Twisted Talks

On the evening of November 18, 1987, police went to the mobile home of Russell Keith Dardeen, 29, and his family outside Ina, Illinois, United States, after he had failed to show up for work that day. There, they found the bodies of his wife and son, both brutally beaten. Ruby Elaine Dardeen, 30, who had been pregnant with the couple's daughter, had been beaten so badly she had gone into labor, an...

Andrea Pia Yates was born on 2nd of July, 1964. Andrea is from Houston, Texas, and confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. Andrea had exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia leading up to the murders. This is truly a heartbreaking case for everyone involved. To this day Andrea has refused hearings for her release from menta...

Part 2 of 2 Episodes. This week and next week we look at the case of Theodore Robert Bundy, born on the 24th of November 1946. Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. His true victim tota...

Part 1 of 2 Episodes. This week and next week we look at the case of Theodore Robert Bundy, born on the 24th of November 1946. Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 murders committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978. His true victim tota...

The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is also known after the Persian phrase tamám shud (Persian: تمام شد), meaning "is over" or "is finished", which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers.  Resources Available Here .

Otto Warmbier was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion for supposedly removing a propaganda poster from the wall of a staff-only area in the hotel his tour group were staying in. This case really shows how dangerous North Korea can be.  Resources Available Here .

Robert Black born on the 21st of April 1947, was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who was convicted of the kidnap, rape, and murder of four girls aged between 5 and 11 in a series of killings committed between 1981 and 1986 in the United Kingdom. Listener discretion is advised, this is a tough case. Resources Available Here .

This week we look the Irish case of Malcolm Edward MacArthur, born on the 17th of April 1945. Malcolm was a well-known eccentric character in Dublin social circles and never held a job, as he lived off his inheritance from the sale of his father's farm, after his death in 1974. However, as his money ran out, MacArthur decided to fund his lifestyle by robbery. Resources Available Here .

This week we look at the unsolved disappearance of Brian Shaffer. Brian was born on the 11th of February 1979 (Some sources say the 25th of February but I have used the date on the CrimeStoppers missing poster). Brian was a second year medical student at Ohio State University College of Medicine at the time of his disappearance. On the night of March 31st 2006 going into the early hours of April 1...

This week we look at the case of Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez, who was born February 29th 1960, commonly known as the Night Stalker or the Valley Intruder (as his attacks were first clustered in the San Gabriel Valley), was an American serial killer whose crime spree took place in California between June 1984 and August 1985. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989. He died in 201...

Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, two young New Zealanders, disappeared in the early hours of the morning on New Year's Day, January 1st 1998. The two friends had been celebrating on New Year's Eve at Furneaux Lodge in the Marlborough Sounds with other partygoers. The pair accepted an offer from an unknown man to stay aboard his yacht in the early hours of the morning. It was the last time they were seen...

This week for our Christmas episode we look at the case of the Sodder Children disappearance which took place on Christmas Eve into Christmas Morning in 1945. A fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine childr...

This week we look at the case of The Golden State Killer. A link was not made for quite some time but it turned out that the Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, Original Night Stalker (Not to be confused with Night Stalker Richard Ramirez), and Golden State Killer were all the same person, Joseph James DeAngelo. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. is an American serial killer, serial rapist, burglar, and f...

Bible John is an unidentified serial killer who is believed to have murdered three young women between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow, Scotland.  Bible John's victims were all young brunette women between the ages of 25 and 32, all of whom had met their murderer at the Barrowland Ballroom, a dance hall and music venue in the city. The perpetrator has never been identified and the case remains both...

The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred on the evening of 31 March 1922, when six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, located approximately 70 kilometres (43 miles) north of Munich, Germany, were murdered by an unknown assailant. The six victims were Andreas Gruber (aged 63) and Cäzilia Gruber (aged 72); their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel (aged 35); Viktoria's children, Cäzilia (aged 7) and...

David Richard Berkowitz, born Richard David Falco, June 1, 1953, also known as the Son of Sam and .44 Calibre Killer, is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight shootings that began in New York City on July 29, 1976. Resources Available Here .

Emanuela Orlandi,  a Vatican teenager who mysteriously disappeared while returning home from a flute lesson in Vatican City on 22 June 1983. Sightings of Emanuela in various places have been reported over the years, including inside Vatican City, but all have been unreliable. The disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi sparked an intense media frenzy in Italy that has resulted in the case being cal...

Raonaid Murray was an Irish murder victim, stabbed to death at the age of 17 in the early hours of 4 September 1999. This case remains unsolved. The murder weapon has not been located either. Each year her family and the Garda Síochána issue new appeals for fresh information. Resources Available Here .

This week we cover the case of the Zodiac Killer.  The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960's. The case has been described as the most famous unsolved murder case in American history, becoming a fixture of popular culture and inspiring amateur detectives to attempt to resolve it. Resources Available Here .

Happy Halloween Everyone!! In this Halloween episode we look at the case of Ronald Clark O'Bryan, nicknamed The Candy Man and The Man Who Killed Halloween. He was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy on Halloween 1974. After the case of The Candy Man we have the Scottish Myth/Legend of Sawney Bean. Resources Available Here .

This week we look at a case that took place on Halloween night 2004. This is the case of the murder of Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara. This week our audio quality isn't as good as usual as we had to record over the internet instead of in person for this one but we will be back to our usual good quality audio next week. Join us next week for another Halloween case. Resources Available Here .

This is part 2 of the case, if you haven't already listened to part 1 make sure to check it out before listening to this episode. Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. In part 1 of this case we covered Dahmer's ch...

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who committed the murder and dismemberment of seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. In part 1 of this case we cover Dahmer's childhood and earlier years as well as everything that followed up until his last murder. Join us for part 2 next week, Monday October...

The Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance involved the murder of five members of the same family in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, followed by the disappearance of the patriarch of the family, Xavier Pierre Marie Dupont de Ligonnès. His wife, Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès, and their four children, along with the family's two dogs, were killed on an undetermined day in early April 2011. Their...

Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro kidnapped Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina "Gina" DeJesus from the streets of Cleveland, Ohio and later held them captive in his home of 2207 Seymour Avenue in the city's Tremont neighbourhood. All three girls were imprisoned at Castro's home until 2013, when Berry successfully escaped with her six-year-old daughter, to whom she had giv...