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Angel Maturino Reséndiz, also known as The Railroad Killer, was a Mexican itinerant serial killer suspected in as many as 23 murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s. On June 21, 1999, he briefly became the 457th fugitive listed by the FBI on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before surrendering to the Texas authorities on July 13, 1999. He was convicted of murder and was exec...

Denyer became known in the media as the Frankston Serial Killer as his crimes occurred in the neighboring suburbs of Frankston. Later, during his imprisonment, when aged around 30, Denyer began identifying as a transgender woman but was refused permission by prison authorities to wear make-up, receive sex reassignment surgery, or legally alter his name.

Cary Anthony Stayner is an American serial killer and the older brother of kidnapping victim Steven Stayner. He was convicted of the murders of four women between February and July 1999: Carole Sund, her teenage daughter Juli Sund, and their teenage traveling companion Silvina Pelosso; and Yosemite Institute naturalist Joie Ruth Armstrong. The murders occurred in Mariposa County, California, near...

Audrey Marie Hilley was an American serial killer. Her life and killing spree are the subjects of the 1991 telefilm Wife, Mother, Murderer. She used poison to murder her victims, worked as a secretary, and loved spending money she didn't have.

Winston Moseley was a serial killer from Ozone Park, Queens, and worked at Remington Rand, as a tab operator, preparing the punched cards used at that time for data storage for digital computers. He was married with three children and had no criminal record. His last victim, Kitty Genovese was one of the main reasons 911 exists today. 38 people witnessed the murder and nobody helped or called the...

Thomas Lee Dillon was an American serial killer who shot and killed five men in southeastern Ohio, beginning April 1, 1989, and continuing until April 1992. He killed at random, didn't know any of his victims, and didn't leave any evidence, making it very hard to catch.

The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

In this podcast, we delve into the disturbing case of Roy DeMeo, a notorious killer known as the "Butcher of Gemini Lounge." Between the 1970s and 1980s, DeMeo was a member of the Gambino crime family and is believed to have murdered at least 80 people, many of whom were dismembered in the basement of the Gemini Lounge, a Brooklyn bar owned by the family.

Donald Harvey was an American serial killer who claimed to have murdered 87 people, though official estimates are between 37 and 57 victims. He was able to accomplish this during his time as a hospital orderly.

Robert Joseph Long, also known as Bobby Joe Long, was an American serial killer and rapist who was executed for the murder of Michelle Denise Simms. Long abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered at least 10 women in the Tampa Bay Area in Florida during an eight-month period in 1984. He released one of his last victims, 17-year-old Lisa McVey, after raping her over a period of 26 hours. McVey pro...

Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who killed at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London, England. Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years. In his later years, he was incarcerated at Full Sutton maximum security prison.

Kendall Francois was an American serial killer from Poughkeepsie, New York, convicted of killing eight women, from 1996 to 1998. After his conviction and sentencing, Francois was housed in the Attica Correctional Facility until being transferred to the Wende Correctional Facility shortly before his death.

David Richard Berkowitz, also known as the Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight separate shooting attacks that began in New York City during the summer of 1976.

Patrick David MacKay is a British serial killer who confessed to killing 11 people in London and Kent in England, from 1974 to 1975.

Gerald Eugene Stano (born Paul Zeininger; September 12, 1951 – March 23, 1998) was an American convicted serial killer. He killed at least 22 women and confessed to killing 41.

Charles Sobhraj (The Serpent), is a French thief, fraudster, and serial killer of Vietnamese and Indian origin who preyed on Western tourists, mainly beatniks, throughout the Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia during the 1970s. He was nicknamed The Splitting Killer and The Serpent, due to his skill at deception and evasion, as well as the Bikini Killer due to the attire of his victims. Sobhraj alleged...

Cody Alan Legebokoff is a Canadian serial killer convicted in 2014 by the British Columbia Supreme Court of killing three women and a teenage girl, between 2009 and 2010, in or near the City of Prince George, British Columbia. He is one of Canada's youngest convicted serial killers, and his trial drew national attention. A 15-year-old girl, Loren Donn Leslie, has been included in the list of m...

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal and cult leader. In mid-1967, he formed the "Manson Family", a quasi-commune based in California. Before the murders, Manson had spent more than half of his life in correctional institutions. When he began gathering his cult following, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the L.A. Music industry, chiefly through a chance association w...

Graham Frederick Young (7 September 1947 – 1 August 1990) best known as the Teacup Poisoner and later the St. Albans Poisoner, was an English serial killer who used poison to kill his victims. He was sent to Broadmoor Hospital in 1962 after poisoning several members of his family and killing his stepmother. In 1971, when he was released, he went on to poison seven more people and kill two. He was...

David Spanbauer was a serial killer who abducted and murdered two young girls and then killed a young Appleton woman during a botched burglary. He was sentenced to three life terms in prison without parole plus 403 years on December 20, 1994. Died in prison on July 29, 2002.

The Lucchese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, United States, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.

Robert Francis Garrow Jr. was an American serial killer who was active in New York in the early 1970s. Garrow went on an 18-day killing spree and stabbed four people to death before being apprehended. His criminal trial, known as the Buried Bodies Case, became an important case in legal ethics after his attorneys refused to disclose the location of the bodies of two of his victims, citing attorney...

Winnie Ruth Judd, born Winnie Ruth McKinnell, also known as Marian Lane, was a medical secretary in Phoenix, Arizona, who was accused of murdering her friends, Agnes Anne LeRoi and Hedvig Samuelson, in October 1931. The murders were discovered when Judd transported the victims' bodies, one of which had been dismembered, from Phoenix to Los Angeles, California by train in trunks and other lugga...

Peter Norris Dupas is an Australian convicted serial killer, currently serving three life sentences without parole for murder and primarily for being a serious habitual offender. He has a very significant criminal history involving serious sexual and violent offenses, with his violent criminal history spanning more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit fur...

Bruce George Peter Lee (born Peter George Dinsdale) is one of Britain's most prolific serial killers. He confessed to a total of 11 acts of arson and was convicted of 26 counts of manslaughter. 11 of these were overturned on appeal. Lee was imprisoned for life in 1981.