Among Monsters

In this disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the cold, calculated evil of Leonard Lake — a former Marine turned survivalist who masterminded one of the most horrifying torture and murder operations in American history. Inspired by dystopian fiction and his own apocalyptic fantasies, Lake created Project Miranda, a sick plan to enslave women in a homemade bunker buried dee...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale reveals the disturbing true story of Karla Homolka, the woman who helped orchestrate some of Canada’s most horrific crimes — and then struck a deal to walk free. Alongside her husband, Paul Bernardo, Karla played a key role in the abduction, rape, and murder of three young girls — including her own sister. From Tammy Homolka’s staged acc...

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unearths the chilling story of Paul Bernardo, one of Canada’s most infamous serial killers. Beginning as the elusive Scarborough Rapist, Bernardo terrorized Toronto’s suburbs throughout the late 1980s. But when he met and married Karla Homolka, the violence escalated into something far more sinister. Together, Bernardo and Homolka abduc...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the disturbing case of Dana Sue Gray, one of the few female serial killers in American history. Between February and March of 1994, Gray brutally murdered elderly women across Southern California — not for revenge or passion, but to steal their credit cards and go shopping. A former nurse with a dark past and mounting debts, Dan...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale tells the harrowing true story of Amelia Dyer, the infamous “Baby Farmer” who murdered hundreds of infants during Victorian England’s darkest years. Masquerading as a caretaker and adoptive nurse, Dyer preyed on vulnerable, unwed mothers desperate to hide their shame. For a fee, she promised to care for their children — but instead, she...

In this unnerving episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the twisted story of Kristen Gilbert, a seemingly dedicated nurse at the Northampton VA Medical Center who quietly became one of America’s most chilling serial killers. Nicknamed the “Angel of Death,” Gilbert didn’t kill out of mercy or rage — she murdered patients to fabricate medical emergencies and play the hero on the hospit...

In this deeply disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unveils the horrific crimes of David Parker Ray, a seemingly average man from New Mexico who became one of America’s most sadistic serial predators. Known as “The Toy-Box Killer,” Ray constructed a homemade torture chamber in a soundproof trailer behind his home — a place where he abducted women, drugged them into submission, an...

In this deeply unsettling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the horrifying story of Mary Beth Tinning, the New York mother who buried nine of her own children over a 14-year span — and walked free after nearly every one. Between 1972 and 1985, child after child died mysteriously in her care, with causes ranging from “SIDS” to unexplained seizures… and no one questioned the patte...

In this horrifying episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the unimaginable crimes of Dean Corll, known to neighbors as The Candy Man — but remembered in history as one of America’s most sadistic serial killers. Between 1970 and 1973, Corll, along with two teenage accomplices, David Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 boys in Houston, Texa...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the disturbing story of Elmer Wayne Henley, the teenage accomplice turned killer who helped Dean Corll — the infamous Candy Man — abduct, torture, and murder at least 28 young boys in Houston, Texas, during the early 1970s. Henley wasn’t just a witness. He was a recruiter, a handler, and at times, a participant in Corll’s unspea...

In this darkly immersive episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale walks listeners through the harrowing life and crimes of Roy Norris, one half of the infamous “Tool Box Killers.” Often overshadowed by his partner, Lawrence Bittaker, Norris’s role in one of America’s most sadistic serial killing duos is explored in full through vivid historical storytelling. From a broken childhood in 1940s Col...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale investigates the disturbing case of George Waterfield Russell Jr., also known as The Charmer Killer. In the early 1990s, Seattle’s nightlife was haunted by a smooth-talking man who claimed to be everything from a police officer to a secret agent — but behind his well-dressed façade was a cold-blooded killer with a taste for ritual and do...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unravels the disturbing case of Wayne Williams, the man long suspected of being behind the Atlanta Child Murders — a string of over 25 unsolved killings that rocked the city between 1979 and 1981. Most of the victims were Black children and teens, their bodies found dumped in rivers, woods, and back alleys. Though Williams was only convi...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale dives into the horrifying double life of John Joubert, a seemingly model citizen—boy scout, honor student, and U.S. Air Force serviceman—who harbored a monstrous secret. Between 1982 and 1984, Joubert brutally abducted, tortured, and murdered young boys across Nebraska and Maine, including Danny Eberle, Christopher Walden, and Ricky Stet...

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the bone-chilling crimes of Gary Heidnik, the Philadelphia madman who transformed his basement into a pit of torture, starvation, and death. Posing as a preacher and financial savant, Heidnik kidnapped, imprisoned, and dehumanized six women in 1986–1987, feeding them dog food, electrocuting them, and even cooking the flesh of o...

In this unnerving episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the chilling crimes of Patrick Kearney, also known as The Trash Bag Killer. Operating undetected through California and the American Southwest for over a decade, Kearney lured young men and boys into his car, executed them with calculated precision, and dismembered their bodies before discarding them along highways in black plas...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the twisted tale of Jack Unterweger, the Austrian killer who manipulated the justice system, the media, and an entire nation. Convicted in 1974 for strangling a young woman with her own bra, Unterweger became a prison poet and literary sensation — earning his early release by convincing the world he was reformed. But freedom only...

In this haunting episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale delves into the terrifying true story of Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, the Soviet-era serial killer and cannibal infamously known as Metal Fang. With a mouth full of steel teeth and a mind twisted by delusions of purification, Dzhumagaliev terrorized Kazakhstan in the late 1970s — luring women to their deaths, butchering their bodies, and consum...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the horrifying true story of Bruce McArthur, the seemingly benign Toronto landscaper who led a secret life as a serial killer. Behind the smile, the seasonal Santa costume, and the tidy garden beds, McArthur was luring vulnerable men to his home, murdering them, and hiding their dismembered remains in decorative planters scatter...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale exposes the dark and calculated crimes of Stephen Port, the man infamously known as The Grindr Killer. Between 2014 and 2015, Port lured young gay men through dating apps with promises of companionship — only to drug, rape, and kill them using lethal doses of GHB. His victims were discarded near his home in Barking, East London, their de...

In this deeply disturbing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale uncovers the chilling story of Bevan Spencer von Einem, the soft-spoken public servant whose conviction for the torture and murder of 15-year-old Richard Kelvin shocked Australia. Behind the polite demeanor was a man with a dark obsession—one who drugged, violated, and murdered young men in Adelaide during the 1970s and 1980s. W...

In this chilling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale dives into the horrifying case of Christopher Wilder, the charismatic predator known as The Beauty Queen Killer. Using his charm, wealth, and the guise of a professional photographer, Wilder lured young women across the United States with promises of fame and modeling careers—only to drug, torture, rape, and murder them in a coast-to-coa...

In this gripping episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unearths the terrifying double life of Altemio Sanchez, the soft-spoken suburban man known as the Bike Path Killer. For over 30 years, Sanchez terrorized Buffalo, New York, committing a series of brutal rapes and three murders — all while maintaining the façade of a church-going family man, respected neighbor, and devoted father. From 19...

In this unsettling episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale explores the case of Sean Vincent Gillis, the calculating and cold-blooded killer who quietly terrorized Baton Rouge while another murderer dominated headlines. Between 1994 and 2004, Gillis brutally murdered at least eight women — often photographing, mutilating, and defiling their bodies post-mortem — all while maintaining a job, a r...

In this harrowing episode of Among Monsters, host Damien Vale unpacks the disturbing case of Beverley Allitt, a British nurse who turned a children’s hospital ward into a killing ground. Known as “The Angel of Death,” Allitt used her position of trust to inject infants and toddlers with fatal doses of insulin, potassium, and even air, causing seizures, cardiac arrests, and death — all while preten...