling chamber of horrors on the highways of Los Angeles. They break down the chilling details of how Bonin hunted, who he hunted, and  most disturbingly, who helped him do it.  Tony shares never-before-heard audio from...

William Bonin wasn’t the only monster inside the Murder Van. In Episode 5 of Murder Phone, we dive into the twisted world of the accomplices who didn’t just witness the horror — they became part of it. Men like Vernon Butts, a predator who needed no corruption, and Gregory Miley, a seemingly normal young man who climbed into Bonin’s orbit and slowly transformed into something terrifying. This epis...

Tony and Al turn their attention to Vernon Butts, one of the most disturbing accomplices in the William Bonin murder spree.  Known as the Freeway Killer, Bonin didn't always act alone — and Butts stands out as one of the most unsettling figures in his orbit. This episode features a chilling audio conversation with James Munro, another accomplice who knew Butts personally.  Munro offers a haun...

Bonin came back from war in 1968… but whatever returned wasn’t the same man. William Bonin walked into California colder, emptier—like something had hollowed him out and left the shell behind. His family saw it in his eyes. Not pain. Not trauma. Something darker. Something waiting. Then the frenzy began. Five boys. Abducted. Assaulted. Discarded.  Not a spree. Not even chaos.  This was a predator...

Join host Tony Ciaglia and his father Al as they descend into William Bonin’s time in Vietnam. December 1966.  Bonin doesn’t enlist for honor—he enlists because someone thinks the military can fix him. It can’t. Because Bonin is already broken. Before the uniform—before Vietnam—he’s already fantasizing about rape. About murder. Then comes the theft arrest.  Charges disappear.  Not because he’s inn...

Before the headlines. Before the handcuffs. Before the bodies… There was a childhood shaped by violence, neglect, and unchecked warning signs that were impossible to ignore—yet ignored anyway. This season exposes not only the making of a killer, but the system that failed to stop him. And again exclusively,  Murder Phone brings you something few ever hear:  real conversations with Bonin’s accompli...

In this unforgettable episode of Murder Phone, Tony,The Serial Killer Whisperer, joins his brother Joey and their father Al on a journey into the heart of darkness: a face-to-face visit with Arthur John Shawcross in Fallsburg, New York. What they didn’t know at the time was that this visit took place exactly two months before Shawcross would drop dead, making this one of his final, unfiltered conv...

October 1989: Rochester, New York. A body is found — Patricia Ives — and just like that, the mask of safety slips off the city’s face. Police quickly realize they aren’t dealing with a one-off killing. This is a pattern… the calling card of a predator. Victims, mostly sex workers.  Strangled. Dumped near the river. Posed like trophies.  And the man behind it? Arthur John Shawcross — a bloated, wan...

What happens when hell doesn’t wait for you to die… but moves in next door? They called him The Genesee River Killer.  We call him Arthur Shawcross. By late 1987, Rochester had no idea the devil was walking among them. Arthur Shawcross, an aging drifter with a fishing pole and a hollow smile was hiding a darkness that never died. In this episode, Tony and Al Ciaglia uncover some lost videos from 2...

When Arthur Shawcross came home from Vietnam, the violence he unleashed overseas didn’t stay buried. In this chilling episode, you’ll hear about the day the nightmare began — April 7th, 1972 — when 10-year-old Jack Blake vanished after a “fishing trip” with the man he trusted.  What Shawcross later confessed will shake you to your core — acts so depraved, so inhuman, they leave scars on the soul j...

Arthur Shawcross was not born a monster—he was made.   Forged in a house of sin, scarred by incest, violence, and a twisted childhood, then sharpened to a lethal edge in the jungles of Vietnam. But the most terrifying part of his story isn’t just what he became—it’s how the system had him in its grip… and let him go. Again and again. In this series, Tony Ciaglia, The Serial Killer Whisperer, takes...

In this chilling conclusion of Hell’s Timeline, we expose the brutal truth the official record refuses to tell. David Gore and Fred Waterfield—Florida’s “Killing Cousins”—didn’t begin their slaughter in 1981, as the system claims. Their reign of terror started years earlier, in the mid-1970s, with warning signs flashing in neon. Survivors like Angela Hommell bravely named their attackers, but law...

