Real Crime Profile

In 2007, British college student Meredith Kercher was raped and brutally murdered (stabbed 47 times) by Rudy Guede in Perugia, Italy where she was studying on an exchange program. Though this case made international headlines, very few people recognize the name of the victim and even fewer know the name of her killer. Rudy Guede who received a shockingly reduced sentence for this horrific crime, w...

Happy Holidays from Laura, Jim and Lisa at Real Crime Profile. Today we each share our recs (books, shows) that we hope will make your holidays spent lounging with family and friends more enjoyable. We also shout out our listeners and thank them for another year of championing stories about victims and survivors. We wish you all a safe and lovely time and Happy New Year! #realcrimeprofile #podcast...

We continue discussing the upcoming parole of Oscar Pistorius who murdered Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 at his home in Pretoria, South Africa.  Laura reads from some of their text messages leading up to the murder that expose the coercively controlling and abusive nature of their intimate relationship. Is it possible that Reeva had enough and was trying to break up with Oscar the night b...

Laura gives us an update on the murder of Gabby Petito. Gabby was killed in August 2021 while camping in Wyoming by her then boyfriend Brian Laundrie who took countermeasures to try to fool Gabby's parents back in New York into believing she was still alive. We now know Laundrie may have involved his parents shortly after murdering Gabby into helping him perpetuate this lie. Join us as we dis...

Reeva Steenkamp, a 29 year old South African paralegal who graduated top of her class and also had a successful career as a model, was murdered in the early hours of Valentine's Day in 2013, shot multiple times by her then partner Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius, who at the time was an internationally known professional sprinter and national hero, claimed it was an accident, that he thought he had...

We continue our interview with Dr. Doug Kennedy and Tom Krumins who share their experiences of being sexually abused and sexually assaulted by offenders in the Boy Scouts of America. They explain why, even in light of the recent successful lawsuits by past victims, the Scouts remain unsafe for children. Doug and Tom express what needs to change in order to make the organization safer.  #...

Doug Kennedy and Tom Krumins are two former Boy Scouts who were sexually abused and assaulted while under the watch of the Boy Scouts of America. Today Doug and Tom share their painful stories and explain the context of how these crimes were hidden for so long by those in charge. Both Doug and Tom are featured in the Netflix documentary “Scouts Honor” and both are working tirelessly to protect oth...

After decades of ignoring thousands of child sexual abuse reports going on under their watch, the Boy Scouts of American finally had a reckoning in 2010 when a brave former scout came forward to file a lawsuit and testify. Kerry Lewis was only 11 years old when he was repeatedly sexually abused by an assistant scoutmaster named Timur Dykes. Even though Dykes had previously confessed to h...

For decades the Boy Scouts of America was a beloved American institution where millions of young boys (including Jim) were sent to learn character development, leadership, a value of service to others as well as many other wonderful practical skills ...and most of all to foster a sense of community. But buried beneath that shiny image were dark secrets that harmed thousands of children....

You think you know Jim Clemente, former FBI Supervisory Criminal Behavior Profiler, and former New York City prosecutor. But did you know about the many times Jim went undercover? Lisa sure didn't! Join us as Jim takes us deep into his undercover work in some places you will not believe! Follow him all over Manhattan and the Boroughs as he tries to take down bank robbers, extortionists, inter...

Extreme trigger warning for graphic content, please exercise caution. In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month, we continue our conversation with Colette Martin, a survivor of Intimate Partner Violence and advocate who has helped pass laws in New Brunswick, Canada where she lives. Colette explains what Bill 17 is and how it can help alert you if your potential partner has a history of violenc...

Tristan Redman is a journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in his teenage bedroom – weirder than normal. When, years later, he discovers subsequent occupants of his family home say they have been visited by the ghost of a faceless woman, he’s curious. It just so happens that the house Tristan grew up in is right next door to the house where his wife’s great grandmother...

EXTREME TRIGGER WARNING. Today we interview Colette Martin who takes us through the harrowing night she was attacked by her former intimate partner, months after he had moved out from the home they shared, months after he had already started a new relationship with another woman. Colette, a mom with a young son, living in the New Brunswick region of Canada, didn’t know how to recognize the red fla...

