Psychopedia: True Crime & Criminal Psychology

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod In September 2013, three friends chatting on a bridge over the Vartry Reservoir near Dublin noticed a series of disturbing items floating in the water: handcuffs, shackles, rope, a woman’s top, leg restraints, and a leather face mask with a gag ball. Additionally, among the recovered items were also two cel...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod In the face of death, most would run—it’s human nature to flee from danger, to protect oneself, to cling to life. But on September 11, 2001, as chaos engulfed the South Tower of the World Trade Center, Welles Remy Crowther defied that instinct. Amid the smoke and fire, with the ground shaking beneath him an...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod The torment of a parent discovering that their child has been murdered is a searing, primal agony that defies articulation—a force that blends heartache, fury, and helplessness, leaving a deep, forever open wound on the soul. While such horror is unimaginable and "next steps" seem unconceivable, André Bambe...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod In Part 2 of our coverage of Colleen Stan, known as 'The Girl in the Box,' we continue to explore the harrowing ordeal she endured at the hands of Cameron and Janice Hooker, a sadistic couple from California. Colleen was abducted from the side of the road and subjected to seven years of unimaginable torture...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod The horrific case of Colleen Stan is one of the most terrifying and unbelievable tales of torture, captivity, and survival in modern history. In Part 1 of our two-part coverage, we lay the foundation of how 20-year-old Colleen Stan was abducted by Cameron and Janice Hooker, a sadistic couple in California w...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod In this episode of Slaterpedia, we discuss the truly devastating (and recent) case of beautiful Oksana Kuzmenko, who was burned alive by her ex-boyfriend in Russia before he nailed her to a wood plank as part of a staged crucifixion. This is a truly harrowing case that not only demonstrates the depths of hu...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod The Fappening, also known as "Celebgate," refers to a massive leak of private, often intimate, photographs of celebrities that occurred in 2014. The incident, which primarily targeted female celebrities, involved hackers gaining unauthorized access to personal cloud storage accounts and distributing the sto...

To support us and gain access to exclusive content, please visit Patreon.com/psychopediapod The Mary Kay Letourneau case is a shocking and highly disturbing saga that delves deep into the realms of moral corruption, power, and exploitation. Letourneau, a once-respected school teacher, wife, and mother of four, engaged in an ongoing clandestine "relationship" with her 13-year-old student, Vili Fual...

Join our beloved family over at Patreon.com/psychopediapod In the heart of New York's gritty and unforgiving streets, a gifted young man emerged, shaped by the crucible of chaos and ambition. His life was a relentless struggle from Day 1, a saga of survival in a world determined to break him. Amidst the constant turmoil, endless exposure to crime, and deep involvement on the front lines of the dru...

As the body count continued to mount in Whitechapel, London in the year 1888, so did the infamy of the killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper. In Part 2 of our gripping two-part series, we not only delve deeper into the heartbreaking stories of the women who fell prey to his unspeakable violence, but also unravel some of the most compelling conspiracy theories surrounding his identity. We...

In the fog-choked streets of Victorian London, the impoverished residents of the East End lived in perpetual dread as a ruthless phantom, infamously known as “Jack the Ripper,” struck with chilling precision. Each dawn brought the harrowing discovery of another victim, their bodies horrifically mutilated and left in grotesque displays that defied comprehension. Newspapers thrived on the mounting t...

In October 2019, Wade Wilson, who shares a name with the alter ego of the Marvel character “Deadpool,” ruthlessly murdered two innocent women in Cape Coral, Florida with his brutal bare hands. With his face covered in menacing neo-Nazi tattoos, including a stitched smile across his mouth, Wade Wilson’s sinister appearance is matched only by his depraved nature. When asked during police interrogati...

On an otherwise tranquil morning in May of 2012, Canada was rocked by an unthinkable crime committed by a depraved, cannibalistic, necrophiliac, 29-year-old porn star named Luka Magnotta. Luka ruthlessly murdered an innocent man, named Jun Lin, before dismembering his body and mailing his remains to various elementary schools and a political center in Canada. Armed with an ice-pick, Luka committed...