Beneath the sunlit rows of Florida’s orange groves, the ground still keeps its secrets. Some were dug up long ago. Others are ghosts—still waiting to be found, still whispering their stories. In this episode, we’re pulling one of those lost voices into the light: the story of Rose Two Trees. A daughter who vanished. A mother who refused to give up searching. And a confession that came not from rum...

This episode drags you straight into the abyss—into the sickening heart of David Gore’s own confession. You’ll hear the chilling account of The Tragic Story of Missy in Gore’s own words… a crime so vile, so monstrous, that I believe it sealed his fate on death row. For the first time, Gore lays bare how he and Fred Waterfield hunted their victims in the 1970s—how they lured them, tricked them, and...

Angela Survived the Monsters… But Not the System” Angela Hommell did everything a survivor is told to do.  She named her attackers — Fred Waterfield and David Gore.  She begged law enforcement for help.  And the system turned its back. This isn’t just a story about two sadistic rapists known as The Killing Cousins.  It’s about a justice system that protected predators, silenced victims, and paved...

This is the episode that will leave you stunned, furious—and unable to look away. In 1976, a young woman named Angela Hommell survived the unthinkable. She was kidnapped. Raped. Slashed. And somehow… she lived. She did what every survivor is told to do—she went to the police. She told the truth. She named her attackers: David Gore and Fred Waterfield. But the police didn’t believe her.  The system...

On May 10th, 1994, John Wayne Gacy was executed. But make no mistake — the real monster wasn’t buried with him. This episode uncovers the darker truth: Gacy wasn’t acting alone. Behind the clown was a network — a trafficking pipeline built by convicted pedophile John Norman, who ran child sex rings like corporate enterprises. Catalogs. Client lists. Systems. We follow the thread from Norman and th...

Kenneth Bianchi—the Hillside Strangler—is up for parole. Yeah, you heard that right. The same sadistic predator who raped, tortured, and murdered teenage girls and children in one of the most horrific serial killing sprees in American history… is trying to walk free. In this Murder Phone Special Edition, Tony Ciaglia—The Serial Killer Whisperer—brings you breaking updates on Bianchi’s parole heari...

John Wayne Gacy was more than just a twisted killer in clown makeup—he was a predator hiding in plain sight. In this gut-wrenching episode of Murder Phone, Tony and Al go beyond the crawl space to shine a light on the survivors—the ones who got away, and the scars they carry. From attempted assaults to full-blown horrors, you’ll hear firsthand accounts of teenagers lured in by promises of cash, op...

Tony and Al break down the Gacy arrest in Murder Phone style.  How does a man diagnosed as a dangerous sociopath in 1968, sentenced to ten years for sodomizing a teenage boy, walk free after just 18 months… and then go on to torture, rape, and murder over 30 young men and boys? In this explosive episode, Tony and Al rip the mask off the system that protected John Wayne Gacy. We’re talking about ar...

In this harrowing episode, Tony Ciaglia and his father Al peel back the bloodstained layers of John Wayne Gacy’s final killing spree—when the bodies no longer fit beneath the floorboards and the monster behind the clown makeup grew more careless, arrogant, and vicious.  From the chilling murder of 15-year-old Robert Piest to the river-dumped remains of Gacy’s forgotten victims, this episode tracks...

Step inside the twisted world of John Wayne Gacy—a suburban home that looked ordinary on the outside but hid unimaginable horrors within.  In this episode, Tony and Al dive into Gacy’s chilling methods: his Tiki Bar of terror, the “magic trick” handcuffs that became instruments of torture, and his monstrous transformation from jovial host to sadistic predator.  You’ll hear survivor accounts that e...

In this harrowing third installment of the Gacy series, Tony Ciaglia and his no-bullshit co-host and dad Al—take listeners deep into the heart of darkness at 8213 West Summerdale Avenue. With chilling precision and raw emotion, Screams on Summerdale exposes how John Wayne Gacy’s monstrous acts escalated under the noses of neighbors, law enforcement, and even his own wife. As the bodies begin to pi...