Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! In 2012, 13-year-old Dylan Redwine made a shocking and disturbing discovery: a photograph of his father wearing a soiled diaper, lingerie, red lipstick, and ingesting his own feces. This horrific revelation set off a chain of events so devastating that it ultimately cost Dylan his young, innocent li...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! On December 4, 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione is reported to have gunned down 50-year-old Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, on a NYC street using a 3D printed ghost gun. Since then, the public’s reaction has been sharply divided, oscillating between condemnation and sympathy. The controvers...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! There are numerous conditions and ailments in the world, each with its own set of unique and sometimes unusual remedies. However, the belief that incest could "cure" a son's sexuality is not just deeply flawed, but also shockingly appalling. This belief tragically played out in the life of Barbara B...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! In the stifling confines of a teeming New York City subway car, a fatal confrontation recently erupted that sent shockwaves throughout the nation/world. Jordan Neely, a former NYC Michael Jackson impersonator struggling with homelessness and well-documented mental health challenges, was ensnared in...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! In Part 2 of our in-depth two-part series on the tragic demise of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey, we meticulously examine the multitude of missteps and oversights made by law enforcement throughout the investigation. We delve into a thorough analysis of the evidence and persist in navigat...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! At 1:05 PM on December 26, 1996, the body of a beautiful six-year-old girl was found by her father in a dark, frigid basement room of their family home in Boulder, Colorado. Just seven hours earlier, at 5:52 AM, the child’s mother frantically called the police to report her daughter missing after di...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! Disclaimer: The content discussed in this podcast is based on publicly available information and represents allegations only. Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. All individuals discussed in this context are presumed in...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! Friday the 13th is feared by many but understood by few—until now (cue creepy music). For those trapped in its superstitious grip, it serves as a harbinger of doom, a day when the veil between the real and the supernatural grows thin, and the ordinary and the extraordinary collide in terrifying ways...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! Disclaimer: The content discussed in this podcast is based on publicly available information and represents allegations only. Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. All individuals discussed in this context are presumed inn...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! Disclaimer: The content discussed in this podcast is based on publicly available information and represents allegations only. Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. All individuals discussed in this context are presumed inn...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! TRIGGER WARNING: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. On the final day of his life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III sent a text to his closest confidant, expressing...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! Richard Chase, infamously known as the "Vampire of Sacramento," was a brutal spree killer whose horrifying crimes still shock the world. His chilling case remains a focal point in criminology, with his complex psychological profile continuing to be analyzed and used by the FBI. In the 1970s, Richard...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! When addiction drives someone to commit the ultimate act of cruelty, how do we reconcile their humanity with the horror of their actions? Addiction, such as an unchecked obsession with sex, can dissolve moral boundaries, driving individuals to prioritize their compulsions over empathy, ethics, and e...

Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow award-winning podcast, is back. Unlike previous seasons, writer and host Jed Lipinski brings listeners new episodes every week with no end in sight. Each episode of Gone South Season 4 tells a different story about one of the South's most interesting crimes. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! In the world of mythology, the phoenix stands as one of the most enduring symbols of resilience and teaches us that true strength is not defined by the absence of hardship, but by the ability to rise after being consumed by it. Imagine, for a moment, hearing the sickening sound of your own flesh bei...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! On April 3, 2011, a cemetery worker in South Africa stumbled upon an outrageously gruesome scene: large quantities of fresh blood and drag marks leading to a pair of blood-soaked jeans, and beneath that, a naked young adult male, butchered, eviscerated, and dismembered, barely recognizable as human....

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! We’ve all felt it—the spine-tingling sensation that someone or something is lurking, watching us from the shadows. That an inanimate object, specifically a doll, has somehow come to life, piercing its gaze through the veil of stillness. In the eerie corners of Key West, this creeping dread becomes a...

Visit  Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! On February 13, 2024, a man received a call from his grandchildren's school informing him that their mother, Kristina Joksimovic, a former Miss Switzerland finalist, had failed to pick them up. After collecting the children and bringing them back to their home, he searched the house for clues as to...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! In Part 2 of our two-part coverage of Robert Hansen, also known as the "Butcher Baker," we explore his twisted motives and gruesome methods of killing. Hansen would lure vulnerable women to his remote cabin and engage in a sadistic ritual, which involved hunting them down like defenseless prey in th...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! Robert Hansen, infamously known as the "Butcher Baker," terrorized Alaska in the 1970s and '80s and embodied the terrifying essence of a methodical predator stalking vulnerable prey. In Part 1 of our two-part coverage of Alaska's most prolific serial killer, we delve into Hansen's troubled upbringin...

Visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod to join our family of freaks and gain access to exclusive content! For reasons that are somehow both incredibly unclear and crystal clear, a recent "backyard mystery" in Franklin County, Ohio took over the Internet earlier this month. After moving into her new home, Katie Santry discovered a rug buried several feet underground near a blood good tree in her yard. Af...

Join our family of little freaks and gain access to exclusive content by visiting Patreon.com/psychopediapod In this episode, we are joined by special guest, comic and podcaster, Joanne McNally. In an unsettling defiance of nature, the young perpetrators behind the horrific death of 14-year-old Ana Kriegel in Ireland in 2018 committed a crime so brutal that it pierced through society's veneer of t...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod Driven by a twisted need to possess her married lover, Koshizô Ishida forever, a woman named Sada Abe strangled him, castrated him, and carried his severed genitals in her kimono—ensuring, in her mind, that he would remain hers for all eternity. Amidst the modern neon glow and ancient temples of 1936 Tokyo,...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod At 3:26 PM on Thursday, December 16, 2004, Becky Harper made a gruesome discovery that no parent should ever have to see: her 23-year-old daughter, Bobbi Jo Stinnett, lying dead in a pool of blood on the floor of her Missouri home. The scene was a vision of gruesome chaos, and Becky struggled to comprehend...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod Imagine, after fifty years of navigating life’s trials hand in hand with your husband, the very fabric of your marriage disintegrates in a single instant. For Gisèle Pelicot, this devastating reality unfolded when she received a phone call from the police, as their words unraveled a nightmare too monstrous...