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 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
327
“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
328
“The Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson Pt. 1
Always shy and a little curious, Keith Jesperson lived a troubled childhood.
42 min
329
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 2
By the end of 1993, seven decomposed bodies had been pulled from Australia's Belanglo State Forest.
44 min
330
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
331
“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
332
“The Chessboard Killer” Alexander Pichushkin Pt. 1
One of Russia’s most prolific serial killers was an avid chess player.
37 min
333
“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
334
“The Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright Pt. 1
He was an unassuming man whose Jekyll and Hyde personality obscured increasingly violent tendencies.
42 min
335
“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
336
“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
337
“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
339
“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
340
“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
341
“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
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Satanic Panic Pt. 5
41 min
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Satanic Panic Pt. 4
43 min
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Satanic Panic Pt. 3
40 min
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Satanic Panic Pt. 2
In the 1980s, “Satanic Panic” was a mass hysteria that consumed communities and ruined lives—all over things that never even happened.
38 min
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Satanic Panic Pt. 1
In the 1980s, “Satanic Panic” was a mass hysteria that consumed communities and ruined lives—all over things that never even happened.
40 min
348
“The Hillside Stranglers” Kenneth Bianchi and A...
In the fall of 1977, Los Angeles was on high alert, so 43-year-old Angelo Buono Jr. and 26-year-old Kenny Bianchi knew they had to play it safe.
34 min
349
“The Hillside Stranglers” Kenneth Bianchi and A...
These killer cousins terrorized Los Angeles in the late ‘70s.
38 min
350
“The San Francisco Witch Killers” Michael and S...
After their first brutal murder, Suzan and Michael Carson fled San Francisco, intent on continuing their quest to rid the world of witches.
40 min