Stop the Killing

SEASON 1 EPISODE 11 ARAMOANA MASSACRE For this, the final episode of season one, we're heading to Aramoana, a sleepy New Zealand outpost where one man has the entire town under siege for an astonishing 22 hours. We have been focusing on US mass based shootings so far in the season, however, we know mass shootings are not unique to the Unites States. And as long as there are bad people, there's alw...

It was just after 1am on a Sunday morning in November 2017, a 26 year old man climbed from his car in the parking lot of this tiny first Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Almost immediately, he shoots at two people standing outside the church, the shooter enters through a side door and for 15 minutes, he fires indiscriminately walking up and down the aisle. In all, 48 people were either...

On April 15th, 2021, a 19 year old man, carrying two semi-automatic rifles began shooting outside of a FedEx ground facility. He entered the business, continued to shoot people for about four minutes before turning the weapon on himself and killing himself. So in all he killed eight people and he shot another five, a couple of other people also suffered injuries. At first glance this looks like a...

Everybody knows the word Columbine but do you know the real story? In this episode we're really going to learn about two different stories about this infamous day. One is false and one that's really the true crime story. “ Their plan was an utter failure. So when other people try to emulate them, my answer to that would be... you want to be failures?” Katherine As soon as these two kids entered th...

This week is the 2007 shooting on a college campus known as Virginia tech.  The  killing began at 7.30 in the morning on April 16th, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia. The shooter killed two people in a dormitory on the college campus.  Then two and a half hours later, he chained the doors shut in a classroom building on the campus and he began shooting students and faculty. In all 32 people were kille...

Today, we're in a movie theater and we're about to watch a premiere of a Batman movie when a 24 year old begins shooting from beside the big screen. He has a shotgun, a rifle and a handgun with him and he kills 12 people, wounds 58 - one of the dead is a six year old girl. This is just one of the saddest parts about a day full of sorrow, but also bravery , and some really important lessons that sh...

This episode Katherine and Sarah discuss shooting at a music festival in Las Vegas. It's an event, not unlike one that many of us have been to before but imagine watching your favorite country star performing when all of sudden he legs it off the stage and chaos erupts as a hail of bullets coming from an unknown location bears down on the 22,000 unsuspecting concert goers. Pure mayhem caused by pu...

This week Katherine and Sarah discuss the shooting at a U.S. military building in the Washington Navy Yard. It was the site of a terrible shooting by an employee on September 16th, 2013. A 34 year old man drove into the building and went inside, armed with a sawed-off Remington shot. He stepped out of the men's bathroom on the fourth floor and he just simply walked down the hallway and started hun...

This episode Katherine and Sarah discuss the 2009 shooting in Washington, DC at the U S Holocaust Memorial Museum. It's a tough one in its own right. Now, this one is a bit different because there is a single victim unlike the other cases that we've discussed, so why are we talking about this case in particular? Because this type of shooting is every traveller's nightmare. Washington, DC, is a mas...

Today’s episode is a really sad tale and it's one that is often overlooked when we talk about these kinds of tragedies. It's really a horrible shooting situation that began a few minutes before four o'clock on July 18th 1984, when a 41 year old man who was carrying three different weapons, entered a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro district of San Diego, California. During the 77 minute ram...

A deep dive into the case files of former head of the FBI’s Active Shooter program Katherine Schweit with Co-Host Sarah Ferris. This US-UK dynamite true crime podcast duo reveal the insider’s story of what happened and what went wrong at some of the world's worst mass shootings, empowering listeners along the way. Not a fear and scary facts conversation, and no politics. Sarah and Kate prove true...