The harrowing case of Anneliese Michel, a young German woman who endured what she believed to be sixty-seven demonic possessions in 1976, stands as one of the most shocking tales in modern history.  Anneliese struggled with physical and psychological symptoms that she attributed to demonic possession, including seizures, hallucinations, severe depression, and intense delusions. As such, Anneliese...

UPDATE: On the day on which this update was recorded, a significant development occurred in the case of Lucy Letby, a former nurse who ruthlessly and deliberately murdered seven newborn babies at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in England. Tune in to hear this devastating update, "hot off the press," as tragically, Letby has just been convicted of taking yet another precious...

UPDATE: On the day on which this update was recorded, a significant development occurred in the case of Lucy Letby, a former nurse who ruthlessly and deliberately murdered seven newborn babies at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital in England. Tune in to hear this devastating update, "hot off the press," as tragically, Letby has just been convicted of taking yet another precious...

Should merely fantasizing about abducting, murdering, cooking, and eating women be treated with the same severity as committing the crime itself? This paradox is starkly illustrated in the case of New York Police Department officer Gilberto Valle, who frequented the Dark Web to share his violent and twisted sexual fantasies of abducting, murdering, cooking, and eating women. His case strikes at th...

Amidst the whirlwind of fame and adrenaline in the skateboarding world of the 1980s, Mark "Gator" Rogowski's unique style and creative tricks dominated the scene, making him a household name and a hero to aspiring skaters everywhere. His presence at any event guaranteed a spectacle, as he seemed to possess an almost supernatural ability to defy the laws of physics. Yet, as the adage goes, "what go...

In 2023, a beautiful 31-year-old young woman named Saltanat Nukenova was beaten to death for eight hours straight by her violent husband, the former Minister of Economy in Kazakhstan, Kuandyk Bishimbayev. The couple had been married for less than a year, and throughout this short time, the powerful former politician brutalized Saltanat behind closed doors while publicly continuing to rub elbows wi...

In Part 2 of our deep dive into the Snowtown Murders, we delve further into the horrific activities of John Bunting and his gang of "macabre misfits" as their behavior escalated into outrageously sadistic territory. Following the gruesome murders of 11 individuals, we conclude by exploring how Bunting's reign of terror was ultimately brought to an end and how and where the mutilated remains of his...

Join Emma Diamond & Julie Kramer, the creative minds behind @CommentsByCelebs and self-proclaimed celeb experts, to stay caught up on all things pop culture. On Monday, Emma and Julie do a general pop-culture breakdown of everything that transpired in the last week. They come prepared with the facts, timelines, and analytical discussions - leaving you feeling like an expert. The second episode...

Just days before recording this episode, a significant breakthrough occurred in the Long Island Serial Killer case, also known as The Gilgo Beach Murders, after over a decade of what has felt like radio silence. At long last, a suspect has been apprehended in this profoundly tragic case that has continued to haunt residents of Long Island, New York (including Tank and Slater) while rocking an enti...

UPDATE: On Thursday, June 6, 2024, about one year following our initial two-part coverage of the Gilgo Beach serial killings, a major development occurred. Rex Heuermann, the main suspect who was arrested in July 2023, now faces new murder charges for the tragic and brutal deaths of two additional women—one whom we discussed during our initial coverage, and another previously unconnected to the Gi...

From August 1992 to May 1999, John Bunting led a gang of self-proclaimed vigilante serial killers on one of the world's most bizarre and sadistic murder sprees. Part 1 of the case of the Snowtown Murders, also known as the Bodies in Barrels Murders, delves into some of the darkest corners of the human psyche, where the lines between victim and perpetrator become terrifyingly blurred. John Bunting...

On the morning of Saturday, March 2012, in Bethesda, Maryland, law enforcement encountered a scene straight out of a horror film when they entered the Lululemon athletic store in town. Inside this upscale, trendy store, bloodstains smeared the floor, merchandise lay scattered, mannequins were toppled, and a semiconscious young woman with a bloody face had her wrists and ankles bound with zip ties....