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 Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance Pt. 2
By 1984, Nance had revamped his reputation and settled into a comfortable routine in his hometown.
39 min
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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
403
"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
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"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
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"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.
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407
“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
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“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
409
“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
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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
411
“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
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“The Happy Face Killer” Keith Jesperson Pt. 1
Always shy and a little curious, Keith Jesperson lived a troubled childhood.
42 min
413
The Backpacker Murders Pt. 2
By the end of 1993, seven decomposed bodies had been pulled from Australia's Belanglo State Forest.
44 min
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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
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“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
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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
417
“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
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“The Suffolk Strangler” Steve Wright Pt. 1
He was an unassuming man whose Jekyll and Hyde personality obscured increasingly violent tendencies.
42 min
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“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
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“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
421
“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
423
“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
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“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
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“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