Serial Killers
Get a rare glimpse into the minds and methods of sadistic murderers. From notorious names like Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy to lesser-known killers like “Death House Landlady” Dorothea Puente, what turns a regular person into a predator? Serial Killers is a Spotify Original. New episodes Mondays.
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“The Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance Pt. 1
As a teenager, Wayne Nance developed an interest in Satanism that may have led to his first murder.
41 min
327
"The Boozing Barber" Gilbert Paul Jordan Pt. 2
His victims’ deaths were often ruled “unnatural and accidental,” leaving Gilbert Paul Jordan free to perfect his M.O. — forcing Indigenous women in Vancouver to drink themselves to death.
39 min
328
"The Boozing Barber" Gilbert Paul Jordan Pt. 1
An alcoholic from his teenage years onward, Gilbert Paul Jordan spent his young adulthood in 1950s Vancouver tallying up arrests for theft, assault, and drug possession.
38 min
329
"The Railroad Killer" Ángel Maturino Reséndiz P...
By the 1990s, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz was a seasoned murderer using America’s extensive railroad system to strike new victims, then flee.
41 min
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"The Railroad Killer" Ángel Maturino Reséndiz P...
After years of incarceration, rejection, and failure, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz's most violent impulses began to surface.
39 min
331
“The Beauty Queen Killer” Christopher Wilder Pt. 2
In 1984, Wilder went on a weeks-long killing spree across the U.S., abducting, raping and murdering as many young women as he could find.
36 min
332
“The Beauty Queen Killer” Christopher Wilder Pt. 1
Posing as a modeling agent in the 1980s, Wilder lured young girls and women to secluded places where he would photograph them in explicit poses before sexually assaulting them.
40 min
333
“The Butcher Baker” Robert Hansen Pt. 2
By day, Robert Hansen was a devoted husband, devout Christian, and respected member of the Anchorage community.
42 min
334
“The Butcher Baker” Robert Hansen Pt. 1
Bullied from a young age, Robert Hansen’s resentment toward the people in his hometown manifested in different ways — most alarmingly, arson.
41 min
335
“The Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson Pt. 2
After his first murder, Keith Jesperson felt unstoppable, and went on something of a killing spree.
41 min
336
“The Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson Pt. 1
Always shy and a little curious, Keith Jesperson lived a troubled childhood.
42 min
337
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 2
By the end of 1993, seven decomposed bodies had been pulled from Australia's Belanglo State Forest.
44 min
338
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 1
The bodies of two missing backpackers were recovered from Australia’s Belanglo State Forest in 1992. They weren’t the last.
39 min
339
“The Chessboard Killer” Alexander Pichushkin Pt. 2
After killing dozens of people and getting away with it, Alexander Pichushkin got bored with his routine.
40 min
340
“The Chessboard Killer” Alexander Pichushkin Pt. 1
One of Russia’s most prolific serial killers was an avid chess player.
37 min
341
“The Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright Pt. 2
In the final few months of 2006, Ipswich was shaken by the strangling deaths of several sex workers.
37 min
342
“The Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright Pt. 1
He was an unassuming man whose Jekyll and Hyde personality obscured increasingly violent tendencies.
42 min
343
“The Nurse Killer” Richard Benjamin Speck
It was called the crime of the century: In 1966, Richard Speck drifted into Chicago, and unleashed a whirlwind of violence and rage onto a group of student nurses.
37 min
344
“The Weepy-Voice Killer” Paul Michael Stephani
In the early 1980s, emergency services in St. Paul, Minnesota began receiving odd calls from a distraught-sounding man.
39 min
345
“The Vampire of Düsseldorf” Peter Kürten Pt. 2
Throughout his shocking rampage that left dozens of people injured or dead, the newly dubbed “Vampire of Düsseldorf” Peter Kürten grew more and more confident — even writing into a local paper with the location of a victim’s body.
37 min
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“The Vampire of Düsseldorf” Peter Kürten Pt. 1
Unfulfilled by bestiality, a young Peter Kürten turned to murder — and discovered his body’s reaction to the sight of blood.
38 min
347
“The Starvation Doctor” Linda Hazzard Pt. 2
When British heiresses Dora and Claire Williamson reached out to Linda Hazzard, she might have thought draining their bank accounts would be easy enough.
37 min
348
“The Starvation Doctor” Linda Hazzard Pt. 1
In the early 1900s, Linda Hazzard marketed herself as a doctor, and claimed that she could cure any ailment with her special starvation regimens.
38 min
349
“The Hippie Trail Killer” Charles Sobhraj Pt. 2
After spending years in and out of prison, Charles “The Serpent” Sobhraj was determined to make something of himself.
39 min
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“The Hippie Trail Killer” Charles Sobhraj Pt. 1
Growing up in Vietnam, India and France in the 1940s and ‘50s, Charles Sobhraj never truly fit in anywhere — not even with his family.
40 min