We continue analyzing Teresa Halbach's murder and the behavior of Steven Avery who was convicted in 2007 for her killing along with his nephew Brendan Dassey. They are both currently serving life sentences in Wisconsin. Filmmaker Shawn Rech’s new series “Convicting A Murderer” re-examines the case and provides much more information and context than was previously disclosed in Netflix’ “Making A Mu...

A quick bonus episode to discuss the recent abduction in upstate New York of a 9 year old girl who thankfully was found 48 hours after she went missing. Jim and Laura weigh in on the behavior of the suspect in custody and if they think there was stalking involved in this case. While we normally do not mention the name of the offender if we can help it, in this case it is important to identify him...

“Making A Murderer” the Netflix documentary about the 2005 murder of 25 year old Teresa Halbach near Green Bay, Wisconsin and the prime suspect in her killing Steven Avery took the world by storm in 2015 launching many viewer theories and passionate camps as to what may have really happened to the young photographer and who was responsible for her horrific murder. Avery, who had been wrongfully co...

We continue our analysis of the recent investigative reporting by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatch regarding allegations of sexual misconduct both in the U.K. and in the U.S. by multi-hyphenate comedian Russell Brand. We discuss each victim who has come forward (thus far). Jim and Laura talk about what they see in his behavior as a groomer not only of the women (and one young gir...

Russell Brand has been known as many things over the past twenty years: outrageous stand up comedian, BBC shock jock, football blogger, provocative host of Big Brother UK spinoffs, author of several excruciatingly candid memoirs detailing his many addictions, Hollywood actor, ubiquitous guest on talk show circuits, host of award ceremonies and more recently podcaster of his own idiosyncratic autod...

We finish our conversation with Cathy DeBuono, who talks about her near-miss experience with Victor Paleologus, the serial stalker, rapist, and murderer of Kristi Johnson.  Cathy tells us how Paleologus approached her at the same Los Angeles mall where he would target Kristi Johnson four years later. She describes the eerily similar ploy he tried to get her to meet him at a Hollywood Hills lo...

We continue our conversation with Terry Hall and Kirk Johnson, who are extremely concerned that Victor Paleologus, the man who murdered their daughter Kristi, will be granted his freedom despite a rampant history of violent crimes against women. Weighing in also is Cathy DeBuono, a former actress, who had a near miss with this offender and has been involved with supporting the Justice For Kri...

Dr. Robert Hadden was a trusted OB-GYN at Columbia University. Friendly, caring, unassuming… and behind the closed door of exam rooms, one of the most prolific sexual predators in New York City. During his 25-year career, he assaulted hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients, under the guise of medical exams. Those who tried to warn Columbia were ignored or not believed. When it appeared that no o...

On Feb 15th 2003, Kristi Johnson, a bright 21 year old college student, was approached at a mall in Los Angeles by convicted rapist Victor Paleologus. She had no way of knowing he was not who he said he was, no way of knowing he had seven previous convictions and had just been granted parole. All she knew was this affable, helpful seeming man who said he was a movie producer started...

Laura & Jim continue their discussion with Andrea Dunlop, host of “Nobody Should Believe Me” who has strong criticisms about the documentary “Take Care of Maya” based on her own background with medical child abuse. Andrea casts doubts about Beate Kowalski’s behavior toward her daughter Maya, she has doubts about the doctors who treated Maya before her admittance to Johns Hopkins Children’...

Laura and Jim interview Andrea Dunlop host of "Nobody Should Believe Me" a podcast about Munchausen by Proxy (also now referred to as Factitious Disorder.) In the UK this is known as Fabricated or Induced illness (FII). Andrea is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s Munchausen by Proxy committee and the co-founder of Munchausen Support , a resource site for...

When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities suspect he was eaten by alligators but the true predators who took Mike may lurk much closer to home. The mystery of Mike’s disappearance might have faded from memory, if it wasn’t for one woman’s tireless crusade. From Wondery, comes a new season of Over My Dead Body; a story about an obsessive love affair, a scandalous secret and a m...