Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén
Welcome to your weekly journey into the darkest corners of human nature. Join Harvey Guillén every Monday as he explores crimes that seized the public’s attention, from jaw-dropping heists and devastating cons to serial murders and deadly rivalries. Each episode unfolds a single case, examining not just the events themselves, but what continues to linger beneath the surface.
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“The Chessboard Killer” Alexander Pichushkin Pt. 1
One of Russia’s most prolific serial killers was an avid chess player.
37 min
377
“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
378
“The Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright Pt. 1
He was an unassuming man whose Jekyll and Hyde personality obscured increasingly violent tendencies.
42 min
379
“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
380
“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
381
“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
383
“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
384
“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
385
“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
386
“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
387
Satanic Panic Pt. 5
41 min
388
Satanic Panic Pt. 4
43 min
389
Satanic Panic Pt. 3
40 min
390
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
391
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
392
“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
393
“The Hillside Stranglers” Kenneth Bianchi and A...
These killer cousins terrorized Los Angeles in the late ‘70s.
38 min
394
“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
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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
396
“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
397
“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
398
“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
399
“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
400
“Night Caller” Eric Edgar Cooke Pt. 2
In 1959, Eric Cooke committed his first murder in the sleepy city of Perth, Australia.
38 min