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 San Francisco Witch Killers” Michael and S...
They set out to murder witches in the early 1980s, moving up and down the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
35 min
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“The Ken and Barbie Killers” Paul Bernardo and ...
On the outside, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo appeared to be a perfect couple—but they held a dark secret: Paul’s sadistic aggressions were seemingly unstoppable, spurred on by Karla’s compliance.
35 min
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“The Ken and Barbie Killers” Paul Bernardo and ...
When Paul Bernardo met his bride-to-be Karla Homolka in October 1987, he had already raped his first victim.
31 min
354
“Hannibal the Cannibal” Robert John Maudsley Pt. 2
By torturing and killing his fellow inmate, Robert Maudsley won his escape from Broadmoor Mental Hospital.
33 min
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“Hannibal the Cannibal” Robert John Maudsley Pt. 1
Abused by his parents from a young age, Robert Maudsley spent his childhood bouncing around orphanages and foster homes before running away in 1969.
31 min
356
“Night Caller” Eric Edgar Cooke Pt. 2
In 1959, Eric Cooke committed his first murder in the sleepy city of Perth, Australia.
38 min
357
“Night Caller” Eric Edgar Cooke Pt. 1
Born in 1931 to a caring mother and alcoholic father, Eric Edgar Cooke had a turbulent home life.
37 min
358
“Double-O Swango” Joseph Swango Pt. 2
While Joseph Swango’s patients died at alarming rates, few people seemed capable of connecting the mysterious deaths with the doctor-in-training.
39 min
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“Double-O Swango” Joseph Swango Pt. 1
As a teenager in the ‘70s, Joseph Swango had an intense fascination with the macabre, even keeping a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings about murder and car crashes.
37 min
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“Damsel of Death” Aileen Wuornos Pt. 2
In the late ‘80s, Aileen trolled the highways outside of Daytona, Florida looking for johns.
35 min
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“Damsel of Death” Aileen Wuornos Pt. 1
More abused than loved, Aileen Wuornos suffered through her childhood in 1960s Michigan.
35 min
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“Programmed to Kill” Charlie Brandt Pt. 2
For decades, it seemed like Charlie Brandt's first murder was a shocking, unexplainable anomoly—something he would never repeat.
37 min
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“Programmed to Kill” Charlie Brandt Pt. 1
In January 1971, 13-year-old Charlie Brandt retrieved his father's gun and committed a shocking murder, saying it was like he “was sort of programmed to do it.”
34 min
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“The Sunday Morning Slasher” Coral Eugene Watts...
By the early 1980s, Watts had stabbed three women to death.
38 min
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“The Sunday Morning Slasher” Coral Eugene Watts...
Unable to contain his dark fantasies and suppressed rage, Coral Eugene Watts targeted women in Michigan and Texas starting in 1974, and continuing for nearly a decade.
31 min
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“The Racist Killer” Joseph Paul Franklin Pt. 2
Still desperate to ignite a race war in the United States, Joseph Paul Franklin sought more prominent targets, hoping to draw attention to his cause.
35 min
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“The Racist Killer” Joseph Paul Franklin Pt. 1
He studied Mein Kampf. Changed his name. And joined white supremacist groups across the country.
38 min
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“The Torso Killer” Richard Francis Cottingham P...
In 1977, Cottingham was married with three kids, two secret girlfriends, and an itch for abusing sex workers.
39 min
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“The Torso Killer” Richard Francis Cottingham P...
He had an idyllic childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, but as Richard Francis Cottingham grew, he began having dark, dehumanizing sexual fantasies about women.
39 min
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“The Toolbox Killers” Lawrence Bittaker and Roy...
In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris sexually assaulted and murdered five teenage girls.
36 min
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“The Toolbox Killers” Lawrence Bittaker and Roy...
They each lived lonely lives, bouncing from jail to jail until a chance meeting in California brought them together in 1978.
35 min
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“The ABC Killer” Moses Sithole
At a young age, Moses Sithole was abandoned by his mother, forcing him to go in and out of a traumatic foster care system.
39 min
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“The Chicago Abductor” Brian Dugan
In the early ‘70s, a teenaged Dugan had an encounter with one of the most notorious serial killers in the U.S.—a killer whose infamy Dugan would soon match, with a murder spree throughout Chicago’s rural suburbs.
33 min
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“Milwaukee North Side Strangler” Walter E. Ellis
In his youth, Walter Ellis was prone to fits of physical violence.
34 min
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“The Hitchhiker Killer” Thor Nis Christiansen
Growing up in the California town of Solvang, Thor Nis Christiansen was the quiet son of Danish immigrants.
37 min